MOVING SILENCE in Thessaloniki!
International silent short films accompanied by live music.
March 10-11, 2017
Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki l Warehouse Β1, Port
Time screenings: 20:00
Moving Silence, the Berlin-based platform for contemporary silent film is returning to the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki for the second time, March 10 -11, 2017, with the support of the Goethe Institut Thessaloniki, in the framework of the 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
Since 2009, the network of international artists has been organizing screenings of film programs without sound with live music. The poetry of silent programmes that goes back to the very beginning of cinema is expressed through the contemporary aesthetics of the digital and analog image, and sound production. The event includes an international program of short films accompanied by live music played by musicians based in Thessaloniki. The entry is free with voluntary contribution
Parallel event: digital exhibition 'GIF. Morphologies of a copyleft tale'. The exhibition brings together silent film and GIF culture, exploring the design potential and creative transformations of a GIF when it goes viral, re-examining from a contemporary visual perspective the study of Vladimir Propp "Morphology of the folktale" on the anonymous and collective story formation. The project is part of the Moving Silence activities in collaboration with the HMKW University of Applied Sciences, the DER FILTER Team in Berlin and the Librarybox project. The exhibition can be accessed virtually through a pop-up local network that follows the physical venues of the Moving Silence events. Bring along your smartphones and tablets!
Curators: Matthias Fritsch, Co-Founder & Co-Director of Moving Silence & Eirini Papakonstantinou, Μusic Program Curation and Coordination, Art Historian, SMCA Curator
GIF Exhibition Curator: Mariana Ziku
Sound & Image: M-Spirit
PROGRAM
FRIDAY | 10.3.2017 | 20:00
FILMS PROGRAM: DREAM WORLDS
This compilations of 6 contemporary silent short films let the viewer enter into a variety of poetic, bizarre, bright and dark worlds created by the film makers. The films are all starting from different source materials ranging from documentary footage to paper collages, found objects, aquariums or 3D graphics.
Traumzeit
Armin Mobasseri (DE)
2012, 29min
Music: epavlispavlakis (pavlos vakalos) http://www.epavlispavlakis.com/
Die Stunde der Matronen
Stea Andreasson & Juergen Eckloff (DE)
2009, 15:40min
Music: George Avramidis and Christos Pappas
Parasit
Nikki Schuster (DE)
2013, 7min
Music: Alien Mustangs https://alienmustangs.bandcamp.com/
Jellyfishes
Matthias Fritsch (DE)
2011, 7min
Music: May Roosevelt http://www.mayroosevelt.com/
Lost Boy
Ash Thorp & Antony Scott Burns (USA)
2016, 9min
Music: Costis Drygianakis https://www.facebook.com/cdrygianakis
https://soundcloud.com/costisdrygianakis
SATURDAY |11.3.2017 | 20:00
FILMS PROGRAM: THE ASTRAY AND THE DOOMED
This compilations of 9 silent short films narrate tragic stories, wandering characters and situations without perspectives.
Darra
Samuli Ala-Lahti, Lina Kuhanen, Mikko Kuoppasalmi, Wilma Kurumaa, Sami Lehti, Patrik Lilja, Silja Minkkinen, Terri Niemi, Vilma Vehmasaho (FI)
2015, 4min
Music: Michalis Siganidis and Dimitris Leontzakos
I Play Dead
Kaveh Akaber (SE)
2013, 14min
Music: Fuku Cosmonaut https://fukucosmonaut.wordpress.com/
Clown Children
Jannicke Systad Jacobsen (NO)
2005, 6min
Music: The Sailing Tomatoes http://www.sailingtomatoes.gr/
97%
Ben Brand (NL)
2013, 8min
Music: Michalis Siganidis and Dimitris Leontzakos
Neighbours
Norman McLaren (CA)
1952, 8min
Music: Monobloc
Wire Cutters
Jack Anderson (USA)
2014, 9min
Music: Moody Alien http://moody-alien.weebly.com/
MS Stubnitz
Nikki Schuster (DE)
2015, 5min
Music: Dodeka Daktyla (Twelve Fingers)
Out of Nowhere
Maayan Tzuriel & Isca Mayo (IR)
2012, 6min
Music: Manos Milonakis http://www.manosmilonakismusic.com/
Kurzschluss
Xaver Xylophon Böhm (DE)
2009, 7min
Music: Fuku Cosmonaut https://fukucosmonaut.wordpress.com/