The Bistrik7 collective has two films in IndieLisboa International Film Festival this year: Manel Raga Raga's Grbavica & The Curse of the Phantom Tympanum from Graeme Cole and Aleksandra Niemczyk.
Progamme here: https://indielisboa.com/en/2019-edition/films/
Emma Rozanski’s video installation ‘A New Kind of Ray’ will screen at the No Flash Video Show - MAY 3-4 - New Jersey - FREE EVENT
Dedicated to showcasing ambitious new works by emerging filmmakers and time-based artists, NOFLASH 2019 will feature 29 works from 11 countries, in three avant-garde short film programs – Corporeal Considerations, Autobios & Animations, and Pensive Portraiture – as well as a popup video art exhibition, and a reception with performances. Reserve your free tickets and learn more at NOFLASHvideo.org. Sponsored by the Rutgers Filmmaking Center and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.
This video installation was originally created during Rozanski’s artist residency at Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science and exhibited there in her solo exhibition in November 2018. It features narration by Darryl Foster.
Bianca Lucas presented a screening of her work in New Orleans on Sunday 31 March 2019. This was a chance to catch up with her oldest, newest and prospective work and, within that context, talk about ghosts with an attending Cajun healer.
Our Emma Rozanski’s dance-video installation ‘On the Motion of the Heart and the Blood’ will be exhibited in Chicago next week (4/8 - 4/14) as part of the Roman Susan Gallery’s STREETLIGHT series at Wedge Projects (Howard Street).
The work will be projected in the window of the gallery 24/7 during the week 4/8 - 4/14 , along with a piece by Tracy Miller-Robbins - so put on your spring walking shoes and take a stroll on by Chicago (it’ll be visible from the street).
ON THE MOTION OF THE HEART AND THE BLOOD was originally made during Rozanski’s Artist Residency at Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science in 2018. The piece was also photographed by @Bistrik7 ‘s Gonzalo Escobar Mora, and performed by Sienna Broglie and Steveie Stevens of SAIC.
Streetlight at Wedge Projects, 1448 West Howard Street, Chicago, IL, USA
January 7, 2019 - May 26, 2019
https://www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org/event/art-house-cinema-3-17/
Local, national and international filmmakers contribute their work to No Festival Required’s traditionally un-traditional selection of experimental art, animation, documentary and social justice short subjects. Subject matters include a Vietnam-era fear campaign, desert farming, a wanted haircut, judo empowerment for the blind, a writer’s night fears and PARADE-The Absolute End Of The World, a 14 minute and almost eight year animation project by the recently passed Arizona artist and ASU graduate Steve Gompf.
#CelebraElCineLatino Hoy estrenamos el corto Pool Version de Gonzalo Escobar Mora. Con esta película inauguramos un especial con una muestra de obras latinoamericanas que fueron producidas en la escuela del director húngaro Béla Tarr en el marco de su proyecto académico film.factory de la Sarajevo Film Academy.
View the film / 💥Vean la película aquí https://www.retinalatina.org/video/pool-version/
Read a Review of the film / 💥Lean la reseña de Pool version aquí https://www.retinalatina.org/pool-version-gonzalo-escobar-…/
This week, Emma Rozanski’s short film PANGAEA, screens as part of the Sharjah Film Platform (SFP), a week of live film screenings, talks and workshops held by the Sharjah Art Foundation. Our Marta Hernaiz Pidal was the cinematographer on the film and it was shot in Sarajevo on location among the striking brutalist architecture of Sarajevo’s main TV station.
Festival website and programme: http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/programme/sharjah-film-platform
A curated program of short films by Bistrik7 filmmakers will be screened in Bourges, France on 17th November 2018, at 6pm, as part of this year’s Bandits Mages -Unstable reality and shifting knowledges. Mending the Fabric of the World -
Link to info: http://rencontres2018.bandits-mages.com/carte-blanche/
This is the most wonderful list of films:
Namsuk Kim - Self Portrait 4m
Marta Hernaiz Pidal - Spoon 4m
Bianca Lucas - Bogeyman 23m
Emma Rozanski - Pangaea 8m
Patrick Marshall - A Letter to John Fitzgerald Kennedy Concerning Outer Space, Assassinations, and the Cosmic Universal Cinema 9m
Pilar Palomero - Horta 15m
Andre Gil Mata - Num Globo De Neve 9m
Gonzalo Escobar Mora - Pool Version 20m
Marta Hernaiz Pidal - Cycle 8m
Manel Raga - Manel Lives In Sarajevo 5m
(and here is a full program of events - lots of exciting stuff to see)
Kudos to Aleksandra Niemczyk & Graeme Cole for curating the program.
Kicking off in Chicago (USA) in November is Emma Rozanski’s solo video art and mixed media exhibition at the International Museum of Surgical Science.
The opening reception is on Friday 2nd November 5.30pm to 7.30pm and is free to attend and drinks will be provided. After that, the exhibition will run until December 2nd 2018. She’s created four new experimental video pieces (including dance, animation and shadow puppetry), a sound installation and a few text-based mixed-media pieces - everything is inspired by and created using the Museum’s vast collection.
Here’s all the info: https://imss.org/specimens-of-chance-and-play-artist-in-residence-capstone-exhibition/
Emma will also be conducting a workshop at the Museum on Sunday 11th November called ‘The Poetry of Movement’ - a workshop for self-expression through abstract dance - no dance or performance experience required!
Exciting things all ‘round!
On Tue 6 March 2018 at 6:30pm, at the CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, Scotland, and on the 9th March 2018, 13:00 to 15:30, Russkiy Mir Centre, A29, Elvet Riverside I, Durham University...
...Esteemed archivist and curator Juana Suárez (NYU Tisch School of the Arts) presents a programme of four recent short films by Colombian filmmakers living abroad. She will also be there to discuss the programme with special guests.
Including our Gonzalo Escobar Mora's medium-length film from Sarajevo - POOL VERSION
Links to the events:
http://cca-glasgow.com/programme/against-the-national-project
https://www.dur.ac.uk/mlac/news/displayevents/?eventno=37982
Bistrik 7 NEWS – December 2017
An omnibus of festive video gifts:
This is a link to a small video collection of short films made as festive season gifts to each other and to our extended film.factory family. Our collective, Bistrik7, is our way to connect, to keep in touch with each other, to share and collaborate on projects and plans big and small for years to come. This year we wanted to make some videos for each other - our way of saying ‘hi’ and keeping the love and spirit of Bistrik7 alive.
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Gonzalo Escobar Mora's graduation film.factory film, POOL VERSION, will screen as part of the BogotShorts Film Festival this month (info via links below). Bogoshorts is the largest short film festival in Colombia. Gonzalo will be present for Q&A at the screening.
Pilar Palomero's short documentary, HORTA, will premiere in competition at DocLisboa October 2017.
Details: http://www.doclisboa.org/2017/filmes/horta/
Slow cinema at its best!
Four of our filmmakers - Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Aleksandra Niemczyk, Pilar Palomero and Graeme Cole - have short films playing at The Slow Short Film Festival right now:
- 15th of August is the premiere of Aleksandra Niemczyk's new short film "Investigations of a dog" during Sarajevo Film Festival in BiH Section.
https://films.sff.ba/en/detail/?film=Investigations-of-a-Dog
-Mamonga, Stefan's first fiction feature, is in pre-production - A three-part film, set in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. Shooting starts on winter in Tuzla, Bosnia. The project was selected for Kino Der Kunst Project Pitch in Munich, part of the film festival by the same name, held this April, where 8 alumni of European film academies have been selected to compete for the main prize (post-production funding by ARRI), awarded by the jury presided by Doryun Chong, main curator of M+ museum in Hong Kong.
The festival will also screen his short film "The Bucket Rider" as a part of their official program.
Cartegena Film Festival recently held a retrospective of the work of Bistrik7's film.factory teacher and mentor Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Gonzalo Escobar Mora, who was also screening work in the festival, took the opportunity to catch up with him and also filmed an interview with him for Fandor.
Here it is:
APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL EXPLAINS HIMSELF
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/apichatpong-weerasethakul-explains
Pilar Palomero's film, The Night of all things, will we playing in the following festivals (in march and april):
Lucca Film Festival (Italy)
Philosophical Film Festival (Macedonia)
부산국제단편영화제 Busan International Short Film Festival (Corea)
Euregion Shorts (Netherlands)
watch the trailer:
New review of Aleksandra Niemczyk's film CENTAUR:
http://www.worldcinemaguide.com/centaur/
Gonzalo Escobar Mora's short film (a Bosnian/Colombian co-production) POOL VERSION screens this week in South America's oldest film festival, FICCI, in Cartagena Colombia.
Info and screenings: https://tinyurl.com/zr4ycur
The festival is also paying tribute to one of our film.factory teachers/mentors, Apichatpong Weerasethakul (http://www.kickthemachine.com): http://ficcifestival.com/pelicula.php?p=XG3C6fwmZmJn9egB1nwASvgCXG3C6fwm