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<b><big>Facing the Artwork </big></b><br>
<b>Video Art and Short Film Fest</b><br>
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<b>9 – 12 June 2011</b><br>
<b>ZAZIE Kino, Kleine Ulrichstraße 22, 06108 Halle (Saale)</b><br>
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Werkleitz presents the Video Art and Short Film Fest <i>Facing the
Artwork</i>. We show 33 filmic works from 18 countries, most of
them chosen from more than 400 applications from all over Europe.
The artworks were selected by an international jury and are
presented within six programmes, which are structured according to
different thematic focuses on the topic of art reception. Additional
curated films and artists’ discussions will make the programme
complete.<br>
As opening film of <i>Facing the Artwork</i>, we screen the
documentary-style movie “Photography” (80:00 min, HU 1972) by the
Hungarian director Pál Zolnay. <br>
The six programmes of the following days are dedicated to the role
of the audience within the system of art, its significance for the
artist and the relation between recipient and artwork.<br>
<i>Facing the Artwork</i> presents artistic positions about the
individual and collective ideas of the recipients concerning the
sense and purpose of art. On the one hand, the programmes deal with
the limits of human perception and the interference between the
roles of the artist and the spectator. On the other hand, they refer
to the wide variety of possibilities to interpret an artwork.<i>
Facing the Artwork</i> focuses on the audience. It gets the chance
to look at itself – from a distance, at close range, critically or
gently.<br>
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<small>The event is funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) and supported by the
Hungarian Film Union and culturtraeger.<br>
Werkleitz is supported by the Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt.</small><br>
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For further information please visit:
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Virág Bottlik
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Werkleitz Gesellschaft - Zentrum für Medienkunst
Schleifweg 6
06114 Halle (Saale)
Telefon: +49 345 68246-0 Fax: +49 345 68246-29
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