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

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

Aleksandra Niemczyk screens new experimental film at FIC Silente Mexico

Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México - FIC Silente MX

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

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.

Kaori Oda's Cenote debuts in the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020 →

Next week in the Bright Futures main program, our Kaori Oda’s Mexican documentary premieres at Rotterdam. The film was also co-produced by our Marta Hernaiz-Pidal.

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.

SCREENING DATES & TIMES

Original title Ts'onot

Filmmaker Oda Kaori

Premiere International premiere

Country Japan, Mexico

Year2019

Length 75’

LanguageSpanish

Producer Oda Kaori, Echigoya Takashi, Jorge Bolado, Marta Hernaiz

Production Company FieldRain, Aichi Arts Center, cinevendaval

Sales Article Films

Writer

Oda Kaori

Cinematography Oda Kaori

Editor Oda Kaori, Takeshi Hata

Production Design Marta Hernaiz

Sound Design Oda Kaori

Cast

voices of: Araceli del Rosario Chulim Tun, Juan de la Rosa Mibmay

Website https://fieldrain.net

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-2019年4月　    　長編映画作品『セノーテ』完成

 
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​2020年1月　ロッテルダム国際映画祭にて上映

​2020年2月　恵比寿映像祭にて上映

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
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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.

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)

'A new kind of ray' to screens in the No Flash Video Show →

Emma Rozanski’s video installation ‘A New Kind of Ray’ will screen at the No Flash Video Show - MAY 3-4 - New Jersey - FREE EVENT

Dedicated to showcasing ambitious new works by emerging filmmakers and time-based artists, NOFLASH 2019 will feature 29 works from 11 countries, in three avant-garde short film programs – Corporeal Considerations, Autobios & Animations, and Pensive Portraiture – as well as a popup video art exhibition, and a reception with performances. Reserve your free tickets and learn more at NOFLASHvideo.org. Sponsored by the Rutgers Filmmaking Center and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.

This video installation was originally created during Rozanski’s artist residency at Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science and exhibited there in her solo exhibition in November 2018. It features narration by Darryl Foster.

Screening in Sharjah of Emma Rozanski's short, PANGAEA (cinematography by Marta HErnaiz Pidal)

This week, Emma Rozanski’s short film PANGAEA, screens as part of the Sharjah Film Platform (SFP), a week of live film screenings, talks and workshops held by the Sharjah Art Foundation. Our Marta Hernaiz Pidal was the cinematographer on the film and it was shot in Sarajevo on location among the striking brutalist architecture of Sarajevo’s main TV station.

Festival website and programme: http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/programme/sharjah-film-platform

Emma Rozanski - Artist in Residence at The International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago

Congratulations to our Emma Rozanski (@aparticularfilm) who has been selected as the International Museum of Surgical Science Artist in Residence for Summer/Fall 2018 - A fascinating and inspiring Museum in Chicago, USA. 

During the 4 month residency, Emma will be lurking within the Museum, creating a series of video, sound and installation artworks based on/inspired by the Museum's archives, which will culminate in a solo capstone exhibition of this new work within the Museum in November 2018.

Website and info: https://imss.org/summer-fall-2018-emma-rozanski/

Keep an eye on her progress and the Museum's happenings here: @IMSS_Chicago