The screening will combine two video works of artists Swan Lee and Iñaki Garmendia, with two found videos on Youtube. In Camera as Browsing films are shown where the Camera and the personal, as in the person behind the camera (and/or editing), are heavily intertwined, going through possibilities how visual storytelling can unfold within the Medium of Short Form Video.

Kolpez Kolpe (2003)
Iñaki Garmendia
22:18 min

In a way, I have always regarded this film as a technical and conceptual exercise in social engineering, with an eccentric element of linguistic and cultural ventriloquism, set against a very specific political and socio-historical backdrop to which I was linked at the time (the decline of a radical nationalist ideology that brought this country to a standstill in the early 2000s and which would ultimately culminate in the armed ceasefire of the terrorist group ETA in 2011). In that sense, the act of bringing the ‘Basque question’ to life aesthetically through the music and lyrics of ‘Kolpez Kolpe’ in a place like Taiwan — culturally and geographically on the other side of the world — represented for me a kind of exorcism of the conflict through the universal medium of music.
– Iñaki Garmendia

Happy Birthday Chimera (2021)
Swan Lee
10:23 min

Happy Birthday Chimera is a film created to be shown alongside Even Little Grass Has Its Own Name, a 16 mm film from 1990 produced by the Korean feminist film collective Barituh (바리터), which was founded in 1989. Even Little Grass Has Its Own Name was the first film of its kind to address the issue of female office workers in Korea during the 1990s. Happy Birthday Chimera is a response to the film created by Swan Lee, whose mother was a member of Barituh. For this screening only the response of Swan Lee, Happy Birthday Chimera, will be shown.