Sparebank
Hands are our most precious human tools, reaching out with our sensual desire to touch and create. Their delicate fingers can move gracefully like dancers so their movements can tell us vivid stories about their doings. As means of expression hands enable us to communicate without voice in our sound overloaded modern cities. Urban Screens are a medium that often has to work without sound. In this selection of short films hands are silently speaking to us, becoming dancing symbols for a dream of actively creating, liberating and helping hands. The artists are telling us stories surrounding the image of this powerful tool. Urban Screens as moving image platforms for cultural expression stand usually under strong influence of the past predetermination on advertisement. This program shows, beside works of well-known artists, creative clips produced by filmmakers or animators for social and environmental no-profit organizations. The genre of video art and advertisement seem more and more to merge. Creatives are sometimes active in both fields. It stays open for discussion, what are the consequences of this development for the content production for Urban Screens. The future lies in our hands…
Mirjam Struppek, curator
Sparebank
Sparebank
Clarion Hotel
Clarion Hotel
Gosen School
Tou Scene Artspace
Kino Kino Cinema, outside
Kino Kino Cinema
All photos: Courtesy © Mirjam Struppek, Berlin, www.interactionfield.de
Public Screens is organised by i/o/lab