WOMEN IN WAR
DV PAL/NTSC 2010
total time 00:03:05:00
Sound and Video by Evelin Stermitz.

This video work came into being during a research on the tag 'women' on YouTube, and through this finding stereotyped videos with women's images entitled like 'Most Beautiful Women', 'Famous Sexy Women', and so forth. By re-editing the found videos and underlaying the material with sounds from reports on women in war and violence against women, the final video became a strange subversion of women's media images and the woman as a commodified object becomes obvious. The video is split between women's images in media and the sound of the real, to break with a world of male illusions and enter the field of male transgression. 'Women in War' is a metaphor for women's images in the media war and real war.
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Exquisite Corpse Video Project Vol.3 TRANS
DV PAL/NTSC 2010
total time 00:02:00:00
Sound and Video by Evelin Stermitz.

This video work is created for the international video collage Exquisite Corpse Video Project Vol.3, under the theme TRANS, curated by Kika Nicolela.
When spending this year 5 days in the U.S. and hunting during these days to 5 different airports while being on transit, I shot with my photo camera during this trip videos from cabs and the plane, and compressed all the footage 1200 percent up to final 2 minutes.
The outcome of the video is a dense picture of movement within urban transportation and architecture, through a rainy window as well, and sometimes the picture is vanishing and getting abstract.

WATER PORTRAIT
Video Series as Work in Progress 2010
DV PAL/NTSC 2010
total time 00:02:06:00
These videos are each in two versions of languages, in Slovene and English.
Sound and Video by Evelin Stermitz.

WATER PORTRAIT I
Portrait of Carmen Lipush

This video series becomes a collection of women's portraits of images mirroring from the water surface, filmed at the Ljubljanica river in Ljubljana, Slovenia. These video portraits reveal personal experienced stories of violence against women.
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SILENCE
experimental performative video
DV PAL/NTSC 2009
loop / total time 00:01:00:00
Sound by Elise Kermani, Ear Music, 2001.
Performance and Video by Evelin Stermitz.

Textual structures on body fragments as inscriptions on the female body of metaphorical injuries by rape violence are merging into an image of speechless suppression by male supremacy. Rape remains as a silent terror and global transgression, as a silent field of unspoken reality, because the afflicted women are broken.

This video work is created for FemLink The International Video Collage.
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BLUE HOUSE
Dance Improvisation Performance
DV PAL 2009
total time 00:25:18:00
Performer: Klaudia Ahrer, Tina Gressl, Judith Meister.
All music composed, performed and recorded by Elise Kermani,
Copyright 2008, Licensed by BMI.
Video by Evelin Stermitz.

Three women are performing in a blue coloured house. The scenario of persona and interior all in blue seems like a Bluebeard's tale, but transformed into women acting in a gendered private space.
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LAND OF OZ
YEARS OF CRYING
A Performative Tableau in VIII Parts
3 channel video
DV PAL/NTSC 2008
total time 00:24:38:19
Soundcollage of John Maxwell Hobbs cinema volta tracks.
Performance and Video by Evelin Stermitz.
Special credits to Pooneh Maghazehe and Eric Payson.

LAND OF OZ is a video collage of urbanity, artificial nature and movement, all in all as a personal performative tableau embedded in an American context.
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TABLE TALK
video performance
DV PAL/NTSC 2008
loop / total time 00:02:34:23
Sound by Borut Savski, Random Activities, Activity 7, 2000/2001.
Performance and Video by Evelin Stermitz.
Special credits to Nina Sobell for access to her renovated kitchen.

In an exaggerated gender specific communication role, a woman is constantly giving positive encouragement towards an unseen male discussion partner, without having an own opinion, or something else to say then to support the counterpart.
In this performative video work, a gendered communication role model is directed to an imaginary male opponent and describes how the usage of language can be defined as a relation and structure of power between the two social sexes.
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Ceremonial Alliance Prayer 2
Ceremonial Alliance Prayer 3
DV PAL/NTSC 2008
total time 00:01:49:15
total time 00:01:38:08
Performance and Sound by Pooneh Maghazehe.
Video by Evelin Stermitz.

Pooneh Maghazehe:
Cermonial Alliance informs the dialogue between my persona as an American and my Iranian citizenship, uniquely positioning me both inside and outside myself. In this work, I use myself as a case study in analyzing assimilation, the concept of allegiance, and the psychosocial constructs on which it is enshrined.
Using the Amish dress as both a starting point and analogy for the veil in Iran, a combination of cultural iconographies exemplify a narcissistic pledge of allegiance to subcultures that I have espoused. Each garment is a historical account of my past.
The movements and sounds utilized in this piece allude to a sense of devotion to an enigmatic doctrine or meditative ceremonial ritual that may or may not exist. In a mixture of movements and words that may reference a sacred deity, yoga stance, Muslim greeting, or the complete arbitrary, what remains is a dogmatic residue that revels in the sublime, in belongingness and that which is sacred.
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ROSE IS A ROSE
video performance
DV PAL/NTSC 2008
total time 00:03:52:16
Performance, Sound, Video by Evelin Stermitz.

This performative video work shows a woman engaged in covering her face with rose leaves.
As a metaphor for the absurd above and beyond term "beauty", the fragility of beauty and the canons of beauty, the video reveals an obscure image of woman, which is also shaped by transiency and impermanence.
Excerpts from the poem "Sacred Emily" by Gertrude Stein, in which she created the sentence "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.", form the sound collage to the video work.
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HITCHCOCK DISHING
DV PAL/NTSC 2008
total time 00:01:17:05
Sound and Video by Evelin Stermitz.

A short video about the danger of daily dishing as a sublime metaphor for the unpaid daily work of women with its loss of time and energy for other more meaningful, useful and creative activities.
"Hitchcock Dishing" is also articulating concealed domestic violence.
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PAS DE DEUX
dance video
DV PAL 2008
total time 00:05:12:02
Soundcollage of John Maxwell Hobbs cinema volta daily ambience tracks.
Performance and Video by Evelin Stermitz.

A fairy is inviting to a dance rehearsal under the attic.
A female dream of the dance and a dancer as a parody of torture, rise and failure in an abandoned space like in a fairy tale from the childhood. Both performer are entering and vanishing as there has not been anyone in the space before and after, except air and dust remembering on passing by images of dreams and illusions.

NINA SOBELL
video interview
DV PAL 2007
Editing by Eva Ursprung.
Video by Evelin Stermitz.

Art Engineers vs. Machine Divas
A video interview with Nina Sobell for the ongoing research and networking project by Andrea Sodomka and Eva Ursprung of IMA Intitut für Medienarchäologie.
In May 2007, Andrea Sodomka and Eva Ursprung started their investigation on "Machine Divas" - woman artists using technology for their work in nowadays expanded "theater space". The first results were presented at the IMA Salon #7 07 at Ars Electronica in Linz and put forward for discussion on a panel with Inke Arns, Kathy Rae Huffman and Eva Wohlgemuth.

WHITE BAND CUT
video performance
DV PAL/NTSC 2007
3 channel video
total time 00:09:25:00
Performance, Sound, Video by Evelin Stermitz.
Special credits to Nina Sobell for access to her studio.

The ritualised cutting of a white band wrapped around the body symbolizes the metaphoric disposal of inner and outer bonds as restrictions in an internal monologue. The woman can be seen as a gift as well as a captive. The white band describes muted halcyon segues flowing in a void space.
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STRUCTURAL MODEL
video performance
DV PAL/NTSC 2006
3 channel video installation
total time 00:03:00:00
black and white, mute
Performance and Video by Evelin Stermitz.

A female person is reflecting the structures and dynamics of Freud’s model of the psyche in terms of an unresolved pattern.
Researched parts of connections between the three layers of Freud's model and women appear in the textline to represent some main thoughts about the complexity of (t)his system.
A video installation of the intermediation of the ego between the id, the superego and the external world from a female perspective.
This video performance work has been realized at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria, within the media class by VALIE EXPORT.
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New Media Workshop 2D MUTANT ZOMBIES
documentary video
DV PAL 2006
total time 00:02:25:00
Video by Evelin Stermitz.

Documentary video of the New Media Workshop '2D Mutant Zombies' held by Dejan Grba in Pirot, Serbia, at the International Summer Art School of the University of Arts in Belgrade, 2006.
Photographs and video are combined into a documentary to give an impression of the workshop and the Serbian culture.
View the video at the 2D MUTANT ZOMBIES site under the documentation link >>

INSIDE THE OUTSIDE
dance video
DV PAL/NTSC 2006
loop / total time 00:05:32:23
Dancer Inside: Klaudia Ahrer.
Sound by Cherry Sunkist: People don't belong to people, What I want / Why do I even ask
[roughly mixed not mastered].
Video by Evelin Stermitz.

Moving beyond a surface, an outside, a window into a different world – what are the reasons for moving within a certain space of femininity? The questions of the moving shape circulate around the other, the captured difference, the identity and the self. By acting as a body with its language, this remains from the self and questioning shape. The body as a shape for self-reflective questions within a female room seemingly protected against the outside but exposed to the gaze.
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RED VELVET
DV PAL/NTSC 2006
loop / total time 00:09:30:03
Sound by John Maxwell Hobbs, daily ambience / chartres 16-09-05.
Video by Evelin Stermitz.

Computer generated red velvet as a structure for the screen: experimental video, artificial structure, color symbolism.
For the perceptional surface of this video work, computer generated red velvet is developed as a structure for the screen. The color covers the screen with haptical sensations, and it is kept as an experimental video with its artificial structure, defining color symbolism and reflections toward its deep metaphorical character. Red velvet, formerly sacred to influential superior persons like regents and cardinals, becomes here combined with the monitor a sacred object itself, which opens up for further reflections on its relevance and connotations, also toward the media itself, its images and its aspects of use/abuse of power and sexuality.
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AU VA ET VIENT
DV PAL 2005
total time 01:00:56:22
original sound
Video by Evelin Stermitz.

As the title suggests, pedestrians are passing by, only visible by their feet.
You can imagine yourself the stories around the people by:
prenez un cafe, allumez une cigarette, regardez, ecoutez et imaginez le cafe avec la fontaine
AU VA ET VIENT, 6 Place Felix Eboue, 75012 Paris, le jeudi 28 juillet 2005 entre 17 et 18 heures.
AU VA ET VIENT is a video in between one hour picture, real time composition and cinema verite.

GENDER TRANSMISSION
WO:MAN#1 WO:MAN#2
dual channel video installation
DV PAL/NTSC 2005
loop / total time 00:03:03:00
Performer: Siegrid Frohnwieser, Alexander Samyi.
Sound and Video by Evelin Stermitz.

The two videos question the relation and boundaries between man and woman in a philosophic and psychological manner. Like in the psychological theory of Jacques Lacan woman and man mirror themselves in terms of 'the Other', so this is the issue of these videos. By establishing two mirrors through video, the situation resembles a real mirror, where man and woman are confronted to each other. There is always a surface, a shape for interacting constructed here through a digital code. But what will remain is always an imaginary shape which meanings are constructed not through the shape itself, but by the society in which we are living.
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KONCENTRACIJSKO TABORIŠCE LJUBELJ
dance improvisation performance
DV PAL 2004, loop / total time 00:14:32:20, black and white
Music by Irena Havlova and Vojtech Havel, jako motyl na tve dlani, 1999.
Dancer in the morning: Klaudia Ahrer.
Video by Evelin Stermitz.

At a cruel place, one woman moves; determined with pain, fears and depression but also with hope for a way out. The dancer is standing for the painful feeling of women in concentration camps, but also for physic and psychic discrimination of women in general. Actually this place is more imaginary and not bound to the real place as it could be any place where women suffer from cruelty and hopelessness, so it could be any woman who suffers from violence. The sense of feeling and moving is transferred into a contemplative video, where the camera also adopts the powerful eye of the observer, the voyeur, but in opposite also the eye of a person deprived of the power to aid. As a dance video it has been created by a silent improvised performance without spectators, where experiment and unrepeatable time have been captured.
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DAROVANJE MESECU / A GIFT FOR THE MOON
DV PAL 2004
total time 00:03:37:00
Music by Iva Bittová, kapitulni sin, 1994.
Video by Evelin Stermitz.

This video is an interpretation of the poem by Maja Haderlap. It shows a moving and twisting face in the dark. The face seems to observe the spectator, so it is a break and change of the traditional rules of watching and being watched at the normal situation of the spectator watching television. The poem deals like the video with watching, looking and finding something.
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VECERKA - NIGHT SHOP - NACHTGESCHÄFT
DV PAL 2003
loop / total time 00:06:43:00
mute
Video by Evelin Stermitz.

A hypermarket has been filmed to show the superfluity of the consumer society. The footage has been filmed by hand camera and sometimes quite fast, so a strange feeling occurs by watching it. It is the same feeling as going into a supermarket - being influenced by the colors and diversity of the products, but finding it impossible to find the thing you actually need, because there are too many of them. This video is part of the room installation of the social art happening project by BROCCOLI Art Group.