INFERMENTAL

INFERMENTAL  - International - Fermentum - Mental - is the first international magazine on videocassettes, initiated by the Hungarian filmmaker Gábor Bódy in 1980. Alternating editors from different countries assembled approximately annually a 5 to 7 hours lasting video magazine, that informed of the latest tendencies in audio-visual arts.
Infermental's 10 issues + 1 special issue (altogether about 70 hours and more than 1500 artists from 36 countries) are on loan in the video collection of the ZKM Karlsruhe - Center for Art and Media

 INFERMENTAL is the vehicle of a significant collection of international information.

INFERMENTAL shows in a singular way, multidisciplinary productions such short films, interviews, scenarii, scientific articles, experimental movies and videos, music clips, local documentaries.  Each number of INFERMENTAL is presented in first world event at the BERLINALE.  The originality of INFERMENTAL is to be carried out, for each edition by new producers, widening the existing network systematically.  Thus the first number was carried out in BERLIN, the following in HAMBURG, and then in BUDAPEST, LYON (FRIGO), ROTTERDAM, VANCOUVER, BUFFALO, TOKYO and the last edition in VIENNA (1988).

Following the various reflexions and experiments of the independent video producers in Europe, FRIGO had the idea to create and install an international working tool which can meet the specific needs for these independent producers within the video market which is organized.  Thus was born E.M.A.N., European Media Art Network producing together 8 hours and a simultaneous projection of programs in 8 European cities:  BERLIN (INFERMENTAL), LONDON (LVA), BRUSSELS (BEURSCHOUWBURG), BARCELONA (VIDEOGRAPHIA), AMSTERDAM (MONTEVIDEO), ROMA (VIDEO SOFTWARE), LYON (FRIGO), BUDAPEST (TARSULAS STUDIO).

see the official INFERMENTAL website: http://www.infermental.de