Festivals
CologneOFF 2011
From Aug 31 to Sep 3, 2011
CologneOFF 2011 In collaboration with Shams The Sunflower Beirut present the first presentation series of the nomadic festival project in Middle East.
As a nomadic festival project running 24 months, CologneOFF 2011 is focusing on
experimental aspects of the global art medium video (experimental film and video-art) by spotlighting the diversity of artistic and curatorial contributions from many countries around the globe.
Every month of 2011 is dedicated to other geographical global regions, among them, Africa, Northern Europe, Mediterranean, Eastern Europe, Balkan, UK-Ireland, Latin America, Germany-Austria, France-Spain-Portugal, the Middle East, and the Far East.
This ambitious media art project is using CologneOFF VI & VII – the 6th & 7th festival edition- as its foundations – including for the first time an international jury consisting of the curators from 7 internationally reknowned festivals: Margarida Paiva (director of the Oslo Screen Festival), Gioula Papadopoulou (curator of Videoart Festival in Miden Greece), Macu Moran (director of Videoart World in Barcelona), Giorgio Fedeli (curator of VisualContainer in Milan), Jonas Nilsson/Eva Olsson (art:screen Orebro), Mohamed Allam (director of Medrar Video Festival in Cairo /Egypt), Tamas Gabeli (director of Budapest International Shortfilm Festival in Hungary) as well a basic screening program to be extended and complemented by curatorial contributions of videoart, presenting and reflecting not only various views on the art medium itself, but also on the selected artists and art works intending to confront the audience with a variety of artistic and curatorial.
Special Feature:Tickets:
5000 LL (One session)
10000 LL (Four sessions)