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Par Bruno MASI - vendredi 27 mai 2005 (Liberation - 06:00)
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: Le site du magazine Psikopat
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=299376
VIII Festival Internacional de Fotografía y Artes Visuales
52 exhibitions of more than 100 artists from 20 countries
Bernd and Hilla Becher
William Klein
Stan Douglas
Stephen Shore
Martin Parr
Bertien van Manen
Juan Ugalde
Bill Owens
Keith Haring
Montserrat Soto
Stephen Gill
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www.phedigital.com
PHE05 comprises 52 exhibitions of the work of more than a hundred photographers and visual artists from 20 countries. Among the great names in this edition are Bernd and Hilla Becher, William Klein, Stan Douglas and Stephen Shore. PHotoEspaña presents new projects produced specifically for the Festival by Martin Parr, Bertien van Manen, Miguel Trillo and Juan Ugalde.
PHE Campus organises workshops in Aranjuez with René Burri, Alberto García-Alix, Donna Ferrato and Massimo Vitali, among others. Oliviero Toscani will give a master class. Encuentros PHE addresses the Festival theme with the participation of architects and urban planners. PHotoEspaña leaves Madrid for the first time. Toledo will host two Official Section exhibitions. IVAM and the Instituto Cervantes join the Festival.
The eighth edition of the International Festival of Photography and the Visual Arts, PHotoEspaña 2005, begins in Madrid on June 1st. Once again, the city's major museums, art centres, exhibition halls and galleries host more than 50 exhibitions with recent projects by outstanding visual artists and images by the great masters of international photography.
PHotoEspaña is photography's fiesta: exhibitions, activities, professional encounters, a portfolio review, workshops and master classes with photographers are all ingredients of a festival that for a month and a half turns Madrid into the world capital of photography.
The title of PHE05 is Ciudad (The City). The 26 exhibitions in the Official Section are characterised by the use of documentary languages and the proximity of artistic work to common experience. Ciudad speaks of current urban reality by taking a journey into our daily existence in the single global city. Ciudad is a route that tests the capacity of visual arts to give form in the richest and most critical way possible to the complex and confusing urban life of our time. It is a proposal committed to the present that describes the global city in which we live and simultaneously inspires in spectators possible interpretations of the future.
In this edition, PHotoEspaña increases the number of exhibitions produced specifically for the Festival. Eleven artists show new projects commissioned by PHotoEspaña.
Twenty-one art galleries and five guest halls participate in the Off Festival.
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In the future, when people will look back at Sept 11, 2001, they might well say, it was the high point of the American Empire.
New York City has been for many years the center of the New Rome, and we are the Romans. Ironies abound of course, as New York City is perhaps the most democratic city in the Republic and one of the most democratic cities the world has ever known. Never the less, as the Romans before us, there are plenty of people who despise our power, and plenty of people that will never be, nor do they ever want to be, citizens.
Thirty four years ago Bleak Beauty's photographer recorded the demolition of mostly 19th century buildings located below Chambers street in Lower Manhattan. On the east side of the island, near the fish market, room was being made for a new ramp onto the Brooklyn Bridge and for the expansion of Pace College. On the west side, over 12 blocks of buildings were brought down to make way for the future World Trade Center. In 1967, the year these pictures were made, sixty acres of buildings in these two areas were demolished. The photographs were published as a book, sadly called, "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan." [...] more
174 Chambers at Bishops Lane - copyright Danny Lyon
Lower Manhattan viewed from helicopter, 1967 - copyright Danny Lyon
Bleak Beauty Home
(In English - 28 Minutes)
A Short Thriller by Mitra Tabrizian
A hit man from an unknown Islamic country is sent to London to assassinate an influential writer who has sought political asylum in Britain. The film focuses on the unusual encounter between the two men; a writer who has given up his life’s work and has lost belief in any political intervention, and a loyal soldier who is loosing his loyalty. The hunter & the hunted with one thing in common; they have nothing to lose!
The story is told mainly from the hit man’s point - of – view; a man who can not forget his past
director’s statement
The film focuses on a fictional Islamic country. The actual cast come from different Islamic countries: Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon & Morocco. The intention here is to indicate how, metaphorically speaking, fundamentalism has created its own state, with English paradoxically as the only common language! Different Islamic countries speak in different languages & often have to use English to communicate.
So the film’s use of English language is an ironic commentary on this reality - & on the notion of ‘authenticity’ (a film or a nation cannot be ‘authentic’ unless they express themselves in their original language) that both the East & the West seem to perpetuate.
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mitra tabrizian is a photographer who has made three short films, currently
working on a feature script. She has published & exhibited widely & in major
international museums & galleries. She lives & works in London.
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http://www.filmsocietyhf.com/Mai%20mainj%20frame.htm
samedi 21 mai 2005 (Liberation.fr - 23:23)
Honorés une première fois en 1999 avec «Rosetta» par un jury présidé par David Cronenberg, les frères Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne ont à nouveau décroché la Palme d'or, cette année avec leur long métrage «L'enfant».
Ils ont dédié leur récompense, décernée par un jury présidé par le cinéaste bosniaque Emir Kusturica, à la journaliste de Libération Florence Aubenas et à son chauffeur Hussein Hanoun, retenus en otage en Irak depuis le 5 janvier.
Le Grand Prix est allé à «Broken Flowers», du cinéaste américain Jim Jarmusch. «Je suis sans voix», a réagi celui-ci, remerciant toute son équipe et adressant une mention particulière à son acteur principal Bill Murray.
«Le véritable et grand honneur fut de figurer dans une sélection aux côtés d'aussi grands cinéastes», a-t-il poursuivi. «Je suis très honoré d'avoir vu mon film présenté avec les vôtres, d'être des vôtres».
Le Prix d'interprétation féminine a distingué l'actrice israélienne Hanna Laslo, l'une des trois interprètes principales du film «Free Zone», du cinéaste israélien Amos Gitaï.
«Je veux partager mon prix avec ma mère, survivante de l'Holocauste, survivante d'Auschwitz, et avec tous les survivants de l'Holocauste encore vivants. Je veux le partager aussi avec les victimes des deux côtés, israéliennes et palestiniennes. Il est temps de s'asseoir et de discuter pour résoudre les problèmes», a dit l'actrice.
Le prix d'interprétation masculine a été décerné à Tommy Lee Jones, interprète principal et réalisateur du film «Trois enterrements» (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada).
Ce film reçoit aussi le Prix du scénario en la personne de son scénariste Guillermo Arriaga. «Je partage cet honneur avec tous les Mexicains et surtout ceux qui tentent de franchir la frontière pour pouvoir mener une vie décente», a-t-il dit.
Le Prix de la Mise en scène est revenu au réalisateur autrichien Michael Haneke pour «Caché» et le Prix du Jury au cinéaste chinois Wang Xiaoshuai pour «Shanghai Dreams».
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=298228
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This month is an important one for photography in London. Many events are organised through photo-london, such as exhibitions, book signings by photographers and artist talks. I won't list in this post the events programmed, but do go and check photo-london for more information. There are tons of stuff to see!
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