NEW NARRATIVES
Stockfish Kvikmyndahátíðin í samstarfi við Helenu Jónsdóttur f.h. Physical Cinema Festival, setja upp nýtt prógram sem við köllum NEW NARRATIVES – skapandi kvikmyndagerð og vídeólist. Hreyfimyndagerð, myndlist, hljóðhönnun, tónlist og kvikmyndagerð saman í spennandi blöndu.
Stutt myndverk sem eru nýjungarík og hressandi í sinni nálgun. Sum verkin hafa óvenjuleg eða óhefðbundna söguþræði, aðrar eru hlutlausar og sumar uppsetningarnar sundra tíma og rúmi í ljóðrænum upplifunum. Fagnaðu sköpunargáfu á sviði kvikmynda og vídeólistar með áhorfendum. Verkin eru sköpuð af þekktum kvikmyndagerða- og vídeólistamönnum víðs vegar um heiminn. Meirihluti dagsskráarinnar hefur aldrei verið sýnd á Íslandi. Nokkrar perlur eru valdnar í samstarfi við íslenska kvikmyndasafnið. Valin dagsskrá er í sal tvö í Bíó Paradís þann 25 mars, þar sem lögð er áherslan á nútímadans og kvikmyndalist. Einnig verða video innsetningar í andyri Bió Paradísar, Ráðhúsi Reykjavíkur, Tjarnarbíó og í Norræna húsinu. Í Mengi verða þrír lifandi tónleikar undir kvikmyndalist svo verða útivörpun á völdum stöðum í miðborg Reykjavíkur á meðan hátíðin stendur. Rúmlega 20 verk verða sýnd á hátíðinni.
Útivörpun
Útivörpun um miðborg Reykjavíkur
23. mars – 2. apríl
20:00 – 23:00
- Ráðhús Reykjavíkur – Myndbrot úr safni Kvikmyndsafn Íslands eftir Óskar Gíslaon og Hannes Pálsson
- Héraðsdómur Reykjavíkur – Slave Unit eftir Cel Crabeels
- Tjarnarbíó – Nature See you eftir Erik Bunger
- Mengi (23. -26. mars og 30. mars – 2. apríl) – Ego eftir Nicolas Provost
ráðhús reykjavíkur
23. MARS – 2. APRÍL
10:00 – 18:00
3 vídeóinnsetningar í Ráðhúsi Reykjavíkur. Meðal listamanna sem verða með verku eru Teresa Cos og Cel Crabeels.
BÍÓ PARADÍS
Hverfisgata 54
23. mars – 2. apríl
17:00 – 23:00
Vídeóinnsetningar í Bíó Paradís. Með listamanna sem verða með verk eru Lukas Marxt, Steve Reinke, Samuel James and Rosie Dennis.
25. mars
19:00 – Salur 2
Kvikmyndadans:
Alþjóðleg dagskrá af verðlauna verkum í samstarfi við Cinedans EYE filmmuseum Amsterdam, Argos centre for audiovisual arts in Brussel og valin verk frá Frakklandi, Finnlandi, Hollandi, Skotlandi, Belgíu og Canada.
MENGI
Óðinsgata 2
23.-25. mars & 30.-31. mars
12:00 – 18:00
Vídeóinnsetningar eftir listafólkið Xavier Curnillon og Thomas Corriveau.
25. mars
12:00 – 17:00
Benni Hemm Hemm frumsýning á tónlistarmyndbandi ásamt sýningum á eldri verkum.
29. mars
20:00
Alþjóðlegur Píanódagur, lifandi flutningur. Flytjendur Miro Kepinski,
Sævar Jóhansson og Eðvarð Egilsson. Myndvörpun flutt af listamanninum Cel Crabeels.
31. mars
20:00
Lifandi flutningur með Agalma Improv Ensemble með völdum verkum frá NEW NARRATIVES.
NORRÆNA HÚSIÐ
Sæmundargata 11
23. mars – 2. apríl
Video innsetningar eftir listafólkið Thomas Freundlich, Valtteri Reikallio, Erik Bunger og Sandra Ceco. Á meðan á opnunartíma hússins stendur.
1. – 2. apríl
New Narratives tekur yfir húsið með vídeólist þar á meðal verða verk eftir Helga Örn Pétursson, Elke Dreier, Thomas Freundlich, Valtteri Reikallio og Sandra Ceco.
Birtingur með Elísabet Birtu Sveinsdóttir í gróðurhúsinu.
BÍÓ PARADÍS
mirages
Xavier Curnillon – 7:30 min
Explore the deepest details of the body with this experimental short film that captures dancers in unprecedented proximity. Quebec choreographer Emmanuel Jouthe, French filmmaker Xavier Curnillon and Quebec composer Antoine Berthiaume capture the organic dimension of human bodies in an original way, bearing witness to their strengths, beauties and diversities.
second hand stories
Danielle van Vree – 24:47 min
Second Hand Stories is a film about our relationship to the other and the patterns we develop within these relationships. Rituals we use to shape our lives, or patterns we get stuck in and lead to stagnation. The film is located in a second-hand store. A place full of objects; bits of life left behind by their owners. During the night we discover fragments of stories that could have been lived by all of us.
cold storage
Thomas Freundlich and Valtteri Reikallio – 8:45 min
Cold Storage is a short dance film that pays homage to the virtuosic physical performances and melancholy comedy of the classic silent screen. On a desolate arctic shore, a lonely ice fisherman discovers his prehistoric counterpart frozen in the sea ice, and thaws him out as his newfound soul brother. A wild all-night drinking and dancing party in the fisherman’s tent ensues, but in the harsh light of the morning he must once again confront his own loneliness and dependency. As the ice melts under the foundations of his life, he is forced to even question the reality of the space and time surrounding him.
blind dreamers
Sandra Geco – 6:17 min
A visual fable with poetic notes that oscillate between reality and surrealism to reveals a universe mixing plastic, landscape and poetry.
We discover a couple looking like René Magritte’s lovers who have exchanged their veil against a plastic bag.
In research of sensitivity, this video fable question our rupture with the rest of the living world and our (in)ability to identify with it.
We are this living being caught in a trap: how could we forget about it?
enlightment
Lisa Magnan – 3 min
This film talks about identity, autorisation and freedom.It is a story about a woman that experiences a turning point in her life. 4 women are stuck in a room repeating the same actions again and again in a mecanic way.
One day, one of them realises that this life doesn’t suit her anymore when a detail in the room draws her attention. It is the clic, her need for freedom gives her the courage, the strength to get out of the door.
A film that questions our ascent towards the light and our relationship to family loyalties that sometimes prevent us from allowing ourselves to be/do what we really want to.
dive
Director Oscar Sansom with the Schotish Ballet – 14 min
Directed by Oscar Sansom won the top award at the 2022 Cinedans festival. It was awarded the Jury Prize for Best Dance Short. We are so grateful and overjoyed to see the film be shared with more audiences around the world. Oscar joined the ceremony in Amsterdam virtually to receive the award and prize. In his speech he thanked the incredible creative team who made this film a reality including Choreographer Sophie Laplane, creative collaborator James Bonas, Scottish Ballet’s creative director Chris Hampson, producers Beth Allan & Tony Currie, DOP David Liddell and the incredible crew and cast, including a special mention to Sophie Martin who is leaving Scottish Ballet after almost 20 years with the company
uzco
Director: Xavier Curnillon
Director of photography: Yann-Manuel Hernandez
Performer: Jérémie Galdeano Choreography:Vera Kvarcakov og Jérémy Galdeano
2 min
How a moving body, accustomed to the constraints of a space, can evolve when it accesses a larger space, the immensity, the beauty of nature.
on mending
Directors and Choreographers Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern and Emilie Leriche
15 min
“Is healing inevitably intertwined with being broken? Are we not more curious for being incomplete, and more beautiful for being impermanent? We admire resilience, yet resilience cannot exist without difficulties.”
they dance with their heads
Thomas Corriveau Choreography Marc Béland
8:30 min
The severed head of a choreographer is held captive by an eagle on a desert island. With a dazzling mastery of drawing and painting, this animated short unexpectedly takes us into the sensitive world of an artist madly in love with dance.
car in desert driving in circles
Lukas Marxt – 7 min
A mountain range on the horizon separates the cloudy sky from the dusty desert soil of the El Mirage Dry Lake, with the sounds of a distant roar. In the long shot, the gaze shows a detail of the Californian Mojave landscape, whose static panorama forms the referential and also material background for Circular Inscription. In a performative tracing of a vehicle´s path, Lukas Marxt initiates and documents in his cinematic work, the process of inscription that gives the film its title: a seemingly unmanned white car rolls into the image and begins to spin in eccentric rounds in the middle of the dried out lake. The vehicle draws its circles uniformly, from inside to outside, the squealing of the tires continuously rising. In doing so, the tire tracks furrow spiral-shaped in the desert surface, leaving behind marks in the soil of this culturally imbued landscape – a favorite shooting site for Hollywood films and advertisements, a popular venue for car races and their media exploitation, a site tightly bound to the art-historical movement, Land Art.
a day for cake and accidents
Steve Reinke – 4:10 min
Reinke continues to explore the quirky possibilities of the animation film, collaborating once again with Jessie Mott, who delivers her idiosyncratic drawings, paintings and collages, plus also wrote the accompanying texts. References to cartoons and comics are once more evident, though Reinke stays somewhat of a league of its own. ‘A Day for Cake and Accidents’ brings up the parade of animals that refer to mythology and saga – a double headed unicorn or a sphinx-like creature for instance – as seen before in Reinkes earlier ‘Everybody’.
In a deadpan matter-of-fact manner these creatures state and comment, ranging from simple axiomatic facts (“Today is our Birthday”) over comical philosophical-like statements (“The moon is melting”, “Saturn is cracking”) to completely absurd remarks (“It gives me a small egg, provokes my tendency for coma”). Driven by a thumping techno beat or the snare of a drum-computer plus a nimbly montage, Reinke opts once again for the short format of the music video (not to mention the tons of musical references to pop culture). As the title of this work points out, this brave ‘A Day for Cake and Accidents’ refuses to take a clean-cut position. Not able to choose between fantasy or reality, between irony or melancholy, nor between light-footedness or defeatism, this piece disconcerts and discomforts as it amuses oh so strongly at the same time.
follow the bias
Rosie Dennis.
Choreography: Alicia Harvie, Ashleigh White, Viviane Frehner
Shot in the subtropical east coast region of Australia, Follow the Bias is a triptych exploring the hypnotic rhythms and patterns inspired by the everyday choreography of lawn bowls.
Follow the Bias is a beautiful new triptych that distills then rearranges the hypnotic rhythms and patterns inspired by the everyday choreography of lawn bowls. Located in the sub tropical, east coast region of Australia.
Shift your expectations with a new multi-channel video work from Gold Coast-based Gogi Dance Collective, exploring the hypnotic rhythms and patterns inspired by the everyday choreography of lawn bowls.
Gogi’s unexpected, immersive performances embolden audiences to explore their local spaces and connect with each other. With a combined 35 years of local and international dance practice, Alicia Harvie, Ashleigh White and Viviane Frehner specialise in customised site-specific dance experiences. Key collaborators on Follow the Bias include award-winning film-maker Samuel James, composer Guy Webster and BLEACH* Artistic Director, Rosie Dennis. Commissioned by BLEACH* Festival.
MENGI
BENNI HEMM HEMM
Helgi Örn Pétursson og fleiri.
A mountain range on the horizon separates the cloudy sky from the dusty desert soil of the El Mirage Dry Lake, with the sounds of a distant roar. In the long shot, the gaze shows a detail of the Californian Mojave landscape, whose static panorama forms the referential and also material background for Circular Inscription. In a performative tracing of a vehicle´s path, Lukas Marxt initiates and documents in his cinematic work, the process of inscription that gives the film its title: a seemingly unmanned white car rolls into the image and begins to spin in eccentric rounds in the middle of the dried out lake. The vehicle draws its circles uniformly, from inside to outside, the squealing of the tires continuously rising. In doing so, the tire tracks furrow spiral-shaped in the desert surface, leaving behind marks in the soil of this culturally imbued landscape – a favorite shooting site for Hollywood films and advertisements, a popular venue for car races and their media exploitation, a site tightly bound to the art-historical movement, Land Art.
international piano day
Miro Kepinski, Sævar Jóhansson og Eðvarð Egilsson með myndlistamanninum Cel Crabeels.
International Piano day with Miro Kepinski, Sævar Jóhansson and Eðvarð Egilsson with
video art from Cel Crabeels (BE) https://www.pianoday.org/
What’s a better place to celebrate a Piano Day than a mystical and mesmerizing
Iceland? The founder of this sophisticated day – Nils Frahm says it all:
“Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn’t hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers,
composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.” – Nils
Frahm “Piano Day, an annual worldwide event founded by a group of like-minded
people, takes place on the 88th day of the year – because of the number of keys on the piano. In 2023, it’s the 29th of March.
Special concert with Agalma IMPROV Ensemble with selected film works from the new narratives
Agalma IMPROV Ensemble.
Agalma Improv Ensemble is Sara Flindt, Curro Rodriguez Sanchez, Brynjar Daðason & Guðmundur Arnalds.
Agalma is a collective that focuses on exploration and improvisation. Founded by Guðmundur Ari Arnalds and Ragnheiður Elísabet in 2019, they have steadily put out experimental records for the past years with a total of 27 releases. The ensemble for Physical Cinema Festival will be a special collection of friends and colleagues connected with the label coming together to put a unique and one-off concept, not to be missed!
House opens 19.30 / 7.30PM
Concert & screening starts 20.00 / 8.00PM
Admission is 2500 ISK
NORRÆNA HÚSIÐ
Explanation and Some Clouds
Elke Dreier – 3:18 mín
In front of the azure blue sky in Rome, an astronomer explains the daily constellations.
Seven video sequences locate the constellations of the summer sky that would be visible in the night sky. Above Rome (41° 54‘ 10.021“ N), for example, there is the summer triangle, consisting of the main stars of the Swan, Eagle and Lyra, can be seen. While the space dissolves a narrative of its own emerges through gesture.
NATURE SEE YOU
Erik Bünger – 20 mín
In November 2015, at the eve of the UN climate change conference in Paris, a video was uploaded on the internet, in which Koko, a gorilla trained in the use of American Sign
Language, addresses world leaders directly. She chastises humanity and calls for immediate action to save herself and the nature she is part of. In his video essay ‘Nature See You’, Erik Bünger invites a sign language avatar to comment on Koko’s use of words. The avatar tries again and again to reformulate the impossible position which Koko finds herself in, as a spokesperson for nature: to communicate her message to us she has to use words. But in order for this message to remain true to nature she has to remain wordless.
COLD STORAGE
Thomas Freundlich and Valtteri Reikallio
Cold Storage is a short dance film that pays homage to the virtuosic physical performances and melancholy comedy of the classic silent screen. On a desolate arctic shore, a lonely ice fisherman discovers his prehistoric counterpart frozen in the sea ice, and thaws him out as his newfound soul brother. A wild all-night drinking and dancing party in the fisherman’s tent ensues, but in the harsh light of the morning he must once again confront his own loneliness and dependency. As the ice melts under the foundations of his life, he is forced to even question the reality of the space and time surrounding him.
VESTDALSSFOSS
Helgi Örn Pétursson
Gervigreindinni ChatGPT var gefið það verkefni að lýsa myndbandsverki Helga Arnar Péturssonar.
Hér er það sem gervigreindin var beðin um:
Gefðu mér lýsingu á svartklæddum karlmanni á viðarpalli fyrir framan foss, hann dansar á pallinum líkt um væri að ræða ósjálfráða skrift
Og hér er óprófarkalesið svar gervigreindarinnar:
Þetta er áhugaverð lýsing á karlmanni sem dansar á viðarpalli fyrir framan foss. Þessi karlmaður er í svörtum klæðum, sem kann að gefa til kynna að hann er í dökkri og þungri huglægni. Pallurinn sem hann dansar á er eitthvað sem dregur hann til sín, hann kann að finna ánægju og þarfir í því að dansa á pallinum.
Hann er lýstur sem „ósjálfráður skriftari“ sem gæti þýtt að hann dansar með mikilli óstjórn, eins og hann sé ekki í stjórn á hreyfingum sínum. Þetta gæti gefið til kynna að hann sé í einhverju geðrænum ástandi eða að hann sé að reyna að flýja eitthvað í lífinu með því að dansa eins og hann gerir.
Fossinn sem er fyrir framan hann gæti líka verið áhugaverður eða merkingaríkur í þessari lýsingu. Fossar hafa oft verið tengdir við enduræðingu og nýtt líf, svo þetta gæti gefið til kynna að karlmaðurinn er að reyna að finna leið til að byrja aftur á nýtt eða að leita að einhverju sem hann hefur misst.
Samtals er þetta einstakur mynd sem gefur til kynna að karlmaðurinn er í einhverju geðrænum eða tilfinningalegu ástandi sem hann reynir að fá yfirbug á með því að dansa á pallinum fyrir framan fossinn.
Helgi Örn Pétursson (f. 1975), vinnur í fjölmarga miðla en þar má helst nefna myndband, gjörninga, hljóð og teikningu. Verk Helga Arnar dansa gjarnan á óljósum mörkum myndlistar, tónlistar, dans og leikhúss.
ráðhús reykjavíkur - útivörpun
AFMÆLI
Óskar Gíslason – 2 mín
Myndbrot úr safni Kvikmyndasafns Íslands sem sýna inn í líf barna í Reykjavík frá árunum 1946 til 1952.
BARNAAFMÆLI 1947
Úr myndinni Reykjavík vorra daga höf. Óskar Gíslason.
Óskar litli blæs á kertin og börnin gæða sér á köku og heitu súkkulaði. Myndskeiðið er hluti af fjölskyldu myndefni Óskars Gíslasonar ljósmyndara og kvikmyndagerðarmanns.
LJÓSABÖÐ OG BÓLUSETNINGAR
Óskar Gíslason – 2:08 mín
Myndbrot úr safni Kvikmyndasafns Íslands sem sýna inn í líf barna í Reykjavík frá árunum 1946 til 1952.
LJÓSABÖÐ OG BÓLUSETNINGAR 1946
Úr myndinni Reykjavík vorra daga höf. Óskar Gíslason.
Um miðja síðustu öld var gætt að lýðheilsu barna, m.a. með reglubundnum læknisskoðunum, bólusetningum og með því að senda hópa skólabarna í ljósaböð.
HÚSDÝR OG BÖRN Í LAUGARDALNUM
Hannes Pálsson – 1:50 mín
Myndbrot úr safni Kvikmyndasafns Íslands sem sýna inn í líf barna í Reykjavík frá árunum 1946 til 1952.HÚSDÝR OG BÖRN Í LAUGARDALNUM 1952
Höf. Hannes Pálsson.
Um miðja síðustu öld voru enn sveitabæir og búskapur í Reykjavík en þá gátu börn umgengst húsdýr í borginni. Gæsamömmur gæta vel að ungunum sínum og ærnar að lömbunum.
ráðhús reykjavíkur - Innanhúss
astrology of a friday
Teresa Cos – 11:11 mín
The film was shot in the General Assembly Room of the Province of Limburg’s Government Building, where on the 7th of February 1992 the signing ceremony of the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht Treaty) took place. Whilst the lights of the eighteen pointed star ceiling perform a choreography that goes in and out of sync with the soundtrack, as it grows from a quiet voice whispering the anthem of Europe to an orchestra of sounds birthing the Union, we hear a non-European voice reading the preamble of the Treaty. The clock-wise and anti clock-wise movement of the ceiling and the psychedelic tones of the music hold the tension of something that could simultaneously be the memory of a past as well as a vision of the future.
topologic
Cel Crabeels – 10 mín
We see a man in a three-piece suit standing against an equally grey background. Everything exudes the pedestrian, to such an extent that it looks as if there is nothing to be seen. But then the man begins to make rather extraordinary movements and even later it becomes clear that he is attempting to take off the waistcoat without taking off his jacket. After a long struggle he eventually succeeds in doing this marvelously by applying the same agility that women come up with when they want to take of their bra without having to take of all of their clothes.
slave unit
Cel Crabeels – 6:10 mín
’Slave unit’ is a notion which indicates the status of network equipment. In photography it denotes the power of flash installations; a distinction is always made between dominant and subjected. In the video by Cel Crabeels the idea is applied to a setting with two dancers, a director, the camera, video equipment, the stage and the audience. The work constitutes a cross-over between a dance performance, a photoscope and a video installation.