Kaori Oda presents her new film, GAMA, in FICUNAM, Mexico, in June.
Synopsis: A storyteller of peace serves as a guide in the “Gama”—natural caves where many local people lost their lives during the Battle of Okinawa. The woman in blue standing by his side represents the intersection of the present and the past.
https://ficunam.unam.mx/pelicula/gama/
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 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
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.
This week, the short film that Gonzalo Escobar Mora made in Chicago during the first lockdown, screens in BOGOSHORTS, Colombia’s largest short film festival and market.
Festival Website: https://festival.bogoshorts.com
Aleksandra Niemczyk ‘s experimental short film"Fantoccini" (silent director's cut of "Polka-Dot") is premiering at Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México - FIC Silente MX
Made in collaboration with Marta Hernaiz Pidal, Graeme Cole, Tina Keserovic and Thomas Steyaert
Screening at the Cinemateca Luis Buñuel Puebla in November 2021
It is our honor to share with you that LETTERS FROM THE ENDS OF THE WORLD - a new omnibus by Bistrik Seven - will be one of the two opening films for SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL. This is the National Premiere of the film that was completed two weeks ago!
With films by:
Ghazi Alqudcy, Graeme Cole, Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Grant Gulczynski, Marta Hernaiz Pidal, Namsuk Kim, Bianca Lucas, Stefan Malešević, Patrick Marshall, Aleksandra Niemczyk, Pilar Palomero, Emma Rozanski & Gustavo Vega - all from Bistrik7
Our mentor Bela Tarr is the Executive Producer.
Some of our Bistrik7 members will be flying from all over the world to present the film.
Shout out to Ghazi who designer our official poster!
Stay tuned for more news soon…
Fernando Nogari directed a music video that has gone viral - ‘Baila Conmigo’ - for Selena Gomez & Rauw Alejandro, set in Redonda, Ceara, Brazil - it’s very stylish - as all of Nogari’s works are - he’s a stylish dude!
Watch the official video here: https://youtu.be/h5WN3pkxPF0
Starring: Kibba and Ariane Aparecida Directed by Nogari @fernando.nogari Produced by Iconoclast
Shot during the Covid-19 lockdown in Chicago in 2020, with 3 flatmates being the only cast and crew - our Gonzalo Escobar Mora and Emma Rozanski among them - ‘Enthusiasts’ is an interesting examination of ‘making plans’ amidst uncertainty - reflected through the eyes of two artists who are coping with the added uncertainty of making art and sustaining themselves financially into the future, while living in an ultra-consumer-capitalist world. Can you ‘buy’ your way out of the ‘system’?
Film listing: https://cinemaunbound.org/events/enthusiasts/
Synopsis: Uncertainty transpires as a couple navigates their future plans.
Directed by Gonzalo Escobar Mora
United States | 2020
Hybrid, Drama
Screening online Fri, March 5 – Sun, March 14
This short film screens as part of Shorts Block 1
Festival Website: https://nwfilm.org/festivals/44th-portland-international-film-festival/
Aleksandra Niemczyk’s new short film "Polka-Dot" is premiering now at festival RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES MONDE and streaming online from today until 6th of December. In the section: "Cinema-Therapy". Cinematography and co-production by our Marta Hernaiz Pidal and Graeme Cole
Starring Tina Keserovic and Thomas Steyaert
Watch here.
An impressionistic emotional struggle between a girl with a prefabricated heart and a mysterious puppet-master. Inspired by the chapter "The Girl with the Pre-Fabricated Heart" from the surrealist film "Dreams That Money Can Buy" (1947) by avant-gardist and dada artist Hans Richter.
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)
Next Sat the 1st of February at 8pm, Gonzalo Escobar Mora’s latest film, ‘Social Economies’, plays at the famous Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago as part of the annual Panorama LatinX Festival.
Gonzalo will be there in person for the Q&A along with the other directors.
Synopsis:
2019, Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Colombia 22:00 min.
A bag of used clothes. Three women. Their longings, uncertainties, fictions, and realities.
Filmmakers in person!
The Gene Siskel Film Center’s Panorama Latinx programming and outreach initiative is pleased to announce the second edition of our short film showcase. This year’s edition introduces the works of Chicago-based filmmakers representing Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua, Peru, Haiti, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Addressing the complexities of our time through different genres and methods of storytelling, the films guide us over the nuances of identity and collectivity in the 21st century. From ecology to social dynamics, the directors present a manifold of practices that point to the relevance of imagination in today’s world. In Spanish and English with English subtitles. DCP and ProRes digital.
Marcela Fuentes: Associate Professor at Northwestern University and author of Performance Constellations: Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America
Alan Medina: Co-founder of filmfront and Inga.
Marina Resende: artist, researcher and critic for Hyperallergic and THE SEEN, among others.
Directors Carol Bedoy, Sol y Chaski, Sofia Alfaro, Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Nat Pyper, Milton Guillén, Gustavo Jardim are scheduled to appear for audience discussion
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.
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.
18th - 23rd November 2019 - Emma Rozanski’s experimental dance installation, ‘On the Motion of the Heart and the Blood’ (made for the International Museum of Surgical Science Chicago during her Artist Residency there in 2018), will screen in Sao Paolo, Brazil as part of the International Festival of Dance - Images and Movement. The video will screen in its single-channel form (it was originally screened as a two-channel installation).
4 edição do IMARP - Mostra Internacional de Dança - Imagens em Movimento - Vídeo Dança.
OBRIGADO A TODOS. PARABÉNS AOS SELECIONADOS E ENTRAREMOS EM CONTATO.
Vida longa a Vídeo dança
#somosrediv
A word from the Festival Director, Denise Matta:
Boa noite a todos.
O IMARP 2019 - Mostra Internacional de Dança - Imagens em Movimento na cidade de Ribeirão Preto / SP / Brasil, vem agradecer a sua inscrição e participar do seu trabalho na Mostra Internacional. Recebemos nesta 4ª edição um total de 575 incrementos, ou seja, um privilégio, uma satisfação da imensa gravação de vídeos rodados, mas como selecionar alguns dos meus estudos interessantes. Nossos curadores, que já fazem aqui os nossos agradecimentos: João Pirah, diretor do Coletivo dos Sonhos, São Paulo / Brasil, Melisa Canãs da Festival Internacional de Danza Córdoba Córdoba e Ladys Gonzales do Projeto Corporativo Expandido de Buenos Aires, pertencentes à Argentina Rediv - Rede Iberamericana de Vídeo, qualifique o IMARP também é membro.
Voltando aos selecionados, chegamos à seguinte conclusão: dos 575 inscritos, selecionamos 90 obras que passarão 5 dias no evento.
Agradecemos imensamente como inscrições em 2019 e esperamos seu trabalho na próxima edição.
Grata
Denise Matta - Diretora Geral e artística do IMARP 2019.
Good evening everyone.
The IMARP 2019 - International Dance Show - Images in Movinento in the city of Ribeirão Preto / SP / Brazil, thanks you for your registration and interest in taking your work to our International Exhibition. In this 4th edition we received a total of 575 entries, which was a privilege, the satisfaction of the huge amount of videos played, but how to select some in mine of so many interesting works. Our curators, which I already thank you here: João Pirah Director of the Dream Collective, São Paulo / Brazil, Melisa Canãs of the International Cideodanza Show of Cordoba and Ladys Gonzales of the Proyecto Corporalidad Expanded of Buenos Aires, both from Argentina, active members of the Rediv - Ibero-American Videodanza Network, of which IMARP is also a member.
Returning to the selected, we reach the following conclusion: of the 575 subscribers, we selected 90 works that will pass on the 5 days of the event.
Thank you very much for the 2019 entries and look forward to your work in the next issue.
Thankful
Denise Matta - General and Artistic Director of IMARP 2019.
Buenas noches a todos.
El IMARP 2019 - Show Internacional de Danza - Imágenes en Movinento en la ciudad de Ribeirão Preto / SP / Brasil, gracias por su registro e interés en llevar su trabajo a nuestra Exposición Internacional. En esta cuarta edición, recibimos un total de 575 entradas, lo cual fue un privilegio, la satisfacción de la gran cantidad de videos reproducidos, pero cómo seleccionar algunos de los míos de tantas obras interesantes. Nuestros curadores, que ya les agradezco aquí: João Pirah Director del Dream Collective, São Paulo / Brasil, Melisa Canãs del International Cideodanza Show of Cordoba y Ladys Gonzales del Proyecto Corporalidad Expanded de Buenos Aires, ambos de Argentina, miembros activos del Rediv - Red Iberoamericana de Videodanza, de la cual IMARP también es miembro.
Volviendo a lo seleccionado, llegamos a la siguiente conclusión: de los 575 suscriptores, seleccionamos 90 obras que pasarán los 5 días del evento.
Muchas gracias por las entradas de 2019 y esperamos su trabajo en el próximo número.
Agradecido
Denise Matta - Directora general y artística de IMARP 2019.
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
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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.
Suburbinale, Germany: http://www.machbarschaft.at/suburbinale/deutsch/
Girona Film festival, Italy: https://www.gironafilmfestival.com/
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:
This month, Pilar Palomero’s short essay film, HORTA, screens en el Seoul International New Media Festival - 서울국제뉴미디어페스티벌.
일정 2019년8월20일(화) 12:20 롯데시네마 홍대입구 2관 | 인터파크 예매하기
DESCRIPTION
오르타는 자기 자신 속 시간의 경과를 실험하고, 상실감을 솔직하게 표현한 영화이다.
Horta is the experimentation of the passage of time in oneself and the honest expression of a loss.
Festival Website and details: http://www.nemaf.net/shop_goods/goods_list.htm?category=0B080000
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
Festival Website: http://www.biaff.org/
Selected projects for Alternative Wave 2019 edition.
1. Aquarium – director and producer Tornike Bziava.
2. Tamada – director Temur Tsiklauri, producer Irakli Bagaturia.
3. Burden -director and producer Ana Iosava, co – writer Otar Katamadze.
4. You Look Like Your Father - director Levan Lomjaria, producer Vako Kirkitadze.
5. Orange Sky – director and producer Shalva Shengeli, co-writer Alexander Kurkhuli.
6. Family Drama with The Happy End – director and producer Irina Gachechiladze.
7. Seraphyma – director Marisia Nikituk, producer Igor Savichenko.
8. Affection of The Heart – director Soner Caner, producer Bilal Bagci.
Workshop will be followed by public pitch for industry representatives and jury, where best projects will be awarded:
I place – In kind post-production services for 10.000 euros.
II place – selection to „Meeting on the Bridge” program.
III place – attendance to Berlin International Film Festival (accreditation, travel, accommodation).
Experts: Nicos Panayotopoulos (Greece), Paul Tayler (Great Britain), Gulin Ustun (Turkey), Aysegul Ekmekcioglu (Turkey), Gela Babluani (Georgia).
ალტერნატიული ტალღა 2019 წლის გამოშვებისათვის შეირჩა შემდეგი პროექტები:
1. „აკვარიუმი“ - რეჟისორი და პროდიუსერი თორნიკე ბზიავა (საქართველო).
2. „თამადა“ - რეჟისორი თემურ წიკლაური, პროდიუსერი ირაკლი ბაღათურია (საქართველო).
3. „ტვირთი“ - რეჟისორი და პროდიუსერი ანა იოსავა, თანასცენარისტი ოთარ ქათამაძე (საქართველო).
4. „შენ გავხარ მამას“ - რეჟისორი ლევან ლომჯარია, პროდიუსერი ვაკო კირკიტაძე (საქართველო).
5. „ნარინჯისფერი ცა“ - რეჟისორი და პროდიუსერი შალვა შენგელი, თანასცენარისტი ალექსანდრე ქურხული (საქართველო).
6. „ოჯახური დრამა კეთილი დასასრულით“ - რეჟისორი და პროდიუსერი ირინა გაჩეჩილაძე (საქართველო).
7. სერაფიმა - რეჟისორი მარისია ნიკიტიუკი, პროდიუსერი იგორ სავიჩენკო (უკრაინა).
8. „გულის კარნახი“ - რეჟისორი სონერ კანერი, პროდიუსერი ბილალ ბაგჩი (თურქეთი).
ექსპერტები: ნიკოს პანაიოტოპოლოსი (საბერძნეთი), პოლ ტაილერი (დიდი ბრიტანეთი), გულინ უსტუნი (თურქეთი), აისეგულ ეკმეკჩიოგლუ (თურქეთი), გელა ბაბლუანი (საქართველო).
“ალტერნატიული ტალღა” 2019-ის დასასრულს, კინოინდუსტრიის წარმომადგენლებისთვის გამართულ პრეზენტაციაზე გამოვლინდება საუკეთესო პროექტები რომლებსაც გადაეცემათ პრიზები:
I ადგილი - 10.000 ევროს ღირებულების პოსტ-პროდუქციის სერვისი.
II ადგილი - პროექტის სელექცია „Meeting on the Bridge” პროგრამაში.
III ადგილი - ბერლინის საერთაშორისო კინოფესტივალზე დასწრება (აკრედიტაცია, ავიაბილეთები, სასტუმრო).