Look in her Eyes
Ivalo Frank receives film grant from the Danish Ministry of Education
to make ‘Look in her Eyes’, a feature film and theater project about childhood abuse.
“At one point someone said to me that victims of incest adds diversity to the world, and however much I felt like kicking his head in, I must agree that, however nuts we might be, we are individuals.”
(from the film)
To be realized in Berlin 2011.
Strike Anywhere
“Strike Anywhere” / 32-minute HD Video, 2009
“Strike Anywhere” is a video essay that takes as its point of departure Swedish “Match King” Ivar Kreuger, whose privatization of financial crisis management strategies bears a direct relation to late-twentieth century policies implemented by the IMF and WTO. Between 1917 and 1932, Kreuger capitalized on shifts in global financial markets to control over 200 companies and establish matchstick monopolies in at least 34 countries. At the height of his success, Ivar Kreuger was worth approximately 30 million Swedish kronor (the equivalent of 100 billion USD today) and had matchstick monopolies in at least 34 countries. The project is both a prehistory of neoliberal economics and an allegory about social relations and desire in the wake of global capitalist expansion and excess.
Echoes
Ivalo Frank receives film grant to realise ‘Echoes’, a rhytmic documentary about a sounds, places and people. Recorded on various locations in east Greenland. Supported by Greenland’s Self Government and Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq. Documentary, 30 min. The film will be part of the art exhibition KUUK curated by Iben Mondrup Salto og Julie Edel Hardenberg. The opening is on the 2nd of September at the Royal Danish Art Academy’s exhibition space Garage (3rd-24th Sep 2010). Followed by an opening at Katuaq in Nuuk, on the 6th of November (6th-27th Nov 2010).
Faith, Hope and Greenland: Berlin premiere
Faith, hope and Greenlandby Ivalo Frank @ Babylon Cinema, Berlin Mitte (www.babylonberlin.de); Thursday 1/4, Monday 5/4, Wednesday 7/4. A film about art, culture, dreams and identity, set in today’s post-colonial Greenland. Documentary, 30 min.
Q&A with the director after the premiere April 1st.
DIVA
Kran Film receives DIVA grant by the Danish Arts Council. It will be used for a 4 month residency for the New York based Camel Collective in Copenhagen/ Aarhus Denmark 2010. They will among other produce a film. They write…those ambivalent forms of shared warmth—of a coffee between two, a cigarette between strangers, or clandestine nuzzling in a theater—these are the moments of exchange familiar to anyone familiar with revolutionary films from Vertov to Kiarostami. The question that these cinematic gestures will invite are of an ambivalent nature: are the moments of pauses and exchanges—of breath for smoke—a symptom of alienation, an exhibition of powerlessness, or are they moments of detainment from the official custody of documentary realism, and thus from the realism demanded in the discourse of social change and radicalism itself?
The Art of Government
Feature article by Ivalo Frank, Asian Art Newspaper, May 2010 issue
“We govern others and ourselves according to what we take to be true about who we are, what aspects of our existence should be worked upon, how, with what means, and to what ends.” – an article about the concept of governmentality in the work of Turkish artist Asli Sungu.
Kran Filmweb Launches
The Kran Film Collective has a new website! Wohoo!