CINE ESQUEMA NOVO 2016 - BRAZILIAN AUDIOVISUAL ART

Cine Esquema Novo 2016 - Brazilian Audiovisual Art

From November 3rd to 10th in Porto Alegre

Festival presents films, projections and video installations at Cinemateca Capitólio, Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre, Instituto Ling and through the streets and walls of the city

The 2016 edition of Cine Esquema Novo - Arte Audiovisual Brasileira officially arrives in Porto Alegre from November 3rd to 10th, with free screenings of films and installations that will be presented at Cinemateca Capitólio, the official headquarters of the festival, Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre and Ling Institute. In the week before the activities, the curatorial team invites the public to look up: in the last days of October, CEN will visit some friends of the event to hold mini-meetings with film projections and vignettes on the walls of the neighboring buildings.

With almost 600 entries, the festival that since 2003 promotes image diversity through the concept of Audiovisual Art - a proposal capable of encompassing both the idea of cinema and the visual arts, returns to be annual and competitive. Of the 44 works selected in Competitiva Brasil, 32 will be shown in the Cinemateca Capitólio room and 12 in environments outside the cinema room, in the form of video installations, projections and performances (see full list and synopses below). There will be more than 35 hours of programming.

Gaucho production on the rise

There were many times when the curators of the event had to give explanations due to the little participation of gauchos in the festival. In 2016, CEN is inundated with fourteen works by directors installed here or that sprouted from here and went to film the world. Many of these works are admittedly a reflection of the coexistence of these directors with the diversity of the eleven editions of CEN. Highlight for the long Rifle, by Davi Pretto, recently awarded at the Brasília Festival, the short Sesmaria, directed by Gabriela Richter Lamas and winner of four awards at the Gramado Festival, the work Superquadra Saci, by the artist from Rio Grande do Sul, based in Recife, Cristiano Lenhardt, that opens the CEN (and that can also be seen at the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo with the works Uma column e Trair a species) and the feature Very Romantic, shown at the Forum Expanded exhibition at Berlinale 2016 and directed by the duo based in Berlin , Melissa Dullius & Gustavo Jahn.

An increasingly political audiovisual

As might be expected, the national production shown in the selection at CEN 2016 addresses several times the different social and political issues that mark the Brazilian agenda. This context is well represented at the festival this year, with films and installations that bring themes such as the protests that took over the country (Youth Unhappy or a Man Who Screams is not a Bear that Dances, by Thiago B. Mendonça and Da Janela pra Consolação, Dellani Lima); indigenous issues (Abigail, by Isabel Penoni and Valentina Homem, GRIN, by Roney Freitas and Isael Maxakali and the controversial Before Time Didn't End, by Sergio Andrade and Fábio Baldo; urban occupations (O Teto Sobre Nós, directed by Bruno Carboni); the decline of migrations (For Aylan, by Jacson Dias and Maick Hannder); the oppression exerted on women (Why not be Beatiful?, by Sabrina Luna); and, always present, but in an increasingly mature and creative way, LGBT issues, sexualities and their freedoms (The City of the Future, by Cláudio Marques and Marília Hughes, The Last Day Before Zanzibar, by Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolone Before time ran out).

Highlights in Cannes and Berlin

Works exhibited at the two largest festivals in the world are highlighted in CEN 2016 Competitive Brazil. These are the cases of Cinema Novo, directed by Eryk Rocha, a rehearsal film awarded with the Golden Eye in Cannes; The Girl Who Danced with the Devil, by João Paulo Miranda Maria, who received the Special Jury Prize in the competition for the Palme d'Or in Cannes; Abigail, shown in the Directors' Fortnight at the same festival; Very Romantic, from the gauchos of DISTRUKTUR, Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn, artists based in Berlin and who exhibited their self-referential film at BERLINALE 2016, as well as Before Time did not End, who was in the Panorama of Berlin.

Film resistance at the Goethe-Institut

This year, while exhibiting absolutely contemporary works in digital format, CEN 2016 takes an important plunge into the universe of film, seeking to discuss the maintenance of analog techniques in the moving image, through diffusion, preservation and experimentation with the aesthetic possibilities that work in film allows the artist. The international works that are part of the Resistance in Film program (see complete program and synopses below) are curated by the producer Pátio Vazio. In addition to the shows focused on two important artist-run film labs in Europe, LaborBerlin (Germany) and Worm.Filmwerkplaats (Netherlands), another 16mm program will be shown at this year's festival, focused on the work of the duo OJOBOCA. The duo composed by Anja Dornieden (Germany) and Juan David González Monroy (Colombia) residing in Berlin, comes to Porto Alegre at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut and German Films to present their work, give the workshop Traces of Colored Light (see full service below) of 16mm manual development and copying (which will take place over two days at the Instituto de Artes - UFRGS), in addition to a conversation with the public about the work they do in the duo and their experience as members of LaborBerlin. The meetings take place from 10 am to 4 pm, on November 7 and 8, at the UFRGS Institute of Arts. 10 places are offered.

Management of Audiovisual Collections + CEN Collection available to the public

One of the first activities of the official program of CEN 2016 starts at 2 pm on November 3, in the Multimedia Room of Cinemateca Capitólio: the Audiovisual Collection Management course (see service and full program below), given by Fernanda Coelho. Specialist in audiovisual conservation, Fernanda was for fifteen years the Preservation Coordinator of the Cinemateca Brasileira and presented for three days themes such as basic notions of museology, typology of audiovisual documents, document conservation, among others. The meetings take place from 2pm to 6pm on the 3rd, and from 2pm to 9pm on the 4th and 5th. 20 places are offered. Registration costs R $ 200.00 and must be made through this link: https://goo.gl/forms/DKdgqsOoblkhx9ef2. The workshop takes place in conjunction with the MINC Audiovisual Literacy Program and the Cinema, Video and Photo Coordination of the City of Porto Alegre.

Another novelty of this edition is the CEN Collection available to the public. Thousands of films registered and exhibited at the festival since 2003 are preserved at the Cinemateca Capitólio for research and viewing.

Audiovisual in Course

The program also includes an exhibition of university films from Rio Grande do Sul that will be curated by students from six undergraduate courses from four institutions in RS: UFRGS (FABICO and Instituto de Artes), PUCRS (TECCINE), Unisinos (CRAV) and UFPel (Audiovisual and Animation). Entitled Audiovisual em Curso, the exhibition will bring together works selected by students who participated in a curatorship workshop given by CEN curators, Gustavo Spolidoro and Jaqueline Beltrame and the participation of Programmer and Critic Marcus Mello. The exhibition of the productions and the debates with the coordinators of the participating courses will take place on Saturday, November 5th, at the Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre, from 14h to 18h.

CEN Awards 2016

The event to publicize the winners of Competitiva Brasil takes place on Thursday, November 10, at Cinemateca Capitólio at 9:00 pm, with prizes for services offered by Kiko Ferraz Studios, Lilit Laboratório Digital, Psycho N 'Look and Locall, for the winning work of the Grand Prize Cine Esquema Novo.

CEN 2016 is a realization of ACENDI - Associação Cine Esquema Novo de Desenvolvimento da Imagem, in partnership with the Municipality of Porto Alegre, through the Coordination of Cinema, Video and Photography of the Municipal Secretary of Culture and Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre; co-production of Pátio Vazio; institutional support from Instituto Ling, Department of Visual Arts and Graduate Program in Visual Arts at UFRGS and Tecna - Centro Tecnológico Audiovisual do RS; award support from Kiko Ferraz Studios, Lilit Laboratório Digital, Psycho n´Look and Locall; cultural support from German Films, Labor Berlin, WORM.Filmwerkplaats, Santander Cultural and Prana Filmes; and support from Hotel Praça da Matriz, Pasta Workshop, Cachaça da Chica, Bar Ossip, Moeda Bar and Restaurant and Cervejaria Portoalegrense.

PROJECTIONS AND VIDEO INSTALLATIONS:

Capitol Cinematheque

Why not be Beautiful ?, by Sabrina Luna, 2015, 07min, BR (PE) / ALE

Carnivore, by Arthur Tuoto, 2016, 63min, PR

Confidente, by Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes, 2016, 12min, RJ

Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre

Atlas, by Magda Gebhardt, 2014, 06min, BR (RS) / FRA

For Aylan, by Jacson Dias and Maick Hannder, 2016, 04min, MG

Habitat, by Raphael Aragão, 2015, 13min, PB

Ling Institute

(Gallery) The tropical curse, by Luisa Marques & Darks Miranda, 2016, 14min, RJ

(Auditorium, 11 am and 3 pm) - Digitaria ex Machina, by Gabraz, 2015, 23 min, BR (RJ) / COL

(Auditorium, 11:30 am and 3:30 pm) - Interlude, by Gabraz, 2016, 52min, RJ

(Auditorium, 12:30 pm and 4:30 pm) - Solon, by Clarissa Campolina, 2016, 16min, MG

(Auditorium, 12:50 and 4:50 pm) - Angelus Novus, by Duo Strangloscope (Cláudia Cárdenas & Rafael Schlichting), 2016, 75min, SC

 

Shows film resistance

This year, while exhibiting absolutely contemporary works in digital format, CEN 2016 takes an important plunge into the universe of film, seeking to discuss the maintenance of analog techniques in the moving image, through diffusion, preservation and experimentation with the aesthetic possibilities that work in film allows the artist. The international works that are part of the Resistance in Film program (see complete program and synopses below) are curated by the producer Pátio Vazio. In addition to the shows focused on two important artist-run film labs in Europe, LaborBerlin (Germany) and Worm.Filmwerkplaats (Netherlands), another 16mm program will be shown at this year's festival, focused on the work of the duo OJOBOCA.

Ongoing Audiovisual Exhibition

The program also includes an exhibition of university films from Rio Grande do Sul that will be curated by students from six undergraduate courses from four institutions in RS: UFRGS (FABICO and Instituto de Artes), PUCRS (TECCINE), Unisinos (CRAV) and UFPel (Audiovisual and Animation). Entitled Audiovisual em Curso, the exhibition will bring together works selected by students who participated in a curatorship workshop given by CEN curators, Gustavo Spolidoro and Jaqueline Beltrame and the participation of Programmer and Critic Marcus Mello. The exhibition of the productions and the debates with the coordinators of the participating courses will take place on Saturday, November 5th, at the Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre, from 14h to 18h.

Workshops

Traces of Colored Light, with OJOBOCA, Audiovisual Collection Management with Fernanda Coelho

 

COMPETITIVE SHOW WINNERS

Grand Prize Cine Esquema Novo 2016: CINEMA NOVO, by Eryk Rocha (RJ)

“It looks like a documentary, but it goes further, building itself as a powerful poetic essay. It means, does not follow booklets, criticizes the object itself. Deep editing experience, updates and rediscovers the power of images in a new context ”.

Highlight Award Cine Esquema Novo 2016 # 1 - RIFLE, by Davi Pretto (RS)

“Distant from the traditional schemes of the bombacha-e-chimarrão films, but following the same Pampean scenario, one does not give in to the narrative facilities when following the concerns of a character on the edge of heroism”.

Highlight Award Cine Esquema Novo 2016 # 2 - JONAS E CIRCO SEM LONA, by Paula Gomes (BA)

“A sensitive portrait that, when assuming its creative process, mirrors and at the same time alters the reality it documents, sharing with the character the longing for artistic creation”.

Highlight Award Cine Esquema Novo 2016 # 3 - SOLON, by Clarissa Campolina (MG)

“The post-catastrophic scenario, the bold sound design and the political suggestion build a disturbing sensory experience”.

Highlight Award Cine Esquema Novo 2016 # 3 - WOMAN WITHOUT A MANDOLIN, by Fabiano Mixo (BR-RJ / ALE)

“An audiovisual translation needs cubism by juxtaposing multiple perspectives of the same figure on a single plane”;.

JURY

EDUARDO VERAS - Eduardo Veras is a professor at the Institute of Arts at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), working on the Bachelor of Art History and the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts. Member of the Brazilian Committee of Art History (CBHA). She is a member of the Vera Chaves Barcellos Foundation, Deliberative Council and the Iberê Camargo Foundation, Collection and Curatorship Committee.

IVONETE PINTO - Journalist, PhD in Cinema from USP; professor in the Cinema course at UFPel; editor of the magazines Teorema and Orson; founding partner and former vice president of Abraccine - Assoc. Brazilian Film Critics; founding partner and ex-president of Accirs (Associate and Film Critics of RS); he participated in juries at festivals such as Gramado, Mar del Plata, Tehran, Cine Ceará, São Paulo Exhibition, Havana, Cartagena and FestRio. She is the author of the books Mediocrity, Discovering Iran and Samovar in the Tropics.

VICENTE MORENO - Vicente Moreno acts as a director, screenwriter and editor. Among his recent works is the short After the Avenida, the series Grandes Cenas and the feature film Dromedário no Asfalto, of which he was editor and executive producer. He graduated as an audiovisual director at UNISINOS, where he is currently a professor of editing and script, and completed his masters degree in communication at PUCRS, with an emphasis on narratology. He was also a guest professor at CINETVPR in Curitiba and at the Specialization in Cinema at UNISINOS.

Numbers of CEN 2016

5 award-winning films

3 shows

44 films selected for Competitiva Brasil

59 artists (10duos and 4 collectives)

32 films on display at Cinemateca Capitólio (sessions at 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm)

4 films in the Capitol's exhibition spaces

3 films at the Goethe Institute

4 films at the Ling Institute

1 performance through the city streets

More than 35 hours of programming in a cinema room, galleries, streets and city walls;

14 movie theater sessions

14 films directed by women

14 gaucho films (made here or in other places)

5 training activities

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