German director Angela Schanelec to head international competition jury.
The Marseille International Film Festival (FIDMarseille) has selected 45 films for its competition sections, of which 34 are world premieres.
World premieres in the international competition include An Evening Song (For Three Voices) by US director Graham Swon, who previously directed 2018 feature The World Is Full Of Secrets.
Germany’s Khaled Abdulwahed also world premieres Background, having formerly co-directed 2020 refugee documentary Purple Sea.
FIDMarseille, which takes place July 4-9, bills itself as a pioneering festival, championing new styles and ways of production, and puts its First Film Competition and films by young filmmakers...
The Marseille International Film Festival (FIDMarseille) has selected 45 films for its competition sections, of which 34 are world premieres.
World premieres in the international competition include An Evening Song (For Three Voices) by US director Graham Swon, who previously directed 2018 feature The World Is Full Of Secrets.
Germany’s Khaled Abdulwahed also world premieres Background, having formerly co-directed 2020 refugee documentary Purple Sea.
FIDMarseille, which takes place July 4-9, bills itself as a pioneering festival, championing new styles and ways of production, and puts its First Film Competition and films by young filmmakers...
- 6/6/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our weekly email newsletter by clicking here.Extra! Extra!A new Notebook publication has been released into the world! Our limited-edition, print-only Notebook Cannes Special is exclusively available at the Cannes Film Festival. It includes interviews with Souleymane Cissé and Alice Rohrwacher, an insider’s guide to the festival, a crossword, a comic, and much more. The publication is pictured above, but the bright red Pantone color must be seen on the page to be truly appreciated! (As an online preview: Yasmina Price's interview with Souleymane Cissé is available online.)NEWSIn production news, writer Durga Chew-Bose will make her directorial debut with an adaptation of Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse, starring Chloë Sevigny and Claes Bang (The Square). Filming began last week in the south of France.Noémie Merlant (of...
- 5/17/2023
- MUBI
Award-winning filmmakers and a documentary from ‘The Act Of Killing’ producer Signe Byrge Sørensen among those selected.
Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Cph:Dox) has revealed its line-up of competition titles for 2021, set to run April 21 to May 2.
The programme includes films that focus on the dominance of tech giants, new democratic movements, decolonization and climate change among other topics.
The competition programmes consist of 64 titles with 47 world premieres, nine international premieres and six European premieres. In total, 58% of the titles (37 films) are directed by one or more women. This increases to 66% when including films co-directed by male and female directors.
Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Cph:Dox) has revealed its line-up of competition titles for 2021, set to run April 21 to May 2.
The programme includes films that focus on the dominance of tech giants, new democratic movements, decolonization and climate change among other topics.
The competition programmes consist of 64 titles with 47 world premieres, nine international premieres and six European premieres. In total, 58% of the titles (37 films) are directed by one or more women. This increases to 66% when including films co-directed by male and female directors.
- 3/18/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Hong Sang-soo's Right Now, Wrong Then.The lineup for the 2015 festival has been revealed, including new films by Hong Sang-soo, Andrzej Zulawski, Chantal Akerman, Athina Rachel Tsangari, and others, alongside retrospectives and tributes dedicated to Sam Peckinpah, Michael Cimino, Bulle Ogier, and much more.Piazza GRANDERicki and the Flash (Jonathan Demme, USA)La belle saison (Catherine Corsini, France)Le dernier passage (Pascal Magontier, France)Der staat gegen Fritz Bauer (Lars Kraume, Germany)Southpaw (Antoine Fuqua, USA)Trainwreck (Judd Apatow, USA)Jack (Elisabeth Scharang, Austria)Floride (Philippe Le Guay, France)The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, UK/USA)Erlkönig (Georges Schwizgebel, Switzerland)Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre (Philippe Falardeau, Canada)Bombay Velvet (Anurag Kashyap, India)Pastorale cilentana (Mario Martone, Italy)La vanite (Lionel Baier, Switzerland/France)The Laundryman (Lee Chung, Taiwan)Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, USA) I pugni ni tasca (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)Heliopolis (Sérgio Machado, Brazil)Amnesia (Barbet Schroeder,...
- 7/20/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The 61st Oberhausen International Short Film Festival running April 30 - May 5, has selected 132 films from 41 countries for its five competitive programs. With 59 entries the International Competition is the largest section by far. There are 19 films in the German Competition and 11 each in the Nrw Competition and the MuVi Award, 35 productions will be shown in the Children’s and Youth Film Competition.
Oberhausen is awarding prizes amounting to 41,250 Euros in all of its five competitions. Whereas large festivals are facing growing criticism for showing too few films by women, the proportion of female filmmakers at Oberhausen is traditionally high: approximately 50% of the films in this year's competitions are made by women.
The films were selected from almost 6,000 entries from 98 countries. This shows the unbroken strength of the genre of short film as well as the position of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen as one of the leading festivals of its kind worldwide. Compared to 2014 the number of entries has risen by almost 1,000. The internet plays an important role in this: way over half the films reached Oberhausen via internet upload.
The Oberhausen competitions thus reflect the recent development from bulky reel of film to VHS and DVD, culminating in “immaterial” files. The majority of the competition films have in the past three years been projected in today's customary Dcp format.
Sebastian Buerkner's Flamin Productions commissioned film "The Chimera of M" is among work by a host of Flamin alumni featuring as part of an impressive line-up.
This year's program also includes a profile of William Raban, featuring his Flamin-supported work "Continental Drift," alongside films by fellow alumni Ben Rivers, Laure Prouvost and Luciano Zubillaga.
International Competition
59 films from 32 countries were selected for this Competition from 4,553 entries. They will compete for prizes worth a total of 25,500 euros. A number of smaller film nations are represented in this Competition, with films from Kazakhstan, Haiti, Vietnam or Uganda. The presence of Switzerland and Norway is unusually strong, each with three films...more
German Competition
For this Competition, 19 films were selected from 1,146 entries that will compete for prizes worth a total of 7,500 euros. The German short film is not the domain of film schools, but thrives in a very strong free scene. This is clearly demonstrated by the entries: only approximately 300 works – that is just over a quarter –, come from film schools...more
Nrw Competition
11 films were selected from 224 entries from Nrw. They will compete for prizes worth a total of 2,250 euros. Oberhausen has paid tribute to the strength of film in the federal state of Nrw since 2009 in programs reserved for films from Nrw. Film school and free productions are fairly equally balanced here...more
17th MuVi Award
11 videos were selected from 204 entries, competing for prizes worth a total of 3,500 euros. The vast majority of the videos – including clips for Deichkind, Mouse on Mars, Von Spar or Chicks on Speed – come from Berlin, Hamburg und Munich, the centers of German music production... more
38th Children’s and Youth Film Competition
35 films from 17 countries were selected from 320 films that were submitted for the German and International Competitions. They will compete for prizes worth a total of 3,000 euros. The Children and Youth film Competition also offers plenty of opportunity to make discoveries beyond the dominant film producing countries, for example with films from Columbia, Argentina, Mexico or Brazil..
In addition to the big festival competitive sections, the Theme program or the Profiles, the 61st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen will present a number of smaller program, from 3D films for children to the Open Screening where films that weren't selected for the competitions are presented by the filmmakers.
Award Winners of other Festivals
Thursday, April 30, 5 p.m.
A selection of recent shorts, all of which won prizes at other big festivals - Locarno, Rotterdam, Clermont-Ferrand.
Short Matters!
May 1, 3 and 4, 6 p.m.
Three programs featuring the most striking European short films of 2014, all of them nominees for last year's European Short Film Award.
25 Years of the Khm
Friday, May 1, 2.30 p.m.
The Academy of Media Arts Cologne Khm is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. In honour of the occasion, Oberhausen presents a selection of films from the Khm that were all screened in Oberhausen in recent years.
Derek Jarman Newly Restored
Monday, May 4, 10.30 p.m.
Between 1970 and 1983 Derek Jarman made over 80 individual Super 8 films which have now been digitised frame by frame, supported by the Lumas foundation. Oberhausen will be the first venue to screen a selection of these films in 2K, presented by James Mackay, the initiator of the project.
Michael Brynntrup: Jesus - the Film
Friday, May 1 (German only)
6 p.m.: Book presentation, Festival Space
8 p.m.: Film screening, Kino im Walzenlager
Michael Brynntrup's project Jesus - der Film (1985/86) saw him assembling 35 episodes from the New Testament, which were filmed by 22 filmmakers on Super 8. Brynntrup will be in Oberhausen to present the book on the film along with a few surprises.
Believe!
Monday, May 4, 8 p.m.
A program from our distribution catalog in which five filmmakers cast a fresh view on questions of faith and forms of religious practice around the world.
Emerging Artists
Sunday, May 3, 8 p.m.
Seven extraordinary works by young German filmmakers. A selection by Ag Kurzfilm and German Films.
Open Screening
May 3-4, 8 p.m.
Filmmakers not selected for the competitions present their works at the Oberhausen - a real favorite with the audiences.
The Third Image - 3D Cinema as Experiment: a subject for children
May 3, 10.30 a.m.
Films from the program "The Third Image - 3D Cinema as Experiment", that are suitable for children aged 8 and above, including the premiere of a 3D film made by young people from Oberhausen, Searching for Space.
The Oberhausen Selection
May 3, 4 p.m. (German only)
Citizens of Oberhausen have put this program together from films in the Festival archive - an ideal introduction for people who are curious about short films. In co-operation with the City of Oberhausen's Office for Equal Opportunities/Life in Old Age Division.
4th Poetry Clip Competition
May 4, 12.30 p.m. (German only)
Oberhausen school groups from the ninth year are entering their poetry clips in the race, all of which will be screened at the Festival. The project is sponsored by the "Arts Open Worlds" program of the Bkj (Bundesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung e.V.), which is part of the "Culture Makes Strong. Alliances for Education" from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The prize money is donated by Energieversorgung Oberhausen (evo).
Filmgeflacker Open Air
May 1, 10.30 p.m.
Oberhausen's Filmgeflacker art collective will be presenting films from this year's competitions, and the filmmakers will be invited to discuss their works with the audience. The event will be held in the Kino im Walzenlager in case of bad weather.
Poetry Slam
May 3, 9 p.m. (German only)
Poetry slammers perform texts inspired by films from the current German Competition. Hosted by Jonas Jahn.
Oberhausen is awarding prizes amounting to 41,250 Euros in all of its five competitions. Whereas large festivals are facing growing criticism for showing too few films by women, the proportion of female filmmakers at Oberhausen is traditionally high: approximately 50% of the films in this year's competitions are made by women.
The films were selected from almost 6,000 entries from 98 countries. This shows the unbroken strength of the genre of short film as well as the position of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen as one of the leading festivals of its kind worldwide. Compared to 2014 the number of entries has risen by almost 1,000. The internet plays an important role in this: way over half the films reached Oberhausen via internet upload.
The Oberhausen competitions thus reflect the recent development from bulky reel of film to VHS and DVD, culminating in “immaterial” files. The majority of the competition films have in the past three years been projected in today's customary Dcp format.
Sebastian Buerkner's Flamin Productions commissioned film "The Chimera of M" is among work by a host of Flamin alumni featuring as part of an impressive line-up.
This year's program also includes a profile of William Raban, featuring his Flamin-supported work "Continental Drift," alongside films by fellow alumni Ben Rivers, Laure Prouvost and Luciano Zubillaga.
International Competition
59 films from 32 countries were selected for this Competition from 4,553 entries. They will compete for prizes worth a total of 25,500 euros. A number of smaller film nations are represented in this Competition, with films from Kazakhstan, Haiti, Vietnam or Uganda. The presence of Switzerland and Norway is unusually strong, each with three films...more
German Competition
For this Competition, 19 films were selected from 1,146 entries that will compete for prizes worth a total of 7,500 euros. The German short film is not the domain of film schools, but thrives in a very strong free scene. This is clearly demonstrated by the entries: only approximately 300 works – that is just over a quarter –, come from film schools...more
Nrw Competition
11 films were selected from 224 entries from Nrw. They will compete for prizes worth a total of 2,250 euros. Oberhausen has paid tribute to the strength of film in the federal state of Nrw since 2009 in programs reserved for films from Nrw. Film school and free productions are fairly equally balanced here...more
17th MuVi Award
11 videos were selected from 204 entries, competing for prizes worth a total of 3,500 euros. The vast majority of the videos – including clips for Deichkind, Mouse on Mars, Von Spar or Chicks on Speed – come from Berlin, Hamburg und Munich, the centers of German music production... more
38th Children’s and Youth Film Competition
35 films from 17 countries were selected from 320 films that were submitted for the German and International Competitions. They will compete for prizes worth a total of 3,000 euros. The Children and Youth film Competition also offers plenty of opportunity to make discoveries beyond the dominant film producing countries, for example with films from Columbia, Argentina, Mexico or Brazil..
In addition to the big festival competitive sections, the Theme program or the Profiles, the 61st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen will present a number of smaller program, from 3D films for children to the Open Screening where films that weren't selected for the competitions are presented by the filmmakers.
Award Winners of other Festivals
Thursday, April 30, 5 p.m.
A selection of recent shorts, all of which won prizes at other big festivals - Locarno, Rotterdam, Clermont-Ferrand.
Short Matters!
May 1, 3 and 4, 6 p.m.
Three programs featuring the most striking European short films of 2014, all of them nominees for last year's European Short Film Award.
25 Years of the Khm
Friday, May 1, 2.30 p.m.
The Academy of Media Arts Cologne Khm is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. In honour of the occasion, Oberhausen presents a selection of films from the Khm that were all screened in Oberhausen in recent years.
Derek Jarman Newly Restored
Monday, May 4, 10.30 p.m.
Between 1970 and 1983 Derek Jarman made over 80 individual Super 8 films which have now been digitised frame by frame, supported by the Lumas foundation. Oberhausen will be the first venue to screen a selection of these films in 2K, presented by James Mackay, the initiator of the project.
Michael Brynntrup: Jesus - the Film
Friday, May 1 (German only)
6 p.m.: Book presentation, Festival Space
8 p.m.: Film screening, Kino im Walzenlager
Michael Brynntrup's project Jesus - der Film (1985/86) saw him assembling 35 episodes from the New Testament, which were filmed by 22 filmmakers on Super 8. Brynntrup will be in Oberhausen to present the book on the film along with a few surprises.
Believe!
Monday, May 4, 8 p.m.
A program from our distribution catalog in which five filmmakers cast a fresh view on questions of faith and forms of religious practice around the world.
Emerging Artists
Sunday, May 3, 8 p.m.
Seven extraordinary works by young German filmmakers. A selection by Ag Kurzfilm and German Films.
Open Screening
May 3-4, 8 p.m.
Filmmakers not selected for the competitions present their works at the Oberhausen - a real favorite with the audiences.
The Third Image - 3D Cinema as Experiment: a subject for children
May 3, 10.30 a.m.
Films from the program "The Third Image - 3D Cinema as Experiment", that are suitable for children aged 8 and above, including the premiere of a 3D film made by young people from Oberhausen, Searching for Space.
The Oberhausen Selection
May 3, 4 p.m. (German only)
Citizens of Oberhausen have put this program together from films in the Festival archive - an ideal introduction for people who are curious about short films. In co-operation with the City of Oberhausen's Office for Equal Opportunities/Life in Old Age Division.
4th Poetry Clip Competition
May 4, 12.30 p.m. (German only)
Oberhausen school groups from the ninth year are entering their poetry clips in the race, all of which will be screened at the Festival. The project is sponsored by the "Arts Open Worlds" program of the Bkj (Bundesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung e.V.), which is part of the "Culture Makes Strong. Alliances for Education" from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The prize money is donated by Energieversorgung Oberhausen (evo).
Filmgeflacker Open Air
May 1, 10.30 p.m.
Oberhausen's Filmgeflacker art collective will be presenting films from this year's competitions, and the filmmakers will be invited to discuss their works with the audience. The event will be held in the Kino im Walzenlager in case of bad weather.
Poetry Slam
May 3, 9 p.m. (German only)
Poetry slammers perform texts inspired by films from the current German Competition. Hosted by Jonas Jahn.
- 4/28/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Fury (David Ayer)
[via the BFI]
The programme for the 58th BFI London Film Festival launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. The lineup includes highly anticipated fall titles including David Ayer’s Fury, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, the Sundance smash Whiplash, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D, The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Jason Reitman’s Men, Women and Children and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild.
As Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals, it introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience, offering a compelling combination of red carpet glamour, engaged audiences and vibrant exchange. The Festival provides an essential profiling opportunity for films seeking global success at the start of the Awards season, promotes the careers of British and...
[via the BFI]
The programme for the 58th BFI London Film Festival launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. The lineup includes highly anticipated fall titles including David Ayer’s Fury, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, the Sundance smash Whiplash, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D, The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Jason Reitman’s Men, Women and Children and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild.
As Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals, it introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience, offering a compelling combination of red carpet glamour, engaged audiences and vibrant exchange. The Festival provides an essential profiling opportunity for films seeking global success at the start of the Awards season, promotes the careers of British and...
- 9/3/2014
- by John
- SoundOnSight
The New York Film Festival has announced its complete Projections lineup. The section formerly known as Views from the Avant-Garde will boast 63 film and video works in 13 programs, including new work by Ken Jacobs, Harun Farocki, Laure Prouvost, Hito Steyerl, Kevin Jerome Everson, Ben Rivers, Ben Russell, Luke Fowler, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Deborah Stratman, Lewis Klahr, Jodie Mack, Julie Murray, Fern Silva, Jim Finn, Jacqueline Goss, Jenny Perlin, Phillip Warnell, Victoria Fu and Eric Baudelaire. » - David Hudson...
- 8/21/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
The New York Film Festival has announced its complete Projections lineup. The section formerly known as Views from the Avant-Garde will boast 63 film and video works in 13 programs, including new work by Ken Jacobs, Harun Farocki, Laure Prouvost, Hito Steyerl, Kevin Jerome Everson, Ben Rivers, Ben Russell, Luke Fowler, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Deborah Stratman, Lewis Klahr, Jodie Mack, Julie Murray, Fern Silva, Jim Finn, Jacqueline Goss, Jenny Perlin, Phillip Warnell, Victoria Fu and Eric Baudelaire. » - David Hudson...
- 8/21/2014
- Keyframe
In place of the formerly titled "Views from the Avant-Garde", The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the lineup for Nyff's new "Projections" section. Dennis Lim and Aily Nash join Gavin Smith in curating an international selection of experimental short, medium and feature length films:
Old Growth (Ryan Marino, USA)
Babash (Lisa Truttmann & Behrouz Rae, USA/Austria/Iran)
Wayward Fronds (Fern Silva, USA)
Theoretical Architectures (Josh Gibson, USA)
Canopy (Ken Jacobs, USA)
Under the Heat Lamp an Opening (Zachary Epcar, USA)
Against Landscape (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
Night Noon (Shambhavi Kaul, Mexico/USA)
Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air (Phillip Warnell, UK/Belgium/USA)
Berlin or a Dream with Cream (Marcel Broodthaers, Germany)
Mr. Teste et la Lune (Marcles Broodthaers, Belgium)
Things (Ben Rivers, UK)
Depositions (Luke Fowler, UK)
a certain worry (Jonathan Schwartz, USA)
The Dragon is the Frame (Mary Helena Clark, USA)
Fe26 (Kevin Jerome Everson,...
Old Growth (Ryan Marino, USA)
Babash (Lisa Truttmann & Behrouz Rae, USA/Austria/Iran)
Wayward Fronds (Fern Silva, USA)
Theoretical Architectures (Josh Gibson, USA)
Canopy (Ken Jacobs, USA)
Under the Heat Lamp an Opening (Zachary Epcar, USA)
Against Landscape (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
Night Noon (Shambhavi Kaul, Mexico/USA)
Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air (Phillip Warnell, UK/Belgium/USA)
Berlin or a Dream with Cream (Marcel Broodthaers, Germany)
Mr. Teste et la Lune (Marcles Broodthaers, Belgium)
Things (Ben Rivers, UK)
Depositions (Luke Fowler, UK)
a certain worry (Jonathan Schwartz, USA)
The Dragon is the Frame (Mary Helena Clark, USA)
Fe26 (Kevin Jerome Everson,...
- 8/21/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Glasgow-based artist Corin Sworn on learning Italian, listening to poems and being amazed by Shanghai
Based in Glasgow, artist Corin Sworn was born in London and raised in Toronto. Her films, drawings, photos and installations often seek to examine the concept of narrative, exploring the subjective nature of memory and "the means by which artefacts are borrowed, adapted and reconfigured to tell various stories". Sworn's most recent solo exhibitions include The Rag Papers> at the Chisenhale Gallery, London, and the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Germany, and Endless Renovation, which was part of Tate Britain's Art Now programme. Her video work Lens Prism (2010) opened the Whitechapel Gallery's 2012 Artists' Film International and her short film The Foxes featured in the 2013 London film festival's Experimenta series. Sworn was recently announced as the winner of the Max Mara art prize for women – an accolade previously bestowed upon artists including Laure Prouvost, Andrea Büttner and Margaret Salmon.
Based in Glasgow, artist Corin Sworn was born in London and raised in Toronto. Her films, drawings, photos and installations often seek to examine the concept of narrative, exploring the subjective nature of memory and "the means by which artefacts are borrowed, adapted and reconfigured to tell various stories". Sworn's most recent solo exhibitions include The Rag Papers> at the Chisenhale Gallery, London, and the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Germany, and Endless Renovation, which was part of Tate Britain's Art Now programme. Her video work Lens Prism (2010) opened the Whitechapel Gallery's 2012 Artists' Film International and her short film The Foxes featured in the 2013 London film festival's Experimenta series. Sworn was recently announced as the winner of the Max Mara art prize for women – an accolade previously bestowed upon artists including Laure Prouvost, Andrea Büttner and Margaret Salmon.
- 2/2/2014
- by Leah Harper
- The Guardian - Film News
24 films will compete for three Canon Tiger awards for short films; programme will also include tributes to British film-maker Jodie Mack and Swiss film-maker and artist HannesSchüpbach.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has unveiled the 24 films competing for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films.
Shorts include Yael Bartana’s Inferno [pictured] and Adan Jodorowsky’s The Voice Thief. The full programme of Tiger and Spectrum Shorts, with 217 short and mid-length films, will be screened from Jan 23-27 at LantarenVenster.
The programme also includes tributes to British film-maker Jodie Mack, with five of her works presented at the festival, and Swiss film-maker and artist Hannes Schüpbach with three of his works screened during Iffr.
Jan 23-26 will see Iffr and Gonzo (circus) magazine present Mind The Gap Nights, four evenings of unique collaborations between musicians, video artists, film-makers and other image makers.
The full list of titles competing for the three Canon Tiger awards for short films are:...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has unveiled the 24 films competing for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films.
Shorts include Yael Bartana’s Inferno [pictured] and Adan Jodorowsky’s The Voice Thief. The full programme of Tiger and Spectrum Shorts, with 217 short and mid-length films, will be screened from Jan 23-27 at LantarenVenster.
The programme also includes tributes to British film-maker Jodie Mack, with five of her works presented at the festival, and Swiss film-maker and artist Hannes Schüpbach with three of his works screened during Iffr.
Jan 23-26 will see Iffr and Gonzo (circus) magazine present Mind The Gap Nights, four evenings of unique collaborations between musicians, video artists, film-makers and other image makers.
The full list of titles competing for the three Canon Tiger awards for short films are:...
- 1/7/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Big changes are in store for the 5th annual Migrating Forms experimental media festival, which is set to run December 11-17.
Well, that’s the first change: Moving from its traditional spot in March to December. More importantly, though, the fest is moving physical locations. Instead of it’s usual home of the Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan, this year’s Migrating Forms will be screening at the BAMcinématek in Brooklyn.
The festivities will begin on Dec. 11 with the U.S. premiere of four new short films by media artist Ryan Trecartin. Each film involves a unique cast of characters, including Trecartin’s actual high school classmates and a group of reality TV show hopefuls, navigating their complex social strata.
The rest of the fest will screen challenging feature-length material, such as Drew Tobia’s outrageous See You Next Tuesday; the family drama The Unity of Things by Daniel Schmidt...
Well, that’s the first change: Moving from its traditional spot in March to December. More importantly, though, the fest is moving physical locations. Instead of it’s usual home of the Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan, this year’s Migrating Forms will be screening at the BAMcinématek in Brooklyn.
The festivities will begin on Dec. 11 with the U.S. premiere of four new short films by media artist Ryan Trecartin. Each film involves a unique cast of characters, including Trecartin’s actual high school classmates and a group of reality TV show hopefuls, navigating their complex social strata.
The rest of the fest will screen challenging feature-length material, such as Drew Tobia’s outrageous See You Next Tuesday; the family drama The Unity of Things by Daniel Schmidt...
- 12/9/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Although the latest Turner prize went to a video artist, the 12 Years a Slave director shows that the art form is just a finishing school for serious film-making
The rise of video and film art appears irresistible. The Turner prize has just been given to a video for the second year in a row.
Yet in spite of the successes of Laure Prouvost and Elizabeth Price, the triumph of video art is an illusion. It is not a stable, enduring art form; it may not even be an art form at all. It is in reality an experimental space at the margins of a much bigger culture of the moving image – a place for talented film-makers to mess around with a freedom they could never enjoy in commercial cinema or mainstream television, but which the true artists among them hunger to apply in those bigger, more important arenas.
For it...
The rise of video and film art appears irresistible. The Turner prize has just been given to a video for the second year in a row.
Yet in spite of the successes of Laure Prouvost and Elizabeth Price, the triumph of video art is an illusion. It is not a stable, enduring art form; it may not even be an art form at all. It is in reality an experimental space at the margins of a much bigger culture of the moving image – a place for talented film-makers to mess around with a freedom they could never enjoy in commercial cinema or mainstream television, but which the true artists among them hunger to apply in those bigger, more important arenas.
For it...
- 12/6/2013
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
The deviser of unsettling public encounters is a world-class artist in a way that the other contenders – Laure Prouvost, David Shrigley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye – are not
The 2013 Turner prize shortlist is strangely unbalanced, but it also makes sense in that each of the artists are in their different ways highly accessible. It has something for everyone.
When two of us on the 2004 Turner prize jury wanted David Shrigley on the shortlist, the other judges shook their heads and laughed. We were serious. So, I think, is Shrigley, whose dark humour is at best a mordant response to modern life. I like that his work is available everywhere: that we can cackle over his books of drawings in the loo doesn't make what he does trivial – though I still think his drawings and animations are way better than his paintings and sculpture.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's paintings are mostly fictitious portraits. I think...
The 2013 Turner prize shortlist is strangely unbalanced, but it also makes sense in that each of the artists are in their different ways highly accessible. It has something for everyone.
When two of us on the 2004 Turner prize jury wanted David Shrigley on the shortlist, the other judges shook their heads and laughed. We were serious. So, I think, is Shrigley, whose dark humour is at best a mordant response to modern life. I like that his work is available everywhere: that we can cackle over his books of drawings in the loo doesn't make what he does trivial – though I still think his drawings and animations are way better than his paintings and sculpture.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's paintings are mostly fictitious portraits. I think...
- 4/25/2013
- by Adrian Searle
- The Guardian - Film News
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