Fracto Experimental Film Festival: Milena Gierke in a conversation with Federico Rossin
SA 25.111, 16H ACUD Studio
Participants: max.30
FREE ENTRANCE
No prior experience or equipment necessary.
Please note that the workshop will prioritize the participation of young people, exchanges at the school and university levels, apprenticeships.
Registration: https://fractofilm.com/2023-Workshop
The encounter with Berlin-based filmmaker Milena Gierke and the Paris-based film historian and internationally known programmer Federico Rossin, together with the French-German students and international participants, will focus on experimental film, its history linked to the specificity of Gierke's filmmaking, and the fruitful exchanges of this practice between France and Germany - two countries that represent a crucial production center in Europe and the world in the field of avant-garde film. They will also review the different professions linked to the distribution and promotion of this type of approach to filmmaking through Gierke's experience of more than 30 years. The filmmaker will outline her mutual collaboration with the Parisian Light Cone and Berliner Arsenal distributors and promoters.
Program:
1. Brief introduction to experimental cinema, history, and perspectives
2. Presentation of the work of Milena Gierke, evolution over time cutting of sequences, and sharing of film techniques, particularly around the issue of film development;
3. Screening of Milena Gierke’s film extracts
4. Presentation of Federico Rossin's work and his curatorship criteria, focusing on the red line between films and human, philosophical, and empirical approaches to film selection and programming, focusing on the program of the upcoming Fracto edition;
5. Screening of the overall curatorship of Federico Rossin in the form of extracts
6. Open questions and exchange with the public
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Milena Gierke, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1968. 1989-94 studies at the Frankfurt Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, in Peter Kubelka’s class “Film + Kochen” (film & cooking). In 1994, she studied sculpture at the Cooper Union in New York City with Hans Haacke and film history with James Hoberman. Other faculties were representatives of the US film avant-garde, such as Ken Jacobs or Robert Breer. In 1995 Jonas Mekas, who inspired Gierke for her diary films, screened a three-hour retrospective of her work at Anthology Film Archive. Since 2001, she has been a member of the curatorial group “Filmsamstag” at the Filmkunsthaus Babylon, Berlin. The artist has lived in Berlin since 1998.
Federico Rossin is a Paris-based film historian. After studying literature, art history, and philosophy, Federico Rossin became a film historian, lecturer, trainer, and image mediator. His research focuses on experimental, documentary, and animated cinema. Since 2007, he has worked as a freelance programmer for numerous festivals in Europe (États généraux du film documentaire de Lussas, Cinéma du Réel, DocLisboa, Filmmaker in Milan, Ivac in Cyprus, etc.) and film archives (Film Museum in Vienna, Cinémathèque Française, Cineteca Italiana, etc.). He also works as a trainer in popular education networks (in France with Peuple et Culture) and in university settings (Créadoc d'Angoulême, École documentaire de Lussas, SoundImageCulture de Bruxelles, École nationale supérieure d'art de Limoges). He has published three books and dozens of essays in magazines, books, and newspapers in France and Italy.
The workshop is supported by the Franco-German Youth Office.
Photo by Jadranko Marjanovic