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Aziz + Cucher
series & projects
mixed media
19.09. - 26.10.08

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Beur is beautiful:
A retrospective of Maghrebi-French Cinema
ArteEast, New York
08.08. – 14.09.08

Screening in vault:
Opening week-end + week 33:
- “The General Store” by Chantal Briet, 2005, 84min.
Week 34:
- “Cheb”, by Rachid Bouchareb, 1991, 79min.
Week 35:
- “Tea in the Harem” by Mehdi Charef, 1985, 110min.
Week 36:
- “Memories of Immigration” by Yamina Benguigui, 1997/8, 160min.
Week 37:
- “Where Fig Trees Grow ” by Yasmina Yahiaoui, 2005, 82min.

Screening in elevator through exhibition period:
… “Memories of October 17” by Faiza Guene and Bernard Richard, 2002, 17min.
… “Dounia” by Zaida Ghorab-Volta, 1997, 17min.
… “My Lost Home” by Kamal El Mahouti, 2002, 19min.

Gülsün Karamustafa
(Turkey). "The City and the Secret Panther Fashion">>>
screening
Den røde tematiske tråd gjennom hennes kunstneriske produksjon de siste tiår er kulturell identitet. Filmen er fiktiv og humoristisk.
Betrakteren møter kvinneskikkelser som skaper seg et rom og et univers borte fra Islamistenes fordømmende represalier.
In co-operation with RODEO-gallery, Istanbul
08.10. - 14.11.10

Sigalit Landau
Barbed Hula
screening. Hoff Collection, Oslo
31.10. - 07.12.08

VIDEOSPOTTING
by SCCA,
Center for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana

This documentation, archival and research project on video art in Slovenia has been developed within the scope of the SCCA-Ljubljana Documentation Program between 1994 and 2003. It presents a comprehensive overview of thirty years of video art in Slovenia.

18.01. - 02.03.08

Robert Alda
"Natural NR 2"

Mahlet Ogbe Habte
video screening
15.01. - 21.02.10
Mahlet Ogbe Habte, born and raised in Eritrea, presently living in Norway, shows her last videowork “The ambience of bereavement”. Her work focus on loss and grief, but in her case through the mourning culture in Eritrea, especially the grieving sound, which transforms through a mixture of crying and shouting almost into song.

Project Atopia
"Dreams of Not-Belonging"
video screening
30.01. - 08.03.09

Dreams of Not-Belonging is a compilation of five short videos by the artists who have been the force behind the project Atopia.

Artists and their work:
- Michel Pavlou, “Traveling”, (co-founder of Atopia)
- Inger Lise Hansen, “Static”, (co-founder of Atopia)
- Greg Pope, “Moonwalk”, (Worked with Atopia in 2006-7)
- Linn Lervik, “Shades of Gray”, (Working with Atopia since 2007)
- Farhad Kalantary, “Tea House”, (co-founder and coordinator of Atopia)

Videoregistering of performative practice.
Repeted/remade ritual from Natural NR1 inspired again by observing a caterpillar.
Filmed on location in northern Poland (near Suwalki).
Video time:55 seconds. Registering time: approx 12 minutes.

www.aldasot.net

Chinese Film Days
Screening program consisting of experimental video, feature films and documentaries, representing some of the most intrigueing of Chinese independent film making to day.
In cooperation with Porsgrunn kunstforening.

30.04. - 30.05.10

Screening program:
30.04. - 30.05. loop (elevator):
- COALSPELL by Sun Xun
- COMB by Li Ming
- HAPPINESS IN THE EVENING by Li Ming
- MINGUO by Qiu Anxiong

30.04. - 09.05.:
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Zhao Liang
11.05. - 16.05.:
- WE (WO MEN) by Huang Wenhai
18.05. - 22.05.:
- A DISAPPEARANCE FORETOLD by Olivier Meys, Zhang Yaxuan
25.05. - 30.05.:
- YOUTH by Geng Yun

Photo: Serra Gültürk. Courtesy of the artist and Rodeo

Shahram Entekhabi
Berlin based Iranian artist
A screening of the new video triology “Dead Satellites"

07.03. - 20.04.08

Trine Lise Nedreaas
"I Did It My Way"
2005. video. 2.26min.
21.01. - 06.03.11

And now the end is near…
An elderly woman sings the famous Frank Sinatra song, reminiscing about how she lived her life. As the song progresses the sound becomes eerie as her voice turns more childlike. The light surrounding her slowly engulfs her until in the end it pulls her away completely.

Lida Abdul
"What we saw upon awakening"
screening, 2006
In collaboration with 49 NORD 6 EST FRAC LORRAINE, France
06.05. - 19.06.11

Susan Derges
"Hermetica"
video
Mercury is placed at the vertex of a speaker cone, producing photograms resonant of shell patterns.
07.10. – 13.11.2011

Hermetica 1993, Beta SP video
A droplet of mercury lying in the bottom of an upturned speaker cone, which reflects the lens of the recording video camera, is subjected to a sweep of sine waves. The sound disrupts the spherical form of the mercury droplet into ordered shapes of increasingly complex geometrical structures until it passes beyond the range of response of the mercury and the camera ‘eye’ re-emerges on the surface of the droplet.

Mapping Subjectivity:
Experimentation in Arab Cinema
ArteEast & MoMA, New York
01.12. – 13.12.2011

This program is featured at Cinemateket USF in Bergen, in collaboration with Cinemateket USF.

PROGRAM:
tors 01.12.
- 21.00 Chronicle of Disappearance Elia Suleiman, Palest./Isr./USA/Frank./Tyskl. 1996 >>>
søn 04.12.
- 19.00 Chronicle of Disappearance Elia Suleiman, Palest./Isr./USA/Frank./Tyskl. 1996
tirs 06.12.
- 19.00 Gud griper inn Elia Suleiman, Palest./Frank./Mar./Tysk. 2002 >>>
- 21.00 Tiden som gjenstår Elia Suleiman, Israel 2009 >>>
ons 07.12.
- 19.00 Tiden som gjenstår Elia Suleiman, Israel 2009
- 21.00 Gud griper inn Elia Suleiman, Palest./Frank./Mar./Tysk. 2002
tors 08.12.
- 19.00 Domestic Tourism II Maha Maamoun, Egypt 2009 >>>
- 20.30 Akademiet Cinemateket: Den arabiske våren Foredrag ved Knut S. Vikør
- 21.30 Life After the Fall Kasim Abid, Irak/Storbrittania 2008 >>>
fre 09.12.
- 21.15 China is Still Far Malek Bensmaïl, Algerie/Frankrike 2008 >>>
lør 10.12.
- 17.00 China is Still Far Malek Bensmaïl, Algerie/Frankrike 2008
- 19.30 I Am the One Who Brings Flowers to Her Grave Hala Alabdalla og Ammar el-Beik, Syria/ Frank. 2006 >>>
- 21.00 Domestic Tourism II Maha Maamoun, Egypt 2009
søn 11.12.
- 17.00 I Am the One Who Brings Flowers to Her Grave Hala Alabdalla og Ammar el-Beik, Syria/ Frank. 2006
- 19.00 Life After the Fall Kasim Abid, Irak/Storbrittania 2008
- 21.00 Cracks Hicham Ayouch, Marokko 2009 >>>
tirs 13.12.
- 19.00 Cracks Hicham Ayouch, Marokko 2009

TORSDAG 8. DESEMBER KL. 20.30
AKADEMIET CINEMATEKET: FOREDRAG AV KNUT S. VIKØR
Foredraget «Den arabiske våren» av Knut S. Vikør. Varighet ca. 45 min.
Foredraget er gratis for Cinemateket i Bergens medlemmer og inviterte av Stiftelsen 3,14, kr. 50 for andre.
Professor i Midt-østen og det muslimske Afrikas historie ved Universitetet i Bergen, Knut S. Vikør, holder foredrag under tittelen «Den arabiske våren» hvor han gir oss en god allmenn oversikt over Midtøsten,bakgrunn og dagens situasjon. Vikør har også erfaring fra sin tid som tidligere daglig leder for Senter for Midtøstenstudier ved UiB. Han har også publisert oversiktsbøker om islams og Midtøstens historie.

Mapping Subjectivity was first presented at Museum of Modern Art, MoMA in NY and Tate Modern in London now before coming to Bergen. 3,14 is proudly presenting Mapping Subjectivity to a Bergen audience. This program aims to map the largely unknown heritage of personal, artistic, and sometimes experimental cinema from the Arab world.

In the 1960s, galvanized by a broader global vanguard of countercultural experimentation in poetry, literature, and theater, filmmakers began to craft a language and form that broke away from established conventions and commercial considerations, ultimately clearing the ground for boldly subjective cinematic expressions. Much of the inventive, daring, and formally challenging filmmaking at work today in the Arab world has its roots—both acknowledged and not—in this pioneering drive to experiment with narrative, representation, and the production of images.

Sachiko Hayashi
"Process"
20.01. – 26.02.2012

PROCESS
"Process" consists of five video clips, each featuring a dancer and his/her movements. It discloses the behind-scene creative process and blurs the line between the public and the private. Revealing what is normally hidden, "Process" creates an in-between space where the exposed re-enacts with the concealed.
The choice we make as artist inheres our choice of hiding; in every choice we make, there is a conscious selection of making something public and keeping something private. Through this process we weave a fabric of illusion; the public illusion of who we are and what we do.
Seeing art as an exchange of the most intimate from one person/artist to another/ the public, this immanent dual nature creates certain problematics. The seemingly "nakedness (naked soul)" of an artist is in reality a constitute of disciplined training in self-conscious selection of self exposures. "Process" intends to bring awareness to that process.
Five dancers at different stages of development both personally and artistically are depicted in "Process." By treating each dancer individually to suit their movements and personalities, "Process" further explores the question over the directions of certain art disciplines in which the personal becomes obsolete in favour of the norm via skills, techniques, and discourses of the genres.

Jeon Joonho
"The White House"
Digital animation
14.08. - 04.10.09