14.06.2010
Film Monday
Today, as part of the festival’s film programme, we would like to invite you to see two manifestations. The first one, Just Night, will take place at Pod Baranami Cinema (Kino Pod Baranami) at 7 p.m. This will be a review of the films by Dutch artist, Jesper Just.
The artist creates gloomy, romantic narrations lacking longer dialogues, which act on the senses and imagination through light, shadows, music and picture. One of the main topics in Just’s works is the analysis of the male identity as a social construct. The central motif is also the relationship between different generations, the passing of time, memory. Just’s films are full of the tension, uncertainty and suspension, which recall such masters of black and white cinema as Jean-Pierre Melleville. Each film is a big production, which involves professional actors, singers, lighting and sound technicians, and cameramen. It is thanks to this meticulous work that we come face to face with an extraordinary movie clip. The professionalism with which his films are realised bring Just closer to the works of Matthew Barney, Chris Cunningham or Francesco Vezzoli.
After the event at Pod Baranami Cinema we recommend the presentation of Joan Jonas’ works – one of the most important American artists. She creates performance art, installations, videos, sculptures, films, photographs. She is currently a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She obtained the Guggenheim award in 2009. The exhibition will take place at the ArtBoom Tauron Festival Information Point next to the City Hall tower at 9 p.m. The audience will have the opportunity to become acquainted with her works from the 80s. Volcano Saga is a film based on a 13th century Icelandic saga by Laxdeal. Double Lunar Dogs is a video inspired by a science fiction story entitled Universe, which was written by Robert Heinlein, whilst Upside-down and Backwards presents two fairy-tales, The Frog Prince and The Boy Who Want to Learn Fear, narrated simultaneously.
Joan Jonas’ films will also be shown in approximately 1.5 hour blocks, at 9 p.m every two days from 12 June to 24 June 2010
The artist creates gloomy, romantic narrations lacking longer dialogues, which act on the senses and imagination through light, shadows, music and picture. One of the main topics in Just’s works is the analysis of the male identity as a social construct. The central motif is also the relationship between different generations, the passing of time, memory. Just’s films are full of the tension, uncertainty and suspension, which recall such masters of black and white cinema as Jean-Pierre Melleville. Each film is a big production, which involves professional actors, singers, lighting and sound technicians, and cameramen. It is thanks to this meticulous work that we come face to face with an extraordinary movie clip. The professionalism with which his films are realised bring Just closer to the works of Matthew Barney, Chris Cunningham or Francesco Vezzoli.
After the event at Pod Baranami Cinema we recommend the presentation of Joan Jonas’ works – one of the most important American artists. She creates performance art, installations, videos, sculptures, films, photographs. She is currently a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She obtained the Guggenheim award in 2009. The exhibition will take place at the ArtBoom Tauron Festival Information Point next to the City Hall tower at 9 p.m. The audience will have the opportunity to become acquainted with her works from the 80s. Volcano Saga is a film based on a 13th century Icelandic saga by Laxdeal. Double Lunar Dogs is a video inspired by a science fiction story entitled Universe, which was written by Robert Heinlein, whilst Upside-down and Backwards presents two fairy-tales, The Frog Prince and The Boy Who Want to Learn Fear, narrated simultaneously.
Joan Jonas’ films will also be shown in approximately 1.5 hour blocks, at 9 p.m every two days from 12 June to 24 June 2010
