at the Contemporary Art Center in Thessaloniki (CACT)
Silent film screenings and a GIF-Exhibition on
Friday 10 + Saturday 11 March 2017
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Moving Silence, the Berlin-based platform for contemporary silent film is returning to the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki for the second time, March 10 -11, 2017, with the support of the Goethe Institut Thessaloniki, in the framework of the 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Since 2009, the network of international artists has been organizing screenings of film programs without sound with live music. The poetry of silent programmes that goes back to the very beginning of cinema is expressed through the contemporary aesthetics of the digital and analog image, and sound production. The event includes an international program of short films accompanied by live music played by musicians based in Thessaloniki. The entry is free with voluntary contribution
Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Center
Warehouse B1, port area
Thessaloniki 54110 | +30 2310 593270
PROGRAM
Friday 10.3.
Film Program
"Dream Worlds"
This compilations of 5 contemporary silent short films let the viewer enter into a viriety of poetic, bizzare, bright and dark worlds created by the film makers. The films are all starting from different source materials ranging from documentary footage to paper collages, found objects, aquariums or 3D graphics.
THE FILMS
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Traumzeit by Armin Mobasseri, DE 2012, 29min live music by epavlispavlakis |
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Die Stunde der Matronen by Stea Andreasson & Juergen Eckloff, DE 2009, 15:40min live music by George Avramidis, Christos Pappas |
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Parasit by Nikki Schuster, DE 2013, 7min live music by Alien Mustangs |
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Jellyfishes by Matthias Fritsch, DE 2011, 7min live music by May Roosevelt |
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Lost Boy by Ash Thorp & Antony Scott Burns, USA 2016, 9min live music by Costis Drygianakis |
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Saturday 11.3.
Film Program "The Astray and The Doomed"
This compilations of 9 silent short films brings tragic stories, wandering characters, situations without perspectives to the screen of CACT. The silent projections will be accompanied by greek live musicians.
THE FILMS
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Darra by Samuli Ala-Lahti, Lina Kuhanen, Mikko Kuoppasalmi, Wilma Kurumaa, Sami Lehti, Patrik Lilja, Silja Minkkinen, Terri Niemi, Vilma Vehmasaho FI 2015, 4min live music by Michalis Siganidis and Dimitris Leontsakis |
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I Play Dead by Kaveh Akaber, SE 2013, 14min live music by Fuku Cosmonaut |
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Clown Children by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, NO 2005, 6:15min live music by The Sailing Tomatoes |
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97% by Ben Brand, NL 2013, 8min live music by Michalis Siganidis and Dimitris Leontsakis |
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Neighbours by Norman McLaren, CA 1952, 8min live music by Monobloc |
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Wire Cutters by Jack Anderson, USA 2014, 9min live music by moody alien |
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MS Stubnitz by Nikki Schuster, DE 2015, 5min live music by Dodeka Daktyla (Thewelve fingers) |
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Out of Nowhere by Maayan Tzuriel & Isca Mayo, IR 2012, 6min live music by Manos Milonakis |
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Kurzschluss by Xaver Xylophon Böhm, DE 2009, 7min live music by Fuku Cosmonaut |
THE MUSICIANS
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epavlispavlakis |
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George Avramidis and Christos Pappas |
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May Roosevelt
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Costis Drygianakis |
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Michalis Siganidis and Dimitris Leontzakos | |
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Fuku Cosmonaut |
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The Sailing Tomatoes |
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Manos Milonakis www.manosmilonakismusic.com |
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Alien Mustangs alienmustangs.bandcamp.com |
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Moody Alien moody-alien.weebly.com |
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Dodeka Daktyla (Twelve Fingers) |
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Monobloc |
    
    
    
    
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Exhibition of GIF-Animations
GIF: Morphologies of a copyleft tale
Patterns & techniques of silent looping images in internet remix culture
Bring your smart phones & tablets to see the Gif-animations!
From laterna magica to the animated digital files, gifs share distinct features with silent film culture. As part of the Moving Silence events, 'GIF: Morphologies of a copyleft tale' explores the open-ended interpretations and design potential in the mashup art of GIF culture. It is realized as an immaterial exhibition, virtually accessible through a pop-up local network that follows the physical venues of the Moving Silence events.
The underlying concept is based on Vladimir Propp's book 'Morphology of the folktale' (1928), where Propp studies the narrative structures of folktales and introduces recurring patterns that come along a story formation. GIFs reflect the anonymous, collective narrative creations from a visual perspective, when a looping micro-fiction propagates through multiple derivative GIFs relating to an initial pattern or element.
The exhibition is a collaboration with the HMKW University of Applied Sciences and the DER FILTER Team in Berlin. The digital infrastructure is put together and hosted on the open source software Librarybox.
"GIF: Morphologies of a copyleft tale" is coded and curated by Mariana Ziku. You can read her latest publication on GIF art, in collaboration with ARTos Foundation and Moving Silence here.
CREDITS
Artistic direction and curation of international film program by
Matthias Fritsch (co-founder of Moving Silence)
Music program editing & coordination in Thessaloniki by
Eirini Papakonstantinou (curator at SMCA)
Technical support for audio and video by MSpirit
GIF Exhibition by Mariana Ziku
The exhibition is a collaboration with the HMKW University of Applied Sciences and the DER FILTER Team in Berlin. The digital infrastructure is put together and hosted on the open source software Librarybox.
A production with the financial and organizational support of Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki. Co-organized with the State Museum of Contemporary Art (SMCA) & the Contemporary Art Center in Thessaloniki (CACT).
In the framework of
19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century
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