Singularity WOW -The W:OW Art Film & Video Festival (DE)

Living in the mass society of our time, is generating both at the same time – feeling safe and, at the same time lost in the anonymity of the mass and the need for breaking out of the anonymity, being particular, singular, differently than the others, forming on one hand secrete societies of like minded and – generating on the other hand the phenomenon of self-relatedness and permanent self-profiling causing consequently the loss of one’s own connectivity to nature and society. The videos by Yao Cong, Francesca Leoni, Bill Domonkos, S/n, and Francesca Lolli reflect such contemporary phenomenons celebrating singularity each one in its own way by using an individual language of the physical performance.

Yao Cong (CH) | B²EAU²T²Y (2014) | 15:30 min
The matter between civilization and nature has become a portrayal of human desires, and the continuous understanding and representation of nature has become a way of human civilization expansion. Human beings transform nature in the nature landscape, human beings explore the potential of desire from human nature, human beings move in contradiction, and proceed the so-called forward.
Civilization has long indulged in the pleasure of camouflage. Being admired or merely accepted is a polarizing desire when gender identities are adopted or imposed. nature become the symbol of truth and Utopia.
Combining image language with Contemporary Dance Theater in an unprecedented form of dance video, I have blurred the line between real space and surreal space by advancing bidirectional narration through the wearing and removal of makeup. Straightforwardly unmask the cruelty of the subject in an infinite cycle using symbolization to deconstruct existing rights, orders, systems and values.

Francesca Leoni (IT) | Ego – Crazia (Chapter 1) (2016) | 08:20 min
The dynamics and search of power inside oneself and inside society. What pushes someone in the search of personal and social power and how it transforms human beings.

Bill Domonkos (US) | Il Custode/The Custodian (2013) | 03:19 min
A short film by Bill Domonkos that combines archive film footage and 3D animation. Inspired by the androerotic art of Tom of Finland and set to the music of Puccini’s “E lucevan le stelle” from the opera Tosca.

s/n (Jennida Chase & Hassan Pitts) (US) | The Fawn (2017) | 08:15 min
The Fawn is a collaborative, intergenerational storytelling project for the 21st century. This social media born, expanded cinema work unites art and life through the reinvention and the magical realism of a child’s imagination, who is constantly stuck at her parent’s work, and she moves to another level with Snapchat. The Fawn is a no budget work that utilizes free mobile applications to explore character and contemporary issues in ecology through the whimsical perspective of childhood.

Francesca Lolli (IT) | The dying Lilium (2016) | 03:27 min
The video performance is the transposition of men sacking Mother Nature.