Links:http://www.youtube.com/akutskhttp://www.archive.org/details/The.politics.of.movement.in.Myanmar http://www.re-new.dk/index.php?pid=20
This short experimental film is a montage based on videoclips from the wedding of the Myanmar general Than Shwe's daughter and videoclips from various conflicts between the Myanmar Tatmadaw and the people of Myamar/Burma during the last 20 years. It was put together by Vibeke Nielsen The sound and music is made using audio from Myanmar military marches, junta leaders speaking about Ang San Suu Kyi and about 'democracy', hilarious guests at the wedding and machine guns. It's improvised electron...
This flash-animation and sound work was inspired by a conflict between members of the danish parliament, concerning the greenlandish members right to vote and speak their opinions. The visual part is a jam of symbols and pictograms such as flags and greenlandish traffic signs. The sound part is Improvised electronic music based on speech analysis. A mix of the speakers voices, breaking ice and samples from a radio programme about the colonialization of Greenland based on a recording from 1905 ...
This experimental video is based on clips of news and infotainment from the Myanmar, December 2007. It's a small exploration of relations between the concept of power and the concept of movement . How are the movements of a people staged, disciplined, defined and controlled in real life and in the media? And are there kinds of movements which are unseen or unheard of due to editing or due to other kinds of political control? It shows sports, military parades and an eternally clapping audience,...