||||||| RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID
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The call for entries is open until July 30, 2010, for the 'Rencontres Internationales' that will take place in Paris at the Centre Pompidou from Nov. 25 to Dec. 4, 2010, and in Madrid and Berlin in 2011.
Those three events will feature an international programming focusing on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and filmmakers recognized on the international scene along with young artists and filmmakers.
THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS OPEN TO FILM, VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA WORKS, without any restrictions for length or genre. All submissions are free, regardless of geographical origin.
• FILMS AND VIDEOS - any film and video format
* Video / Experimental video
* Fiction, exp. fiction / Short, middle and full length
* Documentary, exp. documentary
* Experimental film
* Animation
• MULTIMEDIA
* Video installation, multimedia installation * Net art * Multimedia concert, multimedia performance
The 'Rencontres Internationales' offers more than a simple presentation of the works. It introduces an intercultural forum gathering various guests from all over the world - artists and filmmakers, institutions and emerging organizations - to testify of their reflections and their experiences, but also of artistic and cultural contexts that are often undergoing deep changes.
The 'Rencontres Internationales' reflects specificities and convergences of artistic practices between new cinema and contemporary art, explores emerging media art practices and their critical purposes, and makes possible a necessary time when points of view meet and are exchanged.
The event aims at presenting works to a broad audience, at creating circulations between different art practices and between different audiences, as well as creating new exchanges between artists, filmmakers and professionals.
It seeks to contribute to a reflection on our contemporary culture of image via a compelling program opened to everyone..
PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID
In 2007, the Rencontres Internationales, which initially took place in Paris and Berlin, opened up to a third city: Madrid. The event constitutes a unique artistic and cultural platform in Europe for artists, professional networks and various audiences. The venues in the three cities are in particular the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Reina Sofia National Museum and the Spanish Cinematheque in Madrid.
The 'Rencontres Internationales' is a non-commercial event without competition, supported by French, German, Spanish and international institutions.
From June 29 to July 4, 2010, the "Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid" will create a space of discovery and reflection between new cinema and contemporary art in Berlin at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
In the presence of 100 artists and filmmakers from all over the world, this rare event will propose an international programme of film, video, multimedia. It includes 24 screenings with film premieres and a video program, a multimedia concert, a cycle of debates and panel discussions. A video library will offer a space where the whole programming can be viewed and reviewed on request.
This year's programme has been selected from 5500 submissions as well as by invitations made to some artists and filmmakers. It is the result of an elaborate international search for works: 150 works from Germany, France, Spain and 50 other countries, gathering internationally-known artists and filmmakers with young artists and filmmakers presented for the first time.
FILMS AND VIDEO SCREENINGS
(new fiction, documentaries, video, experimental)
• Carte blanche to Pedro Costa.
• Special screening: Jean-Luc Godard et Anne-Marie Miéville.
• Special screening: Harun Farocki.
• Homage to Werner Schroeter. Werner Schroeter, one of the main filmmaker of the German Nouvelle Vague, came to Paris for the Rencontres in November 2009 to present a carte blanche. For the Rencontres in Berlin, we will screen the film he chose "Winter Soldier" (96’, USA, 1972), and the video documentation of the presentation he did in Paris with the actress Carole Bouquet.
• German Premiere: Jonas Mekas - "Notes on an American film Director at work: Martin Scorsese" (65’, USA, 2008). A video portrait of Martin Scorsese at work, filmed in New York, Brooklyn and Boston during the filming of "The Departed".
• German Premiere: Ken Jacobs (USA), ‘The Day was a scorcher’ and ‘excerpt from The Sky Socialist stratified’.
• German Premiere of the full length film ‘Le Procès d’Oscar Wilde’ by Christian Merlhiot (FR).
• German Premiere of 'Madame Butterfly' (2008), a mid length film by Tsaï Ming-liang (TW).
• The mid length film 'A letter to Uncle Boonmee' (2009) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (TH), preliminary work to his latest full lenght film, Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival 2010.
• The newest work by Hans op de Beeck (BE) - Charlotte Ginsborg (UK) - Julius Ziz (USA) - Zapruder (IT) - Diego Del Pozo Barriuso (ES) - Philip Warnell (UK) - Ariane Michel (FR) - Eija-Liisa Ahtila (FI) – Emmanuelle Antille (CH).
Among the artists screened: Carles Asensio Monrabà (ES), Patrick Bernatchez (CA), Francois Bucher (CO), Jonathan Cummins (IR), Johanna Domke (DE), Peter Downsbrough (USA), Ivan Faktor (CR), Elise Florenty (FR), Dora Garcia (ES), Bouchra Khalili (MA), Almagul Menlibayeva (KZ), Eleonore de Montesquiou (FR), Natacha Nisic (FR), Vivian Ostrovsky (FR), Antoni Pinent (ES), Jérôme Schlomoff (FR), Volker Schreiner (DE), Yu Chin Tseng (TW), Liu Wei (CN).
Each screening is built around a transversal theme, creating a questioning that stretches across different forms and audiovisual practices.
A selection of screenings:
• CONTEMPORARY ANIMATIONS: A screening dedicated to rare contemporary animated works, most of which are directed by visual artists.
• FORGERY: A screening about politic forgery and history rewriting.
• REVISITED CINEMA: the cinematic quotation as a building block for narrative reconstruction, both a meditation on cinema and a research ground for visual arts.
• THE WAR WILL NOT TAKE PLACE: Artists and filmmakers questioning the unsustainable reality of armed conflicts.
• FUTURE CINEMA: A screening session with Wim Wenders and Jean-Luc Godard, a thought about the future of cinema.
MULTIMEDIA CONCERT
A multimedia performance by Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP), Rheo. German Premiere.
DEBATES / FORUM
The Rencontres Internationales invites filmmakers, curators, artistic directors and programmers from European and extra-European national museums, contemporary art centres and biennales in contemporary cinema, video and new media. The debates aim to further analyze the concerns and leads in each country, in order to discuss this creation and accompany it, as much from a critical point of view, than from the point of view of the public and the artists.
||||||| CALL FOR ENTRIES
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(from the press release)
