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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=NL>Vooruit Arts
Centre and the Ghent Film Festival would like to invite you to the 3d edition
of <a href="http://www.vooruit.be/en/serie/42">Almost Cinema</a>, a programme that
explores and crosses the borders between cinema and visual arts, media arts and
the stage. The festival consists of an exhibition / installation trail,
live performances, audiovisual concerts and talks: media artists and
dramatist alike show work with a cinematic twist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL>Artists participating in exhibition: <b><i>Alexandra
Dementieva</i></b><i> (RU, works in Brussels/New York), video artist / media
artist; <b>Boris Debackere</b> (BE), media artist / researcher (V2_) / teacher
(Transmedia);<b> Laure Delamotte-Legrand</b> (FR), visual artist / architect; <b>Doris
Kuwert</b> (DE, works in Berlin), visual artist; <b>Heike Langsdorf</b> (DE,
works in Brussels), choreographer; <b>Ulf Langheinrich</b> (DE, works in Vienna
/ Accra Ghana), media artist (a.o. in duo ‘Granular Synthesis’); <b>Laurent
Liefooghe</b> (BE), visual artist; <b>Ali Momeni</b> (IR, works in
Minneapoliss), sound artist / media artist / researcher / teacher (University
of Minnesota); <b>Elisa Pône</b> (FR), visual artist; <b>Ula Sickle</b> (CA,
works in Brussels), choreographer; <b>Eric Thielemans</b> (BE), composer /
musician.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL><br>
Artists participating in live programme: <b><i>David Bithell</i></b><i> (US),
researcher / teacher / sound artist; <b>Xander de Boer</b> (NL), theatre maker
; <b>Rikkert Brok</b> (NL), media artist / VJ; Alexis Destoop (BE),
filmmaker; Maarten Halmans (NL), media artist / VJ; Steven Heather (AU),
theatre maker; Krijn Hermans (BE), theatre maker; <b>Derek Holzer</b> (NL),
media artist / sound artist / VJ; <b>Eric Joris</b> (BE), theatre maker /
media artist / researcher; Heike Langsdorf (DE), choreographer / dancer; <b>Ulf
Langheinrich</b> (DE), media artis; <b>Christophe Meierhans</b> (DE), theatre
maker / film director; <b>Mike Michiels</b> (BE), theatre maker; <b>Ali Momeni</b>
(US), researcher / teacher / media artist; <b>Anna Rispoli</b> (IT), actress /
theatre maker; <b>Ula Sickle</b> (CA), choreographer / dancer; <b>Nicola Unger</b>
(CH), theatre maker / sound artist / comic author; <b>Philip Warnell</b> (UK),
plastic and media artist / film director; <b>Siegmar Zacharias</b> (RO/DE),
theatre maker.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=NL><br>
SOME HIGHLIGHTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=NL>Wednesday 8 October<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=NL>OPENING EXHIBITION / INSTALLATION TRAIL</span></b><span
lang=NL><br>
<i>with live performances <b>Drift </b>and <b>Viewmaster</b>.</i><br>
We would like to invite you to view our selection of media and video art works
for Almost Cinema 08 in an installation trail. On the same evening we will
present two performances that have a close connection to the trail. Drift, a cinematic
performance by Ulf Langheinrich, and Viewmaster, a performance that stirs the
imagination by Heike Langsdorf and Ula Sickle in a construction by Laurent
Liefooghe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL><br>
<i>Tuesday 14 Oct, 20:00<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=NL>PERFORMANCE NIGHT</span></b><i><span
lang=NL> <br>
with Rikkert Brok & Maarten Halmans <b>- Shift</b>, Ali Momeni & David
Bithel – <b>The Liminal Surface</b> and Derek Holzer – <b>Tonewheels</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL>Record players, lights, cameras, synthesizers…
These are the ingredients Rikkert Brok and Maarten Halmans use to create their
own equipment. For the performance Shift they also manufactured the required
material themselves. / In an intimate face-to-face with his colleague Ali
Momeni, David Bithell blends elements of live performance, video, music
technology and improvisation into a playful game that hovers between tragedy
and comedy. / Derek Holzer’s performance Tonewheels is an experiment that turns
graphic images into sound with the help of tonewheels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=NL>Wednesday 15 Oct, 20:00<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=NL>FRICTIESSALON DELUXE<br>
</span></b><i><span lang=NL>Talks with Alexis Destoop and Aaron Schuster (<b>Kairos</b>),
Anna Rispoli & Christophe Meierhans (<b>The Pitch</b>) , Philip Warnell (<b>The
Girl…).</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=NL>An evening with
presentations of artists that approach cinema from an unexpected angle. We will
host Philip Warnell who is famous for his experiments with projecting film on
the human eye. He will talk about the making proces of his new film. Anna
Rispoli and Christophe Meierhans will report in the form of a
lecture/performance about their project ‘The Pitch’ in which they want to
restage the american western Rio Bravo with local actors in Sudan. And Alexis
Destoop will talk about his new film Kairos, a cross between science fiction
and a road movie in close collaborations with soundartists Stephen O’Malley and
Oren Ambarchi. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=NL>Thursday 9 Oct, 09:00 – 17:00</span></i><span
lang=NL><br>
<b>CONFERENCE MUTATNG MEDIA</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL>Together with <a
href="http://www.interface.ugent.be/">Interface</a> (academic platform of KASK,
UGent, VUB & University Utrecht that investigates the interfaces between
art and science), we set up a symposium on Thursday 9th October (9:45am-5pm,
free entrance, in English) called Mutating media.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL>New media like film and digital technology
broaden the range of materials that artists have at their disposal. At this
conference, international speakers and artists will talk about building bridges
between art and architecture, poetry and typography, theatre and media art.
Several video and media artists will show their work. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL>With <b><i>Wouter Davidts</i></b><i>
(professor, University of Amsterdam, Ghent University), <b>Paul Demets</b>
(Poet, Lecturer KASK, University College Gent ), <b>Maaike Bleeker</b>
(Professor, Utrecht University), <b>Arjen Mulder</b> (Writer, V2_, Rotterdam), <b>Kurt
D’ Haeseleer</b> (Artist, Brussels), <b>Manu Luksch</b> (Artist, London), <b>Ali
Momeni</b> (Artist, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota) and <b>Johan
Grimonprez</b> (Artist, Brussels</i>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL>Welcome! Best regards, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL>Eva De Groote, media arts programme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL>Almost Cinema is a coproduction of <a
href="http://www.vooruit.be/en">Vooruit Arts Centre</a> & <a
href="http://www.filmfestival.be/">Ghent Film Festival</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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