Jubilee 15th ji. Hlava international documentary film festival
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CLOSING CEREMONYThe closing ceremony will again be hosted by Vosto5, who will oversee the announcement of the winners from the competition sections and the presentation of all festival awards. The ceremony will also feature the official book release of LENKA DOLANOVÁ: DIALOGUE WITH THE (DEMONS IN THE) TOOL. STEINA AND WOODY VASULKA, which the festival is publishing in conjunction with the AMU publishing house. Like last year, the ceremony will be broadcast live by Czech Television. 7. ACCOMPANYING PROGRAMDARKROOMThis is the fourth year of Darkroom, which brings the works of important figures of contemporary European photography into Jihlava’s movie theaters. The exhibitions, featuring the photographers’ personal attendance, represent an attempt at highlighting the differences and similarities between photography and film. This year’s Darkroom presents photographer and art director of Photomonth in Krakow Karol Hordziej, Slovak photographer Martin Kollár, and Welsh photographer Jason Evans. The presentations will take place at the Dukla Cinema. RESPEKT PRIZEAs in past years, the festival’s closing ceremony will feature the presentation of the fifth annual Respekt Prize for the best domestic television, video, or online reportage of the past year. This competition has been inspired by the conviction that audiovisual reportage is not just an important information channel, but above all that it can be a powerful catalyst for changing public life by becoming engaged in it. A good reportage does not limit itself to merely communicating the facts. It must asks questions, get to the core of the issue, and if necessary be a warning cry. Its work is not done with the closing credits. PUBLISHING ACTIVITIESLENKA DOLANOVÁ: DIALOGUE WITH THE (DEMONS IN THE) TOOL. STEINA AND WOODY VASULKA This year, the Jihlava festival has joined forces with the AMU publishing house to publish Lenka Dolanová’s book Woody Vasulka: Dialogue with the (Demons in the) Tool, which looks at the work of this important video artist, who received the Contribution to World Cinematography prize at the 2007 Ji.hlava IDFF. Steina and Woody Vasulka are groundbreaking pioneers of electronic audiovisual art. Their relationship to homemade but complex machines has been a fundamental part of their art since the beginning. In 1965, they left Czechoslovakia for the United States, where they discovered video and soon began to explore the language of electronic media using oscillators, synthesizers, colorizers, various kinds of optical equipment, processors and software. In their work, they explored the relationship between image and sound, sometimes sharing experience – Woody worked with sound, Steina with images. The Vasulkas’ work tells us much about the relationship between art, science, and technology, about the possibilities and limitations of artistic research, and about the role of the artist in society. Woody is more analytic, a mechanic, collector, and do-it-yourselfer, while Steina takes a more playful and intuitive (and in some ways freer) approach. Over the past 20 years, Woody has focused on robotic systems. He says: “Our reality should be the kind that we can dream about like a utopia. All this is a paradox, because I don’t know why I serve these machines, and I definitely do not want them to serve me. But I willingly submit myself to the process of working with them, letting them speak, letting them live.” For her part, Steina uses images of (among other things) natural phenomena found in Iceland in order to compose environments with multichannel audio and video. Together with their tools/machines, they fearlessly ride the new wave of (utopian) poetry. “Our reality should be the kind that we can dream about like a utopia. All this is a paradox, because I don’t know why I serve these machines, and I definitely do not want them to serve me. But I willingly submit myself to the process of working with them, letting them speak, letting them live.” (Woody Vasulka) The official book release will take place during the festival’s closing ceremony.
Vosto5 – The Vosto5 improvisational cabaret theater is a Jihlava mainstay, and its members also host the opening and closing ceremonies at the Ji.hlava IDFF. Ondřej Cihlář, one of the ensemble’s members, describes Vosto5 as “generational theater combining the poetry of modern cabaret’s text-appeal roots with satirical observations and improvisational abilities.” Divadlo Bufet – The Bufet Theater Company’s Autobuf is a traveling cultural space featuring theater performances, concerts, and film screening. It is a converted Karosa 734C bus that allows the ensemble to perform at various festivals and also to bring culture to locations that do not usually host cultural performances. It is the ensemble’s home stage from spring to autumn. De Facto Mimo – The De Facto Mimo independent theater association has been active since 2000. Its members consider themselves a semi-professional theater group that endeavors to present professional theater under amateur conditions. Kinéma – An original project by students from FAMU’s editing department, under the guidance of Martin Čihák. A theater production with images of light and puppets, a dramatization of texts and contexts from Czech avant-garde film from its prehistory until the rise of communism. Historical figures presented in the performance include physiologist and cinematic prophet Jan Evangelista Purkyně; Václav Till, author of the oldest theoretical essay on film entitled “Kinéma”; Alexandr Hackenschmied, author of the first Czechoslovak avant-garde film, Bezúčelná procházka (Aimless Walk); poets S. K. Neumann and Vítězslav Nezval; and many others. Directory: press -> 2011 press -> Draft I film Screening press -> The milk carton kids press -> Embargoed until 15 december 2005 15H00 gmt press -> Press Release world meteorological organization press -> Introductory Text press -> The project is part of the wider cooperation between Eni and Rosneft sanctioned under the Strategic Cooperation Agreement entered into by the parties on 25th April 2012 press -> El Niño’s Effects May Be Limited This Winter press -> I am particularly pleased that my last year at Kunsthaus Bregenz was so successful. There are very few institutions in which the architecture, the staff, and the art encounter each other so productively Download 167.4 Kb. Share with your friends:
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