In autonm, the 22th Festival Les Instants Video will ask the question : Have you seen the horizon recently ?
Feel free to make caressing and outrageous suggestions. (Entry form) Up to then, we will carry on our nomad journeys (screenings, workshops, conferences) in France, in Palestine, in Syria, in Viet-Nam, in Egypte, in Serbia, in Marocco, in Brasil.....
You will find below a draft of the 2009 wanderings.
JANUARY
Strasbourg : January 15th
Ecole des Arts Décoratifs / Vidéo les Beaux Jours : screening under the title « Cities under occupation »
Ramallah (Palestine) : January 19th
Qattan Foundation and French Cultural Center : : screening under the title “Fragilities”
Damas (Syria) : January 31th
AllArtNow Foundation
FEBRUARY
Marseille : February 6th, 10th, 17th
Video workshop / Secondary school Belle de Mai for a group of students aged 15
Marseille : February 14th 3PM
Cyber in Friche Belle de Mai / Zinc : screening “Nice to meet you”
MARCH
Marseille : March 10th 4.30PM
Cinétilt, video workshop for the youngs
APRIL
Casablanca (Marocco) : March 30th to April 4th
Festival des Arts Numériques : screenings “Toro” and “A story of compass”
Arles : Avril 10th to 13th
Video art and Bullfighting/ Corrida Fair
St Denis (La Réunion Island) : Avril 19th
La Lanterne Magique / Ozagué : screening “In praise of cross-breeding imaginaries”
MAY
Bourges : May 6th to 10th
Festival Bande Images : screenings “Middle-Eastern journeys”
Marseille : May 8th
Vol de Nuit : screening and debate “From loneliness to group ”
Ramallah / Jérusalem / Gaza (Palestine) : May 18th to 23rd
in partnership with the A.M. Qattan Foundation : 1st video and multimédia festival, with the complicity of the French Cultural Center
JUNE
Nha Trang (Viet Nam) : June 6th to 12th
The Sea Festival : screenings “Rythms and images”, “Video art, it's magic, it's rapid and it's dancing”, “You can't bargain freedom : in praise of Gianni Toti”, “Resistances”
AUGUST
Brasil : August 4th to 10th
ASPAS (Solidarity Provence South America Association) : artistic workshops and international Programm
SEPTEMBER
Marseille : September 25th and 26th
Ciné Page : Finish video art
OCTOBER
Essaouira (Marocco)
Madar : a creation on the spot with Marc Mercier and the artist from Marocco Mohamed Aboulouakar “The reversed curve of Icare”
NOVEMBER
Marseille, Martigues, Port de Bouc, Aix, Paris, Caracas, Ramallah, Damas…
22nd Festival Les Instants Vidéo
“Have you seen the Horizon recently ?”
DECEMBER
Alexandria (Egypt)
video art, Futurism and Marinetti
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Festival of Video Art & Performance
Festival of Video Art & Performance is the fruit of a collaboration based on active participation in shaping a vision, tackling the details and the distribution of tasks and responsibilities between the institutions organising and hosting the festival’s various activities in the venues in Ramallah, Jerusalem, Gaza and Birzeit. These partnering institutions share an interest and the desire to deliver this important event, and a keenness to make it a success. Each offers the best support possible, whether it be available resources, actual human help or physical spaces.
This festival – which can be considered a historic event in the cultural life in Palestine – is also a result of a state of maturity of the level of the work of the institutions on the one hand and of art practices on the other. The initial idea was to hold a video art festival, an idea that was a natural evolution from a season of video art previously organised by the A.M. Qattan Foundation in partnership with the French Cultural Center in Ramallah and Les Instants Video in Marseille. This then evolved into holding a festival that would also include performance art because of the overlapping and interconnectivity between these two art forms, and the confusion (at times) that can surround the relationship between them.
As this festival is the first event of its kind to be organised in Palestine, the first programme round does not have a specific theme or topic. It is rather meant to be an introduction that aims to open a door for dialogue, offer a wide exposure to video and performance art, and introduce many platforms for viewing and for discussion and learning.
Therefore a variety of important art works by prominent artists from various parts of the world will be presented within the festival’s framework alongside important artworks produced by Palestinian artists during the past decade. This is in addition to many artists’ talks, thematic based video screenings, a training workshop, and a special programme of video work produced by students from the International Academy of Arts - Palestine.
We aim to organise this festival every two years, hoping to succeed in establishing it as a part of Palestinian art and cultural life, and that it will contribute towards enriching it and be a qualitative addition to it. We hope that it will become an important international platform capable of attracting distinctive local, Arab and international participations, and a forum for meeting, dialogue, knowledge and production.
We would like to thank all those institutions and individuals who have contributed towards the realisation of this event, especially the participating artists and the collaborating and supporting institutions, and we hope the audience will find the festival’s various events beneficial and enjoyable.
A.M. Qattan Foundation
Les Instants Video
Franco-German Cultural Center in Ramallah
Al Mahatta Gallery
Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre
Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et poétiques (9th January, 2009)