Truth: Paradise Found – Agricola de Cologne

Title:
Truth: Paradise Found
Synopsis
The video tells the story of the human desire to be as close to truth as possible. But who ever will succeed while living a life dominated by the fast running time and endless searching?
If there is any paradise, then monks or people really resting within themselves find a paradise close to truth close to GOD. But it is only truth people are believing in. Is there absolute truth?
The video consists of three sections, a spiritual and a physical section and the acting level, the artist who is filming the scene, an intruder who become witness of a ritual of truth.
This basic video was filmed in 2003 at the Rila Monastery, the spiritual centre of Bulgaria.

Details:
Year of production: 2004
Duration: 3:00
Format : Video
Video format : PAL 4:3
Shooting format : miniDV
Exhibition format: DVD , miniDV, Betacam SP (PAL)
Sound: yes
Colour: yes
Language: no dialogue
Dialogue list: no

Credits:
Director, Producer, Editor, Script/Concept, Sound, Composer, Cinematography, Programming
Agricola de Cologne

Prizes
2007

Best experimental film
3rd Budapest International Film Festival 2007
more info here

Festivals/screenings(45)
2009
“Bivouac Project – The Big Switch: New Media, Film and Video” – Sumter County Gallery of Art (USA) – 2 April- 22 May 2009

2008
*Les Inattendues Film Festival Lyon/France – 21-27 January 2008

2007
*Bigscreen Festival Kunming/China 2007
*cimtec Sevilla transit -Viva video – Sevilla/Spain 2007
*2nd Bursa International Film Festival Istanbul/Turkey – 2007
*Szemlétek Audiovisual Filmfest and Art Meeting Pécs (Hungary) 2007
*DigiFest Florence/Italy 2007
*Budapest International Short Film Festival 2007

2006
*Video Dialoghi – Institute Francais Turin/Italy – 2006
*Emergences Festival Paris 2006
*Visionaria Film Festival Sienna 2006
*MAC – Manifestation d’Art Contemporain Paris (France) 2006
*VIVA Art Video Zwolle/Netherlands 2006
*Intro-Out Festival Thessaloniki/Greece 2006
*Pixeldance Festival Thessaloniki/Greece 2006
*Streaming Festival The Hague/Netherlands 2006
*Confluencias’06 Huelva/Spain 2006
*Athens Videoart Festival 2006
*Japan Media Arts Festival 2006
*Metu Video Festival Ankara/Turkey 2006
*Paço das Artes Sao Paulo(Brazil) Laisle Entertainment! 2006
*CeC & CaC – India International Center New Dehli/India – 2006
*MAGMART – video art festival – Naples/Italy – 2006

2005
*Biennale of Video & New Media Santiago/Chile 2005
*V-Art Festival Cagliari/Italy 2005
* Hic et Nunc – San Vito a/Tagliamento/Italy 2005
*Arcipelago – International Festival for Shortfilm and New Images Rome 2005
*MAEM – Electronic Art Festival Madrid/Mostoles 2005
*Interferencias – International Festival of Art in Action-Junin/Buenos Aires-Argentina- 2005
*National Museum Szczecin/Poland – PI – five – Video Festival 2005
*3rd 0110 Digital Film Festival New Dehli/India 2005
*AVANCA 2005 – Festival of Video & Multimedia Avanca/Portugal 2005
*prog:ME – Electronic Art Festival Rio de Janeiro/Brazil 2005
*Obsession”- International Audio-Video Festival Istanbul/Turkey 2005
*Art-in-Your-Face” Video Festival Malmoe/Sweden 2005
*SENEF – Seoul Festival for Internet & Film 2005
*VidFest05 – Video Festival Museum of New Art 2005
* Biennale of Electronic Art Perth/Australia September 2004 (premiere)

Screenings
*52 Venice Biennale – Divine in Tent curated by Doron Polak – 2007
*DOCUMENTA 12 – Divine in Tent curated by Doron Polak – 2007
*Videoformes – Int. Festival of Video & New Media 2007
*The Art Gallery of Knoxville/USA 2006
*Hara Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo/Japan –Viva Video 2006
*That Uncomfortable Place Between Beginning and Ending, curated by Lee Wells 2005
*Groundworks – Regina Gouger Miller Gallery Pittsburgh/USA 2005

TV:
Propeller TV (UK)
ArtChannel Paris (France)