Emma Rozanski & Gonzalo Escobar Mora present new work at Elastic Arts Chicago →

Our Emma Rozanski and Gonzalo Escobar Mora have curated a group collaborative show with Liz Gomez and Elastic Arts Chicago for the North American premiere of 3-channel video ‘Walden [verb]’

Walden [verb] is a mixed-media show consisting of work made by members of the cast and crew of a 3-channel video installation called Walden [verb]. The 3-channel work will be the central piece of the show, and ten satellite pieces in different media will form a creative grouping to accompany. Each artwork will be connected to and inspired by the main work either by theme, underlying discussion, visual aesthetic, materials, or location/space.

Artists in show: Liz Gomez, Yoni Goldstein, Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Madigan Burke, Zach Barner, Hadley Austin, Ronen Goldstein, Guy Fixsen, Bobbie Meier, Steve Meier, and Daniele Wilmouth

When: July 12th - July 25th 2024

Where: Elastic Arts - 3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647    -   https://elasticarts.org

About ‘Walden [verb]’, the 3-channel video installation: A twenty-two minute impressionistic adaptation of the book ‘Walden’, with playful abstractions relating to critiques of his life and work. We follow a young woman in the snowy woods as she undertakes various ritualistic procedures in nature and in symbolic spaces. The film links themes of environmentalism and human discord to weave fragments of dystopian narrative, the three channels linked by a single soundscape.

Notes: 

-The exhibition will also be on display in a limited capacity during the evenings of the regular performance schedule of Elastic Arts - video sound will be restricted.

-Appointments for private viewings can also be requested

-Live music tickets available directly through Elastic Arts (booking recommended): https://elasticarts.org/events

Bistrik7 Omnibus film Screening in Mexico this month →

Our omnibus film ‘Letters From the Ends of the World” is screening in Mexico in May as part of A vida não é um filme: Vol. 2 - and our Marta Hernaiz Pidal and Gustavo Vega will be there for discussions.

This interesting collection of work was curated by film.factory colleague Chrystyan Romero - thanks so much for including us!

Emma Rozanski's 3-channel video installation 'Walden [verb]' continues its journey →

Emma Rozanski's 3-channel video installation Walden [verb] continues its journey this month with screenings at these festivals/galleries:

FIC Autor, Guadalajara Jalisco – Mexico, October 2023

and

Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille and Aix en Provence, France October 2023 – January 2024

https://www.instantsvideo.com/blog/video/walden-verb/

Their videopoetics friendships will also screen the work internationally at these places/dates:
   October, 20 -> 25 : Aknoon art Gallery & Safavi Museum, Ispahan (Iran) for 2 exhibitions
   October   (date to be confirmed): screening with Cairo Video Festival (Egypte)
   October, 18 -> 1er November : [.BOX] Videoart project space in Milan (Italy) for a screening-installation
   October, 18 -> 21 November: Visualcontainer TV (Italy) for a screening program available 24h/24
   November, 2 (6.30pm) : MMAG Foundation (Amman) and Medearts association (Irbid)  (Jordanie) for two screening programs followed by a conversation
   November 6 : French Institute in Palestine for a screening in the frame of Digital November: Gaza and Ramallah.

Earlier thsi year Walden [verb] also screened in these festivals [we forgot to post the news!]

March 2023: Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Modena – Italy

April 2023: Wide Open Film Festival, Oklahoma – USA

André Gil Mata retrospective at Batalha Centro de Cinema →

Batalha Centro de Cinema

On Thursday, a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the work of André Gil Mata begins at Batalha Centro de Cinema, with the national preview of "Patio do Carrasco"!

Notes from the cinema on the retrospective:

The notion of home while fundamental, life and death, childhood and old age, representation and memory are some of the recurring concerns in Gil Mata's cinema. In his films, usually dark and melancholic, he stands out a way of "carving time" that affirms him as an odd director in the national context.

In addition to his full filmography, this retrospective integrates a director’s pick — Aleksandar Petrović’s “Tri,” — and a special session on Cinema Trindade where the first publication dedicated to his film practice will be released.

Na quinta-feira, damos início à retrospetiva integral dedicada à obra de André Gil Mata, com a antestreia nacional de “Pátio do Carrasco”!

A noção de casa enquanto reduto fundamental, a vida e a morte, a infância e a velhice, a representação e a memória são algumas das preocupações recorrentes no cinema de Gil Mata. Nos seus filmes, por norma sombrios e melancólicos, sobressai um modo de “esculpir o tempo” que o afirma como um realizador ímpar no contexto nacional.

Para além da sua filmografia completa, esta retrospetiva integra uma escolha do realizador — “Tri”, de Aleksandar Petrović — e uma sessão especial no Cinema Trindade, onde será lançada a primeira publicação dedicada à sua prática fílmica.

Kaori Oda in [RADICAL WHISPERS] Asian Film Archive, Singapore. →

This past September and October, the Asian Film Archive, Singapore screened a collection of films by our Kaori Oda as part of ‘RADICAL WHISPERS: Asian Shorts and Documentaries’

Description:

Bringing together documentaries and short films from Japan, India and Myanmar, represented by filmmakers Kaori Oda, Payal Kapadia and filmmaker-curator Moe Myat May Zarchi, RADICAL WHISPERS explores how whispers—in the form of love letters, secret conversations, journal entries and hearsay— are amplified and transformed into potent sources of political action in film. Through a diverse range of ephemera and story-telling devices, including iphone footage of strangers, 16mm family videos and text messages between friends, the clandestine is made communal, allowing access into the deeply intimate subjectivities of filmmakers and the communities they are part of. Stories of lost love and intergenerational trauma become intertwined with social movements and transnational connections. The boundaries of private and public, solitude and solidarity, secret and overt are re-negotiated. The films offer a provocation into the role of film in disseminating and organising, in connecting and healing. 

Ágora de la Ciudad screening a series of Bistrik7 Films throughout 2020

Ágora de la Ciudad, an initiative in collaboration with Ex Convento Betlehemita Centro Cultural in Vera Cruz, Mexico, has been creating an exciting and diverse online screening series, complete with filmmaker interviews, throughout this summer. Many Bistrik7 Films have screened thus far (curated by Gustavo Vega) and there are many more to come throughout the rest of 2020! Other esteemed BIstrik7 colleagues from Film.Factory Sarajevo have also screened.

Keep up to date with the programme here: https://www.facebook.com/AgoraXalapa/

and via @AgoraXalapa

Next up is Gonzalo Escobar Mora’s 2019 Colombian short film, ‘Economia Social’, screening on Friday 14th August, 2020 (details here)

Kaori Oda's ‘Cenote’ in JAPAN CUTS 2020!

‘Cenote’ in JAPAN CUTS 2020!

We will be showing "and" in the experimental spotlight department of Japan Cuts 2020 Online Film Festival this year. We will also participate in panel discussions to talk to all the directors who are participating in the documentary department.

https://japancuts.japansociety.org/film/new-approaches-to-documentary-from-japan/

Rozanski's A New Kind of Ray to play at Revolutions per Minute Festival in Boston →

Screening at the radical Revolutions Per Minute Festval in Boston, USA, Emma Rozanski’s 2-channel video installation ‘A New Kind of Ray’ will screen in program 1 - Codes and Archives - on Jan 31st 2020:

RPM Exhibition

Codes and Archives

Jan. 31, 11AM - 22PM

University Hall 4400

http://revolutionsperminutefest.org/

RPM Fest is dedicated to short-form poetic, personal, experimental film, video, VR, expanded cinema and audiovisual performance. We are looking for any work that experiments with the formal possibilities or hybrid form of film, video audiovisual, animation, expanded cinema and VR under 15 minutes. RPM Fest is sponsored by the Art Department and Cinema Studies Program at UMass-Boston.

The upcoming festival runs Jan. 31, Feb. 1st & 2nd, 2020.

Location:

-University Hall 2310 - Dorchester, MA, 02125
-8X77+CM Boston, Massachusetts

RPM 2020 Sponsored By:
Art Department of UMASS Boston
Cinema Studies of UMASS Boston

RPM 2020 Introduction by revolutionsperminutefest.org

At the onset of his landmark essay Towards A Minor Cinema, Tom Gunning quotes Deleuze and Quattari: There is nothing that is major or revolutionary except the minor.

For RPM 2020, we ask, what is “minor cinema” today and what can it do for us, our consumption of media, our relationship with the environment, our world?

For the second year, The Art Department and Cinema Studies Program at UMass Boston continue to host the festival. RPM 2020 received nearly double the amount of submissions compared to our inaugural edition. Drawing on a wide range of techniques and modes of filmmaking, ranging from avant-garde poetics, non-fiction, experimental animations and narratives to dance films, performances, and contemporary art practices, RPM 2020 brings together innovative efforts by over 160 artists, 122 pieces from 32 countries and territories. (Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Cezch Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, and United States.)

Featuring 107 short films, 5 audio-visual live performances, a documentary feature film, and 9 installations in the exhibition area, the selection of RPM 2020 remains loyal to the experimental spirit and intimacy of personal filmmaking. Among the highlights of the 11 programs of experimental shorts, Let’s Look at Florida (Hogan Seidel) and Porto Landscape (Michael Lyons) speak to our contemporary anxieties over environmental disasters while testing the boundary of the film medium; Toni and Bleri (Katja Verheul) portrays the physical and psychological turbulence caused by the migratory policy of Europe; MUÑE (Catalina Jordan Alvarez) playfully disrupts ethnographic and gender stereotypes; Vesuvius At Home (Christin Turner) ruminates on our encounters with destruction; the essay film of Sky Hopinka (Lore), Mike Hoolboom & Alena Koroleva (Wax Museum), and Ei Toshinari (…And So We Start Again) are lyrical wonders to behold; Abiding (Ugo Petronin), Amusement Ride (Tomonari Nishikawa), and Valpi (Richard Tuohy) brilliantly address the formal essence of cinema in light, time, and movement; Simon Liu’s E-Ticket, which is included in the New Frontier Shorts Program at Sundance Film Festival 2020, is an astonishing collage made out of 16,000 splices of his personal archive.

15th International Short & Independent Film Festival Dhaka screens a program of Bistrik7 Films

This pas weekend in Dhaka, a film.factory / Bistrik7 sharing session happened as part of 15th International Short & Independent Film Festival Dhaka.

Our Bistrik7 colleague Ghazi Alqudcry arrived in Dhaka, Bangladesh to represent Bistrik7 and screen short films made by several of us as part of the 15th International Short & Independent Film Festival. He also shared his experience in film.factory

The program was curated by Aleksandra Niemczyk and Ghazi Alqudcry of Bistrik7.

 #15thISIFF #dhaka #bistrik7

This festival was organized by Bangladesh Short Film Forum. In Rasheed Chowdry’s opening speech yesterday, he talks about connecting what is disconnected within this globalized world in form of Free Cinema and Free Expression.

#15thISIFF #dhaka #bangladesh #bistrik7

Kaori Oda's feature doc CENOTE to screen at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020 →

Kaori’s Oda’s intriguing documentary set in Mexico has been selected to screen in the Bright Future Main Programme.

Synopsis:

In Northern Yucatan, Mexico, natural sinkholes called 'cenotes' constituted the sole water source for Mayans not living near a river or lake. Some cenotes were used for ritual sacrifices, and the Mayans believed that these holy springs connected this world to the afterlife.

The past and present of those living around the cenotes coalesce in this mysterious place. Long-lost memories echo in hallucinatory turquoise underwater footage, an entrancing game of light and dark. Swimming in these sinkholes, director Oda Kaori encounters intriguing shapes and beams of light, the water heaves, drops fall like razor blades.

Oda, who studied under Béla Tarr in Sarajevo, previously made Aragane, which was shot in a Bosnian coal mine. For Cenote, she used Super-8 film and a bubbling water soundscape. A captivating form for her impressions of a place where, as a ghostly voiceover explains, nothing is forgotten.

Link to Film Listing in Rotterdam: https://iffr.com/en/2020/films/cenote

鉱 ARAGANE - Kaori Oda's debut feature screens

鉱 ARAGANE

上映スケジュール

2019/10/19（土）〜10/25（金）★1週間限定

10/19（土）〜10/20（日）11:30（〜12:40終）
10/21（月）〜10/25（金）19:25（〜20:35終）
*10/25で終映。

料金

均一料金：1000円

Original title：Aragane
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina | Japan
Language: Bosnian
▶IMDb Info.

★本編字幕［なし］版上映：10/19（土）、21（月）、23（水）、25（金）
★本編字幕［あり］版上映：10/20（日）、22（火）、24（木）

【『鉱 ARAGANE』上映方式についてのご説明】
今回の上映では、日本語字幕ありの通常版と日本語字幕なし版を日替わりで上映します。
字幕なし版上映は、光と闇に溢れた映像と鳴り響く爆音に集中して鑑賞していただくという意図です。
（元々字幕が非常に少ない作品ですので、作品本来の表現の妨げにはほとんどならないと考えております。）

Moving_Image_00:06 Chicago screens Rozanski's 'A New Kind of Ray' →

Moving_Image_00:06 will be hosted by Dfbrl8r on October 27th. Doors open at 6.30pm.

@moving_image_0000 is happy to announce the participating artists for our sixth screening, guest curated by @photoandkioto alongside Directors @santina_amato and @skskaggs
.
Emma Rozanski
@aparticularfilm
Caitlin Ryan
@vito_montana_69
Ally Fouts
@ally.fouts
Lisa Barcy
@lbarcy
L Koo
@catatonicrobots
Morgan Green
@howshekilledit
Pamela Hadley
@nosleeptillinstall
Lia Call and Harvey Hayes
@girldick69 @goodboy.baddog
Marina Resende Santos
@nosleeptillinstall
Kandis Friesen
@marinaresende.s
.
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Moving_Image_00:06 screens on October 27th at @dfbrl8r

About Kioto (Moving_Image_00:06 Guest Curator):
Kioto Aoki is a visual artist whose practice includes photography, film, books and installations to explore different modes of perception. Using the nuances of time, space, form, light and motion, engage the material specificity of the analogue image and image-making process.

About Dfbrl8r Gallery (Moving_Image_00:06 Hosting Organization):
DFBRL8R [also known as. Defibrillator Gallery or dfb] was formed in 2010 as a platform for Performance Art. Contextualizing performance within the realm of visual art, DFBRL8R embraces those who look to the body in concert and conversation with time, space, object, nature, architecture, or society.

About Santina (Founder & Director):
Santina Amato is an Australian born multi-disciplinary artist, receiving an MFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. Her video works have been screened at ExFest Film & Video Festival, Chicago, Brooklyn Public TV, New York, Hatched Northside Film Festival, New York and The International Women’s Day Video Screening, Australia. She is currently working on an ongoing portrait photographic and video series supported by the 2019 DCASE IAP Grant.

About Sarah (Co-Director): Sarah Kathryn Skaggs is an independent administrator, organizer, and curator in Chicago. Currently overseeing program development for Chicago-based performance collective Every house has a door and assisting with the forthcoming Goat Island Archive Exhibitions in Spring of 2019 at the Chicago Cultural Center. She completed her MA Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2016 and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Missouri with BA in Art History and an BS in Business Administration (2007).
About Moving_Image_00:00

Since it's launch in the Fall of 2016, Moving_Image_00:00 has presented the moving image works of 62 artists and five collaborative teams, showcasing works by Chicago-based artists through an open call. Moving_Image_00:00 is hosted at various galleries across Chicago and is a biannual festival that defines itself as a festival of all forms of the moving image, unique to that of a film festival. From digital and hand drawn animation to polished short films, gifs to experimental performance for video, Moving_Image_00:00's mission is to celebrate and create public screening opportunities for local artists.

Kaori Oda to exhibit her 'Muse' Series of paintings @KUGURU Japan →

新作『セノーテ』と共につくっていた絵の一部をYIDFF2019連携プログラム「muse series – paintings of Cenote」として展示していただけることになりました。
＠とんがりビル1階KUGURU9/26(木)~10/20(日)入場無料です。

YIDFF会期中お時間の許す時に覗いていただければ嬉しいです。
https://tongari-bldg.com/2971

Exhibition of 'muse series – paintings of Cenote'
@KUGURU, 1F of TONGARI BLDG.
26/9/2019 〜 20/10/2019

YIDFF2019 collaboration program
Kaori Oda exhibition
muse series
paintings of Cenote

In conjunction with the 16th Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2019, which will begin on October 10, we will exhibit and introduce painting works by filmmaker Kaori Oda. Oda learned from master Tal Bella in Sarajevo, and his work “Mine ARAGANE”, which was closely linked to miners working in Bosnian coal mines, was selected for YIDFF2015 “New Asian Currents” and attracted attention.
This exhibition “muse series – paintings of Cenote” will exhibit a part of the “Muse” series of 100-piece paintings that Oda drew in his room during the editing period of the new work “Cenote” taken in Mexico. Cenote is a spring in a cave dotted in the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula. In the days of the Mayan civilization, it was considered a sanctuary linking the present life and the yellow spring for those who have roots in the Maya who still live in the surroundings. Like the previous work “Mine AKAGANE”, what was Oda's vision that he saw and felt in the underground world? Along with the movie “Cenote” to be screened at YIDFF2019 “New Asian Currents” this time, please come to this exhibition where light and darkness, life and death, movies and paintings come together.

Planning: kanabou

—

At the beginning of 2017, I watched "Snake Dance" in a movie about Lumière Brothers. I was fascinated by the shot and started drawing pictures of dancers, and I became involved with the pictures of the Mexican underwater cave that I am working on day by day.
They drew their faces while thinking of the girls who were thrown into the spring in the cave as a ginger because of the rain. During the shooting in Mexico, I met many people, listened to many stories, and dive into an unknown underwater space.
I feel like I was trying to refute what my mind and body had experienced by making an output of drawing pictures every day while gathering the shooting materials after returning to Japan.
Kaori Oda (September 2019)

Two of Rozanski's video art works screening in Girona and Suburbinale Festivals →

Suburbinale, Germany: http://www.machbarschaft.at/suburbinale/deutsch/

Girona Film festival, Italy: https://www.gironafilmfestival.com/

Gonzalo Escobar Mora & Emma Rozanski to exhibit at No Nation, Chicago - Sat 28th Sep →

Our Emma Rozanski and Gonzalo Escobar Mora will have an exhibition of their short films and video art at The No Nation Gallery and Unspace Lab in Wicker Park, Chicago, Saturday 28th September 2019 from 6:44pm. They will be screening a selection of short film and some video art works, which will also be accompanied on the night by performances by local artists.

EVENT INFO:

https://www.facebook.com/events/674657989686256/

Experimental film 'Sutures of a Landscape' selected for Bali International Short Film Festival →

Emma Rozanski’s single-channel video art film ‘Sutures of a Landscape’ will screen in the experimental section of MINIKINO FILM WEEK - Bali’s International Short Film Festival - 5th to 12th October 2019

The film - a handmade landscape of wildlife observed from dusk to dawn - was made during her artist residency at Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science, using shadow puppets created from antique surgical tools and apothecary objects from the Museum’s collection - the soundscape was also using these same objects.

Festival website: http://minikino.org/filmweek/

SCREENINGS:

·         OMAH APIK, Monday 7/10, at 19:15:00 WITA / GMT +8

·         UMA SEMINYAK, Tuesday 8/10, at 18:30:00 WITA / GMT +8

Rozanski's video art piece screens in Durham tomorrow! →

‘A New Kind of Ray’ screens on Weds 24th July 2019 at The Station House in Durham, UK as part of PROJECT/POETRY is Broken - a night of video projection and spoken word.

DETAILS HERE

Join Lee and Alex, the writer and artist-in-residence at Josephine Butler College, for a spoken word and video projection evening at The Station House on Wednesday 24th July from 7pm.

In collaboration with the Middle Common Room of Josephine Butler, the night will showcase the very best of visual artists and spoken word performers responding to the theme of 'perspective'.

Experimental Films and Video Poems to screen 'A New Kind of Ray' →

Emma Rozanski’s video installation ‘A New Kind of Ray’ has been invited to be part of AT THE FRINGE film screenings 2019 - a festival of Experimental Films and Video Poems

When/Where: TRANÅS, SWEDEN

INTERNATIONAL 2

Monday, 1st July - 18:00h

Wednesday, 3rd July - 11:00h

www.facebook.com/events/622884411564507/

Festival Dates: 29 June  – 4 Jul

Website: https://www.atthefringe.org/film

About:

at the Fringe

INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL

29 JUNE - 6 JULY 2019

TRANÅS, SWEDEN 

ENG / For eight days in July, practitioners from Sweden and other countries working with different disciplines (visual art, literature, dance and film) will meet and conduct around 70 events. The festival is a free-entrance event, held once-a-year and it is now at its sixth edition!

SWE / Under åtta dagar i juli kommer utövare från Sverige och andra länder från olika discipliner inom konst, litteratur, dans och film att träffas och genomföra runt 70 evenemang. Festivalen är årligt återkommande och den sjätte!

Follow the festival events here:

Artiklar

 (in Swedish)

Bistrik7 mentor Béla Tarr to show new work in Vienna →

Bistrik7 are so very excited and our hearts are so very warmed by the announcement that our beloved mentor, Bela Tarr from our film.factory family, is presenting a new work:

Béla Tarr: Missing People

DATES

Thu, 13. June, 6.00pm , 9.00pm 
Fri, 14. June, 6.00pm , 9.00pm 
Sat, 15. June, 6.00pm , 9.00pm 
Sun, 16. June, 6.00pm , 9.00pm

LOCATION

Halle E im MuseumsQuartier 
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien

On 15 June both screenings of Missing People by Béla Tarr offer free admission to everyone who can present a current issue of the Viennese street newspaper Augustin.
Subject to availability, tickets can be obtained on 15 June from the evening box office in the foyer of Halle E+G at MuseumsQuartier.

FESTWOCHEN EXTRAS

Masterclass with Béla Tarr
Talk with Béla Tarr and Jacques Rancière

INTERVIEW

About the piece:

Vienna is the city with the highest quality of living in the world – this was confirmed yet again in 2018. But the city’s immaculate façade made of Habsburg splendour, Sacher torte and snow-white Lipizzaner horses is only half the story. Many inhabitants do not fit into this picture and are hidden from sight owing to poverty and social hierarchies. Béla Tarr’s Missing People makes them visible again. Tarr’s magnum opus, Sátántangó, is widely regarded as one of the most important works in film history. And according to his director colleague Gus Van Sant, the Hungarian comes closer to the actual rhythm of life than virtually any other filmmaker. This is also true for his new project, which is his first time directing after a long creative break. Using just a few shots, Tarr shows these invisible people in the kind of place to which they would normally have no access. This work, created in the intersection of film, installation and performance, will be presented exclusively during the Wiener Festwochen – at the filming location itself. While the visitors remain amongst themselves, only traces of the protagonists are left behind. A powerful plea for humanity.

(courtesy of https://www.festwochen.at/en/programme/programme/detail/missing-people/ )

Singapore International Festival of Arts presents Ghazi Alqudcy's debut feature, 'Temporary Visa' →

Ghazi Alqudcy’s debut feature film 'Temporary Visa' will be screening in Singapore for two days as part of the Singular Screens curated by Asian Film Archive as part of the Singapore International Festival of Arts.

Details:

19 May, Sun, 5pm Oldham Theatre (THIS SUNDAY)
25 May, Sat, 2pm Screening Room (NEXT SATURDAY)

Watch the trailer for Temporary Visa
https://vimeo.com/330407148

You can get your tickets here:
https://www.sifa.sg/singular-screens/temporary-visa

Ghazi will be attending the screening so do stay for the Q&A session.