14–17 October 2015
Frieze London
The Regent’s Park
London
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The artists participating in Frieze Film 2015 are: Charles Atlas with Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, Xavier Cha, Gery Georgieva and Thirteen Black Cats.
Launched in 2007, Frieze Film is a series of new artist films commissioned from established and emerging artists and premiered annually as part of Frieze Projects, the non-profit programme at Frieze London. This year, Frieze Film is curated by Nicola Lees and supported by Channel 4′s Random Acts, who will also broadcast the commissions.
New York-based artist Xavier Cha presents a new film capturing actors’ efforts to battle conflicting emotions, offering a first look at the artist’s forthcoming solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. Produced in co-operation with the Museum, the film continues Cha’s exploration of the body and subjectivity.
Bulgarian-born Gery Georgieva’s film focuses on the nightclubs of her native country’s Chalga (pop-folk) scene, a musical genre with a contested relationship to national tradition. By contrasting footage from these venues in Buglaria with parallel environments elsewhere, Georgieva interrogates the configuration of cultural identities.
An iconic figure at the intersection between music, performance and film, Charles Atlas debuts a new dance-based work as a preview of a major ongoing long-form project. Choreographed by duo Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener and filmed at Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), New York, the film follows Atlas’ influential, Channel 4-commissioned Hail the New Puritan (1985–6) in being specially tailored for broadcast.
Continuing the theme of collaboration, the research and production collective Thirteen Black Cats presents the first chapter of an ambitious, 56-part moving image work. Inspired by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño’s novel Antwerp (2002), the project invites filmmakers and artists worldwide to collaborate on a multi-authored film and video series.
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Initiated in 2003, Frieze Projects is a unique non-profit commissioning platform for emerging, under-represented and innovative practices within one of the world’s leading contemporary art fairs.
Frieze London takes place from the 14–17 October 2015. Frieze London is sponsored by Deutsche Bank for the 12th consecutive year.
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