OSLO SCREEN FESTIVAL, MARCH 9th-11th!

WELCOME TO THE THIRD EDITION OF OSLO SCREEN FESTIVAL!

March 9th-11th 2012

www.screenfestival.no

FREE ENTRANCE!

Oslo Screen Festival is a 3-day international festival for video art taking place at Filmens Hus, UKS, Litteraturhuset and Ny Musikk. This year we have a varied program which includes film programs, concerts, performances and lectures.

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OFFICIAL OPENING

Friday 9th at 19:00 at Litteraturhuset

Film screening by Max Hattler, musical performance by Steen-Andersen & Sunniva R. Wettre, Amund Sjølie-Sveen, Duo Torquati-Dillon and DJ Lasse Marhaug.

FILM PROGRAMS

Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th at Filmens Hus 13:00-20:00

Bringing together artists who work with the moving image using different techniques, forms and themes, these programs showcase films that seek their own language through subjectivity and experimentation. The festival introduces a lineup of films from artists such as Reynold Reynolds, Joao Salaviza, Kiron Hussain, Momoko Seto, Mattias Härenstam, Pierre Lionel Matte, Kaia Hugin, Bao Lixin and many more!

LUNCH CONCERT

Friday 9th at 12:00 at Ny Musikk

USB – United States of Barents is a solo performance with and by Amund Sjølie Sveen with a political insight on questions dealing with local, global and northern identity, power of definition, borders, and the new political and economical focus at the northern areas.

LECTURE

Friday 9th at 15:30 at UKS

Curator Evelin Stermitz will introduce the ArtFem.TV project and talk about Video Art, Feminism, and Women Artists.

ROUND TABLE

Saturday 10th at 11:00 at Filmens Hus

How does sound shape images? – The role of sound and music in non-narrative moving images. Participants: Marte Aas, Kjell Bjørgeengen, Bodil Furu, Bjørn Erik Haugen. Produced by NOTAM.

BEST VIDEO AWARD

Sunday 11th at 13:00 at Filmens Hus

The Best Video Award will be presented by Saatchi & Saatchi Oslo. Saatchi & Saatchi is well known to support young and promising visual artists, and have presented the New Directors’ Showcase for more than 20 years, one of the highlights of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

Our partners are: Ny Musikk, Notam, Nabroad, Atelier Nord, Plymouth University, art:screen, Magmart, Fonlad, Projecto Videolab, VisualContainer, Aesthetica Magazine, UKS, ArtFem.TV & The Dream That Kicks.

Kindly supported by Norsk Kulturråd, Oslo Kommune, the Austrian Embassy and Saatchi&Saatchi Oslo.

LINKS:

http://www.nymusikk.no/

http://www.saatchi.no/

http://www.notam02.no/web/

http://www.nabroad.org/

http://ateliernord.no/en

http://artscreen.se/

http://magmart.it/

http://fonlad.net/

http://www.visualcontainer.org/

http://www.uks.no/