https://vimeo.com/131487421
City 3 is an improvised expanded cinema performance by Sam Hoolihan and John Marks that focuses on the transportation systems, pedestrian life, green spaces, and industrial textures of Minneapolis, MN, incorporating a triptych of original, artist-processed 16mm films with an original live electroacoustic sound accompaniment by John Marks.
A beautiful Best of KINO HOLLY*OOD with live music by Cole Pulice (saxophone) & Gabriel Stein (guitar) at 6.40 in the morning, ending the Northern Spark night.
https://vimeo.com/130880017
Beautiful sounds to Mark Ryan’s Landing Lights.
https://vimeo.com/130983920
Cole Pulice accompanies the film Bertino schlägt Alarm (1958) by Swiss filmmaker Harry Greis.
https://vimeo.com/130812413
The morning hours: America on the Moon, NASA, 1969.
Eight hours of non-stop screening. More than 500 tickets ‘sales’ and around 700 visitors in total.
More than 360 popcorn bags sold!
Thank you Anais Nony, Bruno Freeman, Jennifer Jodell, and the Northern Lights team, especially the technicians, for making it happen.
And, last but not least, to the wonderful artists, filmmakers, and amateurs!
Long live HOLLY*OOD.
An inspiring presentation and vibrant post-discussion on the notion of the “Timeless Image” at the Northern Spark HQ in collaboration with Mizna.
https://vimeo.com/130644477
The beginning of the artist talk to give an idea. Watch SISKA’s film E.D.L. here.
KINO HOLLY*OOD at Northern Spark, 13 June 2015, 9 p.m. – 5.26 a.m.
West Riverside Parkway, next to the Mill City Museum ruins (close to the Stone Arch Bridge)
Program:
9 p.m. – 11 p.m. Holly*ood Special feat. local filmmakers Mark Ryan & Tom Siler
live intervention by Xavier Tavera
11 p.m. – 1 a.m. Architecture in Film with live performance by Sam Hoolihan & John Marks
1 a.m. – 3.30 a.m. From Beirut with Love feat. a selection of video works & home movies from Lebanon
3.30 a.m. – 5.30 a.m. Voyage, Voyage. An early morning special.
Cole Pulice live on saxophone:
10 p.m. – 10.15 p.m. Holly*ood Special
12.30 – 1 a.m. Architecture in Film
4.15 a.m. – 5.15 a.m. Voyage, Voyage. An early morning special.
All programs include works by local and international filmmakers, artists & amateurs, as well as works from the Kinothek, the archive of the KINO project.
With special thanks to Wiley Hoard, Timo Grimberg, Ziya Habib and all the local filmmakers.
Wednesday, 10 June 2015, 6.30 p.m.
Artist talk with SISKA and Osama Esid, in collaboration with Mizna
Northern Spark project space
530 University Ave SE, through the back door
Saturday, 13 June 2015, 9 p.m. – 5.26 a.m.
KINO HOLLY*OOD at Northern Spark, 13 June, 9 p.m. – 5.26 a.m.
West Riverside Parkway, next to the Mill City Museum ruins (close to the Stone Arch Bridge)
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KINO HOLLY*OOD is a temporary movie theater screening an all-night program of video works and private Super 8 and 16mm films. It is an on-site cinema-like installation investigating new and temporary locations and includes a ticket booth and a popcorn trolley cart.
After an in-depth research of the Twin Cities’ cinema history, KINO takes on the name of a former movie theater that was closed down, demolished, or transformed, as an act of memory but also as a way of reviving these theaters in the present. The neon sign of the respective cinema (KINO) is re-created and is used as a central physical reference: KINO HOLLY*OOD.
The program of KINO HOLLY*OOD features works on the city and the stories of her inhabitants. It reflects the particular nature of the Twin Cities that used to host over 100 cinemas, the cities’ artists and amateur filmmakers, as well as family film treasures such as recorded birthdays, journeys, and garden parties.
The actual screening is more of a gathering rather than a strictly scheduled film session. In reference to the traditional news cinema the evening starts with a cartoon and the audience is welcome to come and go throughout the night.
Documentation here and here (feat. Cole Pulice) and here (feat. Sam Hoolihan & John Marks)
The KINO project was initiated by visual artists Franziska Pierwoss & SISKA in 2009 in Beirut and has since travelled to Naples, Warsaw and Zürich.
KINO HOLLY*OOD is the U.S. premiere of the KINO project.
Franziska Pierwoss is a German performance and installation artist with a focus on durational performance and collaborative practices.
SISKA is a Lebanese filmmaker and artist whose work reveals a strong site-specific feature.
Both artists have shown their work extensively in Europe and Lebanon. This is the first time that they will be presenting it in the U.S.
KINO HOLLY*OOD is presented by FD13 as part of Northern Spark 2015, produced by Northern Lights.mn.
Along with nine other artists Georgia Sagri, is this year’s New York Artadia awardee.
Sagri will receive unrestricted funds of $10,000. All ten will be given access to the New York residency program as well. The jurors—Matthew Higgs, director and chief curator of White Columns, John Rasmussen, executive director of Midway Contemporary Art, and Ingrid Schaffner, curator, Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art—noted that this year’s winners “are a nucleus of what is dynamic about contemporary art and speak to something beyond the commercial marketplace.”
Artadia currently offers grants on a cyclical basis, rotating through Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Thank you to Georgia Sagri for her captivating pre-sen-ta-tion in Minneapolis.
https://vimeo.com/140833971
Georgia Sagri in residence 2-12 April 2015
Workshop, Monday, 6 April 2015, 5.30 – 7.30 p.m.
Crosby Seminar Room, Northrop Auditorium, 84 Church St SE, Minneapolis
in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Study
The workshop is going to focus on states of temporality, rhythmanalysis, and differences between mental and physical manifestations of time. Two of the exercises that Georgia Sagri has been working on over the past 10 years will be developed with the group.
Wear comfortable clothes and bring writing material and an object/material that you feel comfortable to work with during the workshop.
Rsvp: info@fd13residency.org
(free for University students; donations of 10 – 20 USD welcome)
Presentation, Wednesday, 8 April 2015, 7 p.m.
InFlux Space, Regis Center for Art, 405 21st Avenue S, Minneapolis
Born in Athens, Greece in 1979, Georgia Sagri studied at the National Music School of Athens, holds BFA from Athens School of Fine Arts, and MFAs from Columbia University, New York. At the center of her practice lies the exploration of performance as an ever-evolving field within social and visual life, interconnected, though distinct from the dialectics of representation in theatre, music and dance. Sagri’s work has been shown internationally in public institutions, including the Kunsthalle Basel (2014), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2013), Biennale de Lyon (2013), ProBio, Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York (2013) and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2011). She will be participating artist on the 14th Istanbul Biennial (September 5-November 1, 2015) curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Most recently, Sagri was an Artist-in-Residence at Issue Project Room, New York. In this framework she presented her research entitled Daily Bread online and live at Mathew Gallery New York.
Documentation here.
