From: Abina Manning (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 14:43:14 PST
Video Mundi
at the
Chicago Cultural Center
Tuesday April 20th to Sunday April 25th
Following on from the success of last year's festival, Video Mundi is
back! As in 2003, there will be two free screenings per evening from
Tuesday to Friday at the Chicago Cultural Center (at Washington &
Michigan) with additional weekend screenings at Heaven Gallery (1550
N. Milwaukee, 2nd Floor). The festival is a showcase for experimental
video and film that presents different visions of contemporary moving
image art to audiences in Chicago.
Curators are invited from around the world to bring programs to
Chicago audiences. This year our programs are curated by:
Priamo Lozada and Taiyana Pimentel
Resident curators at the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City
Arjon Dunnewind
Director of the Impakt Festival in The Netherlands
Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
Canadian video artists
Briggitta Burger-Utzer
Director of Sixpack Films in Austria
Marc Moscato
Squeaky Wheel in Buffalo
Jim Finn
Video Mundi co-founder and video artist
Manuel Saiz
Director, 25 hours festival in Barcelona
Florian Wuest
German curator and filmmaker
Each curator will present a program of his or her choosing. Every
artist and curator participating in the festival will receive an
honorarium.
Our sponsors include:
The Department of Cultural Affairs, The Mexican Fine Arts Center, The
Goethe Institute, The Instituto Cervantes, The Consulate General of
the Netherlands, The Austrian Consulate, The Consulate of Canada,
Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and
Days Inn Lincoln Park North.
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, February 28th, 2003:
Screen Gems: Avant-garde gets its due at Video Mundi
"Except for an occasional program at Chicago Filmmakers, a one-night
stand at Siskel Film Center, or the rare show at a local art museum,
experimental film screenings are hard to come by in Chicago. But
avant-garde aficionados have something to cheer about this week with
"Video Mundi," an ambitious four-day, eight-program mini-fest that
reminds us just how challenging (and disturbing) non-narrative film
and videomaking can be. ...At the Chicago Cultural Center, "Video
Mundi" is a pastiche of formats and visual styles that seeks to open
audiences to alternative ways of seeing through the lens of
avant-garde. Festival organizers asked eight international curators
to pull together a separate thematic program of films and tapes, then
invited those curators to Chicago to introduce the works they
gathered and discuss the content and meaning."
Video Mundi is organized by:
Jim Finn
Abina Manning
Kent Lambert
Design and promotion by:
Arthur Jones
Dean De Matteis
For additional info check in at:
http://www.videomundi.com
*Please excuse multiple mailings
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