2011
AWARDS 2011
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Jury members: Čedomir Kolar, Robert Aronson, Klaus Haendl
GRAND PRIX
OKHOTNIK / THE HUNTERBakur Bakuradze (Russia)
Bakuradze demonstrates a remarkable ability to capture subtile human emotions without artifice. Both visually honest and brave, the film unfolds slowly to reveal the enormous yearnings of characters who live a rugged life, seemingly devoids of obvious emotions. The Hunter is what the art of film making is all about – talking difficult, yet compelling matherial and creating an experience unafraid to show you its heart and soul. Without special effects, spoon feeding or hollywood glitz.
SPECIAL MENTIONS
ABENDLANDNikolaus Geyrhalter (Austria)
This austrian film takes us into the night world of work and life after dark. Opening our minds to what goes on after most of us are asleep, Geyrhalter has created a stunning work that not only reveals a rich fense of life, but also celebrates the human in each of us.
SPECIAL MENTIONS
MANUEL DE RIBERAMurray / Pablo Carrera (Chile)
This powerful chilean film shot entirely on a remote island of the Chile, is beautifully composed and filmed as it follows – a simple peasant whose life is forever changed by the wild beauty of the island and its people. Although some may find its glacial pace unsettling, only through such patience do the directors reveal the films hunting intimacy with images that will stay in your minds for a long time.
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Jury members: Nina Violić, Frederic Tachou, Franz Jud
GRAND PRIX
SEANS W KINIE TATRY / SCREENING AT THE TATRY CINEMAIgor Chojna (Poland)
Igor Chojna’s touching film, portraits a man passionate for cinema and reflects at the same time the every day challenges and struggles of a society between nostalgia and hope.
SPECIAL MENTIONS
MONSTER ATTACKMilja Viita (Finland, Kenya)
For translating under the mark of innocence an ambitious postcolonial situation.
SPECIAL MENTIONS
STARGATEPascal Fendrich / Bernd Härpfer (Germany)
For the clarity and coherence of their visual device.
PROGRAMME 2011

Gabriele Agresta
NANCARROW – STUDY NO 5
Italija / Italy, 2011, HD, 4min 10 sec
NANCARROW – STUDY NO 5
In an abandoned factory the study No 5 by Colon Nancarrow for mechanical player piano comes to life, music beyond human performance ability.
Gabriele Agresta
Born in 1978 in Italy. He graduated in philosophy and piano; now he works as film editor. He made several shortfilms as director since 1999.
UNANSWERED PRODUCTION
gab.agresta@gmail.com

Lauri Astala
GAMELAN
Finska, Italija / Finland, Italy, 2010, HD, 5min 24sec
GAMELAN
In the work shot in northern Italy, fog clouds alternately cover and reveal the mountain slopes behind them. Somewhere afar – out of sight – cows are grazing and their bells create a soundscape similar to that of a gamelan ensemble.
Lauri Astala
Born 1958, graduated from Art Institute of Chicago (MFA), lives and works in Helsinki. Astala’s works are concerned with concepts and experience of space, and the cultural structures that form and frame them. His early works from 90’s (sculptures and installations) considered the cognitive relation of images to spaces. Since 2000 his works are comprised of videos and video installations, which deal with experience of space, e.g. by placing the spectator on “stage”, as a concrete part of the work. Astala has been represented in several international exhibitions and video festivals.
Latest solo show: Helsinki Art Museum, Finland, 2010. The State Prize of Finland was awarded to Lauri Astala in 2007.
AV-ARKKI
submissions@av-arkki.fi
+358 40 557 0321

Esteban Azuela
VENTOSA
Meksiko / Mexico, 2010, HD, 3 min
VENTOSA
Big cities behave like a living organism and they appear to be sick. Excess is everywhere and this causes exasperating rhythms. The communications are building a net over and between us and it seems that the virus of this sickness is traveling by all those physical and electric links. Ventosa propose another rhythm in the cities. To take a pause and let the city breath for a moment.
Esteban Azuela
I live and work in Mexico City and I´m addicted to movement. I studied photography in the Academy of Visual Arts, Mexico, 2003; and traditional animation in Vancouver Film School, 2005. I work with the recognition and re-thinking of our surrounding space and how do we react on it.
VIUMASTERS
animazuela@gmail.com
+52 55 555 48747

Simon Bogojević Narath
CVIJET BITKE
Hrvatska / Croatia, 2011, 35mm, 19min 25sec
FLOWER OF BATTLE
The Arcadian atmosphere of a hazy underworld hosts unusual characters: an Illusionist, a Civil Entity, a Wooden Puppet and a silent, but dangerous Swordsman. Their mysterious and bizarre experiences are an allegory of the relationship between the now extinct tradition of European combat swordsmanship and the doctrine of pragmatic political action.
Is the end of the allegory also a beginning of an instructive misunderstanding?
Simon Bogojević Narath
Born1968, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department in Zagreb. He first started working on experimental films and video-installations and since 1993 is involved in 2D and 3D computer animation. His short animated and experimental films were screened and awarded at numerous international festivals. Since 2004 he teaches animation at the Arts Academy in Split, Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka and Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (Animation Department).
BONOBOSTUDIO
vanja@bonobostudio.hr
+385 1 4834445

Igor Chojna
SEANS W KINIE TATRY
Poljska / Poland, 2010, DigiBeta, 26min
SCREENING AT THE TATRY CINEMA
Dariusz Ambroszczyk runs one of the oldest cinemas in Łódź – Tatry. He is boss of the cinema and its only employee at the same time so among his duties are selling tickets, admitting to the cinema, and screening films. Although Dariusz is waiting for viewers every day, they seem to have totally forgotten about his cinema, visiting it only occasionally. The man is beginning to understand that the cinema, the sense of his life, is slowly declining.
Igor Chojna
Born in Warsaw in 1978. He graduated from the faculty of History and Political Science at the University of Toronto and Film Directing at the Polish National Film School in Łódź. He participated in photography workshops in Canada and Poland. The author of short fiction movies such as Julia (2007), Through glass (2009) and Unwillingness (2009). A screening at the “Tatry” cinema (2010) is his second documentary film.
POLISH NATIONAL FILM SCHOOL
swzfilm@filmschool.lodz.pl
+48 42 63 45 820

Adriano Cirulli
FALLING
Velika Britanija, Italija / UK, Italy, 2011, 35mm, 3 min 37 sec
FALLING
A man and a woman drift through an empty void, their bodies twisting and contorting as if subject to powerful forces beyond their control. Their motions become more harmonious when their paths intersect, only to reignite into restless struggle as their bodies split apart once again. Connection is thwarted, and the cycle seems doomed to repeat itself.
Falling is the result of a painstaking combination of choreography and digital visual effects. The post-production technique of motion tracking has been used to augment the natural motions of the performers in the film, producing complex yet seemingly lifelike movements. In this way, the camera becomes an extension of the performer’s bodies, less of a passive observer of the choreography and more of an active participant.
Designed as a counterpoint to the moving image, the music for Falling was created especially for the film by composer Antonino Chiaramonte. Just as the film uses animation to transform the performers’ natural movements, the music takes the organic, human sound of a flute, and distorts it to create a richly textured electronic soundscape, closely complementing the action on screen.
Adriano Cirulli
Born in Rome in 1973, graduated from La Sapienza University with a degree in architecture. Since 2002 he has worked in visual effects on several mainstream studio productions, including The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and The Da Vinci Code. In 2006 he received a citation from the Academy of Film and Television for his contribution to the Emmy Award winning HBO series Rome. He is currently based in London.
adr@fallingfilm.com

Anouk de Clercq
OH
Belgija / Belgium, 2010, HD, 8min
OH
The film seeks to reanimate the ambitious, utopian spirit of renegade architect Etienne-Louis Boullée (1728-1799). True to the spirit of the utopian architectural tradition Boullée is part of, he is probably best remembered today for one unrealized project in particular: the design for a gigantic sphere-shaped shrine dedicated to one of the founding fathers of modern science, Isaac Newton (1784).
Although the historical reference to an unrealized architectural project adds a nostalgic, melancholy twist to Oh, De Clercq nevertheless stays true to her well-documented passion for images of futurity. Oh sees the continuation of De Clercq’s singular ‘poétique de l’espace’ – a richly textured visual investigation of the allegorical tension between inside and outside, real and imaginary (‘virtual’), two- and three-dimensional, analogue and digital, immensity and intimacy.
Anouk de Clercq
(°1971 in Ghent) studied piano at the Academy of Music in Ghent and film at the Hoger Sint-Lukas Instituut in Brussels. Her films explore the audiovisual potential of computer language to create possible worlds, many of which have a strongly architectonic character. She has received several awards, including an award from the Future Imprint International Animation Competition, Taipei (2003), the International Backup Award New Media in Film, Weimar (2004) and the Illy Prize at Art Brussels (2005). Her works have been shown in Tate Modern, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Centre Pompidou, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, New York Film and Video Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Transmediale, Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, among others. Anouk De Clercq currently teaches at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Ghent. She lives and works in Brussels.
AUGUSTE ORTS
marie@augusteorts.be
+32 2 245 48 24

Bea de Visser
CHAIRS MISSING
Nizozemska / Netherlands, 2011, HD, 18 min
CHAIRS MISSING
This is an ambient film that shows the last days of a swimming pool. Its regular visitors are isolated in a series of inscrutable encounters. The silence in the almost empty building is distinct from the local meeting place the swimming pool once was. Here ‘absence’ is a significant locator.
Bea de Visser
She is director, visual artist and producer of feature films and short films. She runs the production studio Anotherfilm in Rotterdam, guiding artists and film makers in the setup and realisation of film projects. Additionally, she is advisor and personal coach to a small group of artists, and developer of educational projects. Her films are shown all over the world in museums, cinemas and on international film festivals.
ANOTHERFILM
mail@beadevisser.com
+31 10 244 9874

Kelman Duran
MANAHAN
SAD / USA, 2010, 16mm, 25min
MANAHAN
Manahan lives in Harlem. He has a one year old baby boy. His mother and father are absent so he is left to wander the streets of Harlem and Washington Heights; in search of what? Manahan is a meditation on how space can turn one into phantasms of one’s former self.
Kelman Duran
Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New York City. He is currently getting his MFA at California Institute of the Arts…
kelmanduran@alum.calarts.edu
+1 718 913 9369

Amr El-Bayoumi
OUR FOOD
Velika Britanija / UK, 2011, DV, 19min
OUR FOOD
In sharp contrast to the impersonal world of fast food, the film reveals how food in Egypt is deliciously intertwined with people, nature and life. “Our Food” is a short documentary film that presents food as a metaphor for Egyptian national identity through the vivid and beautiful cycle of harvesting, shopping, preparation, mealtimes and relaxation from dawn to dusk.
Amr El-Bayoumi
He is an Egyptian-American international commercial lawyer, human rights activist and actor based in London.
RIVER NILE PRODUCTIONS
amrbay@gmail.com
+44 78 1088 1469

Pascal Fendrich / Bernd Härpfer
STARGATE
Njemačka / Germany, 2011, Blu-Ray, 4min 15sec
STARGATE
Several passengers’ feet are dangling from gondolas of the fairground ride ‘Stargate’. They’re excited about an unusual roller coaster ride that will break down the bounds of the ego. The image increasingly fans out like a kaleidoscope. Like a cinematic mirror of the passengers’ feelings, the work always moves on the edge between the concrete and the abstract, only to finally disintegrate and vanish into nothingness.
Pascal Fendrich
Born1972, a visual artist whose work comprises experimantal film, video installations and photography.
Bernd Härpfer
Born1967, a composer of electronic and instrumental music. He also creates sound installations and videos.
Besides their individual work they both work together since 2003 for a couple of projects of experimental audiovisual art. Their work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions and screenings, mainly in Europe, Eastern Asia and North America.
pascal@videokunst.org
+49 177 793 47 36

Miguel Fonseca
I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME
Portugal / Portugal, 2010, DV, 4min
I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME
A film about love inside a film about war.
Miguel Fonseca
He was born in Lisbon in 1973. Studied at the Universidade Clássica de Lisboa where he got his degree in Philosophy. He worked at the production company O Som e a Fúria. Alpha, his first film was selected to Rotterdam, Curtas Vila do Conde and Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, among other events.
AGÊNCIA – Portuguese Short Film Agency
agencia@curtas.pt
+351 252646683

Méryl Fortunat / Xavier Seron
MAUVAISE LUNE
Belgija / Belgium, 2011, HD, 28min
MOON SHINE
Jean-Paul is different. His father is his mother. He deeply loves dogs. But he prefers beer. When the moon is bright, Jean-Paul lights up too. Tomorrow he won’t remember anything.
Méryl Fortunat
Born in Arles the 24 april 1979, is a French director and screenwriter. He discovered photography in high school before turning to film. Between 1998 and 2000, he co-directed three short films amateurs. He studied in Belgium at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) between 2001 and 2005. He lives in Brussels where he divides his time between television (RTBF) and his own projects. His last movie Moonshine (Mauvaise Lune) has just received four prizes at the Brussels short film festival and the Court en dit long festival in Paris.
Xavier Seron
Born in Brussels in 1975. After law school, he joined the IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion – Belgium) in 2001. In 2005, « Rien d’insoluble » (« Nothing Insoluble »), his graduation film, was awarded on numerous occasions and selected in over fifty festivals worldwide (including the Venice Film Festival). In 2007 he wrote and directed with Christophe Hermans a short film entitled « Le Crabe » (« The Crab »). In 2008, he collaborated in writing the feature documentary « Les Parents » (« The parents ») of Christopher Hermans and co-wrote « En compagnie de la poussière » (« The Good-Fellow-Ship of Dust »), a short film by Jacques Molitor (selected at the Locarno Film Festival). For Bouli Lanners, he directed « L’Eldorado selon Jean-Jacques » (« The Eldorado according to Jean-Jacques »), the making of the film « Eldorado ». In 2011, he commits with Meryl Fortunat-Rossi a short film ethological and ethyl entitled « Mauvaise Lune » (« Moonshine »). Right now, Xavier prepares « Je me tue à le dire », his first feature film and « Dreamcatcheurs », a documentary about the Belgian wrestlers performed with Cédric Bourgeois.
Hélicotronc SPRL
info@helicotronc.com
+32 2 539 23 57

Louis Fried
PROPAGANDA 1
Njemačka / Germany, 2010, 16mm, 6min 2sec
PROPAGANDA 1
Shots of a funfair, partly filmed through the bald trees of a park nearby, create an alien atmosphere. The strangeness gets amplified, as the film material itself was worked on and by means of scratches, dust and lime scales an own additional level was created. The lights of the funfair and the flurrying structure on the material seem to react to each other here and there, so that in the end all the strangeness comes back to a somehow familiar moment.
Louis Fried
Born in Munich, Germany. Since 1999 he absolved multiple internships in the film industry (everything from Gaffer to Assistance Director).
In 2004 he began to study “Visual Communication/ Film” at the HfbK Hamburg (University of fine arts), from where he graduated successfully in 2010.
He lives and works in Hamburg.
HFBK
filmfestival@hfbk-hamburg.de
+49 40 428 989 446

Max Hattler
SPIN
Francuska, Njemačka, Velika Britanija / France, Germany, UK,
2010, HD, 3min 55sec
SPIN
Toy soldiers marching and moving in harmony, spinning and rotating, erupting and exploding. When conflict becomes a spectacle, the lines between destruction and entertainment get blurred.
Max Hattler
German experimental animator and media artist Max Hattler studied at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art in London. He has had solo exhibitions at Lumen Eclipse (USA), Media Art Friesland (Holland), Broadway (Nottingham, UK) and Someonesgarden (Tokyo), and retrospectives at Image Forum Festival (Japan), Fredrikstad Animation Festival (Norway), MUMIA Festival (Brazil) and Branchage Jersey Film Festival (Channel Islands). His works have been shown at hundreds of film festivals,
as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei (Taiwan), the Marl Video Art Award (Germany), and Gasworks Gallery (London), among others. Awards include Visual Music Award (Germany), London International Animation Festival, Videofestival Bochum, Videologia (Russia), Eksjo Animation Festival (Sweden) and 700IS Art Film Festival (Iceland). Max has collaborated with several bands including Basement Jaxx, The Egg and Ladyscraper, and he has shown his audio-visual live performances across Europe, the Americas and Asia. Max lives and works in London and Germany, and is represented worldwide by Partizan. He teaches at Goldsmiths College.
me@maxhattler.com
+44 781 1581 655

Valerie Heine
MELENCOLIA
Njemačka / Germany, 2011, DigiBeta, 6min
MELENCOLIA
Luise is melancholic. Shiftlessly she sits at the table until something literally breaks into her world…just for a moment.
Valerie Heine
Born in Berlin 1985
Education: 2004 School of the Arts in San Francisco
2005 Graduation at Fichtenberg Gymnasium, Berlin
2006 Acting Training at the Actor’s Centre, SF, CA (Stanislavsky-Strasberg: Method Acting)
2008 Berkeley Digital Film Institute, CA
2006-2009 City College of San Francisco, Major in Film
Scholar student at the SF Art & Film Program
2009-present Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany
valerieinsf@gmail.com

Christophe Hermans
ETRANGERE
Belgija / Belgium, 2010, HDV, 12min
STRANGER
Sophie lives alone.
She spends her time between small jobs and moving flats.
She creates sculptures of her body to fill the empty space of her life.
Christophe Hermans
Born in Namur, Belgium, on August 16th, 1982. In 2001, he enters the film school Institut des Arts de Diffusion (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). His thesis short-form documentary “Poids Plume / Featherweight” makes quite a splash throughout international festivals.Christophe later takes turns between fiction (“Le Crabe/ The Crab”, co-directed with Xavier Seron in 2007, “La Balançoire/ The Swing” in 2009) and documentary films (“Jeu de Dames” in 2006, “Les parents / The parents” in 2008, “Etrangère / Stranger” in 2010).Christophe has just put finishing touches on his new documentary “Les enfants / The children” and his third short film “Fancy Fair” is currently in post-production.
ANOTHERLIGHT PRODUCTIONS
ahernandezisasi@gmail.com
+32 47 688 2846

Wei-Ming Ho
SELF-DESTRUCTION FOR ETERNITY
Tajvan / Taiwan, 2011, HD, 6min 26sec
SELF-DESTRUCTION FOR ETERNITY
Who decides who’s good or bad? Who decides who could stay alive or die?
Who is the next victim? The calm before the storm…are they all illusions? Or there are realities of dark side and tragic flaws hidden behind the scenes?
Wei-Ming Ho
Born in Taipei, Taiwan. He is engaged in research and creations of visual art. He focuses on experimental film, video and media art.
ted89815386@yahoo.com.tw
+88 695 3456 7963

Harald Hund / Paul Horn
MOUSE PALACE
Austrija / Austria, 2010, HD, 10min 30 sec
MOUSE PALACE
For the project a real apartment was rebuilt as a 1:10 scale model from edible materials for the use of mice. The rodents had hardly arrived when they began nibbling away at their lodgings. The hallmark of Harald Hund and Paul Horn’s films is the gleeful, ironical way they reduce our ideas of space and our notions of normalcy to absurdity. (Genoveva Rückert)
Tjis is the most recent project in our Living Space series which includes Tomatoheads, Dropping Furniture and the still unfinished Apnea. The whole series portrays human existence in absurd conditions. In Mouse Palace, it is mice who take the place of men.
Harald Hund
Born in 1967 in Austria. Videoartist, participated in various exhibitions and international short film festivals. Studied New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Peter Kogler, at the University of Applied Arts with Isabelle Graw and in the Open Class.
Paul Horn
Born in 1966 in Amstetten. Artist and filmmaker. Lives and works in Vienna. Studied at Rhode Island School of Design, USA and at the Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna (with Maria Lassnig and A. Manthey). Teaches at the University of Arts, Linz / Upper Austria.
SIXPACK FILM
gerald@sixpackfilm.com
+43 1 5260990 12

Kiron Hussain
SLICK HORSING
Velika Britanija / UK, 2010, HDV, 2min 44sec
SLICK HORSING
A fragmented allegory — the lady kindles her photo-sensitive epilepsy in lieu of heroin.
Kiron Hussain
He was born gurgling with pie-eyed virtue, in Newcastle, England; ‘Slick Horsing’ is his début video.
ki_hu22@hotmail.com
+44 791 331 4452

Adam Janisch
NEXT
Poljska / Poland, 2010, DigiBeta, 29 min
NEXT
With the idea for a new project Adam surfs in the apparent anonymity of the internet. His goal: to break through this anonymity, by meeting a person from one of the countless videochatrooms, in which you can “next” a partner by a mouse-click, in real life. After he actually convinces a nameless stranger to meet him, Adam – armed with a camcorder – begins his journey from Warsaw to the meeting in Berlin, not knowing yet how much further his little project will bring him.
Adam Janisch
He was born in 1987 in Berlin. He is a student of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he graduated 2010 as Bachelor of Arts with honours and is studying for his Master Degree. He was the scholarship holder by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in the 2009/2010. He is also a photographer. In 2010 he had his first individual photo exhibition in the Berlin Chinese Cultural Centre. He works and lives in Berlin and Warsaw.
Krakow Film Foundation
zofia@kff.com.pl
+48 122 946 945

Ivana Jurić
SOBA
Hrvatska / Croatia, 2011, DigiBeta, 5 min
THE ROOM
A hotel room. A woman (doll) is waiting for the call from her lover (doll). His arrival and their sexual intercourse are like a ritual for her, which takes her into a floating, pleasing state of mind. She opens herself to the man through sex, while the man/doll considers it all as relieving himself, after which he just vanishes into thin air. The doll remains alone in the empty room, disappointed and hurt.
Ivana Jurić
Born in Osijek in 1982. Graduated animation and new media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. During her studies, she was awarded for her comprehensive student work. She directed short animated film Ja / I (2009), for which she was awarded the second award at ESSL Award CEE 2009. Apart from film festivals, she presents her work at group and solo exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Visual Artists.
KINORAMA
ankica@kinorama.hr
+385 1 231 67 87

Jonathan Kable
BIT
Australija / Australia, 2010, 35mm, 5min
BIT
Keep your eyes on the road..
Jonathan Kable
He studied Arts and Film at the University of Sydney. His first short film ‘Lloyd Ormerod Wants His Face Back’ (2006) screened at numerous film festivals both internationally and domestically. ‘Bit’ (2010) is his second short film.
COLOUR BLIND FILMS
jrkable@gmail.com
+61 405348887

Björn Kämmerer
GYRE
Austrija / Austria, 2010, 35mm, 9min
GYRE
Luminous white, diamond-shaped forms glide from right to left across a jet-black plane in Cinemascope format. Minimal variations in their movement can be seen. The screen gradually lightens, and a roughly hewn wooden structure becomes visible. The light-colored rectangles turn out to be window openings of a log cabin with luminous white interior walls which is swiftly rotating on its axis. Subtle changes in the light and the camera’s distance and angle transform this presumably abstract animation into a concrete setup for a filmic and architectural experiment.
Björn Kämmerer
Born 1977 in Stralsund (GDR), grew up in Berlin, lives and works in Vienna. Studied from 2002-2008 at Kunstuniversität Linz (Experimental Media Art), and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Art and Digital Media). Works with film and video art.
SIXPACK FILM
gerald@sixpackfilm.com
+43 1 5260990 12

Marjorie Lemay
LES NOCTURNES
Kanada / Canada, 2010, DV, 1min 50sec
THE NOCTURALS
A fragment of life at night. Wild feathered and furred creatures communicate, interact, make their presence known, court, and mate, take up space, hunt and move about. They create poetry with their movements and their cries, which are their words.
Marjorie Lemay
In the last 10 years, through drawing, painting, etching and photography, and in a desire to capture its essence, I developed a hybrid visual language that enables me to project myself into the Animal and unveil my singular imagination.
As an artist, I continuously strive to renew my creativity and explore new ways to harness matter and refine my graphic language. My work tends to adopt a narrative shape and animation film appears to me as a way to orchestrate my visual language with a new sound dimension. My drawing practice is enriched by this new cinematographic vocabulary which transforms my gestures and the way I express and perceive space and time.
My work has been presented in thirty events and group exhibits, particularly at the 2005 Junction Arts Festival in Toronto, the Joyce Yahouda Gallery in 2004 and at the 2004 Photomahon (Montréal/Guadalajara edition). My latest exhibit, Ursus Maritimus, was presented at the Maison de la culture Frontenac de Montréal in February 2008.
marjorie.lemay@bell.net
+1 514 9771

Susana Nobre
LISBOA – PROVÍNCIA
Portugal / Portugal, 2010, 35mm, 20min
LISBON – PROVINCE
A nurse takes care of a patient in her house. Maria do Céu has been a nurse for more than forty years, working at an old Hospital in Lisbon. She was sixteen, when she arrived to Lisbon, coming from a small village in Alentejo. At the Hospital, she reads the file of an old patient who was also her friend. The file is then closed. Maria do Céu returns to her village, where she sings at the people’s house choir.
Susana Nobre
Born 1974. In 1998 she concluded her degree in Media Studies at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She collaborated with the Cinematography Laboratory at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (Universidade Nova) where she participated in various productions of art videos commissioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She developed with the cinema production company Raiva a Senior Film Workshop with ICAM´s financial support in 2004. In 2005, she attended the cinema-directing course through the Calouste Gulbenkian´s Artistic Creativity and Creation Program in collaboration with the London Film School.
In 2008 she cofounded TERRATREME. She directed the films As nadadoras (The swimmers) in 2001, O que pode um rosto (Daycare hospital) in 2003, Estados da matéria (It would have been simple) in 2006 and Lisboa-Província (Lisbon-Province) in 2010. She is currently preparing the documentary Vida Activa (Active Life) for 2011.
AGÊNCIA – Portuguese Short Film Agency
agencia@curtas.pt
+351 252646683

Paul O’Donoghue
WHY DO YOU HAVE A BEARD?
Irska, SAD / Ireland, USA, 2011, HD, 6min
WHY DO YOU HAVE A BEARD?
Inspired by an airport security question this short film presents the rich ethnic diversity of humanity as animated faces morph from one culture to the next.
Paul O’Donoghue
He’s an Irish composer/ audio visual artist based in Dublin. Ireland. He has released music under a number of pseudonyms for a variety of labels including Six Degrees San Fran and Plant NY. His audio visual work has screened internationally at more than 130 festivals in over 40 countries.
ELUSIVE RECORDINGS
elusive@iol.ie
+353 1 679 6505

Jacques Perconte
APRÈS LE FEU
Francuska / France, 2010, HD, 7min 9sec
AFTER THE FIRE
A few kilometres from Ajaccio, the burnt earth gives in to the weight of colour. The ground opens up and frees pictorial energies that take over the sky. I see the horizon disappear, but I keep fixing it. The train continues its way…
Jacques Perconte
Born in 1974 in Grenoble, he lives and works in Paris after having spent many years in south-west. He explores the body, the landscape and the color through the digital supports. Every work naturally finds its expression an adequate medium: video, photography, interactive creation, writing or music, installations… After a very traditional introduction (drawing and painting), Internet and video were the great starting point (95-96). The site technart.net is the main (messy) interface. His work navigates between a writing of the fiction on various media and a formal research which exposes the image of the body and its exhibition on the support. The relation between the content and the form is never kept in the background even if today its work is much less theoretical than it was.
The different works created, whatever is the medium always show much originality as well by their aesthetic qualities as by engagement in their realisations/executions. He frequently collaborates with other artists: among them Michel Herreria (painter), Didier Arnaudet (poet), Marc EM (musician), Hugo Verlinde (film maker)…
COLECTIF JEUNE CINEMA
admin@cjcinema.org

Ivan Ramljak / Marko Škobalj
IN UTERO
Hrvatska / Croatia, 2011, DigiBeta, 14min
IN UTERO
Immovable eye of the camera, in a neutral space of totally reduced performance environment, is documenting an actress trying to show pure emotions. Seemingly banal and ordinary situation in the process of recording a dramatic scene is transformed into a painful experiment audio-visually stipulating that – every memory is a re-creation, not a playback.
Ivan Ramljak / Marko Škobalj
They were born in 1974. in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2007. they started to make films. Their second collaboration ‘Liberation in 26 Pictures’ won the Atlantic group award for the best short film on Sarajevo Film Festival 2009., and it was shown on Rotterdam FF and dozen other international festivals. ‘In Utero’ is their third collaboration and the first in the field of experimental film.
HRVATSKI FILMSKI SAVEZ
vera@hfs.hr
+385 1 48 48 771

Johan Rijpma
GROEIEN
Nizozemska/ Netherlands, 2010, DigiBeta, 1min 35sec
GROW
This video is an experiment of control, form and movement. In this film we can se natural form, formation and movement becoming more controlled and artificial.
Johan Rijpma
(born 1984) He’s a student at the Utrecht School of the Arts (Faculty of Art, Media and Technology) in Hilversum. By making short films, music videos and animations, he studies his unpredictable environment.
EYE Film Instituut
MartaJurkiewicz@eyefilm.nl
+31 20 5891 400

Valéry Rosier
DIMANCHES
Belgija / Belgium, 2011, 35mm, 16min
SUNDAYS
Sundays or how Mankind faces the passage of time. That free time we are trying to fill at all costs. That same time we look at passing by.
Valéry Rosier
Born in 1977. After studying management, Valéry Rosier enrolled a filmschool in Belgium (IAD). His latest film ‘Yeti’ was shown at a number of festivals and received a few prices. He also works as director assistant on feature films. In 2008, he shot ‘Good Night’, which received dozens of prizes all over the world was nominated for the 2009 European Film Awards.
Ultime Razzia Productions
urzzia@gmail.com
+32 477 30 59 39

Nikki Schuster
MICROPHOBIA
Njemačka, Južna Afrika / Germany, South Africa, 2010, DigiBeta, 7min
MICROPHOBIA
Plant particles are combined to abstract constructions. They thicken till figurative creatures are generated. The viewer is hoaxed to, consumed and regurgitated by these constructed forms. A mystical, threatening journey through the hidden and fantastic world of plants.
Nikki Schuster
1974 born in Steyr, Austria
1993-2000 Study of Art Teaching at the University of Applied Art, Vienna
2000-2001 Study of Visual Communication and Experimental Media Design at UdK, Berlin
2000-2002 Study of Experimental Media Design at UdK, Berlin
2005-2009 On air design for ARTE, VIVA, MTV und Nickelodeon
2006 video projections / stage design at Depot X, Stuttgart
2009-10 On air manager for NICKELODEON NORTH, Europe
2010 Animation/installation for l’Exposition des Musiques Noires dans le monde in Dakar, Senegal
Artist in Residence in Paris and Buenos Aires
Presentation of the Recyclers Project at Inspiration Fest 2010 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Exhibition participation at Zona Liberada in Salta, Argentina
2011 Exhibition participation at Vidéo / Propriété Intellectuelle, Galerie Immanence, Paris
FIESFILM
nikkischuster@fiesfilm.com
+49 177 430 48 55

Patrick Tarrant
EVERYTHING IS EVERYDAY
Velika Britanija / UK, 2011, HD, 10 min
EVERYTHING IS EVERYDAY
This is a silent, 10 minute portrait of a window cleaner. Each of its 54 shots was recorded on a different day over the course of a year, exploiting the variable profilmic conditions to create an animation of difference and a montage of duration. The film seeks out the kind of beauty that is indeed everyday, and all around us, but which can also remain strangely obscured by the temporality of lived time.
Patrick Tarrant
He has recently had films screened at Chicago Underground Film Festival 2011, Anthology Film Archives 2010, Director’s Lounge, Berlin (Urban Research on Film 2010) and Queens International Film Festival 2009.
Patrick’s installation Planet Usher: An Interactive Home Movie was exhibited at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne 2004), Association of Computing Machinery (New York 2004) and Sequences (London). He is Senior Lecturer in Digital Film and Video at London South Bank University.
tarrantp@lsbu.ac.uk

tinhoko
KOI
Austrija / Austria, 2010, HD, 8min 20sec
KOI
This film is a rhythmical arrangement of residual thoughts and images of a short moment: A look into the semi-cloudy, tranquil water of a pond. Koi (Nishikigoi, literally “brocaded carp”) enter the picture by turns and from different sides, the shadow of the bathing jetty and reflections make their appearances. This retrospective silent-film unfolds to the deep bordun/drone sounds of Stefan Neméth’s composition and elements of a second moment begin to emerge: drops of dark liquids, paper textures, dripping sounds. The music adds spatial depth and expanse to these images, magnifies visual effects, calls them into question through delayed responses, and occasionally follows its own, separate ways in parallel worlds of sound.
tinhoko
tinhoko = Tina Hochkogler
* 1967 in Vienna
since 1993 graphic design
since 1998 work with computer animation and video
SIXPACK FILM
gerald@sixpackfilm.com
+43 1 5260990 12

Peter Tscherkassky
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Austrija / Austria, 2010, 35mm, 25min 10 sec
COMING ATTRACTIONS
A negative image of a man’s eyes in a car’s rearview mirror. The countershot shows a smiling woman, and her wholly unambiguous facial expressions call our attention to the image’s left-hand side, where film clips take shape in a flickering split screen. They show models, cups and various types of vehicles, which are then worked over thoroughly in the next 25 minutes.. The title refers to both the nature of advertising films and early cinema, the ‘cinema of attractions.’ The initial visual contact juxtaposes the two genres through editing, and together with avant-garde film they represent the basic troika for 11 chapters in which Peter Tscherkassky examines the varying relationships between these three worlds of moving images.
His film, a look at cinematic history through the rearview mirror, has been enriched with references in the carefully worded headings, to painting, music and film theory, in the form of wordplay. At the same time, what is being shown is fairly obvious.
Peter Tscherkassky
Born in 1958 in Vienna, Austria. Lived in Berlin 1979-84. Studied philosophy. Doctoral thesis: “Film as Art. Towards a Critical Aesthetics of Cinematography” (1985/86). Founding member of Sixpack Film. Organized several international avant-garde film festivals in Vienna and film tours abroad. Since 1984 numerous publications and lectures on the history and theory of avant-garde film. 1993 and 1994 artistic director of the annual Austrian film festival “Diagonale”.
Editor of the book “Peter Kubelka” (1995; with Gabriele Jutz). Films since 1979. Recent book: Alexander Horwath, Michael Loebenstein (Ed.), „Peter Tscherkassky“ (germ./engl.; Vienna 2005).
SIXPACK FILM
gerald@sixpackfilm.com
+43 1 5260990 12

Guérin van de Vorst
PUTAIN LAPIN
Belgija / Belgium, 2010, super 8, 10min
BITCH RABBIT
It’s about the meeting between a whore and a bear, that she thinks it’s a rabbit. It’s also about a desolated place where people get lost and leave by charters. A place from which old roughened melodies and ghosts of broken dreams are hanging out, where there is nothing to wait for anymore but where life is still thrilling.
Guérin van de Vorst
Born in Brussels. Graduated from IAD, Brussels’ cinema school in 2005.
AJC!
distribution@ajcnet.be
+32 25344523

Sami Van Ingen
STAGECOACH
Finska / Finland, 2010, DigiBeta, 8min 30sec
STAGECOACH
Wheels were pivotal in conquering the west. Nowadays, wheels have become – in the form of a private car – a symbol of freedom and the last way of conquering the great outdoors. However, getting out of a car has become more difficult and much scarier.
Sami Van Ingen
(born 1964) He works with moving image and sound mostly in the form of installations, film and video works. He is based in Honkavaara, Southern Savo..
AV-ARKKI
submissions@av-arkki.fi
+358 40 557 0321

Milja Viita
MONSTER ATTACK
Finska, Kenija / Finland, Kenya, 2010, DV, 2min 10sec
MONSTER ATTACK
Kenyan children are playing under the canopy of bamboos when, suddenly, the harmonious atmosphere gets broken.
Milja Viita
Born 1974 in Karjalohja, Finland, has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Time and Space based Art, Helsinki (MA degree 2005) and works with film, video and installations. Her works are characterized by memories and small and familiar phenomena that are made significant by visual narration.
AV-ARKKI
submissions@av-arkki.fi
+358 40 557 0321

Charles Lim Yi Yong
ONE DAY I FORGOT AND USED MY HANDS
Singapur / Singapore, 2011, HD, 4min 50sec
ONE DAY I FORGOT AND USED MY HANDS
Children use their hands to make a telescope, so why can’t a filmmaker use his hands to make a lens? It works! Even looks like a classic.
The filmmaker accidentally reinvented filmmaking by using a camera without a lens and shooting with his hands blocking everything but a small gap. Camera obscura. Where photography started. Pure experiment which looks like a classic experimental film.
Charles Lim Yi Yong
He’s a visual artist born and based in Singapore. He is currently working on the SEA STATE series, in which he conflates the idea of borders by reversing the geography of the sea and land.
A former national sailor, Charles Lim graduated with honors from the Central St Martins College. Lim has been at the forefront experimental technological art since the late 1990’s. His art works have been exhibited in various museums, biennales, galleries and festival
including Documenta11, Manifesta 7, Cuvee Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, the Walker Art Center and also the up coming Singapore Biennale. “One Day I forgot and chose to use my hands” is his second short film, which premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011.
Bobbing Buoy
mataikan@gmail.com
+65 91850545

Jéro Yun
RED ROAD
Francuska / France, 2010, HD, 8 min
RED ROAD
One night, a car accelerates. The city gradually darkens. The abstract lights illuminate vaguely car. In an agonizing, strange ambiance, she suddenly enters into a fantasy world where an old man waits.
Jéro Yun
He was born in Busan, South Korea, in 1980. At the age of 13, he began his training in drawing and painting. After 5 years of studying design at high school and an academic apprenticeship, he began his studies in classical art at art school in 1998. In 2000 his travels to Italy opened his eyes to a world he did not know. The existence of the “foreign” fascinated him. In 2001, he arrived in France. He became interested in the videos and experimental films of Jonas Mekas, Bill Viola, Garry Hill and the filmmakers of the 1920s: the avant-garde. In 2005, he entered the ENSAD (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris), Video / Photo Section, where he learned classic cinema and documentary. Since 2002, he has directed fifty films (fiction, documentary, video, experimental, journalism etc). He is currently looking for “his cinematographic writing.” He is currently an artist in residence at Le Fresnoy (Studio National of Contemporary Art), and continues to make films.
LE FRESNOY
ntrebik@lefresnoy.net
+33 3 20 28 38 64
SHORTS PROGRAMME SCREENING SCHEDULE
11th of September 2011 PROGRAMME 1
Fried Louis PROPAGANDA 1
Yun Jéro RED ROAD
Fonseca Miguel I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME
Jurić Ivana SOBA / THE ROOM
Yi Yong Charles Lim ONE DAY I FORGOT AND USED MY HANDS
Van de Vorst, Guérin PUTAIN LAPIN / BITCH RABBIT
Fendrich Pascal / Härpfer Bernd STARGATE
Chojna IgorSEANS W KINIE TATRY / A SCREENING AT THE TATRY CINEMA
Ramljak Ivan / Škobalj Marko IN UTERO
12th of September 2011 PROGRAMME 2
Van Ingen, Sami STAGECOACH
Lemay Marjorie LES NOCTURNES / THE NOCTURALS
Tarrant Patrick EVERYTHING IS EVERYDAY
Nobre Susana LISBOA – PROVÍNCIA / LISBON – PROVINCE
Cirulli Adriano FALLING
Janisch Adam NEXT
Kämmerer Björn GYRE
13th of September 2011 PROGRAMME 3
Agresta Gabriele NANCARROW – STUDY NO 5
Heine Valerie MELENCOLIA
Viita Milja MONSTER ATTACK
tinhoko KOI
Hermans Christophe ETRANGERE / STRANGER
Hund Harald / Horn Paul MOUSE PALACE
Ho, Wei-Ming SELF-DESTRUCTION FOR ETERNITY
Fortunat Méryl / Seron Xavier MAUVAISE LUNE / MOON SHINE
Perconte Jacques APRÈS LE FEU / AFTER THE FIRE
14th of September 2011 PROGRAMME 4
Hussain Kiron SLICK HORSING
de Visser, Bea CHAIRS MISSING
de Clercq, Anouk OH
Rosier Valéry DIMANCHES / SUNDAYS
Rijpma JohanGROEIEN / GROWKable Jonathan BIT
Hattler Max SPINT
scherkassky Peter COMING ATTRACTIONS
15th of September 2011 PROGRAMME 5
Astala Lauri GAMELAN
O’Donoghue Paul WHY DO YOU HAVE A BEARD?
Azuela Esteban VENTOSA
El-Bayoumi, Amr OUR FOOD
Schuster Nikki MICROPHOBIA
Duran Kelman MANAHAN
Bogojević Narath, Simon CVIJET BITKE / FLOWER OF BATTLE

Bakur Bakuradze
OKHOTNIK
Russia, 2011, 35mm, 124 min
THE HUNTER
Ivan Dunaev is the owner of an animal farm in the North of Russia. Being “deeply rooted” – attached to his land and his family, his son, he finds himself falling for a woman from a nearby prison, a farm-worker. Their feeling gives them a chance to escape from reality for a short while. Ivan, being confronted with a choice between responsibility for his family and love, has to take a decision. ‘The Hunter’ is the story about the necessity of love and intimacy as a way to come in deepest contact with another human being.
Bakur Bakuradze
(born 1969, Tbilisi) In 1993, he enrolled in the Directors Program at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), where he studied under Marlen Khutsiev. His first feature film Shultes was shown at the Cannes Film Festival (Quinzaine des Realisateurs), won the Grand Prix at Kinotavr in Sochi and at the Kiev Molodist International Film Festival. The Hunter is his second feature.
INTERCINEMA AGENCY
anna@intercinema.ru
+33 6 30 02 75 79

Denis Côté
CURLING
Canada, 2010, 35mm, 92 min
CURLING
Set on the fringe of society, in a remote part of the countryside, Curling takes a keen look at the unusual private life of a father and his daughter. Between his unremarkable jobs, Jean-François Sauvageau devotes an awkward energy to Julyvonne. The fragile balance of their relationship will be jeopardized by some dreary circumstances.
Denis Côté
Born in New Brunswick, Canada in 1973. Since 1997, Denis has produced and directed 15 short films which have been screened at many international film festivals. Journalist and film critic until 2005, Denis Côté directed his first feature film Les états nordiques which won the Golden Leopard Award at the prestigious Locarno International Film Festival. The Indie Vision Grand Prize followed at the Jeonju International Film Festival in South Korea. Les états nordiques been screened at more than 25 international film events. His third feature film Elle veut le chaos won the Silver Leopard for Best Director at Locarno in August 2008. Carcasses was premiered at Cannes in The Directors’ Fortnight section in 2009. In 2010, Denis Côté presented his piece for the Jeonju Digital Project entitled The Enemy Lines. Curling is his fifth feature film.
DOC&FILM INC.
assistant@docandfilm.com
+33 1 42 77 56 87

Sheron Dayoc
HALAW
Philippines, 2010, HD, 78 min
WAYS OF THE SEA
Halaw, in malay-bahasa, means ‘driven-away. The film tackles the relevant theme of exploitation and human trafficking from Mindanao to Malaysia.
The story follows through the journey of different people as they take an arduous journey into uncharted territories and illegally cross the borders of Bongao, Philippines Sabah, Malaysia in the hopes of substituting certain poverty for an uncertain future that awaits them.
Sheron Dayoc
He is a Mindanaon filmmaker and a visual artist. An alumnus of Asian Film Academy in Pusan, Korea (Pusan International Film festival 2008). He has honed his craft by producing several documentaries which includes his Asian Pitch 2008 documentary (MediaCorp/NHK Japan) A Weaver’s Tale which won him a Certificate of Creative Excellence from the U.S. International Film and Video Festival 2010.
His first short narrative Angan-Angan (Dreams) won a special jury Citation at the Cinemalaya Film Festival 2008 and nominated for Best Short Film at the 2009 GAWAD URIAN. The said film competed in the 2009 7ème Festival Signes de Nuit Paris and travelled to various Festivals in Europe and the USA.
HALAW (Ways of the Sea) is his first feature length film which won Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Editing at the recently concluded Philippines’ Cinemalaya Film Festival 2010.
sherondayoc1@yahoo.com

Mike Figgis
THE CO(te)LETTE FILM
Belgium, UK, The Netherlands, 2010, HD, 58 min
THE CO(te)LETTE FILM
A cinematographic adaptation of the dance performance by Ann Van den Broek.
Women and flesh, beauty and perishableness, raw and fragile. A delirious desire overwhelms the dancers. A desire for physical and mental satisfaction. The dancers go from appeal to sensuality, over lust, fleshness, fame, success, reflection and control, to silence. They are slaves of their own desires while trying to get in control of them. Female bodies in a frenzy.
In Co(te)lette, three female dancers are shown in a rather intimate atmosphere, in a chicken-and-egg situation between desire and satisfaction. There is no confrontation, nor rivalry. No story-telling, no solution and no ending. Co(te)lette’s story is restless and… empty.
Mike Figgis
Born 28 February 1948. He’s an English film director, writer, and composer.
He has roots in experimental theatre and music, which are just two primary influences that contribute to the creative vision in all of his feature films and documentaries. Figgis has emerged as a visionary filmmaker who thrives on taking artistic risks which leaves his audience with a long lasting aesthetic impression and visceral experience.
After working in theatre (he was a musician and performer in the experimental group People Show) he made his feature film debut with the low budget Stormy Monday in 1988. The film earned him attention as a director who could get interesting performances from established Hollywood actors. Figgis poured his disenchantment with the film industry into Leaving Las Vegas, creating star turns for Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue which earned Figgis Academy Award nominations for Best Directing and Best Screenplay. His most ambitious film to date is the low budget film The Loss of Sexual Innocence, a loosely based autobiographical movie of the director himself. He was the founding patron of the independent filmmakers online community Shooting People. His fascination with camera technology has also led him to create a camera stabilization rig for smaller video cameras, called the Fig Rig which places the camera on a platform held within a steering wheel-like system and has since been released by Manfrotto Group. Since 2008 Mike Figgis is professor of film studies at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts intensive summer seminars.
SAVAGE FILM
xavier@savagefilm.be
+32 473 59 85 31

Lluìs Galter
CARACREMADA
Spain, 2010, HD, 98 min
CARACREMADA
(„Burnface“ in Spanish), a nickname given by the Spanish Civil Guard to Ramon Vila Capdevila, reflects about the libertarian resistance against Franco’s regime through the last active guerrilla fighter. In 1951 the CNT ordered the retreat of its militants; however Ramon Vila remained in the woods of inland Catalonia where he restarted the fight operating on his own.
Lluìs Galter
(Figueres, Girona, 1983) After earning his B.S. in Audiovisual Communications from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (2005), Lluís Galter has written and directed several short films, two of them during his stay at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Many of his works have been broadcasted and selected for exhibition in a number of European museums. He is currently developing a documentary that will be part of a collective work with other young directors. Caracremada, his first feature film, had its world premiere at the Orizzonti competitive section of the 67th Venice International Film Festival, and was screened at the 2010 San Sebastian International Film Festival.
PENINSULA GROUP
direccion@peninsulagroup.eu
+ 34 66 3011 635

Nikolaus Geyrhalter
ABENDLAND
Austria, 2011, 35mm, 90 min
ABENDLAND
This movie is an observation of Europe at night: Under the cover of darkness, people not only sleep, they also work and play, are born and die. Systems are maintained, many of them protected. A large number of night jobs involve surveillance and exclusion. What kind of Europe is this that we don’t let others participate in? Darkness can help us see things more clearly.
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Born 1972 in Vienna. After graduating from high school, he worked as a photographer and eventually started making his own documentaries. He founded his own production company in 1994 and worked as a director, director of photography and producer of his and other directors’ films for several years. Today, while the production department of the company became increasingly stronger, Geyrhalter himself focuses on directing his own films. He works and lives with his family in Vienna.
AUSTRIAN FILM COMMISSION
festivals@afc.at
+43 1 526 33 23

Kyu-hwan Jeon
DANSEU TAUN
South Korea, HD, 2010, 94 min
DANCE TOWN
Jung-Nim, a North Korean middle class worker, defects from the North following the accusation of watching a porn video. Her husband barely gets Jung-Nim out of the country but is arrested by the North Korean security forces. Jung-Nim lives in South Korea under the surveillance of Kim Soo-Jin, who was assigned to do this by the government. Jung-Nim feels lonely, and then meets Oh Sung-Tae, a patrolman. But as time goes by, it’s her husband that Jung-Nim misses and worries about more and more. It is then that she hears news about her imprisoned husband through her watchdog Soo-Jin…
Kyu-hwan Jeon
Up and coming director Jeon Kyu-Hwan received favourable reviews for his debut film Mozart Town (2008). Jeonn’s debut work is certainly his own unique vision as it received widespread recognition at Osian’s Cinefan, Tokyo Int’l Film Festival and Tallinn Black Nights. He then directed his second film, Town Series 2: Animal Town (2009) which received positive reviews from critics and journalists at San Sebastian. It has since premiered at Stockholm IFF, Osian’s Cinefan, Tallinn Black Nights, Jeonju IFF, Chungmuro Int’l FF and won the awards, International Jury Special, NETPAC Award, the Audience Award and The Movie Collage Award at Vesoul Int’l FF de Asie, Black Movie Geneva and CinDi FF. Recently, he directed Town Series 3: Dance Town which was selected at JPP work in Progress and has won NETPAC Award Jury Special Mention and the Best Actress Award at Pusan IFF. It also had been screened for Panorama at Berlin. It has won The Best Feature Film Award (The Golden Alhambra) at Granada. Currently, Jeon is working on his fourth film Varanasi.
TREEFILM
treefilm@gmail.com
+82 10 3359 4517

Naomi Kawase
HANEZU
Japan, 2011, 16mm, 91 min
HANEZU
Here, in ancient times, there were those who fulfilled their lives in the midst of waiting. Modern people, apparently having lost this sense of waiting, seem unable to feel grateful for the present, and cling to the illusion that all things will move constantly forward according to one’s own plan. In ancient times, there were three small mountains that people believed were inhabited by gods. They were Mt. Unebi, Mt. Miminashi, and Mt. Kagu, and they still stand. In that time, a powerful official used the mountains as a metaphor for a struggle inside his own heart. The mountains were an expression of human karma. Time has passed into the present. Takumi and Kayoko, inheriting the unfulfilled hopes of their grandparents, live out their lives. Their tale continues a story of the ages, representing the uncountable souls that have accumulated in this land.
Naomi Kawase
Born in Nara in 1969. She graduated from the Osaka School of Photography (currently the Visual Arts College Osaka) in 1989 and began making films in 16mm and 8mm during her college days. In 1993, she made Embracing, which put on film her search for the father who abandoned her in her youth. At the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 1995, Embracing was given a Special Mention FIPRESCI Prize and Katatsumori, her portrait of the grandmother who raised her, won an Award for Excellence in the New Asian Currents program. In 1997, Kawase became the youngest winner of the Camera d’Or Award in the history of Cannes Film Festival for her first feature Suzaku. In 2000, she garnered both of the FIPRESCI Prize and the CICAE Prize at Locarno International Film Festival for the film Hotaru. Her recent work includes KyaKaRaBaA, a co-production with the French TV station Arte, and Tarachime – Birth/Mother, a documentary that featured her own childbirth experience and was awarded at Locarno, Taiwan, Copenhagen, and Yamagata international film festivals. In 2007, Kawase won the Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival for The Mourning Forest, and she continued to take up challenging subjects in her 2008 film Seven Nights. Her latest documentary film Genpin was released in 2010 and won the FIPRESCI Prize at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Kawase received the Carrosse d’Or from the Directors’ Fortnight in 2009. In 2010, she acted as the executive director of the first Nara International Film Festival.
MEMENTO FILMS INT.
marion@memento-films.com
+33 1 5334 9027

Kaushik Mukherjee (Q)
GANDU
India, 2010, HD, 85 min
GANDU
Gandu hates his life. He hates his mother. She is the mistress of a local businessman. As his mother sells sex in the apartment the man has let them live in, Gandu picks the man’s pocket. In his dream, Gandu raps out the hate, anger, dirt and filth of his existence. One day he finds a friend, a strange Rickshaw-puller, a devotee of Bruce Lee. Together, they dive into a dark fantasy. Smack, rap, porn, horror. And, within that, a glimmer of hope. This delirium meets with harsh reality checks, and the end of the mother-son relationship. The narrative becomes fragmented and abstract, a head rush of emotion, graphic sex and finally Gandu the rapper getting a breakthrough. We do not know whether it is dream or reality. Surreal and bizarre come together, as the two friends lose their grip and the film takes over.
Kaushik Mukherjee (Q)
Born in Kolkata on 14 August 1973, he made commercials using the pseudonym ‘Q’ and founded Overdose Productions, which mainly produces music. He writes, makes films and produces feature films and documentaries, as well as music videos.
OVERDOSE
celine@overdosejoint.in
+91 98317 53984

Christopher Murray / Pablo Carrera
MANUEL DE RIBERA
Chile, 2010, HD, 90 min
MANUEL DE RIBERA
An uninhabited island lies across a fishermen’s cove in the far south of Chile. One evening, a frail dinghy arrives at its shores carrying a man: it is Manuel Ribera, who has come to take possession of the lands he has recently inherited. Unemployed, with no family or money, he will slowly blend into his surroundings in order to carry out his dream: to found a community of which he can feel to be the owner.
„The synopsis is all we know about our story. The rest of the plot will be the result of an experiment; the film will be produced with a reduced shooting crew, which will embark for an island in the south of Chile, carrying only the first lines of the story of Manuel Ribera. Once there, the crew, headed by two directors who will share the role of director and scriptwriter, will give the start to the adventure. As one directs a scene, the other will be writing the next scene. In this manner, the story will be built as it is recorded. All roads that the script could travel will be part of the final result. With this method, there will be no alternative but rather to move under chance.“
Christopher Murray
(24), licensed in Social Communications with the title of Audiovisual Director from the Communications Faculty of Catholic University of Chile. Has directed several videoclips of Chilean music bands and a number of digital shortfilms. He has also been the creator of several “Making-Ofs” for Chilean feature films, earning experience in different film plateaus. Manuel de Ribera is his first feature film.
Pablo Carrera
(25), licensed in Social Communications with the title of Audiovisual Director from the Communications Faculty of Catholic University of Chile, is at present studying Aesthetics. Photographer and cameraman of several audiovisual works, has done a film practice at Germany and upon his return directs his first shorts. Manuel de Ribera is his first feature film.
JIRAFA
sur@jirafa.cl
+56 63 213556

Marcin Wrona
CHRZEST
Poland, 2010, HD, 86min
THE CHRISTENING
Michał has everything one could dream of: a young family, his own business and a luxurious apartment in Warsaw. His idyllic life starts to fall apart when his old friend Janek appears who is to become the godfather of Michał’s new born son. The men not only share a common past, but also a dark secret that soon forces Janek to take a decision. A decision between good and evil. A decision between life and death.
Marcin Wrona
Born in 1973 in Tarnów (Poland). During course in directing at the Radio and Television Department, made his diploma film Człowiek magnes (Magnet Man). The film gained recognition at many film festivals winning among others The Best Student Film Award at the Tribeca Film Festival organised by Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese in NYC 2002. His full-length feature debut Moja krew (My Flesh, My Blood) had its premiere at the Rome Film Festival in 2009. Chrzest (The Christening – 2010) is the director’s second feature film. He has also directed performances for Theater TV. Before starting a course in directing at the Radio and Television Department of the University of Silesia in Katowice, he graduated from a course in film history at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. He graduated also Andrzej Wajda’s Master School of Directing, and studied at the Binger Film Institute in Amsterdam (2005). From 2006 he has given series of lectures on directing at the Radio and Television Department of the University of Silesia in Katowice.
M-APPEAL
aw@m-appeal.com
+49 30 6150 7505
- Herman Asselberghs - BESTE STEVE / DEAR STEVE (BE/NL) 45min
Herman Asselberghs
BESTE STEVE
Belgium, Netherlands, 2010, HD, 45 minDEAR STEVE
The “subject” of Herman Asselberghs’ Dear Steve is the most dependable of foot soldiers manning the machinery of our presentday culture industry — the laptop. Most of us have one, and their relative invisibility within the field of cultural production — how often do we actually get to see laptops in exhibitions or films, or as artworks even? — contrasts starkly with the indispensability of the mobile personal computer in our present-day globalized cultural economy. For instance, it is difficult to even imagine the current exhibition (or publication) having come about the way it did without this singularly trail-blazing invention.
Dear Steve, however, is obviously much more than a lyrical portrait of this pedestrian icon of what Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello have called “the New Spirit of Capitalism”. What we are witnessing in this work is the ruthless, smooth dismantling of a brand-new MacBook Pro, and the act of literally turning inside-out the digital work station cannot help but reveal the irreducible materiality of the one “tool” that plays such a pivotal role in the triumphalist rhetoric of so-called immaterial labor.Herman Asselberghts
Born 1962 in Mechelen. He’s a Belgian artist whose work focuses on the questioning of border areas between sound and image, world and media, poetry and politics. His installations and videos have been shown at Centre Pompidou, Paris; documenta X, Kassel; Deitch Projects, New York; CGAC, Santiago de Compostela; hartware, Dortmund; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Netwerk, Aalst; M HKA, Antwerp; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin; FID Marseille; EMAF Osnabrück; Medien- und Architectur Biennale Graz; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid. In 2007 he won the Transmediale Award in Berlin. Herman Asselberghs, who has published extensively on film and visual culture, teaches at the film department of Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels. He lives and works in Brussels.AUGUSTE ORTS
marie@augusteorts.be
+32 2 245 48 24Thomas Fuerhapter - MICHAEL BERGER - EINE HYSTERIE / MICHAEL BERGER - A HYSTERIA (AT) 50minThomas Fuerhapter
MICHAEL BERGER – EINE HYSTERIE
Austria, 2010, DigiBeta, 50 minMICHAEL BERGER – A HYSTERIA
Depicting the biography of a corrupt banker poses a cinematic dilemma. How can the intentions of an individual, systematic contexts and historical eventualities be brought into harmony? Thomas Fürhapter’s nearly one-hour film turns this problem outward by not covering up the moment of speculation. The subject of the film, Austrian investment banker Michael Berger, who became a dollar millionaire through a risky hedge fund, remains a chimera—an absent individual who also cannot be captured through his crime. There is not even a single picture of him to see, and all that is left of his influence are the impressive sums that are then actually missing from the local banks at some time. In six attempts, the film tries to draw together a case from the traces of Michael Berger’s undertakings. It traverses his path, starting from the supposed end, Berger’s non-appearance before an American court: from this emerges the outline of a rise-and-fall story that extends from the narrow borders of Austrian working worlds through to Wall Street.Thomas Fuerhapter
Studied philosophy, produces videos for the theatre; filmmaker. Filmography: Das Gelb ohne Zebra (2004), Michael Berger – Eine Hysterie (2010), Planes (2006).SIXPACK FILM
gerald@sixpackfilm.com
+43 1 5260990 12Andris Gauja - GIMENES LIETAS / FAMILY INSTINCT (LV) 58minAndris Gauja
ĢIMENES LIETAS
Latvia, 2010, HD, 58 minFAMILY INSTINCT
Alcohol, violence and extreme poverty make the remote Latvian countryside a living hell. When Zandas (28) incestuous brother is sent to jail for abusing their children, the young mother attempts to escape the vicious circle.
A family-portrait like you’ve never seen before… shocking, surreal and stunning. A pure cinematic masterpiece, synonymical for cruel rural realities in the post-soviet era.Andris Gauja
He’s an up-and-coming film director with a special knack for finding unusual subjects and characters. His previous films, mostly on ethical and social issues, have been very popular with TV and film audiences. Family Instinct is the director’s third documentary film.AUTLOOK FILMSALES GmbH
stephanie@autlookfilms.com
+43 720 34 69 34Pawel Kloc - PHNOM PENH LULLABY (PL) 103minPawel Kloc
PHNOM PENH LULLABY
Poland, 2010, HD, 103 minPHNOM PENH LULLABY
Everyone holds a secret. The secret of the future.
“Phnom Penh lullaby” is an intimate story of a man looking for love and acceptance. Ilan Schickman left Israel dreaming of a new life. He now lives in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with his Khmer girlfriend Saran and daughters Marie, 2 years old, and Jasmine, 6 months, trying to make ends meet as a street fortune-teller.Pawel Kloc
Born in 1971. He studied Law at the Warsaw University. Paweł worked for HBO and at Entertainment Ltd as a producer and director. He directed commercials, music videos and TV programs. He was awarded for Nationale Nederlanden commercial at the Euroshots festival and for his short feature Dos Sombras at the RealHeart festival in Toronto. He is also an EAVE graduate. Phnom Penh Lullaby is his first feature length documentary film produced with his production company Parallax.KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
katarzyna@kff.com.pl
+48 12 294 69 45Michela Occhipinti - LETTERE DAL DESERTO (ELOGIO DELLA LENTEZZA) / LETTERS FROM THE DESERT (EULOGY TO SLOWNESS) (IT) 88minMichela Occhipinti
LETTERE DAL DESERTO (ELOGIO DELLA LENTEZZA)
Italy, 2010, HDTV, 88 minLETTERS FROM THE DESERT (EULOGY TO SLOWNESS)
The world runs. Hari walks. His worn-out shoes cover long distances in the desert to deliver messages that are closed in letters with a precious handwriting for addressees who live in remote villages, cloistered in a forgotten temporal dimension, out of this world.
The letters talk about loves, weddings, successes and deceases, those that bear news of death are immediately recognisable, the envelopes with the right corner torn off, those that Hari reads out in the doorway, and then tears to bits, because bad news must be destroyed, scattered, deleted forever.
In a world in which time is luxury, speed is synonymous with efficiency and civilization, and in which people communicate pressing buttons that reproduce identical characters, the story of Hari is an island fossilized in time. When the only way to communicate was a sheet of paper, a pen, some ink. When people were still able to wait. A return to slowness, and to nature, the harsh nature of the Thar Desert.
Until some weird metallic towers arrive, as intruders in the landscape, to revolutionize the life of the small village…Michela Occhipinti
In 2003 she produced and filmed her first documentary: ¡Viva la Pepa! (give us back the Constitution), on Argentina’s social crisis. (Romadocfest 2005; Tekfestival 2006: Special Jury Mention; Cinema for Rights, Maori TV, RAI 1 30’ version). Between 2005 and 2007 she directed various reportages on immigration issues for RAI 2. In 2008 she made Sei Uno Nero, a non-profit documentary on the opening of a radio station for AIDS and malaria prevention in Malawi. Letters from the desert (eulogy to slowness) is her first feature length documentary shot in India between January 2008/April 2009, completed in March 2010.michela_o@hotmail.com
+39 339 5341 007Esther Pérez de Eulate - POÉTICA PÚBLICA. PLAZA / PUBLIC POETIC. SQUARE (ES) 71minEsther Pérez de Eulate
POÉTICA PÚBLICA. PLAZA
Spain, 2010, BetaSP, 71 minPUBLIC POETIC. SQUARE
A Museum – The film takes place in one location, the Reina Sofia Museum Square, Madrid.
A Square – Small stories of anonymous characters are woven together taking us on a journey through Spain of the last 7 years, from 2003 to 2010.
People – this square provides a unique stage for the unfolding of the social movements, the political demands, everyday life, the latest fashions, improvised performances, international events, moments of great intimacy, celebrations, life stages, the transformation of the museum, personal frictions and leisure…
Public poetic – a description of life in the street, that recovers the poetry of the everyday.Esther Pérez de Eulate
Graduate in Journalism (Basque Country University), worked in different media (Canal +, Cinevideo20, Muy interesante, Radio Vitoria). She produced, filmed and edited more than 30 videos for Spanish foundations and institutions such as Residencia de Estudiantes, Fundación Pablo Iglesias, Ipade, Paz y Cooperación, Ayuntamiento de Madrid and so on. She also acquired experience in audiovisual education and gender issues. She participated as guest in the Festival de Cortometrajes de Mujeres de Bogotá (2007), created the first video workshop for the cultural integration of emigrant women in Madrid (2005) and made a video for sexual and gender education Deseo interruptus (2003). She worked as a director of the audiovisual centre (1991/94, Vitoria, Spain). She has collaborated with other directors as script writer, cinematographer and editor. Her artistic work includes video-art, video-clips, video-installations and collages of object-art; presented at her solo exhibition Los deseos velan hasta lo deseado (Madrid, 2006) and group show Transexualidad y feminismo (Madrid, 2004). Poética pública. Plaza is her first documentary feature.e.eulate@yahoo.es
+34 653 019498Paul van den Wildenberg - TRIPTIEK / TRIPTYCH (NL) 60minPaul van den Wildenberg / Jan Ketelaars
TRIPTIEK
Netherlands, 2011, DigiBeta, 60 minTRIPTYCH
Triptiek is a poetic, lyrical film that features a trio of locations as intriguing leads: how we live, work and relax in the Netherlands.
The desire for economic growth, dreams bigger than we can ever hope to achieve and the intoxication of the masses: each of the triptych’s locations has an extreme, monomaniac focus on living, working or recreation. This highlights their absurdity and downsides.Paul van den Wildenberg
Born in 1952. He studied at the Vrije Academie in The Hague and at the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam. He works as an independent filmmaker, often together with Jan Ketelaars. Their films show a visual, photographic approach in which the human relation to the surroundings returns as a central theme. Van den Wildenberg also worked as a freelance director for several Dutch television art programmes (NPS, VPRO). Since 1986, he has been working as a film teacher at the Utrecht School for the Arts (HKU).Jan Ketelaars
Born in 1951. He studied at the Vrije Academie in The Hague. He works as an independent filmmaker, often together with Paul van den Wildenberg. He also works an editor and producer for documentaries, short films and sometimes fiction films. He teaches at the Utrecht School for the Arts (HKU).EYE Film Institute Netherlands
Marta Jurkiewicz
MartaJurkiewicz@eyefilm.nl
+31 20 7582351 - Beck Gustavo / Luiz Ferreira, Leonardo - CHANTAL AKERMAN, DE CÁ / CHANTAL AKERMAN, FROM HERE (BR/FR) 62min
Gustavo Beck / Leonardo Luiz Ferreira
CHANTAL AKERMAN, DE CÁ
Brasil, France, 2010, HDV, 62 minCHANTAL AKERMAN, FROM HERE
This documentary features an English spoken, uncut interview with the prestigious Belgian director. We hear Akerman’s reflections on her own work and method –especially Hotel Monterey (1972) and Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)–, as well as the influence of directors such as Jonas Mekas and Michael Snow, her relation with Proust’s novel (which she adapted in La Captive).Gustavo Beck
He studied Film in Río de Janeiro and specialized in Filmmaking at the School of San Antonio de Los Baños, in Cuba. He took Film Executive Production and Philosophy post-graduate courses. He directed the short films Hera (2005) and Ismar (2007). His feature film debut was A Sandro de Casa (2009).Leonardo Luiz Ferreira
Journalism major, he has been working as a film critic in several media for ten years. Chantal Ackerman, from here (2010) is his directorial debut.Leonardo Mecchi
l_mecchi@yahoo.comBertrand Sarah - ROLLING WITH STONE (FR) 50minSarah Bertrand
ROLLING WITH STONE
France, 2010, HD, 50 minROLLING WITH STONE
In January 2009, the director Sarah Bertrand followed the director Oliver Stone on his journey through Latin America during the shooting of his latest documentary “South of the Border”, about the controversial Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and the new wave of South American leaders. She witnesses his creative process and questions him about his life and films, unveiling the celebrity, the filmmaker and the man…Sarah Bertrand
Stage, film and television actress, born and lives in Paris. Since the 1990s she has appeared in almost 20 TV films and series, and in several films for cinema, e.g. Le retour de Casanova (1991), Roulez jeunesse! (1992) and Sexes faibles! (1992). She also worked on a series of books on film, the first three of which were published in 2004 in the Seuil edition with the title Des nouvelles du cinéma. Her first short film shot in Japan in 2004 The Tokyo made Things was presented at the Forum des images in Paris. In 2005 she directed her first documentary titled There is no direction. This dreamlike film, with impressionist influences, suggests a journey through cinema. Shot on Super 8, the documentary presents the portraits of some of the most prestigious international directors: Abel Ferrara, Spike Lee, Emir Kusturica, Bernardo Bertolucci, Denys Arcand and Stephan Frears. The film was presented in the official selection at the Cannes Film Festival and more than twenty other film festivals around the world, as well as on TV. In 2007, Sarah Bertrand founded her own production company, Precious Films. That same year, she directed Pour vous servir, a documentary about French politicians.PRECIOUS FILMS
micaela@precious-films.com
+33 1 42 72 94 28Bosio Angélique - THE ADVOCATE FOR FAGDOM (FR) 92minAngélique Bosio
THE ADVOCATE FOR FAGDOM
France, 2011, HD, 92 minTHE ADVOCATE FOR FAGDOM
Bruce LaBruce, whose real name is Justin Stewart, was born in Southampton, Ontario, in 1964. He attended film school in Toronto and studied film theory at New York University. He has worked for gay punk fanzines and produced Super 8mm films. “Aficionados think of him as a transgressive artist in the truest sense of the word” says French festival director Frédéric Thibaut, “those who are more behind the times see him, at best, as the spiritual son of Kenneth Anger and John Waters. Pragmatists cherish him as a leading light of the queercore movement.”
In her portrait of this controversial filmmaker Angélique Bosio combines rare archive material with statements from his collaborators and famous colleagues including John Waters, Gus Van Sant, Harmony Korine and Richard Kern. The film also includes an interview with Berlin producer Jürgen Brüning, for LaBruce’s most recent films (including the 2004 work The Raspberry Reich), were all made in Berlin. Bruce LaBruce: “It’s great filming in Berlin. The city is one of the best places to film in the world; it has spectacular locations where you can either film for nothing or very cheaply.”Angélique Bosio
Born in France in 1978, she began her career working in sales for the company
Mondofilms and later moved into production. Her jobs include working as a production secretary on Stephen Frears’ Cheri, which screened in Competition at the 2009 Berlinale. In 2002 she began working on Llik Your Idols (2007), a documentary about the Cinema of Transgression and New York’s New Wave of the eighties. She is currently working on a documentary about fashion and lingerie designer Fifi Chachnil. She lives in Paris.Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion
producer@ottothezombie.de
+49 30 69505602Chodorov Pip - FREE RADICALS (FR) 80minPip Chodorov
FREE RADICALS
France, 2010, DigiBeta, 80 minFREE RADICALS
What is experimental film, and why is it called that?
Artists and poets working in celluloid since before WWI have always found themselves in no man’s land. Excluded both from the artistic world and the film industry, they boldly created the grassroots network for making and showing their films. They also created a profound body of work that continues to influence our culture. I wanted to share a few of the films I love and introduce you to some of the free radical artists who made them.Pip Chodorov
Born in 1965 in New York. Filmmaker and music composer since 1971. He studied cognitive science at the University of Rochester, NY and film semiotics at the University of Paris III, France. While working in film distribution – Orion Classics, NYC; UGC, Light Cone and CJC, Paris – he founded the company Re:Voir in 1994 specialised in historical and contemporary experimental movies, and the Film Gallery in 2005 – the only gallery devoted to experimental film artists. He is also a co-founder of L’Abominable, a cooperative do-it-yourself film lab in Paris. His films range from animation (of photos especially) to film diary and are characterized by humour, lightness and awakening consciousness, more than by structural or lyrical tendencies.Guilaine Bergeret
guilaine@sacrebleuprod.comMekas Jonas - NOTES ON AN AMERICAN FILM DIRECTOR AT WORK: MARTIN SCORSESE (US) 80minJonas Mekas
NOTES ON AN AMERICAN FILM DIRECTOR AT WORK: MARTIN SCORSESE
USA, 2005/08, Beta SP, 80 minNOTES ON AN AMERICAN FILM DIRECTOR AT WORK: MARTIN SCORSESE
“I originally met Martin Scorsese when he was still a film student at the New York University. He used to come to my film screenings. But our real friendship began when he made his first feature film, Who’s That Knocking at My Door. My brother Adolfas, Shirley Clarke and myself, we joined Marty in a two-hour radio program to plug the opening of his film. We had great time doing it. I still have the tape of it.
I was asked to make a five to ten minute film about Marty to introduce his retrospective. As it happened, Marty was shooting The Departed at that time. I asked him if I could follow him for a week or two, and he said yes. So that’s how this film happened. Sebastian, my son, joined me with a second camera. I did a brief version, and proceeded with a longer one. Since I was very busy at that time with other projects, I asked Benn Northover, a good friend, to help me with editing it – I had some 15 hours of footage – and we all had a great time working on it because we all love Marty! It’s a chamber kind of movie, a personal tribute to a friend.” (Jonas Mekas)Jonas Mekas
He was born in 1922 in the farming village of Semeniškiai, Lithuania. He currently lives and works in New York City. In 1944, he and his brother Adolfas were taken by the Nazis to a forced labor camp in Elmshorn, Germany. After the War he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz. At the end of 1949 the UN Refugee Organization brought both brothers to New York City, where they settled down in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In 1954, together with his brother, he started Film Culture magazine, which soon became the most important film publication in the US. In 1958 he began his legendary Movie Journal column in the Village Voice. During all this time he continued writing poetry and making films. To this date he has published more than 20 books of prose and poetry, which have been translated into over 12 languages. Mekas has also been active as an academic, teaching at the New School for Social Research, the International Center for Photography, Cooper Union, New York University, and MIT. Mekas’ film The Brig was awarded the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1963. Other films include Walden (1969), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972), Lost Lost Lost (1975), Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990), Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (1992), and As I was Moving Ahead I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000). In 2007, the Jonas Mekas Center for the Visual Arts opened in Vilnius, Lithuania.info@jonasmekasfilms.com
Juillerat Vincent - BECOMING OTTO (FR) 30minVincent Juillerat
BECOMING OTTO
France, 2010, DigiBeta, 30 minBECOMING OTTO
Using never before published archival material and with the accompanying voice of Otto Muehl, the Austrian’s radical art is laid bare – an art laden with excesses, which attempts to break boundaries and unite art and life. From painting to the material actions of the 1960s, from practised Actionism in the basements of Vienna to the commune at Friedrichshof – a state within a state with up to 600 members – these elements define the originality of this artist’s approach and have rendered him one of the most interesting and controversial artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.Vincent Juillerat
AUTLOOK FILMSALES
stephanie@autlookfilms.com
+43 720 34 69 34 - Lawrence Tooley - HEADSHOTS (AT) 92min
Lawrence Tooley
HEADSHOTS
Austria, 2010, 35mm, 92 minHEADSHOTS
Trapped in the world of the “young creative class” in Berlin, where life is your career, love is sexual convenience, and happiness measured by degrees of cynical detachment, Marianne (Loretta Pflaum), a thirty-something photographer, begins to look at things anew after discovering that she is pregnant. Then things go haywire when a model dies after a photo shoot. A hidden world of darkness and disorder, mistrust and lies breaks into the open. Told as a web of interlocking anecdotes, Headshots charts the course from fragile love to betrayal, from complicity to self-annihilation, and back through twists that are comical, poignant, and ridiculous in a Berlin you have never seen before.Lawrence Tooley
Born in Shiner, Texas. Studied philosophy and communication at university. Scholarship to Hamburg, Germany. Studied at the HfbK, M.F.A. in 2000. Exhibitions of video art and photography at various galleries. Worked as a film editor, writer, and commissioning editor in various capacities while studying film direction at the dffb
(German Academy of TV & Film in Berlin.) Headshots is his debut feature film.Selected Filmography:
2002 Clairvoyant (short/drama)
2005 Minutes To Go (short/melo/disaster)
2007 Geburtstag (short/drama)
2008 Aplinkkelis (comedy/road movie)
2010 Headshots (drama)INSOMNIA WORLD SALES
contact@insomnia-sales.com
+33 1 43 58 08 04Marie Kreutzer - DIE VATERLOSEN / THE FATHERLESS (AT) 105minMarie Kreutzer
DIE VATERLOSEN
Austria, 2011, 35mm, 105 minFATHERLESS
They never expected Kyra to turn up again. The two brothers and their sister, brought together when their father dies, are stunned by the appearance of their sister. Kyra suddenly vanished over twenty years ago during the breakup of the hippie commune where they were all born. She is like a stranger to them now… but when she discovers that her very existence has been kept secret, she starts to uncover old mysteries.Marie Kreutzer
Born in Graz in 1977, she studied screenwriting and dramaturgy at the Viennese Film Academy and worked as a dramaturge on film and television productions. In 2005 she received a grant from Cine Styria to develop the screenplay for Die Vaterlosen. A board member of both the Austrian Screenwriters’ Association and Screen – writing Forum since 2007, she is also a member of the Austrian Film Institute’s Development Advisory Board in 2008. Die Vaterlosen is her debut film.DOC&FILM INTERNATIONAL
hs.choi@docandfilm.com
+33 1 42 77 56 87Arman T. Riahi - SCHWARZKOPF / DARKHEAD (AT) 90minArman T. Riahi
SCHWARZKOPF
Austria, 2011, 35mm, 90 minDARKHEAD
This film tells the story of Austro-Iranian Rapper Nazar and his pals, Vahid and Musti, three childhood friends with a so-called “immigrant background”. All three suffer from poor education and lack of future prospects. They seek sanctuary in the world of rap music. This second generation of misfits is soon to be followed by a third generation of kids who will look up to their older counterparts, invisibly bonded by the causal effects of migration upon contemporary society.Arman T. Riahi
Born in Iran in 1981 and grew up in Vienna, where he made his first short films while still at school. He studied Media Technology and worked as a graphic and screen designer in London and Vienna. In 2005 Riahi made his first television programs as director for Thursday Night on ORF, the Austrian state TV channel, in the famous/infamous Sendung ohne Namen (Show Without Name) and the cultural magazine program Sunshine Airlines. His short film Elektronikschrott (Electronic Scrap) won the Austrian national short film prize, Shorts on Screen 05 from ORF. In 2006 Riahi participated in the Berlin Film Festival Talent Campus in the category Director/Screenwriter. Since 2005 Riahi has worked as a free-lance director and writer on various film productions in Vienna. 2008 saw the production of the first documentary film series he wrote himself, together with Arash T. Riahi & Raphael Barth, Momentum – What Drives You, for Red Bull Media House. 2011 marks the release of Riahi’s first cinema documentary film, Schwarzkopf, and his first fictional television series, Neue Wiener (working title), for Puls4.GOLDEN GIRLS FILMPRODUKTION
office@goldengirls.at
+43 1 8105 636Nikolaus Geyrhalter - UNSER TÄGLICH BROT / OUR DAILY BREAD (AT) 92minNikolaus Geyrhalter
UNSER TÄGLICH BROT
Austria, 2005, DigiBeta, 92 minOUR DAILY BREAD
Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe: monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds – a cool, industrial environment which leaves little space for individualism. People, animals, crops and machines play a supporting role in the logistics of this system which provides our society’s standard of living.
Our Daily Bread is a wide-screen tableau of a feast which isn’t always easy to digest – and in which we all take part. A pure, meticulous and high-end film experience that enables the audience to form their own ideas.Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Born 1972 in Vienna. After graduating from high school, he worked as a photographer and eventually started making his own documentaries. He founded his own production company in 1994 and worked as a director, director of photography and producer of his and other directors’ films for several years. Today, while the production department of the company became increasingly stronger, Geyrhalter himself focuses on directing his own films. He works and lives with his family in Vienna.Filmography:
2010: ALLENTSTEIG (doc.)
2009: 7915 KM (doc.)
2005: UNSER TÄGLICH BROT/ KRUH NAŠ SVAGDAŠNJI (doc.)
2005: DIE LETZTEN TAGE/ POSLJEDNJI DANI (doc.)
2001: ELSEWHERE/ DRUGDJE (doc.)
1999: PRIPYAT/ PRIPJAT (doc.)
1997: DAS JAHR NACH DAYTON/ GODINA NAKON DAYTONA (doc.)
1994: ANGESCHWEMMT/ NASUKANI (doc.)
1992: EISENERZ (doc.)AUSTRIAN FILM COMMISSION
festivals@afc.at
+43 1 526 33 23Nikolaus Geyrhalter - PRIPYAT (AT) 100minNikolaus Geyrhalter
PRIPYAT
Austria, 1999, BetaSP, 100 minPRIPYAT
After the catastrophe in 1986, a 30-km restricted zone was erected around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and 116,000 persons were evacuated from this area.
Pripyat is a portrait of the people who still live and work there, and of those who have moved back. What is life like for these people, a life with the invisible and incomprehensible danger of radioactivity? How do they deal with the aftereffects of an accident which is claimed to be statistically improbable? Four protagonists tell their stories and provide a look at everyday life in ‘their’ zone.Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Born 1972 in Vienna. After graduating from high school, he worked as a photographer and eventually started making his own documentaries. He founded his own production company in 1994 and worked as a director, director of photography and producer of his and other directors’ films for several years. Today, while the production department of the company became increasingly stronger, Geyrhalter himself focuses on directing his own films. He works and lives with his family in Vienna.Filmography:
2010: ALLENTSTEIG (doc.)
2009: 7915 KM (doc.)
2005: UNSER TÄGLICH BROT/ KRUH NAŠ SVAGDAŠNJI (doc.)
2005: DIE LETZTEN TAGE/ POSLJEDNJI DANI (doc.)
2001: ELSEWHERE/ DRUGDJE (doc.)
1999: PRIPYAT/ PRIPJAT (doc.)
1997: DAS JAHR NACH DAYTON/ GODINA NAKON DAYTONA (doc.)
1994: ANGESCHWEMMT/ NASUKANI (doc.)
1992: EISENERZ (doc.)AUSTRIAN FILM COMMISSION
festivals@afc.at
+43 1 526 33 23Nikolaus Geyrhalter - DAS JAHR NACH DAYTON / THE YEAR AFTER DAYTON (AT) 204minNikolaus Geyrhalter
DAS JAHR NACH DAYTON
Austria, 1997, DigiBeta, 204 minTHE YEAR AFTER DAYTON
A portrait of the first year of peace in Bosnia. This is a human story played out before a background of a war which still makes itself felt, a story of a possible life together, which has on the other hand become impossible in many cases. Rajko, the Serbian mechanic and his family must leave their home for the second time. Nermin, the actor, lost both legs in the war and might have the chance to learn a new role. Halid, a shepherd from the Muslim-controlled region, risks his life to visit friends on the western (Croatian) side of Mostar.Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Born 1972 in Vienna. After graduating from high school, he worked as a photographer and eventually started making his own documentaries. He founded his own production company in 1994 and worked as a director, director of photography and producer of his and other directors’ films for several years. Today, while the production department of the company became increasingly stronger, Geyrhalter himself focuses on directing his own films. He works and lives with his family in Vienna.Filmography:
2010: ALLENTSTEIG (doc.)
2009: 7915 KM (doc.)
2005: UNSER TÄGLICH BROT/ KRUH NAŠ SVAGDAŠNJI (doc.)
2005: DIE LETZTEN TAGE/ POSLJEDNJI DANI (doc.)
2001: ELSEWHERE/ DRUGDJE (doc.)
1999: PRIPYAT/ PRIPJAT (doc.)
1997: DAS JAHR NACH DAYTON/ GODINA NAKON DAYTONA (doc.)
1994: ANGESCHWEMMT/ NASUKANI (doc.)
1992: EISENERZ (doc.)AUSTRIAN FILM COMMISSION
festivals@afc.at
+43 1 526 33 23Gerald Weber - SEMIOTIC GHOSTSPresentation
Gerald Weber
SEMIOTIC GHOSTS
program by sixpackfilmsixpackfilm was founded in 1990 as a non-profit-organization. The task undertaken by sixpackfilm is to secure an audience for Austrian film and video art, both inside Austria and abroad. The primary purpose of our activities in this area is to connect current film and video productions with as many relevant international festivals as possible. The works and their makers have their first opportunity to meet both the public and the industry there. Festivals, vital for promotion and the exchange of information, is where the foundation of a work’s success is laid. sixpackfilm now cooperates with more than 200 festivals around the world, which results in over 500 invitations annually.
The program suggested for this year’s Split Film Festival combines a number of recent shorts film and videos forming a spectrum of approaches from various artists living and working in Austria to current questions of our sociology. All of the works carry out some shift either in negating visual or genre conventions or in reflecting social and political issues in an artistic – sometimes humouros – way.Michael Palm. Willi Dorner: BODY TRAIL, 8 min. digi-beta
Richard Wilhelmer: STRANGE LOVE, 5 min, DVD
Harald Hund, Paul Horn: DROPPING FURNITURE, 5 min, 35mm
BitteBitteJaJa: MARIA THERESIA AND HER 16 CHILDREN, 30 min, DVD
Borjana Ventzilalova: HIGH BLUE MOUNTAINS, RIVERS AND GOLDEN PLAINS, 11 min, Digi Beta
Derek Roberts: CORNERS, 10 min, Beta SPSelected by Gerald Weber
Franz Jud - DIAGONALE – Festival of Austrian FilmPresentation
Franz Jud
DIAGONALE – Festival of Austrian FilmInitiated in the 1990s Diagonale film festival has established itself as the main platform for the presentation and discussion of Austrian film productions ever since, constituting an indispensable venue for both the film industry and the public. Franz Jud will outline some of Diagonale’s fundamental aspects such as the festival’s programme, its positioning, and its perspectives for the future. Short film trailers by renowned Austrian film makers who had been commissioned by Diagonale will illustrate the presentation.
- Čálek David - NEBE PEKLO / HEAVEN HELL (CZ) 82min
David Čálek
NEBE PEKLO
Checz Republic, 2009, HDCam, 82 minHEAVEN HELL
The film portrays men and women of various ages, backgrounds, and professions who have discovered pleasure in different forms of kink and physical pain. They have fully embraced their sexuality and are neither embarrassed by it nor are they hiding its unconventional manifestations. With intimate interviews and dramatic footage, this documentary dispels generally held myths and prejudices surrounding these widely practiced yet little-known forms of pleasure, while providing a glimpse into an alternative community. While intended for an adult audience, this film is not pornographic in nature. It investigates the BDSM community as an alternative expression of human sexuality, not as deviant behavior.David Čálek
Born 28 April 1971, Prague, Czechoslovakia
1978-1986: Elementary school in Prague
1986-1990: SPŠST (grammar school) Prague, specialization in film production and realization
1990-1992: FFUK (Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University Prague), section science of cinema-film history (finished 4 terms)
1992-1998: FAMU (Film University in Prague), Cinematography Department
1999-2002: FAMU (Film University in Prague), Documentary Film DepartmentOutCome
uta@outcome.cz
+420 606 726 737Derflinger Sabine - TAG UND NACHT / DAY AND NIGHT (AT) 101minSabine Derflinger
TAG UND NACHT
Austria, 2010, 35mm, 101 minDAY AND NIGHT
Lea and Hanna, university students in Vienna, need jobs to make some money on the side. They could always wait tables—but call girls earn more.
In DAY AND NIGHT Austrian director Sabine Derflinger takes an unreservedly matter-of-fact look at two young women (played by Anna Rot and Magdalena Kronschläger) who consider prostitution an adventure until reality catches up with them.Sabine Derflinger
Since 2007 jury member of the Austrian Film Institute
Since 2006 lecturer at the University of Vienna (Department of Journalism)
2008 jury member at Film Festival Goa, India
2007/2008 Marte Meo training – development advancement with video (video interaction analysis) at Maria Aarts, Eindhoven/Vienna
2007 jury member Film Festival “Max Ophüls Preis“, International Student Film Festival in Vienna, International Short Film Festival in Vienna
2006 jury member at Vienna’s Youth Video Festival
2005 jury member at Bolzano Film Festival, International Film Festival India
2004, 2006 lecturer at the Danube University Krems
2000 founding member of dok.at (interest group of Austria’s documentary filmmakers)
1999-2001 jury member of the Federal Chancellery’s Film Council
1996 university degree, thesis „Film Narratives between the Epic and Drama”
1991 -1996 studied at Vienna’s Film Academy (Screenwriting and Dramaturgy)
1983 -1996 assistant producer and director, script, continuity, location managerMOBILEFILM PRODUKTION
office@mobilefilm.at
+43 1 890 2404Despentes Virginie - MUTANTES: PUNK PORN FEMINISM (FR) 90minVirginie Despentes
MUTANTES: PUNK PORN FEMINISM
France, 2009, DigiBeta, 90 minMUTANTES: PUNK PORN FEMINISM
A documentary exploring the pro-sex movement over the past three decades through interviews with activists, sex workers and performers alongside archive footage of actions and excerpts from feminist pornography. The pro-sex feminist movement began in the United States in the 1980s. Among other things it asserts that pornography must be taken outside of patriarchal control, and that in the hands of women and sexual minorities it can become a tool of liberation. Despentes (Baise Moi) takes a wide ranging look at the movement, conducting interviews with key figures in the USA, France and Spain, and mapping the evolution of pro-sex, or post-porn, from its pioneers like Annie Sprinkle to newer European work like Emilie Jouvet’s Too Much Pussy! Thought provoking and explicit, Mutantes is part of a very queer feminist revolution.Virginie Despentes
Publishes Rape me (aka Fuck me) in 1993 and turns it into a film seven years later, co-directed by Coralie Trinh Thi and released in cinemas.
Receives in 1998 the Prix de Flore -a French award given to young promising authors- for her third novel entitled Pretty Things. Translates Poppy Z. Brite, Dee Dee Ramone and Lydia Lunch. Occasionally works as a journalist for French music and culture magazines Rock’n’Folk and Technikart. Directs in 2009 Mutantes, Punk Porn Feminism, her first documentary film.
Is currently filming a cinematic version of her fifth novel, Bye Bye Blondie, featuring Béatrice Dalle, Emmanuelle Béart and Pascal Greggory.DISSIDENZ INTERNATIONAL
bqtran@dissidenz-intl.com
+33 1 42 77 88 20Honoré Christophe - HOMME AU BAIN / MAN AT BATH (FR) 73minChristophe Honoré
HOMME AU BAIN
France, 2010, 35mm, 73 minMAN AT BATH
Between Gennevilliers and New York, Omar and Emmanuel go to great lengths to prove to each other they’re no longer in love.Christophe Honoré
He is a French writer and film director born in Carhaix, Finistère in 1970.
After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in “Les Cahiers du Cinéma.” He started writing soon-after. His 1996 book Tout contre Léo (Close to Leo) talks about HIV and is aimed at young adults; he made it into a movie in 2002. He wrote other books for young adults throughout the late 1990s. His first play, Les Débutantes, was performed at Avignon’s Off Festival in 1998. In 2005, he returns to Avignon to present his latest creation, Dionysos impuissant, in the “In” Festival; Joana Preiss and Louis Garrel, who has acted in a number of Honoré films, played the leads.
A well-known director, he is considered an “auteur” in French Cinema. His 2006 film “Dans Paris” has led him to be considered by French critics as the heir to the Nouvelle Vague Cinema. In 2007, Les Chansons d’amour was one of the films selected to be in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Some of his movies or screenplays (like Les filles ne savent pas nager, Dix-sept fois Cécile Cassard and Les Chansons d’amour) deal with gay or lesbian relations.
Honoré has been the screenwriter for some of Gaël Morel’s films. He has also directed Romain Duris in five different films.LE PACTE
a.aubelle@le-pacte.com
+33 1 44 69 59 45Sol Jo - FAKE ORGASM (ES) 81minJo Sol
FAKE ORGASM
Spain, 2010, 35mm, 81 minFAKE ORGASM
Lazlo Pearlman is a conceptual artist, a reputation of clichés, an activist that can blow up our prejudices and dogmas about sex and identity. What appears to be a reflection on the fun lies in our sexual life and suddenly becomes a poignant speech about gender theory and the constant construction of our identity.
Fake Orgasm hits the mind and forces a change of perspective to rethink some concepts with which we have been educated. We will have to find new drawers to classify things such as our manhood, our pale or our Barbie superstar.Jo Sol
(Barcelona, 1968), a self-taught director and writer, developed his first productions in the field of visual anthropology in Cuba, Mexico and India, where he lived from 1992 to 1997. In 1998 he returned to Spain and produced his first TV film Renda Antiga and the short film 0,7 YA!, which won the Audience Award at the Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva. Jo Sol is one of the most unclassifiable directors on the contemporary scene, his films being halfway between documentary and fiction, and carried out with absolute freedom of speech. In 2000 Jo Sol premiered his first feature film Tatawo shown at international festivals and distributed internationally. Five years later he surprised critics and audiences with the mockumentary The Taxi Thief which won the Special Jury Prize at San Sebastian Film Festival and the Best Film Award at the Nantes Film Festival. In 2008 he started a research trip across five continents with the aim of interviewing people from different cultures, on the common theme of sexuality and identity. Through more than 60 hours of video, photographs, and interviews with real people, he plans to create a monumental multidisciplinary project to be finalized in 2012. The first part of this creative process is Fake Orgasm a documentary starring gender illusionist Lazlo Pearlman.ZIP FILMS
zip@zip-films.com
+34 93 441 07 33Tachou Frédéric - PRIMITIVE PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS (FR) 90minFrederic Tachou
PRIMITIVE PORNOGRAPHIC FILMSThis programme is dedicated to anonymous pornographic movies produced before 1950. The motion pictures originally shot on 35 mm or 16 mm and conserved in institutional or private collections have been transferred to the modern digital format. These mute, short black and white films are called ‘primitive pornographic films’ and present sexual situations without any inhibitions, shot during the first half of the 20th century in different locations in the Western world.
FILMMUSEUM n°1, 2 min 20 s, origin unknown, approx. 1910
One of the oldest known movies of this type. Property of the Amsterdam Film MuseumON THE BEACH / THE GOAT, 7 min, USA, approx. 1915
This film appeared in the first official pornographic programme called “History of the Blue Movie” shown in the United States in 1970. It contains a sort of “moral”, indicated that at that time, during the 1910’s the directors still tried to imitate the burlesque style of popular short films.MISS BUTTERFLY, 8 min 20 s, France, 1925
An example of intertwining homosexual and heterosexual affinities within one movie.EL CONFESOR El. Ricardo et Ramon de Baños, 28 min, Spain, 1926
A very interesting film because the director and the sleeping partner are familiar: the Spanish King Alphonse XIII.THE CASTING COUCH, 12 min, USA, 1930
It ridicules the Hollywood star system and the casting for female roles in the movies.UNSCHULD VOM LANDE, 3 min, Germany, approx. 1935
German movie directed in an avant-garde soviet style.MASSAGES, 9 min 20 s, France, 1935
The film shows how the viewers get involved in the film, incited by actors looking straight into the camera.AVEC SES PIEDS, 9 min 6 s, France, approx. 1940
In this movie the formal research seems to bee more important than the sexual exhibition.LA FEMME AU PORTRAIT, 11 min 42 s, France, approx. 1950
A classical French movie of the 50’s with a gentlemanly moral.Selected by Frederic Tachou
Tsugita Jun - FASHION HELL / HORNY HOUSE OF HORROR (JP) 75minJun Tsugita
FASSHION HELL
Japan, 2010, HD, 75 minHORNY HOUSE OF HORROR
Men come to the parlor bursting with desire to fulfil their sexual fantasies. Three men have just visited the parlor for that very same reason…Jun Tsugita
A longtime collaborator with Machine Girl director Noboru Iguchi — his writing credits include the Iguchi-directed Tomie Unlimited, Mutant Girls Squad and The Ancient Dogoo Girl — Jun Tsugita makes his directorial debut with Horny House Of Horror and proves that he is a force to be reckoned with in the ongoing wave of Japanese cult splatter. - INTERNATIONAL FILM WORKSHOP WITH BELA TARR
Split Film Festival / International Festival of New Film calls for participation in the film workshop which will take place in Split from 29th August to 10th September 2011. The workshop will be led by renowned Hungarian film director Bela Tarr. It is intended for young filmmakers and/or students in the last year of film academies from Croatia and abroad.
Seven participants will have the opportunity to work with and to learn from one of the most important European film directors who will guide them throughout the whole process of filmmaking. Each participant will make a short film in digital format on a subject proposed by Bela Tarr. After the completion of shooting there will be a few days of editing after which these short films will be screened within this year’s program of Split Film Festival from 10-17 September 2011.
Participation in the workshop is free of charge, but the participants who are coming out from Split will have to cover themselves the travel and accommodation costs. The working language in the workshop is English.
The deadline for application is 15th August 2011. All those interested can submit their applications with motivation letter and short CV to info@splitfilmfestival.hr .
Giuliano Chiaradia ART_MOBILE WORKSHOPThe Experience of Art_Mobile Workshop provides an overview of modern digital art on the world stage and shows how people can make these new media tools a means of expression in their day to day using video, audio (ring tones), photos, literature in SMS, stop motion, animation, installation, sculpture, etc …
“Art_Mobile” is the name of a modern workshop, practical and immediate.
Participants are invited to make art in all shapes, using only the phone and immediately spread it on social networks.
The workshop shows how the democratization of new media and social networks allow an exposure amplified his ideas in the global job market through the presentation of “cases” of success. Participants go through a practice session format, writing, recording and editing cell content.
The main objective of the workshop “Art_Mobile” is to show how new technologies and social networks gain an increasingly more space on the world stage and how communication scholars, artists and the general public can make these tools their allies.Giuliano Chiaradia
Program Director and author of the Globo television network, is a pioneer in new media in the dissemination and specializes in transmedia concepts. He worked for 10 years at MTV Networks as Senior Producer and Director of channel creation in Brazil and the United States. Formed in the media, with specialist courses in film, screenplay and direction in Italy, Cuba and the United States and an MBA in New Media in Brazil. Was four times internationally awarded and on several occasions in Brazil for its innovative work in the audiovisual sector. Producer and director of the first mobile short (audiovisual done with a cell phone) in Latin America and the first music video in Brazil, including video of the incredible mobile Roberto Carlos with the same resource. Artist in Residence at La Chambre Blanche, the first multimedia art center of Quebec in Canada.giulianoch@yahoo.com.br
www.setexperimental.comMartina Petrović PRESENTATION OF THE PROGRAMME MEDIA 2007PRESENTATION OF THE PROGRAMME MEDIA 2007, UNDERLYING GOOD AND BAD STRATEGIES WHEN FILLING IN APPLICATION FORMS FOR THE FILM DEVELOPMENT
The MEDIA Programme is the European Union’s Programme which supports development of audiovisual industry, and which, among many other things, underlines training i.e. education of film professionals, organizers of film festivals, distributers and all the others who, with their work, enhance the development of audiovisual industry.
Thus, MEDIA desk’s activities in Croatia are valuable tools for education, informing and networking Croatian film professionals.
With great pleasure, the MEDIA desk Croatia would like to underline that following the results of the previous call 2009/2010, Croatia has been positioned on the eight place when it comes to development of single projects and on the second place – when it comes to festivals’ scheme (among 32 MEDIA member countries).
The Head of MEDIA desk Croatia, Martina Petrović, will talk about various mechanisms of functioning and guidelines of the Programme MEDIA, the role of the MEDIA desk Croatia and how successfully apply for the film development.
We are looking forward to seeing you!Martina Petrović, voditeljica Ureda
MEDIA desk Hrvatske
http://mediadesk.hrINTERCONNECTION OF PORNOGRAPHIC AND EROTIC DESPONDENCYROUND TABLE
INTERCONNECTION OF PORNOGRAPHIC AND EROTIC DESPONDENCYSexuality in film may have raised more questions on boundaries between pornography and eroticism as an artistic expression than the complete history of sexuality in its various forms before the age of film. In addition to the popular and mass-media nature of film, its inclination towards real, substantial representation of the outside world provoked discussions on the boundaries and distinctions of the stripped image, ordinarily existing in the dark of personal spaces of hidden reality. Sexuality is the most primal human urge; as such it forms an inseparable part of cultural identities, being shrouded by a veil of censorship it has only recently stepped into the light, safe from prohibition. Postmodern thought brings a time of sexual exhibitionism, the era marked by the motto “sex sells”. If sexuality is indeed subject to social norms, does it mean that the social norms have released their established brakes? Contemporary, networked images of the most intimate spots of privacy give sepia toning of cinematic history to the entire consideration of filmic presentation of erotic and pornographic reality.
Joško Jerončić - HOMELAND WAR
LOCATION: SOUTHERN FRONT
TIME: HOMELAND WARMarking the 20th anniversary of Croatian independence, the Split Film Festival had prepared a programme consisting of various author’s contributions to the subject of Homeland War. In accordance with the festival profile and the cinematographic aesthetics it endorses, the programme offers radical and immediate works shot on different locations in the Mediterranean environment. The honesty and sincerity of the authors that have documented those troubled times serve as a pledge for understanding the universal language of the moving picture. Charged with emotion, they will undoubtedly reach every pure heart and overcome any possible ideological interpretations of the just fight for Croatian independence.
This programme presents one of possible selections of works from that period, and the abundance of material can only obligate us to work on further development of their media presentation outside of this festival.
Joško JerončićShort documentaries shot by:
Stipe Božić
Zoran Lučić Luca
Petar Malbaša
Dražen TravašDuration cca 60 min
DRIVE-IN THEATRES: CINEMA UNDER THE STARSFor the very first time in this region, one of the events organized at the 16th Split Film Festival will be the drive-in theatre. Unlike indoor cinemas, the drive-in presents a romantic/ nostalgic alternative to watching movies – an outdoor experience under the starry sky, enjoying the privacy of your car.
The drive-in caught on because it tapped into America’s love for both automobiles and movies; going to the drive-in became a wildly popular pastime from its inauguration in the 1930s through the 1950s.
The films commonly shown at drive-ins were always second rate B movies, or second run. Although owners emphasized family activities, by the 1940s and 1950s teenagers had taken over rows at the drive-in to engage in more private endeavors, have sex, drink alcohol and smoke marijuana. The drive-in business started to stagnate in the 1960s and began its decline in the 1970s, as it became extremely difficult to compete with the multiplex indoor cinema, cable television or video cassette recorders. By the 1990s there were few drive-ins left; those that remained were reminders of an American era that revered cars and freedom, with a little low-budget entertainment thrown in.
This year, Split Film Festival pays homage to the drive-in theater experience, in a venue located at the Spaladium Arena parking lot. For the first time, the audience in this town will have the opportunity to experience a part of the American cinematic history. After years of stagnation and decay, we witness a revival (restoration) of drive-in theaters for the new era, adapted to digital screenings and delivering the stereo sound directly to the car radio receiver.
VIDEO ROOM 2011
INTERNATIONAL FILM WORKSHOP WITH BELA TARR - trailer
Festival Trailer 2011
DriveIn Theatre
Workshop movies
Awards 2011
President Josipović at STFF
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Sunčica Fradelić RIBLJA JUHA / FISH SOUP
Attila Antal RIBOSTRAH / FEAR OF FISH
Martina Bilan TIHI CIKLUS / SILENT CYCLE
Ivica Mušan OBID / LUNCH
Susana Barriga LJETNO PISMO / SUMMER LETTER
Andrés Andreani STANJE GDJE SAM RIBA / STATE I AM FISH