CPH:DOX, the British art film organization LUX and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts is hosting a two-day symposium during CPH:DOX 2011.
The event will take place on Thursday 10 & Friday 11 November 2011 at
Kunstakademiets Festsal, Nyhavn 2, Copenhagen – Denmark
The symposium is a new international platform which is being launched alongside this year’s festival and the overall idea is to focus on the production of feature length film in the borderland between film and visual arts. What is currently happening in the ever growing borderland between film and visual arts? Which films are being produced, who owns them, where do they appear, how are they developed and financed? How does the production context and not least how does the institutional context influence the creative process? What is the future of art cinema? Does it lie in the hands of the film industry or in the hands of the art world—or in between?
The idea is to connect artists, professional filmmakers and institutions from the film and art world to exchange knowledge, ideas and contacts, and to highlight new ways of cooperation. We have invited a carefully selected group of international producers, broadcasters, funders and museums for a discussion on the current state of the international scene of art cinema and the processes by which it can be developed and supported in the future.
Public Panels Day 1 – Thursday 10 November 2011
10.30–12.30
PRODUCING ARTISTS’ MOVING IMAGE
What can artists’ moving image production learn from more traditional film production? Through the presentation of relevant case studies, a panel of film producers with specific experience from working with projects in between film and visual art will discuss and compare the two fields. We have invited a carefully selected group of producers which includes Simon Field, who has produced, amongst many other, the Palme D’Or winning Cannes film ‘Uncle Bonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’ by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. We have also invited the Norwegian curator and producer Leif Magne Tangen, who is currently working with Norwegian artist Knut Åsdam and British artist Emily Wardill on their first feature projects. We have also invited Anna Lena Vaney who produced the film ‘Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait’ by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Pareno, and last but not least artist and producer Charles de Meaux, founder of the remarkable Anna Sanders Films, a production company characterised for being involved in borderline projects between cinema and art—working with artists such as Philippe Parreno, Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Lawrence Weiner and others.
Moderator: Tine Fischer
13.30–15.00
ARTISTS’ FILM FUNDING, SALES & DISTRIBUTION
How are artists’ films funded and distributed, what are the limits of existing structures? Could projects commissioned in the art world learn from existing film financing and film distribution models and vice versa? With the classic art cinema market drastically diminishing, what could a new distribution model for art cinema look like? Is the museum the new venue and partner? We have invited a group of commissioners & museums who in various ways have been involved in the development, production & exhibition of art films: Channel 4 Arts, LUX and Film London who will talk about what kind of work they support and how the funding structures works. On the exhibition and distribution side we have invited the American producer and distribution consultant Martin Marquet, the Beligian producer Emmy Oost who will talk about the distribution of the Grimonprez film, as well as a leading Scandinavian art representative and curator Camilla Larsson from Bonniers Kunsthall in Stockholm.
Moderator: Simon Field
Public Panels Day 2 – Friday 11 November 2011
10.30–11.30
MEET THE INSTITUTIONS
We have invited a line-up of curators, programmers and museum institutions involved in commissioning and exhibiting art film projects for an informal talk about new possibilities. What is the (new) role of the museum in terms of developing, producing and exhibiting art films? Meet representatives; Charlène Dinhut / Centre Pompidou,Kathy Noble /Tate Modern, Camilla Larsson / Bonniers Kunsthall, Marianne Torp / Statens Museum for Kunst and Rose Cupit & Maggie Ellis from Film London and hear them talk about their different initiatives and thoughts about new approaches in the field.
Moderator: Benjamin Cook
12.00–13.30
MASTERCLASS: BEN RIVERS & BEN RUSSEL
Meet one of the most visionary artists in art cinema / contemporary art in a master class exploring the projects he is currently working on with Ben Russel, and the ways in which they have navigated the world of the art world and that of cinema. Both of them have gone from producing short experimental films to feature length cinematic films and both of them are producing films that will be screened / exhibited both within the institution of cinema and that of visual art. They are currently working on their first common feature film project ‘A Spell to Ward of the Darkness’ and they have curated a special program for this year’s CPH:DOX with the same title.
Networking lunch, drinks and final reception from 13.30.
There will be pre-arranged one-on-one meetings between producers/ funders and artists both days.
For more information and to register please contact
Michelle Schulze: michelle.s [at] cphdox.dk
Deadline: 7 November 2011
To buy a ticket (150 DKK for both days included) go here.
