Crosstalk – Video Art Festival in Budapest. Interview with Szilvi Német (original) (raw)

The know-how of an unconventional art biennale - The making of OFF-Biennale Budapest

The OFF-Biennale Budapest has come to life as a large-scale international art event and exhibition series; however its significance goes beyond the realms and infrastructure of contemporary fine art. By looking through the process of organizing such an event for the first time and revealing the specificities of the local and the regional post-communist condition this paper aims at introducing OFF as a long-term research project rather than a simple large-scale event. It explores the political potential of the biennale as an enactment of democracy by citizens, by actors of the cultural sector. As a micro-political act OFF can be understood as a performative approach that aims at reflecting on the very recent cultural changes of Hungary, and offers a possible new approach to readdress the emergent cultural-political issues.

International Cross-Cultural Art and Design Festival PJAIT NEMA 2021

International Cross Cultural Art and Design Festival , 2021

The International Cross-Cultural Art and Design Festival is devoted to visual communication, design, new technologies, and fine arts. At our academy, we do believe that the integration of global education is essential for students to develop the skills, knowledge, and dispositions needed for responsible participation in a civil society. The second year of the COVID-19 pandemic appeared to be causing difficulties within the academic community, but we do hope to recover soon and meet in person in Warsaw, at PJAIT, during the next edition of our festival.

Film Festivalleri: Kentler, İzleyiciler ve Endüstri

İdeal Kent- kent Araştırmaları Dergisi Sayı:10, 2013

ÖZET Bu yazı Ankara’nın film festivalleri ile ilgili özellikle İstanbul üzerinden karşılaştırmalı bir inceleme yaparken festivalleri ve amaçlarını; kültür endüstrisi içindeki pozisyonlarını ve kentler için önemlerini değerlendirmeye çalışacaktır. Festivaller, farklı paydaşlarının taleplerini kendi bakış açılarını, gündemlerini ve konumlarını kaybetmeden uzun vadedeki amaçlarını ve festivaller içindeki pozisyonlarını nasıl koruyabilirler? Bu yazının temel amacı güncel sanatın alanında sık sık gündeme gelen kültürel alan içinde sponsorların konumuna dair soruları ve eleştirileri film festivallerinin alanına da taşımaktır. Ayrıca kentlerin kültürel sermayesinin önemli bir parçası olan film festivallerinin hangi iktidar ilişkilerini içerdiği ve onları nasıl gizlediği, Ankara ve İstanbul’da kent kimliği ile bağlantılı olarak nasıl farklı tezahürler gösterdiğine de değinilecektir. ABSTRACT This article compares and contrasts the film festivals in Ankara with those in Istanbul, while at the same time attempting to analyze film festivals, their aims and purposes, their positions within the cultural industry as well as their importance for cities. How can festivals maintain their long term goals and demands from different stakeholders, without having to compensate from their own approach, stance and agendas? The main purpose of this article is to open to discussion questions and comments with regards to the position of sponsors within the cultural sphere as a part of contemporary arts. Moreover the article will elaborate on the power relations within film festivals, which are important cultural capitals of cities, and how these relations are dissembled as well as ways in which festivals differ under Ankara and Istanbul identities.

The History of Hungarian Applied Multimedia

The first conference of a series called 'Multimedia in Education' was organised in the town of Keszthely, Hungary, more than a decade ago, in 1995. This series of conferences has been organised annually ever since-by different institutions and at different locations, but with the same professional enthusiasm and effort. Having processed and systematized related digital and analogue materials, the history of a successful conference series is to be introduced here as well as the application of multimedia in Hungarian education and some concerned professional issues of interest.

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS: FROM MODERNISM TO POST-POSTMODERN AGE

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF TELEVISION / НАУКА ТЕЛЕВИДЕНИЯ, 2020

This article uses the Russian film festival movement to analyze the evolution of film festivals from their beginnings to the internet age, focusing on how scientific and technological transformations in the audiovisual sphere influenced the social context of information circulation and cinematic creativity. The article first shows how film festivals came to depend on the internet and the use of digital gadgets in various cultural and demographic communities, including spontaneous teenage associations (so-called “youth cultures”), various professional groups, and the elderly. The article then considers the Soviet and postsoviet Russian film festival movement in the context of global shift from modernism through postmodernism to postpostmodernism. The Russian festival movement is flourishing: more and more festivals appear every day. Administrative difficulties predominate. Unofficial censorship inspires widespread fear and caution. The article proposes a parallel cine-club distribution system that would be exempt from the commercial and censorship restrictions currently applied to films in general distribution. It also considers why festivals spring up and why they disappear. Festivals are needed; otherwise citizens would not organize them. They may be organized for various reasons: to celebrate local functionaries; to celebrate art; or for other reasons. The article reveals the contradictions in the financing of particular festivals, and explains why some festivals receive government funding and others do not. Apart from federal funding, there are municipal funds, and informal relationships can bring private funding as well. The article then closely analyzes the Moscow International Film Festival, unique in that it combines two different “festivals”. From the one hand, it is a traditional showcase with three competitive programs (feature films, documentaries, and short films). On the other hand, it is an open “festival of festivals” that demonstrates films, shown and awarded at other festivals, hors concours. This section is particularly important because very few of these films can break into the general circulation in Russia.

Reframing Film Festivals. International Conference Full Programme. Venice, 11-12 February & Bari, 25-26 March 2020

Reframing Film Festivals: Histories, Economies and Cultures is an international film studies conference organised by the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Aldo Moro University of Bari, in collaboration with the the Apulia Film Commission, the Consulta Universitaria Cinema and the Associazione Italiana per le Ricerche di Storia del Cinema and is supported by the Centro Studi Apulia Film Commission, Science Gallery Venice and Hostelsclub. This double-event conference seeks to contribute to the so-called film festival studies through a series of roundtables and debates involving film critics, practitioners and scholars. In this vein, Reframing Film Festivals seeks to foster an interdisciplinary and intersectional reading of film festivals, here conceived as a historiographic “dispositive”, as cultural formations and as financial institutions. Within a single and cohesive research framework, the Ca’ Foscari strand (11-12 February) will be devoted to the critical-historic and historiographic dimension of film festivals, while at the University of Bari (25-26 March) the focus will be placed on their cultural and economic dimension.