#New Media Arts Film Festival Madrid

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Abigail Child has been at the forefront of experimental writing and media since the 1980s, having completed more than thirty film/video works & installations, and written 6 books. An acknowledged pioneer in montage, Child addresses the interplay between sound and image, to make, in the words of LA Weekly: “brilliant exciting work…a vibrant political filmmaking that’s attentive to form.”   Her films rewrite narrative, creating the cult classics PERILS, MAYHEM and COVERT ACTION (1984-87). Other productions borrow documentary to poetically envision public space including B/Side (1996) and SURF AND TURF (2011). Child’s re-constructed home movie THE FUTURE IS BEHIND YOU (2004) served as inspiration for UNBOUND: Scenes from the life of Mary Shelley shot as imaginary home movies. In recent years, Child has expanded her vertical montage to multiple-screen installation with MIRRORWORLDS and THE MILKY WAY. ACTS AND INTERMISSIONS, the second in her trilogy on Women and Ideology, circling around the life of Emma Goldman and a history of protests, premiered at The Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight in February 2017.

Child is the principal director, cinematographer and editor on her films. Cultural displacements, mostly urban ones, have been at the heart of her concerns. Her work involves intimate collaborations, with poets: Monica de la Torre (To and No Fro), Gary Sullivan (Mirror World), Nada Gordon (Ligatures) and Adeena Karasick (Salomé) as well as with notable downtown composers including John Zorn (The Future Is Behind You), Ikue Mori (B/side, 8 Million), Zeena Parkins (Unbound, Mayhem), Christian Marclay (Mayhem, Surface Noise) and Andrea Parkins (Vis A Vis and Acts and Intermissions). Child is currently working on the last film in the trilogy "The Andriod Project" (wt).

Her films, compulsive visual and aural legerdemain, have been widely awarded and shown internationally. Child has been honored with a Rome Prize Fellowship (09-10), as well as a John Simon Guggenheim, Radcliffe Institute and Fulbright Fellowships. She is winner of the Stan Brakhage Award, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, LEF Foundation, Mass Arts Council, and Art Matters. Child's film and media works have been exhibited worldwide, in venues including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Biennial Exhibitions (1989+1997); Centre George Pompidou, Paris; Rotterdam International Film Festival; New York Film Festival; CAPC Musée, Bordeaux; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley; and festivals in Oberhausen, Locarno, Berlin, Toronto, Brazil, Mexico City and Seoul, among many others. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art New York and Centre Pompidou among others. Harvard University Cinematheque has created an “Abigail Child Collection” which will preserve and exhibit her films. 

Child is also a writer with more that 5 books and numerous chapbooks. Her critical study, THIS IS CALLED MOVING: A Critical Poetics of Film (2005) is the only critical book written by an active American artist/filmmaker in over two decades. Her book of poetry MOUTH TO MOUTH came out in 2016, courtesy of Eoagh Press and was honored with a Lambda Prize in 2017. Child is Emeritus Professor of Media at Tufts University, the SMFA, and lives and works in New York City. 

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Nicole Wallace: The Spanish Actress Taking the World by Storm

Introduction

Nicole Wallace, a talented and versatile Spanish actress, has captured the hearts of audiences worldwide with her mesmerizing performances and charismatic on-screen presence. Born in Madrid, Spain, on June 15, 1985, Nicole's journey from a young aspiring actress to an international sensation is nothing short of extraordinary. This article delves into Nicole Wallace's background, her rise to stardom, her notable works, and her impact on the entertainment industry.

Early Life and Beginnings in Acting (H2)

Nicole Wallace was raised in a creative and supportive family environment that nurtured her passion for acting from a young age. Encouraged by her parents, she participated in school plays and local theater productions, showcasing her innate talent and dedication to the craft. These early experiences laid the foundation for her future career in the entertainment industry.

The Breakthrough Role (H2)

In 2005, Nicole's big break came when she landed the lead role in the critically acclaimed Spanish drama series, "Eternal Shadows." Her portrayal of a complex and emotionally charged character garnered widespread praise from both critics and viewers. The series' success brought her into the limelight and opened doors to new opportunities in the world of acting.

Crossing Borders: International Success (H2)

With her reputation as a brilliant actress growing, Nicole Wallace expanded her horizons and took on projects beyond Spain's borders. In 2010, she made her Hollywood debut in the suspenseful thriller "Shadows of Deceit," starring alongside A-list actors. Nicole's ability to adapt to diverse roles and deliver captivating performances transcended language barriers and gained her international recognition.

Versatility and Range (H2)

One of Nicole's most remarkable attributes as an actress is her versatility and range. From intense dramas to light-hearted romantic comedies, she effortlessly immerses herself in every character she portrays, breathing life into each role. Whether it's a strong-willed detective, a vulnerable artist, or a powerful historical figure, Nicole's ability to connect with her characters on a deep level is awe-inspiring.

Impact on Social Media (H2)

In the digital age, Nicole Wallace has harnessed the power of social media to connect with her fans and share glimpses of her personal and professional life. Her engaging posts, behind-the-scenes photos, and heartfelt messages resonate with her followers, creating a loyal fan base that spans the globe. Through social media, she has become more than just an actress; she is an inspiration and a role model to many.

Advocacy and Humanitarian Work (H2)

Beyond her acting prowess, Nicole Wallace is passionate about various social causes and actively uses her platform to advocate for change. She has been involved in several charitable initiatives, supporting organizations that focus on education, environmental conservation, and women's empowerment. Her commitment to making a positive impact on the world further enhances her standing as a beloved public figure.

Unforgettable Performances (H2)

Throughout her career, Nicole Wallace has delivered a series of unforgettable performances that have etched her name in the annals of cinematic history. From her emotionally charged monologues to her impeccable comedic timing, each of her roles showcases her dedication to the art of acting and her ability to captivate audiences with her on-screen presence.

Awards and Recognition (H2)

Nicole Wallace's contributions to the entertainment industry have not gone unnoticed, as evidenced by the numerous awards and accolades she has received over the years. Her mantle holds prestigious trophies from international film festivals, recognizing her as one of the finest actresses of her generation.

Future Projects and Endeavors (H2)

As Nicole Wallace's career continues to soar, her fans eagerly anticipate her future projects. With a host of exciting films and series in the pipeline, she is set to dazzle audiences with her exceptional talent and dedication to her craft.

Conclusion

Nicole Wallace's journey from a young girl with a dream to a globally acclaimed actress is a testament to her unwavering passion and dedication. Her ability to transcend borders and connect with audiences of different cultures makes her a true gem in the world of cinema. As Nicole continues to shine brightly, her star power is bound to inspire generations of aspiring actors to follow their dreams and make their mark in the entertainment industry.

FAQs (H3)

1. How did Nicole Wallace get into acting?

Nicole Wallace's passion for acting was nurtured from a young age by her supportive family. She participated in school plays and local theater productions, which laid the foundation for her future career in acting.

2. What is Nicole Wallace's breakthrough role?

Nicole's breakthrough role came in 2005 when she starred in the critically acclaimed Spanish drama series "Eternal Shadows," where she received widespread praise for her performance.

3. Has Nicole Wallace won any awards for her acting?

Yes, Nicole Wallace has received numerous awards and accolades for her exceptional performances, both in Spain and internationally.

4. What causes does Nicole Wallace support?

Nicole is actively involved in various social causes, including education, environmental conservation, and women's empowerment, and uses her platform to advocate for positive change.

5. What's next for Nicole Wallace?

Nicole has an exciting lineup of projects in the works, and fans can look forward to seeing her in a range of diverse and compelling roles in the near future.

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FLORIS VANHOOF + ALTERSGRUPPE + SAMI BERGOLD + LANA SUBDUCTIONS

Le Non_Jazz SAMEDI LE 03.12 FLORIS VANHOOF / be SAMI BERGOLD / fr ALTERSGRUPPE ca / us / il / fr LANA SUBDUCTIONS / fr au Café de Paris 158, rue Oberkampf 75011 M° Ménilmontant P.A.F. 6€ 20:00 portes 20:45 action 23:45 fin d'action FLORIS VANHOOF / be Attaché au grain et au souffle du support analogique, prolifique, " pluridisciplinaire " et indéniablement très doué, il travaille principalemnet sur l'hybridation d'images animées, fixes et de sons produits la plupart du temps via ses " machines " - synthés, oscillateurs & co - bricolées à la maison. " Ses films réalisés en super8 ou 16mm entre 2004 et 2008 aiment  les jeux de lentilles, de netteté, les effets loupe façon la vie à  travers un microscope, et aussi détourner la banalité du quotidien. Ses  performances investissent encore plus la persistence de la vision et la  perception elle-même avec un lien direct avec la musique électronique.  Il existe souvent des liens directs (controleur de voltage) entre les  deux." (Metamkine) " Floris Vanhoof combine des circuits musicaux faits maison et des technologies de projection abandonnées pour des installations, des performances cinématographiques étendues et des sorties musicales. Traduire l'un à l'autre pour découvrir comment fonctionne notre perception et quelles nouvelles perspectives apparaissent. Floris Vanhoof (°1982, lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium) ( Re:Voir ) Floris Vanhoof (1982) is interested in the hybrid form of music, photography and film. His first projections, experimental films on 16 millimeter, evolve towards pure visual experiences in which he questions our viewing patterns. Inspired by structural film and early electronic music he makes audiovisual installations, expanded cinema performances and music releases. Vanhoof builds his own instruments to discover the border between image, light and sound. As media-archeologist, he confronts the digital spoiled audience with flickering 16 mm films and 35mm slide installations, formats doomed to disappear. Purposefully he choses analog technology due to the greater transparency of the workflow and rich dynamic range. Regardless of nostalgia he experiments with what used to be hightech. Vanhoof searches for ways to make new images with old media. He makes his own translations from sound to image and vise-versa, by connecting one medium on the -not always compatible- other. He’s especially curious to what his work elicits in the viewer. How does our perception operates and which new perspectives appear? Installations were shown in LLS387 Antwerp, SMAK Ghent, Castlefield gallery Manchester, Vooruit Ghent, Netwerk Alost, Bozar Brussels, Filmfestival Ghent, Beursschouwburg Brussels, De Centrale Brussels, FOMU Antwerp. Performances took place in ISSUE Project Room New York, Aural Mexico City, UH Budapest, Hangar Bicocca Milan, Centre d’art contemporain Dijon, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Internationaal Filmfestival Rotterdam, Flagey Brussels, Café OTO London, Extracity Antwerp, Witte de With Rotterdam, Kaskcinema Ghent, International Mystery Los Angeles, The Wulf Los Angeles, Ancienne Belgique Brussels, Museum of Elsene, KMSKA Antwerp, Les Urbaines Lausanne, Xing Live Arts Week Bologna, Electrónica en Abril Madrid, Lal Lal Lal Tampere en Helsinki. In 2015 received the price of the public at the Young Belgian Art Prize ( Meakusma Festival ) https://florisvanhoof.com/ https://florisvanhoof.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_6WdDX5RN4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmz-V8zU6Go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lvJ77mQe1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMLnI3VqhqY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-AXs5SboU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG8nE11zQYI

ALTERSGRUPPE ca / us / il / fr un agglomérat bien composite et cosmopolite d'individus, résidant  tous  à Paris - et tous dotés d'une personnalité forte, distincte et distinguée. On y retrouve ( souvent ) le très charismatique Max K. aka City Dragon ( vocals & some other things ), le plutôt discret Dudi M. aux cassettes, à la batterie ( & co ), le  pince-sans-rire " Willy " à la basse, l'épatant Nicolas R. à l'électronique principalement analogique et l'exubérant Jim S. aux images et à l'électronique aussi. Free form, free no-fi, free-whatever gets you thru the night. ( it's alright it'salright.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaaRvXIGMg4&t=696s

SAMI BERGOLD / fr

Sami Bergold est un auteur-compositeur né au XXème siècle et ayant vécu la majeure partie de sa vie en Île-de-France, dans la partie correspondant au nord-est parisien. Il a récemment changé d’opérateur téléphonique (Mobile + Box), passant de Bouygues Télécom à Free. Il trouve la vie douloureuse et compliquée, remplie d’injonctions inutiles, dégradantes et contradictoires. Il est alcoolique depuis le lycée, et est également un grand consommateur de médicaments. Il s’inscrit totalement dans une vision romantique du poète maudit, quand bien même il tenterait de s’en défendre (ce qu’il ne fait pas).

Sa musique est parfois qualifiée de « non-musique », tant l’écoute pour le « commun des mortels » semble hors d’évidence; toutefois il s’en défend, puisque pour lui tout est musique. Mais il est vrai que dénué de toute capacité objectivement technique, il joue contre les attentes d’un public qui souhaiterait recevoir des sonorités harmonieuses et agréables.

Mais Merzbow ne disait-il pas si la définition de la noise était une musique désagréable et agressive à l’écoute, alors pour lui la vraie noise se trouvait dans la pop commerciale

(je crois même qu’il voulait dire la pop tout court) ?

Sami Bergold se défend de faire de la noise (au sens où on l’entend habituellement, c’est-à-dire pas dans le sens où Merzbow le contredit),

mais il ne s’agit peut-être là que de débats sémantiques un peu barbants.

Plus factuellement il utilisait jusqu’à présent un mini-armada de matériel de fortune: synthétiseurs bas-de-gamme (souvent de type « à potards », ou générateurs de fréquences), walkmans (donc K7s), pédales d’effets. Ses dernières prestations scéniques l’ont vu utiliser de plus en plus fréquemment de la guitare électrique, qui est devenu quasiment son instrument de prédilection ces derniers temps (peut-être aussi par lassitude des synthétiseurs à potard), à tel point qu’il prépare un album (un « LP ») sur un nouveau label qui verra le jour en 2023, L’eau des fleurs, centré sur cet instrument. Lui-même dirige un label qui s’appelle Premier Sang, sur lequel il a sorti des disques de Sister Iodine, Macronympha, Mesa of the Lost Women, mais aussi un maxi de techno / house qui est devenu très légèrement culte : « To Live and Die E.P. » par Violence FM; ce label dort sur ses lauriers, la dernière sortie conséquente ayant été un double LP de lui-même sous un autre de ses pseudonymes: Z.B. Aids a.k.a. Valerie Smith (échec commercial malgré la publicité faite par Cameron Jamie sur ce disque dans Art Forum), en 2017. Il est également plasticien, même si il aime se définir plutôt comme un poète, malgré le fait d’être représenté en galerie par Valeria Cetraro (en même temps Henri Michaux avait bien un galeriste, lui aussi…). Depuis 2006 il co-dirige un projet (magazine ? revue ? fanzine ?) avec Jonas Delaborde qui s’appelle Nazi Knife. Il est, comme tout le monde, inquiet pour le futur. Son nom civil est Hendrik Hegray.SEXY WATER est le titre d'un coffret triple K7 - publié par le label Scum Yr Earth ces jours-ci et dont on espère voir les exemplaires ce soir-là.

https://soundcloud.com/user-496765036 https://soundcloud.com/sami-bergold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLSFpJl7-HM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HlJU6OOVm0

LANA SUBDUCTIONS / fr Communiqué officiel : " Méryll Ampe, Élodie Rassell et Romain Perrot collaborent de manière instinctive et radicale, utilisant SUBDUCTION SONORE ET VISUELLE, notre processus d'incurvation et de déplacement d'éléments sonores, plongeant, s'enfonçant et ressurgissant, en dévoilant des états sonores et visuels / sensoriels qui se déploient, des entités qui se croisent, se mélangent ou se décomposent, pour créer une fiction de Lana Del Rey."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZmKQhgPJBU

Fly - Jo L’Indien 

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APRIL 2020 GOLD STAR MEDIA SCHEDULES & REVIEW

Members may earn 3 points each (up to 6 points) for writing, by the end of May 7 KST:

A solo para of 400+ words based on their monthly schedule (does not count toward your monthly total).

A thread of six posts (three per participant, including the starter) based on their monthly schedule.

Threads do not have to take place directly during an important date listed on the schedule, but must be related to what the muse is mentioned to be doing in the paragraph explaining their schedule/the company’s schedule for the month and/or their thoughts on the mentioned activities or lack thereof.

These schedules may be updated throughout the month if new information needs to be added.

Reminder: March schedule posts are due by the end of April 7 KST.

OVERALL COMPANY

One of the biggest factors that has gotten Gold Star to where they are is connections, and the company hasn’t forgotten that. To foster budding international connections, Gold Star has invited a few international acclaimed choreographers and songwriters who have previously worked to choreograph and write for select Gold Star artists to the company this month to give workshops to any idols who are interested. The workshops are free for idols, but Gold Star is paying their guests, so idols would be wise to attend one and show their company they’re dedicated to growing and networking, even if they’re not a dancer or songwriter.

Important dates:

April 6: Dance workshop.

April 16: Songwriting workshop.

April 20: Dance workshop.

April 30: Songwriting workshop.

GOLD STAR SOLOIST 1

“Love Poem” continues to top the charts, even as the end of her promotions of the single pass. Almost immediately, that brings her to time to film the two music video she’ll be releasing to accompany her mini-album. One is for the title track “Blueming” and one is a pre-release video for  “Above The Time”, the video of which will serve as a sequel to her past hit “You and I”.

Important dates:

April 5: Performance at Seoul Spring Festival After Sunset Concert (see event).

April 15: End of music show promotions.

April 17: “Above The Time” MV filming.

April 21: “Blueming” MV filming.

GOLD STAR SOLOIST 2

With Incheon and Gwangju down and with the reviews coming in positive, her tour continues this month with shows in both Suwon and Daegu (see January schedule for special stages). Her tour will run through June, at which point she’ll be back in for meetings to discuss her musical future.

Important dates:

April 5: Performance at Seoul Spring Festival After Sunset Concert (see event).

April 21: I AM : RE-BORN tour concert at Gyeonggi Arts Center Grand Theater in Suwon, South Korea.

April 29: I AM : RE-BORN tour concert at EXCO 5F Convention Hall in Daegu, South Korea.

GOLD STAR SOLOIST 3

“Love Die Young” releases on the 22nd. Since it’s a completely English single, Gold Star doesn’t expect too much in terms of chart performance, but he’ll still be promoting it to a Korean audience with mainly only online promo for Western countries, where the focus will lie more for the release of the full album. As such, he’ll go into the studio for Elle Korea magazine to film a video of himself performing the single live for their Elle Stage series.

Important dates:

April 22: Release of “Love Die Young”, promotions continue until May 22.

April 29: “Love Die Young” Elle Stage video filming.

SILHOUETTE

Their Japanese single comes out mid-month and considering they already did their main promotions Gold Star had planned by way of their recent Japanese tour, they won’t be going overseas to do any additional promo for it. Instead, they’ll finally begin work on another Korean comeback. Gold Star has decided they’d like to try to take Silhouette in an edgier direction marketed toward an audience in theirs 20s and 30s to make them standout in an industry they’d become increasingly pushed to the background of. They’ll hear demos for their album at the beginning of the month following concept meetings to discuss Gold Star’s creative vision for them, and then they’ll be in the studio to record what Gold Star hopes will be a true comeback album in several senses of the world.

Important dates:

April 5: Performance at Seoul Spring Festival After Sunset Concert (see event).

April 15: Release of “Bad Girl For You” Japanese single.

ARIA

Aria sees their ninth anniversary since debut this month. To celebrate, they’ll be doing a special event at a cafe in Mapo-gu where they’ll serve coffee, free of charge, to fans for a few hours. During the event, members are allowed to tease that they might be working on a comeback, but aren’t allowed to spoil or confirm anything further than that. They are, in fact, continuing to prepare their comeback, though, so, the rest of their time this month, they’ll be learning and practicing their comeback choreography for both the title track “Beautiful Days” and b-side “Close To You” and “Love Game”. Talk also begins this month that Gold Star is in talks to send Aria as representatives of the company for an upcoming competition show between girl groups.

Important dates:

April 19: Ninth anniversary coffee event in Mapo, Seoul.

ORIGIN

Origin is mostly out of the public eye this month, only traveling to Japan from April 23 to April 27 to perform two of their scheduled Japanese fan meeting dates. Behind the scenes, they finally get news about their comeback, which was unceremoniously pushed back last year. Gold Star will be combining what had initially been two album ideas into one and including songs off of their last album with an overarching theme of celebrating their seventh year since debut and their seven members. This means many songs have been cut and some more have been chosen to be added. They’ll begin recording the new songs off of the track list this month.

Important dates:

April 25: Japan Official Fanmeeting Vol.5 ~Magicshop~ at Chiba Marine Stadium in Chiba, Japan.

April 26: Japan Official Fanmeeting Vol.5 ~Magicshop~ at Chiba Marine Stadium in Chiba, Japan.

IMPULSE

It’s back to touring! The members of Impulse will be in Europe for two weeks from the 13th to the 26th to complete the European leg of their tour. Before and after this period, while they’re in Seoul, their schedules are pretty relaxed and the members will have some free time, although they’re still expected to stay in Seoul to attend to miscellaneous schedules. Next month, they’ll begin preparing for this year’s comeback.

Important dates:

April 5: Performance at Seoul Spring Festival After Sunset Concert (see event).

April 14: Keep Spinning Tour concert at Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

April 17: Keep Spinning Tour concert at Wembley Arena in London, England.

April 19: Keep Spinning Tour concert at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin, Germany.

April 22: Keep Spinning Tour concert at WiZink Center in Madrid, Spain.

April 25: Keep Spinning Tour concert at AccorHotels Arena in Paris, France.

FUSE

Their first concerts for this tour are next month, so the members continue to be booked to practice choreography and live performances. In addition to this, they’ll be in to get fitted for the stage outfits and will also film all of the VCRs over the period of a few days. It’s not too busy for the members, but they’ll begin to work on comeback preparation next month, so they’re expected to focus all of their energy on preparing for an amazing concert for the time being.

Important dates:

April 8: Tour outfit fittings.

April 13-16: Tour VCR filming.

ELEMENT

It’s the final month of comeback preparations before their comeback and they continue to be filmed rehearsing. They’ll also be shooting their comeback music video and the accompanying teaser photos, which are themed after different gods in line with the music video concept, this month. Both schedules will be recorded for possible documentary behind the scenes footage. For the teaser photos and music video, the main dancer/lead rapper will represent Thor and Zeus, the main rapper/lead dancer will represent Ares and Dionysus, the main vocal will represent Aphrodite and Chloris, and the maknae/lead vocal/lead dancer will represent Hera and Athena.

Important dates:

April 5: Performance at Seoul Spring Festival After Sunset Concert (see event).

April 21: “Dumb Litty” MV filming and teaser photo shoot.

FEMME FATALE

April is an incredibly busy month for them, as they not only release what is almost sure to be their only comeback this year with “Kill This Love”, but they also begin the North American leg of their tour and perform at both weekends of Coachella. They’ll be in the US from April 9 to 11 and return to Seoul for a few days to pre-record more music show performances for the next month before they fly back out to the US from April 14 to April 26, after which they’ll return to Seoul again. Before they leave, they have two CFs to shoot for two new brand deals Gold Star has landed them: Woori Bank and Samsung Galaxy.

Important dates:

April 3: Release of “Kill This Love” & mini-album showcase, music show promotions continue until May 3.

April 5: Performance at Seoul Spring Festival After Sunset Concert (see event).

April 6: Woori Bank CF filming.

April 7: Samsung Galaxy CF filming.

April 10: Performance at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indo, CA, USA.

April 15: Femme Fatale In Your Area World Tour concert at The Forum in Inglewood, CA, USA.

April 16: Performance and segment on The Late Show with James Corden in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

April 17: Performance at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indo, CA, USA.

April 22: Femme Fatale In Your Area World Tour concert at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, IL, USA.

April 25: Femme Fatale In Your Area World Tour concert at FirstOntario Centre in Hamilton, ON, Canada. 

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“Still Shining” curated by Mia Savant on pondersavant.comCreated during this lockdown, Joas Nebe presents a short creative video for our viewing pleasure! Go see the abstract perspective and use it to look at the world in new and exciting ways!https://pondersavant.com/2020/05/21/the-room-project-magic-box-video-by-joas-nebe/INTRO:THE ROOM PROJECT: MAGIC BOX(4k, color, single channel video, 2020, 1m55s)Blooming cherry trees bewitch us for a few days when they are in full blossom. But the magic they create is fragil. Just a light breeze makes blossoms fall and takes the magic with them back on the ground.http://www.jsnebe.de/film14.htmlArtist:Joas Nebe, who holds degrees in psychology and literature, is a self taught artist, born in Hamburg but now located in South Germany. After a few years in Berlin he decided three years ago to move south close to the French and Swiss border. Important exhibits include the artist´s “Climate Change Cartoons“ on display on exhibition “Letters from the Sky” which accompanied the Durban UN conference on Climate Change 2011 in South Africa and “Machine Fair”- a film about the mechanical site of a metropolis- shown at Museum of Modern Art, Moscow as part of “Now&After” screening in 2012. Other film works has been shown at 25th Festival Les Instants Video (Biblioteca Alexandrina, Cairo), Videoformes Festival 2014 and 2015, Sustain Our Africa, Madatac 3, 4, 5, 6 Competitive Official International Selection (Madrid), Papy Gyros Nights 2016 Hong Kong/ ART_TECTURE, just to name a few.Solo shows are “Intrude Art and Life” at the Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai in 2008, where Santiago Capriccio, a short epilogue to the Philosophical Cartoon cycle was chosen to be one out of 100 non-Chinese artists to be displayed on public video screens in Shanghai for one day, 2016 “Encyclopedic”, a one night solo show at The Greenhouse, Berlin, 2016, “You Did A Bad Thing For A Good Reason”, solo show at Berlin´s Cormac Weiss Gallery, curated by Marinus Jo Dimitrov, IFEA (International Curatorial Award 2016) supported by Christopher Grape Fund; 2017 “On Nature” at 16:9 Gallery, UTCL, USA curated by Manzi Yang.2017 Joas Nebe received a M 5 ARTS stipend for his video work “The Dictionary serial” (USA). 2017 he has been awarded with the Residency by Correspondence from The Arts Territory Exchange Program, 2018 with the Social Media Residency by Peripheral Forms and the Online Residency by Coldbench (all UK).
Joas Nebe ́s curatorial works have been shown in different European countries. He developed three projects to which international video artists contributed. “The Encyclopedic Cartoons Video Project” had it ́s premiere in Berlin and has been shown since in many European countries. His second curatorial work “the Proverb Picture Project” again with participating artist from different continents and countries had it´ s premiere on VisualContainer TV in 2014. 2017 Joas Nebe developed a project about democracy, scrabble and wordlists, called “The Democracy Scrabble Project”, had it´s premiere again on VisualContainer TV and (.BOX) Video Project Room, Milan in 2018.Follow This Artist:http://www.jsnebe.de/https://joasnebe.wordpress.compondersavant | May 21, 2020 at 4:00 pm | Tags: art, joasnebe, lockdownart, stillshining, https://pondersavant.com/2020/05/21/the-room-project-magic-box-video-by-joas-nebe/

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Gay Turkish director takes Honor Palm of Valencia Film Festival.

Twelve movies of Ferzan Ozpetek, starting from his first one in 1997, to be screened during festival

MADRID

Turkish Director Ferzan Ozpetek will be awarded the Honor Palm at the 34th Valencia Film Festival for Mediterranean Cinema.

Director of Festival Eduardo Guillot, honored Ozpetek, saying his movies have "complete Mediterranean character, with a sense of emotion, free of biases".

Guillot said the Turkish director's cinema is "based on experience, addressing universal issues".

Ozpetek's 12 movies, starting from the first one in 1997, will be screened during the festival.

Also, Director Mahmut Fazil Coskun's movie "The Announcement" competes in the official section of the festival.

The festival started on Thursday and will run through Nov. 3.

Mostra de València –Cinema del Mediterrani is a film festival that takes place in Valencia and focuses on the audiovisual production of the Mediterranean geographical and cultural area. 

Ferzan Özpetek  is an openly gay Turkish-Italian film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy. He was born in Istanbul in 1959. In 1976, he decided to move to Italy to study Cinema History at Sapienza University of Rome. He completed his education attending art history and costume design classes at the Navona Academy. He also attended director classes at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art.

His directorial debut was with Hamam, an Italian, Spanish and Turkish co-production. The movie, released in May 1997, was presented at the 50th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in the Quinzaine des Realisateurs session. The movie was presented in other international festivals and was sold for distribution in more than 20 countries around the world.

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Meet Italian artist Francesca Fini from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

Francesca Fini artist profile.

I'm an interdisciplinary artist focused on experimental cinema, digital animation, new media, installation, and performance art. My live projects are often addressing issues related to the relationship between public and private spaces, between the show and the audience, representation and interaction, but also reflect on the influences of society on gender and women's issues and the distortions in the perception of beauty produced by the market and mainstream media. Both my live and non-live works are a mix of traditional media, lo-fi technology, interaction design devices, generative audio, and video. Primarily interested in video and live art, I also create artworks assembling performance art relics and video stills.

With a deep training as a digital artist, I worked for fifteen years in the field of digital media and television. Among the most important art events in which I took part in the last few years, I would mention the 2011 WRO Biennale in Poland, CINEMED Film Festival in Montpellier, NordArt International Art Exhibition, Berlin Directors Lounge and IKONO TV Film Festival in Germany, Videoformes Festival in Clermont Ferrand, Szczecin European Film Festival (SEFF) in Poland, FILE Electronic Language International Festival in Brasil, Athens Videoart Festival, IVHAM New Media Arts Fest and Proyector Festival in Madrid, CYBERFEST and Now&After in Russia, Robot Festival in Bologna, Instants Video numériques et poétiques in Marseille, BORDERCROSSING - official collateral event @ MANIFESTA12, MEM Festival at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, BODY + CAMERA at MANA Contemporary Chicago, Un-Becoming at SomoS Art House Berlin, the Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo and the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, organized by the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

As a pure performance artist, I was part of the iconic first edition of the Venice International Performance Art Week, featuring among the others the work of Valie Export, Jan Fabre, Yoko Ono, Marina Abramovic, and Hermann Nitsch. In 2014 and 2016 I've been an artist in residence at Bob Wilson's Watermill Center in New York. In 2016 I wrote and directed Ophelia did not drown; an experimental feature film based on the hybridization between found-footage (from the national archive Istituto Luce Cinecittà) and original contemporary performative language, considered by legendary movie art critic Adriano Aprà, one of the best Italian films of the last twenty years. 

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[architectnews]

Five architecture and design events this February from Dezeen Events Guide

Stockholm Design Week, a live-streamed talk with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and MoMA's exhibition about systemic racism in the built environment are among the physical and digital events listed in Dezeen Events Guide taking place in February.

Above: Norwegian Presence is hosting a series of online events. Top image: Amanda Williams is among the artists and designers contributing to MoMA's Reconstructions exhibition

Madrid Design Festival 1 to 28 February

Spain's preeminent design festival is putting on a hybrid programme this year, with four production units set to produce more than 100 pieces of audiovisual content to be shared online. This includes interviews and live shows, as well as a series of behind-the-scenes films showcasing the creative and production processes of 45 local designers.

Meanwhile, a series of showrooms and exhibitions will open their doors in real life, and IKEA is set to host an event called Redesigning Tomorrow, where basque filmmaker Pedro Aguilera will debut a documentary exploring how we must change our cities and homes to save the planet.

The film will feature Parley for the Oceans founder Cyrill Gutsch, architect Stephanie Chaltiel and IKEA's deputy managing director for products and supply chains Jeanette Skjelmose among others. The premier will also act as a jumping-off point for a series of in-depth talks and roundtables.

It's Freezing in LA! IGTV Interview Series 4 to 25 February

Every Thursday in February, independent climate change magazine It's Freezing in LA! is hosting talks on Instagram TV (IGTV) that will explore different approaches to climate activism.

Designer Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is set to discuss her latest project, an algorithm-designed garden in Cornwall that is optimised for pollinators rather than humans and explores possible solutions to biodiversity loss.

And on 11 February, London mayoral candidate and co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales Sîan Berry will discuss how we can solve the capital's housing crisis while still reducing CO2 emissions.

Stockholm Design Week 8 to 14 February

While the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair was cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the city's design week that takes place concurrently every year is still going ahead.

A socially distanced "digital and city edition" will see visitors avoid the crammed Stockholmsmässan exhibition centre on the outskirts of Stockholm in favour of a pared-back programme of exhibitions, showroom presentations and online talks in the centre of town.

Highlights include a presentation of work from the winners of this year's Young Swedish Design awards, created in collaboration with the IKEA Museum, and an exhibition by Misschiefs – a platform dedicated to female, trans and non-binary creatives working at the intersection of craft and design.

Circular design vs mass production: Norwegian Presence 2021 18 February

The Norwegian Presence showcase, which is a much-anticipated part of Salone del Mobile every year, is championing some of the country's most noteworthy designers and manufacturers through a programme of online events this year.

The first of three half-day events, taking place on 18 February, will bring together young, up-and-coming designers like Poppy Lawman with major industrial producers such as contract furniture manufacturer NCP, which makes Snøhetta's S-1500 chair from old fishing nets.

Through a series of round tables, panel talks and newly-released films, the event will explore the circular economy and how a closed-loop philosophy and sustainable material sourcing can be integrated into production processes of any scale.

The remaining two events will take place in March and April, with a focus on craftsmanship and the merging of homes and workspaces as a result of the pandemic.

The Museum of Modern Art will release an exhibition catalogue to go along with the exhibition

Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America 20 February to 31 May

An upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York will look at how systemic racism and discrimination have influenced the design of American cities and their architecture.

With the help of ten newly commissioned projects by the likes of Amanda Williams, Olalekan Jeyifous and landscape artist Walter Hood, the show will look at how these conditions have impacted the black community and how black cultural spaces can act as sites of liberation and resistance.

The show marks the fourth instalment in MoMA's Issues in Contemporary Architecture series, which focuses on pressing current issues such as rising sea levels, population growth and the foreclosure crisis.

About Dezeen Events Guide

Dezeen Events Guide is our guide to the best architecture and design events taking place across the world each year.

The guide is updated weekly and includes virtual events, conferences, trade fairs, major exhibitions and design weeks, as well as up-to-date information about what events have been cancelled or postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Inclusion in the guide is free for basic listings, with events selected at Dezeen's discretion. Organisers can get enhanced or premium listings for their events, including images, additional text and links, by paying a modest fee.

In addition, events can ensure inclusion by partnering with Dezeen. For more details on inclusion in Dezeen Events Guide and media partnerships with Dezeen, email eventsguide@dezeen.com.

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[ewmediaevents]

360 degree projections

NEWMEDIA is a leading producer of events that challenges the limits of imagination and technology delivering entertaining,  experiences and communication for clients around the world. Our creative technology studio, equipped with imaginative and creative minds, motion artists  and technicians, has been working in prestigious events around the world that have generated a sense of art, technology and sophistication for all type live audiences.

NEWMEDIA is expert producing fulldome shows or 360º movies,  large-format projections, 3D mapping,  immersive environment, high technology events and exciting video contents.

Since 2005 we are exploring the infinite limits of light, technology and entertainment to bring the audience into an unmatched experience, at the cutting edge of the new age of communication and technology, welcome to the state of the art, welcome to NEWMEDIA’s world.

We are open to collaborate in anywhere, anytime and any exciting project.

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Welcome to Newmedia's world, We offer the best platform for artificial intelligence events with immersive technology. Get the 3D mapping projections,360 degree projections and exciting video contents.

We are thrilled to present our new and really loved project:

DOMO A joint venture with the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

DOMO is a permanent 21,70m diameter dome that involves students, teachers, institutions, companies and brands in a technology based cultural space. Domo will be a lab, a 360º cinema and a venue for classes and events in which science and knowledge will be the center.

If you are in Madrid, you are planning to visit, you have an interesting technology related project, feel free to contact us. We are open to ideas.

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Our second year at the Lollapalooza Festival.

This time powered by Motorola.

3 geodesic domes with 3 different experiences. In the small domes people could make cool interactive videos: one in a red ball pit and another one in super slow motion with wind blowing at their faces.

The big dome, 21.7m was the main attraction showcasing in the daytime the amazing work made by the fractal artist Julius Horthuis, and at night different dj sets (Zuker, Harari/Dobao, Briaal, Pabels+Signo, Javi Cardellino, Inda Jani) with the

3.    Fulldome projections

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ne more year at one of our favorite festivals in the world: the Astra Film Festival. Each year we try to make everything better, nicer, more entertaining.For this edition we summed a lot of new activities into the DOME program.

In the exterior of the dome we had a live 3D Mapping, in the interior; the audience could participate playing with an interactive app using a Surface Pro 5 that let them make visuals and music in the dome. We had also masterclasses with interesting personalities of the scene as Julius Horsthuis and Alles Schick, and a final party by UNGO VISUALS.

4.  Geodesic dome projections

 Geodesic Dome Liner Projections- Newmedia is expert in Geodesic Dome projections and 3D mapping, contact us and get the Geodesic dome liner and exciting video service.

The international agency TLC invited NewMedia to create a projection mapping show onto the door of “Dome Room” at MNAC for a special dinner. For a moment we have brought to life the 4 most important Spanish artists: Picasso, Miro, Dali and Gaudi. It was a pleasure worked together Diane, Aurora and Evelina in this project.

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[artenvena]

Hito Steyerl

-Fecha y lugar de nacimiento: 1966 , Munich, Alemania

-Formación: asistió al Instituto Japonés de la Imagen en Movimiento. Más tarde estudió en la Universidad de Televisión y Cine de Munich.

-Exposiciones y premios relevantes:

2015 

el Premio inaugural EYE

2010 NUEVO: Premio VISION en el Festival Internacional de Documentales de Copenhague por su película In Free Fall.

Exposiciones

sola:

2016 Hito Steyerl, Factory of the Sun, Hartware MedienKunstVerein in the Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Alemania

2015 Hito Steyerl, Duty-Free Art , Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

En grupo

2018 Hito Steyerl, Ben Rivers, Wang Bing. Eye Art & Film Prize, EYE Film Institute Países bajos, Amsterdam  

​

Hito Steyerl es una cineasta alemana, artista visual, escritora e innovadora del ensayo documental. Sus principales temas de interés son los medios, la tecnología y la circulación global de imágenes. Steyerl tiene un doctorado en filosofía de la Academia de Bellas Artes de Viena. Actualmente es profesora de New Media Art en la Universidad de las Artes de Berlín, donde cofundó el Centro de Investigación de Política Proxy, junto con Vera Tollmann y Boaz Levin.

Su trabajo se refiere a temas de militarización, migración de vigilancia, el papel de los medios en la globalización y la difusión de imágenes y la cultura que lo rodea. Steyerl ha promovido tanto el papel como la etiqueta de artista, demostrada a través de sus tendencias e intereses al comprometer el contexto de presentación del arte.

http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/metropolis/metropolis-hito-steyerl/3512578/

[wiremagazine]

SPOTLIGHT FILMS: PREVIEW 15 OF THE EXCEPTIONAL SELECTIONS FOR MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL GEMS 2019

Photos provided by Miami Film Festival GEMS 2019

BY THE GRACE OF GOD (Belgium, France, 2019) Director: François Ozon In French, with English subtitles

GEMS Synopsis: In By the Grace of God, acclaimed filmmaker François Ozon dramatizes the story of three Preynat victims – Alexandre Guérin (Melvil Poupaud), a lawyer and devoted Catholic family man, François Debord (Denis Ménochet), a declared atheist who wants to bring media attention to the case, and Emmanuel Thomassin, an emotionally damaged younger man who carries the heaviest burden and the effects of prolonged trauma.

CLEMENCY (U.S., 2019) Director: Chinonye Chukwu In English

GEMS Synopsis: Clemency is an indelible character study and a searing look at the toll of capital punishment on the lives of all it touches – including the families of victims seeking justice. Filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu, the first African-American woman to win Sundance's highest prize, is observant to the disproportionate toll death row reaps on black men, but also alive to the possibility of hope, and humanity finding its way back from even the darkest emotional places.

HONEY BOY (U.S., 2019) Director: Alma Har'el In English

GEMS Synopsis: Artists often draw from real-life experience, but few approach this practice quite like actor Shia LaBeouf. Having received court-ordered therapy writing while in rehab, LaBeouf – who over the years has been the subject of numerous public misbehavior headlines – took the mandated writing and turned it into something tremendous: the screenplay for Honey Boy.

LES MISÉRABLES (France, 2019) Director: Ladj Ly In French, with English subtitles

GEMS Synopsis: Victor Hugo's 1862 classic novel Les Misérables unforgettably depicted the abject poverty and state violence endured by residents in the Paris suburb Montfermeil, a setting symbolically representing a greater view of French society. Taking Hugo's title for his fiction feature debut, director Ladj Ly returns to modern-day Montfermeil and finds that the tensions between the racially diversified, impoverished community and the police enforcing the status quo are remarkably similar to the world of Jean Valjean and Hugo's characters, even more than 150 years later.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR (U.S., 2019) Director: Alan Berliner In English

GEMS Synopsis: For 40 years, filmmaker Alan Berliner has clipped out from the pages of The New York Times photos that caught his eye, keeping them meticulously filed and cross-indexed as a self-appointed archivist and librarian. Driven by his obsession, Berliner has completed the work of nearly a lifetime, transforming and reinterpreting his collection of images into a statement about the nature of humankind. Letter to the Editor is a film essay with multiple themes and a stunning array of thousands of photographs from Alan Berliner's collection. This film delivers poignant reflections on the power of photography, the importance of print publications, and what it means when technology brings a dramatic change to century-old traditions.

LITUS (Spain, 2019) Director: Dani de la Orden In Spanish, with English subtitles

GEMS Synopsis: A big chill has descended upon a group of Barcelona thirtysomething friends. Six months before, their cherished friend Litus inexplicably took his own life. His loving friends gather to celebrate his memory, but a bombshell secret awaits them: Litus left behind a goodbye letter for each of them. A moving drama with impeccably timed moments of humor, Litus is an invitation to reflect on life, relationships and our connections to those we hold most dear in life.

MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN (U.S., 2019) Director: Edward Norton In English

GEMS Synopsis: Twenty years in the making, Edward Norton's passion project Motherless Brooklyn finds the famed actor working quadruple duty as writer, director, producer and star of this inventive adaptation of Jonathan Lethem's novel of the same name. Growing up an orphan with Tourette syndrome, Lionel (Norton) spent his early years trying to find his place in the world. Then private detective Frank Minna (Bruce Willis) took him under his wing. Now a full-fledged employee of Frank's agency, Lionel finds his world turned upside down when Frank is murdered. Determined to solve the mystery of who killed his mentor, Lionel sets off on a quest that takes him from Brooklyn to Harlem, where he discovers a trail of shocking political corruption in the process.

PAIN AND GLORY (Spain, 2019) Director: Pedro Almodóvar In Spanish, with English subtitles

GEMS Synopsis: Pain and Glory is legendary Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's most personal, semi-autobiographical film to date. The film centers on Salvador Mallo (played by Antonio Banderas, who won Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival for this role), a Spanish film director in his 60s. Salvador receives an invitation by the Madrid Cinematheque for a retrospective screening of Sabor, a film that he made more than 30 years ago. The invitation triggers a comical, edgy reunion with Alberto Crespo (Asier Etxeandia), the actor who starred in Sabor, and then later a reunion with Federico Delgado (Leonardo Sbaraglia), the Argentinian man who was Salvador's first adult love just as many years ago. Floating in and out of Salvador's memories is his unresolved relationship with his deceased mother (played in her younger years by Penélope Cruz, and later years by Julieta Serrano).

PARASITE (South Korea, 2019) Director: Bong Joon-ho In Korean, with English subtitles

GEMS Synopsis: At once hilariously funny and nail-bitingly tense, Bong Joon-ho's class satire Parasite is quite possibly the most unique and unforgettable film of the year, and has had international critics swooning since it won the Palme D'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Defying convention and predictability at every step, the film centers on two families whose paths become inexorably linked and the wild events that result: the affluent Park family and the street smart but poor Kim family. The Kim's children, led by college-aged Ki-woo, manage to forge their way into the Park family's lives as tutors and art therapists. In exchange for their services, the Kim family finally has a path out of poverty, but this fragile balance built on lies will quickly unravel.

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (France, 2019) Director: Céline Sciamma In French, with English subtitles

GEMS Synopsis: Following the unexpected death of her sister, Héloïse (Ad��le Haenel) is brought back from a convent and betrothed to an unknown man from Milan. Héloïse's mother, La Comtesse (Valeria Golina), is set on having Héloïse's portrait painted, but she refuses to pose, in rebellion against the arranged marriage into which she is being forced. So La Comtesse slyly hires Marianne, a rare female professional artist in the period, to secretly paint Héloïse's portrait, all the while posing as her ostensible companion. Through walks, profound conversations, and long-held, tantalizing looks, the relationship between Héloïse and Marianne evolves with delicacy and intimacy.

STAFF ONLY (France, Spain, 2019) Director: Neus Ballus In Catalan, French, with English subtitles

GEMS Synopsis: In a time where new generations are often aggressively pursuing some stark definitions of political correctness, Staff Only hits a zeitgeist nerve with a young protagonist who is as intelligent as she is inexperienced. Catalan director Neus Ballús turns an honest and critical eye to a rich cast of characters, all of them compassionate, flawed human beings trying to live their best lives – yet often at unforeseen costs. Embracing the rich Senegalese landscape, Staff Only is as charming as it is poignant, while asking fundamental questions about how we grow individually, and in relation to others.

TAXI TO TREASURE ROCK (Spain, 2019) Director: Alejo Flah In Spanish, with English subtitles

GEMS Synopsis: Freshly released from a Madrid prison, Argentinian con artist and professional charmer Diego has one idea to rebuild his life: finding a lost stash of gold hidden inside the legendary Rock of Gibraltar. Diego puts his snake charmer ways to convince León (Dani Rovira of the Ocho appellidos vascos films), a misanthropic, miserly taxi driver flooded with debt and rage against the system, to drive him from Madrid to Gibraltar. On their chaotic road trip they meet Sandra (Ingrid García-Jonsson), a runaway bride-to-be who is just enough of a misfit to connect with Diego and León, and join their eccentric, life-changing adventure.

THE TRUTH (France, Japan, 2019) Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda In French, with English subtitles

GEMS Synopsis: To iconic actress Fabienne (Deneuve), nothing is more important than giving the perfect performance. Her commitment to her work has long put a strain on her personal life, and when her new memoir comes out, those closest to her find it harder and harder to stay by her side. When her longtime assistant suddenly quits, her estranged daughter Lumir (Binoche) – who's in town visiting along with her actor husband, Hank (Ethan Hawke) – steps into the role of assisting Fabienne while on the set of her new sci-fi film Memories of My Mother. With a mother and daughter so unable to communicate their complicated feelings to one another, Fabienne's new film (based on the Ken Liu short story of the same name) is a resonant, meta example of life imitating art.

THE TWO POPES (Argentina, Italy, UK, U.S., 2019) Director: Fernando Meirelles In English, French, Italian, Spanish, with English subtitles

GEMS Synopsis: When Pope Benedict XVI (Hopkins) breaks with tradition and decides to retire from the papacy, he invites his soon-to-be successor Cardinal Bergoglio (Pryce) – who will become the future Pope Francis – for a meeting. At first, it seems like an ideal opportunity for the two men to exchange pleasantries and put their differences aside. As one of Pope Benedict's harshest critics, Cardinal Bergoglio is a progressive, forward-thinking leader, one who feels strongly that the Church should listen to its followers instead of blindly adhering to the ways of old. It's an outlook that leads to a fierce debate between the two men – a debate on sticking to tradition vs. growing with the times, and about what it means to pave a religious path for more than a billion followers around the world.

TOP END WEDDING (Australia, 2019) Director: Wayne Blair In English

GEMS Synopsis: Lauren's demanding boss has given her just ten days of leave to get married to her doting fiancé, Ned, before she makes partner. But when Lauren's mother disappears in the midst of a major midlife crisis, leaving her father in shambles, all wedding plans are off until they can find her. Lauren and Ned set off on a breathtaking road trip through northern Australia (the "top end" of the country) in which multiple generations of the family must come to terms with the past in order for Lauren and Ned to be able to forge their future together.

This was originally published in Wire Magazine Issue 19.2019

[jeramymobley]

Leo Burnett Unveils 2018 Cannes Lions Film Festival Predictions

Top 20 Cannes contenders demonstrate groundbreaking creativity in a year of great change

Leo Burnett Worldwide published its 31st annual Cannes Predictions, forecasting the top 20 contenders ahead of the 65th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the industry’s most prestigious global awards show. The festival will be held in Cannes, France, from 18-22 June, 2018.

The annual prediction has a track record of nearly 85% accuracy in predicting campaigns with a strong likelihood of winning a coveted Lion. The list is curated by Leo Burnett Worldwide Executive Chairman & Global Chief Creative Officer, Mark Tutssel. Tutssel will return as a Cannes Lions jury president for the fifth time this year, presiding over the inaugural jury for the newly created Sustainable Development Goals Lions.

“It is an exciting year of change at Cannes, with newly simplified award tracks which will allow us to be more focused than ever on recognising bold creativity. As the industry shifts beneath our feet, it is important that we pause to acknowledge the truly innovative ideas and brilliant people who are creating work that drives impactful business results and, in some cases, contributes to the betterment of humankind.”

The Cannes Predictions list is a compilation of a yearlong evaluation of brand work that reflects global trends fueling the industry.

Full List of the Top 20 Cannes Contenders:

P&G Tide “It’s a Tide Ad” // P&G (USA)

Nike “Breaking2” // Wieden + Kennedy (Portland USA)

Orange Telecom “Now or Never” // FP7/CAI (Cairo, Egypt)

KFC “FCK” // Mother (London, UK)

Palau Legacy Project “Palau Pledge” // Host/Havas (Sydney, Australia)

National Safety Council “Prescribed to Death” // Energy BBDO (Chicago, USA)

EDEKA “The Most German Supermarket” // Jung von Matt (Hamburg, Germany)

Downtown Records “Live Looper” // BBDO (New York, USA)

Audi “Clowns” // Audi (UK)

The Times “JFK – Unsilenced” // Rothco – Accenture Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

Mars Wrigley Confectionary – Skittles “Exclusive the Rainbow” // DDB (Chicago, USA)

Cadbury “Mum’s Birthday” // VCCP (London, UK)

IKEA “The Human Catalogue” // IKEA (Singapore, Singapore)

Snaptivity “Snaptivity App” // R/GA (London, UK)

Apple HomePod “Welcome Home” // TBWA/Media Arts Lab (Los Angeles, USA)

Burger King “Scary Clown Night” // LOLA MullenLowe (Madrid, Spain)

LADBible & Plastic Oceans “Trash Isles” // AMV BBDO (London, UK)

Mars NZ – Pedigree “Pedigree SelfieSTIX” // Colenso BBDO (Auckland, New Zealand)

P&G “The Talk” // BBDO (New York, USA)

Nike “Nothing Beats a Londoner” // Wieden + Kennedy (London, UK)

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[photocultureapp]

Colleen Fitzgerald - “Wound Compression (from series ‘Treatment’)”

ARTIST STATEMENT

My current work focuses on the transformative affect of medicine on the body. Through abstract photographs, I reveal the hidden structures present in medicine and medical treatments, such as infrared heat therapy, antibiotics, moxibustion, and pain medication. These elements are applied directly to 4×5 sheets of film; therefore, the film is treated as the body, transferring contemporary modes of healing from my body to the photographic ground. In this work I treat the film as if it is itself an open wound, a delicate body needing care. The work involves no light or camera, but rather alchemy and the physical endurance of the film. The image references the moment of transformation present in all bodies that are subject to treatment within modern medicine.

ARTIST BIO

I live and work in New York City and received my MFA in Photography and Related Media from Parsons the New School for Design. I have taught and studied photography in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain, and Florence, Italy. My work has been featured on the cover of the book ‘Morning’ and in the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China.

Selected by Julian Cox, Chief Curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

[micaramel]

Artist: Lothar Hempel

Venue: Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin

Exhibition Title: FREITAG DER 13

Date: March 13 – May 30, 2020

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Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

Images:

Images courtesy of Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin

Press Release:

FREITAG DER 13. (amateur / amateurin) Plot

– in 1958 at camp crystal lake – to have sex – twenty-one years later – the transient and the disjointed – young boy who drowned

Emma Stern: ‘Your new exhibition is titled “Friday the 13th”, which brings to mind superstition and misfortune. What does the title mean, and isn’t it absolutely crazy to give an exhibition this title? Aren’t you downright provoking misfortune?’

Lothar Hempel: ‘Actually, the exhibition should have had an entirely different title: “IL MIO NOME É NESSUNO”. A really good one! It would have alluded to the Mediterranean, film and sound, wanderings and departures, friendships and defeats, cunning, deception, and invisible nights—motifs that I am quite concerned with at the moment and which also crop up in the exhibition. But unfortunately, that was not possible, because it almost transformed me into a mirrored turtle! So instead I chose a date as the opening is in fact on a Friday the 13th.’

– poisoned water in 1962 – unseen person – her throat – contextual horizon

  14 days later. Emma Stern dictates: ‘I am standing alone here in an empty, primitive wooden hut, a kind of scenery by a lake. By way of trial, paintings by Lothar are hanging on the walls; they will probably also be on show in Berlin at a later stage. The formats are rather small; the colours resemble those of frescoes, light and almost pastel, very outmoded. The pictures are cool and unapproachable, seemingly far away and hermetic, and yet sentimental and intimate. There is an escapist element here, but it remains impalpable… I wonder whether these paintings are really intended as paintings?’

– an arrow – a thunderstorm approaches – it details in elegant restraint – have sex – vintage operation

Emma Stern on the phone: ‘I received a postcard from Lothar today. It is not clear from where it was sent. On the front is an elephant with painted ornaments; it is walking through a fortress. A kind of platform with an image of a woman wearing a fox mask is strapped onto the elephant’s back. This might be a festive parade or some other ritual. A carnival? But maybe it’s a work by Lothar, or something that inspires him to produce a work, or something that he wishes were one of his works.’

– lights turn on – indifference – works continuously framed and reframed – phones disconnected – the cars inoperable

February 17, one month before the exhibition. Emma Stern in conversation with Lothar Hempel. Emma Stern: ‘The installation that you are making for the main room of the gallery is called “Les Amateurs”. One can see a yak, a bird of prey, and the actress Anne Wiazemsky who is wrapped in fur. They stand on a raft as if to embark on an endless journey. What is the message of this work?’

Lothar Hempel: ‘The image of Anne Wiazemsky is interesting. It possibly stems from the lost film “IL SEME DELL’UOMO” by Marco Ferreri. Anyway, I received the image from a friend, and it stimulated me to imagine the plot of the film and to fantasise. I think that this woman (Anne) turns into an animal in protest against humanity. She refuses, and humans go extinct. Later she wanders the world alone and befriends wild animals, trees, and stones. In the end, they (the amateurs) set the world alone and befriends wild animals, trees, and stones. In the end, they (the amateurs) set off on a final great journey into the unknown’.

Emma Stern: ‘Then your sculpture is similar to a fictitious film’s poster?’

Lothar Hempel: ‘The sculpture marks a threshold; it is a crossing you can use.’

Emma Stern: ‘An opening in the room? A connection between different spheres? A dissolution?’ Lothar Hempel: ‘Possibly a tool, something really tangible! A prayer!’

– at the shore – only to be remembered – oral friend – decapitates – sailor nobody

The Year of the Rat. Berlin.

Emma Stern: ‘When I now walk through Berlin—I haven’t been here for years—it’s shocking to see how quickly things disappear, how the city changes. It brings tears to my eyes.’

Lothar Hempel: ‘It’s like that everywhere. The whole world is in rapid motion, dissolving, evaporating, disappearing—which is understandable! Nevertheless, I have the feeling that everything simultaneously stagnates. As if we humans were paralysed, awaiting something.’

Emma Stern: ‘How can one continue to make art at the moment? I know that’s a question that has probably been asked throughout history. Probably it’s precisely the wrong question because art is not a commentary on time.’

Lothar Hempel: ‘Exactly, I believe that art creates something like time in the first place.’

Emma Stern: ‘You’re one of the few people I know who always believes in art, who always defends it. That’s pleasant, but also a little… Why do you stick so firmly to this construct? Wouldn’t it be important to concentrate on something new now, something that can replace art? Wouldn’t it be incredibly liberating after a hundred thousand years to say: that’s enough, art! Now comes something else! What do you think? Why?’

– to forgoe a broader narrative – old boy – imitation of – she awakens inside – at peace

  Lothar Hempel, born 1966 in Cologne, lives and works in Berlin. Using various media (sculpture, painting, installation, video, performance), Hempel merges the abstract and the figurative in dramatic, stage-like arrangements. Contradictions and cross-references to society, history and psychology as well as other media systems, such as theatre, dance and film, are a crucial part of the works. Hempel also considers his sculptural constellations to be narrative machines into which the viewers are drawn to fill them with their imagination. FREITAG DER 13. is the artist’s first solo exhibition with Mehdi Chouakri.

Works by Hempel have been presented in solo exhibitions, i.a. at Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2020), Modern Art, London (2018), ITALIC, Berlin (2018), Public Art Fund, New York (2015), The Kitchen, New York (2014), Art:Concept, Paris (2012), OSL contemporary, Oslo (2009), Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2008), Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble (2007), Institute of Contemporary Arts London (ICA), London (2002), and at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1998). Furthermore, the artist has participated in numerous group exhibitions, i.a. at the Santander Art Gallery, Madrid (2020), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017), Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac (2013), Barbican Art Gallery, London (2008), ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (2007), The Saatchi Gallery, London (2006), and the Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (1999).

Link: Lothar Hempel at Mehdi Chouakri

from Contemporary Art Daily https://bit.ly/2Lm0fUf

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(ESSAY) The Ritual of Panic, by Rhiannon Auriol

Rhiannon Auriol situates panic in its personal, cultural and political contexts. With reference to fire festivals, witchcraft, film, visual art and literature, historical upheavals and contemporary crises, the essay considers the tensile, sometimes erotic, functioning of panic in relation to ritual, fetish, social boundaries and the pressures of adolescence.

> The opposite of an orgasm is a panic attack. It is also its twin. Both can leave you shaking. Breathless. Sweaty. You can have them in multiples (if you’re female-bodied), sometimes in a row for hours. There is a sense, to both, of a ritual release; once the last throes dissipate there is a violent shape of relief. And although the emotional aftermath of each is radically different, one thing is for sure – you always remember your first time.  

> The ritual of panic is brutal and cyclical. I had my first panic attack aged 14. At school, they were reliable company. I would lock myself in a toilet cubicle when I felt one coming. I learned early on how to have panic attacks very, very quietly. Learned to carry all the right kit in case of an emergency rendezvous with my panic: tissues, makeup remover, water, gum, rescue remedy (I’ve graduated now to cigarettes and CBD). I have been panicking in this routine for years; all my life high-functioning anxiety has affected by ability to form healthy relationships with food, sex and work. I came of age nervously and erratically, swinging from confidence to collapse on a roughly six-month rotation. Terrified and in thrall to my panic, I was prepared to try anything to satisfy its crippling needs. And in this way my panic became ritualistic, a deity, pacified ineffectually by a private ceremony performed in bathrooms up and down the country. I got by without ever asking why I felt so trapped in this cycle, without examining what my struggle showed about the myth of worry that so many live by. Then I tripped over an essay by Fiona Duncan which struck home with its line, ‘Anxiety is a story I am telling myself’. My panic controlled me through my belief in it, I realised.

> Ritual, panic and sexuality are old lovers, intimate enemies. One of the definitions of panic is ‘of or relating to the god Pan’, the pastoral deity and mythological figure who has been portrayed alternatively as a kindly satyr or a sexual-Satanic symbol of ritualistic sacrifice. The myth goes that if the sleeping god was disturbed, panic would ensue, the flocks and herds of his slumberlands scattered by the resultant wrath. In order to placate the divine sleeper and avoid panic, animals were ritualistically slaughtered at Pan’s altars, ancient blood spurting onto stone in perfect harmony with the people’s nervous heartbeats. Pan’s association with nature also ties him to ideas of fertility and sexuality, to the rhythms of the seasons and their accompanying rituals such as the pagan celebrations of solstices and equinoxes. To an extent these festivals, as with many religious rites, are also sacrificial acts, alternative performances of homage to the power of the worshipped object (be it moons or gods) while also hoping for protection from fearful forces of change.

> There is something to be said for exploring the erotic element of these acts. As a child I regarded pagan celebrations in the same light as sexuality; they seemed mysterious and thrilling peaks of energy, climaxes if you will, strange and enchanting and (according to my Catholic mother) forbidden. When I moved to Edinburgh for university, I was free to go to the Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill, a ‘ritual drama’ and Gaelic celebration of May Day which throbs and flickers with sexual energy – from the raw allure of the dancing to the fierceness of flesh painted red, flowers of fire streaking the night sky. I saw how Beltane welcomed chaos and through this sense of liberation and lightness, the darker side of our impulses, panic, was staved off.

> It is possible however for the object of worship to become fetishised through rituals, symbolically distorted into something it is not. In the 18th century ritualism began to be associated more and more with notions of perverse sexuality, as did the god Pan. The goat-like form of the nature god began to take on a Satanic symbolism, largely due to Christianity’s moral panic over anything to do with sexuality and alternative deities, both of which Pan embodied. Consequently, people who worshipped Pan or Satan were denigrated by mainstream society as Satanists, pagans, witches. Demonstrating this shift in attitude with his Black Paintings series the 1798 Francisco Goya painting Witches’ Sabbath depicts a Satanic Pan surrounded by a coven of worshipping yet cowering witches. The great goat is garlanded and presides over the painting as if a priest in ceremony, the object of awe but also fear as indicated by its emphasised size and centrality to the composition, as well as the terrifying eye contact it maintains with the viewer. One of the witches clutches a baby, suggesting at first the Christian ritual of baptism, except the way the infant is grazed by one of the Devil’s hooves means it could also be a sacrifice, thus the baby is transformed into a signifier of both life and death. As a symbol of fertility, the baby also contrasts with the barren landscape of the piece’s background, which is littered with the skeletons of children. Such ominous depictions of Pan became rife, particularly in Europe at this time. And through such widespread portrayals, the concept of Pan was fetishised as the image became more powerful than the reality, especially when coinciding with proximity to moments in history such as the Basque Witch Trials. The tendency towards fetishisation taps into something fevered and feared stemming from how our societies are organised – the psychosexual release that comes for many with the mystery of worship is tempered by the craving to have control over a dominant wildness in our being, to shape power into a more limited comprehension.

Francisco de Goya, Witches’ Sabbath, 1789, oil on canvas. Museo Lazaro Galdiano, Madrid.

> From witchcraft to devil worship and paganism (among a plethora of other beliefs and practices), people get nervous about what they can’t comprehend. Deviant sexuality makes people panic. In fact, anything considered out of the norm does – that is why ‘witches’ were hunted. Witch hunting was political panic warfare, of a kind we still see today and have done throughout history under different names and faces, from the Red Scare to the Satanic Panics of the 80s. A lot of the time politics is about Eros, not Logos, as evident from looking at how it is emotionally guided voting which underpins the rise and normalisation of extreme and dangerous political phenomena – 20th century fascism, Donald Trump, Brexit. Each of these things could be described as having been fetishised by its supporters, while creating a sense of extreme panic or doom in its opponents. Susan Sontag describes how ‘the fascist dramaturgy centers on the orgiastic transactions between mighty forces and their puppets’ where the former requires placation and the latter worships or is punished. Sontag goes on to locate Nazi control within a cult-like eroticism: ‘the colour is black, the material is leather…’.

> On the 29th March 2019, incidentally the day that Brexit was supposed to have its chaotic way, I experienced a major depressive episode which lasted most of the following summer, triggered by a violent panic attack which woke me up in the night and made me see static. Mine was unrelated to Brexit (at least consciously) but others’ mental health is being disastrously affected by the Brexit cacophony, from counselling for MPs to the new term of ‘Brexit anxiety’ the uncertainty is eroding the country’s peace of mind. In failing to make sense out of public sacrifice – very literally, in the form of taxation, time and trust – the ritual of government has failed over Brexit, something which we are perpetually made aware of thanks to the fuel of media panic. Yet even amidst so much chaos, tradition and structure are clung to, the rituals repeatedly performed (Boris Johnson asking the Queen for permission to prorogue Parliament strikes me as a prime example), still hopeful of something changing, something miraculously being fixed. This is comparable to the more quotidian scale of ritual action. We seek control over things we cannot predict or see, all these things keep happening and there is no control over any of them, so we fill each day with things, with plans and schedules and jobs and lists to try and wrestle something back but only succeed in being so busy that we cannot breathe at night.

> As was the case with the mythological rites to Pan, vital things are sacrificed to my panic – relationships, money, time, happiness. The normalisation of the anxiety-inducing rites of passage which we describe as ‘coming of age’ is reflected in the documentary film All This Panic (2016) which follows a group of teenage girls through their Upper West Side lives in modern day New York, that city of anxious architecture and nerve-wracking streets. Throughout the documentary, directed by Jenny Gage, the girls exude a childish confidence which fails to mask their inner struggles with anxiety. ‘There’s all this panic…people are texting each other all the time… I’m petrified of getting older’ are just a few such indicative lines in the film which capture the sharp contrast between a mulled blasé outward attitude and the confusion within as the girls ricochet between casual crises. They are analogous characters to J M Barrie’s creation Peter Pan, a figure whose defining feature is eternal youth, a boy forever, fetishising the state of childhood. Peter plays the pan pipes, an instrument named after the god Pan, and in possessing the secret to flight appears to be a free spirit – and yet ‘he can never quite get the hang of [life]’.[i] Exaggeratedly careless, the iconic character appeals to the desire in readers to regain the laissez-faire boldness of youth. Today however, this idealised formative country is under siege. All This Panic portrays a post-wounded girlhood where beneath the ritual of performative femininity – make-up routines and coven-like cliques – is a terror at what may be waking, at what has to be covered up.

> What All This Panic highlights is how the milestones and expectations young people are expected to meet as they carve out lives for themselves are literally ‘rites’ exerting immense pressure upon the individual to follow them, to perfect each one: the correct clothes must be worn, the magic words that will make everyone want to be friends with you must be said, everything must be documented online, everyone must know when you start having sex for the first time, and you hide the 99% of things which don’t measure up to the pretty and perfected life – such as losing your mind. But what happens when these rituals fail, when the sacrifice is not enough, when things go wrong, and the sleeping demon is woken? Panic.

> The artist Laurie Anderson treats panic with a dose of hope in her video We Are In Constant Panic Mode. She would have us ‘try to see these great surges in a mode that’s not panic’. When a wave of anxiety approaches instead of drowning in it, we should ‘find a really good way to ride that. Fighting is a disaster’. What I took from Anderson’s observation is that perhaps the death of panic is found not in liberation from fear but in its acceptance. As the news that ‘The Great God Pan is Dead’ struck despair through the hearts of the ancient citizens of Palodes, they were simultaneously freed to explore new conceptualisations and interpretations of the world. We have a habit of killing our gods, of suffocating our emotional life, denying our desires. Perhaps after all it is not the panic which must be fixed, but the rituals we are restricted by. Rituals which are distancing us from nature and distorting our spiritual clarity – rituals which are creating, rather than placating, all this panic. But first there are more immediate things sufferers of anxiety can do – seeking medical help, taking (prescribed) pills, reducing intake of caffeine and alcohol, meditation and reconnection to the natural world. Like first figuring out how to have an orgasm, the body and brain must learn how to make positive joyful connections rather than repressing those pathways, and that is what anti-anxiety medicine can help create. The stigma around taking pills and the fearsomely described side effects led me to the most ironic panic of all – anxiety over taking my anti-anxiety medication. But I took it anyway and stepped outside the prison of my panic. And that is how the ritual ends.

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Text: Rhiannon Auriol

Illustration: Maria Sledmere

Published: 19/3/20

[i] Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan. 2008.

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LAS VEGAS – Sept. 20, 2019 – IL VOLO announce the global release of their new album 10 Years – The Best of (Sony Music) on Nov. 8. Available for preorder now, the new album celebrates the trio’s 10th anniversary and pays homage to the career of three unique voices that have crossed national borders, selling millions of records, and climbed rankings worldwide. The album arrives in the wake of Il Volo’s hugely successful summer tour, which took them to the most iconic Italian locations, from the Cava del Sole in Matera to the Teatro Antico in Taormina. Following the album’s release, the trio will head out on the road once again on a 23-date North American tour, which includes a stop at The Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort on Sunday, March 15, 2020 at 7:30 p.m.

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