Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance

Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance is a collaborative project of 10 curators from 8 countries based on the exchange of curatorial video selections from Central / Southeastern Europe and Middle East, aimed at detecting works which communicate common experiences and parallel histories on the basis of similar political, social and economic circumstances, construing relations between different geographies.The first phase of the project is conceived as a series of video projections in 8 different cities – Holon, Istanbul, Prague, Sofia, Graz, Iasi, Novi Sad and Zagreb. Digital postproduction and coordination is managed by the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon.

Curators:

Michal Kolecek (Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic), Antonia Majaca (Zagreb, Croatia), Basak Senova (Istanbul, Turkey), Matei Bejenaru (Iasi, Romania), Margarethe Makovec and Anton Lederer (Graz, Austria), Galia Dimitrova (Sofia, Bulgaria), Eyal Danon (Holon, Israel), Orfeas Skutelis i Branka Curcic (Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro).

In Zagreb the screenings will take place from Tuesday to Friday (23-26.05.2006) at g-mk | galerija miroslav kraljevic.

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programs > > >

I)

Basak Senova (Istanbul, Turkey) Vertigo Entrapped >>>

Osman Bozkurt (Auto-Park, 15 min, 2003) | Stefan Bauer and Erdem Helvacioglu (Ohrmong, 8 min, 2005) | Hristina Ivanovska, What’s Behind, (The Urban Prototype Project), 2:51 min, 2003) | Sener Ozmen (Exit, 2:30 min, 2002) | Erhan Muratoglu (I/O Interface Overbloated, 3 min, 2005) | Gulsun Karamustafa (Making of the Wall, 16:11 min, 2003) | Banu Cennetoglu (Determined Barbara, 2:10 min, 2004)

II)

Matei Bejenaru (Iasi, Romania) Old Stories – New Videos >>>

Dragos Alexandrescu (In-Out, 1:20 min, Situating Myself, 6 min, 2005) | Dan Acostioaei & Dragos Alexandrescu (Bahlui by Night, 12 min, [3 min excerpt],2004) | Dan Acostioaei & Dragos Alexandrescu (Dave Didn’t Make It, 54 sec, 2004) | Dan Acostioaei (Essential Current Affairs, 4 min, 2002) | Dan Acostioaei (Reconstructionscapes, 15 min,[3 min excerpt], 2005) | Bogdan Teodorescu (Geographic Aerobics, 18 min, 2005) | Matei Bejenaru (Looking for Caslav, 9 min, 2002)

III)

Michal Kolecek (Prague, Czech Republic) Cake & Coffee >>>

Slaven Tolj (Nature & Society, 3:58 min., 2002)| Isa Rosenberger (Sarajevo Guided Tours, 25 min., 2001) | Pavlina Fichta Cierna (About Jozef, 10 min., 2003)| Reinigunsgesellschaft (No Limits for Frank, 17 min., 2002)| Erzen Shkololli (Hey You…, 4:27 min., 2002) | Frantisek Kowolowski (Never Ending Story – Artist, 13:17 min., 2002) | Daniela Kostova (I See…,17 min.,2002) | Sejla Kameric (Untitled (Daydreaming), 4:40 min, 2004)

IV)

Antonia Majača (Zagreb, Croatia) Out On a Limb >>>

David Maljković (Scene For a New Heritage, 4:33 min, 2004) | Goran Devic (Imported Crows, 22 min, 2004) | Lala Rascic (17 stories, 3 min, 2005) | Kristina Leko (Her 25802nd Day, 4:03 min,2000) | Zlatko Kopljar (Love Shot, 3 min, 1996) | Vlatka Horvat (Out on a Limb), 2 min, 2002) | Renata Poljak (Great Expectations, 17 min, 2005) | Tanja Dabo (Wellcome, 8:54 min, 2004) | Mladen Stilinovic (Potato, Potato, 3 min, 2001)

V)

Galia Dimitrova (Sofia, Bulgaria) Coffee with Sugar >>>

Daniela Kostova (I See – You See, 30 min, [15-min excerpt], 2002) | Adelina Popnedeleva & Michel Beck (The Real Thing, 4:00 min, 2000) | Kamen Stoyanov (10 Minutes World Art, 10:00 min [a 4-min excerpt], 2003) | BorjanaPandova & Todor Karastoyanov (Whatever–Advert Laboratory, 8 pieces [1-3min each], total: 16 min, 2005)

VI)

Margarethe Makovec and Anton Lederer (Graz, Austria) >>> 

Exercises in Imagination Rainer Ganahl (Bicycling Tirana, 4 min, 2003) | Ivan Moudov (Traffic Controll, 6 min, 2001) | Corinna Schnitt (Zwischen vier und sechs, 6:04 min, 1997/8) | Gentian Shkurti (Alice in Wonderland, 3:40 min, 1999) | Janos Sugar (The Typewriter of the Illiterate, 7:21 min, 2001) | Blue Noses (25 short performances about globalization, 10:05 min, 2003) | Erzen Shkololli(White, 10 min, 2005) | Kunst- Fu (Exercises ofthe Masters, 9 min, 2002) | Enes Zlatar (Thailand, 9:40 min, 2001) | Sejla Kameric (Imagine, 2 min, 2004) | Zbynek Baldran (Limit, 6:14 min, 2002)| Jakup Ferri (Don’t tell it)

to anybody, 12 min)

VII)

Eyal Danon (Holon, Israel) Trespassing >>>

Ruti Sela & Ma’ayan Amir (Alei Zahav, 5:30 min, 2005, Beyond Guilt#2, 18 min, 2004) | Ruti Sela & Clil Nadav (loopolice, 6:55 min, 2003) | Avi Mugrabi (Details 3&4, 9 min, 2004) | Annan Tzukerman (Anxious Escapism, 2005) | Nira Pereg (Souvenir, 5 min, 2005) | Artists without Walls (April 1st), 19:30 min, 2004)

VIII)

Orfeas Skutelis and Branka Curcic (Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro) Mapping Rightwing Extremism (Fighting for what’s left) >>>

Brosko Prostran (Touching, 4:30 min, 2004) | Miroslav Jovic (The Triumph of the (UN)win, 2:20 min, 2005) | (The Army and Me, 24 min, 2005) | Mirjana Batinic (Identity: Balkans, 2:30 min) | Bob Miloshevic (Algorythm, 6 min, 2004) | Dragan Predojevic (Die Faksche Idee, 54 sec) | Malden Marinkov (Déjà Vu, 9:40 min)

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