calendario eventi  :: 

X

5/1/2005

18. Stuttgart Filmwinter

Wand 5.e.V. im Filmhaus, Stuttgart

18. Stuttgart Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media

Film Video New Media Installation Performance Theory

Festival: 13th-16th January 2005 •
Warm Up: 6th-12th January 2005
Exhibition: 12th January – 13th February 2005

Filmhaus, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Oberwelt and other locations

Finally 18! Between tiredness and coming of age?

The Stuttgart Filmwinter celebrates an anniversary which normally would not bear any relevance for the development of a festival or institution, however for the Filmwinter’s organisers, Wand 5 e.V. , coming of age does play an important role. Thus much subjects – but not all – of the upcoming Filmwinter will revolve around getting older, becoming mature and growing up. Not only the Filmwinter is confronted with this subject, though, but Media Art as such, surrounding itself with the “aura” of the new and innovative. The question of changing generations and the loss of the bonus of youth will turn up in various screenings, discussion panels as well as the graphic image.

As a varied festival for Experimental Film, Video and Media Art the Filmwinter will present events which give insight in the tendencies of film and media Culture.

Competitons in the field of film/video, new media, and media-based installations
The centre of the festival consists of different competitions for short film and video, media installations as well as on- and off-line media (websites, CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, software). Two jury groups are going to reward the winners – the total sum for all prizes comprises of 12,500.- Euros.
Altogether the Filmwinter 2005 received 1.300 entries. For the first time exhibitions of the media installations as well as performances, parties and presentations will be held in co-operation with Württembergischer Kunstverein, the renown art gallery at Stuttgart’s Schloßplatz. For the 18th Stuttgart Filmwinter IBM Deutschland GmbH will donate the reward for on- and off-line media: the IBM Award for New Media worth 4000,- Euros.

The following artists have been nominated for the Milla and Partner Award for media based installations:

Selection
Martin Brand, Bochum
collectif_fact, Geneve
fifs/Anarchistische Gummizelle, Düsseldorf
Matthias Fitz, Berlin
Martina Höfflin, Pascal Glissmann, Cologne
Uwe Kassai, Ruth Scheel, Andreas Vogel, Stuttgart
Thomas Köner, Dortmund
Bettina Lockemann, Berlin
Hiroharu Mori, Yokohama
Robert Praxmarer, Linz
KissPál Szabolcs, Budapest
Olaf Val, Köln
Liu Wei, Beijing

As part of the extra programmes of the 18th Stuttgart Filmwinter AA Bronson – a member of the legendary Canadian concept art group General Idea - will present their videos. The American film scientist and experimental film maker Jerry Tartaglia will introduce the complete works of the late Gary Goldberg who died last year and whose films were shown in many previous Filmwinter competition programmes. The “PerfAct” series as part of the Filmwinter programme dealing with the discourse between film and theatre will be resumed with films by René Pollesch, hangover ltd. (“Petra”) and Christoph Schlingensief. Within this context there will be a historical programme focussing on the subject “gestures in experimental films” with films by Jack Smith, Ron Rice and Ken Jacobs among others. The Net Artist Franz Alken will do a presentation on the techniques of misleading tracking systems and data collection of the internet with the help of so called Bots. As in the previous year discussion panels on the relevance of cultural diversity in art and media between globalisation and re-location will take place. A workshop by the Minimal Games Club of Cologne will present the possibilities of creating computer games with minimal means for children and adults. In another panel the Italian journalist Alessandro Ludovico will lecture on the subject “cultural diversity and New Media”. And last but not least to mention: the legendary parties at the Stuttgart Filmwinter with various local and national acts from the areas of electronic music, Hip Hop, Beat, New Music...

Http://www.filmwinter.de

Contact: Ulrich Wegenast, Wand 5 e.V., Friedrichstr. 23 A, D - 70174 Stuttgart
phone +49-711-99 33 98-0 (extension -18), fax +49-711-99 33 98-10

stampa

permanent link