Festival Miden 2014 - Program (ENG)

FESTIVAL MIDEN 2014

PROGRAM

Thursday 3/7/2014

Othonos square, 21.15

Screening Α (main)

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Sreening B (parallel)   

Build your own world (65 min) F for Female (51 min)

Local Calling! (42 min) Cologne OFF XP, Germany (60 min) Olso Screen Festival, Norway (37 min)

Total duration: 116 min Total duration: 139 min

Friday 4/7/2014   

Othonos square, 21.15

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Filmhouse: At first sight (53 min) Loading animation (35 min) Is it the high mountains? I (28 min)

I never promised you a real garden (68 min) Is it the high mountains? II (66 min)

Total duration: 134 min Total duration: 116 min

Saturday 5/7/2013  

Othonos square, 21.15

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Dance I: Many reasons to dance (57 min) Get Over It (53 min)

Total duration: 110 min

Mind Landscapes (49 min) No name, no place (59 min) Dance II: Black & White Vs Color (33 min)

Total duration: 141 min

PARALLEL EVENTS

FESTIVAL MIDEN 2014

3-5/7/2014

Kallitechniko Steki, 18.00

Thursday 3/7/2014

Friday 4/7/2014

 Noli Me Tange.re #1, video performance, Italy (70 min)  Real Delicacies, video art from Brazil (50 min)  Changing Landscapes 2, video art from Russia (43 min)

Special tribute: student videos  Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece (35 min)  Department of Visual & Applied Arts, Florina, Greece (42 min)

Total duration: 163 min

 Student works from various schools of fine & applied arts (57 min)

 Multimedia Lab & Master of Athens School of Fine Arts (20 min)

Total duration: 154 min

Saturday 5/7/2014  Various aspects of COLOR (60 min)

 Come along (80min)  Still Life (48 min) Total duration: 188 min

Friday 4/7/2014

DK design studio_

LOVE after screening party (just after the main screenings, around midnight)

3-5/7/2014

Barfly, 23.00_

A selection of past years' screening programs curated by Festival Miden, that have previously been screened in Athens and abroad but never shown in Kalamata before.

Πέμπτη 3/7/2014

REX Hotel, 12.00_

Lectures/presentations: 10 years retrospective of Festival Miden and a lecture by Manthos Santorineos.

3-4/7/2014

Othonos square, beside the screenings, 21.00-23.00_

A presentation of student interactive VR works created in the frame of Athens School of Fine Arts Multimedia Lab and the MA "Art, Virtual Reality and multi user systems of artistic expression". The presentation will be conducted by Manthos Santorineos (Professor, ASFA) and a team of ASFA students.

_DETAILED PROGRAM_ open air screenings at Othonos square Historic Center of Kalamata 3-5/7/14, 21.15h

THURSDAY 3/7/2014 Thursday 3/7/2014- Screening A- Unit 1 Duration: 65 min

So many different worlds to choose, so many different worlds to create!

1. José Vieira, The Great Builder, Portugal 2013, 1.05 2. Francesca Fini, White Noise, Italy 2013, 5.50 3. Albert Merino, Autoretrat compulsiu, Spain 2011, 5.46

Build your own world Curated by: Gioula Papadopoulou

4. Javier Chillon, Decapoda Shock, Spain 2011, 9.12 5. Diego Ramirez, RADISH, Australia 2013, 4.20 6. Sergey Tsyss, Second Wind, Russia 2012, 6.24 7. Friederike Hoppe, We are outside playing in the garden, Germany 2013, 10.40 8. Muhammad Taymour & Nouran Sherif, Home, Egypt 2013, 8.00 9. Marlijn Franken, If Only.., The Netherlands 2013, 4.03 10. Avaspo & Solveiga Serova, Chess Queen, Lithuania-UK 2013, 7.08 11. Tatiana Pancewicz, SIDE C, Poland 2013, 1.44

Thursday 3/7/2014- Screening Α- Unit 2 Duration: 51 min

F for Female Curated by: Gioula Papadopoulou & Martha Zoupa

1 male and 13 female approaches of female identity. Sensibility, humor, tenderness, loneliness, bitterness, suppression, questioning of traditional roles, a cry for understanding and a common agony that F is for Female and not for another Fail.

1. Aaron Zeghers, BLUE FILM ((missin’ you)), Canada 2013, 0.39 2. Francesca Fini, White Sugar, Italy 2013, 13.00 3. Mila Panić, Holy water, Bosnia-Herzegovina 2013, 1.00 4. Tatiana Pancewicz, Role models, Poland 2013, 1.07 5. Céline Trouillet, SONG N°23, France 2013, 5.15 6. Cat Del Buono, American Female, USA 2012, 1.15 7. Katya Yakubov, She Learns To Lunge, USA & Peru 2014, 6.40 8. Karissa Hahn, Before the Portrait, USA 2012, 2.20 9. Cat Del Buono, How to Not Get Raped, USA 2014, 3.09 10. Francesca Leoni & Davide Mastrangelo, In-Difference, Italy 2013, 2.30 11. Céline Trouillet, SONG N°22, France 2013, 4.40 12. Marcia Beatriz Granero, Parting, Brazil 2012, 5.00 13. Selma Selman, Roma perforating the flag act 1, Bosnia-Herzegovina 2013, 1.10 14. Haleh Jamali, Someone who is not like anyone, UK 2007, 3.00

Thursday 3/7/2014- Screening B- Unit 1 Duration: 38 min

Local calling!

Works by artists and creators who come from, have lived or have any kind of love-hate relationship with the city of Kalamata (GR). An ongoing project of Festival Miden, that aims to create a communication network between artists that are connected or related to Kalamata (the birth city of the festival) in any way.

1. Giorgos Efthimiou, WSV #3 Dimitris Athinakis reads Jean Paul Sartre, Greece 2014, 5.51 2. Vasileios Bouzas, Narcissus , Greece 2014, 2.15 3. Evi Minou, Rendezvous at the Saint George Society, Greece 2013, 3.16 4. Katerina Efthimiou, At the end there is light, Greece 2014, 3.11 5. Kostas Kyriazopoulos, CurseDPulse, Greece 2012, 2.22 6. Evi Minou, Under fork and key, Greece 2013, 3.16 7. Venetsanos Balopoulos, Leyko Agathi , Greece 2013, 9.41 8. Stathis Roukas, Withdrawal, Greece 2014, 1.00 9. Vasileios Bouzas, Shadows and Lights, USA 2001, 4.07 10. Kostas Kyriazopoulos, AloSu 12, Greece 2012, 2.37 11. Lenna Stamatopoulou, 11, Greece 2014, 3.34

Thursday 3/7/2014- Screening B- Unit 2 Duration: 60 min

CologneOFF XP, Germany caaf.newmediafest.org

The mobile German festival CologneOFF (a partner of Festival Miden for 6 years now) shows this year at Festival Miden a program entitled "Total Art - Alienated Time", curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne who writes about the selection: "Alienated Time is indicating “time” as an essential component determining the perception of life as a process from the subjective point of view of the creator, as well as the viewer in cultural, social or political concern. As a unity and totality, the selection to be presented in Kalamata would like to celebrate the diversity of contemporary artistic creations in times of the merging arts on occasion of the 10th anniversary of CologneOFF." Participant artists: 1.

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Heidi Kumao (USA) –Swallowed Whole, 2014, 3.53 Maurizio Sanhueza (Peru) – Copycat, 2013, 8.12 Francesca Fini (Italy) – Little Pills Blues, 2013, 5.11 Cinzia Sarto (Italy) – Forbidden Fruit, 2009, 4.40 Giulia Giannola (Italy) - Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor, 2012, 4.58 Karolien Soete (Belgium) – Tempus Fugit , 2013, 3.53 Albert Merino (Spain) –Visàvis, 2013, 5.05 Stephen John Ellis (USA) – Aus dem Kinder , 2011, 5.14 Brit Bunkley (NZ) - By Blood and Water, By Blood and Sand, 2014, 5.37 Ben Skea (UK) – Sleep Vessel, 2013, 2.43 Vojtìch Žák – (CZ) – Svetovar Brewery, 2013, 03.18

12. Gavin Hoffman (Ireland) – Complicit, 2013, 4.08 13. Mani Mehrvarz (Iran) - Wistful Affection For The Past, 2013, 3.06

Thursday 3/7/2014- Screening B- Unit 3 Duration: 37 min

Oslo Screen Festival, Norway screenfestival.no

Oslo Screen Festival collaborates with Festival Miden for the second time, presenting a selection of films from Norwegian video artists, curated by Margarida Paiva.

Participant artists: 1. Ulf Kristiansen, I Feel You, 2012, 5.16 2. Anne K Senstad, The Coop, 2013, 8.41 3. Kaia Hugin, Motholic Mobble part 7, 2013, 6.41 4. Catrine Thorstensen, Disembodied (Mirror Maze), 2013, 3.07 5. Espen Tversland, My Beast, 2013, 6.05 6. Iselin Linstad Hauge, The Foreignness of Her, 2011, 4.00

FRIDAY 4/7/2014 Friday 4/7/2014- Screening Α- Unit 1 Duration: 53 min

At first sight Curated by Vassilis Papaefstathiou & FILMHOUSE

The New Film Club of Kalamata FILMHOUSE collaborates with Festival Miden for the second time, curating a selection of the first short films by famous cinema directors, in an attempt to connect contemporary video-art with older or representative examples of artistic approaches of narration, from significant creators of the 7th Art. 1.

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Roman Polanski, Le gros et le maigre (1961), 15.00 Jan Švankmajer, The Last Trick (1964), 12.00 Terry Gilliam, Storytime (1968), 9.00 Tim Burton, Vincent (1982), 6.30 Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Foutaises (1989), 7.00 Christopher Nolan, Doodlebug (1997), 3.00

Friday 4/7/2014- Screening Α- Unit 2 Duration: 35 min

Loading animation Curated by: Ioanna Dimitrakopoulou-Koutava & Terpsi Kontargyri

Loading Animation refers to the circular icon that shows you you have to wait during any data loading. A circle of 10 different videos is in this case the data for downloading or rejection on the screen.

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ALIMO, Open Play, Forgetting Eye, Japan 2012, 8.39 Grant Petrey, Transduction, UK 2013, 1.15 Marina Moshkova & Tatiana Moshkova, Nights Lights, Russia 2012, 1.00 Jessie Brugger & Nicholas Deyoe, Another anxiety, USA 2014, 7.06 Katerina Athanasopoulou, Apodemy, Greece/UK 2012, 5.08 Max Hattler, Stop the Show, UK/ES/DE, 2013, 1.00 La Bricoulage, You have the cool, Switzerland 2013, 4.00 Sandra Araϊjo, Runtime error, Portugal 2013, 4.12 Jan Mensen, Load To Joy, Germany 2014, 1.57

Friday 4/7/2014- Screening Α- Unit 3 Duration: 35 min

Is it the high mountains? I Curated by: Gioula Papadopoulou

A tribute to Greek video art, part I. The title is borrowed -in a loose translation- from a very popular Greek poem written by Ioannis Polemis (a poet and theatrical writter, 1862-1924), entitled "What is our homeland?"

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Nikos Podias, Roots, Greece 2014, 2.19 Sophia Simaki, Recall of a funeral, Greece 2005, 2.00 Anna Ampariotou, I asked my father how I was born, Greece 2013, 2.13 Manolis Iliakis, IN BETWEEN, Greece 2008, 7.42 Mary Zygouri, Bull Market, Greece 2012, 5.50 Stathis Roukas & Anna Andreou, Rtual, Greece 2013, 2.14 Babis Venetopoulos, Fallen, Greece 2012, 4.45 Maria Kosmadaki, No title, Greece 2014, 0.30

Friday 4/7/2014- Screening Β- Unit 1 Duration: 68 min

I never promised you a real garden Curated by: Gioula Papadopoulou

How happy are you in your digital paradise?

1. Fabian Heitzhausen, Let's Play Modernism, Germany 2013, 8.00 2. Faith Holland, Analog Internet, USA 2012, 5.12 3. Hwayong Jung, Euphoria, USA 2014, 3.31 4. Boris Labbé, Danse macabre, France 2013, 16. 09 5. IP Yuk-Yiu, The plastic garden, Hong Kong 2013, 11.30 6. Joanna Kidd, Passing Through, USA 2013, 2.30 7. Sandrine Deumier & Yann Hagimont, Utopia, France 2014, 6.21 8. Víctor Ballesteros, Night Comes, Canada/Chile 2011, 5.16 9. Magda Matwiejew, Morphette, Australia 2013, 6.36 10. Ana B. & Nuno M. Pereira, The Kingdom, Portugal 2013, 2.39

Friday 4/7/2014- Screening Β- Unit 2 Duration: 66 min

Is it the high mountains? II Curated by: Gioula Papadopoulou

A tribute to Greek video art, part II. The title is borrowed -in a loose translation- from a very popular Greek poem written by Ioannis Polemis (a poet and theatrical writter, 1862-1924), entitled "What is our homeland?"

1. Aggeliki Bozou, Diningtable ll-The Time Curve, Greece 2013, 7.26 2. aA- athanasios Anagnostopoulos, f00l, Greece 2014, 4.11 3. Andreas Sitorengo, SIGN, Greece 2014, 9.50 4. Aris Michalopoulos, No In No Cent, Greece 2013, 4.27 5. Yiannis Pappas & Kathrin Oberrauch, Mind the gap, India 2011, 4.03 6. Iokasti Ioannou, 12+1, Germany 2013, 2.50 7. Ioanna Myrka, A walk, Greece 2013, 1.00 8. Katerina Athanasopoulou, Triptych I, UK 2013, 3.17 9. Manolis Iliakis, BODY WALL, Greece 2005, 9.02 10. Polina Zioga, Where Am I at Home?, Greece 2013, 3.41 11. Alexandros Kaklamanos, Full circle, The Netherlands 2013, 5.08 12. Giannis Floulis, SelfPortrait, Greece 2014, 1.35 13. Stelios Dexis & Myrto Vounatsou, The wave, Greece 2012, 2.15 14. Babis Venetopoulos, Ego the Great, Greece 2009, 2.50 15. Nikos Giavropoulos, Vandalism, Greece 2013, 3.45

Saturday 5/7/2014 Saturday 5/7/2014- Screening Α- Unit 1 Duration: 57 min

Dance I: Many reasons to dance Curated by: Margarita Stavraki

A tribute to video-dance, part I. A selection including older and newer participations of our festival dedicated to dance and whatever this marks for the city of Kalamata in (the month of) July. Multi aesthetics, conceptual, or non-targeting are activated by images and spaces and reveal various versions of physicality, rhythm and movement within video art.

1. Walter Jerome, Appareil, France 2012, 9.00 2. Jesús López Carreri, La Habitación de Thanatos, Argentina 2014, 5.15 3. Zig Gron, Door Opera, USA 2009, 6.40 4. Anna Natt & Dalia Castel, Grotesqueria, Germany 2011, 6.41 5. Lucie Kim & Felix von der Weppen, Kontinuum, USA 2011, 3.50 6. Maria Celeste Taliani, Terrestre-Movement in still life, Italy 2008, 10.00 7. Dan Boord, Marilyn Marloff & Luis Valdovino, Return to the world of dance, USA 2011, 7.00 8. Anton Hecht, Stop Start Tango, UK 2013, 3.00 9. James Gouldthorpe, Peppermint Bay, USA 2012, 3.38 10. Constantine Konovalov & Irina Neustroeva, Teeter-Totter-Tam, Russia 2010, 1.00 Saturday 5/7/2014- Screening Α- Unit 2 Duration: 53 min

Get Over It Curated by: Gioula Papadopoulou

Get over your life, get over your mom, get over your fears, get over common beliefs, get over your comfort zone, get over the system, get over yourself, just get over it.

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Natasha Cantwell, Jeff, New Zealand 2013, 1.25 Thanasis Tsimpinis, DUST, Greece 2014, 7.45 ALIMO, Island of Man, Japan 2011, 6.32 Christian Niccoli, Ohne Titel, Iceland 2013, 4.15 Miguel Andrés, System, Spain 2014, 4.49 Benna, topic #8, Italy 2013, 4.15 Nicole Rayburn, The Serpent & The Mouse, Canada 2013, 3.31 Josh Bricker, Tower, USA 2014, 3.44

9. Renata Ferraz & Dani D’Emilia & Felipe Ayres, EU – European Union, Brazil/Portugal/UK, 20122014, 4.55 10. Jorge Catoni, Chile Play Today, Chile 2010, 0.30 11. Christian Stahl, 20Twelve, Germany 2012, 3.34 12. Janek Ambros, Closing Bell, USA 2013, 4.11 13. Sophia Burke, They Call It Heartache, Canada 2010, 2.44 Saturday 5/7/2014- Screening Β- Unit 1 Duration: 49 min

Mind Landscapes Curated by: Martha Zoupa

Diving in the unconscious and the desires, the obsessions and the memories invite us to a journey through the bright, dark, great and strange corners of the mind.

1. Gabriel Andreu, A Matter of Blood, UK 2012, 10.19 2. Katina Bitsicas, Anonymous Autopsy, USA 2014, 4.27 3. Paul Barrios, Tres tiempos, Colombia 2012, 3.14 4. Sándor M. Salas & Ana Cinta Alonso, El hombre hueco (The holow man), Spain 2013, 4.59 5. Gabriel Andreu, Silence 3, USA 2011, 1.12 6. Richard Soriano Legaspi, Dimensioni di Appartenenza, Italy/ Philippines, 2014, 4.32 7. Carlos Espinosa, Farewell, Spain/Mexico 2013, 1.45 8. Fatih Bilgin, Some Trees and Children Change, Turkey 2013, 02.18 9. Pinina Podestà, Graphium, Italy 2013, 3.21 10. Javier Lloret, Detached Series, Spain 2013, 4.08 11. Tatiana Pancewicz, Out of space, Poland 2013, 1.00 Saturday 5/7/2014- Screening Β- Unit 2 Duration: 59 min

No name, no place Curated by: Gioula Papadopoulou

14 inner worlds, mapping a non-time & non-topos cartography of human experience.

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Arnaud Brihay, Granica Grenze, German-Polish border abandoned 2013, 8.30 Jonas Nilsson, Free fall, Sweden 2014, 2.42 Boris Eldagsen, How to disappear completely / POEM#94, Germany 2014, 7.19 Roland Quelven, Polaroids , France 2014, 5.40 Jolene Mok, You know where to find me, Hong Kong/Iceland/Norway 2014, 5.01 Mandy Krebs, Take for granted, Germany, 2013, 8.19 Hanna Ben-Haim Yulzari, Noncity, Israel 2009, 3.22 Susanne Wiegner, Home! sweet home!, Germany 3012, 1.33

9. Mario Santamaria, Palace of Versailles 1min 8s. Running Through the Museum, Spain 2013, 1.18 10. Rhayne Vermette, Full of Fire, Canada 2013, 1.30 11. Katina Bitsicas, Confound Acts, USA 2013, 3.41 12. Marc Neys (aka SWOON), River of light, Belgium 2013, 4.19 13. Damon Mohl, The Forest, USA 2013, 2.37 14. Eva Olsson, Takeoff, Sweden 2013, 2.14 Saturday 5/7/2014- Screening Î’- Unit 3 Duration: 33 min

Dance II: Black & White Vs Color Curated by: Margarita Stavraki

A tribute to video-dance, part II. A selection of Video Dance, which presents different aspects of contemporary dance and their narratives through black & white or color images of videos.

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Magda Matwiejew, Pretty Ballerina, Australia 2010, 7.31 Carlotta Grau, La Ballarina, Spain 2014, 6.49 Sarah Shamash, Pink Girl, Canada-Brazil 2010, 4.10 Sarah M Barry, There, again, USA 2010, 10.24 The Manos Buckius Cooperative, Message me, USA 2007, 3.11

_PARALLEL EVENTS_ _1. KALLITECHNIKO STEKI_ 3-5/7/2014

Kallitechniko Steki_

Festival Miden cooperates for the second year with Kallitechniko Steki, presenting a series of curated screening programs in its exhibition room: invited curators present video art selections from Italy, Brazil and Russia (1st day), a tribute to student works is presented in collaboration with Greek schools of Visual Arts (2nd day) and 3 more programs curated by the festival's team will be screened during the 3rd day.

Kallitechniko Steki is a non-profit art company, which aims to promote culture & art in the city of Kalamata, through art & photography exhibitions, theatre performances, music events, film screenings etc.

They also organize open lectures & seminars inviting authors, film-makers and artists from all over Greece.

Their events are open and free to the public, while they also lead workshops and classes on drawing, music, photography, documentary and other topics related to arts.

Opening hours: 18.00-21.00 Address: Benaki 5, Historic Center of Kalamata

Thursday 3/7/2014- Unit 1 Duration: 70 min

Noli Me Tange.re, Italy Curated by Raffaella Barbato

Italian curator Raffaella Barbato presents a selection of video-performances focusing on the female identity and "the acquisition of a new female self consciousness’ path". She writes about her program: "It is the first of a series of moments of critical reflection about the problems of being a woman. It’s an artistic query, an ethical and aesthetic path born as an investigation of social anthropological and historical phenomena which had and still have a certain impact in the structuring of women’s issue and in the process of deconstruction of the myth of the man, it is the resulting objectification of the world by the woman. (…..) It is a contemporary reading of the conflict between the female and male’s word, like the process of the subordination of the sexes and the difficulties in communication and acceptance of each other.

The language chosen is the performative one. The centre from where all the action and the propulsion came from is the body, which is a casing/bridge that connect the man to the nature and the society and in part it predefines his bio-ideological features. In this kind of world the body is not an individual altar but a relational social space in which you live the experience of existence and resistance. Trait-d’union among the chosen artists (Angela Baretta, Romina De Novellis, Angelika Fojtuch, Regina Josè Galindo, Silvia Giambrone, MaraM, Mary Zygouri) is the idea of art as a lived practice of cultural resistance and protest, art as a sollecitation able to awake conscience and destroy the individual and social blindness through a process of co-operation."

1. Angela Baretta (UK) Live performance inedita, “IBM -International Body Market”, 2012 2. Romina De Novellis (France), Video Performance, “La Gabbia”, 2012 3. Agelilka Fojtuch (Poland), Still video performance, “Gdzie się podziały" (where have they gone), 2010 4. Regina Josè Galindo (Guatemala) Video Performance “Abul” 2010 5. Regina Josè Galindo (Guatemala), “Limpiezza Social” 2005 6. Silvia Giambrone (Italy), Video Performance, “Eredità”, 2008 7. MaraM (Italy) Live Performance inedita,“Pins”, 2012 8. Mary Zygouri (Greece) Video Performance - trilogia - Symbiosis 2007, Decadenza 2008, Long Live the King 2010 Thursday 3/7/2014- Unit 2 Duration: 50 min

Real delicacies, video art from Brazil Curated by Kika Nicolela

Kika Nicolela is a Brazilian artist, filmmaker and independent curator. In her program "Real Delicacies", she is introducing us to 5 contemporary Brazilian artists. She writes about her selection:

"A look on the random, on landscape, on daily life. Small actions, delicate displacements. The poetry in the mundane. The power of delicacy. The vulnerable image.

A compilation of Brazilian recent videos. These artists articulate images from reality, and escape definitions of genre – documentary, performance, experimental, fiction? - to weave a personnel poetic drawn from the subject's relation to his or her surroundings, while avoiding technical mannerisms or superfluous effects."

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Dellani Lima, Adoravel Criatura / Lovely Creature, 2012, 9.00 Sara Nao Tem Nome, Atemporal / Timeless, 2013, 1.11 Leonardo Mouramateus, Mauro em Caiena / Mauro in Caiena, 2012, 18.00 Arthur Tuoto, Notes from My Heart, 2009, 04' Cao Guimaraes, Limbo, 2011, 17.20

Thursday 3/7/2014- Unit 3 Duration: 43 min

Changing Landscapes 2, video art from Russia www.cyland.org

In “Changing Landscapes 2”, twelve film/video works selected from CYLAND’s Video Archive create together a genuine, introspective look at contemporary Russian New Media. These videos / film by active Eastern European artists offer personal perspectives into the continuum of their native country’s past, present and future. Pieces by established, recognized artists Boris Kazakov, Yuri Vasiliev and Ludmila Belova, Dimitri Lurie are joined by emerging talents Maxim Svishev, Tatiana Akhmetgaliyeva, Masha Sha, Anton Khlabov and the “Upward!” community - each embodying artistic development within the age of digital technology in Russia.

The program is curated by Victoria Ilyushkina.

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Boris Kazakov / Nestlings of the Sea, 1996 (5:39) Anton Khlabov / Storage, 2009 (2:20) Maxim Svishev / Aurora, 2012 (5:38) Masha Sha / Never Ending, 2005 (2:12) “Upward!” Community / Fedorov Endgame, 2012 (3:00) Yuri Vasiliev / Mom, 2002 (0:55) Laboratory of Poetry Actionism / Lots of Letters, 2010 (2:53) Group “Soap”/ Figure Skating On the Soap, 2011 (3:00) Ludmila Belova / Home, 2007 (3:28) Viktoriya Begalskaya / Nutcrackers, 2004 (5:58) Dimitri Lurie / Refraction, 2012 (3:33) Daria Pisareva &Tanya Akhmetgalieva / Loosen Up!, 2012 (3:45)

CYLAND Video Archive is a resource of video and media art, open to professionals as well as general public. Video Archive was conceived as a networks platform of artists, programmers, videographers, engineers, art educators and curators from all over the world. Its main objective is to become a means of exchange between professionals and to give artists the opportunity to promote their works. Currently, the collection consists of more than 400 video, representing about 100 artists and 20 art groups from Russia, as well as about 30 artists from other countries.

Friday 4/7/2014 Duration: 154 min

Special tribute: student videos

Unit 1: Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University, Corfu, GR (35 min) Participant students: Georgia Vrosgou, Giorgos Dimakidis, Ioustini Eloul, Loukas Ziaras, Konstantinos Kepolas, Magda Kondiliari, Maria-Elisabeth Kontou, Giorgos Pantazis, Myrto Papagiannidou, Stefanos Papadas, Dimitris Politis, Margarita Xagorari The presentation is curated by Marianna Strapatsaki, video artist & Professor of Ionian University.

Unit 2: Department of Visual & Applied Arts, West Macedonia University, Florina, GR (42 λεπτά) The students prepared, especially for Festival Miden, a series of works on the theme "transormations of the daily". The presentation is curated by lecturer & visual artist Vasileios Bouzas.

Participant students: 1. Eugenia Perisorati, Do you recognize them? , Greece 2013, 1.04 2. Anastasia Triantafillidou, Transformation, Greece 2013, 2.17 3. 8’59’’, Metamerini Kathimormosi, Greece 2014, 9.10 (a group project) 4. Thanasis Liakopoulos, Maelstrom, Greece 2014, 1.19 5. Chris Ioannidis, Transformation, Greece 2011,0.46 6. Dimitris Petropoulos, The environment or the trash, Greece 2013, 1.14 7. Marina-Lito Antiohou, - , Greece 2014, 1.32 8. Giorgos Ntalis, Daily Tranformation, Greece 2014, 2.55 9. Georgia Damianou, Reverse Distribution, Greece 2014, 9.04 10. Georgia Damianou & Ekaterini Labropoulou, b-come, Greece 2013, 4.44 11. Yiannis Zampelis & Giorgos Akarepis, Mirror, Greece 2014, 4.45 12. Giorgos Kevrekidis, “Commuting” towards my endless thoughts, Greece, 2014, 0.57 & 1.40 13. Chris Lynx Monokroussos, Little words, Greece 2013, 1.38 Unit 3: Student works from various schools of fine & applied arts in Greece (59 λεπτά) 1.

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Katerina Mavridi & Helena Korali, The Cage, Greece 2013,4.47 Sofia Makridou & Theodora Prassa, Reflections, Greece, 1.47 Katia Karveli, Through?, Greece 2014, 5.46 Maria Kosmadaki, Untitled 2, Greece 2014, 0.30 Mary Marmarinou & Ioanna Papadogianni, I’M COLOUR, Greece 2014, 3.14 Constantinos S. Constantinou, Self Portrait Video "In my bath", Cyprus 2013, 2.18 Constantinos S. Constantinou, Self Portrait Video "I have something to think about", Cyprus 2013, 2.41 8. Markos Traitorakis,Unemployment diary, Greece 2014, 2.17

9. Markos Traitorakis, Metastasis , Greece 2012, 3.47 10. Stathis Psomadellis, Who Are You?, Greece 2013, 12.18 11. Pola Kouri & Marika Tsouderou, I want you to get mad!, Greece 2014, 5.32 12. Christos Markou, Olive Oil On Canvas, U.K 2014, 03.49 13. Dimitris Grimanelis, ROOM, Greece, 2014, 10.31 Unit 4: ASFA Multimedia Lab and MA (20 min) A video presentation of the work held by students of Athens School of Fine Arts Multimedia Lab and the MA "Art, Virtual Reality and multi user systems of artistic expression", curated by ASFA Professor Manthos Santorineos.

Saturday 5/7/2014- Unit 1 Duration: 60 min

Various aspects of COLOR Curated by: Margarita Stavraki

Color either exploits the poetic dimension of objects and bodies or simply analyzes their visual and aesthetic dimensions with a narrative and symbolic environment.

1. Neno Belchev, There is nothing to understand!, Bulgaria 2014, 1.31 2. Edyta Mąsior, Bubbles, Slovakia-Spain 2013, 7.37 3. C+A Projects (Carolyn Radlo and Alanna Simone), ANFORTAS, USA 2012, 5.24 4. Clara apaRicio Yoldi, Fragment edMemory, UK 2013, 3.04 5. Roberta Orlando, Removaland, Italy 2013, 3.58 6. Filip Gabriel Pudło, Operation Castle, Poland, 2013, 4.20 7. Renata Ferraz, Herói Trágico (Tragic Hero), Brazil/Portugal 2014, 3.00 8. Niv Fridman, Walled Garden, Israel 2014, 1.04 9. Rebecca Cooper, Extended Living Edition (and worries of all kinds), UK 2014, 6.05 10. APOTROPIA, K, Italy 2012, 4.00 11. Daniela Zahlner, Girl and Smoke Series: Jennifer Edition, Austria 2013, 5.45 12. Larissa Bone, Waiting for Change, UK 2014, 5.28 13. Dimitris Traperas, Chaos theory – Butterfly effect, Greece 2014, 1.44 14. Yiannis Karpouzis, Curtains of future, Greece 2012, 3.57 15. Samantha Dillehay, Forsaking My Mother’s Heirloom, USA 2014, 2.41

Saturday 5/7/2014- Unit 2 Duration: 80 min

Come along Curated by: Martha Zoupa

Trips in space and time, journeys with ecological and universal shades and personal wanderings take us along and make us think and wonder.

1. Rachel Frank, The Traveler, USA 2014, 9.57 2. Jing Zhou, Inner Shrine {digital poetry}, USA/Canada/Japan 2011, 2.30 3. Andy Joule, Four & Five, UK 2013, 7.07 4. Marianna Milhorat, Une Terre familière, USA 2013, 18.40 5. Christine Lucy Latimer, Jane’s Birthday, Canada 2013, 3.40 6. Sara Não Tem Nome, Atemporal, Brazil 2013, 1.00 7. Justin Tyler Tate, ‘Yeti Today’, Canada/Lithuania 2014, 17.34 8. Kim Kielhofner, Cecilia (Train to Illinois), Canada 2014, 5.27 9. Jutta Friedrichs, Dream, Echo, Debris, Greece & USA 2013-14, 9.55 10. Pavitra Wickramasinghe, Last Syllable of Time, Canada 2013, 3.20

Saturday 5/7/2014- Unit 3 Duration: 48 min

Still Life Curated by: Gioula Papadopoulou

7 videos where objects, abstract forms and slight movements get the leading roles in an innovative vivid way.

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Chi-Yu Liao, Twinkle series: Ji-min, Chun-Mei, Nigella and Nigella, Taiwan 2011-12, 8.00 Cristina Pavesi, Giallo, Italy 2014, 4.00 Era Vati, Crossing, Germany 2011, 3.48 Isabel Pérez del Pulgar & Wilhelm Mathies, Daily actions, Spain & EE.UU 2014, 9.37 Sarah Knobel, Cycles, USA 2013, 12.00 Roch Forowicz, Opticon V, Poland 2014, 3.01 Yana Sakellion, Pereselenije Moviement IV, USA 2013, 4.50

_2. DK DESIGN STUDIO_ Friday 4/7/2014 Duration: 72 min

Love is one. Simply love.

LOVE + after party Curated by: Maria Bourika

1. Loong Wah, Keajaiban/MIRACLE, Malaysia 2013, 13.03 2. Konstadinos Menelaou, Sebastien's Night Out, Greece/UK 2012, 2.48 3. biriken (Melis Tezkan & Okan Urun), To Tina/What’s love got to do with it?, Turkey 2011, 5.00 4. Dalia Mikonyte, Documentary 2, Lithuania 2013, 3.04 5. Gilivanka Kedzior & Barbara Friedman, [ DOUBLE BIND #3 ], France 2013, 3.50 6. Jean-René Leblanc, I-POST-IT, Canada 2012, 1.00 7. Maria Korporal, ICH LIEBE DICH ... I LOVE YOU TOO, Germany 2014, 0.08 8. Roberta Orlando, They Are Labels. We Are Lovers., Italy 2011, 6.34 9. Tor Iben, THE PHALLOMETER, Germany 2013, 6.38 10. aA- athanasios Anagnostopoulos, sexual orientation_net confusion, Greece 2014, 8.40 11. Makis Kyriakopoulos, Restraint of Livestock 03, Greece 2014, 3.17 12. Stephen Chen, Ballad 4, Canada 2014, 2.24 13. Katelina Kanchev a& Krum Yankov, VACUUM, Bulgaria 2013, 7.36 14. Kai Stänicke, It's consuming me, Germany 2012, 3.09 15. Daniel Moshel, ME TUBE: AUGUST SINGS CARMEN HABANERA, Austria 2013, 4.00

_3. BARFLY_ Barfly cafe-bar will host a selection of past years' screening programs curated by Festival Miden, that have previously been screened in Athens (at CAMP - Contemporary Art Meeting Point) and abroad but never shown in Kalamata before.

3-5 of July Address: Tripolitsas 10, Historic Center of Kalamata Starting at: 23.00 (loop)

_4. PRESENTATIONS / LECTURES AT REX HOTEL_ The festival's team will make a restrospective presentation for the 10 years of Festival Miden and Manthos Santorineos, a pioneer Greek media artist & Professor at Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), will talk about "Unce upon a time there was a festival or Big organizations in the era of crisis". Also he will make a brief presentation of the work conducted at the Multimedia Lab of ASFA and the MA program "Art, Virtual Reality and multi user systems of artistic expression", conducted in collaboration with Paris 8 University.

Moreover, a team of ASFA students will present interactive VR works using Oculus Rift and other VR projects created in the frame of the Multimedia Lab and the MA in an open space near the main screenings of the festival (Thursday & Friday at Othonos square) .

Presentation / Lecture:Thursday 3/7, 12.00h, REX Hotel, Aristomenous 26, Kalamata Center Presentation of the interactive works, ASFA: 3-4/7, 21.00-23.00, Othonos square, near the main screenings

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Creative team Festival Miden 2014: Curators: Gioula Papadopoulou, Margarita Stavraki, Martha Zoupa, Maria Bourika, Ioanna Dimitrakopoulou-Koutava, Terpsi Kontargyri, Vassilis Papaefstathiou Art direction, tributes & collaborations: Gioula Papadopoulou Technical support - video editing - DVD authoring: Stavros Kapetis Graphic design: dk design Poster image: Javier Chillon Webmaster: Christos Tsamardas Collaborators: Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, Filaretos Vourkos, Danny Kargas, Nikos Iliopoulos Also, many thanks to: Vasileios Bouzas, Manthos Santorineos, Marianna Strapatsaki, Kostis Vrettos, Nancylina Papadopoulou, Dareios Halili, Barfly, the whole team of Filmhouse - Kalamata Film Club, Kallitechniko Steki and Kalamata Youth Center for their help and cooperation.

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