22.11.10

(dé)Colonisation, Cinema Lux, Caen (F)

© René Vautier
Une proposition de Transat Vidéo à l’occasion du Mois du Documentaire et en écho au 50e anniversaire de l’indépendance des Pays Africains Francophones (CIPAF).



Samedi 6 novembre | 11h00 | Cinéma LUX
Afrique 50
de René Vautier (1950-20’)
Film de commande de la Ligue de l’enseignement à destination des lycéens et collégiens pour leur faire découvrir la vie du paysannat africain, le film a fini par être le premier film anticolonialiste français, censuré en France jusqu’en 1990.
Les Trois couleurs de l’empire
de Jean-Claude Guidicelli et Virginie Adoutte (2001-1h09)
Colonisée au nom de valeurs humanistes, l’Algérie symbolisa pendant presque un siècle et demi l’utopie coloniale française. Examinant la manière dont la France a géré son « image », ce documentaire retrace les étapes de « l’idée coloniale », dont les principes n’ont pas totalement disparu.
Samedi 13 novembre | 11h00 | Cinéma LUX
Joe Leahy’s Neighbours
de Bob Connolly et Robin Anderson (1988-1h30)
En 1989, en Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée, Joe Leahy, propriétaire d’une plantation de café, vit seul au milieu des tribus papoues. Il doit son ascension sociale à l’habileté avec laquelle il manipule ses voisins ganigas. Les Papous, demeurés proches du mode de vie traditionnel, se sentent néanmoins attirés par la société de consommation. À travers les démêlés de Joe Leahy et de ses voisins, se joue de façon cocasse mais souvent explosive, le scénario de la colonisation...
Samedi 20 novembre | 11h00 | Cinéma LUX
Le Ciné colonial – Le Maghreb au regard du cinéma français
DE MOKTAR LADJIMI (FRANCE, 1997-53’)
Dès que les films Lumière ou Méliès ont révélé les possibilités du cinéma, la France n’a cessé de nourrir sa politique coloniale dans le Maghreb d’une imagerie de propagande, où le manichéisme le disputait aux grandes envolées civilisatrices. A l’appui de cette théorie, Youssef El Ftouh et Moktar Ladjimi convoquent témoins et extraits de films pour retracer une histoire du cinéma colonial français.
Zoos humains
DE PASCAL BLANCHARD ET ÉRIC DEROO (FRANCE, 2002-52’)
Autour de 1900, nos grands-parents et arrière-grands-parents se sont précipités pour voir d’authentiques “sauvages” montrés comme des bêtes de foire. Véhicules de la propagande colonialiste, ces zoos humains servent aussi à construire une identité collective en opposition au référent négatif de l’étranger primitif… Construit comme une enquête policière, Zoos humains questionne de façon passionnante nos fantasmes et stéréotypes face à l’autre, à l’inconnu.
Samedi 27 novembre | 11h00 | Cinéma LUX
Vita Nova
DE VINCENT MEESSEN (BELGIQUE, 2009-26’)
La prémisse de Vita Nova est une couverture du quotidien français Paris Match de 1955 sur laquelle un enfant soldat fait un salut militaire. Meessen part à la recherche de Diouf, l’enfant sur la photo. Il élabore un récit en couches qui mêle le passé colonial à des textes de Roland Barthes, auteur d’un essai sur cette photo.
Les statues meurent aussi
DE ALAIN RESNAIS ET CHRIS MARKER (FRANCE ,1953-30’)
A travers l’art africain et plus spécialement les statues et les masques nègres, Alain Resnais filme une virulente diatribe contre les insoupçonnables méfaits du colonialisme des créations authentiques, liées à la spécificité de la culture panthéiste et magique de ces régions pour la remplacer, petit à petit, par une activité artistique commerciale mercantile et de série...

28.10.10

Walking The Hinterland, Argos Center, Brussels


Walking the Hinterland
 considers the ways in which contemporary art responds to geographical non-spaces, those ’suspended spaces’ within or bordering on delimited urban zones, through the work of eight artists for whom walking is also a creative act. Over the course of the late 20th century, ’hinterland’ (originating from the Middle High German ’hinter’, meaning ’beyond’) has gradually taken on a modified interpretation, no longer used in the strict geographical sense of land directly adjacent to and inland from a coast, or a region remote from urban areas. The word now embodies the idea of a place, an era or an aspect of life considered as lacking in spiritual, aesthetic or other humanising qualities; a vacuum; a cultural wasteland. Wastelands, ’zone blanches’ as described by Philippe Vasset in Un Livre blanc, (Editions Fayard, 2007) are areas that have been left white or uncoloured on maps. They are free zones, no man’s land – both politically and socially – streets of “sub-primed” houses, or quite simply suburbs of warehouses or mega shopping complexes surrounded by far larger asphalted spaces given over to parking. In the vein of contemporary literary flaneurs like Iain Sinclair or W.G. Sebald, the works presented are the audiovisual results of artists striding the underbelly of urban spaces around the world. Mapping, photographing, sketching, recording sound and images, performing, retracing their steps again and again in order to permeate themselves in these environments which, even if they often exude an air of desolation or hostility, are the essence of urban regeneration.In addition to the works presented in the exhibition, two Brussels-based artists Els Opsomer on October 30th and Mira Sanders on November 7th who are affiliated with the Argos Archive will lead walking tours through different parts of Brussels. 
















































24.10.10

The New Settlers at Ridehuset, Aarhus (DK)















The New Settlers at Ridehuset
Aarhus
Danemark
November 17-21, 2010



Vita Nova
Vincent Meessen, Belgium, 2009
Experimental documentary, 27 min
This rewriting of some Roland Barthes's overlooked biographical facts is based a modern icon.
The now famous picture of a colonial military cadet demystied by Barthes in his essay Mythologies is revisited in order
to reflects on the conflicting narrative regimes of storytelling. 


What I Have
Andrey Zhidkov, Russia 2009
Experimental/Animation, 11 min.
An eerie tale of intricately depicted isolation, this recounting of Borges’ story, The Disk, outlines the abstract fate of a woodcutter visited by a king.


Notes on the Other
Sergio Oksman, Spain 2009
Documentary, 13 min.
On July 13, 1924, Ernest Hemingway was on a balcony in Pamplona, Spain and saw a wounded man lying on the other side of the street. He became consumed with the feeling that he was that man. Notes on the Otherfollows the example of this sensation in the form of an annual Hemingway lookalike contest in Key West, Florida. Dozens of older men do their utmost to be Hemingway. The film investigates the curiosity for alternate perception, for stepping outside of ourselves to contemplate the world in a different way, if only for a little while.


Organized by Litteraturen på scenen & Aarhus International Film Festival


Amakula Festival, Kampala, Uganda


The Amakula Kampala International Film Festival  2010 will occur from October 29th to November 6th with the theme of Inevitable Transition. The festival will be presented at the National Theatre as well as twenty video halls located in the five districts of Kampala.



1.10.10

Plateform3, Munich

Musing architecture
Film Programme
October 13, 2010, 7pm

The film programme Musing Architecture contemplates architectural structures. Four videos examine on architecture in relation to time, transience as well as the people inhabiting this architecture.


With the following works:



City of Progress, Justin Bennett, NL 2008-2010, 11'
Dear Adviser, Vincent Meessen, BE 2009, 8'
A Necessary Music, Beatrice Gibson, UK 2008, 28'
Os Candagos, Guillaume Linard Osorio, F 2010, 8'


Platform3 is a unique interdisciplinary cultural model for contemporary art based in 2000m2 of ex-warehouse in the South of Munich.

28.9.10

The Documentary Real, Vooruit, Gent (B)


Thu 21 Oct 2010
10 am-6 pm
Vooruit (Domzaal)
Gent (B) 
English spoken, free
An initiative of KASK, Vooruit and Gent Film Festival, supported by VAF / Flanders Image
The symposium The Documentary Real invites artists and theorists to interrogate the ambiguous relation of documentary film to reality. To what extent can a reel of film capture reality – if this is possible at all — and when can we say that it calls a new reality into being? Do not most films oscillate between ‘document’ and ‘argument’; that is, between representing, rewriting and creating reality? Moreover, what strategies do artists use to document our daily lives? Is the detour through alienation and animation perhaps the proper way to make an outright and truthful work? Do new developments in media art provide new opportunities for documentary artists? Finally, how do these artistic experiments and their problems represent the culture we live in?

Speakers : Cis Bierinckx (curator, artistic director Beurshouwburg Brussels), Stella Bruzzi (film theory, University of Warwick), Edwin Carels (curator, art theory, KASK), Marc De Kesel (Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen, Artevelde Hogeschool Gent), Katerina Gregos (curator), Johan Grimonprez (artist and filmmaker), Steven Jacobs (Art history, KASK & Antwerp University), Vincent Meessen (artist), Jasper Rigole (artist) and Duncan Speakman (artist).

CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid





Offmostoles 2010
Centro de Artes Dos de Mayo
Madrid
October 15-17, 2010 


"Offmostoles" is the title of the contemporary video showcase that the CA2M holds every year during the third weekend in November. The event includes a variety of video screening programmes, concerts and round-table discussions about the latest trends in video art.


Some participants in this year programme, among others, are: Alberto Arce , Fernando Baños Fidalgo, Yael Bartana, Tatiana Blass,Javier Codesal, Andrés Duque, Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band, Carlos Irijalba, JULIO, Zerek Kempf, Jérôme Laffont, Mia Makela, Augusto Marban, Fionn Meade, Vincent Meessen, Julia Meltzer, Rosalind Nashashibi, Mohammad Rujailah, Miguel Salvatierra, Marinella Senatore, Mary Simpson, Lucy Skaer, Javier Téllez, The Dead Rat Orchestra, David Thorne, Marc Thümmler, Liu Wei, Sarah Wood.


Screening + Q & A
on October 16, 2010




KW. Institute for Contemporary Arts, Berlin

Highlights from the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale
KW. Institute for Contemporary Arts









Once again KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin is focusing on contemporary films by international artists. For the third time—after the great success in 2006 and 2009—highlights of the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale are presented in Berlin. In Berlin the program from the 2009 Cologne biennale is supplemented by a selection of new films. Two stories of KW aredevoted to films by Doug Aitken, Mirosław Bałka, Bjørn Melhus, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Javier Téllez, as well as works by the younger generation including Keren Cytter, Adam Leech, Dani Gal, and Alex McQuilkin. On the third floor films are presented in thematic archive stations. A fifth station is dedicated to works from last year’s BILD-KUNST
Promotional Award for experimental film competition and the submissions by students of film schools and art academies. On the fourth floor the films can be seen on a large screen. The program also includes a number of evening events.




Participating artists:

Doug Aitken, Mirosław Bałka, Guy Ben-Ner, Anina Brisolla, Mircea Cantor, Keren Cytter, Nathalie Djurberg, Omer Fast, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Cyprien Gaillard, Dani Gal, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mihai Grecu, Claire Hooper, Sven Johne, Korpys/Löffler, Annika Larsson, Lars Laumann, Adam Leech, Cristóbal
León & Joaquín Cociña & Niles Atallah, Mark Lewis, Rä di Martino, Maix Mayer, Alex McQuilkin, Vincent Meessen, Bjørn Melhus, Deimantas Narkevičius, Kika Nicolela, Hans Op de Beeck, Nira Pereg, Reynold Reynolds, Magdalena von Rudy, Aïda Ruilova, Jani Ruscica, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Sam Taylor-Wood, Javier Téllez, Alexia Walther & Maxime Matray,
Clemens von Wedemeyer






KW
Auguststrasse 69
D-10117 Berlin
October 13-31, 2010.

Autograph ABP, London

Vita Nova by Vincent Meessen will be screened at Autograph ABP on October 15, 2010 at 6.30 PM.



The screening and the following dialogue with Autograph director Mark Sealy takes place in the frame of the two current major photographic exhibitions: James Barnor’s street and studio portraits from the late 1940s to the 1970s, in Ghana and England, and the W.E.B. Du Bois’ collection of portraits compiled for the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. Both aim to explore the notion of the photographic archive in relation to visual politics of race, representation and difference, as well as the question of modernity within post-colonial and transatlantic perspectives on photography in the 21st century.

Autograph ABP
Rivington Place
London EC2A 3BA
UK
Phone : + 44 (0) 20 7729 9200



video_dumbo, NYC









Video Dumbo, Brooklyn, NYC
New contemporary video art screenings and installations
curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy
September 24 - 26, 2010




Participating Artists: Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Shaun Slifer, Torsten Zenas Burns, Douglas Fishbone, Pere Ginard & Laura Gines, Oliver Laric, Pilvi Takala, Gratuitous Art Films, Julie Casper Roth, Zbynek Baladrán, Estela Estupinyà-García, Arne Bunk, Vincent Meessen, Isabelle Hayeur, David Pierce, Maria Niro, Pavel Medvedev, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Penny Lane, Joseph Bennett, Ferhat Özgür, Christoph Schlingensief, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, Avi Mograbi, Basma Alsharif, Aaron Oldenburg, Tamar Latzma, Theodore Tagholm, Tim Leyendekker, Redmond Entwistle, David Politzer, Melanie Crean, Pete Burkeet, Keith Sanborn, Bob Paris, Volker Schreiner, Ivan Faktor, Vivian Ostrovsky, Dave Griffiths, Julius Ziz, Emmanuelle Antille, Lena Maria Thuering, Gautam Kansara, Ken Jacobs, Sam Holden, Nicole Sloan, Jill Epstein, Axel Roessler, Base, Josh Weinstein, Allen Chen, Shelly Silver, Devrim Kadirbeyoglu, Christopher Udemezue, Melissa Potter, Erik Levine, Simon Mullan, Axel Petersén, Liz Rodda, Tomoko Inagaki, Toni Comas, Jonathan Cummin, Vianney Lambert, Magnus Bärtås, John Michael Boling, Wojciech Gilewicz, Jacob Tonski, François Vogel, Flatform, Peter Rose, Yorgos Taxiarchopolus, David Grainger, Leighton Pierce, Phyllis Baldino, Gerhard Funk, Ulrich Polster & Christine Scherrer.

Video Installations:
Marco Brambilla, Adam Leech, Hans Op De Beeck, Rimas Sakalauskas, Till Roeskens, Kristin Lucas, David Krippendorf, Lara Kohl and 0100101110101101.ORG

Live projector performances:
Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder (NY)
Alex MacKenzie (Vancouver).

DVD release:
40th anniversary of Experimental TV Center accompanied by a special program presented by Electronic Arts Intermix. Guest curated by Sherry Hocking, Kathy High and Rebecca Cleman.

Location: 112 Water Street (between Washington and Adams) DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY

*Free Admission to all festival screenings

31.8.10

Salon5, Argos center for art & media


Argos Center for Art and Media,Brussels
Salon5
Cabinet David Bald Eagle/Potential Estate
September 12, 2010


In the fall of 2009, Argos invited five artists and collectives from very different backgrounds to reflect about their position as an artist in nowadays society. This question was translated quickly into a working process that functioned as an open platform between the artists, their works, their fields of interest and research and their network(s). In September- October 2010 the participating artists and collectives – namely AgencyEmilio López-MencheroPotential EstateSlavs and Tatars and Miet Warlop – present a series of public programmes based on their research and experiences. They call it Salon5. Connectivity, collectivity, encounter, exchange of knowledge and shared learning are keywords for Salon5. Concretely, this event consists of performances in unusual locations and a series of trips out of Brussels, comprising a mixture of screenings, picnics, guided visits, performances, walks and lectures. Together with the audience, the artists retrace the places, people and communities that they researched over the course of a year. Salon5 for instance explores through a case study the position of amateur filming in relation to historiography; retraces the steps and actions of a ’forgotten’ artist group; or tries to introduce the public to unlikely parallels between Poland and Iran from the 17th to the 21st century.