Life is a loop Life leads us to a final point. But the "everyday" seems to repeat itself endlessly. It´s like a loop.

Perpetuum Mobile The loop is the shortest form of filmmaking: a "perpetuum mobile" of audio-visual emotion. Comparable to a never-ending rhyme or a crack in a record, repetition brings filmic motion to a halt.

Group Project We had always wanted to organize a group project with "Raum für Projektion" and work with the filmmakers and artists who we find interesting. Because we know from our own experience how much time and effort it takes to make a film, we always shy away from asking filmmakers to get involved without financing. Interesting loops can be created with any amount of effort. They can be a by-product of editing or an elaborately-produced sequence.

The Spectrum The creative spectrum of the 50 video loops by 55 artists is very broad. There are narrative, documentary, hypnotic, animated, mysterious, reduced, decorative, critical, hip, sad, amusing, longwinded, dramatic, found, artistic, technozoid, drawn, photographed, flickering and finely-observed loops between 6 frames and 10 minutes. Many loops are silent; others have sound or music. The spectrum of the "loop pool" DVD shows how the short format is dealt with today. Included in the list of participants are music- video or short-film directors, as well as visual artists and VJs.

Technical Prerequisite On a DVD, contrary to on a CD, tracks can be looped. That means: At the end of a film, one automatically jumps back to the beginning. Via the "Menu" button on the remote control, one can exit the loop.

On TV It´s fun to flip from loop to loop, or to leave one sequence on for the whole evening: The TV becomes a "moving picture´".

Communicative Loops dont demand as much attention as films do, and they create more of an atmosphere. Because they repeat themselves endlessly, one can also turn away once in a while to talk with someone.

Presentation At "Raum für Projektion" the loops are set to music by DJs and musicians. Each piece is autonomous. The loops are not mixed. At the premiere during the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Adam Butler, Christian Fennesz and Tujiko Noriko played live to the loops. Bettina Latak, Hanna Bächer, Lars Henrik Gass, Jade, Steffen Irlinger, Veronika and Anima played as DJs. In the exhibition situation the 50 video loops are shown on the same number of monitors or projections, or on a single monitor with one loop each day for 50 days.

Raum für Projektion is a DVD label and a temporary projection space for showing video projects. The center of the space is a screen which is visible to viewers from both sides. The space is intended as a new pathway between the classical cinema presentation and visuals that one knows from clubs.

loop pool on ice (2007)

Alessandro De Angelis (Roma) Banana Films - Adriano Bruzzese (Buenos Aires) Daniel Bell (Shropshire) Gregory Boutiere (Annemasse) Ulu Braun (Berlin) Mariola Brillowska (Hamburg) Sebastian Burdach (Hamburg) CINC (Beograd) Corndawg (Philadelphia) Cinzia Cremona (London) Marion Delage de Luget & Benoît Géhanne (Paris) Britt Dunse (Berlin) Simone Fehlinger (Paris) Britta Fehrmann (Köln) Karin Felbermayr (Berlin, Wien) Markus Frohnhöfer (Frankfurt) Julian Gatto (Buenos Aires) Alistair Gentry (Edinburgh) Ulrike Göken (Köln) Niklas Goldbach & Sandra Wrampelmeyer (Berlin) Anneke de Graaf (Breda) Graw Böckler (Köln) Wiebke Grösch & Frank Metzger (Frankfurt) Diane Guyot (Paris) Andreas Hirsch (Köln) David Hopkinson (Bristol) Timothée Ingen-Housz (Köln) Nick Jordan (Manchester) Magdalena Kallenberger (Berlin) Boris Kantzow & Irene Mehl (Düsseldorf) David Kasdorf (Bellefonte, PA) Rini Yun Keagy (Philadelphia) Céline Keller (Buenos Aires) Kensuke Koike (Venezia) Zesde Kolonne (Eindoven) Theresa Krause (Bonn) Veit Landwehr (Köln) Y Liver (Paris) Dana Lürken (München) J. D. McPherson, Jr. (Tulsa, Ok) Sandeep Mehta (Köln) Alexander Meier (Mainz) MFO (Leipzig) Pamela Michkin (Buenos Aires) Angelika Middendorf (Berlin) Anuk Miladinovic (München) Aki Nakazawa (Köln / Tokio) Ian Nesbitt (Nottingham) Olga Ombreux (Buenos Aires) Patrick Pahl (Köln) Gennaro de Pasquale (Montreal) Rafaël (Madrid) Johanna Reich (Köln) Stefan Römer (München) Karoline Schmidt (Dresden) Gabriel Shalom (New York) Eddie Singleton (Liverpool) Solitonwave (London) Soni Riot (Berlin) Studio Düsburg (Duisburg) Kotaro Tanaka (Tokio) Alexej Tchernyi (Berlin) Tea (Stockport) TIND (Montreal) Takafumi Tsuchiya (Tokio) Jan Verbeek (Köln / Tokio) Franz Wanner (München) Wuzhi & Alex (Changxi) Zanatefilms – Christian Bermudez (Oslo)

loop pool ping pong (2006)

Sookoon Ang, Olivier Babinet, Rosa Barba, Sonia Bender, Anna Berger, Sylvie Boisseau & Frank Westermeyer, Ulu Braun & Alexej Tchernyi, Mariola Brillowska, Wilson Brown, Sebastian Burdach, Daniel Burkhardt, Mariano Cassisi, Marie-Laure Cazin, Alan Cicmak, Cinc, Johanna Domke, Julieanne Eason, Uwe Flade & Robin Sander, Markus Frohnhöfer, Niklas Goldbach, Goro, Graw Böckler, Christina von Greve & Carsten Schulz, Simone Häckel, Philipp Haffner, Simone Henneken, Matthias Hippler & Boris Kantzow, Andreas Hirsch & Helge Jansen, Eve Hurford, Timothée Ingen-Housz, Kotaro Tanaka, Kingababy, Michel Klöfkorn, Tessa Knapp, Thilo Kraft, Frau Kraushaar, Mario Lombardo, Dana Lürken, Yoshio Machida, Metronomic, Tobias Maria Muehlenbach, Aki Nakazawa, Astrid Nippoldt, Tania Parovic, Gregor Passens, Edgar Pêra, Roman Pompe, Rafaël, Billy Roisz, Deborah Schamoni, Andreas Schimanski, Bernd Schoch, Eva von Schweinitz, Martin Schwember, Erica Scourti, Solitonwave, Telematique, TIND, Franz Wanner, Karsten Wiesel, Susanne Winterling, Cora von Zezschwitz;

loop pool (2005)