REEL Artists Film Festival
Thursday, March 22 ? Sunday March 25, 2012
Alberta College of Art + Design
All films are screened at the Stanford Perrott Lecture Hall
Alberta College of Art + Design, 1407 14th Avenue NW
FREE ADMISSION.?For more information, call?403-284-7633.
For a fourth year in a row, the Alberta College of Art + Design is proud to co-present the Canadian Art Foundation?s Reel Artist Film Festival ? a series of unique and eclectic films exploring the work of international artists, and the creative process opening March 22nd at ACAD.
Join us this weekend at ACAD for more than a dozen remarkable films that investigate thecreative processes of artists and designers around the world. This year?s opening night features?GNARR, an in-depth look at ?The Best Party? ? a political party born as a joke that has gone on to change the future of Iceland, and?How Are You, alook at the collaborative work of artists Elmgreen & Dragset by directorJannik Splidsboel. The lineup for the weekend also includes?ThomasRuff?- a brilliant portrait of the legendary German photographer;?Portrait of Resistance: The Art and Activism of Carole Conde & Karl Beveridge?? a profile of Toronto artists-activists Carole Conde and karl Beveridge; and?Oliviero Toscani: The Rage of Images?? a look into the world of the photographer best known for bringing extreme forms of realism into the business of the advertising world. This year?s festival of films is eclectic and unique ? taking us behind the scenes of the creative process around our world.
The Reel Artists Film Festival: a glance into the captivating and visionary world of today?s great artists.
Thursday, March 22?| 7:00 PM
SHARY BOYLE: HEARTBURN PORCELAIN
Director: Ewa Stern
Producer: Ewa Stern (CastYourArt)
Distributor: CastYourArt ? Kunstverein
Colour, 9 minutes, English, 2009
Using escapism as a transformative attempt to extend beyond the bounds of historical periods and reality forms, Toronto-based artist Shary Boyle creates intricate and fantastical porcelain works. Reconfiguring the iconic form of the porcelain figurine through gendered and political frames, Boyle?s work is engrossing through its visual presence and narrative structures.
Ewa Stern?is production manager and chief editor at CastYourArt in Vienna, Austria, a company that makes documentaries about artists, museums, exhibitions and other art-related themes. After immigrating to Canada from Poland in the 1990s, Stern studied in Montreal and worked as a visual researcher there at Images en Bo?te.
Thursday, March?22 | 7:00 PM
HOW ARE YOU
Director: Jannik Splidsboel
Producers: Henrik Underbjerg, Stefan Frost
Distributor: Forward Entertainment / Radiator Film
Colour, 70 minutes, English and Danish with English subtitles, 2011
Working under the moniker Elmgreen & Dragset, the sharp and witty Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have been partners in life and work for over 15 years. Jannik Splidsboel?s remarkable documentary brings us back to the couple?s early collaborative years, and shows a strong selection of their often highly controversial works, including their 2008 monument to homosexual victims ofWorld War II in Berlin?s Tiergarten. The film?s focus is on the production of their installation?The Collectors?in the Danish and Nordic Pavilions at the 2009 Venice Biennale, which involved meticulously planned domestic settings, complete with real-estate agents who uncovered and described the uncanny details of their fictional inhabitants.
Jannik Splidsboel?grew up in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has worked as an assistant director and production manager on several projects and has been mainly making documentaries since 1999. Asidefrom filmmaking, Splidsboel teaches in various international institutions.
Thursday, March 22 |?9:00 PM
MICHEL DE BROIN: MATTERS OF CIRCULATION
Director: Ewa Stern
Producer: Ewa Stern (CastYourArt)
Distributor: CastYourArt ? Kunstverein
Colour, 6 minutes, English, 2008
Canadian artist Michel de Broin playfully challenges our understanding of objects and ideas that influence daily routines. His artwork subtly pokes fun at the ironic nature of progress and efficiency, often by highlighting an object?s discordant qualities by restructuring and re-contextualizing it. A brief look into the basis and creation of his work, this film focuses on de Broin?s public interventions and sculptures.
Ewa Stern?is Production Manager and Chief Editor at CastYourArt in Vienna, Austria, a company that makes documentaries about artists, museums, exhibitions and other art-related themes. After immigrating to Canada from Poland in the 1990s, Stern studied in Montreal and worked as a visual researcher there at Images en Bo?te.
Thursday, March 22 | 9:00 PM
GNARR
Director : Gaukur ?lfarsson
Producers: Sigvaldi J. K?rason, Bj?rn ?feigsson
Distributor: Focus Features
Colour, 90 mins, Icelandic with English subtitles, 2010
Before the onset of the worldwide economic recession, the developed world was booming, and bankers and stockbrokers thought the gravy train would never end. Iceland seemed to be a supernova: too rich to fail and totally incorruptible. Yet, in a matter of weeks, their economy went sharply downhill, leaving the country totally bankrupt. Amid this chaos, ?The Best Party? was born, a joke conceived by Iceland?s most controversial and cynical comedian, Jon Gnarr. Initially intending the political party as a satire of the arrogance and false morality of existing parties, both left and right, he eventually, and entertainingly, became the unlikely mayor of the country?s capital city.
Gaukur ?lfarsson?has established himself as one of Iceland?s most dangerous and outspoken directors over the last decade. He has directed and produced many television shows over the years, his most notable being The Silvia Night Show, in which he plays the show?s host, Silvia Night. Recently, ?lfarsson has done work for the National TV where he has directed and produced documentaries and news-related shows.
Saturday, March 24 | 1:00 PM
TACITA DEAN
Director: Zara Hayes
Producer: Jane Burton
Distributor: Tate Media
Colour, 11 minutes, English, 2011
As the most recently commissioned artist to confront the challenge of Tate Modern?s Turbine Hall, Tacita Dean created?Film, a silent, 35-mm looped film projected onto a monolith standing 13 metres tall. This documentary explores her process throughout the development ofFilm, as well as her advocacy for the protection of the celluloid-film medium.
Zara Hayes?has worked as a documentary filmmaker ever since her graduation from Cambridge University in 2004. She has made films about visual arts for BBC Four and Tate Britain. One of her latest projects involved making a film with artist Ai Weiwei.
Saturday, March 24 | 1:00 PM
THOMAS RUFF
Director: Ralph Goertz
Producer: Ralph Goertz
Distributor: IKS-Medienarchiv
Colour, 50 minutes, German with English subtitles, 2011
This film takes us into the studio of one of the best-known photographers in Germany, Thomas Ruff. Filmed over a period of two years, Ralph Goertz?s documentary shows a range of the artist?s multi-faceted body of work, including his new?ma.r.s.?series, involving manipulated images of the planet Mars taken by a satellite camera. Ruff studied at the Kunstakademie D?sseldorf under the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, which influenced his interest in serial photography. His work has ranged from small-scale documentary-style photographs of domestic interiors, to large-scale passport-like portraits with monochrome backgrounds, to architectural photographs.
Ralph Goertz?is the founder of Institut f?r Kunstdokumentation und Szenografie (IKS) in D?sseldorf, Germany, a company specializing in documentaries about contemporary art. Starting his career as a stage director, Goertz now works as a curator, filmmaker, television journalist and producer.
Saturday, March 24 | 2:30 PM
CHRIS OFILI: EXPLODING THE CRYSTAL
Director: Caroline Deeds
Producer: Kate Vogel
Distributor: Tate Media
Colour, 15 minutes, English, 2010
Chris Ofili is known for his brightly coloured ornamental paintings, which have included everything from collage cutouts to dried elephant dung. As a feature of a survey exhibition organized by Tate Modern, this film documents the artist as he speaks about the narratives and media that influenced his earlier work, and the development of his more recent work following his move to Trinidad in 2005.
Caroline Deeds?studied fine art at the Central St. Martin?s School of Art. Upon her graduation, she taught and ran storytelling workshops in Nigeria, before returning to the UK to be an assistant editor for commercials and promos. Deeds has experimented with different storytelling traditions in the making and shooting of her films.
Saturday, March 24 | 2:30 PM
GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING
Director: Corinna Belz
Producer: Thomas Kufus
Distributor: Mongrel Media
Colour, 97 minutes, German and English with English subtitles, 2011
During the spring and summer months of 2009, filmmaker Corinna Belz was granted access to internationally renowned artist Gerhard Richter?s studio, where she quietly captured the artist as he worked on a series of large abstract paintings. This rare look at the now-80-year-old painter shows the incredible start-to-finish creation of several of his ?squeegee?-style paintings. We also see Richter planning for and attending various exhibitions, and his casual contemplation of his working process with art historian Benjamin Buchloh and gallerist Marian Goodman.
Corinna Belz?studied philosophy, art history and media sciences in Cologne, Zurich and Berlin. She is an actor, writer and documentary filmmaker. Belz has worked on television productions and feature-length films of various genres.
Saturday, March 24 | 5:00 PM
GABRIEL OROZCO
Director: Susan Doyon
Producer: Kate Vogel
Distributor: Tate Media
Colour, 9 minutes, English, 2011
Gabriel Orozco looks to the urban landscape to compile his collections, capture hissymmetry-laden photographs, and create his playful sculptures. Shown in hisstudio and at his 2011 exhibition at Tate Modern, Orozco ponders the elements of good art, and explains his mission to relate to a broad audience by making light-hearted and accessible work.
Susan Doyon?graduated from the Theatre Department at Montreal?s Concordia University. She has lived in Japan and Canada working as a producer and a freelance theatre director. She works on a variety of broadcast programs for ACA Films, BBC, Tate, Channel 4 and Discovery International.
Saturday, March 24 | 5:00 PM
PORTRAIT OF RESISTANCE: THE ART AND ACTIVISM OF CAROLE CONDE & KARL BEVERIDGE
Director: Roz Owen
Editor: Jim Miller
Producers: Jim Miller, Roz Owen
Distributor: Vtape
Colour, 72 minutes, English, 2011
Toronto-based artist-activists Carole Cond? and Karl Beveridge have been engaging community-based and social-justice issues through their extraordinary staged photography for the last 35 years. Beginning their collaboration as a youngmarried couple in the 1970s, Cond? & Beveridge?s work has addressed themes surrounding the labour movement, the rights of migrant workers, the global financial crisis and the state of the environment. Portrait?of Resistance: The Art and Activism of Carole Cond? & Karl Beveridge?shows the artists in action, engaging and collaborating with the community, taking their experiences to the studio, and, then, creating powerful visual narratives that challenge the way we see the world.
Roz Owen, together with her partner?Jim Miller, set up Anti-Amnesiac Productions in 2006 with the aim of creating memorable, socially engaged media. In 2008, their short documentary ?Community Matters? won the OAAG visual Art Film Award. She has worked both collaboratively with Miller and independently on various projects and films.
Saturday, March 24 | 7:00 PM
MARK DION
Director: Ralph Goertz
Producer: Ralph Goertz
Distributor: IKS ? Medienarchiv
Colour, 16 minutes, English, 2011
Mark Dion?s work critiques culturally constructed ideas about the natural world. His ?cabinet of curiosities??style exhibitions channel early-Enlightenment theories that praise the gaining ofknowledge through first-hand interactions with things. Filmed during the setup of Dion?s ?Oceanomania? exhibition at two museum spaces in Monaco, the artist discusses how the history of knowledge informs his work.
Ralph Goertz?is the founder of IKS (Institut f?r Kunstdokumentation und Szenografie) in D?sseldorf, Germany, acompany specializing in documentaries about contemporary art. Starting his career as a stage director, Goertz now works as a curator, filmmaker, television journalist and producer.
Saturday, March 24 | 7:00 PM
OLIVIERO TOSCANI: THE RAGE OF IMAGES
Directors: Peter Scharf, Katja Duregger
Producer: Birgit Schulz, Bildersturm Filmproduktion GmbH
Distributor: Bildersturm Filmproduktion GmbH, K?ln, Germany
Colour, 44 minutes, English and Italian with English subtitles, 2010
A pioneer of ?anti-advertising,? Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani is known for bringing extreme forms of realism into the business of the advertising world. Partnering with the fashion label Benetton in the 1990s, Toscani was responsible for an ad campaign that consisted of imagery that bluntly and controversially addressed issues such as HIV/AIDS,war, racism and religion. The artist questions the rare public pairing of tragedy and consumption, and through sometimes-disturbing means, challenges the ideals of a media-saturated society.
Peter Scharf?was born in Hagen, Germany. He studied history, German linguistics and Anglo-American history at the University of K?ln. He worked for many years as a freelance journalist, mainly for music magazines and broadcasters, such as MTV and VIVA. Since 2000, Scharf has directed several documentary films.
Katja Duregger?was born in Stuttgart, Germany and studied at the Universities of K?ln, T?bingen and Marbug. She worked for various radio stations and television production companies, before turning in 2000 to freelance television journalism and documentary filmmaking.
Sunday, March 25 |?1:00 PM
CHRISTINE SUN KIM, A SELBY FILM
Director: The Selby
Producers: Lauren Sherman, Dave Saltzman
Colour, 10 minutes, English, 2011
This is an atmospheric and intimate portrait of artist Christine Sun Kim. Deaf since birth, she explores the physicality ofsound through her practice, which involves making sound tangible. Using lo-fi experiments and performances, Kim attempts to translate sound though movement and images. Made during a performance in her Brooklyn studio, this film is an insightful glimpse into the artist?s creative process.
The Selby?is a project by Brooklyn-based artist Todd Selby that offers an insider?s view of creative individuals in their personal spaces. Over the last few years, The Selby has gained increasing popularity, contributing to several well-known publications and collaborating with top companies such as Louis Vuitton and Hennessy.
Sunday, March 25 | 1:00 PM
MASSIMO VITALI
Director: Giampiero D?Angeli
Producer: Luca Molducci
Distributor: Giart ? Visioni d?arte
Colour, 50 minutes, Italian with English subtitles, 2011
Taking his large-format camera along to crowded public spaces such as beaches, dunes, river banks and pools, photographer Massimo Vitali spends long days observing the way groups of people interact with each other and the landscapes they occupy. The result of these endeavours is Vitali?s crisp, unified andunmistakable style. In this film, Vitali allows himself to be observed during a series of shoots in the height of summer. Back in his studio, he goes through his prints and muses about his process and the beautiful subtleties he captures in apparently insignificant events.
Giampiero D?Angeli?is an Italian director living in Paris. He has directed over 20 documentaries about contemporary artists, including Maurizio Galimberti, Mimmo Jodice, Ferdinando Scianna and Gabriele Basilico.
Sunday, March 25 | 2:30 PM
RACHEL WHITEREAD
Director: James Price
Producer: Kate Vogel
Distributor: Tate Media
Colour, 8 minutes, English, 2010
Rachel Whiteread uses different methods of drawing in order to make connections between her collections of objects and the sculptures that result from them. The drawings serve as a way for the artist to ?worry through? her work process, with the idea of stopping objects and spaces in time in order to study them. This film takes a look at a selection of Whiteread?s work, and through the artist, we discover how the act of drawing became an integral part of her observational process.
James Price?received his MA in Documentary Direction at the National Film and television School in the UK. He has been a lecturer in filmmaking at the School of Arts and Media at the University ofBrighton and, since 2008, he has run the production company Field Studies Ltd.
Sunday, March 25 2:30 PM
EAMES: THE ARCHITECT AND THE PAINTER
Producers: Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey
Distributor: First Run Features
Colour, 84 minutes, English, 2011
Husband-and-wife team Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America?s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for its mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multimedia exhibitions, graphics, games, films and toys. But the Eames? personal lives and influence on significant events in American life?from the development of modernism to the rise of the computer age?have been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco,?Eames: The Architect and the Painter?is the first film since their deaths dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work.
Jason Cohn?produced various PBS programs prior to the making of his first feature documentary,?Eames: The Architect and the Painter. As a public-radio reporter, producer and managing editor, Jason covered the culture of technology for Beyond Computers, and issues of Asian art, culture and politics for the nationally syndicated program?Pacific Time. He has written documentaries for?National Geographic?and PBS, and his articles have appeared in various major periodicals.
Bill Jersey?has been producing documentaries for broadcast television for over forty years. In the early 1960s he established his reputation as one of thepioneers of the cin?ma-v?rit? movement. Since then he has produced documentaries for all of the major networks and in association with PBS, WNET New York, KCET Los Angeles, WGBH Boston, and others.
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