4 Minute Wonders (4MW) was developed in Scotland in 1999 to encourage the creation of a local music video production community. With support from local economic development agencies and Scottish Screen (The Film Council of Scotland), the scheme rapidly became an important tool in building the industry. The opportunity is simple. MP3 of a music track is placed on 4MW website every month. Users then download the music, create a treatment for a clip based on the piece and email it back. 4MW then distribute these pitches via email to a panel of judges and the best treatment gets GBP 5000 to make a video. The videos are then broadcast through various partners all over the world, ensuring that filmmakers work is seen by as many people as possible. In 2001, more 4MW partners joined the network, helping to develop their own low budget filmmakers - firstly in Wales and England and in 2002 in South Australia. In 2003 4MW developed another 5 partnerships throughout Europe to create more worldwide opportunities for members of the scheme.

1. Magic K / director Dunk / label Soma / featuring Master H / 04.29
2. Pitillo De LA Risa / / director Suzanne Martin / featuring Overtone / label Kushi/ 04.12
3. Stand Up / director Martin Smith / featuring Smoke / label Savalas Underground / 04.05
4. On The Line / director Corneilius / featuring Radar Bros / label Chemikal Underground / 05.04
5. A=A / director Stephen Anderson / featuring Cha Cha Cohen / label Chemikal Underground / 03.30
6. Fantastic Chicken / director Bronagh Keegan / featuring Bendy Toy / label Starshaped / 03.44
7. Diabla / director Simon Ellis / featuring Funk D'Void / label Soma / 04.26

The project under the title We All People resulted from a need of communication between artists that deal with the art of video. It has as axis the human relations and is constituted by 10 videos. The project was realized in 2003 by the FOURNOS Centre for Digital Culture in Athens.

1. Think Twice, Andreas Sintorego, 2.40 / ...
2. The Beach, Tereza Papamichali, 7.00 / A single still shot of about 7 minutes, where at dusk time a couple walks into the sea and the light changes until it becomes darkness.
3. Looking for My Valentine by Anna Tsichli, 7.40 / The video is based on a story of an unfulfilled love in the age of Telecoms.
4. Lolita, Nikos Papadimitriou, 6.43 / This animated video is a part from the original motion picture by Stanley Kubrick. The outlining of the image contributes to a different look of the space inside the frame.
5. Adam and Eve, Nikos Giavropoulos, 5.50 / Heaven… Adam … Eve … the Tree and the Apple … Fall from Heaven
6. Shall We Dance? (fragments of love), Margarita Stavraki, 2.50 / The video uses opposite rhythms and motions of single human gestures in order to present the complicated need for communication. The metaphorical images engrave the path of passion (whatever that is).
7. TOO.14.29.01, Kostas Vaviloussakis, 8.10 / A trip of a girl onto a woman's body. The way that this video is viewed through the magnified scale implies unknown landscapes and experiences.
8. Birth, Giorgos Ktenidis, 1.45 / The project belongs to a collection of e_poems and it reflects a personal view on the phenomenon of birth.
9. Born by Giorgos Babulousakos, 5.00 / Comment on the way of projection of the erotic act and the presence of the female as a sexual object, in comparison to the generative nature, from where also the title pun in the introduction of the video derives (born/porn).
10. Sleeping Beauty by Nikos Podias, 4.00 / A journey - through the heroine's eyes - to the land of dream, where time and space are entangled in a game without rules, the passing from the childhood to maturity, the sexual awakening and the endless awaiting for integration and fullness.

“On the BG Track” is a compilation of short films that presents, a possible point of view to the artistic movements in the young Bulgarian digital art in the last 3 years. The included in the selection authors have different backgrounds and realm of influences. Some of them are artists expressing their visual ideas in the field of video art, others are cameramen experimenting with different technical possibilities, there are also cartoonists and musicians.
The variety of interests, the vitality and the high professional level of experimenting in the works have been among the criteria for choosing these videos for the compilation. Alongside with the young Bulgarian film creators, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate aims at presenting some of the main institutions working in the field of cinema and new media in Bulgaria. The Interspace Centre for Media Arts, the Bulgarian Photographic Society, Sofia Film Fest, the Student Film Forum Foundation are only few among them. Their activities during the last years have played a major role in the shaping of a creative and productive environment necessary for the work of the young artists.

1. “On the BG Track”, a film by Krassimir Terziev, 6.50 min, 2002, sound by Aleksander Yanev, cameraman Krassimir Terziev / An interesting point of view on the “Bulgarian track” through dialogues from classical movies.
2. “Horizon”, a film by Stefan Nikolaev, 4.59 min., 2000 / An attempt to make a classical portrait of a man.
3. “4, rue Ste Catherine”, a film by Ivan Moudov, 4.43 min., 2002, cameraman Ivan Moudov, edited by Kalin Serapionov, music by Plasic HiFi / The film presents the active daily activities around a dumpster in a street.
4. “Image vs. Sound”, a film by Zornitsa – Sofia, 4.08 min., 2001, music by CJ Tzetzo (Animazionerite). / An amusing mixture of animal sights and sounds in a farm yard.
5. “01110010 00110011 01100101” a film by Nikolay Chakarov, 1.35 min., 2001 / A digital attempt to recite a Shakespeare sonnet with the help of a dual computer code.
6. “36 ost Maintheme”, a music video by Simeon Levy & Milen Antonov, 3.40 min., 2000, music by Misericordia / A musical clip – an experiment with visual possibilities.
7. “Mosquito Night”, directed by Blagovest Srebrenov, cameraman Nikolay Nikolov, 7.35 min., 2002 / A night battle between a man trying to sleep and an annoying mosquito. It is so simple to destroy another space drill, carrying valuable information about mankind.
8. “Walkabout”, written and directed by Simeon Levy, 4.16 min. / A clip from views, music, complicated atmosphere…
9. “My Point of View”, a film by Zornitsa – Sofia, 3.16 min., 2001 / The author presents her feminine point of view during sex.
10. “Double Fault“, a film by Daniela Kostova, 2:27 min., 2002 / The film presents a simple visual illusion – a ping-pong play between identically dressed twin brothers.
11. “You and Me”, a film by Svetoslav Stoyanov & Alexander Evtimov, 2.20 min., 2000 / A touching story about the love between a man and a woman narrated with the help of a simple dance of two puppets.
12. “Square”, a film by Barbara Domuschieva, 1.25 min., 2001, NATFA / A story of a personality trying unsuccessfully to get out of the square, in witch he lives.
13. “Photomaton”, written and directed by Boris Missirkov, Georgi Bogdanov, / Georgi Tenev, music by Ivaylo Milenkov, 3.19 min., 2001
A clip – a never ending roundabout of images dedicated to the world of kitsch.
14. “Falling in Love”, a film by Boryana Pandova & Ivan Nikolov, 2.12 min., 2001 / The film presents a play upon words. In it the human body “flies” from a high…
15. “Non Permesso” film by Svetoslav Stoyanov & Alexander Evtimov, 2.54 min., 2003 / An eccentric story about a meeting between two angels at San Marco square in Venice.

Codec/x features specially commissioned and recent work by 30 artists and musicians, based in north west UK. It has been curated independently by artists Dave Griffiths and Nick Jordan, and aims to promote collaboration and experimentation in sound and visual art.
The curators have selected work that is diverse, with challenging and often humorous themes embedded to materials and processes - including animation, performance, text, noise, found objects, tape, and abstraction.
The DVD unpacks a playful list of new proposals and encourages discourse about technology, materials, and conventions in contemporary practice. The artists explore tensions between perfection & instability; the minutiae of spaces and moments; the inscription and abandonment of laws; creation of light and time; complexity of language and meaning, and the architecture in 'intelligent' machines.
Codec/x is a response to the growing movement of independent spaces and audiences from a variety of scenes: gallery screening, microcinema, experimental music, artist-curated events, and web streaming.
codec: type of compression/decompression software for storage and transmission of audio-visual data - the manipulation of information, time, sound and space
codex: a pre-printing-era manuscript, a digest or collection of items or laws - the compilation, formatting, and reproduction of texts or narratives

1. Heatwork for Sparklers and Spycams, Lee Patterson + Dave Griffiths, 4.50 / Sonic and optical inscription in materials and process.
2. Shadow Songs, Suki Chan + Mayming, 5.00 / Pliny's myth of the origin of drawing as interpreted through animated rice. A young girl traces her lover's shadow to capture his presence - he later disappears and is never seen again. The sound is a modern account of a traditional folk song from remote southern China, whose original words have been forgotten in time.
3. The Heap, Jacob and Daniel Cartwright, 2.00 / A digital fantasy: pixel forest creatures gravitate towards a heap of primal matter.
4/6/11/17/20. Ugly Little Ornaments 1/2/3, Paul Cordwell + Loop Aznavour, / Interludes for a post-digital, kitsch-free homestead.
5. Crossroads, Scott Byrne + Happy Fingers, 7.30 / Magical sites proliferate in the city, much to the horror of Mr. Johnson.
7. A Road Movie, Nick Jordan, 3.00 / A cinematic construct; made using bicycle, camcorder and two identified points.
8. Dictaphone, Joe Devlin, 2.00 / Found dictaphone tape subject to removal of speech.
9. Another Road Movie, Nick Jordan, 1.10 / French landscape as seen from a speeding car with digital arabesques generated by tape replay pressed on fast forward.
10. X-Time, Kristin Scheving + Spencer Marsden, 4.25 / New Year’s Eve public celebration and internet porn collide in a climatic firework display.
12. Symbolic Exchange & Death, Blake Quentin + Coryn Smethurst, 1.20 / Insect eyes and menu-icons form a multi-layered system.
13. Object / Sound / Movement, Carl Turton, 2.20 / Formal observations of objects with sound as percussion and movement as dance.
14. Flying From The Ground, Jenna Collins + Jane Brake, 4.30 / The aeroplane viewed from the ground can be a wistful, graceful thing.
15. Fait Accompli, Illuminati + Ben Schmark, 4.00 / A journey through the pipes of a failed drug manufacture process.
16. Rogue State, Dave Griffiths, 2.20 / Fluid spectacle of synthetic apocalypse, using vetoed resolutions and a magnetic quill.
18. Piano: A Sound Object, Abstract Earth + Mark Pilkington, 4.40 / 12,000 pieces of wood, steel and felt.
19. The Girlz, Jenny Hallstrom, 2.55 The artist constructs her own stories about two women who pass in the street.
21. The Print Machine, Tamzin Forster, 3.40 / Reiteration of the printed word acquires aesthetic strangeness.