The Mashup Film Festival 2018 will take place in France from March 15th till April 15th.
CNC, LaCinetek, Europeana and Mashup Cinéma join their forces this year to propose a special program in the framework of the Mashup Film Festival 2018. The Festival will bring together heritage full-length films and contemporary short film mashups. A mashup is developed by picking up themes, images and sounds from the history of cinema to create an unprecedented film. The gaps between the original version and the new creation reveal esthetic, philosophic and cultural similarities and dissimilarities, referring to specific times and societies
New Beginnings for the New Year features a selection of Sadie Benning’s proto-riot grrl PXLvision cine-confessions, Peggy Ahwesh’s documentary-styled verité melodrama Martina’s Playhouse (1989) and Nina Fonoroff’s The Accursed Mazurka (1994), an epic collage consideration of spiraling mental illness, recovery and identity.
At the cross-over between performative arts and film, expanded cinema emerged in the mid-60s and is now considered to have influenced many aspects of contemporary media installations and performances. American artist pioneers explored its means in regards to politics and collective participation as well as radical subjective experimentation. In Britain filmmakers used its structural and analytical means to criticise the canons of commercial cinema.
Dates:
Monday, February 5, 2018 (All day) to Monday, February 26, 2018 (All day)
Observations through the camera combined in different ways create new realities. Clara Bausch, who is born in Berlin and lives here as artist, strictly works with analogue images in her films, installations and photography. She studied Fine Arts at UdK Berlin and is co-founder of Labor Berlin. It is the ordinary, simple things in life that capture her attention. And it is the combinations of impressions, occurrences and images that create reality. The new realities that Clara Bausch creates in her art work are by no means out of this world.
Dates:
Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 21:00 to Friday, January 26, 2018 - 20:55
On January 25, 2018, Secrets of the Deep: DREAMS on Film will screen dream-infused films by: Douglas Hart (Jesus and Mary Chain), vocalist She Rocola, Joe Whitney (Flaming Stars), Kirsty Allison* (Cold Lips Magazine UK), Scottish rocker Gil de Ray* (Vagrant Lovers), twice Emmy Award nominated actor Emily O’Brien, Stephen Rutterford* (NYC), Vincius Santos (Brazil), Liz Tabish* (Texas), Russian animator Olga Guse (Berlin), record producer (Strokes, Regina Spektor) Gordon Raphael (Berlin), and festival curator Jeffrey Wengrofsky* (NYC).
Dates:
Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 20:00 to Friday, January 26, 2018 - 19:55
