Development of several websites for the “Stuttgart Filmwinter” — Festival for Expanded Media organized by Wand 5 e.V. — registered society promoting independent film and mediaculture.
A new window comes up and is placed on the previous one. And for this short moment of a/waiting the user gets an imagination what is coming up next. On knows what has been but it is insecure what will come.
Choosing “target-blank” as its motto the 17th Stuttgart Filmwinter examines tendencies within film and media culture which deal with the topical questions of “Amnesia”, “Anaesthetics” and “Aesthetics”.
Under this year's headword “Grounding”, Wand 5 traces trends in film and media art as well as technological and social developments.
Which roles inhere geographical and emotional places in today's media society? How do digital technologies change identity models, attached to real spaces? Is there a corrective to the trends of mobilization and globalization? And does that mean we are returning to traditional value systems, implying expressions such as “home” and “root”?
As Festival For Expanded Media the Filmwinter investigates the relationship and differences between film, video and new media. As a place for experimental film, short-film, video-art, net-art and mediabased environments the artistic quality is of main importance. Aditionally Filmwinter tries to combine the artistic projects with social, political and economical topics.
Der Filmwinter wird gigantomanisch. Neben dem Filmprogramm im Filmhaus findet im ehem. Ikea-Gebäude eine Ausstellung auf 2000 qm statt. Der Kampf der Autoren verbindet Chatkultur mit Theater. Eine Triple-Retrospektive mit Filmen von Chantal Akerman, Isaac Julian und Martha Rosler begeistert die Cineasten...
