FOR SORE EYES // by Anders Weberg duration 2min17sec / 2006 Fore sore eyes is another exploration of the ambivalence of the male gaze and gendered More

FOR SORE EYES // by Anders Weberg duration 2min17sec / 2006 Fore sore eyes is another exploration of the ambivalence of the male gaze and gendered (dis)order. It is a suggestive reflection of life in the pyrotechnic in sanatorium of consumerism freedom. But what is really freedom? SCREENINGS 2007 November 24: Xperimental Film & Animation Festival 6.0. Nicosia, Cyprus. 2007 November 21: 20th Instants Video Festival, Marseille, France. 2007 November 21: Laptopia experimental art festival, Tel-Aviv, Israel. 2007 November 12 -17: IN-DIFFERENCE Festival, V.I.P.Art Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia. 2007 November 16-18: Optica: the Gijon International Festival of Video Art, Spain. 2007 November 15-17: NewMediaFest2007 & 3rd Digital Art Festival Rosario, Argentina. 2007 November 2-4: The Amsterdam Film eXperience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 2007 November: Slowtime 2007 - Quicktime as an artistic medium. 2007 October: 00130Gallery, Korkeavuorenkatu 27 sisäpiha, Helsinki Finland 2007 October 27: Isfilmu Nakts (IN), Latvia. 2007 October 18-21:Transvisualia Mediascream 2007, Gdynia, Poland. 2007 August 28-31: New media, performance, video festival, Pilsen, Czech Republic 2007 August 4: FlashFlood: International Video Art Festival. Curated by Brookhart Jonquil The Museum for Polydimensional Research , Tucson, Arizona, US. 2007 July: Festival Miden - Contemporary video art screenings in Kalamata, Greece. 2007 July: P'Silo / Festival Images Contre Nature Lices, Marseille, France. 2007 July: AEM Videoscreenings, CK Zamek, ul.SW.Marcin. Poland. 2007 June: Vertical Festival in Caldes de Montbui, Spain (Cartes Flux) 2007 May: a room (with a view) Arenbergschouwburg Antwerpen, Belgium. 2007 May: Simultan03, Video and New Media Festival, Timisoara, Romania. 2007May: Film Festival 600, Stara Elektrama, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2007 April: Athens Video Art Festival 07, Athens, Greece. 2007 April: CARTES Flux, The Centre for Art and Technology CARTES, Espoo, Finland. 2007 April: Coachella Music and Arts Festival [PAM], Empire polo field, CA, US. 2007 April: artDC Art Fair [PAM], Washington D.C, US. 2007 April: Derapagé 7, Centre de Design, Montréal, Canada. 2007 March: namaTRE.ba, Gallery Fine Arts Academy, Trebinje, Bosnia - Hercegovina 2007 February: Scope NYC [PAM], Scope Art Fair, Lincoln Center, New York 2007 February: Imagine Party Toronto, The Mod Room, Toronto, Canada. Guest Curated by [PAM] the Perpetual Art Machine: Co-organized by Lee Wells, Raphaele Shirley, Aaron Miller and Chris Borkowski 2006 December: ALTERNATIVE FILM/VIDEO, Festival of new film and video., Novi Beograd, Serbia. 2006 December: Art| Basel, Miami, Florida, US. 2006 December: Scope Miami, Miami Florida, US. 2006 October: Scope London, England. 2006 September - Oktober: the Split Film Festival in Split, Croatia. 2006 Name Festival in Lille, France 2006 Scope Hampton Art Fair July, US. 2006 Scope New York Art Fair, US Other 2007 Programmed at Art Channel - Television as Art, Paris, France. Anders Weberg (1968, Landskrona - Sweden) works in video, sound, new media and installations. Specialized in the expressions that digital technologies provide and aim to mix genres and ways of expression to explore the potential of visual media. Lives and works in in the small coastal town of Ängelholm in the south of Sweden, and has exhibited at numerous art festivals, galleries, and museums internationally, including [10th] Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,Tokyo, Japan; 13th Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, Sonar, Barcelona, Spain; File Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil; Scope New York, US; Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Santa Fe, Argentina; Pocket Films in Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris; The 2nd Art and Science International Exhibition and Symposium, Beijing, China; etc. see http://www.andersweberg.com for full info.
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PRE-WAR COMEDY Directed by Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda The story of STAR WARS, the COLD WAR and the WAR ON TERROR in one small Czech village. CZECH More

PRE-WAR COMEDY Directed by Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda The story of STAR WARS, the COLD WAR and the WAR ON TERROR in one small Czech village. CZECH PEACE – from the creators of the fake hypermarket comedy CZECH DREAM. As part of its National Missile Defense Program, the US plans to build a military base in the Czech Republic, a former hiding place for Soviet nuclear rockets during the Cold War. Despite the fact that 73% of Czechs are against the project, the government has continued with negotiations. Supporters of the base claim that it will strengthen the country's defense against the global threats of the 21st century. Opponents, on the other hand, point out that the plan essentially shifts the Iron Curtain toward the east; they also insist that it represents an attempt by the USA to rule the world. War! War!! WAR!!! Everything will explode, burn, and die…that’s what readers learn in media coverage from both the supporters and opponents of the US radar base. Supporters of the base use threats from the War on Terror, saying “rogue states” can’t wait to shower the country with rockets. Opponents claim the same thing will happen if the radar is built. According to both parties war is inevitable. The Czech Republic found itself the focus of the world's superpowers virtually overnight. Within a single year the country was visited by George Bush, Condoleeza Rice and dozens of lobbyists representing American arms manufacturers. The Russians threatened to aim their nuclear missiles at the Czech Republic. The largest Czech civil movement since the Velvet Revolution came together to protest against the American base. People are even willing to fight on public squares over the subject of the radar base. Peace activists occupied the military area where the radar is to be built and declared it the independent state of PEACELAND. They were soon arrested under dramatic circumstances. Czech politicians are preparing for a serious battle over the radar in Parliament. Opposition deputies complain in the press that representatives of the arms industry have invited them to private dinners. Political scientists treat the situation as a new phase in the Cold War. “The building of the extraordinarily powerful and technically advanced American radar base would reduce us to a tool in the unilateral American foreign policy focused on the so-called war on terrorism, a policy that also aspires to military domination of the universe. But this war has in fact strengthened terrorism, destroyed Iraq, destabilized the entire region and is ending in the prisons of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Thorough protection against the dangers of war and terrorism demands the reduction of world tensions, not new bases that only exacerbate the hostility.” Jan Neoral, Mayor of Trokavec “In a few years, when those countries we assume are developing weapons of mass destruction actually have them, it will be better for our security to have the radar shield.” Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs and member of the Trilateral Commission A feature-length documentary about Czechs not knowing whether to invite a foreign army to the country, having already experienced Soviet occupation, and likewise conscious of the current controversial War on Terror. A playfully explosive film of our times.
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