The films of the ANTI -festival not only will offer a moment of rest for the feet of the crowd touring between the festival works, but the idea of the films is to support and expand the content-related goals of this event. This year, we move from the legendary 1970’s body videos of Acconci through the mirror images of Thijssen to the most recent viewpoint from New York where people are bicycling amidst the police, the traffic, the law and the media.

Vito Acconci:
Full Circle (1973)
33:00 min
video, black & white

“I walk in a circle around the camera: sometimes I’m on screen, sometimes I’m off, sometimes I change direction, leaving the screen on one side and coming back on the same side. Every five minutes or so, the location changes: my circle is continuous while the background shifts: bare walls – a corner with a window on one wall – outside, on a roof, with sky as the ground – outside, on a terrace, with other buildings and windows as the ground – inside, in a living room, bookcase and couch in the background.“

Theme Song (1973)
32:30 min
video, black & white

“Like a quiet, private night: pillows on a living-room floor – there’s a tape recorder, just off-screen, just within reach. I’m lying on the floor, I’m facing “you”, below “you”, I reach off-screen to play a song on the tape recorder. The song set the mood, the songs start my pitch: these are the first notes of our relationship.
I’m playing our relationship. I’m playing it out, to the finish.”

Vito Acconci (b. 1940) lives in Brooklyn, NY. Acconci’s early work was fiction and poetry. In the late 60’s and 70’s, his first artworks used performance, photos, film and video as instruments of self-analysis and person-to-person relationships. His audio and video installations of the mid-70’s turned an exhibition-space into a community meeting-place. In the mid-80’s the work crossed over into architecture, landscape and industrial design; in 1988 he started Acconci Studio, a theoretical-design and building workshop.

Tony Thijssen:
Surface

“In Surface you are confronted with mirrors, installed in a real or a stage-set toilet area, which, if you happen to glance into them, much to your astonshment, reflect the image of someone else! In the oval mirrors, these people – who aren’t you – are busy tidying, posing, admiring or scrutinising various bits of themselves. Thijssen filmed them through one-way mirror in the World Trade Center; the toilet room of the iT dicotheque and in a number of sunbed centers. Surface is a confusing and alienating experience in which you neither find yourself nor actually connect with the reflected stranger, who isn’t really there and either looks straight through or right past you… “

Still we ride
37 min
dokumentti: In Tandem Productions/a documentary by In Tandem Productions
ohjaus/directed by Elizabeth Press, Andrew Lynn, Christopher Ryan

a movie about bicycling, police, traffic, the law, the media, and the first amendment

On Friday August 27, 2004 just days before the start of the Republican National Convention, a massive police operation was underway. By the end of the night 264 people were arrested. It marked one of the largest mass arrests in New York City's history - and the arrested had done nothing illegal.
Still We Ride is a documentary that captures the joyous atmosphere of this August ride before the arrests began and the chaos that followed. The movie takes on issues of civil liberties, surveillance, the power of mainstream media, and the benefits of alternative means of transportation.