network for contemporary silent film
at the Contemporary Art Center in Thessaloniki (CACT) on Friday 21 + Saturday 22 March 2014
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This year's international silent film programs with live music were presented by Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel with a focus on poetry films from the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (by Literaturwerkstatt Berlin) on March 21st and Heinz Hermanns with a focus on experimental documentaries from the interfilm short film festival Berlin on March 22nd.
Heinz Hermanns gave a masterclass on "The Art of Short Film," its special aesthetics and mechanisms and the possibilities of distribution
on March 22nd.
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).
supporter in Thessaloniki
16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century
Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Center
Warehouse B1, port area
Thessaloniki 54110 | +30 2310 593270
All events will had free entry.
PROGRAM
Friday, March 21st, 2014
20:00
Silent filmprogram: Greek Poetry Films
| Pohadka/Fairy Tale Alex Chatzialexiou, GR, 2014, 6:00min, animation Poem: ''Pohadka'' by Miroslav Holub Music: natrYX (voice / prototype instrument) Special mini projector mount: Alex Chatzialexiou Permission for the greek translation by Paraskinio Publication: ''Two European Poets'' |
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Section Isidoros Tsalapatis Aima kai Soma (Blood and Body) |
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| Wonder Maria Papacharalambous, Τechnical support: Achilleas Kentonis CΥ, 2010, 2:00min, experimental Based on Nikos Kazantzaki's Askitiki (Ασκητική) Music: natrYX & Maria Papacharalambous (vocals and sound objects) |
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| Protest Maria Papacharalambous, CY, 2013, 2:50min, experimental Τechnical support: Achilleas Kentonis New version edited by natrYX Poem: Alone by Allan Edgar Poe Music: natrYX & Maria Papacharalambous (vocals and sound objects) |
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Silent filmprogram: International Part by Zebra Poetry Film Festival
«Poetry is a cross sectional art due to it's high mediality. Film can use poetry to create cross-media works of art. Poetry films are short films, that deal with poems in terms of content, aesthetics or form. There are animation, fiction, experimental and documentary films that implement ballads, sound poems, haikus and many other forms of poetry in a very surprising and engaging way.»
Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel (Curator and moderator of the program)
| Generation David Downes NZ, 2004, 13:15min, animation after poem "Generation" by David Downes A journey through dream images of electricity, work, human touch, birth, death, and escape. Music: 6daEXIt Improvisation Ensemble Chrysi Parpara / Kassiani Vamvdalioti / Yannis Dimitroudis / Vassilis Voudouris / Olga Papakonstantinou / Yannis Mylonelis / Minas Tsavdaris-Valianos / Andreas Katsiavalos / Odysseas Gkallios / Yorgos Cholopoulos / Dafne Mantousi / Lina Koukouli / Georgia Koumara / Alexandros Karagiorgis / Menelaos Toukas / Alexis Porfiriadis / Danae Stefanou / Paraskevi Tektonidou / Marilena Salta / Lazaros Souvaitzis / Stelios Tsairidis / Noula Papadopoulou |
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| Kliniken / The Clinic Kristian Pedersen NO, 2011, 02:36min, animation after Kliniken by Annelie Axén An obscure walk through the bureaucratic hallways of a dental clinic. Music: Yannis Mylonelis (6daEXIt) |
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| Imaginary Encounters - No 25 "Breeze" Mysh Rozanov ISR, 2010, 03:08min, feature after poem "Breeze" by Mysh Rozanov Traditional Japanese three-line poetry is used to explore emotion and sexuality. Music: Yannis Mylonelis (6daEXIt) |
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| [meine heimat] / [my heimat] Jan Peeters NL, 2012, 08:51min, experimental after poem "[meine heimat]" by Ulrike Almut Sandig While a university librarian struggles with words at lonely heights, an old pigeon fancier awaits the homecoming of his pigeons… Music: Odysseas Gkallios & Olga Papakonstantinou (6daEXIt) |
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| A Cup of Wine Daniel Conrad CAN, 2010, 06:24min, performance after 5 Poems by Rumeng Ling & Li Bai China's Tang and Song dynasties, with their eroticism and Taoist love of nature. Music: George Cholopoulos (6daEXIt) |
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| FM-Biography Matthias Fritsch DE, 2013, 06:46min, fiction after poem "FM-Biography" by Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało The film follows two young girls while doing auto stop to a big city. Music: Underwater Chess |
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| The City Ghayath Almadhoun, Marie Silkeberg SE, 2012, 07:00min, experimental after text "The City and What Gas" by Ghayath Almadhoun & Marie Silkeberg Inside the arabic spring the revolutions: the life and death of a city. Music: Underwater Chess |
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Curator greek poetry filmprogram: Anastasia_X
Curator international poetry film program: Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel
Music curators and coordination: Anastasia_X and Eirini Papakonstantinou
Artistic director: Matthias Fritsch
about the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival
Every two years the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival shows the current state of a dynamic, young short film genre which lies somewhere between poetry, film and new media. The festival offers both makers of poetry films and poets themselves from around the world a forum for fixing positions as well as exchanging ideas and experience – an ever growing group of fans of a genre which has won over even the most suspicious and sceptical in the audience. A comprehensive supporting programme with retrospectives, colloquia and talks complements the competition, which is unique worldwide.
www.zebra-award.org
Saturday, March 22nd, 2014
18:00
Masterclass: The Art of Short Filmmaking
A short film only works with a good idea, a great concept and a perfect dramaturgy.
| Seminar about short film story development, its special aesthetics, mechanisms and the possibilities of distribution. Heinz Hermanns, director of interfilm short film festival Berlin, is organizing festivals and running a successful shortfilm distribution for the last 30 years. He will give examples from all over the world about ideas, concepts and ways to make a successful and shown short film. Besides a perspective on short film in general – the lecture will have a special focus on document ary shorts. Language: English |
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Experimental documentary shorts with live soundtracks
«These short documentary films are able to tell their stories without a voice. They don't need spoken words because of the power of their images, their camera work, the connection of the unusual with effects, editing techniques, animation and sound – which will be created live in the screening space. The films show interactions of nature and time, humans and work. Examples of unusual documentaries that present new ways of life and story telling.»
Heinz Hermanns (director of interfilm short film festival Berlin)
| Opening film Details / Λεπτομέρειες Dimitris Gouziotis GR, 1996, 17:40min, experimental A poetic filmic experimental shoot on 16mm film at 1996. Details of an afternoon following the steps of Jean Vigo, P. P. Pasollini, Stavros Tornes. Music: Savvas Metaxas & Spiros Emmanuilidis |
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| International documentary program Curated and presented by Heinz Hermanns Demolition Entertainment Jörg Keweloh DE, 2004, 5:30min, experimental documentary The material signs of industrial culture are vanishing in the Ruhr area, but their images remain. Ghosts recreate the world in a dance. An impressionistic requiem. Music: Anastasios Kokkinidis (Emdy) |
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| Ostkreuz Laura Geiger, Tom Kretschmer DE, 2007, 8:30min, documentary The railway station Ostkreuz, in Berlin, is more than 100 years old. For the first time in its history it will undergo a dramatic transformation. All that remains are memories of a time and how it used to be. Music: Eventless Plot |
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| Telakka / Dry Dock Tuukka Hari FI, 2001, 11:40min, documentary Impressions of an old dry dock. Using timelapse techniques, it is more like a dream than a documentary film. Music: Anastasios Kokkinidis (Emdy) |
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| Sea Change Joe King, Rosie Pedlow UK, 2005, 5:30min, experimental documentary A meditative study of a caravan park. The changes in light, colors and time, reveal the transience of human existence. Music: Savvas Metaxas & Spiros Emmanuilidis |
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| Spättans Väg / Way of the Flounder Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Ola Simonsson SE, 2005, 10:00min, short fiction documentary In the North Sea a flounder is hiding in the seaweed. Many dangers lurk on the bottom of the sea but the flounder is clever. One day the flounder is caught in a net. Music: beaTol & the Eagol |
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| The Majestic Plastic Bag Jeremy Konner USA, 2010, 4:00min, documentary Told from the perspective of a plastic bag that floats off and meets up with other plastic bags at the bottom of the sea. Music: beaTol & the Eagol |
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| Arkar / Arks Karin Karlsson, Mita Moberg SE, 2004, 13:00min, documentary One 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle, people fish on the lake Torneträsk. They sit in their "arks" - small, movable cabins, filled with all possible modern conveniences. Music: Eventless Plot |
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Film curator: Heinz Hermanns
Music curators and coordination: Anastasia_X and Eirini Papakonstantinou
Artistic director: Matthias Fritsch
About interfilm shortfilm festival Berlin
interfilm has established itself as one of the most important short film festivals in Europe. It is the second oldest German short film festival (after Oberhausen), and is recognised as the second most significant and oldest international film festival in Berlin after the Berlinale. More than 5.000 films with a maximum running time of 30 minutes are submitted each year. Of those, approximately 400 films are selected and organised into different thematic programs. These include; international, German, animation, documentary and children’s films. 'Focus On' highlights productions from specific countries or regions. Beyond that there are also special sections devoted to areas such as music videos, commercials, experimental films, historical films and retrospectives.
SEE PHOTO IMPRESSIONS OF THE EVENTS
| THE MUSICIANS |
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 Eventless Plot |
 Emdy (Anastasios Kokkinidis) |
 Savvas Metaxas & Spiros Emmanuilidis (live excerpt) |
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| beaTol & the Eagol Underwater chess  Improvisation Ensemble Chrysi Parpara / Kassiani Vamvdalioti / Yannis Dimitroudis / Vassilis Voudouris / Olga Papakonstantinou / Yannis Mylonelis / Minas Tsavdaris-Valianos / Andreas Katsiavalos / Odysseas Gkallios / Yorgos Cholopoulos / Dafne Mantousi / Lina Koukouli / Georgia Koumara / Alexandros Karagiorgis / Menelaos Toukas / Alexis Porfiriadis / Danae Stefanou / Paraskevi Tektonidou / Marilena Salta / Lazaros Souvaitzis / Stelios Tsairidis / Noula Papadopoulou With the kind participation of ARTOS FOUNDATION (Cyprus) Maria Papacharalambous (Μαρία Παπαχαραλάμπους) performs with natrYX |
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