K3 INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL www.k3festival.com
K3 Udine-Festival internazionale del cortometraggio 22 - 23 agosto 2012 Udine, Italia
K3 Ljubljana-Mednarodni festival kratkega filma 24 - 25 september 2012 Ljubljana, Slovenija
K3 Villach-internationales Kurzfilmfestival 22 - 25 November 2012 Villach, O Ă– sterreich
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“ If we only win the audience, we have lost, if we only succeed to irritate, we have lost as well.” K3 INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL The K3 Short Film Festival started back in the year 2007 as a spontaneous event. By now it is taking place in three countries, in three cities – Udine (Italy), Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Villach (Austria) on 8 days. With more than 1.700 film entries from all around the world, the number almost tripled compared to the last year. This enormous growth is a challenge for the K3 team to keep pace and to keep the known quality of K3.
Originally K3 was derived from “Kommerz, Kunst, Kino” (commerce, art, cinema) and its programme strived to draw borders and at the same time build bridges between these contradictory terms. As a result of this philosophy K3 is open to all genres and expressions. Avoiding special programmes for specific audiences, it creates a mix of genres from classic fiction to experimental films - to name probably the most contradictory - always being sure to keep a balance of irritating and winning films. Indeed in these two terms – irritating and winning (the audience) – the borders of commerce and art are trespassed, as it is an approach that is used by either of them.
K3 film programmes demand active involvement and interpretation of the audience as well as their passive (!) involvement (admittedly also as a reaction to the more and more passive media consumption, we keep enforcing films that demand active involvement). The one-of-a-kind concept of combining three countries in one festival in a region where not only three countries meet but in reality three cultures – the Romanic, the Slavic and the German culture – adds another meta-level to the entire festival and gives K3 the strength to look forward positively.
Fritz Hock + Piera Nodari
K3 INTERNATIONALES KURZFILMFESTIVAL 2011 FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DEL CORTOMETRAGGIO
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THE TRANSCULTURAL CONCEPT OF K3 In an annual rotation the hosting city changes between Villach - Austria Udine - Italy Ljubljana - Slovenia
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Council for Culture City of Udine
Council for Culture City of ljubljana
Vice Mayor, council for Culture City of Villach
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
For the first time the city of Ljubljana participates in the tradition in short films, an important section of slovenian film production, in which several national and international awards have been won. In this context it is important to further encourage the production of shorts in our country, the collaboration with the K3 short film festival is a great opportunity for this purpose. By supporting this central european project, the city of Ljubljana as a capital city and as a part of the region, helps to promote and to spread the culture of short film within a local and international audience. For Ljubljana are collaborating Slovenska kinoteka and Kinodvor, two acknowleged institutions in this field, which will certainly contribute to encourage the creation of short films in our region.
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, dear visitors of the K3 Short Film Festival Villach,
within the framework of a well-established partnership of many years, the two cities of Udine and Villach have together consolidated an International Short Film Festival in 2011, which has also involved the neighbouring city of Ljubljana in 2012. The K3 International Short Film Festival is an excellent example of cross-border cooperation in the cultural area. Due to the cultural and linguistic diversity of this European region, the Alpe-Adria area offers geographically advantageous conditions for exchange. It provides the chance for integrated development and is also of high importance for the economy. This internationally active exchange,already generated by K3, can be clearly seen as a promising sign for our common future, that profoundly extends our horizons.
Uros Grilc
Three cities – one region – one festival. The K3 international Short Film Festival overcomes borders and languages, and brings together film enthusiasts from three countries. For a region at the interface of three cultures it can be taken as a valid example of how our common future can be prepared through communication and cooperation. This is an issue that our city’s policy is pursuing since a long time. After the two local festivals in Udine and Ljubljana, Villach is the host city of the International Short Film Festival this year. On four days there will be the possibility of getting to know contemporary local and international cinematography. I would like to thank the whole staff of K3 for the cross-border activity and wish all movie fans new experiences and long lasting impressions at the K3 Short Film Festival in Villach.
Luigi Reitani Günther Albel
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OVERvIEW
K3 COMPETITIONS
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Friuli Venezia Giulia Competition
PG. 10
slovenian Competition PG. 30 Carinthian Competition PG. 50 International Competition PG. 66 3x3 AWARD PG. 116 K3 AWARD / AUDIENCE AWARD PG. 118 ENTRIES
NOMINATION 1
FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA competition
NOMINATION 2 NOMINATION 3 NOMINATION 1
slovenian Competition
NOMINATION 2
3x3 Competition
NOMINATION 3 NOMINATION 1
Carinthian Competition
NOMINATION 2
AUDIENCE AWARD
NOMINATION 3
International Competition
K3 SHORT FILM AWARD
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K3 UDINE - ITALY Udine with slightly more than 100.000 inhabitants is situated in the North-East of Italy. The city offers a university, several frescos by Giambattista Tiepolo, a recently established theatre, a Drama Academy and the typical Italian-like colourful life on the streets. For cinephiles it is most likely known of the Far East Film Festival. The same association that runs the festival manages two cinemas in town. One of those two, VISIONARIO, where also K3 takes place, stands out with special programmes and an in-house media center. Concerning festivals, the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia with its approximately 1,2 million inhabitants, is vivacious with its outstanding festivals Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone and Trieste Film Festival. Film is taught at University in a theoretical manner that is put into practice later.
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Film-makers from Friuli Venezia Giulia have to struggle with little support, in particular for short films. Despite this, the K3 Friuli Venezia Giulia competition had a good number of applicants and an interesting variety of genres. Although, the short film is underestimated, the increase of visitors to K3 Udine every year, confirms the necessity of innovation and cultural exchange in the region.
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Programme at a quick glance
August 22nd 2012
........................................................................................ 8.00 pm K3 Local Competion Friuli Venezia Giulia ........................................................................................ 10.00 pm K3 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION II (as a preview to Villach)
August 23rd 2012
........................................................................................ 5.30 pm presentation of the collaborative film project “The Lifeblood” and introduction to the idea of a cinematic center for Austria, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Slovenia. ........................................................................................ 7.00 pm webinary – Crowd funding by ........................................................................................ Mag. Wolfgang Gumpelmaier from ununi.tv ........................................................................................
........................................................................................ 9.00 pm retrospective IVAN LADISLAV GALETA ........................................................................................ 10.30 pm announcement of the three best films from Friuli Venezia Giulia for the 3x3 competition in Villach and public discussion of the jury ........................................................................................
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FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA competition
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR MANUEL FANNI CANELLES is a film-maker and theatre trainer. He lives and works in Trieste, Italy. His research focuses on the combination of theatre and visual arts. He has also been conducting studies on the image, the actor’s body and the stage by using advanced technologies and a blend of different, hybrid languages. The video works closely examine the idea itself of art and the possible connections between art history and the present. VIDEOGRAPHY (SELECTION) WITHOUT CANVAS: ANNUNCIATA, 2011 WITHOUT CANVAS: ADORATION, 2011 WITHOUT CANVAS: KAVO’D, 2010 WITHOUT CANVAS: THE DEATH OF MARAT, 2009 PETRA, 2009 WITHOUT CANVAS: PIETÀ, 2008 WITHOUT CANVAS: CHRIST AT THE COLUMN, 2008 CHRYSALIS, 2007
WITHOUT CANVAS: THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE 4’ ITALY 2011/2012 SENZA TELA: THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
Inspired by a detail in a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Manuel Fanni Canelles tells in his latest work the story of the Tree of Knowledge. It is an exploration of the borders between reality and fiction starting in a sacred dimension, from the first verses of the Genesis. Where is the
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border between truth and depiction, reality and virtuality, to be/not to be/ must be?
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FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA competition
CREDITS
Exhibitions
Director: Manuel Fanni Canelles Cast: Xenia Bevitori, Zita Fusco, Daniele Tenze Set design: Francesca Tonsi Make-up: Aurea Parovel Post-production: Omar Soffici, iG Backstage: Enza De Rose Organisation: Omar Soffici, Mara Guerrini
LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste, Italy, 2012 ART FIRST, Bologna, Italy 2012 The Flash of Nature, Trieste, Italy 2012
FESTIVAL PREMIERE
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FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA competition
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR DAVIDE SALUCCI was born in Trieste in 1993. In 2007 he enrolled in the Liceo Scientifico Oberdan in Trieste, doing his maturity exam in 2012. Since 2006 he has been working in the audiovisual field for individual and small businesses as well as in the production of his short films, the best of which have received awards in national and international competitions. He is living in Sistiana. VIDEOGRAPHY PLANE, 2012 RUGBY: A SPORT THAT CHANGES THE BALLS, 2011 IS NOT GUILT OF WILLIAM, 2011 THE ALIEN, 2011 THE NOOSE, 2009 THE OTHER, 2008
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A romantic love scene at the seashore, a happy couple, love confessions: when suddenly, arriving at the crucial “I love you”, the man believes to be acting at a film set. When he wants to “repeat” the scene to follow “the script” - re-enacting a set of behaviours dictated by society and culture
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- he hurts his confused lover’s feelings. The impossibility of understanding each other leads to the breakdown of their relationship.
FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA competition
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Festivals
Director: Davide Salucci Cast: Helena Antonio, Daniele Defranceschi, Hari Bertoja, Eleonora Cavallo Crew: Davide Salucci, Hari Bertoja, Helena Antonio, Daniele Defranceschi, Eleonora Cavallo, Francesca Thompson Distribution: Hari Bertoja
Your Film Festival, YouTube 2012 Mestre Film Festival, Italy 2012 Festival Nazionale del Cortometraggio Gabriele Inguscio, Lecce, Italy 2012 Il cinema sopra la cittĂ , Bologna, Italy 2012
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR RENZO CARBONERA graduated with a thesis on Ken Loach and is a documentary film maker. He is 30 years old and directed 8 TV documentaries, all of them have been distributed and broadcast worldwide. His collaborations include Mediaset, RAI, Fox International Channels and broadcasters of all the major European countries. His latest project “The Mistery of Baron Gautsch” has been co-produced with RAI 3 and its adaptation is in the development phase with ZDF (Germany) and PBS (USA) with funding from the EU Media Programme and the FVG Film Commission. FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) THE MYSTERY OF BARON GAUTSCH, 2008 THE ANT AND THE CICADA, 2007/2008 BLUE JEANS A GONNE CORTE, 2007 GEMONA 76, 2006 L’AGHE, 2006 PANETTONI, 2006 THE GREATEST JOY IS TO BEGIN, 2006 HOLLY MINES, 2006
HEMINGWAY’S PEN 17’ ITALY 2010 LA PENNA DI HEMINGWAY
Life can make you dependent on things and fragile - something Claudia found out when she went back to Lignano following the death of her father - whom she hadn’t seen for years - and got caught up in the mystery of a pen that had once belonged to Hemingway.
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CREDITS
Festivals (selection)
Director: Renzo Carbonera Screenplay: Renzo Carbonera, Pietro Spirito Photography: Luca Coassin (A.I.C.) Editing: Giulia Brazzal, Luca Immesi Camera: Maria de los Angeles Parrinello Cast: Christiane Filangieri, Sergio Rubini, Cosimo Cinieri, Francesco Barilli, Francesco Brisighelli, Zeno Hrusvar, Tiziano Vasca Production: Chiara Valenti Omero Supported by: CittĂ di Lignano Sabbiadoro, Fondo Audiovisivo FVG, FVG Film Commission
Naoussa Int. Film Festival, Naoussa, Greece 2012 Raindance Film Festival, London, UK 2011 Venice Days Giornate Degli Autori, Venezia, Italy 2012 I’ve Seen Films, Milano, Italy 2011 Bolzano Short Film Festival, Bolzano, Italy 2011 Tirana International Film Festival, Tirana, Albania 2011
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ABOUT THE DIRECTORS BARBARA URBANO worked on writing and producing TV formats for NextMedia Lab after her diploma degree in Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Milano. CLAUDIO CESCUTTI graduated from Istituto Statale d’Arte di Udine and worked an assistant photographer at Ikon photo studio, where he learned the technique and language of advertising photography. They began working together in 2009 within the collective DIECI78. They have been collaborating with Liveinslums since 2010. BARBARA URBANO’s FILMOGRAPHY AL HURRIA, THE OTHER FACE OF FREEDOM, 2012 SASSI TRA GLI ULIVI, 2009 in milan is cold, 2009
CLAUDIO CESCUTTI’s FILMOGRAPHY LANGUAGES IN MUSIC, 2012 in milan is cold, 2009 DIRTY FILM, 2005
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INSIDE THE CITY OF THE DEAD 29’53’’ ITALY 2011
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DENTRO LA CITTÀ DEI MORTI
This documentary is about an urban agriculture project that started in an unusual environment: the “City of the Dead”. Cairo’s largest Muslim cemetery is inhabited by about 800,000 people who occupy the court tombs still used for burying. The phenomenon of co-habitation
between the living and the dead as well as the great historic significance of the place make it a unique case in the world.
FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA competition
CREDITS
Festivals
Directors, Production: Barbara Urbano, Claudio Cescutti Cast: Aziza, Costanza La Mantia, Donia, Franco La Cecla, Gaetano Berni, Hassan, Ishmail, Magdi, Marinella Scalvi, Sabeq, Tommaso Sposito Crew: Akram Sherif, Elisabetta Facco, Kareem Mohamed, Karim, Ramadan, Liveinslums, Omneya El-Mogy, Zaccaria Ahmad
CinemaClick.eu, International Web Film and New Media Festival, Rome, Italy 2012 Democracine, I Festival Internacional de cinema de Porto Alegre, Brazil 2012
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ABOUT THE DIRECTORS Annalisa Chivilò born in 1980 in Spilimbergo, graduated in disciplines of Art, Music and Entertainment with a focus on cinema at the University of Literature and Philosophy in Bologna. In 2008 she took part in the festival Filmmakers al Chiostro, presenting a project about Maya Deren’s films. Mauro Bratti was born in 1980 in Spilimbergo. He graduated in Electrotechnics and Automation in Pordenone. He is interested in digital photography, video shooting techniques and experimenting with video and audio manipulation. VIDEOGRAPHY HOMMAGE TO MAYA DEREN, 2008
LOW WALL IL MURO BASSO
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In search of freedom and a way to express his personality the main character tries to escape from everyday life by inventing his own secret space of creativity: in his room with an old typewriter.
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This short film reflects the current pessimism of young people. But still it is an invitation to keep following personal dreams and plans.
FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA competition
CREDITS
Festivals and Awards
Directors: Annalisa Chivilò, Mauro Bratti Music: John Zorn (from the album Masada Guitars)
Prà Corti, Udine, Italy 2007 – Third Prize Videokids, Udine, Italy 2006
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ABOUT THE DIRECTORS ZORAN KREMA born in Croatia, is involved in various audiovisual projects, especially documentaries. ANDREA PERESSUTTI born in Italy, is a digital video technician, video-maker and graphic-designer. MATTEO SABBADINI born in Italy, has been directing and editing many audiovisual projects, especially in the area of music video production. RICCARDO SABBADINI born in Italy, is video-maker and graphic-designer. For five years this group has been working together under the name DORMOUSE INDEPENDENT, inc. Their work deals with the creation of short films which have already participated in various short film festivals.
CAUGICH’S UNPREDICTABLE FATE 5’20’’ ITALY 2010
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L`IMPREVEDIBILE DESTINO DEI CAUGICH
FILMOGRAPHY I AM WHAT I AM, BUT I DO NOT CALL A WHITE DONKEY BLACK, 2011 I USED TO VOTE P.C.I., 2009 CHRISTMAS?, 2007 BRUNO - THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THINGS, 2007
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This tale is about the grotesque and morbid self-destructive Caugich family. The four Caugich brothers are living in a spartan and lonely way. Everything goes on routinely, until Sergio, the youngest one, decides to leave home to pursue his dream.
In a letter left to his brothers, Sergio explains his reasons and opens the view onto the disturbing attitude of the family.
FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA competition
CREDITS
Festivals and Awards
Directors: Zoran Krema, Andro Peressutti, Matteo Sabbadini, Riccardo Sabbadini Camera: Riccardo Sabbadini, Andro Peressutti, Zoran Krema Editing: Ivan Banovic, Andro Peressutti, Riccardo Sabbadini Key Cast: I. Banovic, R.Cardenas, D. Cedolin, Z. Krema, A. Peressutti, G. Trangoni Technical support: Devis Cedolin, Gianpaolo Trangoni Production-assistant and set design: Roberto Cardenas, Matteo Sabbadini
Corto a Muris, Italy 2011 – Best Music Makin´Go, Gorizia, Italy 2010 – Second place
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR STEFANIA ROTA attended the Art Institute of Udine and experimented with different types of art reaching from painting to installation, sound, poetry, photography and video. She won a scholarship at the IED of Turin where she graduated in Digital and Virtual Design. Currently her research focuses on two fronts: performance and video. She is producing music videos and video-art, mostly by using stop-motion. Her art looks at reality turning into a surreal fairy tale, where the boundaries of what is to become the new state of things are lost. FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) Inno in tre fili, 2011 Videosophia: Alpha + Beta, 2010 Photoshop Cook, 2010 How Many Women Still, 2009 How To Become a God, 2009 Le Vide, 2008 Nois of bones, 2007 Images, 2005
CINEZOIQUE
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Cinezoique is the present era, where the cinema leaves the screens and invades all surfaces. Cinezoique is an 21 metres long installation, a trail of time, a walk through the history of film where the paths of spectators and actors cross each other.
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FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA competition
CREDITS
Festivals / Exhibitions
Director: Stefania Rota Co-Director: Diego Lorenzo Zanitti Producer: cec
Video Art in Europe, South Korea 2012 Vimeo Awards, New York, USA 2012 Pesaro Film Festival, Italy 2012 Solo exhibition, Visionario Udine, Italy 2011
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K3 Ljubljana - SLOVENIA Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, with its dynamic, young-minded air is the third city to join the K3 festival. With approximately 280.000 inhabitants it is the biggest of the K3 cities and without doubt, the one with the most vivid cinema culture. K3 was hosted by the arthouse cinema Kinodvor and Kinoteka, a cinema that presents a rich programme of retrospectives and special focuses. There are well-established festivals in Slovenia like Ljubljana International Film Festival, Animateka or Kino Otok – just to name a few. Next to those festivals, K3 is looking forward to take its stance as a Short Film Festival.
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The first time a K3 competition for Slovenian short films was held, it showed the potential, which lies in this country with its 2 million inhabitants. There is a long tradition of Avant-Garde Filmmaking in Slovenia, although it seems to have lost pace compared to international, innovative cinema movements. “Seems� to be: There was and is a lot to be discovered for us and the international audience. Another reason, why K3 is looking forward to the ongoing cooperation with Ljubljana.
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Programme at a quick glance
September 24th 2012
........................................................................................ 9.00 pm K3 International Competition II (as a preview to Villach) ........................................................................................ 10.30 pm K3 Local Competition Slovenia ........................................................................................
September 25th 2012
........................................................................................ 9.00 pm retrospective Bady Minck ........................................................................................ 11.00 pm announcement of the three best Slovenian films for the 3x3 competition in Villach ........................................................................................
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SLOVENIAN competition
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Anja Medved born in 1969 in Slovenia, graduated in Theatre Directing at Ljubljana Academy of Theatre and Film. Her work focuses on probing collective and subjective memory. Through the personal stories of people living on both sides of the border she explores the complexities of border identities and the constructs of national histories. Her documentary films and video projects were presented at several film festivals and art galleries. She lives in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) THE DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO SOUNDS, 2011 MEMORY CLINIC, 2010 TRADITION AND BETRAYAL, 2010 TIMELESS RIVER, 2010 SMUGGLERS CONFESSIONAL / EU-FORIA, 2008 BINDING MEMORIES, 2006 UP STREAM, 2006 THE TOWN IN THE MEADOW, 2004
Looking through the Iron Curtain POGLEDI SKOZI ŽELEZNO ZAVESO
A border crossing that divides two cities, two states and two social systems and separates the Roman world from the Slavic one. Sixty-five years after the war, Slovenia entered the Schengen area and the town of Nova Gorica finds itself united again.
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The documentary reveals absurd stories, which are typical for border-divided areas all over the world.
SLOVENIAN competition
CREDITS
Festivals and Awards
Director, Screenplay, Camera, Editing: Anja Medved Music: Michele Spanghero, Antonio Della Marina, Alessandro Fogar, Luigi Mastrandrea Sound: Rosario Guerrini Archive Images: Slovenski Filmski Arhiv, Kinoatelje – Cine Club Gorizia, Osnovna Šola Solkan
Southeastern European Film, Germany 2011 Trieste Film Festival, Italy 2011 Human Rights Film Festival, Bosnia 2010 Festival Slovenskega Filma, Slovenia 2010 International Festival of Independent Film, Tolmin, Slovenia 2010 – Big Fiš for documentary It’s My Film – European Home Movies Network Festival, Vicenza, Italy 2010 – Second Prize
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE
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SLOVENIAN competition
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR EVA PETRIČ was born in 1983 in Kranj, Slovenia. She received her education in eight schools in seven different countries on three different continents. After graduating in New Media and Art and Psychology and studying in Vienna and New York, she is now working in the fields of art photography, painting, video, projections, performance and writing. She is a member of the Künstlerhaus Vienna and the Z+E+M art collective. www.evapetric.com FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION)
NAMES, ROBBED, 2011 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PHONE BOOK, 2010 WHITE AS RICE, 2009 CIRCLING, 2009 WHERE’S MY SHADOW, I WISH MY SHADOW, 2007 FULL POWER FULL SPEED, 2007 SEPTEMBER, 2006 ARMY OF ME, 2006
WHITE BOX
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White Box deals with space, investigating the coordinates of: who, what, when, where, why and how to find the best way to create it. How to create space? This was the motivation behind White Box, to explore the landscape of space and with this confront physical space, mental space,
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visible space, invisible space, imaginary space, metaphorical space, all of these defined by atmosphere.
SLOVENIAN competition
CREDITS Director, Screenplay, Camera, Editing, Sound, Poem, Concept: Eva Petrič
FESTIVAL PREMIERE
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SLOVENIAN competition
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Mark Požleb was born in 1981 in Celje, Slovenia. He studied at the Art House / College for Visual Arts, Ljubljana and finished his Master’s degree studies in Fine Arts at the University of Ljubljana. Since 2003 Požlep has exhibited installations, video, paintings and graffiti throughout Europe and has participated in Flaxart Studios residency in Belfast (2005) and Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris (2006). He was awarded with 2nd Essl Award (2005) and Award for Exceptional Artistic Achievements of the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana (2006). www.pozlepmark.com FILMOGRAPHY WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MAJOR TOM, 2012 ONE DOG A MAN AND AN ISLAND, 2011 SOFT MACHINE, 2010 IS ANGER SUBSTITUTE FOR LOVE, 2010 MAYBE WEIRD AND DARK BUT CERTAINLY ALIVE, 2010 TIME TO BECOME POETS, 2009 THE LONELY CROWD, 2009 FIREPLACE, AXE AND A BANANA-PEEL, 2009
SOUND MACHINE
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Sound Machine is the first part of a trilogy of short films set in the heart of a man with an average job. Every day after work, Mr. P. works on a sound machine, that enables him to hear the kingdom of sound vibrations, which people normally cannot hear. This great invention lets him escape from everyday
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misery and helps him to establish a different relationship with an environment in which he is increasingly alienated.
SLOVENIAN competition
CREDITS
Festivals and Awards
Director: Mark Požleb
Festival Kino Otok Cinema Isola, Slovenia 2012
Cast: Gašper Piano, Rok Sunko
Grossmann Festival of Film And Wine Ljutomer, Slovenia 2012
Producer: Hana S Vodeb Produced by: Whitecrossproduction
Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao and Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain 2012 Luksuz Festival Krško, Slovenia 2012 – Kulest Fim Award
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SLOVENIAN competition
About the DIRECTORS Katarina Rešek born in Slovenia in 1991, is a student of Waldorf Grammar School in Ljubljana and a member of KUD Pozitiv. She has been involved in video making since the age of 11. Žiga Divjak born in Slovenia in 1992, was accepted in AGRFT in Ljubljana. He has been making films since he was in 8th grade. Since then he has been attending different workshops and film festivals, where some of his films were awarded. Matic Drakulić studies editing at AGRFT in Ljubljana. KATARINA REŠEK’S FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) BYE BYE ENRIQUE, 2010 NAS NE DOGONJAT, 2010 SAVE IT FOR THE MORNING AFTER, 2010
ŽIGA DIVJAK’S FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) SAVE IT FOR THE MORNING AFTER, 2010 KDO PA TEBE STRIŽE, 2009
THE GOAT WILL GET WELL KOZA OZDRAVELA BO
Sights and sounds of Ljubljana through the eyes of the street musicians.
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SLOVENIAN competition
CREDITS
Festivals
Director, Screenplay, Camera, Editing: Katarina Rešek, Žiga Divjak, Matic Drakulić Cast, Music: Jimmy Jimmy, Veldin Gustek, Thierno, Shawn Thomson, Slovak trio Distributor: Luksuz produkcija Supported by: Ministrstvo za kulturo, Zavedno Mladi
DORF, Festival of Documentary Rock Film, Vinkovci, Croatia 2011 YEFF! Young European Film Forum, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2011
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SLOVENIAN competition
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR NIKA AUTOR works in the field of contemporary art practices. The object of her creative interest is the relationship of the author towards his direct living environment. www.autor.si FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) IN THE LAND OF BEARS, 2012 REPORT ON THE STATE OF ASYLUM SEEKERS IN THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA, JANUARY 2008-AUGUST 2009, 2010 POSTCARDS, 2010
SOLIDARITY 5’ SLOVENIA 2012
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SOLIDARNOST
The film is a reshot of the Joyce Wieland movie “Solidarity” (1973) and documents workers’ protests in Ljubljana. It raises questions such as: What is solidarity today, who is solidary, who with and when?
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The idea for the reshot emerged as an response to current horrifying exploitation of labour, mass unemployment, impossible work conditions and solidarity being manipulated by power structures.
SLOVENIAN competition
CREDITS
Festivals and Screenings
Director: Nika Autor
Galery Rotor, Graz, Austria 2012 Festival of Migrant Film, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2012 Galerija Ĺ kuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2011 EarZoom Sonic Arts Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2011
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SLOVENIAN competition
ABOUT THE DIRECTORS Pieter De Vos born in 1983 in Belgium, has a Bachelor degree in Audiovisual Arts. He is an active documentary filmmaker and online content producer. Svetozar Petrović was born in 1980 in Belgrade and graduated at the Department of History and Art of the University of Belgrade. The short documentary film The Invisibles is his first work. Vuk Savić was born in 1987 in Belgrade. He has been studying Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad since 2006. He attended a workshop in film Directing at the Academic Film Centre Studentski Grad. PIETER DE VOS’S FILMOGRAPHY MATHILDE’S MISSES, (2012) THE FORTUNE HUNTERS, (2011) SIKITIKO – THE KING’S HAND, (2010)
VUK SAVIĆ’S FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) CENTRAL, 2011 GROZNICA, 2010 IMATI VS BITI, 2009 CRYING FOR RECOGNITION, 2010 IMATI VS BITI, 2009
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The InvisibleS
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Slovenia is the most prosperous one of all the countries of former Yugoslavia. After the break-up of the old country, thousands of workers from other ex-Yugoslavian republics rushed to Slovenia with hopes of better life. However, they have been exploited and have been living in terrible
conditions. Can they become united again and fight for their rights?
SLOVENIAN competition
CREDITS
Festivals and Awards
Directors, Screenplay, Camera: Pieter de Vos, Svetozar Petrović, Vuk Savić Producer: Luksuz Produkcija, YEFF! Young European Film Forum 2011
YEFF! Young European Film Forum, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2011 Poster Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2011 Festival of Independent Film, Ljubljana, Slovenia – Third prize
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SLOVENIAN competition
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Sabina Đogić born in 1979, is a Slovenian-Bosnian film-maker, cinematographer and photographer currently living in Ljubljana, Slovenia. After her studies of Philosophy and Cultural Sociology at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana she moved to Cinematography at Universidad Del Cine in Buenos Aires and to the Creative Documentary Film-making at Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She is interested in non-ficition, creative documentary and photostories. At the moment she is developing her first documentary feature film Alone voices. www.sabinadogic.com FILMOGRAPHY WHERE THE CLOUDS GO FOR NEW YEAR, 2011 URBAN DESERT. A SYMPHONY FOR MARIE-PIERRE, 2010 LIBERATION, 2007 THE FISH AND THE SEA, 2006 2047, 2006
DIARY FROM ONE ISLAND 30´ SLOVENIA 2012 DNEVNIK Z ENEGA OTOKA
A personal diary of a filmmaker. After five years of living abroad, she returns to a film festival in a small Mediterranean town that once was an island. Her memory of the past returns when she meets again all the people that marked her life by introducing her to the world of cinema more then ten years ago.
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CREDITS
Festivals
Director, Screenplay, Camera, Editing: Sabina Đogić
Kino Otok - Isola Cinema, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2012
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K3 VILLACH - AUSTRIA Villach with just below 60.000 inhabitants, is the smallest city of the K3 cities. Its economic progress, but moreover its cultural openness derives from its long heritage of being an important traffic-junction. This could be the reason why the idea for this cross-cultural festival started in Villach – a city very close to the borders of Italy and Slovenia with its inhabitants, that have a strong longing for the South. For moviegoers Villach offers the Stadtkino (city cinema) in the centre of town, where also K3 takes place. A part of it is run by an association called “Filmstudio” that shows arthouse cinema in original language. Villach is the second biggest town of Carinthia, a region with around 560.000 inhabitants. In general, its people are conservative but at the same time
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cutting-edge artists derive from it. In the fields of cinema there is no educational facility, production possibilities are very limited. That leads to many filmmakers leaving Carinthia. For example no one taking part in the local competition still lives in Carinthia and at the same time the quality of works is overwhelming.
K3 has therefore joined forces with “Kino aus Kärnten” to improve the situation in this neglected field of arts. In conjunction with the first Carinthian competition for short films, it is also a call back to artists that have left the country.
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Programme at a quick glance Thursday, November 22nd
Friday, November 23rd
Saturday, November 24th
Sunday, November 25th
11.00 am - 12.00 am Short Films for Pupils
11.00 am - 12.00 am Tribute to Filmstudio Villach “Mont Real”, Peter Putz, 2012
11.00 am - 12.30 am Kino aus Kärnten “What Is Love” , Ruth Mader, 2012
3.00 PM - 4.30 PM Presentation movi-e-mento
3.00 PM - 4.00 PM Podium – Kino aus Kärnten Requirements for professional filmmaking in Carinthia
5.30 PM - 7.00 PM Kino aus Kärnten “Lassnitz”, Hans Schabus, 2012
5.00 PM - 7.00 PM Kino aus Kärnten “You and I ”, Ruth Riesser, 2012
5.30 PM - 7.30 PM K3 Audience award open discussion
8.00 PM - 9.30 PM Retrospective Ben Russell
8.30 PM - 9.30 PM International Competition III
6.00 PM K3 Opening 6.30 PM - 8.00 PM Carinthian Competition
8.30 PM - 9.00 PM Awarding ceremony 8.45 pM - 10.30 PM International Competition I 9.30 pm Closing Party 10.00 PM - 11.30 PM International Competition II
10.00 PM - 00.00 PM 3X3 Competition
11.00 PM - 11.15 PM Announcement of the three Carinthian Nominations for the 3X3 Competition Fat Fête, Kulturhofkeller
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Carinthian competition
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Josef Dabernig was born in Kötschach-Mauthen, Austria, in 1956. From 1975 to 1983 he studied Sculpting at the University of Fine Arts in Vienna. He has been producing short films since 1994. Josef Dabernig currently lives and works in Vienna. www.josefdabernig.net FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) HERNA, 2010 EXCURSUS ON FITNESS, 2010 HOTEL ROCCALBA, 2008 AQUARENA, 2007 LANCIA THEMA, 2005 PARKING, 2003 ROSA COELI, 2003 AUTOMATIC, 2002
HYPERCRISIS
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The former recreation home for Soviet cinematographers in the Caucasus has been repurposed to accommodate writers. But that doesn’t seem to work very well. At present, only Boris Martow from Moscow, a talent from the promising times of the Perestroika, is on the guest list. Amidst the
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faded glory of the institution for privileged artists, the poet tries to overcome his continuing creative crisis.
Carinthian competition
CREDITS
Festivals and Awards (Selection)
Director: Josef Dabernig Camera: Christian Giesser Cast: H. Alpetyan, A. Arevshatyan, E. Arevshatyan, R. Arevshatyan, S. Arevshatyan, J. Dabernig, W. Dabernig, A. Dolidze, A. Egger, G. Gawlik, I. Hollauf, Z. Hovhannisyan, C. Kravagna, G. Nshanyan, K. Poghosyan, D. Shvelidze, K. Shvelidze, M. Shvelidze, I. Wurzer, O. Zitko Music: Giuseppe Verdi, CAN Sound: Elisabeth Hildebrandt, Michael Palm Supported by: if innovative film Austria, Cultural department of the city of Vienna, Galerie Andreas Huber
Diagonale, Graz, Austria 2012 – Prize for Innovative Cinema Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria 2012 Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel 2012 Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden 2012 Venice Film Festival, Italy 2011 – Nomination for the European Film Awards
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Carinthian competition
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Hubert Sielecki was born in 1946 in Carinthia, Austria. He studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and received a scholarship for the Film University (Animation Film) and for the Art University in Lodz, Poland. He has been working as a freelance artist since 1973, using experimental colour photography, electronically, mechanically, and acoustically reacting objects, environments, performance, posters without commercial purposes and old photographic techniques. Hubert Sieleski is also an active musician. www.hubert-sielecki.at FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) DER MINISTER, DER KURATOR, DER PREDIGER, 2011 RADETZKYPLATZ, 2010 FOUL, 2009 JOKE, 2007 SEEING, 2007 THREE PIECES, 2006 ÖSTERREICH!, 2001 LOVE TV, 1997
DIALOGUE ABOUT AUSTRIA DIALOG ÜBER ÖSTERREICH
The characteristic expressions of the Viennese are played out in a fictional dialogue. No one should have the illusion of being able to understand.
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Carinthian competition
CREDITS
Festivals and Awards
Director, Cast: Hubert Sielecki Text and Voice: Gerhard Rühm Lighting, Camera: Praved Krishnapilla Mask, Equipment: Maria Temnitschka Produced by: Animotion Films Vienna Supported by: Innovative Film Austria, Federal Arts BM:UKK
Zebra International Poetry Festival, Berlin, Germany 2012 – Nomination for Best Poetry Performance on Film
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE
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Carinthian competition
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Anna Rettl was born in 1992. She is currently living in Vienna and studies Fine Arts. She is a member of the Friday Exit collective. www.cargocollective.annarettl.com FILMOGRAPHY SHIFT, 2012 REAL, 2012
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Short film, arranged out of two found footage videos - decomposed in their pixels and individual components, turning more and more abstract.
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Carinthian competition
CREDITS
Screenings
Director, Concept, Realisation: Anna Rettl
Vierfarben, Visuals for the band “Bolsterwork”, Graz, Austria 2012
FESTIVAL PREMIERE
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Carinthian competition
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ALEXANDER MARTINZ was born in Klagenfurt in 1979. He studied at the institute of electro-acoustic composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and Transmedial Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Many of his electro-acoustic works were shown at his University, the IEM Cube, the Kunsthaus and Konzerthaus Wien and the Kunsthaus Graz. Martinz lives and works in Vienna. www.admartinz.tumblr.com FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) SCREAMING AND CLAPPING, 2011 THE RATE OF CHANGE OVER TIME, 2011 OF SOME DARK FORBIDDING PLACE, 2010 ZWEIKLANG, 2009 3 CHASES, 2009 HENRY SAM OCEAN, 2009 SALLY, FINAL GIRL, 2009 OPAK 03B, 2008 OPAK 03A, 2008
1456 DRIVERS AND THE POLICE (A, B AND C) Three videos using material of Walter Hill’s movie “Driver”. During five minutes three shots of the movie are repeated 1456 times each. As they are modulated in speed audiovisual patterns emerge.
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Carinthian competition
CREDITS
EXHIBITONS
Director, Concept, Realisation: Alexander Martinz
Studios Lenikus, Vienna, Austria 2012 Artlane, Klagenfurt, Austria 2012
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Carinthian competition
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Manuel Knapp was born in 1978 in Carinthia, Austria. From 1997 until 2002 he studied Painting and Graphic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 2003 he started to study Computer Sound and Electroacoustic media at the Institute for Electroacoustics in Vienna. In 2001 he founded NOISE – an experimental formation with Arnulf Rödler. www.manuelknapp.com FILMOGRAPHY STROBOSCOPIC NOISE, 2009 INFORMATION OF DECAY~ Distorted Areas~0.1 - 0.1, 2008 VISIBILITY OF INTERIM~, 2007 ACCELERATED LINES~, 2005 INTERFERENZEN, 2005
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A three-dimensional sequence is generated from raw data. The rendered sequence is projected onto the original scene in the programme, rendered again, and projected once again as a shadow map. In this final step, the rendered
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image is also applied as a texture on the objects in the scene. This repetition produces superimpositions of light, shadow, structure, and perspective.
Carinthian competition
CREDITS
Festivals
Director, Concept, Realisation: Manuel Knapp Sound: Noise Distributor: sixpackfilm Supported by: Innovative Film Austria
Kontraste Festival, Krems, Austria 2012
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Carinthian competition
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Fritz Ofner born in 1977 in Styria, is a freelance film director and cameraman, who lives in Vienna. He studied Journalism and Ethnology in Vienna. After graduating he worked as an NGO activist, freelance journalist and TV producer. Extensive travel through Asia, Africa and Latin America eventually led him to documentary film. In 2011 he received the Axel Springer Award for his TV documentary From Baghdad to Dallas. The Evolution of Violence was his first documentary for theatrical release. www.fritzofner.info FILMOGRAPHY LIBYA HURRA, 2012 EVOLUTION OF VIOLENCE, 2011 FROM BAGHDAD TO DALLAS, 2010 WALKING WITH CECILIA, 2007
BEIRUT BLEND 30’ AUSTRIA 2012 “Blend” is the cut of a type of tobacco that glistens at six places in Beirut under the glowing stone of the water pipe at the film’s center. “Blend” also means “mingling”, “to mix”. And this is precisely what happens in thirty minutes of low-
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Carinthian competition
CREDITS
Nominations
Director, Concept, Realization: Fritz Ofner Produced by: Friedrich Ofner Filmproduktion Distribution: sixpackfilm Supported by: Wien Kultur, bm:ukk
East Silver Market, Jihlava IDFF, Czech Republic 2012 – Silver Eye Award
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A TRIBUTE TO FILMSTUDIO VILLACH Filmstudio Villach exists since 1984. Ever since it made the impossible possible: It offers a wide range of Art-House and Independent Cinema with a slight focus on World-Cinema, but above all – all films are shown in original language. Something that even in big cities is acclaimed as “English Cinema” or with other creative titles, for Filmstudio it always has been out of question. Or how Elisabeth Grebenicek, the programming director, once said clearly: “Who wants to see Sean Penn speaking German?” As a tribute to this work, we show “Mont Real” by Peter Putz. For years a film still of this early video-art work serves as the cover of the monthly published programme folder.
MONT REAL P.eter Putz, 1988/89, 16mm, Canada, 20 min Saturday, November 24th, 11.00 am at Filmstudio Villach Mont Real is a satirical view of our Western civilisation, something between a live action film and an animation film, a succession of associations combining aspects of traditional and everyday life in North America and stereotyped European, particularly Austrian attitudes and behaviour patterns. The film deals with our overpowering fantasies, our tendency to repress certain elements of our mental lives, and with our enslavement as dependent consumers in a materialistic society. This is shown in a mostly ironical and contrapuntal development of sound and vision.
“The extremely rapid development of the various visual aspects of the film corresponds with today’s hasty and short-lived deluge of information and stimulation. It also illustrates two parallel but wholly different levels of life and argument, thus reaching the limits of one’s perceptive faculties and certain visual habits. One has to accept the fact that one cannot possibly perceive every single detail and must admit the limits of one’s perceptive facilities, knowing that whatever one sees is only part of the whole truth” Peter Putz 66|
....................................................................................................................... Concept, direction, artwork, animation, camera, sound editing, Austrian voice of Gumbo YaYa: Peter Putz Collaboration, assistance, editing, big pink fish, wings, blue pain- ting: Barbara Putz-Plecko Music: Romeo Alavi Kia performed by ensemble 9 9 Kraft-Bilder: Hans Kienesberger Computer music: Ingo Petry Sound recordist: Terry Mardini Re-recording: Roger B. Tyrrell Traduction, la voix française de Gumbo YaYa: Anne-Marie Smith Standing Arrow from Akwasasne: Pow-wow drum group Projectionist: Ginette Desmarais Computer massage and lots of help: Jonathan Leaning Merci: Concordia University Cinema Department; Stefan Anastasiu and Bob Del Tredici
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movi-e-mento presents itself
Saturday, November 24th, 3.00 pm at Parkcafé Villach The concept of movi-e-mento was first developed for K3 Udine. There the film project “The Lifeblood” for which 20 persons have found together, was presented as an example of collaboration. At the same time the idea and necessity of a Cinematic Center for Carinthia, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Slovenia was discussed. In order to move forward, movi-e-mento takes the next step at K3 Villach and presents itself again to the public with the development made in the meantime. The Concept and Plan movi-e-mento wants to make possible varied projects in the fields of cinema. Be it a workshop on analog film, be it an archive of films in a certain region, be it post-production for a specific film - just to name many diverse. To make those projects happen movi-e-mento wants to build up an active community with real-life meetings.
Then everyone can enter a project to be validated by a to-be defined commission. If the project is accepted, it will gain all the support of movi-e-mento. Basic steps to be taken - creating a directory of professionals and institutions - building up a basis of active members - promoting next call for projects - and above all: Find agreement on this concept! On a long-term basis it will be crucial to develop a sustainable financing model. The aim is to avoid solely voluntary service, but quite on the contrary, to support professionalism and develop job opportunities. Follow us on www.movi-e-mento.com
SPecial screening for Youngsters
Friday, November 23rd, 11.00am at Stadtkino Villach With the example of last year’s participant film – Home, Francesco Filippi, Italy 2011, 15’ – Prof. Arno Russegger will let 12 to 13 year-old pupils feel what film is. His aim is to let the young ones – before they take stance for or against something – develop their own point of interpretation, and before all others - to develop their own feelings towards cinema. His approach is amongst others strongly inspired by Alain Bergsala and his book “ L’hypothèse cinéma – Kino als Kunst”. For example, Russegger will especially work on the shout, that is so commonly used in cinema. The presentation or rather the cooperation with the pupils had been worked out together with students throughout a seminar held at the University of Klagenfurt. The screening was made possible with the kindly support of Landesjugendreferat Kärnten. |67
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INTERNATIONAL competition I
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Eric Patrick has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has won numerous awards and has been screened extensively at festivals, museums and on television throughout Europe, Australia, Asia and the Americas. He has written articles on trends in independent animation, and is an Associate Professor in the Radio/TV/Film programme at Northwestern University. www.retrocognition.ericpatrick.net FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) STARTLE PATTERN, 2006 ROOTHOLD, 2003 ABLUTION, 2001 ROUX MEDIA, 2000 STARK FILM, 1997 UNTITLED FILM, 1994 UNTITLED BIO, 1994 UNTITLED MATRIMONY, 1994
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An animated collage of photographs and audio fragments from WWII era radio dramas combine to critique the classic American televisual nuclear family.
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INTERNATIONAL competition I
CREDITS
Awards (Selection)
Director, Screenplay, Animation: Eric Patrick Animation: Michelle Krueger, Stephen Wilson, Evan Twohy, Katy Wittmer Sound: Jed Feder
MashRome, Italy 2012 – MashPrime Award Fescurts Torelló, Spain 2012 – Special Jury Mention Kansk Video Festival, Russia 2012 – Special Jury Mention Festival de Cine de Ituzaingó, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2012 – Special Jury Mention, Experimental Film Accolade Competition, Los Angeles, USA 2012 – Award of Excellence, Experimental Film New York Los Angeles International Film Festival, USA 2012 – Best Animation AUSTRIAN PREMIERE
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INTERNATIONAL competition I
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Andy Taylor Smith is a Nottingham born film-maker who has been working in the industry for over 10 years. Andy raced through his education, completing his Photography Diploma a year early and graduating from Art College with a degree in Photographic Communication. He has worked with well known clients such as Nike, Guinness and Volkswagen but his personal photographic art projects have set him apart. Since 2009 he has been making a name for himself with his directing talents. Andy is currently working on several projects, including two feature films earmarked for production in 2013. FILMOGRAPHY PLEASE FEED PAUL, 2011 80,000 CHRISTMAS LIGHTS, 2011 SAM’S STORY, 2011 I CAN SMELL THE CORDITE, 2011 THIS CHAIR IS NOT ME, 2010 MC CAIN (TV COMMERCIAL), 2010 THE END OF THE NINE TILL FIVE, 2009 VOIX, 2009
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If Himmler Played Guitar
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An email out of the blue introduced Andy Taylor Smith to Jon Valinski. His uncanny resemblance to the Uberführer of the SS was at once disturbing and intriguing. Unsure of what he would uncover, Andy gathered up his camera kit and faithful sound man to find out what kind of life
this man could lead. After three days they returned more baffled than ever.
INTERNATIONAL competition I
CREDITS
Festivals
Director, Camera, Distributor: Andy Taylor Smith Camera: Andy Taylor Smith Editing: Rachel Tunnard Cast: Jon Valinski Music: Samuel Karl Bohn Sound: Grant Bridgeman Producer: Nicola Clayton Produced by: Sodalite Films
Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival, Washington DC, USA 2012 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland 2011
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE
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INTERNATIONAL competition I
ABOUT THE DIRECTORS Roser Corella and Alfonso Moral have worked together for a number of documentaries for organisations, shooting in Lebanon, Mozambique and Senegal. They combine this joint work with individual work, making photo and video reports for different media, television and press, such as TV3, the Vanguard or Le Monde. FILMOGRAPHY LA RIQUESA MALEÏDA, 2011 FALLOU, 2010 MANUSCRITOS EN EL LIBANO, UN CAMINO PARA LA PAZ, 2010 MACHINE MAN 15’ SPAIN 2011
Machine Man
HOMBRE MÁQUINA
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A reflection on modernity and global development. Men as machines. The use of human physical force to perform work in the XXI Century. The film takes place in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, where a mass of millions of people become the driving force behind the city.
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INTERNATIONAL competition I
CREDITS
Festivals and Awards (Selection)
Directors, Screenplay: Roser Corella, Alfonso Moral Camera: Alfonso Moral Editing: Roser Corella Sound: Santiago Latorre Producer, Distributor: Grafo Producciones
Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Turkey 2012 – Best Short Documentary ICCL Human Rights Award, Dublin, Ireland 2012 – Best Film Women’s Film Festival of Creteil, France 2012 – Best Short Film and Creation of CANAL+ Picture of the Year International, USA 2011 – First place, Long-Form Multimedia Documentary International Short Film Festival Cyprus 2011 – Best Documentary
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INTERNATIONAL competition I
ABOUT THE DIRECTORS Arne Bunk is a freelance artist and film-maker. Since 2010 he has been studying for his PhD with an Academic and an Aesthetic (film) component at Hamburg’s University of Fine Arts. He holds a scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation (promoting German talent) and since 2006 has taught Film in schools in and around Hamburg. Britta von Heintze born in 1970 in Magdeburg, studied at the Hamburg University of Applied Science and Visual Communication at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. She works as a film-maker and illustrator and teaches at several universities. ARNE BUNK’S FILMOGRAPHY DEUTSCHE HEIMAT AFRIKA (in progress), 2013 BÜHNE:WOLFSBURG, 2009 EINE SCHAUSPIELERIN VERSUCHT ZU WEINEN. SIE ARBEITET, 2007 POSTCARDS FROM ISTANBUL, 2005
A FORWARD-LOOKING PAST
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BRITTA VON HEINTZE’S FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION)
EINE ZUKUNFTSWEISENDE VERGANGENHEIT
ABGESCHLOSSENES SAMMELGEBIET, 2007
A cinematic examination of school rooms in the 70’s. The era’s school-architecture displays the intention of historical and educational reforms. We are interested in the utopia written into the architectural designs and the current state of schools.
DIE STAHLGIESSEREI, 2003 DER BREITE WEG, 2001
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Rebuilding and repurposing point to a tense area between planning and actual usage.
INTERNATIONAL competition I
CREDITS
Festivals
Directors: Arne Bunk, Britta von Heintze Camera: Bettina Herzner Editing: Mary Mack, Britta von Heintze, Arne Bunk Sound: Roman Vehlken, Pascal Fuhlbr端gge Producer, Distributor: Arne Bunk
Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany 2012
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INTERNATIONAL competition I
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR JAN IJÄS was born in 1975 in Jyväskylä, Finland. He studied Art and Creative Writing at Jyväskylä University and Film Directing at Aalto University Helsinki. He is an artist of lens-based art, both still and moving. His films tend to break the traditional boundaries of fiction and documentary films. Ijäs lives and works in Helsinki. FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) TWO ISLANDS, 2012 ONE SHOT, 2012 SWEET MOV(I)E, 2011 GHOSTS, 2010 THE SPECTACLE, 2007 A FILM FOR THREE MEN AND INDUSTRIAL ELEVATOR, 2006 DANCING NAZI SKINHEADS, 2006 KIDS MOVIE, 2006
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Sometimes social media equals solitude at least in this update film.
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INTERNATIONAL competition I
CREDITS
Festivals and Awards (Selection)
Director, Camera: Jan Ijas
Kunstfilmtag, D端sseldorf, Germany 2012 IFF Message to Man XXII, St. Petersburg, Russia 2012
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INTERNATIONAL competition I
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Thibault Le Texier is 31 years old. He was born in Brest and holds a PhD in Economics. The Human Factor is his first film. www.letexier.org
THE HUMAN FACTOR
LE FACTEUR HUMAIN
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In 1914, an engineer sent away to reorganize a factory exchanges letters with his wife. As he tells her about his experiments in taylorism, she picks up bits and pieces of this method and applies it to her daily tasks at home.
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While he gets disappointed by the Taylor system, she becomes a true domestic engineer.
INTERNATIONAL competition I
CREDITS
Festivals and Awards
Director, Screenplay: Thibault Le Texier Editing: Virginie Véricourt Colour grading: Yannig Willmann Cast: Kate Moran, Todd Sells Music: Adrien Cogney Sound: Vincent Bordelais Producer, Distributor: Alice Beckmann
Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2012 – Best First Movie Indie Lisboa, Portugal 2012
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE
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INTERNATIONAL competition II
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Théodora Barat born in 1985, lives and works in Lille, France. She studied in Nantes School of Art, before entering Le Fresnoy, Studio National Des Arts Contemporains. Her work is made for installation and especially video installation. In 2008, she realised Froissée (Crumpled), the first of a series dealing with the Film Noir and its city’s representation. Underworld (2009) and Projection Frontale (Head-on Projection, 2009) followed. Or anything at all except the dark pavement is her first film, a plain sequence shot in 16mm, shown both as installation and film. www.theodorabarat.com FILMOGRAPHY PROJECTION FRONTALE, 2009 UNDERWORLD, 2009 FROISSÉE, 2008
Or anything at all except the dark pavement This film is a tracking shot. We start to progress into the city by night. When the city fades away, actions take over the obscurity. They announce other stories or oneiric moments – a fantasized vision of roadside landscape.
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INTERNATIONAL competition II
CREDITS
Festivals
Director: Théodora Barat Camera: Julien Guillery Colour grading: Massimiliano Simbula Cast: Vincent Ciciliato, Eliza Muresan, Pierre Mauger, Pierre-Yves Boisramé Producer, Distributor: Le Fresnoy
Vidéo Les Beaux Jours, France 2012 Les Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin Madrid, France 2011
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INTERNATIONAL competition II
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Dimitriego Paragullo combining air and water in its work, Dimitriego Paragullo (Diego Agullo, Dmitry Paranyushkin) does not belong to either male or female. Rather it positions itself in the volatile ground between sexes, opinions, matters, and meanings. It is interested in exploring asymptotic motion: always approaching but never penetrating the surface of the other. The path of the heart is full of belief and commitment, but escaping unnecessary complications that rarely, but surely happen upon landing. For example, look how many accidents happen to airplanes when they are just about to land on an airstrip. www.humpingpact.com FILMOGRAPHY THE WAITING ROOM, 2012 I WOULD NEVER, 2011 POLITICS, 2011 TRANSNOMIA, 2010 VOIX, 2009
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The Humping Pact is a tribute to dysfunctional spaces that still emanate creative potential. It is an attempt to build an intimate and personal relationship with space, being loyal to its demands and dedicated within the efforts
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INTERNATIONAL competition II
CREDITS
Festivals
Director, Producer: Dimitriego Paragullo (Diego Agull贸, Dmitry Paranyushkin) Cast: Diego Agullo, Dmitry Paranyushkin
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany 2012 Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria 2012
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Christiane Buchmann was born in Wiesbaden in 1979. She has an education in Media Design and worked as a freelance artist for film and TV production companies. In 2010 she shot her thesis film in Tanzania and in the same year began her Master’s studies in Camera and Image Design at the Hamburg Media School. FILMOGRAPHY LESOIT – WASSER FÜR DÖRFER, 2011 SINEMA PORINI – KINO IM BUSCH, 2011 VATERLIEBE, 2005 STURM IM WASSERGLAS, 2004 DIE MITTAGSPAUSE, 2004
SINEMA LEO
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Elisonguo Kiwia loves movies and he dreams of a good film ministry in his home country Tanzania. Everbody thinks of him as a crazy person as Kiwia’s only interest is to go out to the countryside and show films – for free! He not only feels like a projectionist, he really wants to reach
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his audience. Even if this includes doing dangerous roadtrips...
INTERNATIONAL competition II
CREDITS
Festivals and Awards (Selection)
Director, Camera: Christiane Buchmann Editing, Producer, Distributor: Frank Schumacher Cast: Elisonguo A.J. Kiwia Sound: Gizmo Zaphatero Producer: Filmwiese Filmproduktion
Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg, Germany 2011 Can-Do International Film Festival, West Hollywood, United States 2010 – Judges’ Special Choice International Kansk Video Festival, Russia 2011 Sedicicorto International Film Festival, Italy 2011 Vilnius Film Shorts Festival, Lithuania 2011 Cellu l’art Short Film Festival Jena, Germany 2010 – Honourable mention for exceptional approaches in documentary film AUSTRIAN PREMIERE
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Patrick Wells born in 1984, is a British freelance video journalist and film-maker. After studying Journalism in the UK, he joined Reuters as a cameraman in West Africa in 2009, reporting from Liberia, Guinea and Ivory Coast. In November 2010 Wells conducted a two-month reporting trip through rural Guinea during the country’s violent elections crisis. Wells co-directed the final episode of Al Jazeera’s The People Want and in June he produced, shot and directed his first film Holding the Line which was broadcast on Al Jazeera’s Witness strand in December 2011.
HOLDING THE LINE
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Solo film-maker Patrick Wells spent three weeks living on the frontline with the Martyr’s Brigade, a group of Libyan rebel fighters defending the besieged city of Misrata. Holding the Line is the result, an unique portrait of citizen soldiers at war.
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INTERNATIONAL competition II
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Festivals
Director: Patrick Wells
Nominated for Rory Peck Award, London, UK 2012 Shortlisted for Grierson Award, London, UK 2012 Shortlisted for One World Media Award, London, UK 2012 Chagrin Documentary Film Fest, USA 2012 Thin Line Film Fest, USA 2012 The Other Venice Film Festival, Italy 2012 Vegas Cine Fest, USA 2012 - Special Mention
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Lendita Zequiraj is an award-winning Kosovar Painter, film-maker and visual artist, who has had group and individual exhibitions in Paris, Lille, Stuttgart, Tirana etc. and also worked on a number of shorts, feature and documentary films, which have participated in many International Film Festivals, such as: Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Bradford Film Festival, New York Independent Film and Video Festival etc., winning prizes in a number of them. www.lenditazeqiraj.com FILMOGRAPHY ZIBIDI, 2011 WE’RE NOT IN PARADISE, 2011 CRYING FOR RECOGNITION, 2010 EXIT (FEATURE FILM), 2006 EXIT (SHORT FILM), 2002
AMNESIA
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Re-creation of the forgotten past through remaining pieces of super 8 mm film found after the war.
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Festivals
Director, Screenplay, Editing, Sound: Lendita Zeqiraj
Tirana Interational Film Festival, Albania 2012
Producer, Distributor: Bujar Kabashi
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Romeo Grünfelder was born in Mutlangen, Germany in 1968. He has worked in film production companies in India and finished his diploma in Visual Communication at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg in 2002, where he has been lecturing since 2008. www.felderfilm.de
FILMOGRAPHY NAISSANCE D’UN OBJET, 2008 DESI’RE – THE GOLDSTEIN REELS, 2007 RALLYE, 2004 BORDERLINE PILOTS, 2002 [...], 2000 SHAHRZADEH SCAMPOLO, 1996 JIMMY JENSEITS, 1993
RANDOM PRINCIPLE
PRINZIP ZUFALL
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When a psycho physicist experiments with a train set, he discovers a strange abnormality, which can’t be explained in physical terms.
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CREDITS
Festivals and Awards
Director: Romeo Gr端nfelder Camera: Simon Rittmeier Cast: Dr. Johannes Hagel, Felix Hagel, Roland Appelt, Yukup Aydin Music: Thomas Meadowcroft, Tobias Hang Sound: Stefan Fendrich Producer: felderfilm Distributor: Angelika Ramlow Supported by: Filmstiftung NRW
International Short Film Festival Hamburg, Germany 2012 CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark 2011 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands 2011 Kasseler Dok Fest, Germany 2011
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Viktoria SchmidT was born in 1986. After ending her carrier as a show jumper, she dedicated herself to the Djing, film-making, playing drums and making music. She attended the School of Independent Film and is currently studying at the University of Art and Design in Linz. She has co-funded the filmkoop wien, organised concerts and film screenings and conducted workshops on the subject of “handmade-film”. www.viktoriaschmid.com FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) GOLAN, 2011 KATHARINAVIKTORIA, 2010 FILMFIGHT, 2009 VIPS, 2009 FOODFILMS, 2009 NUR IM FILM, 2009 COLOURS, 2008 SHORT ATTENTION SPAN, 2008
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ACHTUNG / HALLO 35
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A touristic, romantic portrayal of the metropolis of Vienna as well as a fetish, stripped down portrayal of the medium film itself, made with contactprints in the darkroom. The soundtrack is generated directly from the visual information.
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CREDITS
Festivals and Awards
Director: Viktoria Schmidt
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland 2011 Viennale, Austria 2011
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Johann Lurf was born in 1982 in Vienna. From 2002 to 2009 he studied Arts at the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts. He makes films and installations and works as part-time projectionist. His films question our perception of what and how we see and think to see. www.johannlurf.net FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) RECONNAISSANCE, 2012 ENDEAVOUR, 2010 THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG, 2009 NTCINEMA, 2009 12 EXPLOSIONS, 2008 VERTIGO RUSH, 2007 PAN, 2005 UNTITLED, 2003
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KREIS WR. NEUSTADT
This film centers on a special form of street construction. Johann Lurf documents rotunda islands in Austria, shown in segments of a few seconds, and creates something of a catalogue of local building malfunctions. The islands feature gravel, hedges or sculptures with grapevines,
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fountains or ornamental flowers and are furnished with traffic signs, information postings or advertisement objects.
INTERNATIONAL competition III
CREDITS
Festivals and Awards (selection)
Director, Concept, Editing, Producer: Johann Lurf Camera: Mark Gerstorfer Sound: Nils Kirchhoff Colour Correction: Andi Winter Supported by: Wien Kultur
25fps Film & Video Festival, Zagreb, Croatia 2012 Diagonale, Graz, Austria 2012 IMAGES – Independent Film & Video Festival, Toronto, Canada 2012 International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2012 Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria 2012 European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany 2012 Viennale, Austria 2011 – “Mehrwert” Short Film Award
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ANDRÉS DENEGRI was born in Buenos Aires in 1975. He is an independent film, TV and video director with a marked style of experimentation in both visual and narrative terms, breaking through the boundaries of classical format by producing live audiovisual compositions as well as working in the area of installations. He specialises in experimental film and video art. His audiovisual work have been featured at numerous exhibitions and festivals, where he has achieved significant recognitions. Denegri currently lives and works in Buenos Aires. FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) IT’S RAINING IN MAR DEL PLATA, 2011 COLONIA, 2008 GRITO, 2008 UN MARTES, 2006 UYUNI, 2005 INSTANTE BONY, 2000 III MOMENTOS, 1998
Over Belgrade SOBRE BELGRADO
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The crows fly over Belgrade.
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FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
Director: Andrés Denegri Sound: Sebastian Galante
Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Serbia 2012 – Golden Medal for the best experimental Film Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, Argentina 2012 Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata. Argentina 2011
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR LÉO ZARKA-LEPAGE was born in 1986. He worked as boom operator on various feature films for two years. Since 2009, he has been studying Cinema at La Fémis, the French National Film School in Paris. Aside from his training, he has directed some short essay-films. FILMOGRAPHY MY RIGHTS, FOR INSTANCE, 2011
ROOMS WITH A VIEW
CHAMBRES AVEC VUE
15’38’’ FRANCE 2012 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Facing the window. As always, the same landscape. Almost hard to depict. When visiting the neighbours, a migrant worker’s household, the view seems quite different.
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Festivals and Awards
Director, Editor: Léo Zarka-Lepage Camera: Aurélien Marra Sound: Daniel Capeille Producer: Joséphine Mourlaque Produced by: Wawaïm M.
International Short Film Festival Hamburg, Germany 2012 Huesca International Short Film Festival, Spain 2012 – Special Jury Award for International Documentary Kassel Dokfest, Germany 2012 Ethnographic and Documentary Film Festival Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2012 Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil 2012
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Sharon Liu studied Animation at the University for the Creative Arts and has recently graduated from the Royal College of Art in London. She is now living and working in London as a freelance director, animator and illustrator. www.sharon-liu.com FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) A BIT AND EVERY BIT, 2010 NOLDE’S SKY, 2009
WITHIN WITHIN
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“My graduation film is about my personal feelings to Hong Kong and its complicated relationship with China. It expresses what I really want to say and feel at the age of 23, that I love not just my birth place Hong Kong but my country as well.”
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INTERNATIONAL competition III
CREDITS
Festivals (selection)
Director: Sharon Liu Producer: Jane Colling Produced by: Royal College of Art
International Animation Festival Hiroshima, Japan 2012 DOK Leipzig, Germany 2012 Fête de l’Anim, Lille, France 2012 Animated Film Festival Animator Poznan, Poland 2012 Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film & Video Festival, Malaysia 2012 AniFest Teplice, Czech Republic 2012 HKIFF, Hong Kong International Film Festival, China 2012 Tricky Women Festival, Vienna, Austria 2012
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Jaime Iglehart is a film-maker and multimedia artist exploring questions of authority, representation, and the process of film-making within the context of non-hierarchical collectivism. Her projects involve socially engaged “play”, dystopian fantasy and highly personal iconography involving infantile regression, fertility worship, and revolutionary melodrama. Jaime earned her Bachelor’s degree in Film Studies from Bard College in 2005, and her MFA in Directing for Film from Columbia University in 2011. She operates under the artistic entity New Age Beverages. www.newagebeverages.tumblr.com FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) PBF EPISODES 1-35, 2012 SILENT INTERVIEWS, 2011 WE SELL LOUIS VUITTON IN CHINATOWN, 2011 SPOOKY WARMS THE HEART, 2011 I EAT APPLE LIKE A MAN, 2011 FLUXSOLIS 2, 2010 FLUXSOLIS, 2010 COLD AND IN THE WAY, 2010 TRUE STORY, 2009 LARD CAKES, 2008
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BODEGA CHIPS
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It’s the year 2117. The president has moved to Pluto, where he threatens to blow up the Earth if citizens don’t keep buying stuff. Doctor Adventure and his sidekick, Moongoose, are the only ones who can save the planet from
the President and his deadly drones. This video is the first installment in an ongoing series.
INTERNATIONAL competition III
staff
Festivals
Director, Screenplay: Jaime Iglehart Camera: Joseph Alvarado (interior), Maxwell Cohn (exterior) Art Director: Drew Hamilton Key Cast: Doctor Adventure, Ben Devoe, Winston Shaw, Angela Washko Producer: Biljana Ilic
Habit Video Festival, New York City USA 2012 Videoholica International Video Art Festival, Bulgaria 2012
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INTERNATIONAL competition III
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR FAIYAZ JAFRI born and raised in Holland and of Dutch and Pakistani decent, has always been somewhat of a perfectionist. Realizing that a computer could draw a far straighter line than he ever could, it was only a matter of time before Jafri would start using computers as soon as the technology became more readily available. In 1987 he began making his first illustrations. His work evolved from flat line art into a style he calls hyper-unrealism. Innovations in personal computers certainly contributed to this evolution. Jafri has exhibited his art in the form of prints, video installations and animations in Italy, Azerbaijan and New York. www.bam-b.com FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) PLANET UTERO, 2012 BABY, I LOVE YOU, 2012 HAPPY YEAR OF THE RABBIT, 2012 PROFESSIONAL DRIVER ON A CLOSED CIRCUIT, 2011 NDS, 2011
HELLO BAMBI
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CASUALTIES OF LOVE, 2010 NATURAL PLASTIC, 2010 POPONE, 2005
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Snow White’s final dream on her way to the emergency room.
INTERNATIONAL competition III
CREDITS
Festivals and Awards (Selection)
Director, Screenplay: Faiyaz Jafri Music: Piano Sonata No. 2: Marche funebre written by Frederic Chopin respectfully assaulted by Faiyaz Jafri
Los Angeles Animation Festival, USA 2012 – Finalist Queens World Film Festival, USA 2012 – Honourable Mention The Los Angeles New Wave International Film Festival, USA 2011 – Best Edited Animated Film, Third Price Animated Film Big Apple Film Festival, New York, USA 2011 – Best Animation Bornshorts Film Festival, Gudhjem, Denmark 2011
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR IVAN LADISLAV GALETA lives in Kraj Gornji, near Zagreb. Since 2007 he has been a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He has been making films since 1969 and videos since 1975. He has been exhibiting objectinstallations, photograph-installations, expanded cinema presentations, video and TV works, texts, sound installations, spatial interventions, environmental projects and actions. In 1990 he adopted an environmental approach to art with references to Henry David Thoreau, Karel Čapek, Masanobu Fukuoka, Bill Mollison, James Joyce, Bela Hamvas, Claude Monet and others. FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) AJJA 17, 2001/2011 Endart No 1, 2000 Letter, 1995 Railway station – Amsterdam, 1979 Drop, 1979 No 1, 2,3,4, 1979 Media Game 1, 1978 Video works, 1977/1978 TV Ping – Pong, 1975/1978
Deep End Art No.1
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“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.” Henry David Thoreau
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INTERNATIONAL competition III
CREDITS Director: Ivan Ladislav Galeta Camera: Hi Sony DCR TRV 240 E - mostly in left hand Producer: Zagreb film Helped by: Darko Vračević, Karlo Galeta, Dragan Švaco, Vinko Brešan, and many others
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IVAN LADISLAV GALETA ............................................................... lives in the village Kraj Gornji, near Zagreb. He graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Zagreb (1967), followed by a degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Teacher Training (1969) and Pedagogy from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (1981). From 1977 to 1990, he was the manager of the University of Zagreb Students Multimedia Centre (MM), the first systematic venue for the screening of national and international experimental film and video art in Croatia. He was the founder and manager of the art cinema Filmoteka 16 (1991-1994). He initiated the introduction of animation (2000) and new media studies (2004) at the same Academy. In 1993 he became an associate media lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and since 2007 he has been a full-time professor. He has been making films since 1969 and videos since 1975.
Galeta’s small cinematic universe is indefinite but not infinite; sometimes he lets you see the edges. By Vassily Bourikas curator of the Experimental Forum - Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2008
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From 1973 he has been exhibiting objects-installations, photographs-installations, expanded cinema presentations, video and TV works, texts, sound installations, spatial interventions, environmental projects and actions. In the mid 1990s he adopted an environmental approach to art with references to Henry David Thoreau, Karel Čapek, Masanobu Fukuoka, Bill Mollison, James Joyce, Bela Hamvas, Claude Monet and others. His works are kept at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Centre Georges Pompidou, Oberhausen, Croatian Film Clubs’ Association… He has won numerous awards, including a medal of honour by the Ministry of Culture and Communications of the French Republic in 1999.
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I. TWO TIMES IN ONE SPACE Due volte in uno spazio 35 mm, b/w, 12’, 1976/1984
II. SFAÍRA 1985-1895 35mm, b/w, 10’, 1984
III. WATER PULU 1869 1896 35mm, color, 9’, 1987/1988
IV. WAL(L)ZEN 35mm, color, 6’, 1989
....................................................................................................... The title of Two Times in One Space (1976-1984) does not allow room for questioning Galeta’s focus on this subject; Time and Space. Although many of his films could appear as found footage works, this is the only one time where Galeta borrowed images and he treats them almost as a Duchamp-ean “ready made.”His use of titles is again utilized, but here only in order to highlight his respect of the original material, a short film by Nicola Stojanoviç. A simple optical and sound effect converts this already gripping short to one of Galeta’s most conceptual single channel films, a battlefield of space and time. Circles and spheres are a recurring motif in Galeta’s work.
....................................................................................................... sfaira (1971-1984) dedicated to Pythagoras and Plato is a homage to two of his favourite spheroids: the Earth and the Sun. The protagonist, as we are informed by the title sequence, is a sculpture named Earthbound Sun and the film’s photography, a stunning example of optical printing techniques, shows his affection to both. Sfaira’s subject, the sun and the cosmos appears as a precursor to Galeta’s magnum opus Water Pulu 1869 1896 (1973-1987). Galeta with this filmdelivers a pictorial and literary Maximalism, in a way that only cinema could do but had not done before.
....................................................................................................... Galeta has created a black hole, an object whose gravitational pull inside the radius of cinema is so strong that no film viewer can escape it. He applies a mathematical and geometrical editing system in a film that shows hardly any edits. His conceptual manipulation of themere footage of a water-polomatch is at the same time as eye-catching, complex and original as anything that ever came out of an optical printer. The film is explicitly abstract and at first this visual strength allows deliberate implications of its own narrative nature to go unnoticed. As the nuances in both sound and image continue and peak with the end credits, the presence of an unseen narrative is established.
....................................................................................................... WAL(L)ZEN was re-worked at the Béla Balázs Studio in Hungary and determines, according to Galeta, the basic principle of movement. A piano player is able to perform a Chopin piece backwards and Galeta will film it backwards and forwards creating four different variations of a movement bound to time. The rhythmical editing concept of WAL(L)ZEN is one of the key elements that makes a first appearance in his work. This musical geometry of montage will characterize all his films, even those that have no visible cuts or are completely silent.
V. PÍRÂMÍDAS 1972-1984 35mm, color, 12’, 1984
....................................................................................................... PiRaMidas (1984) which was also produced at the BBS, begins with dedications to Hermes, Lao Tse and Einstein among others. Even the preoccupation with stating the datesof first conception and final realization of his films (in PiRaMidas 1972-1984) is part of this process, while at the same time yet another obsession with time. PiRaMidas is a geometrical timetravel by train. To a certain point in space and back again. The first specific idea for the film PiRaMidas 1972 1984 came from this drawing by Szpakowski. The use of title and closing credit sequences for adding well-hidden or more obvious connotations is another Galeta trademark.
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Born in Luxembourg, Bady Minck works as an artist and filmmaker in Vienna and Luxembourg. Originally she studied sculpture at Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts and later experimental film at the University of Applied Arts. Her films have been presented in retrospectives and invited to more than 300 international film festivals, including Cannes (semaine de la critique 1989, quinzaine des réalisateurs 2003) and have received several awards and special mentions, She is founding member of Amour Fou Film Vienna and Minotaurus Film Luxembourg, where she produces films such as Matthias Müller’s Nebel and Virgil Widrich’s Fast Film. Trailers and more information about the films on www.badyminck.com
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BADY MINCK ............................................................... “When all the administrative stuff of the day is done – late at night/early in the morning – and the surface is smoothened, I am able to take a deep dive into myself, into the world of thoughts and feelings. It is a state of euphoria, trance-like, and returning from this dive both of my hands are full of jewels. Then I can spend hours and hours drawing and writing down these discoveries.”
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I. The Man with modern Nerves 8min, b&w, 35mm, without dialogues
II. MÉCANOMAGIE 16min, colour, 35mm, without dialogues
III. Seems To Be 8min, colour, 35mm, without dialogues
IV. Being and Nothingness 10min, colour, 35mm, without dialogues
Austria / Luxembourg 1989 .................................................. by Bady Minck & Stefan Stratil ............................................. .....................................................................Premiere of the: International Film Festival Cannes 1989 The model used in the animated rhythmic fantasy is based on sketches of terraced Mexican pyramids done by Adolf Loos in 1923 for a visionary design of a city hall in Mexico-City […] The animated film with live action sequences could be described as an homage to Adolf Loos, but is, apart from being a personal, very intellectual approach, also an artistic version of a biographical detail. [..] More than just an animation of the model, the film reveals Adolf Loos’s architectural concepts of surface and the volume of space. Jean-Michel Bouhours, “L’Art du mouvement” éditions Centre Pompidou Paris 1994
Luxembourg 1996........................................................................ .....................................................................Premiere of the: International Film Festival Rotterdam 1997 International Melbourne Film Festival 1997 Music Films Mécanomagie takes a stylish, performative path through the landscape in northern Luxembourg. “Live action” pixilated animation evokes a grounded paisant consciousness of “natural forces” and folkloric myths of the humanoid Jitzerten (humanoid beings that zigzag over trails and roads without being noticed by the indigenous inhabitants of Luxembourg )...The film’s success lies in its elegant blending of magical neo-surrealist otherworldliness with a fundamental earth-boundedness. Stephen Ball
Luxembourg / Austria 2008........................Premiere of the: Short Live-Version: Biennale di Venezia 2007 Cinema Version: International Film Festival Berlinale 2008 Berlinale – International Film Festival Berlin 2008 Based on a piece by modern composer Morton Feldman, Seems To Be plays with the levels of optic and aural perception, with the deception of eyes and ears as well as the tension between two-dimensional reproduction and three-dimensional spatial recreation.
Luxembourg / Austria 2007........................................................ ........................................................................... Premiere of the: Short Live-Version: Biennale di Venezia 2007 Cinema Version: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007 What you see is what you hear in filmmaker Bady Minck’s visual treatment of an original composition by Beat Furrer. The individual musicians appear only in the extremely brief moments in which they play, with their bodies representing notes on a visualised score. As the conductor masterfully tames time and commands silence, the dominance of music over the body is skillfully illustrated while the music becomes a living picture. Jason Buchanan, New York Times 2007
V. The Beauty is the Beast 2:30min, colour, 35mm, without dialogues
VI. In the Beginning was the Eye 45min, colour, 35mm, German with English subtitles
VII. MAPPAMUNDI (WORKING TITLE) 22 min, colour, 35 mm,
Austria / Netherlands / Luxembourg 2005 .....................................................................Premiere of the: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2005 A dream, a woman, a furred tongue: Bady Minck’s The Beauty is the Beast operates on the interface between civilization and wilderness, nature and culture, human and animal. A film that raises the issue of the pros and cons of our cultivation. On the threshold between the animal inside and the civilized exterior “the beauty (la belle)” herself becomes “the beast (la bête)”. Black Book, New York 2005
Austria / Luxembourg 2003 .................................................. .....................................................................Premiere of the: International Film Festival Cannes 2003 In the Beginning was the Eye is, with its 45 minutes of abundant avant-garde research, the figurehead of the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes. It took five years to produce this cinematic UFO essentially made up of hundreds of postcards. At times a dreamlike vision, at times political, philosophical and even culinary, the film is technically perfect. The stunning sound and visuals and the hypnotic editing ensure that you don’t get bored for a second. Martin Granica - Repérages, Paris 2003
Luxembourg / Austria 2008-2012.......................................... ....................................................................... preview: 2 min MappaMundi takes you on an accelerated voyage through 950 million years of continental drift and 150.000 years of human migration. The film visualises the continuous change of our world, a change that is unnoticable for a human being in a single lifetime. With over hundred world maps from the past 15.000 years, the development of our view of the world from its beginnings to this day is critically analysed and illustrated in its diversity.
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BEN RUSSELL ............................................................... Ben Russell is a media artist and curator whose films, installations, and performances foster a deep engagement with the history and semiotics of the moving image. He has had solo screenings and exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Wexner Center for the Arts, threewalls and the Museum of Modern Art. A 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and 2010 FIPRESCI award recipient, Ben began the Magic Lantern screening series in Providence, Rhode Island, was co-director of the artist-run space BEN RUSSELL in Chicago, IL and performs in a double-drum trio called BEAST. He currently resides in Paris, France. www.dimeshow.com BEN RUSSELL on the Trypps series “Using a fabricated Old English word as its guiding principle, this ongoing series of (mostly) 16mm films is conceptually organized around the possible meanings that its title elicits - physical voyages, psychedelic journeys, and a phenomenological experience of the world. Begun in 2005 in a somewhat vain attempt to hold cinema up as a mirror to the live and fully embodied reception of the crazy noise music scene in Providence, Rhode Island, the TRYPPS films quickly expanded their formal and critical language to include the various poles of action painting, avant-garde cinema, portraiture, stand-up comedy, global capitalism, and trance-dance a lá Jean Rouch. While the form of these works varies radically from one to the next, when taken as a whole they can be seen to enunciate what their maker calls “psychedelic ethnography” - a practice whose aim is a knowledge of the Self/self, a movement towards understanding in which the trip is both the means and the end.
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“psychedelic ethnography” - a practice whose aim is a knowledge of the Self/self, a movement towards understanding in which the trip is both the means and the end.”
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I. Black and White Trypps Number One 6:30, 16mm, B/W, silent, 2005
II. Black and White Trypps Number Two 8:00, 16mm, B/W, silent, 2006
III. Black and White Trypps Number Three 12:00, 35mm, color, sound, 2007
IV. Black and White Trypps Number Four 10:30, 16mm, B/W, sound, 2008
A psychedelic op-art (optical art, visual art that makes use of optical illusions) film that references the traditions of hand-painted Avant-Garde cinema by replacing it with something entirely different. Hypnosis is imminent.
The Forest Inside Your Mind. Revealed.
The third part in a series of films dealing with naturallyderived psychedelia. Shot during a performance by Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt, this film documents the transformation of a rock audience’s collective freak-out into a trance ritual of the highest spiritual order.
Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the eyes moves out of a flickering chaos created by incompatible film gauges into a punchline involving historically incompatible racial stereotypes.
“A night sky fills with light shimmers and flecks, surface markings, heavenly bodies. It’s an ocean, a well, a screen, a mirror, a portal. Blackness/void cluttered by growing ephemera [...] hair, ghosts, comets, cartoons, demons [...] ######### #Overkill. Birth/ Death. Moment by moment, symmetrical—organized like geometry, like Muslim rugs, like math.” JT Rogstad, The International Exposition (TIE)
“Ben Russell continues his initial impulse for the series, the exploration of “naturally-derived psychedelia”, with this cadenced phantasmagoria of negative imagery and negative space. The tendrils of sharp white trees become osseous arteries against the black void of the sky. The spiraling spine of a massive tree collides against a spanning pan of a branch twined into two through a mirroring effect. Representation morphs into abstraction as the film becomes a study in density and fearful symmetry in the forest of sight. By film’s end, the arboreal is left far behind as the film strip becomes an engulfing, vertiginous maw.” Chris Stults, Viennale 2009
“...we return to the models of Caravaggio or Garrel - bodies effectively transformed into islands of individual gestures and expressions via a spotlight and lingering camera, before the film cryptically bends upon itself: henceforth the image (through slow-motion effect) and sound (through Joseph Grimm’s spacey drones) conspire to directly invoke the spectator into the raptures.” Mubarak Ali, Supposed Aura
“Divisible stand up comedy from beyond the grave, adjust your set, rabbits ears tuned to the Bardo Plane.” Mark McElhatten, Rotterdam International Film Festival
V. Trypps #5 (Dubai) 3:00, 16mm, silent, 2008
VI. Trypps #6 (Malobi) 12:00, 16mm, 2009
VII. Trypps #7 (Badlands) 10:00, Super16mm, 2010
VIII. River Rites 11:30, Super16mm (projected digitally), 2011
A short treatise on the semiotics of capital, happiness, and phenomenology under the flickering neon of global capitalism.
“From the Maroon village of Malobi in Suriname, South America, this single-take film offers a strikingly contemporary take on a Jean Rouch classic. It’s Halloween at the Equator, Andrei Tarkovsky for the jungle set.” Ben Russell
“Trypps #7 (Badlands) charts, through an intimate long-take, a young woman’s LSD trip in the Badlands National Park before descending into a psychedelic, formal abstraction of the expansive desert landscape. Concerned with notions of the romantic sublime, phenomenological experience, and secular spiritualism, the work continues Russell’s unique investigation into the possibilities of cinema as a site for transcendence.” Michael Green, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
“Trance dance and water implosion, a kino-line drawn between secular freak-outs and religious phenomena. Filmed in a single take at a sacred site on the Upper Suriname River, the minor secrets of a Saramaccan animist everyday are revealed as time itself is undone. Rites are the new Trypps - embodiment is our eternal everything.” Ben Russell
“A radically restricted camera was similarly fixed on half of a neon sign in Ben Russell’s Trypps #5 (Dubai) (2008), which displayed the letters “APP” and only half of a “Y” in an erratic, discontinuous pulse. If the mention of Dubai conjures a cosmopolitan skyline, Russell renounces the possibility of seeing even a single street. As Mark McElhatten writes in the program notes, “Happiness is always, incomplete,” and here, in a critique that Debord may have particularly appreciated, it’s a brightly colored sign for a shop that promises everything but sells nothing.” Genevie Yu, Reverse Shot
“Animists are people who recognise that the world is full of persons, some of whom are human, and that life is always lived in relationship with others.” Graham Harvey, Animism
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|3x3 competition
The 3x3 competition emerged from the wish to support local filmmakers. At the same time K3´s inherent concept of establishing crossborder cooperation has called for a supraregional competition where filmmakers meet and where the audience gets to know topics and filmic approaches of the neighbouring regions.
Therefore for the first time local competitions were held in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Slovenia and Carinthia. From each of them a jury nominates three films to take part at the 3x3 supra-regional competition. Out of these 9 films a jury will award one film with the 3x3 award worth € 1.500.-
3x3 COMPETITION PROGRAMME
The films from FVG and Slovenia have already been selected and are marked as such in the respective film programs. Those from Carinthia will be nominated on the first day of the festival in Villach. -CAUGICH’S unpredictable fate Krema, Peressutti, Sabbadini, Italy 2010, 5’ 20” -Cinezoique Stefania Rota, Italy 2012, 3’15” -Hemingway´’s Pen Renzo Carbonera, Italy 2010, 17’ -Looking through the iron curtain Anja Medved, Slovenia 2010, 22’ -SOLIDARITY Nika Autor, Slovenia 2012, 5’ -White Box Eva Petrič, Slovenia 2012, 8’ -CARINTHIAN NOMINATION 1 ------Thursday November 22nd -CARINTHIAN NOMINATION 2 ------Thursday November 22nd -CARINTHIAN NOMINATION 3 ------Thursday November 22nd
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3x3 Jury ............................................................................................ METKA DARIŠ Art Director of Slovenska Kinoteka STEFANO MONTI Creator and co-founder of art ex dono BARBARA PICHLER Director of Diagonale – Festival for Austrian Film, Graz
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STRUCTURE OF 3X3 COMPETITION
NOMINATION
ITALIAN JURY
F.V.G. COMP
NOMINATION NOMINATION NOMINATION
SLOVENIAN JURY
SLOVENIAN COMP
NOMINATION
3X3 JURY
3X3 COMP
WINNER
NOMINATION NOMINATION
AUSTRIAN JURY
K3 ENTRIES
CARINTHIAN COMP
NOMINATION NOMINATION
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FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA COMPETITION ...........................................................................................
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ELISA GRANDO journalist and film critic for “Il Piccolo” and “CIACK”
SLOVENIAN COMPETITION ........................................................................................... VARJA MOČNIK film director
KARINA RESSLER Film editor
FRITZ HOCK founder and director of K3 Short Film Festival
IVANA NOVAK film critic
JURIJ MEDEN programme director for Kinoteka in Ljubljana
SIMON POPEK Programm director – LIFFe, film critic
ARNO RUSSEGGER Professor at the University of Klagenfurt with a special subject on Cinema advisory board for film, Carinthia
GIAN PAOLO POLESINI journalist and film critic for “Il Messaggero Veneto”
CARINTHIAN COMPETITION ...........................................................................................
GERHARD LAPPAN Film director, cameraman advisory board for film, Carinthia
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|awards
K3 INTERNATIONAL Short Film FESTIVAL AwardS 2012
K3 International
3x3 supra-regional award K3 Audience Award 2012
Short Film Award 2012
€ 1.500
given by Ben Russell € 1.500
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€ 1.000 A unique way of awarding - the K3 public debate Three films from the international and the 3x3 programmes are selected by voting cards. Encouraged by a moderator, the audience and the film-makers are invited to discuss and find arguments for the film that deserves the K3 Audience Award. Consentaneous vote is the goal of the debate. If that cannot be achieved, everybody will be invited to make a last convincing statement before the award is decided by a show of hands.
Sunday November, 25th Parkcafé, Villach
5.30 pm
Public debate on audience award
8.00 pm
Official awarding
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|SPECIAL PROGRAMMES
KINO AUS KARNTEN CINEMA FROM CARINTHIA
In the last years Austrian Film has gained astounding recognition from International Festivals. What is rarely noticed that this “Austrian film wonder” is supported by a lot of people that originate from Carinthia as many of them had left their homeland for lack of proper working possibilities. “Kino aus Kärnten” – initiated by Prof. Arno Russegger, wants to highlight this fact by showing cinematic works with Carinthian participation. Every film is followed by discussions with the filmmakers about their professional and artistic situation, how the film production has developed and about future projects.
LASSNITZ
A long-time goal of “Kino aus Kärnten” is to re-establish a proper, independent film fund. At a public podium the requirements of this fund are presented but also, what steps can and should be taken in the meantime.
DU UND ICH / You and I
Sunday, November 25th, 3.00 pm Parkcafé Villach Participants from the fields of cinema and politics will be announced shortly before the festival.
Hans Schabus, Austria 2012, 76’ Friday, November 23rd, 5.30 pm Filmstudio Villach
Ruth Rieser, Austria 2011 103’ Saturday, November 24th, 5.30 pm Filmstudio Villach
WHAT IS LOVE
Ruth Mader, Austria 2012, 80’ Sunday, November 25th, 11.00 am Filmstudio Villach
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LASSNITZ 76’ AUSTRIA 2012 At the center of the film stands a railway bridge – 5.6 meters wide, 3.53 meters high, 24.5 meters long and 78 tons of weight – that makes a long journey from the southeast of Austria to the northwest of Germany. In long takes, the observer becomes part of a sedate curtain. Time becomes noticeable and decelerates with the continuation of events. Over several nights, the transport crosses Europe, putting the brakes on hectic traffic, as if a fossil from another time wanted to prove itself again for the present.
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Hans Schabus was born in Watschig, Austria in 1970. From 1991 until 1996 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 2005 he represented Austria at the Biennale di Venezia. Hans Schabus lives and works in Vienna.
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............................................................................................................................ Director, Concept: Hans Schabus
Camera, Editing, Sound: Robert Schabus Supported by: GKB, Land Steiermark, Kärnten Kultur, Swietelsky Transporte Screenings Schirn MAG, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany 2012 Blickle Kino, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria 2012
........................................................................................................................ FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) ATELIER, 2010 ECHO, 2009 BETON, 2008 IN SEARCH OF THE ENDLESS COLUMN (FOLLOWING THE SANTA FE TRAIL), 2007 VAL CANALE, 2005 TRANSPORT, 2003 ASTRONAUT, 2002 WESTERN, 2002
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you aND I 103’ Austria, Israel 2011 DU UND ICH The story of physically challenged Hiltraud and her non-disabled partner Franz finding the love of their lives. Filmed over a period of 6 years with long phases of intensive work on the film project. At the end, there is the certainty that dreams can come true. For Hiltraud, Franz – and for everyone who believes in themselves. www.duundich-derfilm.at
........................................................................................................................ ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Ruth Rieser, is an Austrian actress, filmmaker and screenwriter. She was born in Klagenfurt and became mother to a son in 2003. She received her acting education at the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna and the École Supérierure d’Art Dramatique du Théatre National de Strasbourg in France. In 2003 she received the Candango award “Best Actress” at the Brasilia Film Festival. Ruth Rieser participated in TV and cinema productions in Austria, Germany and Brazil and starred at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, Staatstheater Suttgart and others. www.ruthrieser.net
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............................................................................................................................ Director, Screenplay: Ruth Rieser
Camera: Helmut Wimmer, Attila Boa, Volker Gläser, Sasi Horesh Editing: Michou Hutter Key Cast: Hiltraud Schmidt, Franz Bittermann, Miriam Amelie Rieser, Leonard Robert Rieser Music: “Lonely Drifter Karen”, Friedrich Gföllner Sound: Bruno Pisek, Linda Björk Steinhórsdóttir Animation: Tim Maresch Producer: Kurt Mayer Distributor: Thimfilm Supported by: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Land Oberösterreich, Land Kärnten
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........................................................................................................................ Festivals Diagonale, Graz, Austria 2012 Hofer Filmtage, Germany 2012 Terre de Femmes / Menschenrechte für Frauen, Tübingen, Germany 2012 Nomination for Best Austrian documentary film – 2013
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WHAT IS LOVE 80’ AUSTRIA 2012 This film is a portrait of life, a portrait of people with varying life plans. It asks the meaning of life, about how to fill the gap between birth and death, and what is happiness. Short documentary pieces tell the stories of some very different protagonists of a generation: from the forest-owning family in their stately home to the factory worker following her daily routine. www.whatislove-derfilm.at
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Ruth Mader was born in Vienna in 1974. She is an Austrian director, author and producer. She studied Directing at the University of Music and Performing Arts and graduated with distinction. Mader’s short and feature films have received numerous awards. Her short film Null Defizit was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001, which also showed her first feature film Struggle in 2003.
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............................................................................................................................ Director, Screenplay: Ruth Mader Camera: Jörg Gönner Editing: Niki Mossböck Cast: Saskia Maca, Walter Scalet, Eva Suchy, Florentina Suchy, Jonas Horak, Thomas Rath, Sandra Steininger, Bernhard Hatzl, Andreas Steininger, Michael Bubna, Helene Bubna, Maximilian Bubna, Wenzel Bubna, Lukas Bubna Music: Manfred Plessl
........................................................................................................................ Festivals Berlinale Forum, Germany 2012 Diagonale, Graz 2012
Sound: Ekkehart Baumung Producer: Gabriele Kranzelbinder Produced by: KGP Film Production
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G.f. S.,o.c. Great films. Short, of course. The short film festival of Switzerland. 16. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, 6.-11. November 2012 www.kurzfilmtage.ch
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Udine will be the hosting city of the K3 INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2013. Satellite festivals and retrospectives will take place in Ljubljana and Villach. Festival dates and call for entries to be announced on www.k3festival.com
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|staff and thanks
K3 TEAM Overall Director Fritz Hock Co-Director Piera Nodari Pre-selection Team Fritz Hock Jurij Meden Piera Nodari Igor Prassel Screening Master Helmut Sommer Manuela Wilpernig Graphic Designer Senay Mohamed Mahmud Editorial Staff Nathalie Schwaiger Elisabeth Pichler Coordination // events Mattia Pilosio Manuela Wilpernig Event Support Frei-stil Web Master Smail Jusic Web-content Andrea Popelka Klara Schellander Photographer / Internship Andrea Popelka Sponsoring / Funding Lea Friessner Fritz Hock Piera Nodari
Many thanks to Registration / Archive Gabi Seiler Press Office (support) apomat*, Vienna K3 Udine Organiser Ateneo delle Idee Director Piera Nodari Assistant to the Director Klara Schellander Press Office Moira Cussigh Daniela Sartogo Interpreter / Translator Lucia Scarcella Promotion Luisa Scarcella K3 Ljubljana Directors Jurij Meden Igor Prassel Co-Director Sanja Čakarun Web-content Sanja Čakarun
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Roberta Bignozzi, Kaja Bohorč, Vassily Bourikas, Jörg Brandes, Matthew Carney, Walter Fischer, Claudia Franz, Martin Gfrerer, Elisa Grando, Elisabeth Grebenicek and Filmstudio, Gerald Gröchenig, Wolfgang Gumpelmaier and ununi.tv, the whole family Hock, Gerhard Lappan, Roberto Leonarduzzi, Falk Mahnke, Lorenzo Marchiori, Ernst Miesgang, Varja Močnik, Stefano Monti, Anna Morandini, Michael Moser, Ivana Novak, Cornelius Onitsch, Maša Peče, Nina Peče, Klaus Pertl and Kinomuseum Klagenfurt, Barbara Pichler, Gian Paolo Polesini, Simon Popek, Karina Ressler, Arno Rußegger, STERNENKLAR, Herbert Tarmann, The Lifeblood team (Enrico Angeli, Thomas Balin, Annapia Bernardis, Fabio Chiusi, Mario Criscuolo, Claudio Della Negra, Roman Etianen Feduns, Michele Innocente, Laura Marchesan, Elisa Matiussi, Simone Miani, Luca Morandini, Elizabeth Peres, Mattia Pilosio, Margherita Regeni, Tommaso Revelant, Stefania Rota, Silvia Delia Simonetti, TP, Teresa Terranova, Diego Zanitti), Koen Van Daele, Marco Villotta, Gerald Weber and sixpack, Maja Zrim, the owner of Leon D’Oro, the whole audience and the more than 1.700 film-makers!
locations Cinema halls Visionario Udine via Asquini, 33 Udine, Italy www.visionario.info Kinodvor Ljubljana Kolodvorska 13 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia www.kinodvor.org
Festival hotels Holiday Inn Villach Europaplatz 1-2 9500 Villach, Austria www.holidayinn-villach.com B&B Hotel President Udine Via Duino 8 33100 Udine, Italy www.hotelbb.it/it/hotel-udine/hotel
Kinoteka Ljubljana Miklošičeva 38 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia www.kinoteka.si
Framework programme Parkcafé Villach Moritschstraße 2 9500 Villach, Austria www.parkcafe.at
Filmstudio im Stadtkino Villach Rathausplatz 1 9500 Villach, Austria www.members.aon.at/filmstudiovillach
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Imprint K3 Short Film Festival Fritz Hock, Eichenweg 16/15 - 9520 Annenheim_k3festival.com _ fritz.hock@k3festival.com _The content of this catalogue bases on information delivered by the filmmakers until November, 1st 2012._Errors and changes in the programme are reserved.
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