Almost Cinema

Vooruit Arts Centre and the Ghent Film Festival would like to invite you to the 3d edition of Almost Cinema, a programme that explores and crosses the borders between cinema and visual arts, media arts and the stage. The festival consists of an exhibition / installation trail, live performances, audiovisual concerts and talks: media artists and dramatist alike show work with a cinematic twist.

http://www.vooruit.be/en/serie/42

Artists participating in exhibition: Alexandra Dementieva (RU, works in Brussels/New York), video artist / media artist; Boris Debackere (BE), media artist / researcher (V2\_) / teacher (Transmedia); Laure Delamotte-Legrand (FR), visual artist / architect; Doris Kuwert (DE, works in Berlin), visual artist; Heike Langsdorf (DE, works in Brussels), choreographer; Ulf Langheinrich (DE, works in Vienna / Accra Ghana), media artist (a.o. in duo ‘Granular Synthesis’); Laurent Liefooghe (BE), visual artist; Ali Momeni (IR, works in Minneapoliss), sound artist / media artist / researcher / teacher (University of Minnesota); Elisa Pône (FR), visual artist; Ula Sickle (CA, works in Brussels), choreographer; Eric Thielemans (BE), composer / musician.

Artists participating in live program: David Bithell (US), researcher / teacher / sound artist; Xander de Boer (NL), theatre maker ; Rikkert Brok (NL), media artist / VJ; Alexis Destoop (BE), filmmaker; Maarten Halmans (NL), media artist / VJ; Steven Heather (AU), theatre maker; Krijn Hermans (BE), theatre maker; Derek Holzer (NL), media artist / sound artist / VJ; Eric Joris (BE), theatre maker / media artist / researcher; Heike Langsdorf (DE), choreographer / dancer; Ulf Langheinrich (DE), media artis; Christophe Meierhans (DE), theatre maker / film director; Mike Michiels (BE), theatre maker; Ali Momeni (US), researcher / teacher / media artist; Anna Rispoli (IT), actress / theatre maker; Ula Sickle (CA), choreographer / dancer; Nicola Unger (CH), theatre maker / sound artist / comic author; Philip Warnell (UK), plastic and media artist / film director; Siegmar Zacharias (RO/DE), theatre maker.

SOME HIGHLIGHTS

Wednesday 8 October
OPENING EXHIBITION / INSTALLATION TRAIL
with live performances Drift and Viewmaster.
We would like to invite you to view our selection of media and video art works for Almost Cinema 08 in an installation trail. On the same evening we will present two performances that have a close connection to the trail. Drift, a cinematic performance by Ulf Langheinrich, and Viewmaster, a performance that stirs the imagination by Heike Langsdorf and Ula Sickle in a construction by Laurent Liefooghe.

Tuesday 14 Oct, 20:00
PERFORMANCE NIGHT
with Rikkert Brok & Maarten Halmans - Shift, Ali Momeni & David Bithel - The Liminal Surface and Derek Holzer - Tonewheels
Record players, lights, cameras, synthesizers… These are the ingredients Rikkert Brok and Maarten Halmans use to create their own equipment. For the performance Shift they also manufactured the required material themselves. / In an intimate face-to-face with his colleague Ali Momeni, David Bithell blends elements of live performance, video, music technology and improvisation into a playful game that hovers between tragedy and comedy. / Derek Holzer’s performance Tonewheels is an experiment that turns graphic images into sound with the help of tonewheels.

Wednesday 15 Oct, 20:00
FRICTIESSALON DELUXE
Talks with Alexis Destoop and Aaron Schuster (Kairos), Anna Rispoli & Christophe Meierhans (The Pitch) , Philip Warnell (The Girl…).
An evening with presentations of artists that approach cinema from an unexpected angle. We will host Philip Warnell who is famous for his experiments with projecting film on the human eye. He will talk about the making proces of his new film. Anna Rispoli and Christophe Meierhans will report in the form of a lecture/performance about their project ‘The Pitch’ in which they want to restage the american western Rio Bravo with local actors in Sudan. And Alexis Destoop will talk about his new film Kairos, a cross between science fiction and a road movie in close collaborations with soundartists Stephen O’Malley and Oren Ambarchi.

Thursday 9 Oct, 09:00 - 17:00
CONFERENCE MUTATNG MEDIA
Together with Interface (academic platform of KASK, UGent, VUB & University Utrecht that investigates the interfaces between art and science), we set up a symposium on Thursday 9th October (9:45am-5pm, free entrance, in English) called Mutating media.
New media like film and digital technology broaden the range of materials that artists have at their disposal. At this conference, international speakers and artists will talk about building bridges between art and architecture, poetry and typography, theatre and media art. Several video and media artists will show their work.
With Wouter Davidts (professor, University of Amsterdam, Ghent University), Paul Demets (Poet, Lecturer KASK, University College Gent ), Maaike Bleeker (Professor, Utrecht University), Arjen Mulder (Writer, V2\_, Rotterdam), Kurt D’ Haeseleer (Artist, Brussels), Manu Luksch (Artist, London), Ali Momeni (Artist, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota) and Johan Grimonprez (Artist, Brussels).

Welcome! Best regards,
Eva De Groote, media arts programme

Almost Cinema is a coproduction of Vooruit Arts Centre & Ghent Film Festival.
http://www.vooruit.be
http://www.filmfestival.be