Kran Film at BOZAR, June 22 and 23
BOZAR – Carte Blanche: KRAN FILM
22 and 23 June
Bozar – Brussels Centre for Fine Arts / Studio
Rue Ravenstein, Brussels 1ooo
Kran Film is presenting a selection of films by its members produced from 2010. Out of 9 short films we are screening 7 Belgian premiers by filmmakers from Lebanon, USA, Egypt, Belgium and Denmark. The programme which will be on screen at Bozar on 22 and 23 June is divided in two categories: documentary/narrative and art/experimental. Although different in approach, all the films in a critical way observe social, political and cultural actualities and their local expressions in Greenland, UK and Armenia, either in Alexandria, Brussels and Cairo, touching upon issue of memory, otherness, migration, art, economy and personal history.
Programme
I – 22.06. 2012, at 20pm
Total duration of the programme: 79min
1. Echoes (Belgian premiere) by Ivalo Frank
2010, color, sound, 24’, HD
Honorable mention at Los Angeles International Film Festival 2011
the Best Documentary – London Underground film festival 2011
English spoken, English subtitles
2. Side Walk by Binevsa Berivan
2011, color, sound, 17’
Kurdish and French spoken, English subtitles
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3. Fifth Column (Belgian premiere) by Vatche Boulghourjian
2010, color, sound, 22’
Cannes Film Festival competition 2010:
3rd award Prize by the Cinéfondation, La Sélection
Armenian spoken, English subtitles
4. Blue Dive (Belgian premiere) by Mostafa Youssef
2011, color, sound, 16’
Selection: Film Festival Rotterdam 2012
Arabic spoken, English subtitles
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II – 23. 06. 2012 at 20pm
Total duration of the programme: 65min
1. The Corridor (Brussels premiere) by Sarah Vanagt
2010, color, sound, HD, 6’45”
Award: 1st at the Courtisane Film Festival – Gent in 2011
english spoken
2. Sound from the Hallways (Belgian premiere) by Lasse Lau
2012, color, sound, 25’
no dialogue
3. Populus Tremula (Belgian premiere) by Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida
2010, 16mm, silent, 9’
Selection: Rotterdam Film Festival 2011
4. Rice city (Belgian premiere) by Sherif El Azma
2010, color, sound, 19’
Arabic spoken, English subtitles
5. Disco (Belgian premiere) by Raed Yassin
2010, color, 5’35”
no dialogue
Films
22.06. 2012, at 20pm
(79 min)
Echoes (Belgian premiere)
by Ivalo Frank
2010, color, sound, 24’, HD
Honorable mention at Los Angeles International Film Festival 2011
the Best Documentary – London Underground film festival 2011
ECHOES is a film about the American presence in Greenland, about abandoned airbases and radar stations from WWII. It’s also a love story about two people who have met in the stunning landscape of history, in the sounds of drum dance and music.
Echoes captured a kaleidoscopic juxtaposition of the vast and unnervingly beautiful east Greenlandic vista, with the decaying remnants of mankind’s greatest moral and ideological struggles – and utilizes the wonderfully unique visual and aural representations of Greenland as a canvas on which to paint the echoes of history and time.
Side Walk
by Berivan Binevsa
2011, color, sound, 17’
This is the story about Mémo, a Kurdish immigrant living with his wife in the basement of a Brussels house. To avoid eviction from Belgium, Mémo remains secluded in his basement, peeping on passers-by through the window and waiting for his wife to return.
In this dance of feet walking in front of his basement window, Mémo finds himself witness to stories and daily dramas without having the opportunity to take a stand.
Fifth Column (Belgian premiere)
by Vatche Boulghourjian
2010, color, sound, 22’
Cannes Film Festival competition 2010:
3rd award Prize by the Cinéfondation, La Sélection
Set in the Armenian quarter of Burj Hammoud, Fifth Column tells the story of a young boy, Hrag, and his unemployed father. A poignant scene of the film shows the boy begging an old shoemaker in a decrepit shop to give his father back his job. However, the old craft of making shoes is no longer in demand… The tools used for making shoes are contrasted with the gun the boy carries – instruments of creativity being replaced by the instrument of death.
Fifth Column stands out for its haunting portrayal of cultural and economic desolation and hopelessness. It explores the problem of a new generation that can no longer understand the importance of heritage; it explores the meaning of culture as it impacts both individuals and the community to which they belong.
Blue Dive (Belgian premiere)
by Mostafa Youssef
2011, color, sound, 16’
Selection: Film Festival Rotterdam 2012
As Selim, a diver bewitched by the sea, dies on a hospital bed, and as Mokhtar, a failed painter, contemplates on the color of death, Dalia, a nearby nurse, remembers her father’s drowning. Set in the Mediterranean Alexandria, this is a story of a brief encounter which compares death to the sea and life in contemporary Egypt.
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23.06. 2012, at 20pm
( 64,78 min)
The Corridor (Brussels premiere)
by Sarah Vanagt
2010, color, sound, HD, 6’45”
Award: 1st at the Courtisane Film Festival – Gent in 2011
For 5 days Sarah Vanagt 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 warmly, with greetings, songs, strokes, childhood stories, poems, and laughter, until the donkey entered the room of Norbert, a man who lost his ability to speak.
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 got in the way. 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.
Sound from the Hallways (Belgian premiere)
by Lasse Lau
2012, color, sound, 25’
With his latest film Lasse Lau revisits history at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and challenges concepts of historicism and museology from a time of the early 20th century when history was still seen as universal, and man believed in its abundant truth, to times where several histories challenge each other for the semblance of reality. The film in addition documents the atmosphere in one of the must classic and visually dense and unique museums in the world before it becomes history.
“The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.”
(From Walter Benjamin “On the concept of history”)
Populus Tremula (Belgian première)
By Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida
2010, 16mm transferred on DVD, silent, 9’
Selection: Rotterdam Film Festival 2011
Populus Tremula originates from artistic research into Swedish “Match King” Ivar Kreuger (1880–1932), whom The Economist in 2007 called “the world’s greatest financial swindler” and who was the founder of Svenska Tändsticksaktiebolaget (the Swedish Matchstick Corporation), today called Swedish Match. Both factory locations have been active since the 19th century, and while the manufacturing process is now almost fully automated, beyond the removal of human labor, it has changed little since the early 20th century.
While the film follows the linear progression of match manufacture from timber to shrink-wrapped package ready for export, a series of superimposed textual interventions point to the ability of both capital and the nation-state to legislate and assert the monopoly capitalist’s desire to not only exploit natural resources but to appear to surpass the power of nature through myth.
Rice city (Belgian premiere)
by Sherif El Azma
2010, 19’
In an old-fashioned apartment, in an atmosphere of tension and unease, located somewhere between the real, the uncanny and a state of dream-like delirium, suggestive symbolism and insinuations fester in dark corners of rooms where Rice City unfolds. A self-conscious young woman, anxious, haunts the corridors; we encroach on a young black man lounging in his bed, building a city from blocks; an older man played by Count Federico de Wardal, recounts a story of selling rice to his friend, who appears as a ghost. A tight lipped scene around a dinner table, with its ripples of tension spilling beyond the bounds of this exquisitely shot film noir featuring an equally beautiful soundtrack, transfixing, full of suspense.
Disco (Belgian premiere)
By Raed Yassin
2010, 5’30”, VHS, silent
“Disco tells the story of the artists’ father, a disco-addict and a fashion designer who leaves his family to find work abroad, eventually becoming a film star in the Egyptian horror industry. This quickly spirals into a fiction, however, in which the father becomes Egyptian film star Mahmoud Yassin (who shares the director’s family name). The interplay of image and text explores a generation’s fascination with celebrity, forging a story about abandonment, voyage, longing, and stardom.”
ECHOES @ the Berlin Biennale
ECHOES by Ivalo Frank @ the Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art – KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e. V. Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin, Open Call exhibition space and digitally, on the Biennales online platform ArtWiki. From the 27th of April to 1st of July 2012. Echoes is a film about the American and Danish military presence in Greenland see through abandoned airbases and radar stations. It’s also a love story between two people who have met in the stunning landscape of history, in the sounds of music.
Ivalo Frank receives film grant
Frank has received a grant from NAPA to realise her next film production titled EYES. The film will premier at the Socle Du Monde Biennale in September 2012.
Ivalo Frank talk&screenings at Tellus
Two Ivalo Frank productions, ECHOES and Faith, hope and Greenland, will be showing at Tellus Cinema in Stockholm, this Saturday at 7PM. Frank will be present to answer questions after the screenings. For more information see tellusbio.nu
Benj Gerdes – lecture at SMFA Boston
Benj Gerdes will give a lecture on March 30 in Boston as part of the School of Museum of Fine Arts MFA Graduate Colloquium on “Artist Collectives.
STRIKE ANYWHERE in Nottingham
Strike Anywhere a film by Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida at Radical Footage: Film and Dissent Friday 9th March 2012 11am – 7pm The Space, Nottingham ContemporaryA selection of short radical films and commentaries – around the themes of anti-capitalism, protest, conflict and uprising – will explore the medium’s potential to contribute to social-political change. The day’s debate will be initiated by Oliver Ressler’s introduction to his films including What Would it Mean to Win? and What is Democracy? which you can watch here: http://www.ressler.at/what_is_democracy_film/
The programme includes shorts by Gary Anderson, Benj Gerdes, Neil Gray, Sacha Kahir, James Rowlins, Alexis Milne, Jordan McKenzie, Jessica Mautner, Fabienne Gautier, Irina Botea, Jacopo Natoli, Nisha Duggal. Discussions will be led by Esther Leslie (Birkbeck University of London), Martin O’Shaughnessy (Nottingham Trent University) and Gary Anderson (Liverpool Hope University/Free University of Liverpool).
Schedule Registration 10.30 for 11am start with Oliver Ressler followed by panel discussion. 1pm break for lunch (NC is near lots of city centre eateries) Film programme and discussion continues through to 6pm, socialising, networking and drinks at bar through to 7pm.
To book a place visit the Nottingham Contemporary website:
http://ncradicalaesthetics.eventbrite.com/?ebtv=C
RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt project is based at Loughborough University School of the Arts.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY – BERLIN –
Dear members
This years General Assembly is now taking place in Berlin -
Kran Film members will be attending the Berlinale for another 4 days please join us if You’re also here!
Best Kran Film Board
THE CORRIDOR
THE CORRIDOR (2010) a film by Sarah Vanagt will be screened at Festival des Films de Femmes de Creteil, France, 30 March – 8 April 2012
CONTOUR ON TOUR IN 2012
From 21 March till 11 July 2012 Contour will present moving image in De Loketten in the Flemish Parliament. The exhibition ‘Contour On Tour’ offers a panorama of video art in Flanders.
The curator, Hans Martens, selected existing works of art by, amongst others, Michaël Borremans, Wim Catrysse, Anouk De Clercq, Hans Op de Beeck, Nicolas Provost and Sarah Vanagt. Dennis Tyfus and Bart Stolle are showing a new creation.
A production of Contour Mechelen vzw in cooperation with Argos Venue: De Loketten of the Flemish Parliament, Ijzerenkruisstraat 99 – 1000 Brussels Mon-Sat: 10:00-17:00 (closed on Sunday, bridging days and holidays)
FAITH, HOPE AND GREENLAND & ECHOES
films by Ivalo Frank
at
Tellus Cinema, Stockholm
17 March, 2012
Faith, Hope and Greenland is a documentary from 2009 by Ivalo Frank. The film is a poetic journey into the very hearts of the people of Greenland. Based upon interviews with leading representatives from the art-world including; film producer Mikisoq H. Lynge, visual artist Julie Edel Hardenberg, actress Makka Kleist and musician Peter Tuusi Motzfeldt ‘Tuumotz’ (whose music, along with songs from Nive Nielsen accompany the film), the four figures reveal their personal beliefs of what Greenland currently stands for and their dreams for a contemporary, Greenlandic society.
Echoes is a film about the American and Danish military presence in Greenland see through abandoned airbases and radar stations. It’s also a love story between two people who have met in the stunning landscape of history, in the sounds of music.
KRAN FILM GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Berlin, 11 February 2012
Like every year Kran Film General Assembly is going to be held during Berlinale, Berlin Film Festival, which last from 9 to 19 February, 2012.
The General Assembly will be held on 11 February, at a location in Berlin, that we will notify you about later on.
General Assembly will overview activities in 2011, programme for 2012 and propose new Kran Film members!
The Wave
THE WAVE (2012), Printroom Rotterdam
PrintRoom as Daumenkino of the IFFR
26 January – 5 February
with: The Flip Collection II
Sarah Vanagt (BE) and Katrien Vermeire (BE): The Wave
In “The Wave” the archaeological gaze of the viewer is set in motion: a mass grave from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) opens and closes itself.
Opening January 27th, 8 – 11 pm
A presentation of flipbooks by over 50 artists, designers, photographers and filmmakers as a collaborative side programme of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
In addition to showcasing these specially selected flipbooks for this year’s edition of IFFR, PrintRoom co-produced three flipbooks that share an historical slant either in subject matter, source material, or from personal experience. The evening’s presentation will also include a screening of corresponding films by the three makers.
EDIE AND PENELOPE NEWCOMB
EDIE AND PENELOPE NEWCOMB
a film by David Pushkin
at
Movement Research, Brooklyn, New York
Wednesday, 1 February, 2012
Program begins at: 8:00pm
South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn, New York
Iron Bridge Pictures, filmmaker David Pushkin and collaborator Tyler Fairbanks present their film, “Edie and Penelope Newcomb” (14min) at Movement Research in Brooklyn, New York. The film explores the relationship between a mother and daughter. The mother (Edie) is suffering from memory loss. The daughter (Penelope) is both a care provider and antagonist. Edie shares her “lack” of memory as a way to uncover insights into the more eternal aspects of living.
The film will screen as part of the Open Performance series of Movement Research: http://movementresearch.org/performancesevents/openperformance/schedule.php
The program begins at 8pm and includes three performances and the screening. A discussion will follow.
ECHOES showing at Illisimatusarfik – University of Greenland
ECHOES is showing at the University of Greenland on the 21st of January. The film is directed by Ivalo Frank and is an experimental documentary about the American and Danish military presence in Greenland see through abandoned airbases and radar stations. It’s also a love story between two people who have met in the stunning landscape of history, in the sounds of music.
For more info on the University of Greenland please check http://www.ilisimatusarfik.gl/
Steven Day exhibits in Paris
Steven Day participates at the exhibition Nouvel Organon in Paris. The group show on photography is opened between December 10th and January 5th 2012, in 20 Rue Muller, 75018 Paris.
Premier: Sound from the Hallways by Lasse Lau
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Sound from the Hallways
Lumiar Cité in Lisbon
11 January, 2012.
With his latest film Lasse Lau revisits history at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and challenges concepts of historicism and museology from a time of the early 20th century when history was still seen as universal, and man believed in its abundant truth, to times where several histories challenge each other for the semblance of reality. The film in addition documents the atmosphere in one of the must classic and visually dense and unique museums in the world before it becomes history.
“The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.”
(From Walter Benjamin “On the concept of history”)
Lumiar Cité
Rua Tomás del Negro, 8A
1750-105 Lisboa, Portugal
Wednesday to Sunday, 3pm to 7pm
The film is co-produced with Seen Films
Seenfilms / and supported by the Danish Arts Council and DCCD.
See more at: www.maumaus.org
Little Figures at Demonstrations. Making Normative Orders
Little Figures
a film by Sarah Vanagt
at
Demonstrations. Making Normative Orders
Frankfurter Kunstverein
20.01.2012 – 25.03.2012
Press preview: 19 January, 2012, 11:00 am
Opening: 19 January, 2012, 8:00 pm
An exhibition featuring works by: Bani Abidi, Jost Amman, Jean-Jaques-François Le Barbier d.Ä., Claudia Bosse, Irina Botea, Wilhelm Bülow, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkácová, Jaques-Louis David, Discoteca Flaming Star, Ludwig von Elliot, Johann Georg Funck und Michael Rößler, Dani Gal & Achim Lengerer, François Georgin, James Gillray, Jana Gunstheimer, Nicoline van Harskamp, Johann Peter Hasenclever, Sharon Hayes, Alexander Hoepfner, Jean-Pierre-Louis Laurent Houël, Jean-Pierre-Marie Jazet, Johann Jakob Kirchhhoff, Noël Lemire, les trucs, Lovefuckers, Peter Lynen, Marcello Maloberti, Anna Mendelssohn, Rabih Mroué, F.G. Nordmann, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Alfred Rethel, Henry Ritter, Julian Röder, Yorgos Sapountzis, Sandra Schäfer, Georg Schlicht, Eske Schlüters, Adolf Schrödter, Schwabinggrad Ballett, Noh Suntag, Johann Susenbeth, Sarah Vanagt, Massimo Vitali, Aalam Wassef, Nazim Ünal Yilmaz.
For more Info:
Sarah Vanagt
Kran Film General Assembly
Like every year Kran Film General Assembly is going to be held during Berlinale, Berlin Film Festival, which last from 9th to 19th of February 2012.
The General Assembly will be held on February 11th at a location in Berlin, that we will notify you about early next year.
General Assembly will overview activities in 2011, programme for 2012 and propose new Kran Film members!
Ivalo Frank wins Award for Best Documentary
Ivalo Frank’s film ECHOES wins the Festival Award for Best Documentary at the London Underground Film Festival 2011. ECHOES takes place on a little island in Greenland, home to Anna Kuitse and her husband, sharing the (love) story about two people who met here in in the midst of international politics and war. The music documentary was recorded on abandoned military locations in Greenland, and it incorporates the sounds, structures and colours of the mosaic landscape of steep mountains.
For more info: http://www.londonundergroundfilmfestival.org.uk/
Greenland Eyes IFF dates announced!
Greenland Eyes International Film Festival is happy to announce that the festival with take place from the 24th of April to the 30th of April 2012. The festival, which takes place in Arsenal Cinema Berlin highlight feature, documentary and art films from Greenland and will be supplemented with a workshop Greenland Film in Context at Humboldt University’s Nordeuropa-Institut focusing on theoretical and practical aspects of filmmaking in and about Greenland. Greenland Eyes IFF is a project initiated by Ivalo Frank in collaboration with the Nordic Institute at Humboldt University of Berlin, Arsenal Cinema – Institute for film and video art and the Nordic Embassy in Berlin.
For more information on the festival: www.greenlandeyes.com
Visiting Artist Talk
Duke University Department of Art, Art History, & Visual Studies
Date: 11/26/11
Venue: Duke University, Durham, NC
duke uni
Part of the 2011-12 year Visiting Artist Series
Artist Talk by Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida: Conversation between the artists, Neil DeMarchi (Professor, Department of Economics, Duke University), and Stephanie Sherman and George Sheer (Co-Directors, ‘Elsewhere’, Greensboro, NC)
Expanding the Documentary: New Media and Digital Documentary
Symposium and Exhibition
Date: 11/14/11
Venue: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College
SUNY, Purchase, NY
expanding the documentary
Daylong symposium featuring Benj Gerdes as invited presenter and exhibition including Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida’s video essay “Strike Anywhere” (HD, 32:00, 2009).
TWO KRAN FILM NOMINEE AT THE 28 DOKFEST KASSEL
IVALO FRANK and SARAH VANAGT
28th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (November 8 – 13) nominated works by two Kran Film members for this year awards. The Corridor, a film by Sarah Vanagt, has been nominated for the A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle, while the film Echoes, by Ivalo Frank, has been nominated for the prize The Golden Key.
ECHOES in Official Selection
Ivalo Frank’s film ECHOES, has been chosen as part of the Official Selection for ASFF, the Aesthetica Short Film Festival and will be screening at the festival from 3rd – 6th November 2011. The festival is a celebration of independent film from across the world with 150 films being screened from 30 countries.
ECHOES nominated for the prize The Golden Key
Ivalo Frank’s film ECHOES has been nominated by the selection committees of the 28th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival for the prize The Golden Key. 14 films were selected amongst the 2,500 submitted films.