Festival for Contemporary Art Product (“Visual Games”, Varna)
Film and video programme

Golden Key Prize laureates, Germany

GOLDEN KEY: Honorable Mention
Nach dem Fall... (After the Fall...)
Marcel Wyss, Switzerland, 2005, 28:30 Min., engl. subtitles
The film carefully broaches the subject of the rapprochement of the filmmaker to his older brother Dominic, who has escaped the clutches of a severe heroin addiction. A new chapter of the tale of their brotherly relationship begins during a trip to Spain, where they used to spend their summer holidays together as children. Along with the main subject that emphasizes the hope for equality, the secondary subject of the difficulties and peculiarities of a severe heroin addiction for the familial environment is addressed.
Statement of the jury: The jury for the Golden Key 2005 awards a special mention to "Nach dem Fall..." by Marcel Wyss.
In only 29 minutes, Marcel Wyss tells the complex story of his family, which was seriously shaken by his brother's drug addiction. The filmmaker draws a personal portrait with a living camera and breathtaking speed. He bravely mixes various forms; the documentary road movie, the essay, the experimental film, and thus proves his talent as a filmmaker.

GOLDEN KEY: Winner
Vater und Feind (Father and Enemy)
Susanne Jaeger, Germany, 2005, 58 Min., engl. subtitles
Jorg Hejkal, as a young man in the former East Germany (GDR), rebelliously rejected the values of the State and pursued a life defined by freedom and self-realization. After discovering his father’s betrayal, who as a State Security Officer (Stasi) spied on Jorg for his superiors, the son finally left GDR. Aside from prison sentences, Jorg's unbreakable spirit and courageous action would later inspire a movement in his home country that would eventually bring down the communist government and make Jorg the enemy of his father.
Statement of the jury: The Golden Key 2005 has awarded to "Vater und Feind" by Susanne Jaeger. The filmmaker tells the intense story of how the father turns into a traitor and the son into the enemy. In a painful way she alerts to how structures and conflicts of the German-German past continue to effect family relations. The jury was convinced by the combination of staged scenes and archive footage to a documentary whole and would like to award this prize to the young, talented filmmaker to encourage her to continue her work. We also believe that the film has the potential fur regular cinema screening, and should be made available for a broader audience.

Counter
Volker Schreiner, Germany, 2004, 6:30 Min.
Numbers from feature films as a countdown at one-second intervals. A minor matter turns into the leading part, the central thread, a chain of short tales.

Band
Dennis Feser, Germany, 2004, 4 Min.
The video shows a structural analysis of eight performances. Different parts of the body are varied (establishing identity) - not by complicated su¬gery but using do-it-yourself material available for everyone in the discount shop.

Klappling
Franz Wanner, Heinz Geiger, Germany, 2004, 5:45 Min.
The soccer team TSV Klappling is meeting TUS Brotzendorf in the yearly showdown on the beautiful Klappling alp - called 'Klapplinger Alm'.

Wir sind dir treu
Michael Koch, Switzerland/Germany, 2005, 9 Min.
As singer of FC Basel, Tobias I burner is responsible for the atmosphere during the soccer game. He starts singing the songs, sets the tempo, animates and choreographs the fans.

Ego sum Alpha et Omega
Jan-Peter Meier, Germany 2005, 7 Min.
Ego Sum is thrown out of the nowhere into a world in which he follows his way obliviously because it appears to be the only way possible to him. Being deprived of his identity he becomes a part of an alienated collective in the course of his journey.

Cousin Cousine
Maria Mohr, Germany 2005, 19:32 Min., engl. Submits
Cousins, words between chairs. Voice to the piano. Fingertips grope sense. Bridges too high. Personal collage about a love that couldn't shouldn't wouldn't be.

Promenade d’apres-midi
Claire Walka, Germany, 2005, 2:30 Min.
An umbrella, a young woman and her shoes get whirled around on a windy afternoon.

X
Raphael Wahl, Germany 2005, 6:30 min.
Inspired by Stanislav Lem's short stories about the spaceman Ijon Tichy, the film "X" tells about a comical space travel adventure. A spaceman looses his singularity and has now to defend his identity against countless copies of himself. The Loss of uniqueness of identity and the problems of identity in general are the subjects of the film. They are treated in the humorous narrative style of the animated him. The story itself is based on several ideas of which the viewer realizes only at the end how they are connected.

Mosquitobox
Oliver Kunkel, Germany, 2004, 10:42 Min, engl. subtitles
A scientifically looking glass container, locked but with a sluice to put one's hand through, is filled with HIV-infected mosquitoes; it gets destroyed during art festival Break2.2 in Ljubljana. The box is smashed; the media, the police and several biologists arrive immediately. The whole exhibition and the surrounding area is evacuated. The biologists kill the remaining mosquitoes, but most have escaped. Some of the animals undergo HIV tests. The artist is being questioned about the box and a possible epidemic. The fear of getting infected is alarming. Video Mosquitobox is the result of this episode in Slovenia in 2003. It is a work about fear and the people's lack of knowledge concerning the world's largest and most threatening epidemic. The work brought the topic of HIV on the front page. Ignorance and public media were the main target of Kunkel's work which produced total paranoia.

Fit to Fill
Andrea Koehler, Germany, 2005, 4 Min.
The description of a state in action at pulse 28. The dis¬solving of the self in one's own view. An examination of rhythm and the Again as such in movement between tiles, porous.

Big Ben in Siberia
Bettina Sebek, Great Britain/Germany 2005, 10 Min., engl. subtitles
Surgut, in Western Siberia is a newly rich Russian oil town. It is only about thirty years old, a little bit grey and the home of multimillionaire and devoted anglophile Yevgeni Barsov. He wanted his very own Big Ben right here in Surgut, so he built one. The luxurious Siberian version is thirty-seven meters high. And it won't stop there. "Do you know the Tower Bridge - in London? So nice!"

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