Amsterdam, 29 April, 2010 Shirin Neshat to attend opening Films from 11 countries
EYE Film Institute Netherlands and the Dutch Cultural Media Fund present the fifth edition of the international DOKU.ARTS festival from 9 to 13 June. There is a special focus this year on contemporary visual arts, with documentaries by and about artists, museums and curators. The festival opens with a screening of Women Without Men, the feature film debut of Iranian artist Shirin Neshat. Four Dutch music documentaries will also premiere at DOKU.ARTS. Artists featured include Brian Eno and Tom Zé. DOKU.ARTS, 9 to 13 June, 2010, EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Vondelpark 3, Amsterdam.
This year sees a special focus on modern and contemporary art, with the programming of documentaries about artists, curators, collectors and museums. The films provide a fascinating insight into the art world. Bahman Kiarostami (The Treasure Cave, 2009, Statues of Tehran, 2008), Danila Cahen (Friendly Enemies, 2010) and Meguma Sasaki (Herb and Dorothy, 2008) have created a series of unique portraits. Kiarostami filmed a documentary about the significant, yet now almost forgotten, Western modern art collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran; Sasaki paints a moving portrait of art collectors Herb and Dorothy Vogel, owners of the internationally-renowned Minimal Art collection; and Danila Cahen concentrates on the often-strained relationship between the curator and the artist. In Friendly Enemies, she talks to curators and artists such as Yael Bartana, Ger van Elk, Ann Demeester; director of De Appel, and Vasif Kortun; director of Platform Garanti in Istanbul. Documentaries about famous artists such as Jenny Hozer, Shirin Neshat and Alexander Calder also feature in the festival programme.
Opening film with Shirin Neshat The festival opens on 9 June with a screening of Women Without Men (2009), the feature film debut of Iranian-American photographer and video artist Shirin Neshat, who received worldwide acclaim for the photo series Women of Allah (1993-1997). Women Without Men, an allegorical tale of four women fighting for independence in Persia in 1953, won the Silver Lion award, the UNICEF award and was nominated for a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The director, co-director, Shoja Azari, and art-director, Shahram Karimi, will all attend the screening. |
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DOKU.ARTS will also highlight
Fifty years of La Dolce Vita This year marks the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Federico Fellini’s masterpiece La Dolce Vita (with Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg). DOKU.ARTS celebrates this historic event with the screening of We Who Lived La Dolce Vita by Gianfranco Mingozzi, an essay about the history and meaning of one of Fellini’s most famous films.
Seminar 'Art Casting – The Art Museum as Producer of the Moving Image' Just like last year, the Dutch Cultural Media Fund and DOKU.ARTS are organising a seminar for professionals, this time together with Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. During the seminar, 'Art Casting – The Art Museum as Producer of the Moving Image', the increasing interest of contemporary art museums in both the moving image and film history will be discussed. Curators of Tate Modern (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam) and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam are participating in the seminar.
Partners DOKU.ARTS is a is a collaboration between EYE Film Institute Netherlands, the Dutch Cultural Media Fund and Andreas Lewin Filmproduktion, Berlin.
As of 1 January, 2010, the Filmmuseum, the Dutch Institute for Film Education, the Film Bank and Holland Film have merged to create EYE Film Institute Netherlands. |
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Further information: Marnix van Wijk (Press- and PR Officer) tel. 020-5891405
Dutch Cultural Media Fund Titia Vuyk (Communication Department) tel. 020-6233901 titia.vuyk@mediafonds.nl |