VideoLisboa
dal 7/11/2001 al 25/11/2001
Segnalato da
7/11/2001
VideoLisboa
Forum Lisboa, Lisboa
An initiative taken by Camara Municipal de Lisboa/Videoteca Municipal, and Clube Portugues de Artes e Ideias. It aims at promoting and diffusing video and the new visual and communication media while artistic forms of expression. A fundamental aspect of a festival that dedicates itself to the exhibition of video art is being able to frame the present, bearing the past in mind. The competitions are intended to exhibit and award the most recent national and international video works.
VideoLisboa is an initiative taken by Câmara Municipal de Lisboa/Videoteca Municipal, and Clube Português de Artes e Ideias. It aims at promoting and diffusing video and the new visual and communication media while artistic forms of expression.
Program:
* moving perceptions
* video competitions
* school presentations
* music and video performances
* videoart retrospectives cd-rom and internet exhibitions
The competitions are intended to exhibit and award the most recent national and international video works, allowing us an auscultation on the creativity, the subjects and the different approaches of those
who do artistic work using moving images. This year, 74 videos were selected for competition, to be
exhibited in 12 sessions, from a total of 772 applications from more than 40 countries. Sixteen national
productions will be present, competing together with the international works. There is, however, an award
for best national work. The following awards will be granted: a grand prize for best work in competition
(trophy, diploma and 2500 Euros), two special jury awards (trophy, diploma and 1250 Euros) and an
award for best national video (trophy, diploma,1500 Euros). The public will give a Special Award for the
most voted video (trophy, diploma and 1250 Euros). Members of the selection committee: António
Rodrigues, Lurdes Lopes and João Chambel. Jury of the works in competition: Robert Cahen, Nuria Font,
António Cunha, Ricardo Matos and Inês Menezes.
A fundamental aspect of a festival that dedicates itself to the exhibition of video art is being able to
frame the present, bearing the past in mind. Therefore we have been including, in every edition of
VideoLisboa, retrospectives that allow the artists, the institutions and the general public to know some of
the most important works of video history. In this edition, we present three proposals: the collections from
two institutions, Fundação de Serralves, and Groupe Intervention Vidéo, and a set of works by two artists
who have been working together for more than thirty years, the Vasulkas
Exhibition by Luciana Fina e Olga Ramos
Encontros, stories of the gipsies among us openning Thursday, 8 * 18h30
Nomadism, sedentary existence, tradition and social rules. The substance and the images that were shot for a documentary take on new forms within the space of the exhibition.
8 a 30 de Novembro 2001 Sala do Risco - Largo de S.António à Sé, 22 - Lisboa
Tuesdays to Sundays, das 14h às 19h Informações: Tel. 21 888 40 69 Ministério da Cultura / ACIME
Forum Lisboa, Domingo / Sunday, 11 * 21h30
Too Early For Sorrow Too Late For Happiness * Breda Beban
Cinema-as-a-Live-Event, 2001, 45'
Ten years after the outbreak of the Balkan war and her own exodus from her home country, artist Breda
Beban revisits her birthplace as Slobodan Milosevic’s regime collapses in Yugoslavia. Named after a
heartbreaking Balkan folk song, Too Early For Sorrow Too Late For Happiness is a meditation on home
and place, which captures the intensity of a moment when personal and social history collide. The
cinema-scale projection of her journey explodes with landscapes, characters and sound tracks, through
which a picture accrues that is at once intensely personal, intimate and politically charged. Beban’s
presence on stage and her commentary - by turns evocative and explicit - almost manipulates us to
believe that a deliberate transformation of reality in front of our very eyes is possible. But then, Beban’s
occasional hesitations, her voice cracking with emotion suggests otherwise - that maybe all this was just
an accident, it can happen to all of us, no one’s in charge.
VideoGallery
Forum Lisboa, 8 - 11 * 14h30 / 23h00
The videogallery is a dynamic cooperation between six european media festivals. At the end of the
competition each festival chooses it's best film and video works that will compose an interesting fund of
about 30 tapes, which circulate trough the six festivals and ART Basel. Each year the partner festivals
make a new selection of master works. These works will be available together with the video a la carte
section.
Participating festivals: EMAF, Osnabrueck, Germany; VIPER, Basel, Switzerland; INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL OF NEW FILM AND V´DEO, Split, Croatia; IMPAKT, Utrecht, The Netherlands;
VIDEOLISBOA, Lisbon, Portugal; MEDIA NON GRATA-OFFLINE ONLINE, Tallinn, Estonia
Forum Lisboa
Av. de Roma 14L
Screenings at 15h00; 16h45; 18h30; 21h30 e 23h30
Instituto Franco-Português
Av. LuÃs BÃvar 91
Screenings at 15h00; 17h00; 19h00, dias 10 e 11
Contacts: João Chambel, LuÃs Urbano and Teresa Almeida
Rua do Sol ao Rato,73 - 1º 1250-262 Lisboa telef: 351.21.3878121/2 Fax: 351.21.387666