István Kántor Barricades, Anti-cities trilogy, Black flag Videos to be presented in C3: (7 pm. 28. 5. 1998.)
1. Barricades    1992 /11 min
	Barricades is a dramatic prophecy that deals with the absurdity of the laws in contemporary societies. It can be called a video-manifesto that integrates documentary images, computer animation and sonic-performance. It captures an omnious, sinister, and frightening moment of urban reality: on june 3, 1991 New York City police seized the Lower East Side´s legendary Tomkins Square Park, ejected the homeless and their supporters, and sealed off the entire park behind barricades. For the maker of this video it was clear sign of the coming apocalypse. camera: Matty Jankowski, Krista Fry computer animation: Boris Wanowitch on line editor: Mael produced with the assistance of Ontario Arts Council
2. Anti-Cities Trilogy    Jericho 1991/17 min    Babylon 1994/19 min    Nineveh 1997/27 min Each title refers to a vanished city and serves as metaphoric background for transmitting reality through the remaining mythology of ancient culture and through the open space of lost time zones filled with today´s cultural icons, surrounded by digital landscapes, 3D animation and videographic composition.
	Jericho is an alarming artistic statement connecting the biblical legend of the divine destruction of Jericho and the living mythology of today´s techno-empire, the city. Kántor explores a provoking, manifesto-language to confront the oppressive forces of technological society. Segemented structure, computer animation, intensive editing, visual and textual quotatins, unleashed megaphonic hyper-noise, multi-layered images, convulsive loops are some of the characteristics if this work. Computer animation: Boris Wanowitch produced with the assistance of Canada Arts Council
The second, highly experimental piece, Babylon, investigates the unavoidable corrosion and disastruous power of tehnology through narcissistic images and industrial sounds. Kántor´s decadent vision of Babylon links high-tech spectacle and junkyard aesthetics. The heaviliy vibrating poetical structure and the absurd sonic-athosphere is articulated through crane shots of monumental scrapmetal landscapes, demonstrative and provoking close-ups of expressionist performances, surprising inserts of 3D animation and appropiated mediatic images. camera: Gábor Medvigy computer animation: Boris Wanowitch on Line Editor: Mael featuring: Alexander Chapman produced with the assistance of Canada Arts Council
	Niniveh is a transmedia drama of image, text and sound, a philosophical adventure integrated in an operatic testimony. While exloring introspection, self-evaluation and intellectual-sophistication with irony and wit, Itvan Kántor comments on the multi-diemnsional existence of individual organism within today´s trans-technological society. Niniveh´s protagonists desperately climb the mindblowing and conflicting territories of a self-centered, autonomous and imaginary philosophy, rambling from intoxicating chaos to self-indiced climax of cognition via wacóves of rebellion, idyllic nature, provoking utopia, questioning all individual and social values and presenting an urgent need for re-evaluation. computer animation:: Dariusz Karnicki director of photography: Kim Derko director of editing: Michel Giroux featuring: Angela Idealism (The Mutant Diva), Monty Cantsin (The Cult Leader) produced with the assistance of Canada Arts Council
3. Black Flag    1998 / 9 min
	Winner of the Images Festival, Toronto, 1998 re-exploring the use of video through non-linear editing, integration of performance art, 3D animation and shocking sounds, takes a critical look at contemporary social and political issues. It juxtaposes the noise of the body-machine and fragmented passages of words to reflect direct relations to actual political issues (kutbacs, eliminations), social situations (poverty, daily survival) and individual existence (frustration, struggle). computer animation: Dariusz Karniczki editor: Darren Jennekens featuring: Jubal Brown, Julie-Andrée Tremblay, Louise Liliefeldt, Tanisha Robinson, István Kántor Monty Cantsin? Amen! produced with the assistance of Ontario Arts Council
István Kántor prizes for video Other presentations: Filliou Séance installation/video/performance 6 pm. 2. 6. 1998. Artpool P60 1061 Paulay E. u. 60. Executive Machinery performance/concert/installation 7 pm. 5-6. 6. 1998. Fôvárosi Képtár/Kiscelli Museum 1037 Budapest, Kiscelli u. 108. The Sister and the Priest an evening of poetry/performance with Louise Bak & István Kántor 8 pm. 1. 6. 1998. Merlin Theatre 1052 Budapest, Gerlóczy u. 4.