Rokolectiv 2015 festival guide

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23.04 MNAC 20:00

Sillyconductor (RO) Vaghe Stelle (IT) DJ Maboku (AO/PT) Objekt (DE) Abdulla Rashim (SE) Dreamrec (RO)

25 - 26.04 Halele Carol 23:00

“Boreal Halo” Vincent Leroy (FR) Piętnastka (PL) Pierre Bastien (FR) Aisha Devi (CH)

24.04 Halele Carol 23:00

ROKOLECTIV FESTIVAL 23-26 | 04 | 2015

N.M.O. (NO) Gazelle Twin (UK) Islam Chipsy ft. E.E.K. (EG) Mondkopf (FR) Lena Willikens (DE) Borusiade (RO) Romansoff (RO) Dreamrec (RO)

Rokolectiv Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary with 4 days of performances, installations, screenings and educational events taking place at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) and at Halele Carol, an industrial heritage building turned into an arts venue. It’s been an adventurous, strenuous, yet highly entertaining journey, with over 250 legendary and upcoming artists shaping the trends in sound, music, and related visual arts invited to perform in Bucharest over the years.

The Opening Night symbolically remains at MNAC, in the throbbing rhythm of an aurora borealis, with the installation of French artist Vincent Leroy, “Boreal Halo”, standing as a metaphor for our efforts to slow down time and decompose movements. The night will continue with live performances featuring Pietnaska’s densely-woven sound-tapestry with synthesizer and drums, enigmatic Aïsha Devi’s abstract yet visceral techno structures, as well as a come back of brilliant French composer Pierre Bastien and his surreal mechanical sound factory.

More than ever, the line up welcomes the rise of several key female musicians relentlessly crafting their way in a scene dominated by male figures. With her last album declared “album of the year” by The Quietus, Elizabeth Bernholz with her duo project Gazelle Twin is among the most promising female names, one that causes deep mutations to the notion of “pop”. The two golden girls of Cómeme, “veteran” Lena Willikens and freshly signed Borusiade will also spread some further free spirited talent on the dancefloor.

The 10th anniversary also celebrates non-Western influences in electronic music, with outstanding musicians freeing the sounds of the peripheries beyond their geographical barriers, and dropping them hot and contemporary in the so-called “centers”.

Hailing from the Imbaba neighborhood of Cairo, hyper-speed keyboard virtuoso Islam Chipsy and his powerhouse drummers E.E.K. perform an explosive and psychedelic experience of Arabic melodies. From Angola via Portugal comes DJ Maboku, one of the youngest in the crew of the brilliant Príncipe Discos label, who smartly integrates kuduro, batida, and kizomba into the more familiar club genres. And, though more rooted in the European context, expect some further incursions into Arabic instruments with Sillyconductor’s Oriental take on Pianosaurus, as well as Nigerian, Indonesian or Javanese sounds in Pierre Bastien’s one-man orchestra, and some Tibetan heritage coming out through Aïsha Devi’s throatsinging mantras.

But while we’re still on this continent, the European dimension will also be well represented by some adventurous musicians, with Norwegian duo N.M.O.’s “military space music”, Berliner Objekt’s bassy, halfstep atmospheric techno, as well as dark techno wunderkinder Abdulla Rashim and Mondkopf. A living proof that old Europe can still challenge and renew its electronic music stratosphere. Speaking of which, we are happy to announce Rokolectiv Festival is, starting this year, also part of SHAPE, a new initiative co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the EU and put together by 16 festivals & art centers willing to support upcoming musicians. Aisha Devi,

Mondkopf, Sillyconductor and Borusiade are just four of the names in this year’s pool, with further announcements to be made for autumn.

As always, don’t forget to check our Specials sections, with special video screenings: Ryan Trecartin’s “speedy, narcissistic, smartphone-slick hysteria” called “Item Falls”, “Nadia”, a HD psychedelic take on the only pop icon of gymnastics by Vlad Nancă & Ion Cotenescu, and “Miss Piranda”, Ivana Mlanedovic’s transformation of the beauty and oriental dance pageant’s winner. In the context of the performance of Islam Chipsy at the festival, Rokolectiv also hosts a public screening of “Electro Chaabi”, a documentary on Mahraganat, the music genre originating in wedding music that sweeps over Egypt, as well as a mixed media presentation, “Paradaiz Tape Mașina”, an incursion into a similar phenomenon that took over Romania in the ‘90s with the so called “Albatros” generation.

It’s cake time!

SHAPE PLATFORM 3 years x 16 organizations x 144 artists

Starting this year, Rokolectiv Festival is part of SHAPE, a new 3-year initiative co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

SHAPE, an acronym for Sound, Heterogeneous Art, and Performance in Europe, was created by 16 festivals and art centers which collectively chose 48 upcoming musicians to participate in a mix of live performances, residencies, workshops, talks and other special events, with the pool of artists to be renewed yearly.

Rokolectiv Festival presents in April four of the artists selected in the platform: A誰sha Devi (CH), Mondkopf (FR), Sillyconductor and Borusiade (RO). Apart from the live performances, a few educational events that you can find under our Specials section are also programmed to take place. An event dedicated solely to SHAPE is also scheduled in Bucharest, in autumn, with further names to be announced soon.

Partners: The Creative Europe programme of the European Union, ICAS, The Wire, Resident Advisor, The Quietus, Resonance FM, Tiny Mix Tapes, NTS Radio, Good Shape. www.shapeplatform.eu

Thursday | 23.04 | MNAC

PIĘTNASTKA (PL)

A densely-woven sound-tapestry with synthesizer and drums. Piętnastka is an instrumental project

by Piotr Kurek, who debuted in 2011 with the album Dalia on Sangoplasmo Records, a tiny cassette label based in Warsaw. The project explores psychedelic, woozy soundscapes and subcutaneous tensions crawling under layers of nostalgic, fairytale-like haze. Minimal music and synthesized folk merge together into a weird and deeply convincing form of “Polish hauntology”.

Piotr Kurek says Piętnastka is “a project borne of love for things old and mysterious”.

Thursday | 23.04 | MNAC

PIERRE BASTIEN (FR)

It’s time to reconnect with the mechanical sounds of French composer Pierre Bastien, who visited Rokolectiv in 2007. A giant factory on the screen, little wheels depressing organ keys on stage, Pierre Bastien has created “an elegant display of genuine musical surrealism” (The Wire).

Pierre Bastien builds his own machineries, at the cross between music and visual art, which blend live trumpet sounds with screen projections of on-site, mechanical sound sculptures in a very poetic way. His work is described as “a timeless sounding orchestra, both futuristic and slightly dada, conjuring ancient traditions in its surprisingly sensuous music.”

Bastien has been called a “mad musical scientist with a celebrity following” by The Guardian.

Collaborating in the past with filmmaker Pierrick Sorin, fashion designer Issey Miyake, singer and composer Robert Wyatt and Aphex Twin (who released three of his albums on his label Rephlex) to name a few, he is one of the most influential experimental musicians working in the field.

In 1986 he formed his own self made one-man orchestra, Mecanium, and made over 20 records over the years.

Thursday | 23.04 | MNAC | SHAPE artist

AÏSHA DEVI (CH)

Get ready for some Tibetan throat singing wrapped up in a club coating. Laying her Kate Wax moniker to rest after releases on Trevor Jackson’s Output and James Holden’s Border Community, the enigmatic Aïsha Devi set forth on a new adventure with Danse Noire, her own sanctuary-label. In 2013 she dropped her EP Aura 4 Everyone followed by the 12’’ Hakken Dub/Throat Dub in the summer of 2014 alongside EPs from boundary blurring artists Vaghe Stelle, El Mahdy Jr. or Ivvvo. Danse Noire is dedicated to exploring abstracted techno/ club structures, and Devi’s own music mines her Tibetan heritage, using her machines to transmute deep meditation. Whether they are guttural or soprano, Devi’s warped pop mantras instruct us to find the unseen through a tense, visceral musical landscape that is often gnarled and industrial as it is danceable.

Friday | 24.04 | Halele Carol | SHAPE artist

SILLYCONDUCTOR (RO)

Pianosaurus/Pianodisastrous (Oriental sampler edition) Initially premiered in 2012 as a multi-piano surround installation that would explore the upper limits of note reproduction, the Pianosaurus/ Pianodisastrous then became a physical installation, similar to an overdeveloped radio that the public could interact with. It was about 1000 bpm, multi-layered Bosendorfers, huge invisible mechanical instruments playing robotically fast strings of overtones and dramatic repetitiveness.

Since the Pianosaurus/Pianodisastrous has always been an open experimental platform readied for improvisation, on this occasion the pianos will be replaced with percussion, sfx and some tuned up bass. Arpeggiation and chromatic changes will leave place for polyrhythmic ostinattos and the entire setup will hopefully conjure the most experienced darbouka virtuosos.

Friday | 24.04 | Halele Carol

VAGHE STELLE (IT)

Vaghe Stelle (pronounced ‘vag-he stel-lay’), real name Daniele Mana comes from Torino. His mutant electronica falls outside any pre-ordained genre, preferring to let his imagination run free in the dark from the off world R&B romance to the pneumatic grime and lushly discordant trance sensations.

Daniele is using vocal samples to craft bass and lead sounds, coupled with repeated use of Poly800 and Juno 106 synthesizers. Astro:Dynamics described his last LP Sweet Sixteen as “drifting from summoning the bleary-eyed glacial spasms of Wiley’s devil mixes and an oddly Final Fantasyesque emotiveness combining with the smudged electronic aesthetic that has come to define Astro:Dynamics over the past year or so”. Also known for his appearances on Modeselektor’s Monkeytown label, Gang of Ducks and Aïsha Devi’s Danse Noire, he has also recently been involved in a project organized by the British Council and headed-up by Hyperdub boss Kode9 to create A Great Symphony for Torino.

Alongside his solo work as Vaghe Stelle, Daniele also forms part of the One Circle collaborative project alongside Editions Mego’s Lorenzo Senni and A:RA.

Friday | 24.04 | Halele Carol

DJ MABOKU (AO|PT)

There’s something good going on in Lisbon, and we couldn’t have remained blind to it. While the country declared bankruptcy and ended up asking Angolan businessmen for help, there was never so much raw creativity as there is now in the field of electronic music hybrids, with the sounds of the suburbs of Lisbon crossing the borders and contaminating the center and, from there, the whole Europe. Great labels like Príncipe Discos are carefully crafting a new generation of musicians that put out a new sound where upbeat rhythms like kuduro, batida and kizomba meet tribal house and grime.

DJ Maboku, real name Waldemar dos Santos Almeida, was born in Angola but moved to Portugal when he was 6. He was part of the PDDG crew (Piquenos DJs do Guetto) formed in 2006, which saw their releases on Príncipe late 2013. He also formed CDM in 2009, a production duo with his friend DJ Lilocox, forging a committed union of mind & souls set to work on originating a new style of sound for their neighborhood parties. Maboku is a regular on Príncipe’s monthly party Noite Príncipe at Musicbox club in Lisbon, as well as a favorite on the African clubs circuit in the Greater Lisbon area. Though one of the youngest members of the Príncipe crew, he has been recently starting to venture far out in the Euroland.

Friday | 24.04 | Halele Carol

OBJEKT (DE)

“Adventures in machine music built to make subs rattle and feet wiggle; a convoluted mess of elektrology and teknology. Constructed by TJ Hertz in Berlin.”

The introductory statement on Objekt’s website gives an immediate impression of a producer with a keen ear for finely crafted sound. Born in the UK but living in Berlin, Hertz has worked as a programmer at Native Instruments for several years, all the while experimenting and honing his own sound until he felt 100% ready to unleash his first tracks onto the world. Aside from three self-published singles, Objekt has released original work on groundbreaking label Hessle Audio and remixes for the likes of Cosmin TRG, Sbtrkt, Call Super and Radiohead.

His debut album Flatland was released last year on PAN and is stylistically unleashed in a way that makes his early records sound conservative. With his impressive staggered drums, bassy half-step atmospherics, and expertly prepared samples, Objekt’s techno finds a perfect balance through his impeccable production, without ever losing that rickety techno edge.

Friday | 24.04 | Halele Carol

ABDULLA RASHIM (SE)

Submerged in both rhythm and mystery, Abdulla Rashim’s shadowy aesthetic floats in balance with his uncompromising work. Wholly dedicated to his ideas and sound, Rashim’s quest for renewal and the importance of his craft has reflected well both internationally and locally, where he is praised alike. A listening ear and pure emotion is what his rhythms demand and what keeps him on top of his mission.

Back in 2011, the young Swedish producer adopted the name Abdulla Rashim and started releasing music through an eponymous label he’d set up.

“I like not having to be myself. I don’t want my own name to be out there, or my own personality.”

Rashim instead created an identity through sound.

His records explored techno’s deepest, darkest spaces and came out on pitch-black labels like Prologue and Semantica. He also maintained a flow of 12-inches on his own label, a series that took its titles from Ethiopian cities he’d visited. Rashim’s style became more distinct with each release he increasingly explored irregular rhythms and his sound design sharpened; it was as if he more clearly understood what he wanted to say.

Saturday | 25.04 | Halele Carol

N.M.O. (NO)

“Rhythm is the relationship between what you believe and what you used to believe.” N.M.O. can be an abbreviation for anything. In real life N.M.O. are Morten J. Olsen (snare drum, tape delay) and Rubén Patiño (SuperCollider, mixer).

They combine mechanical march rhythms with very spare electronics to create a sound that is a clash of deconstructed no wave and experimental dance music. The duo has released two EPs for Barcelona’s Anòmia label and call their work “military space music and/or fluxus techno”, taking inspiration both from the club scene and the modern art world.

Morten J. Olsen comes for the second time to Rokolectiv, after the spectacular appearance alongside the MoHa project in 2009. Olsen is also a member of Splitter Orchester, a 25-piece improvising collective based in Berlin. He has released more than 40 records on approximately 10 different labels.

Saturday | 25.04 | Halele Carol

GAZELLE TWIN (UK)

A violent exploration of teenage anxieties in a performance defined as “industrial pop”. Gazelle Twin is the sonic persona of Elizabeth Bernholz and started in Brighton several years ago. Gazelle Twin is morphing into a deeply personal sort of beast, inspired by the experience of alienation and physical discomfort, both as an adolescent bent at awkward angles in a blue middle-school PE uniform, and a more recent series of invasive medical procedures. “I wanted to shake away that sweeping fog and step into searing, unbearable daylight,” she says in a recent interview in The Wire magazine. “Go feral. Get down to raw elements like blood and soil and milk.”

Her most recent full-length, Unflesh, was declared “album of the year” by The Quietus: “Anyone who discovered the Brighton musician via her 2011 debut, The Entire City, is in for a shock possibly literally, as the industrial rumble that opens Unflesh is ruptured by a sudden, sustained scream. Gone are the solemnly brooding Knife-like synthscapes and the ethereal soprano. In their place are sickly synths, wobbling queasily around the mix; relentlessly shuddering beats hammering at your skull from the inside; crunching electronic distortion and sinister skittering rhythms”.

Saturday | 25.04 | Halele Carol

ISLAM CHIPSY FT. E.E.K. (EG)

Rokolectiv Festival is delighted to present you one of the most violent and psychedelic contemporary experiences of Arabic melodies. Islam Chipsy and his E.E.K. band are part of the Egyptian music revolution happening in real time Cairo. Singling himself away from the related electro-chaabi and mahraganat (“festival”) music genres, Chipsy has created a category of his own with the classically informed virtuosity of his cluster keyboard prancing frenzy. It’s the new wave of Chaabi and Nile Delta synth. Hailing from the Imbaba neighborhood in the heart of Cairo, Chipsy, whose real name is Islam Saeed, used wedding music as a trampoline for developing his eccentric performance style.

With few clubs or cafes for youth to support experimentation in the poorer neighborhoods of his city, weddings have historically served as the opportunity to party, and in modern times evolve into raves as the night progresses.

Islam Chipsy will perform on Saturday night his highly acclaimed live show with E.E.K. aka powerhouse drummers Islam Ta’ta’ and Khaled Mando. Channeled through 8-bit noise as his frenetic hands pummel the keys with surprising accuracy, Saeed is backed by the hyper-speed rhythmic ferocity of his flawlessly mechanical drummers. This is “Arabia” at its best!

This show is co-presented with PARADAIZ.

Saturday | 25.04 | Halele Carol | SHAPE artist

MONDKOPF (FR)

Mondkopf is Paris via Toulouse’s dark techno wunderkind, Paul Régimbeau. After a string of singles and remixes for Perc Trax in 2013, his heaviest and most expansive release to date, Hadès, was out on his own In Paradisum. Building on Régimbeau’s passion to bring the crushing weight of metal into the dance music stratosphere, and alongside contemporaries that he hosted at his In Paradisum nights in Paris including Oneohtrix Point Never, Perc, Sandwell District and Demdike Stare, Hadès is testament to forward-thinking nonconformity in electronic music today. Expect a very dark and percolating set, without losing the dancefloor “feeling”.

Saturday | 25.04 | Halele Carol

LENA WILLIKENS (DE)

Nothing trains a DJ more than a long lasting residency. A truism that the Cologne based musician and DJ Lena Willikens always proves when she spins her vinyl. For the past five years, she has been in charge of long and sweaty Friday night parties at Düsseldorf’s free-spirited club / bar Salon Des Amateurs. She is also a dedicated member of the Cómeme records tribe and all its missions: her name is frequently on the label’s party bills and she runs the monthly radio show “Sentimental Flashback” for Radio Cómeme. As a DJ, radio broadcaster, producer, and Theremin player, Lena is never committed to one style; all is welcome as long as it is twisted in a one-of-akind way. When she spins records she likes to let herself go in the name of dance and free thought.

It may be obscure proto-techno, jacking spirits, industrial boogie, synthesized disco, raw house, or other outernational rhythms in clubs like Golden Pudel / Hamburg, Plastic People / London, Moog / Barcelona, or in festivals like Nacht Digital where she always surprised the folks and left them amazed about how expanded a crowd can let go and how far a DJ can move a dancefloor into unknown and bizarre spheres that stay catchy, while being edgy.

Sunday | 26.04 | Halele Carol | SHAPE artist

BORUSIADE (RO)

Recently signed on Cómeme, the Bucharest raised and Berlin based Miruna Boruzescu gained a lot of attention recently with her productions as well as her DJ performances. Influenced by a classical musical education and fascinated by raw electronic sounds, Borusiade combined these elements in the construction of her DJ sets and, starting 2005, also in her music production.

After experimenting with different projects, Borusiade slowly crystalized a sound of her own, with poignant bass lines, obsessive themes and by all means melodic. A dark priestess that comes with the day light.

Sunday | 26.04 | Halele Carol

ROMANSOFF (RO)

Tudor Gheorghe, also known by his stage moniker Romansoff, is a Bucharest based DJ, producer & vinyl collector. Since 2013 he’s producing and releasing music on his own imprint, called Raw Tools. His raw, analogue house and techno productions got the attention of the likes of Ben Sims, Mark Henning, Serge (Clone) or Truncate.

Tudors’s production skills have widen further than his own imprint, having released on labels such as Ruff Draft or Bordello A Parigi’s sublabel Bitter Moon, with some impressive releases to come in 2015 on labels such as Lobster Theremin and others. Romansoff is definitely an artist to watch this year. He’s going to keep us moving throughout the Sunday afternoon.

Friday-Saturday | 24-25.04 | Halele Carol

DREAMREC (RO)

Silviu Vișan is involved in various projects from video mapping to interactive design. He developed the a:rpia:r collective’s video side in the last couple of years, with some special appearances in Fabric, Trouw or Nordstern. He is also touring extensively with the more experimental music project Rochiţe or alongside the Apparatus 22 collective.

Late 2013 he created at Victoria & Albert Museum a spectacular projection mapping on the cast of Trajan’s Column, combining motion graphics and 3D animation that playfully highlights, deconstructs, augments and manipulates the Column’s geometry and reliefs. His project The Shuffle (with Sillyconductor) - an algorithm of infinite probabilities of overlapping one million images of 1kb with one million sounds with a duration of 1 second each, was shown at the Bucharest Young Artists Biennale. Dreamrec is one of the pillars of the Rokolectiv Festival, witnessing and contributing to its development since 10 years ago.

VINCENT LEROY “Boreal Halo” Installation Opening MNAC | 23.04 | 20:00 Exhibition 24.04 - 17.05

With his installation titled Boreal Halo, French artist Vincent Leroy pulls us into his imaginary world. The work features a gigantic ring, ten meters in diameter, which hovers softly above the ground through the use of barely visible construction materials in the center of the space.

With the throbbing rhythm of an aurora borealis, visitors can step into the area it encloses and observe the rotating halo. Under the guise of simple process and worried about the lightness he intends to give to his creations, Leroy has intentionally hidden the technical mechanics of the design. This sculpture translates his will to slow down time and decompose movement, common characteristics of Leroy’s visual and physical experiences.

PARADAIZ TAPE MAČ˜INA Mixed media presentation ODD Gallery | 24.04 | 19:30 SHAPE event

Beginning of the 90s, on the background of the fall of the communist regime and the start of an obsessive transition, a new music scene exploded in Romania. One that was completely neglected and even rejected by the mainstream media – so it never made into pop – which built its own systems of production and distribution, functioning as a counter-culture. The so-called “Albatros” generation produced a genre that was observational and deeply rooted in the mundane, speaking, just like authentic hip hop, the language of the street, and rapidly swallowing various influences, from mainly Balkan folklore, gipsy and Oriental rhythms to, sometimes, tropical sounds.

These were the first musicians to travel freely in the neighboring countries and feed a young generation obsessed with Turkish jeans and tapes with a music that rapidly compressed the “East-West and back to the East” cultural axis. A whole grey market and exchange of cassettes flourished, together with micro recording studios and a system of distribution in a peculiar DIY spirit. It appealed proletarians all over the country and brought the sounds of cheap synthesizers to the masses, as every second town/village had its own such band with at least one Roland E-500 or Casio CTK that came with Arabic preset sounds.

PARADAIZ TAPE MAȘINA is a project born to preserve, archive and analyze this very poorly studied and almost forgotten, yet fairly exotic scene of Romania in its transition years.

This event is co-presented with ODD Gallery for the White Night of the Galleries.

ELECTRO CHAABI A film by: Hind Meddeb Egypt | France, 2013, 77 min.

Special screening URBN Supply Co. | 16.04 | 20:00 | invitation only Festival screening Halele Carol | 24.04 | 23:00

On the margins of the cultural revolution that swept over Egypt, in the poorest neighborhoods of Cairo, an electrifying version of Arab hip hop has evolved out of the popular music known as chaabi. Mahraganat, Arabic for “festivals,” is a raucous and addictive blend of traditional music and rap, set against a furious cascade of drums, bass, and electronic vocals. The singing is fast, often improvised, and the subjects range from hashish, sex, and friendship to poverty and political betrayal.

French-Tunisian director Hind Meddeb profiles the young men behind the music - Sadat, Oka & Ortega, Weza, Fig, Chipsy, and Amra Haha - and the impact of their sound on their country as well as on their own lives.

One week before the festival, Rokolectiv invites you at URBN Supply Co., a contemporary living store located in the old center, to the Romanian premiere of “Electro Chaabi”. This special screening is an opportunity for us to celebrate a long-term partnership with our main supporter, burn, as well as an opportunity to invite the friends of Rokolectiv to join us for a pre-festival celebration of 10 years of adventures in the field of electronic music and related visual arts. The anniversary cake and drinks are on the house.

The documentary will also be screened on Friday 24th of April, in the special screening room at Halele Carol, starting 23:00.

RYAN TRECARTIN “Item Falls” 2013, 25’44’’, HD Video Festival screening Halele Carol | 25.04 | 23:00

“Item Falls” is one of four movies to date completed in 2013 by Trecartin, first shown as a work in progress at the Arsenale of the the Venice Biennale. Since settling in Los Angeles in 2010, Fitch and Trecartin have designed and built a modular maze of sets on a soundstage with the help of Hollywood technicians who have rigged the space with lights and hydraulics enabling it to move and change for different projects.

“Trecartin came of age when new technologies were changing the way we look at moving images - from the big screen to laptops and iPhones, from network to cable and broadband streaming - and the Internet was messing with our brains. He sees himself as a “bridge” person, someone who grew up before the revolution in digital technology, whose effects are now second nature to the generation that was born into it. His work is not about technology or social media, he has said, but about how the Internet changes the way we relate to the world and to one another, and his videos are rooted in the very world these changes have brought about. It is a place of multiple individual narratives unfolding simultaneously, of shifting identities and genders, of triumphant consumerism, and of young people yakking maniacally into cell phones or breaking windows and furniture.” (The Newyorker, 2014)

VLAD NANCĂ “Nadia” 2014, 15’06’’, HD Video, no sound In collaboration with Ion Cotenescu Festival screening Halele Carol | 24-25.04 | 23:00 Vlad Nancă and Ion Cotenescu have been friends since the days of the Web Club in the mid noughties and have since worked together on a variety of projects, some more known than others. Nadia is their first collaboration on a video piece.

Images from found slides taken at a gymnastics championship in 1978 France show Nadia Comăneci two years after her historical perfect 10 at the Melbourne Olympics.

The images of the striking figure of a strong, self confident and experienced gymnast are edited into hypnotic kaleidoscopic transitions - typical symmetries found around altered states of mind - and projected without sound, leaving the viewer with the freedom to imagine their own soundtrack, to let go and deeply dive in to enjoy the visual experience.

IVANA MLADENOVIC “Miss Piranda” 2015, 22’, HD Video, no sound Festival screening Halele Carol | 24-25.04 | 23:00 Cristina Pucean is nineteen and started belly dancing when she was eight. In 2011, she won for the first time Miss Piranda, a famous beauty and oriental dance pageant for Roma girls, taking place in Bucharest. The competition made a comeback in 2014, after having been suspended for three years because the main organizer was arrested for fraud. Cristina won again, and started to get invited to dance in the most famous manele clubs in Romania, alongside celebrities of the genre. Ivana Mladenovic filmed Cristina in the studio allowing her to manifest herself at ease. In the video she used the raw material with long shots and uncensored gestures, without technical interventions, employing the esthetics of a pop music video.

Ivana Mladenovic is a Serbian filmmaker living in Bucharest, with interest for marginal social categories. Her documentary “Turn Off the Lights” caused a lot of stir at major international film festivals in 2012. Next year she will start filming for her first long feature film “The Soldiers”.

Venues

Halele Carol 1, Constantin Istrati Street Sector 5

MNAC Parliament Palace Calea 13 Septembrie, Gate B3

Venues

URBN Supply Co. 3, Cﾄネdﾄビari Street Sector 3

ODD Gallery 72A, Dr. Iacob Felix Street Sector 1

PARTNERS

MEDIA PARTNERS

Tickets

FESTIVAL PASS | 4 DAYS | 50 lei Available directly at URBN Supply Co. or upon email reservation: manuc@urbn.ro.

The reservation is valid for 3 days.

Pick up at the shop.

OPENING NIGHT MNAC | 23.04 | free Limited to the capacity of the venue.

DAY TICKETS Halele Carol | 24.04, 25.04 | 35 lei Can be purchased at Halele Carol in the night of the event.

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