The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Johan Gielen
independent art educator | founder of MAAK | media artist | documentary maker
Developing a serie of short clips inspired by the ‘don’t be square’ scene from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. Thinking of things I think you can better be not nowadays.
Don’t be Nosey
Don’t be a Politician
Don’t be a iPhone
Don’t be iPhone from Jhngln on Vimeo.
Mini-DV / loop / color / 2007
Installation, 4 screens / 4 separate audiotracks / Basement POST CS Amsterdam
Continuous loop, in search for actions or a activity which becomes a ritual. Modus 0 shows the change from a trivial event to a devote moment.
Banden / Tires
Johan Gielen © 2006
Mini-DV / 5.48″ / color / 2006
Short experimental documentary about men working in a distribution center for tires.
Selected for:
- TENT Academy Awards 2006, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- TENT on tour o.a.: GOGBOT festival Enschede, Netherlands
- ‘a room’ (with a view) Antwerp, Belgium
- TU Istanbul, Turkey
- Careof in Milaan, Italy
- CAS in Osaka, Japan
- Nederlands Film Festival 2006, Utrecht, Netherlands
- De Vruchtbare Avond 2006, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Dokfest Filmladen Kassel 2006, Kassel, Germany
- AFX 2006, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- VideoAbend 2007, Dresden, Germany
- Paspartouille 2009, The Hague, Netherlands