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
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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
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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
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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.
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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IVALO FRANK’s film Echoes selected for the American Independent FIlm Festival 2011
The tri-city American Independent Film Festival celebrates the work of independent filmmakers. It is a unique platform for new talent and a tour-de-force of low-budget creativity and innovation. The Festival attracts an amazing array of filmmakers from across the world and offers film lovers coast to coast an extraordinary chance to glimpse the future of cinema.
AIFF focuses on the work of new filmmakers and films presenting new approaches and innovative solutions to limited budgets. As the festival venues are all closely connected with prominent film schools, the audiences are unusually sophisticated in their appreciation of quality film.
In May 2011 we’ll show more than 70 films in our three screening venues in Miami, Los Angeles, and New York.
http://www.film-fest.us/
ALL THAT FITS: The Aesthetics of Journalism
A new exhibition exploring the apparently opposite realms of Journalism and Art launches in QUAD, Derby in May. All that Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism will be on display in QUAD Gallery from Saturday 28th May until Sunday 31st July 2011.
All that Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism explores the idea that art and journalism are not separate forms of communication, but rather two sides of a unique activity, the production and distribution of images and information. What the project brings to surface are the ways of communicating this nexus of image production and information procedures, and the aesthetic principles in these acts of transmission.
The exhibition will be presented in three chapters: The Speaker, The Image and The Militant. These three separate displays of artwork respond to the overall theme and each include new artworks. ‘The Speaker’ runs from 28th May – 19th June, and concerns itself with a specific figure; the speaking subject or author. How does this figure emerge through discourse, and what are its functions? What can be said and not said in order for a speaking subject to appear as real, as authentic, as authoritative and/or as truthful. How are subjects positioned, and how is truth produced, and subsequently, staged? Who can speak the truth, and does it require a certain kind of speech? For and to whom does one speak when speaking the truth, with power or to power? What is implied in certain speech acts and subject positions, such as the figure of ‘the reporter’ and ‘the artist, as well as the ‘witness’ and the ‘source’? As single figures, both the reporter and the artist have throughout modernity been viewed as such authentic voices and heroic figures. Simultaneously, though, they are constantly vilified as being complicit and corrupt, of reneging on their potential position of truth-sayer. What is the position of the speaker today, and how does this position influence the statement, whether artistic or journalistic?
Curated by Alfredo Cramerotti and Simon Sheikh. Artists in the first chapter include: Sammy Baloji, Yael Bartana, Eric Baudelaire, Anita Di Bianco, Douglas Fishbone, Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy, Graziela Kunsch, Lamia Joreige, Michael Takeo Magruder, Renzo Martens, Katya Sander, SLUM-TV, Hito Steyerl and Walid Raad/The Atlas Group.