Leader of the Seminar:
Erika Balsom is a lecturer in Film Studies and Liberal Arts at King’s College London, specialising in the study of the moving image in art. She is the author of Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art (2013) and the co-editor of the anthology Documentary Across Disciplines (2016).
Erika Balsom is a lecturer in Film Studies and Liberal Arts at King’s College London, specialising in the study of the moving image in art. She is the author of Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art (2013) and the co-editor of the anthology Documentary Across Disciplines (2016).
Lucia Aspesi is a Film Curator and Researcher in moving image. She works as Assistant Curator at Pirelli HangarBicocca (Milan) and is in charge of the film section of the Archivio Marinella Pirelli (Varese). In 2010-2012 she was a researcher on the post-diplome “Document et art contemporain” at ÉESI – École européenne supérieure de l’image (Poitiers, France), working on the history of Italian Experimental Film. Her recent curatorial projects include: “Now You Can Go” at ICA (London, 2015) and “The parallel attempt” at Xcèntric CCCB (Barcelona, 2013). Lucia Aspesi is a regular contributor of Mousse Magazine.
Sharlene Bamboat is a Toronto-based artist, working predominantly in film, video and installation. Bamboat re-imagines and re-invents dominant histories through playful interrogations of the archive. This includes interrogating citizenship and nationalism, through queer and feminist frameworks. She collaborates regularly, her most notable one with artist Alexis Mitchell under the name Bambitchell. She is currently in residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany.
Selection of Works:
Empire Symbol, Or a Man and His Mule (with Bambitchell, video, 2015)
Border Sounds (with Bambitchell, audio installation, 2011/2015)
Silent Citizen (with Bambitchell, new media installation, 2014)
In Queer Corners (with Dina Georgis, video, 2013)
Oxidize (3Channel s8mm film and performance, 2013)
Throwback (with Ali El Darsa, video and performance installation, 2012)
Mechanized Labour (video installation, 2010)
More of her Works can be found on her Website.
Selection of Works:
Empire Symbol, Or a Man and His Mule (with Bambitchell, video, 2015)
Border Sounds (with Bambitchell, audio installation, 2011/2015)
Silent Citizen (with Bambitchell, new media installation, 2014)
In Queer Corners (with Dina Georgis, video, 2013)
Oxidize (3Channel s8mm film and performance, 2013)
Throwback (with Ali El Darsa, video and performance installation, 2012)
Mechanized Labour (video installation, 2010)
More of her Works can be found on her Website.
Irene Bartolomé is a filmmaker born in Barcelona, and currently based in Cairo, Egypt. She holds a Master degree in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, and a BA in Film Editing from ECAM (Escuela de Cinematografía y Audiovisuales de Madrid). She works professionally as a video editor and has over seven years of experience in fiction and documentary. The last feature film she worked on, “Demonstration” a collective project by Victor Kossakovsky, premiered at IDFA Amsterdam and screened at MoMA Fortnight, HotDocs, True/False film festival, among others. In 2014 she was awarded a SGAE grant to attend the 2014-2015 Collaborative Studio Program at UnionDocs, New York. Irene is currently in post-production stage of her first feature-length film only made with archive footage of the Spanish colonization in Africa.
Selection of Works:
The Williamsburg Houses – 2015, 13min (excerpt)
This film gazes into the architecture and lives of the occupants of one of the most ambitious public housing projects ever built in the US. Exploring the remains of a utopian design in contemporary context, we are immersed in the life of a building and a community.
MOKA - 2016, 60min, work in progress (excerpt of the rough cut)
MOKA is a feature-length film that combines documentary and fiction elements to reconstruct the colonization of an island in Africa.
The narrator, a young girl, travels through forgotten archival films of an island, nowadays part of the country of Equatorial Guinea. During this journey the narrator comes across objects and stories of the colonial past, when that island was just a small grain of the Spanish Empire. Along with, she discovers her own family’s involvement in the island’s history.
Self-portrait - 2012, 2min
Self-portrait departed from the experience of getting the eyesight back after a myopia's surgery and seeing yourself for first time, without the artifice of the the glasses.
Selection of Works:
The Williamsburg Houses – 2015, 13min (excerpt)
This film gazes into the architecture and lives of the occupants of one of the most ambitious public housing projects ever built in the US. Exploring the remains of a utopian design in contemporary context, we are immersed in the life of a building and a community.
MOKA - 2016, 60min, work in progress (excerpt of the rough cut)
MOKA is a feature-length film that combines documentary and fiction elements to reconstruct the colonization of an island in Africa.
The narrator, a young girl, travels through forgotten archival films of an island, nowadays part of the country of Equatorial Guinea. During this journey the narrator comes across objects and stories of the colonial past, when that island was just a small grain of the Spanish Empire. Along with, she discovers her own family’s involvement in the island’s history.
Self-portrait - 2012, 2min
Self-portrait departed from the experience of getting the eyesight back after a myopia's surgery and seeing yourself for first time, without the artifice of the the glasses.
Clara Boulard is a French artist filmmaker based in London. Coming from a practical background in Cinema studies and interested in video art, she is currently completing a Master in Moving Image at Central Saint Martins.
Intended for perception and submersion within the media of video, her research and her practice try to understand and goes into the relation between image and spectatorship in depth.
Recently working with video installations she is exploring inquiry different effects on the viewer's body through images and their ways of projection.
Selection of Works:
INSIDE SUBSTANCE (2014)
SCRATCH (2014)
LE CRI (2015)
Intended for perception and submersion within the media of video, her research and her practice try to understand and goes into the relation between image and spectatorship in depth.
Recently working with video installations she is exploring inquiry different effects on the viewer's body through images and their ways of projection.
Selection of Works:
INSIDE SUBSTANCE (2014)
SCRATCH (2014)
LE CRI (2015)
Jesse Cumming is a researcher and film programmer based in Toronto. He is presently completing his M.A. in York University and Ryerson University's joint Communication and Culture program, focusing on the intersection of moving image technologies and public space. He has curated, co-curated, and presented programs with The Museum of Modern Art, Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Art Toronto, Mono No Aware, Concordia University, The City of Vancouver Archives, and more. Since 2014 he has been a member of Toronto experimental film and media programming collective Pleasure Dome. His writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Prefix Photo, Spacing Magazine, Luma Quarterly, and more. He sits on the steering committee of the Toronto Film & Media Seminar and is a collective member of MICE Magazine, a publication dedicated to Moving Image Culture, Etc.
Linda Curtin is a Cork-based artist and graduate of film production and applied multimedia from St John’s College and University College Cork. Her fist love is documentary but she is quickly edging towards experimental filmmaking. The artist’s film work has been exhibited in film festivals both in Ireland and overseas.
Core to the artist’s creative and critical process is the exploration of the existential themes of isolation and loss. Using digital lens-based media, performance and light to achieve a dream like aesthetic, the artist’s practice is based around vocalising the hidden and visualising an emotional fragility, utilising the very stuff we are made of to sing past abuse. She is investigating these topics though macabre organic symbols and communicating them through absurdist experimental film. The documents she create evolve naturally, so as to mirror the nonlinear topics that we experience in our slow decay. Our raw emotions become as used up as the raw flesh which dance and sing across her cameras frame.
She is currently studying towards a Masters in Fine Art (Art in Process) in the Crawford College of Art and Design.
Core to the artist’s creative and critical process is the exploration of the existential themes of isolation and loss. Using digital lens-based media, performance and light to achieve a dream like aesthetic, the artist’s practice is based around vocalising the hidden and visualising an emotional fragility, utilising the very stuff we are made of to sing past abuse. She is investigating these topics though macabre organic symbols and communicating them through absurdist experimental film. The documents she create evolve naturally, so as to mirror the nonlinear topics that we experience in our slow decay. Our raw emotions become as used up as the raw flesh which dance and sing across her cameras frame.
She is currently studying towards a Masters in Fine Art (Art in Process) in the Crawford College of Art and Design.
Dirk de Bruyn is Associate professor of Screen and Design at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has made numerous experimental, documentary and animation films, videos and performance and installation work over the last 40 years. He was a founding member and past president of MIMA (Experimenta). His book The Performance of Trauma in Moving Image Art (ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-6053-6) was published in 2014.
A view of his film practice is available here.
To check out his writing click here.
A view of his film practice is available here.
To check out his writing click here.
Shauna Jean Doherty holds an MFA in Art Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University, Toronto, and a Bachelor of Arts in Semiotic Theory from the University of Toronto. With a foundation in the science of signs and deconstruction and an ongoing interest in the social history of technology, these themes recur in both her curatorial projects and writing practice. She has curated experimental video screenings and new media art exhibitions independently across Canada, in Toronto, Calgary, Halifax, and Vancouver. She has also written exhibition reviews and essays with a focus on works that navigate the threshold between analogue and digital domains. Currently, she is Outreach and Distribution Manager for Video Out at VIVO Media Arts Centre in Vancouver, BC.
Her current and past curatorial projects and publications can be found here.
Her current and past curatorial projects and publications can be found here.
Ali El-Darsa , born in Beirut, Lebanon, lives and works between Berlin, Montréal and Toronto. He holds a Master of Visual Studies (MVS Studio) from Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Intermedia/Cyberarts from Concordia University, Montréal. His work in video, installation, performance and printmaking, deals with issues of identity, concepts of the self and personal histories – examined within the margins of public and private structures. His interdisciplinary research in performance often manifests in forms of happenings, durational and gestural, endurance and site-specific works. Language plays an important part in El-Darsa’s work as a medium of examination, re-examination, mediation and reflection that often questions the specificity of print and electronic media at hand and their crucial part in creating networked, mediated memories and narratives.
El-Darsa taught studio arts at the University of Toronto (UofT) in 2015. He was also a teacher assistant for Professors Lisa Steele (Course: Visual Strategies, UofT, 2013) and Tanya Mars (Course: Introduction to Performance Art, UofT Scarborough, 2015). In 2014, he undertook a fellowship with artist Akram Zaatari.
Selection of Works:
The Color Remains the Same / 2015 / 12’35”
The Document Remains the Same / 2015 / 9’45”
March 2008 / 2008 / 10’
Anhören / 2008 / 7’6”
Ali & Ali / 2008 / 9’
Brebeuf-Mont‐Royal / 2008 / 3’10”
El-Darsa taught studio arts at the University of Toronto (UofT) in 2015. He was also a teacher assistant for Professors Lisa Steele (Course: Visual Strategies, UofT, 2013) and Tanya Mars (Course: Introduction to Performance Art, UofT Scarborough, 2015). In 2014, he undertook a fellowship with artist Akram Zaatari.
Selection of Works:
The Color Remains the Same / 2015 / 12’35”
The Document Remains the Same / 2015 / 9’45”
March 2008 / 2008 / 10’
Anhören / 2008 / 7’6”
Ali & Ali / 2008 / 9’
Brebeuf-Mont‐Royal / 2008 / 3’10”
Ingrid Haug Erstad is a Berlin based curator with background as curator of Bergen Kunsthalls (Norway) projects space; Landmark.
She has previously collaborated and assisted projects such as Time/bank by E-flux and Agency of Unrealised Projects at DAAD galerie - as well as curating several exhibitions with the Bergen based art space Tag Team Studios, and independent projects.
She has previously collaborated and assisted projects such as Time/bank by E-flux and Agency of Unrealised Projects at DAAD galerie - as well as curating several exhibitions with the Bergen based art space Tag Team Studios, and independent projects.
Jack Jeans (b.1987, Cornwall, UK) is an artist, writer and curator based in London. Research interests include alternative modes of artists moving image reception, the boundaries between experimental and ethnographic film and British video histories. Has previously worked as Curatorial Assistant, Film at Tate Modern and currently studying on Mres: Artist Moving Image at Central Saint Martins in collaboration with LUX.
Pujan Karambeigi is in his fourth year of Critical Studies and Cultural Theory, planning to continue working between theory and curation. A major project during the last years was to establish super filme, a space and platform for marginal and experimental moving images. He has worked as a project assistance for Visual Arts and Film, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, assistant of the editor in chief of the ZEITmagazin and founded super filme in 2014. Occupying the vast landscape of vacant spaces to fill them with a cinematic heterotopia has been their goal ever since the beginning. At the same time they have been largely concerned with establishing a network for people in the Ruhrarea interested in questions around the moving image.
A selection of his works can be found here.
A selection of his works can be found here.
Alice Lea studied BA Fine Art at University of Leeds and Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Art in Krakow, Poland. She works with video, sculpture and installation, and is currently focusing on the ways in which technology mediates between experience, and the disquiet and disorientation this can produce. Alice has presented work in exhibitions at PSL (now the Tetley, Leeds), MK Gallery and Latitude Festival. She participated in the Experimenta Seminar alongside London Film Festival 2014, and was a member of the 2014/15 LUX Critical Forum in London. Alice works at LUX, London as Distribution Assistant.
Selection of Works:
Click here to see LUX Salon / You Are the Best
Her Short videos can be found here.
For Work in Progress check out her tumblr.
Selection of Works:
Click here to see LUX Salon / You Are the Best
Her Short videos can be found here.
For Work in Progress check out her tumblr.
Irina Leimbacher is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Keene State College in New Hampshire, USA. Recent research is on the cinematic construction of testimony in nonfiction film and installation work. She is also beginning work on an personal essay film set in Ukraine and Romania. She has published book chapters on the work of ethnographic filmmaker Robert Gardner and on experimental essay films, and articles in Film Comment, Discourse, Wide Angle, and Bright Lights. Working for many years as a film curator, she has presented various film series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Cinematheque Ontario, UCLA Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, International House Philadelphia and the Flaherty Seminar. She was a juror for the Oberhausen Festival in 2007 and this is her first time back! Publications can be found at https://keene.academia.edu/IrinaLeimbacher .
Chun-yu Liu is a visual artist working with moving image. Her work looks into oral history and lived experience of the Chinese diaspora as her practice is informed by her reading of Cultural Studies, exploration of the audiovisual medium and personal background. She was a finalist to Neo:artprize in 2015 and shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2015 and 2016, in the UK. Her latest work Milton Keynes Boogie Woogie is part of Land Dialogues conference at Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia in 2016. Liu holds an MFA in Fine Art from Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Originally she was trained as an abstract painter. She was born in Taipei, Taiwan and lives in London, UK.
Selestion of Works:
A love story: between the strait
A complete story: between the strait
Check her Website for more.
Selestion of Works:
A love story: between the strait
A complete story: between the strait
Check her Website for more.
Nana Maiolini is a visual artist and researcher. Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, she graduated in Architecture and Urbanism at University of São Paulo. Her work is constantly approaching perception of territories that are somehow obscured by hegemonic images, memories or discourses. She made short films such as Fury Film and Black Holes, which was awarded and screened in Brazilian film festivals. She integrated the collective Usina-CTAH, with whom she created mixed media installations exhibited in São Paulo Museum of Modern Art - MAM-SP and Rio Museum of Art - MAR. She currently lives in London, where she is doing master research in Moving Image, a programme run by LUX and Central Saint Martins.
Selected works can be found here.
Selected works can be found here.
Alexis Mitchell is an award-winning artist and scholar whose work has shown at festivals and in galleries internationally. Her projects use architectures and objects to queer common understandings of memory, place and belonging. She often works collaboratively alongside artist Sharlene Bamboat under the name Bambitchell. Currently, Mitchell is a PhD Candidate in Human Geography and Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto where she holds a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. Her dissertation work explores sexuality and nation-building in the space of the Jewish summer camp.
She will be artist in residence, with Sharlene Bamboat at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany Spring/Summer 2016.
Selection of Works:
Gabey and Mike: A Jewish Summer Camp Love Story (2016) Video - Experimental documentary in collaboration with Stephanie Markowitz
Empire Symbol, Or, A Man and His Mule (2015) - Video and installation in collaboration with Sharlene Bamboat (Bambitchell)
Silent Citizen (2014) - Participatory new media installation (Bambitchell)
The Break (2013) - Video - Experimental documentary
Border Sounds (2011 - 2015) - New Media installation (Bambitchell)
CAMP (2010) - Video - Experimental documentary
She will be artist in residence, with Sharlene Bamboat at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany Spring/Summer 2016.
Selection of Works:
Gabey and Mike: A Jewish Summer Camp Love Story (2016) Video - Experimental documentary in collaboration with Stephanie Markowitz
Empire Symbol, Or, A Man and His Mule (2015) - Video and installation in collaboration with Sharlene Bamboat (Bambitchell)
Silent Citizen (2014) - Participatory new media installation (Bambitchell)
The Break (2013) - Video - Experimental documentary
Border Sounds (2011 - 2015) - New Media installation (Bambitchell)
CAMP (2010) - Video - Experimental documentary
Petra Palmer is working currently as the programme coordinator for goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film. From 2011 until 2015 she was the head of programming at Nippon Connection – Festival for Japanese Film. As a programmer she is interested to stress forms of presentation and the reception of film and any kind moving image. She went back to university for a degree in Theatre, Film and Media Studies and philosophy and is studying at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her main focus at the moment is sound and space in documentary and essay film.
Finn Paul is a filmmaker and artist living in Los Angeles, CA. Using moving and still image, performance and writing, his work addresses themes of historiography, selfhood, and truth-telling in and out of the context of queer and trans communities. His practice draws form the quotidian to make queer bonds and sociality into art. He received my MFA in Film Directing from CalArts in 2015 and his work has screened at Outfest, Redcat, MIX NYC, the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, the Northside Film Festival, and the Athens International Film Festival.
Madi Piller is a filmmaker, animator, programmer and independent curator currently living and working in Toronto, Canada. Her abstract, non-representational images are drawn from film explorations in Super8, 16mm and 35mm, as well as photography and video. The resulting imagery is strongly influenced by diverse animation techniques and styles.
Curatorial projects include: Frédéric Back: Drawing life, Eleven in Motion: Abstract Expressions in Animation, Hello Amiga and OP ART Re-Imaged: Imaginable Spaces. The Frame is he Keyframe: Frame Anomalies.
Check out her homepage at www.madipiller.com
Curatorial projects include: Frédéric Back: Drawing life, Eleven in Motion: Abstract Expressions in Animation, Hello Amiga and OP ART Re-Imaged: Imaginable Spaces. The Frame is he Keyframe: Frame Anomalies.
Check out her homepage at www.madipiller.com
Emma Piper-Burket is a filmmaker, writer and researcher based between New York and Oregon. Her work focuses on non-fiction, experimental and collected media. She mixes analog forms such as Super8 and 16mm film with digital media, exploring the margins of what is familiar and calling attention to subtle details that make up the whole. Emma's film work is deeply research driven, incorporating ancient history, agriculture, science and politics into her artistic practice. As part of her graduate studies, she conducted original field research in Iraqi Kurdistan documenting the burgeoning local film scene. She is an assistant curator for the 6th Annual Video Art and Experimental Film Festival at the Tribeca Film Center in New York City and co-director of Play Farm, an artist residency and workshop in rural Oregon. Emma's work has been shown internationally, including screenings at Anthology Film Archives, The Armory Center for the Arts and Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. She holds an MFA in Cinema and Digital Media from FAMU in Prague, and a BA in Arabic and Classical Studies from Georgetown University.
Selection of Works:
Dream City, excerpt #1 (2016)
https://vimeo.com/160987431 (password: diana)
A short clip from my most recent work, a 52 minute experimental documentary portrait of an aspiring actress in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Toward an Iraqi Kurdish Cinema
Essay about the film scene in Duhok published in Reverse Shot, September 2015
Find more on her Website.
Selection of Works:
Dream City, excerpt #1 (2016)
https://vimeo.com/160987431 (password: diana)
A short clip from my most recent work, a 52 minute experimental documentary portrait of an aspiring actress in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Toward an Iraqi Kurdish Cinema
Essay about the film scene in Duhok published in Reverse Shot, September 2015
Find more on her Website.
Ralph Pritchard is an artist and film director. He co-directed a feature film, Following Forests, and is curator and co-founder of Fusebox, a series of multimedia arts events in London. His solo work is mostly concerns with the expression of emotion, privately and publicly, and the way memory shapes our understanding of ourselves.
Selection of Works:
Heaven or standing at the gate (extract)
Following Forests - Trailer (2015)
Teresa Winter - Star Bright (Song Of Silence)
Selection of Works:
Heaven or standing at the gate (extract)
Following Forests - Trailer (2015)
Teresa Winter - Star Bright (Song Of Silence)
Ekrem Serdar is a programmer & artist from Ankara, Turkey. He completed his MFA at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He frequently shows his work with the Küçük Sinemalar group, and is a co-founder of Experimental Response Cinema in Austin, TX. He is currently based in Buffalo, NY, where he is the Media Arts Curator at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center.
Check out his website for more.
Check out his website for more.
Claudia Slanar studied Art History in Vienna and received an MA in Aesthetics and Politics and an MFA in Writing/Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts. She has been working as writer, curator, and experimental scholar at the intersection of critical theory and artistic practice focussing on film/video since 2003. Her texts have been published in several international books and exhibition catalogues, including Moving Landscapes (2006), Spike Lee (2006), Matrix: Gender / Relations / Revisions (2008), Narcissism (2012), and Interactive Contemporary Art (2014). She is the co-editor of a monograph on experimental filmmaker James Benning (2007). Slanar currently researches the work of 1970s conceptual artist Laura Wollen and has curated – together w. curator Georgia Holz – a series of international group shows about artistic authorship, de-subjectivization and realism. Claudia Slanar lives in Vienna where she works as the curator of the Ursula Blickle Video Archive at the 21er Haus - Museum of Contemporary Art as well as assistant professor at the Department of Landscape Art at the University of Applied Arts.
Selection of Works:
Tanz Es! / Dance it!, international group show, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal/Germany, April - June 2016
Specters of the West – Photography in the Neither-Zone, international group show, Bäckerstraße 4, Platform for Contemporary Art Gallery, Vienna, Oct. 2014
“Dorit Margreiter“, in: Viennale (catalogue of the Vienna International Film Festival) 14, Vienna, Fall 2014.
“I Am Another World” – Artistic Authorship between De-subjectivization and Re-canonization, international group show and symposium, co-curated with Georgia Holz, Xhibit Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna/AT, Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
Selection of Works:
Tanz Es! / Dance it!, international group show, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal/Germany, April - June 2016
Specters of the West – Photography in the Neither-Zone, international group show, Bäckerstraße 4, Platform for Contemporary Art Gallery, Vienna, Oct. 2014
“Dorit Margreiter“, in: Viennale (catalogue of the Vienna International Film Festival) 14, Vienna, Fall 2014.
“I Am Another World” – Artistic Authorship between De-subjectivization and Re-canonization, international group show and symposium, co-curated with Georgia Holz, Xhibit Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna/AT, Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
Ian Soroka is an artist and filmmaker based in New York, NY. He is primarily interested in expanded forms of documentary cinema. He received a Masters of Science in Art, Culture, and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015), a BFA/BA in film studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder (2009), and also studied non-fiction cinema at FAMU, Prague, CZ (2008). His films have screened internationally in festivals and museum contexts such as: DocLisboa, CURTAS Vila do Conde, Rencontres Internationales: Paris/ Berlin/Madrid, and at the Slovenian National Cinematheque. And in 2016, he will be an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony in the US.
Selection of Works:
2016: Dry Country; (in post-production) USA/SLO/HR, dcp, color, expected trt: 80min
2015: What Remains Untold; USA/SLO, hd video, color; 7min
2014: Enter/Exit; 16mm, b/w, and directional hypersonic speakers; 8min, and 1hr looping audio.
2014: Carnival, Spring; hd video/sound; 5 min
2014: Untitled; slide projectors, archival chromes, fading unit; 30min looping
2014: Lund; hd video, super 16mm film, sound; 8 min
2011: Nevada: Of Landscape and Longing; USA, hd video/Super 16mm, color; 15min
2008: Nostalgia; USA/CZ,16mm film, color; 6 min
2007: Night Terrors and Waking Dreams; USA/CZ, 16mm, color, animation; 6:30min
Selection of Works:
2016: Dry Country; (in post-production) USA/SLO/HR, dcp, color, expected trt: 80min
2015: What Remains Untold; USA/SLO, hd video, color; 7min
2014: Enter/Exit; 16mm, b/w, and directional hypersonic speakers; 8min, and 1hr looping audio.
2014: Carnival, Spring; hd video/sound; 5 min
2014: Untitled; slide projectors, archival chromes, fading unit; 30min looping
2014: Lund; hd video, super 16mm film, sound; 8 min
2011: Nevada: Of Landscape and Longing; USA, hd video/Super 16mm, color; 15min
2008: Nostalgia; USA/CZ,16mm film, color; 6 min
2007: Night Terrors and Waking Dreams; USA/CZ, 16mm, color, animation; 6:30min
Marianne Templeton (b. 1985, Australia) is a writer, artist and independent curator based in London. In 2007 she co-founded Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space in Brisbane, and from 2010 to 2014 she was manager and curator of WORK Gallery, London. She received a BFA (Hons.) in Visual Art from Queensland University of Technology, and is currently studying the MRes Art: Moving Image course at Central Saint Martins, run in conjunction with LUX.
Anna Veilande Kustikova's current practice is quite broad: it starts with short film programming for SHORT RIGA / RIGA IFF, expert work on animation funding, lectures about contemporary video art in baltic, research on Latvian avant-garde and experimental film in the age of video tape, writing on animation and short film critique and last but not least organizing professional seminars for traditional short film students from Baltic countries (Such as film distribution etc).
With her it is all about the short format, the interest towards it started with working for video art archive, then 2ANNAS short film festival, 2 MA with focus on animation as contemporary art media and after all founding her own association Short Riga. She has been working as a curator for 5 years and now has her own programme in Riga IFF, which has 3 competitions for International, Baltic student and music video works in short film or moving image format. This year she will have the second edition of this competition. Click here to find out more about last years programme.
With her it is all about the short format, the interest towards it started with working for video art archive, then 2ANNAS short film festival, 2 MA with focus on animation as contemporary art media and after all founding her own association Short Riga. She has been working as a curator for 5 years and now has her own programme in Riga IFF, which has 3 competitions for International, Baltic student and music video works in short film or moving image format. This year she will have the second edition of this competition. Click here to find out more about last years programme.
Emilie Vergé is a scholar in Film and Media Studies with a specialization in experimental cinema. She holds a PhD in Film and Media Studies from Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris-3. Her dissertation on Stan Brakhage's films was made also with scholarships at New York University (NYU) and University of Colorado in Boulder, where she studied under the filmmaker and Professor Phil Solomon. She conducted her doctoral research project at the MoMA and the Anthology Film Archives in New York and at the Brakhage Center and Archives in Boulder, with the support of the Terra Foundation for American Art. Her book from this research project, Stan Brakhage, catalogue raisonné, films (1952-2003), bilingual English-French, made in collaboration with Marilyn Brakhage, is forthcoming in 2016 from Paris Expérimental editions. She's been teaching and lecturing internationally in academic context, including at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris-3, the Paris Center of the Terra Foundation for American Art, INHA (National Institute of Art History) in Paris, UC Berkeley, and CU Boulder. She started a new research project on expanded cinema, that includes the making of a portfolio of Bruce McClure's performance notes, released by Edwin Carels for the retrospective and exhibition of the artist's work at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2015.
Dennis Vetter has been involved with platforms of film culture since 2007 – initially with the Japanese film festival Nippon Connection. In 2010 he was an initiator of the online publication NEGATIV which was designed to examine various forms of critical writing. He was co-editing the magazine for 3 years. In 2013 he became a board member of the German Film Critics Association (VdFk). During the 60th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen he was a co-author of the “Pamphlet for Activist Film Criticism”, a paper that questions our contemporary cinematic landscape and the individuals defining its structures. The paper expressed a notion of an ‘activist film criticism’ to outline the film critic as a defining force of visual culture. The first example of activist criticism was the initiation of a Critics' Week in Berlin, to happen annually during the Berlinale. It will be presented for the 3rd time in 2017. In 2016 Dennis will present his first individual publication, a lengthy essay on Japanese documentaries dealing with the 2011 tsunami incidents that seeks to negotiate a contemporary sensibility of disaster. He graduated in film and communication studies and is based between Leipzig, Berlin, Frankfurt and Freiburg.
His writing keeps appearing at a variety of outlets. Recent and upcoming publications include:
Bildstörung • CINEPUR • COVEN BERLIN • Der Standard • Eskalierende Träume • Festivalists • Filmbulletin • Filmkollektiv Frankfurt • FIPRESCI • :IKONEN: • kolik.film • NEGATIV • NISIMAZINE • POV Paper • Screenshot • Senses of Cinema • sissy • taz • Montage AV
Selection of Works:
http://wochederkritik.de/en_US/wdk2016/
http://www.vdfk.de/news/view/169-flugblatt-fur-aktivistische-filmkritik
http://sensesofcinema.com/2015/feature-articles/the-berlin-critics-week-a-discussion-with-frederic-jaeger-and-dennis-vetter/
http://sensesofcinema.com/2015/festival-reports/dok-leipzig-2015/
http://festivalists.com/post/139220759066/whoscinema2
His writing keeps appearing at a variety of outlets. Recent and upcoming publications include:
Bildstörung • CINEPUR • COVEN BERLIN • Der Standard • Eskalierende Träume • Festivalists • Filmbulletin • Filmkollektiv Frankfurt • FIPRESCI • :IKONEN: • kolik.film • NEGATIV • NISIMAZINE • POV Paper • Screenshot • Senses of Cinema • sissy • taz • Montage AV
Selection of Works:
http://wochederkritik.de/en_US/wdk2016/
http://www.vdfk.de/news/view/169-flugblatt-fur-aktivistische-filmkritik
http://sensesofcinema.com/2015/feature-articles/the-berlin-critics-week-a-discussion-with-frederic-jaeger-and-dennis-vetter/
http://sensesofcinema.com/2015/festival-reports/dok-leipzig-2015/
http://festivalists.com/post/139220759066/whoscinema2
Bo Wang (b. 1982, Chongqing) is an artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. His works have been exhibited internationally, including venues like MoMA, CPH:DOX, Shanghai Biennale, Times Art Museum in Guangzhou, Asia Society Texas Center, among many others. He was a fellow at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in 2013 and attended the Berlinale Talents program at Berlin International Film Festival in 2014. He is also a faculty member at Visual and Critical Studies, School of Visual Arts, New York.
Selection of Works:
China Concerto (2012)
An observational essay about spectacles and everyday manipulation of power in contemporary China.
More of his Works can be found on his Website.
Selection of Works:
China Concerto (2012)
An observational essay about spectacles and everyday manipulation of power in contemporary China.
More of his Works can be found on his Website.
