Two programmes – Candella Films / VIVA programme of digital shorts for the full period and then as an extra between just the Sat 17 March and Friday 23 March inclusive, Exhale by ‘Virtual Migrants’
Sat 17 March – Friday 6 April 2007
13 ¡VIVA! 2007:
Short film programme by Candella Films (Mariela Artiels)
The first week of April is a last chance to see Candella Films (Mariela Artiels) programmed selection of Spanish and American shorts, which bring Viva!, Cornerhouse’ annual fiesta of Spanish & Latin American cinema, to Big Screen Manchester. Selected films include: El Viaje De Said (Said’s Journey), dir Coke Riobóo (Spain); Magma, dir Vincente Navarro (Spain); Changes, dir Daniel Martínez (Spain).
With thanks to: Mónica Gallego Gordillo from Agencia Audiovisual FREAK and Elisa Gilli García from Lolita Peliculitas Artes Visuales, SL.
Sat 17 March – Friday 23 March 2007
To mark… Exhale the event… 5 years of video, music, electronic art reflecting asylum and migration in a new world order, by Virtual Migrants
From 2001-2006, Virtual Migrants engaged with UK artists and communities intent on reconstructing the polemical landscape and varying experiences of asylum in a globalised post-9/11 world. Using moving image, video, interactive multimedia, photography, audio, music, installation and collaborative practice, these works collide documentary realism with poetic imagination yet retain an intimacy between the personal and the epic. On 23 February 2007, Virtual Migrants will celebrate and present a range of the work produced over the last five years, whilst also launching their national publication, Exhale.
Leading up to the event, The Bigger Picture, Big Screen Manchester, will screen two films produced between 2001-2006 from the wider Virtual Migrants body of work; Stranger by Keith Piper, documented by Kooj Chuhan, and I Think I Know You by Kooj Chuhan with young refugee women from West London.
Sat 17 – Friday 23 March 2007, one week only!
To mark… Exhale the event… 5 years of video, music, electronic art reflecting asylum and migration in a new world order, by Virtual Migrants
From 2001-2006, Virtual Migrants engaged with UK artists and communities intent on reconstructing the polemical landscape and varying experiences of asylum in a globalised post-9/11 world. Using moving image, video, interactive multimedia, photography, audio, music, installation and collaborative practice, these works collide documentary realism with poetic imagination yet retain an intimacy between the personal and the epic. On 23 February 2007, Virtual Migrants will celebrate and present a range of the work produced over the last five years, whilst also launching their national publication, Exhale.
Leading up to the event, The Bigger Picture, Big Screen Manchester, will screen two films produced between 2001-2006 from the wider Virtual Migrants body of work…
STRANGER by Keith Piper, documented by Kooj Chuhan
The work charts the journey of an undefined yet conspicuous migrant through Europe and takes the viewer through the migrant’s thought processes while trying to stand proud in dealing with degradation, negation and displacement. Coming from a background of forced or coerced displacement one of the recurrent needs for the migrant is to find and regain a sense of community.
I THINK I KNOW YOU by Kooj Chuhan with young refugee women from West London.
A surreal drama in which three women in search of missing photo fragments find some resolution though a chance befriending with each other, against a backdrop of an industrial riverscape and music created using songs that long for a previous (if mythical) life and samples of footsteps and other human sounds.
Collaborators Audrey Rose, Siber Osman, Fardows Yasin, Poulomi Desai (artist), Refugee Students from West Thames College, Sandra White Supporting organisations Watermans (Anji Archer), West Thames College (Debbie Squires)
Short film programme by Candella Films (Mariela Artiels)
The first week of April is a last chance to see Candella Films (Mariela Artiels) programmed selection of Spanish and American shorts, which bring Viva!, Cornerhouse’ annual fiesta of Spanish & Latin American cinema, to Big Screen Manchester. Selected films include: El Viaje De Said (Said’s Journey), dir Coke Riobóo (Spain); Magma, dir Vincente Navarro (Spain); Changes, dir Daniel Martínez (Spain).
El Viaje De Said (Said’s Journey)
dir Coke Riobóo (Spain) 2006, 12’,30”, 35mm
Said’s Journey is a musical short film of plasticine animation. Said, a Moroccan boy crosses The Straights. On the other side, in the land of opportunity, he discovers the world is not as beautiful as he had been told.
Magma
dir Vincente Navarro (Spain) 2006, 7’, 35mm
Magma explores the other side of love – as two strangers meet across a crowd….
Changes
dir Daniel Martínez (Spain) 2006, 2’40” 35mm
Changes investigates what is a ‘chance to change’
With thanks to: Mónica Gallego Gordillo from Agencia Audiovisual FREAK and Elisa Gilli García from Lolita Peliculitas Artes Visuales, SL.