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Art and Experiment | Short Films of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Presented by the Goethe-Institut Ottawa and Digital Arts Resource Centre (DARC)
This year’s Artist and Experiment programme assembles some of the most intriguing filmmakers who are currently working in the field of tension between film and art. At the beginning, Gustaf Broms asks in
Perforated Realities how the Covid-19 virus could shake the foundation of an idea of civilisation. Katrin Winkler uses private footage of missionaries who accompanied colonisations in Africa to address the question of how the colouring came about and how it is shaped by power structures through different colonising actors.
It grew fur again, lost it, developed scales, lost them by Gitte Villesen is an essay film that explores two ideas that emerged from two works of feminist science fiction. In
Grandma's Scissors, filmmaker Erica Sheu connects with her grandmother and her grandmother's craft through her own. Finally, the dance film
Dancen, shot in Wuppertal (Germany), looks at the fleeting impulses that live between individual moments of the day. The films in this programme provide an illuminating insight into the
current state of media art.
The program will feature an introduction by Ottawas
Christopher Rohde, filmmaker, musician and
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curator. His video
The Pink Ghosts (2006) was screened across Canada and was one of the first films selected for EnRoute, Air Canada’s in-flight film festival.
Odd One Out (2014) was screened at festivals internationally and won awards for Best Film by an Emerging Filmmaker at the Jasper Short Film and Media Arts Festival and Best Director (Experimental) at the Ottawa Independent Video Awards. Christopher received his M.A. in Film Studies from Carleton University in 2007. He was a member of Available Light Screening Collective from 2006 – 2013, and Programmer at SAW Video Media Art Centre from 2010 – 2015, where he curated dozens of screenings, installations, exhibitions, performances and other projects. In 2014, he founded Mirror Mountain Film Festival, a platform for celebrating unique creative voices.
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Films on the program:
Perforated Realities
Gustaf Broms, Sweden 2021
No dialog
16'30''
you cannot trust the colours
Katrin Winkler, Germany 2021
English
16'
It grew fur again, lost it, developed scales, lost them
Gitte Villesen, Denmark 2021
English
23'30''
Grandma’s Scissors
Erica Sheu, USA/Taiwan 2021
German/English,
5'30''
Dancen / To Dance
Corina Andrian, Romania 2021
no dialog
16'
About The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, founded in 1954, is considered the oldest short film festival in the world and is one of the largest international platforms for the short form. Short film is still the most important source of film renewal, the experimental field on which future film languages are formed. Today, the diversity of forms, themes and approaches is greater than ever. Feature film or essay, installation, thesis film or artist's film, music video, animation, documentary and all conceivable hybrid forms are emerging all over the world and increasingly online on numerous platforms. The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has been moving in this field of tension for over 60 years; it is a catalyst and showcase for current developments, a forum for often controversial discussions, a discoverer of new trends and talents and, last but not least, one of the most important short film institutions worldwide. Oberhausen is the oldest short film festival in the world and the largest festival in North Rhine-Westphalia, with around 7,000 films submitted each year, approximately 500 films in the festival programme and over 1,100 accredited professional visitors annually.
For years, the Festival has also enjoyed an excellent reputation in the art scene, which has discovered short films and videos for itself. The equal treatment of video in the competitions since the late 1980s, the ongoing preoccupation with commercial and industrial film and the introduction of MuVi, the world's first festival prize for music videos from Germany, at the end of the 1990s or its own film submission platform are considered absolutely trend-setting and innovative.
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