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Street Art is much more than graffiti. Its messages in public spaces evolve over night on walls, doors and other pieces of “urban furniture”. An urban art form that directly communicates with every passer-by, it makes and leaves strong and provocative comments on today´s society. This character driven documentary composes an eclectic image of the phenomenon of contemporary Street Art through the eyes of some of its best creators and those who discover, collect and love it in Paris, Berlin, New York, London and Moscow. Street Art is wild, alive, popular and irritating. Much more than a rebellion, but rather a truly political artistic expression. The film explains the phenomenon and puts it into a larger cultural context for the audience.

“The electric light sometimes hides more information within public space than it shows. The idea of the video art work STRiKE can relate to the social discussion about urban aesthetics and the defensive psychological mechanisms of human against its mechanical creations and their application on everyday life. The camera shoots a young man at night, doing an accurate rebellious gesture, a playful activist praxis, against a public electrical lamp with a found stone in order to reveal the night panorama of the picturesque port at the Greek island of Symi. It is a romantic but violent strike gesture, which seems almost instinctive at first. On the other hand, this accuracy and very short duration reflects the power of the work's metaphorical content to the viewer, making him/her an eyewitness of one's self-attack against the contemporary human civilization on the purpose to protect his/her own nostalgia. A one-man only playful attack against the conscious ecological destruction humans have imposed on landscape under the excuse of the modernization. The act STRiKE seems almost hilarious to the viewer as it brings up the contradiction of the physical attempt on sports and gaming in general with activism. I was inspired by the “strike” action in the bowling game to entitle it. ATTENTION: the title is written as it sounds all letters capitals except the “i”. Please, keep the same writing way for the title always when referring to the particular video art work!” TAXIARCHOPOULOS YORGOS

Studio Bankside was Derek Jarman’s first film. It is a diary recording daily activity in the studio where he lived and worked, and in the surrounding streets. He shot his Super8 films without prior plans, but gave weight to the resulting images by radically slowing them down, sometimes to three frames a second, and adding music. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.

Shadows are not always under the earth…

An experimental film about drones, dreaming, and Taiwanese guards, inspired by Zhuang Zi and artificial intelligence.