9th International Biennial
for Moving Image Art in India
We are happy to partner once again with
Experimenta, India’s first and only international biennial, celebrating experimental film and moving image art in India. This groundbreaking festival that put Indian experimental filmmakers on the international scene is now in its
9th edition. This year the Festival will showcase, at the
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan over
100 films and videos from across the world, host artist talks, special curated programmes and installations over 5 days.
The
Inaugural film this year is the award-winning feature film,
Court directed by
Chaitanya Tamhane.
This is the first official public screening/premiere of Court in Bangalore. The Director Chaitanya Tamhane will be present for the first of three screenings on 25.11.2015, at 6.30 p.m.
Other highlights include Anand Patwardhan’s path-breaking film,
Prisoners of Conscience, The New Wave by
Chandrashekar Nair, the Kannada film
Attihanu Mathu Kanaja (Fig Fruit and The Wasps) by
M.S. Prakash Babu (Bangalore)The filmmakers will be present.
Germany has a major presence at the Festival with no less than 3 eminent film makers in attendance, along with other international curators. Film artist
Helga Fanderl will showcase her work along with an artist talk. Video artist
Bjørn Melhus will display an installation at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Library. He will also discuss his arts practice through an artist talk.
Philip Widmann, current
bangaloREsident@Srishti School will also participate.
Experimenta has established an international reputation for being one of the most cutting-edge festivals of experimental film in the world and continues to play an integral role in showcasing uncompromising, fresh and compelling moving image art from across the globe.
For programmme details and full schedule visit
www.experimenta.in.
Presentations by Helga Fanderl:
| Friday, 27.11., 6.30 p.m. |
Artist Profile
Helga Fanderl 1 |
Curated and presented by Helga Fanderl followed by an Artist Talk.
Helga Fanderl’s films were originally shot on Super 8, later blown up to 16mm and in-camera edited. The artist will project her films herself. The projector is set up in the auditorium. Its mechanical sound will accompany the visual rhythms. |
Sunday,
29.11.,
4.30 p.m. |
Artist Profile
Helga Fanderl 2 |
Curated and presented by Helga Fanderl
"My films are made while I am filming. They preserve the chronological order and the intensity of my recording. There is no postproduction. What matters is the concentrated interplay with the subject. The camera is hand held. One feels the gesture like you do in a painted sketch or a drawing. The viewer senses my presence in the filmed situation and can follow all my decisions.I am inspired by patterns of movements, rhythms, forms, textures and colours when I transform into film what I see, feel, think and imagine, shaping images,shaping time.” HF |
Helga Fanderl studied German and Romance Languages and Literature in Munich, Paris and Frankfurt (1967-1973).
Studied at the Art School, “Städelschule”, in Frankfurt (1987-1992) and at Cooper Union in New York City (1992-1993).
Since 1990 her work is represented in film museums, museums of modern and contemporary art, exhibition spaces, galleries, art house cinemas such as:
Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt; Arsenal, Berlin; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Goethe House, New York; Kino im Museum Ludwig, Köln; New York Film Festival; Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Presentations by Bjørn Melhus:
Saturday,
28.11.,
4.30 p.m. |
Artist Profile
Bjørn Melhus |
The Yellow Brick Road – Artist Talk by Bjorn Melhus
As Dorothy follows the yellow brick road in the 1939 movie THE WIZARD OF OZ, Bjørn Melhus speaks about his own path and the miracles in 25 years of filmmaking between black box and white cube. In this presentation of numerous film and video excerpts he personally links his body of work to an overall narrative. Bjørn Melhus’s work has developed a singular position, expanding the possibilities for a critical reception of cinema and television. |
Ongoing
@ Library |
Murphy
Das Zauberglas (The Magic Glass)
Installation |
Bjørn Melhus’s practice of fragmentation, destruction, and reconstitution of well-known figures, topics, and strategies of the mass media opens up not only a network of new interpretations and critical commentaries, but also defines the relationship of mass media and viewer anew. Bjørn Melhus’s work has been shown at Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Whitney Museum New York, the 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Serpentine Gallery London, Sprengel Museum Hanover, Museum Ludwig Cologne, ZKM Karlsruhe among others. Melhus lives and works in Berlin, Germany and teaches at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. |
Bjørn Melhus, born 1966, is a German-Norwegian media artist. In his work he has developed a singular position, expanding the possibilities for a critical reception of cinema and television. His practice of fragmentation, destruction, and reconstitution of well-known figures, topics, and strategies of the mass media opens up not only a network of new interpretations and critical commentaries, but also defines the relationship of mass media and viewer anew.
Originally rooted in an experimental film context, Bjørn Melhus’s work has been shown and awarded at numerous international film festivals. He has held screenings at Tate Modern and the LUX in London, the Museum of Modern Art (MediaScope) in New York, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, amongst others. His work has been exhibited in shows like The American Effect at the Whitney Museum New York, the 8th International Istanbul Biennial, solo and group shows at FACT Liverpool, Serpentine Gallery London, Sprengel Museum Hanover, Museum Ludwig Cologne, ZKM Karlsruhe, Denver Art Museum among others.
Presentation by Philip Widmann:
Sunday,
29.11.,
2.30 p.m. |
Fictitious Force
2015, Germany/India
Short Film (15:00) digital, b&w, sound |
Philip Widmann's short film is running in the International Competition 4 together with seven other films |
Philip Widmann, bangaloREsident@Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology, born 1980 in West Berlin is a filmmaker and artist. Widmann graduated in Visual Communications from the University of Fine Arts Hamburg and in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Hamburg. Since 2009 he is a member of the artist-run film laboratory LaborBerlin.
His works have been shown in art spaces and film festivals, among them the Wexner Center for the Arts, WRO Media Art Biennale Wroclaw, Berlin Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, FID Marseille, CPH:DOX und Visions du Réel. Widmann was artist in residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart in 2014. In 2015, he was artist in residence at Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto.
Shai Heredia, Festival Director, is a filmmaker and curator of film art. She studied Sociology at St. Xaviers College, Mumbai and Documentary Filmmaking at Goldsmiths College, London. In 2003, she founded Experimenta, the international festival for experimental cinema in India. She has curated experimental film programmes at film festivals and art venues worldwide, including the Berlinale, Germany and the Tate Modern, London. Her film, I am micro, has received critical acclaim and won prestigious awards, including a National Award from the Government of India. Shai’s latest film An Old Dog’s Diary (2015) a film portrait of artist F.N. Souza recently won the Best Short Film Award at the BFI London International Film Festival. She has been a grant maker with the India Foundation for the Arts, and also teaches at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology. Heredia lives and works in Bangalore where she runs Experimenta India.
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