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screenings 2010 (Kran Film Collective)

Kran Film Collective

DECEMBER 2010

Faith, hope and Greenland by Ivalo Frank @ London Underground Film Festival, LONDON: The Horse Hospital, COLONNADE BLOOMSBURY, LONDON WC1N 1JD on Saturday the 4th December 2011. A film about art, culture, dreams and identity, set in today’s post-colonial Greenland. Documentary, 30 min.

NOVEMBER 2010

ECHOES, directed by Ivalo Frank @ Humboldt University, Berlin on the 18th Nov. 2010. A rhytmic documentary about abandoned places, sounds and people. Recorded on various locations in east Greenland. Supported by Greenland’s Self Government og Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq. Documentary, 26 min.

ECHOES, directed by Ivalo Frank @ Ladyfest Arts Festival, THE RELENTLESS GARAGE, 20-22 Highbury Corner, Islington, London N5 1RD on the 12th Nov. 2010. A rhytmic documentary about abandoned places, sounds and people. Recorded on various locations in east Greenland. Supported by Greenland’s Self Government og Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq. Documentary, 26 min.

ECHOES, directed by Ivalo Frank @ Katuaq Contemporary Art Center, Nuuk; Opening on November 6th. A rhytmic documentary about sounds, places and people. Recorded on various locations in east Greenland. Supported by Greenland’s Self Government og Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq. Documentary, 26 min.

OCTOBER 2010

ECHOES, directed by Ivalo Frank @ Reykjavik International Film Festival, on the 30th and 31st of October 2010. A rhytmic documentary about abandoned places, sounds and people. Recorded on various locations in east Greenland. Supported by Greenland’s Self Government og Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq. Documentary, 26 min.

Pine Nuts by Lasse Lau @The Open Secret Film Series #2, at the Green Lantern Gallery, October 22, Chicago.Pine nuts´ is set in a Park in Beirut that nearly 20 years after the end of the civil strife still hasn’t officially reopened its gates to the public. Some says that the new pine trees that were planted there in the nineties still have to grow themselves mature before the park actually can reopen. The film investigates this myth through the tales and memories of Immigrants stories of the Lebanese Diaspora removed from the actual site. The desires for the missed opportunity for the life under the crown of the ‘umbrella’ Pine Tree play into with the imagination of the viewer to fill out the picture.

Pine Nuts by Lasse Lau @4th Cairo Video Festival, Video Art & Experimental films, 10th to 14th of October,
Goethe institute Cairo.
Pine nuts´ is set in a Park in Beirut that nearly 20 years after the end of the civil strife still hasn’t officially reopened its gates to the public. Some says that the new pine trees that were planted there in the nineties still have to grow themselves mature before the park actually can reopen. The film investigates this myth through the tales and memories of Immigrants stories of the Lebanese Diaspora removed from the actual site. The desires for the missed opportunity for the life under the crown of the ‘umbrella’ Pine Tree play into with the imagination of the viewer to fill out the picture.

Days of harvest with cinematography by Alessio Valori@ Raindance Film Festival in London, October 2nd, 4pm.
Shot in the beautiful Italian countryside, the cinematography makes full use of the wonderful vineyards and farmhouse on which this film is set.There is a lingering patience to many of the shots, a desire to let the scene play out to its fullest, that really enhances the actors nuanced performances.The small cast does a impressive job of presenting a family bound together through time and familiarity, despite their differences in personality.Special mention must be given to Marco D’Agostin whose unselfconscious performance as Elia grounds the film. Written and directed by the young Marco Righi this is a deeply intimate look at growing up, both for the protagonist and for the country whose two competing political ideals are so well represented by his parents.

SEPTEMBER 2010

Girls on the Air with cinematography by Alessio Valori@ Cinemateket, Copenhagen, September 19, 2pm. Girls On The Air is a documentary that shows an unprecedented face of Afghanistan, a very different country from the stereotype media have contributed to create in Western collective imagination. Symbol of this diversity and complexity is the very young Afghan journalist, Humaira Habib, founder and editor in chief of Radio Sahar, the first independent community radio station born after the fall of the Taliban regime and entirely run by women, broadcasting from the city of Herat, near the border between Afghanistan and Iran. At the young age of 23, Humaira is the station-manager of Radio Sahar. She constantly trying to change Afghanistan from within by addressing the problems with political unrest, the increasing violence against women, and the suicide attacks. Directed by Valentina Monti

Strike Anywhere by Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida@ Anthology Film Archives (NYC) September 13th, 7.30pm. Strike Anywhere (32 minutes) is an essay about neoliberalism’s prehistory, about the trajectory of Swedish social democracy, glimpsed here in the context of its beginnings in the early 1930s. This is also an essay about a man who portrayed himself as a modern-day Prometheus, the Greek god who stole fire from Zeus and brought this gift to mortals: the once-notorious Swedish entrepreneur, financier, and industrialist Ivar Kreuger (1880-1932).

Faith, hope and Greenland by Ivalo Frank @ Aarhus festuge, Aarhus (DK) September 4th, at 5PM. A film about art, culture, dreams and identity, set in today’s post-colonial Greenland. Documentary, 30 min.

ECHOES, directed by Ivalo Frank @ BKS Garage, Ny Carlsberg vej 68, Copenhagen; Opening on September 2nd. A rhytmic documentary about sounds, places and people. Recorded on various locations in east Greenland. Supported by Greenland’s Self Government og Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq. Documentary, 26 min.

AUGUST 2010

Faith, hope and Greenland by Ivalo Frank @ Husets biograf, Maegstraede in Copenhagen, Denmark, 14th of August at 4PM. A film about art, culture, dreams and identity, set in today’s post-colonial Greenland. Documentary, 30 min.

JUNE 2010

Pine Nuts by Lasse Lau @ Café T-Marbouta, Hamra, Beirut, Lebanon, June 22th 7:00PM. The continuing closure of Beirut’s park has led to a physical space that only exists in the minds of people. In Pine Nuts, the mind frees itself from the associative and historical memories where physical detachment informs new social utopian aspirations. The film will be followed by a discussion with 98 WEEKS and DISCURSIVE FORMATIONS.

MAY 2010

Boulevard d’Ypres/Ieperlaan by Sarah Vanagt @ Kunstfestivaldesarts with premiere at Leger des Heils / Armée du Salut 11/05 – 21:30 and screenings @   Kaaistudio 14/05, 16/05, 23/05, 24/05 – 18:00. NL / FR / EN > NL / FR.
Sarah Vanagt has chosen her own street, the Boulevard d’Ypres/Ieperlaan, as both the setting and theme of her latest film. Urban development and gentrification are driving out the Mediterranean stores which gave the street its unique charm. So in order to memorialize her street, Vanagt went out to meet shop owners, forklift drivers and anyone else she came across, assembling their stories to create a fairy tale. Her approach is borrowed from Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, one of the initiators of “microhistory”. Boulevard d’Ypres/Ieperlaan gives us an audiovisual chronicle of a changing street: this experimental documentary gives voice to the colourful mix of inhabitants whose stories come together in the heart of Europe.

Boulevard d’Ypres/Ieperlaan by Sarah Vanagt @ Kunstfestivaldesarts with premiere at Leger des Heils / Armée du Salut 11/05 – 21:30 and screenings @   Kaaistudio Brussels 14/05, 16/05, 23/05, 24/05 – 18:00. NL / FR / EN > NL / FR. Sarah Vanagt has chosen her own street, the Boulevard d’Ypres/Ieperlaan, as both the setting and theme of her latest film. Urban development and gentrification are driving out the Mediterranean stores which gave the street its unique charm. So in order to memorialize her street, Vanagt went out to meet shop owners, forklift drivers and anyone else she came across, assembling their stories to create a fairy tale. Her approach is borrowed from Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, one of the initiators of “microhistory”. Boulevard d’Ypres/Ieperlaan gives us an audiovisual chronicle of a changing street: this experimental documentary gives voice to the colourful mix of inhabitants whose stories come together in the heart of Europe.

Populus Tremula by Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida at Migrating Forms Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York 15/05 14:00. 16mm film originating from artistic research into Swedish “Match King” Ivar Kreuger (1880 – 1932), whom The Economist in 2007 called “the world’s greatest financial swindler,” 9 min.

APRIL 2010

Faith, hope and Greenland by Ivalo Frank @ Doc Lounge, i Huset Magstræde Copenhagen (www.doclounge.se); Wednesday 7/4. A film about art, culture, dreams and identity, set in today’s post-colonial Greenland. Documentary, 30 min.

Faith, hope and Greenland by 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.

MARCH 2010

Faith, hope and Greenland by Ivalo Frank @ The Greenlandic House, Ålborg; Friday 19/3. A film about art, culture, dreams and identity, set in today’s post-colonial Greenland. Documentary, 30 min.

Faith, hope and Greenland by Ivalo Frank @ The Greenlandic House, Århus; Thursday 18/3. A film about art, culture, dreams and identity, set in today’s post-colonial Greenland. Documentary, 30 min.

FEBRUARY 2010

Strike Anywhere by Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida@Supermarket 2010, Kulturhuset, Stockholm; 20/2.“Strike Anywhere” is a video essay about Ivar Kreuger, a Swedish industrialist and financier who, in the interwar years, capitalized on shifts in global financial markets to establish 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.

JANUARY 2010

Faith, hope and Greenland by Ivalo Frank @ Culture Night, Nuuk; Sunday 24/1. A film about art, culture, dreams and identity, set in today’s post-colonial Greenland.  Documentary, 30 min.

Pocket Cinema by Sarah Vanagt@Museum Het Domein Sittard in The Netherlands;January 22/1. The solo exhibition will contain older and more recent video works.