by Gus Ferguson
Eight o'clock - The cars,
how urgently they rush
to reach the traffic Jam.
The city lights -
a bed of glowing embers.
We dread the kindling wind.
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Apart from selecting existing works, the CITY BREATH project has initiated and developed new collaborations in the areas of the video poem, screen dance and experimental film.
Director & curator: Kai Lossgott (kai[.]lossgott[at]gmail[.] com)
Complete screenings:
Cape Town
28 May, 30 May 2010
Labia Cinema on Orange Street
Grahamstown
National Arts Festival 2010
Olive Schreiner Hall, 1 July,
Glennie Festival Centre, 3 Jul.
Edinburgh
22 October – 1 November 2010, Africa in Motion Festival.
Vancouver
8 – 16 October 2010, Antimatter Film Festival
Johannesburg
6 - 7 November 2010
The Bioscope, Main Street Life, Johannesburg
Durban
25 January - 19 February 2011
KZNSA Gallery, Durban
Specially curated screenings:
London
4 May 2010, New South African Cinema, British Film Institute, Southbank, London, (selection curated by Trevor Steele-Taylor).
Berlin
4 – 17 October 2010, Zebra Poetry Film Festival
Marseille
10 – 14 November 2010, 23rd Instants Vidéo 2010, “POetic POlitic POetronic Festival “
Kharkiv, Ukraine
19 March 2011
Cologne OFF 2011, Kharkiv City Art Gallery
Badilisha Poetry Xchange
22 - 25 May 2009, Africa Centre, Cape Town. Africa Day celebrations, 25 May 2009, E Sacks Futeran Building, Cape Town.
"If Johannesburg is a virus, I was infected a long time ago, and negotiating and challenging the virus is what interests me, and therein lies the intimacy." (South African contemporary artist Stephen Hobbs)Through their common theme, these short video 'gasps' or 'breaths' of South African cities give voice to the private dreams and nightmares of local poets, dancers, performance artists and filmmakers. They interrogate, with or against rational logic, the way South Africans understand their cities and urban life. Rebellious in their nature, under 4 minutes each, the films represent a genre seldom seen in South African film and television. "Inspiring, sometimes beautiful, sometimes challenging, and over-all very impressive." (Trevor Steele-Taylor, Director of the National Arts Festival Film Programme)
Apart from selecting existing works, the CITY BREATH project has initiated and developed new collaborations in the areas of the video poem, screen dance and experimental film.
Director & curator: Kai Lossgott (kai[.]lossgott[at]gmail[.] com)
Cape Town
28 May, 30 May 2010
Labia Cinema on Orange Street
Grahamstown
National Arts Festival 2010
Olive Schreiner Hall, 1 July,
Glennie Festival Centre, 3 Jul.
Edinburgh
22 October – 1 November 2010, Africa in Motion Festival.
Vancouver
8 – 16 October 2010, Antimatter Film Festival
Johannesburg
6 - 7 November 2010
The Bioscope, Main Street Life, Johannesburg
Durban
25 January - 19 February 2011
KZNSA Gallery, Durban
Specially curated screenings:
London
4 May 2010, New South African Cinema, British Film Institute, Southbank, London, (selection curated by Trevor Steele-Taylor).
Berlin
4 – 17 October 2010, Zebra Poetry Film Festival
Marseille
10 – 14 November 2010, 23rd Instants Vidéo 2010, “POetic POlitic POetronic Festival “
Kharkiv, Ukraine
19 March 2011
Cologne OFF 2011, Kharkiv City Art Gallery
Badilisha Poetry Xchange
22 - 25 May 2009, Africa Centre, Cape Town. Africa Day celebrations, 25 May 2009, E Sacks Futeran Building, Cape Town.
FILM LIST
- (Un)veiling
- Between
- Circles
- City Girl
- Fragmented
- I lost a poem
- I walk the street with loose parts
- Jackson 5
- Karohano
- Omdat ek die stadsrumoer (Because I chose the city noise)
- Over the Nek
- Player 1.1
- Sound and Sign Language Poems
- Terra Obscura
- The Electrician
- This Place Forever (excerpt)
- To those who belongs the earth shall belong the sky up to the heavens
- TV Programs 001: Powerlines / Web of Life
- Waiting
- waitless
- Walking in Plastic
labels
- poems (46)
- Cape Town (37)
- Joburg (30)
- FILM LIST 2009 (20)
- video poem (16)
- inspiration (11)
- video art (11)
- experimental film (7)
- Phillippa Yaa De Villiers (5)
- Bandile Gumbi (4)
- Deborah Steinmair (4)
- Ike Muila (4)
- Kai Lossgott (4)
- Tania van Schalkwyk (4)
- screen dance (4)
- Arja Salafranca (3)
- Gary Cummiskey (3)
- Gus Ferguson (3)
- Siphiwe Ka Ngwenya (3)
- animation (3)
- Allan Kolski Horvitz (2)
- Angifi Dladla (2)
- Anni Snyman (2)
- Clive E Smith (2)
- Danie Marais (2)
- James Tayler (2)
- Jeanette Ginslov (2)
- Khanyisile Mbongwa (2)
- Mike Cope (2)
- Pretoria (2)
- Terry Westby-Nunn (2)
- curator's brief (2)
- Alude Mahali (1)
- Ananda Fuchs (1)
- Anders Weberg (1)
- Between (1)
- Billy Collins (1)
- Bulelwa Basse (1)
- Circles (1)
- Colleen Alborough (1)
- Dawn Garisch (1)
- Durban (1)
- Erica Luttich (1)
- Fabian Wargau (1)
- I lost a poem (1)
- I walk the street with loose parts (1)
- Jackson 5 (1)
- João Orecchia (1)
- Julian Grey (1)
- Karohano (1)
- Koeka Stander (1)
- Lolette Smith (1)
- Louise Coetzer (1)
- Maaike Bakker (1)
- Maia Grotepass (1)
- Mandilakhe Yengo (1)
- Mark Wilby (1)
- Mduduzi Nyembe (1)
- Melissa Butler (1)
- Michelle McGrane (1)
- Niklas Zimmer (1)
- Nileru (1)
- Omdat ek die stadsrumoer (1)
- Pippilotti Rist (1)
- Player 1.1 (1)
- Port Elizabeth (1)
- Rat Western (1)
- Sam Taylor-Wood (1)
- Sean Buch (1)
- Sign Language Poems (1)
- TV Programs 001: Powerlines (1)
- Terra Obscura (1)
- The Electrician (1)
- This Place Forever (1)
- To those who belongs the earth (1)
- Toast Coetzer (1)
- Waiting (1)
- Walking in Plastic (1)
- trailer (1)
- waitless (1)
associated links
festivals
- CINEDANS international dance film festival, Amsterdam
- MOVES experimental short film and new media festival, Manchester
- INVIDEO international exhibition of video art and cinema beyond, Milan
- VIDEOFORMES video and new media in contemporary art, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- ANTIMATTER screenings, installations, performances and media hybrids, Victoria, Canada
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