AN ANAL ALOGUE E ZONE 3 3 OB OBJECTIVES Organized by LaborBerlin and Cimatheque in partnership with LabA September - November 2013 Analogue Zone intends to engineer a collaborative reflection on the overall theme of Transitions , affecting each of these artistic communities, via Co Contact Lab Labor orBer erlin Co Contact Ci Cimatheque collective analogue cinema experimentation and production. Michel Balagué Hana Al Bayaty michel.balague@googlemail.com hana@cimatheque.org ! Provide alternative and independent means of expression for Egyptian +49.160.966.251.61 +20.10.00.277.964 artists in this transitional period. ! Promote the creation of a sustainable venue for independent analogue filmmaking in Egypt through a partnership with the Lab film laboratory at Cimatheque's premises (Cairo), also serving regional needs. ! Initiate a deeper understanding between European and Arab artists Analogue Zone is a eighteen months work in progress based on a celluloid and filmmakers through collective artistic reflection and production. film training program, involving more than 30 filmmakers, artists, and ! Experiment collaborative, trans disciplinary and multi cultural film amateurs from Egypt, Germany, Greece and Lebanon. The program consists production and expose Egyptian filmmakers/artists to their regional in a collective and collaborative reflection and production on the theme of and international counterparts. Transitions - in its widest sense - whether political, cultural, social, economic, ! Create a multi cultural network based on strong transnational and artistic, or aesthetic. trans border experiences and connections between German, Greek and Egyptian filmmakers and artists by working collectively on the “Analogue Zone 3” is the last phase and the culmination of the project. production of films and art pieces. Following the workshops 1 and 2 that were organized throughout 2012 in ! Provide the technical equipment and the mentoring support for Cairo and Berlin, it will take place over two months in Autumn 2013 and will independent and low budget capacity to shoot, develop and screen include a two-week long film production session associated with in film material in Egypt, thereby supporting the creation of a new performances held in Cairo, Athens and Berlin. aesthetic proposal and paradigm of production. Analogue Zone is based on the exchange between the stakeholders of the ! Create an online open platform consisting of a website working as a newly created Cimatheque Lab film laboratory, and two already existing hub for analogue independent film, able to incubate films, organize analogue film laboratories, LaborBerlin (Berlin) and LabA (Athens). Each of online events such as film festivals, host open forums on celluloid these entities are specialized in cinema. They are considered pioneers in their film practices favoring cultural dialogue amongst various artistic respective countries, through their projects and culture, due to their support communities. for independent filmmaking as an art form. LaborBerlin and LabA have organized regular celluloid film trainings in various European countries, Lebanon and in China for the past two years. ! "!
DE DESCRI CRIPTION N his/her counterpart. The collaboration between the pairs will start ahead of Analogue Zone 3 will take place throughout three phases: the workshop through exchanges on Skype and by email. The workshop will also include several closed-door discussions, screenings, and presentation Production: A two week long production workshop will be held at Pr of the work previously produced by the participants. Cimatheque’s premises with 16 participants. It will result in the During the shooting, 5 producers assistants will be appointed in order to production of around 16 short films in Super 8 and 16mm. assist the participants in the production. In continuity with the first two phases of the project, the Egyptian trainees who took part to Analogue Zone Exhibi Ex bitions: : The short films produced during the workshop and 1 and 2 will be invited to take part to this particular phase, whether it is as the productions of the two previous Analogue Zone sessions will be main participants or as producers assistants. screened during a three-day long festival including panel discussions, performances and installations. The festival will tour in Cimatheque This intensive two-week session will result in the production of 16 individual (Cairo), LabA (Athens) and LaborBerlin (Germany). films and installations revolving around the theme of Transitions . They will document and bear witness to the initial questionings and responses of a Publications: The Analogue Zone project will be documented Pu generation of artists to the transition taking place in the region, and through the publication of a DVD compiling the works produced particularly Cairo. It will stand as an act of memory, capable of being during the process, along with a small booklet presenting the films. revisited as an archive, which will have captured a state of mind responding to issues being raised at the very beginning of this historical process. A bilingual (English/Arabic) technical tool kit on analogue film making, processing and projecting will be created and made available online Selection process under creative commons licensing thereby at the disposal of others. While Analogue Zone 1 and 2 were aiming at training beginners to Super 8 Pr Production and 16mm techniques, the third phase of the project will focus on the The workshop will be implemented under the supervision of two artistic production and exhibition of short films by practitioners who already have an directors identified among the Egyptian and the German partners. It will host experience in working with this format. 4 Greek, 5 German and 7 Egyptian participants at the Lab located in Cimatheque’s premises in Cairo. The latter is equipped with celluloid and film Analogue Zone’s initiative encompasses a multidisciplinary approach that material, 8mm and 16mm cameras, a lomo tank, a moviola editing facility, promotes exchange and dialogue between various artistic practices. and projectors. Emphasis will be made on the collaboration between the Analogue technique Over two weeks and with the assistance of the two artistic directors, the and other fields indirectly related to filmmaking, such as music and sound, participants will go through the different phases of preparation, production writing, painting, and performing arts. In this framework, the workshop will be opened to artists belonging to these fields. They will bring with them new and post-production of a short film. They will work by pair, each person skills that will enrich and diversify the artistic content of the films produced. developing his/her own project and simultaneously assisting the project of Within a flexible framework that will allow them to work in pair with one or ! #!
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