Ivalo Frank signs world-wide distribution deal
Ivalo Frank has signed a world-wide distribution deal with Shorts International. In future, Shorts International will be in charge of distributing and selling Ivalo Frank’s music documentary ECHOES to TV stations across the world.
Shorts International is the world’s leading short movie entertainment company, functioning as distributor, broadcaster and producer.
With a catalogue of over 3000 short movies, they represent every genre across multiple platforms. Their titles include past Oscar winners and nominees, festival favourites and revered classics. The company is headquartered in London with additional offices in Paris, New York and Los Angeles.
http://www.shortsinternational.com/
New film festival in Berlin
GREENLAND EYES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Ivalo Frank, Lill-Ann Körber and Milena Nikolova launch new film festival.
Greenland Eyes International Film Festival will take place in Arsenal Cinema Berlin in the spring of 2012. The festival will highlight films from Greenland as well as other filmic examples that deal with Greenlandic images while produced in foreign countries. With Greenland Eyes International Film Festival it will be for the first time that the Berlin audience is offered a chance to gain an insight into a range of films dealing specifically with various representations of Greenland.
Incorporates: Screenings, workshops, lectures, artist talks.
The Corridor at the Parnu Film Festival
THE CORRIDOR
a film by Sarah Vanagt
winner of the 1st Prize at the Courtisane Film Festival in Gent
on 4 and 10 July at the 25th Pärnu Film Festival, Estonia (4-24 July, 2011)
The Corridor, 7min, 2010
For five days Sarah Vanagt and cinematographer Annemarie Lean-Vercoe followed a donkey during its weekly visits to old people in nursing homes in England. From home to home, from room to room. Time and again the donkey was welcomed with open arms, with songs, gentle strokes, childhood stories, poems, and laughter. It was only when the donkey entered the room of Norbert, a man who had lost his ability to speak, that an altogether different encounter took place..
Even though Vanagt initially followed the donkey‘s steps in search of reminiscences brought about by the animal’s mute presence, she came home with an altogether different film. While editing, the film became shorter and shorter, as if the words that had accompanied the donkey’s visits became a distraction. What is left is perhaps a bas-relief disguised as a painting, disguised as a film.
The donkey visits to residential homes are an initiative of The Donkey Sanctuary in Sidmouth, England.
HINKERORT ZORASUNE / THE FIFTH COLUMN
a film by Vatche Boulghourjian
winner of the
3rd Prize at the 63 Festival du Cannes 2010
official selection of the Cinéfondation, La Sélection
1st Prize Abu Dhabi Film Festival
1st Prize Libanese Film Festival
“Hinkerort Zorasune : Fifth Column c hronicles desperation and mourning in the marginalized Armenian quarter of Beirut through a weave of allegorical narratives. In a panic, Hrag has stolen his father’s gun and fled home. As father searches for son, both discover paths to personal freedom in a city that offers no escape.” (www.rebus-i.com)
The Fifth Column has been screened among other at the film festivals in Brazil, Armenia, Spain, Qatar, Serbia, Canada, USA.
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The Fifth Column is gonna be on program at the forthcoming festivals:
Targowa Film and Music Festival (Poland, July 8-10, 2011)
Guanajuato International Film Festival (Mexico, July 22-31, 2011)
Palo Alto International Film Festival (USA, September 29-Oct 2, 2011)
(un)translatability at Casa Vecina, Mexico City
On 21, August, 2011
at the Casa Vecina, cultural center. Centro Histórico, Mexico city
Kran Film presents:
1. Populus Tremula, by Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida; 9min, 16mm on DVD, 2010.
2. Intelligence Failure: Minutes 39-54, by Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida; 7min, 2003.
3. Journey 110, by Khaled Jarrar, DVD 12min 15, 2008.
4. The New Film,, by Raed Yassin, DVD, 13min, 2008.
5. Ghost Town, by Steven Day and David Pushkin, DVD, 30min, 2008.
6. Foire du Midi, by Hugo Van der Vennet, 28min, 2007.
Ghost Town: Victor, 2008, 5 min, film still, David Pushkin and Steven Day
(un)translatability
Giving priority to visual language above utterance to develop narrative, the screening program at the Casa Vecina tickles the notion of the (un)translatability. Focused on language either in its own absence, either when its presence plays the secondary role, the (un)translatability does not imply the process of destruction and transformation as evoked by the translation (Benjamin); it rather speaks in terms of an original, as a fixed and inalterable event which offers a room for a viewer to inscribe his/her own thoughts and feelings within its content (Debord).
The screening presents six shorts split in two programs. The first part of the program includes films by Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hyashida, Raed Yassin and Khaled Jarrar to put the focus on representations of power in the very act of censorship, exclusion and manipulation. Its second part presents collaborative work of Steven Day and David Pushkin, and a film by Hugo van de Vennet. Both films are developed around the subject of amusement park although van de Vennet’s film is silent, while the later presents omnibus of ten different stories wherein the meaning of the language is given in relation to the circumstances under which the conversation takes place (Gauker).
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casa vecina
Casa Vecina is the cultural branch of the Mexico City Historical Center Foundation (Fundación del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México AC) specialized in production, display and research in the field of contemporary art. Rather than assuming the identity of a conventional exhibition space, Casa Vecina has adapted a studio concept: focusing on the artistic process, as opposed to exhibiting finished works of art. Exhibitions and displays are a continuous process of experimentation.
All of the projects supported by Casa Vecina are registered and documented; the information about each project is available to the public through our Documentation Center, which also offers specialized bibliographies and journals. Casa Vecina organizes workshops, theoretical seminars and artistic projects are always open to the community.
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Second World Congress of Free Artists
Kran Film was the host of Camel Collective for a 4 month residency in Copenhagen 2010. This is the documentation video from their Second World Congress of Free Artists at Aarhus Kunstbygning with the performance of many international artists and theoreticians. Please see more about the event and Camel Collective at their websites at http://congress.camelcollective.org/ or http://camelcollective.org/