Korporal Zoo

WOW.01 @ Kochi Muziris Biennale

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Maria Korporal’s video “Stay or fly away?” will be screened on occasion of the Video Vortex XI @ Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kerala/India – 23-26 February 2017, as part of the project WOW.01 – The W:OW Art Film and Video Festival.

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Press release:

Although The W:OW Project core is under construction and will be not finalized before the end of 2017, the W:OW Art Film and Video Festival starts already right now it global screening activities.

artvideoKOELN & The New Museum of Networked Art are happy to announce
CologneOFF 2017 India
@ Video Vortex XI @ Kochi Muziris Biennale 2016/2017
Kochi-Kerala-India

WO.01
W:OW Art Film & Video Festival
(We Are One World // Art Film & Video Festival)

Program 1

Focus / Asia
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Sai Hua Kuan (Singapore) – Space Dawing No.5, 2009, 1:02
Mani Mehrvarz (Iran) – Wistful Affection For The Past, 2013, 3:06
Anupong Charoenmitr (Thailand) – To Face, 2014, 5:55
Mehmet ÖGÜT (Turkey) – The Basket Seller, 2014, 5:40
Noriyuki Suzuki (Japan) – Fragment, 2012, 6:31
Shuai-Cheng Pu (Taiwan) – Consciousness Spin Project, 2015, 5:39
Richard Legaspi (Philippines) – Making Love with the Wind, 2015, 9:40
Sanglim Han (S.Korea) – Bloom, 2012, 3:35
Weigang Song (China) – Walling Dissensus, 2014, 5:01
Shahar Marcus (Israel) – Seeds, 2012, 5:03
Mohammed Harb (Palestine) – Without Windows, 2009, 5:00
Yovista Ahtajida (Indonesia) – Re-Interpreting Trump, 2016, 1:15

Program 2

W:OW Art Film & Video Festival
(We Are One World // Art Film & Video Festival)

Focus / World – The Refugee Film Collection
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Maria Korporal (Netherlands) – Stay or fly away?, 2015, 0:49
Mauricio Saenz (Mexico) – Flight simulator, 2014, 4:17
Les Riches Douaniers (Gilles Richard & Fabrice Zoll) (France) – The Lonely Migrant, 2011, 16:15
Johannes Christopher Gérard (Germany) – disorientated displacement, 2016, 05:02
Masha Maria Yozefpolsky (Israel) – In Between SiO2, 2016, 10:00
Oksana Chepelyk (Ukraine) – «Letter from Ukraine», 2014, 7:31
Mohamed Thara (Morocco) – As Long As I Can Hold My Breath, 2016, 9:40
Lucija Konda Labas (Croatia) – We are the dogs – Wir sind Hunde, 2016, 1:11
Anna Faroqhi & Haim Peretz (Germany) – Lichtenberg Cleans Up, 2016, 4:34

The Cloven Viscount

The Cloven Viscount

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The video has been inspired by the novel “The Cloven Viscount” by Italo Calvino.

The story “The Cloven Viscount” begins with a desolate landscape and a war scene. These two images are found in the video in a walk among rocks, dirt and fragments of sculptures, accompanied by the hum of insects. The invisible walker stops at a human head sculpture, which is unexpectedly split in two. From the two halves of the head sprout two wings, one of a devil and the other one of an angel, flying along a road that seems endless. In the black furrow that divides the head appears a red thread. At that point, the artist’s hands intervene: with needle and thread they reconnect the two halves.

title: The Cloven Viscount
technique: Experimental video and animation
length: 3’46”
year: 2013
© Maria Korporal

The night of harmony

The night of harmony

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“The night of harmony”, a film by Maria Korporal on a poem by Marcia Theophilo.

The night of harmony

In the forest exist
more eyes than leaves
more hearts than stones
it’s the night of harmony
just one night – one night a year
and you never know which one it will be
the hearts of all the animals
light up bright
the bodies disappear
and as many lights wander in the woods
as stars in the sky
it’s the night of harmony
they don’t devour each other
nor do they know each other
the jaguar and the tapir meet
the crocodile and the pirarucu
the toucan and the anaconda
the butterfly and the iguana
the falcon king and the macaque
it’s the night of harmony
just for one night
in the forest exist
more eyes than leaves
more hearts than stones.

The poem has been published in the book “Amazzonia sempre”, ed. Cooperativa Darwin > website

title: The night of harmony
technique: Experimental video and animation
length: 8’53”
year: 2012
images, animation and sound: Maria Korporal
poem: Marcia Theophilo
recording background sound: dobroide

Avgerinos & Poulia

Avgerinos & Poulia

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Avgerinos & Poulia, a film by Maria Korporal with music by Sofia Koubli, is inspired on a Greek fairytale.
According to Greek tradition, the story developes itself from a red string which transforms continuously, appears, disappears and re-appears again, and leads the protagonists along the way of the tale – to grow finally into a constellation tree and give birth to the two luminous stars of brother and sister Avgerinos and Poulia.

title: Avgerinos & Poulia
technique: Experimental video and animation
length: 7’00”
year: 2011
video: Maria Korporal
music: Sofia Koubli – http://vimeo.com/sofiakoubli