SUPREMATIST KAPITAL
Directors: Yin-Ju Chen and James T. Hong
Year of Production: 2006
Production format: video, computer
Music: Laibach and Zukunftsmusik
Language: no dialogue
Length: 5 minutes
Synopsis: A symbolic history of Kapital -- a symbolic history of the West.
Inspired by Kasimir Malevich's minimalist artworks and the struggles for resources in the age of peak oil, Suprematist Kapital was born of the want to create a visual artwork that could be displayed on many different-sized mediums regardless of resolution, e.g., theater screens, mobile devices, ipod's, etc.
When once technology as progress was an end in itself, it became the handmaiden of capitalist accumulation and war, and is now a form of capital itself in the age of peak oil.
Selected screenings:
SUPREMATIST KAPITAL officially premiered at the
2006 San Francisco International Film Festival
San Francisco, USA
San Francisco Cinematheque,
Yerba Buena Center of the Arts
2006
Other Cinema
San Francisco, USA, 2006
Flaherty Film Seminar
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 2006
Studio27
State of Exception
San Francisco, USA, 2006
Seoul Net Festival
Seoul, Korea, 2006
Antimatter Underground Film Festival
Victoria, BC, Canada, 2006
Media Art Festival Friesland
Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 2006
Women Make Waves
Taipei, Taiwan , 2006
Fluxus International Film Festival on the Internet
Brazil, 2006
ATA International Film Festival
San Francisco, USA, 2006
T-10 Festival
Oakland, California , 2007
Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley, California , March and November, 2007
La Enana Marrón
Madrid, Spain, 2007
Lens Politica
Helsinki, Finland, 2007
Sagunt Shortfilm Festival
Sagunt, Spain, 2007
--First Prize in Video Art--
Urban Nomad Film Festival
Taipei, Taiwan, 2007
17th Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival - CURTA CINEMA
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007
Encounters Film Festival
Bristol, UK, 2007
Festival Cineposible de Extremadura
Spain, 2008
Tampere Film Festival
Finland, 2008
Le Cinéma Oblò
Lausanne, Switzerland, 2008
International Film Festival Oberhausen
Germany, 2008
Festival Pocket Films
Center Pompidou
Paris, France, 2008
Union Docs
Brooklyn, New York, 2008
Festival Nouveau Cinema
Montreal, Canada, 2008