Video Festival. Aim of the festival is presenting works of young and emerging artists who express their artistic concepts through the film language, giving an account of the current film and video production.
Video Festival
After the success of the last years, Fair Play Video Festival has come
to its 3rd edition. Since 2003 PLAY_gallery has been organizing this event
as a presentation platform for young artists and a meeting point for
professionals in of film and video production.
Aim of the festival is presenting works of young and emerging artists
who express their artistic concepts through the film language, giving an
account of the current film and video production and stimulating the
development of new visual languages and narratives.
In order to collect the widest possible range of international
artists, curators from all over the world have been invited to propose
works, which, in their opinion, give a contribution to the development of
the contemporary film and video production.
The Proposal Committee of this edition is composed by:
- Ahu Antmen (TR) art critic and freelance curator in Istanbul (TR)
- Luca Beatrice (IT) art critic and curator, professor at Brera Art
Academy, Milan (IT)
- Yann Beauvais (FR) filmmaker, curator and founder of Light Cone,
Paris (FR)
- Madeleine Bernstorff (DE) member of the selection committee at Film
Festival Oberhausen '06 (DE)
- Ricardo Mbarak (LB) new media artist and University Professor in
Beirut (LB)
- Mihnea Mircan (RO) curator among other at MNAC Bucharest (RO) and
Palais De Tokyo Paris (FR)
- Thomas Munz (DE) film & video curator and chief editor at
transmediale, Berlin (DE)
- Nestor Olhagaray (CL) director of Bienal de Video y Nuevos Medios in
Santiago / Chile (CL)
- Barbara Perea (MX) curator at MUCA Roma, Mexico City (MX)
- Mark Webber (UK) independent curator and programme advisor at London
Film Festival (UK)
The submitted works have been then selected by an internal committee
within PLAY_gallery for still and motion pictures. The works admitted to the
festival are approximately 25, the list of which will be published on the
PLAY_gallery website (www.pushthebuttonplay.com).
The Jury is composed by professionals from various fields: curators,
institution directors, professors and filmmakers. The Jury meets in July
13-15, for a screening week-end with discussion panels, which will be
partially open to the public.
Jury members of Fair Play 2006 are:
- Nathalie Angles (US) curator at Location One New York (US)
- Marc Glode (DE) curator, assistant professor and research fellow in
Film Studies at FU Berlin (DE)
- Birgit Kohler (DE) film expert, programme curator, Freunde der
deutschen Kinemathek Berlin (DE)
- Harm Lux (NL) independent curator in Berlin (DE)
- Chus Marti'nez (ES) director at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am
Main (DE)
- Ivica Pinjuh (BA) film critic and professor assistant at Sarajevo
University (BA)
- Sven Worner (DE) founder member of Cine'mathe'que Leipzig (DE)
- Peter Zorn (DE) curator, filmmaker, new media expert founder member
of Werkleitz Biennale (DE)
The Jurors have the task of conferring a 1st and a 2nd prize in money
(4000 € and 2000 €) as a contribution to the production of a work which will
be shown in the PLAY_gallery in 2007 and a 3rd prize, which consist in an
exhibition at the gallery. Winners of the past editions were Akram Zaatari
(2005) and Johannes Maier (2003).
Program:
Thursday, July 13 5pm:
Introduction of the jurors / short screening
Friday, July 14 2 - 7pm:
screening
Saturday, July 15 12 - 7pm:
Screening and panel discussion*
*It is the right of the jury to decide whether the discussions will be
public or not.
Play Gallery
Hannoverschestr. 1 - Berlin
Opening hours: Wed-sat 2-7pm