On 11,12 and 18 of June: Three first performances of THE 8TH LETTER, at Almost Summer Festival, BUDA Kortrijk. Participatory performance, extended by an installation.
Places of Articulation: Five Obstructions is awarded the Moving Image Art Prize at Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
Special Mention to By The Throat at the 41st edition of Festival Jean Rouch
In the frame of a research residency invited by IMPAKT and WERKTENK, we will participate in this year’s CPDP conference, organised by Privacy Salon. Places of Articulation: Five Obstructions will also be on display.
Sous la douche, le ciel - now on TËNK, till 27/05
This April CHANCE will be parte of IMPACTE festival in various cities in Barcelone, Spain - 08/04 and of Mooov festival, Brugges, in a programme curated by Collective Faire-part - 22/04
Places of Articulation: Five Obstructions is selected to Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin where it's also nominated to the Moving Image Art Prize. Presentation on 06/05 at the Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris.
03/05/2022, Kaai Theatre, we are invited in the frame of The wonders of multilingualism, a series of events by Passa Porta
Upcoming screenings of By The Throat:
Festival Itinérances, Inédits section, Alès (FR) - 28+29/03
EMAF- European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (DE) - 21/04, with Q&A
TIDF- Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Taiwan - International competition and shortlisted for Next Generation Award - 7/05, with online Q&A
Festival International Jean Rouch, Quai Branly, Paris - 08/05, with Q&A
On 11/03 we were invited to the "Anthropology of Language Use: Diversity and Inequality in a Languaging World" course at KU LEUVEN for a closing Q&A session with the students after they watched By The Throat and worked it throughout the course.
By The Throat at Cibema Aventure, Brussels for two weeks (23/03-03/04)
By The Throat in Brussels: 03/03/22 at Cinema PALACE, followed by a Q&A And from 23/3, at cinema Aventure
Until the end of February, By The Throat is available on the docustream platform of Docaviv (geoblocked)
In the frame of « Metamorphosis in a changing world : the role of culture and heritage in society transformation », co-organised by ULB, l’Université Aix-Marseille and Sapienza, Rome - a screening of Chance on the 26th of January and our participation in a round-table on the 27th.
By The Throat at the Transmediale, Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 28-29/01
By The Throat at FIPADOC (FR) in the frame of their programme Focus Benelux. Screenings on the 17th and the 22nd of January, Biaaritz.
We are honoured to receive the PRIX DU PARCOURS 2021, attributed to a documentary audiovisual maker, by the scam Belgique. Lire plus
Belgian premier of By The Throat - 26/11 at Beursschouwburg, Brussels
CHANCE in London, 30/11 at Genesis cinema, as part of London Migration Film Festival
Parole donnée - artist talk, invited by Benoit Felix, 17/11 at Abattoir de Bomel, Namur
7 screenings of By The Throat during November-December in The Netherlands, as part of InScience festival on tour: Lumière Cinema, Maastricht - 17.11 // Concordia, Enschede - 17.11 // Heerenstraat Theater, Wageningen - 20.11 // Chassé, Breda - 29.11 // Kriterion, Amsterdam - 01.12 // Cinecitta, Tilburg -11.12
Housewarming is part of the group exhibition Talking To The Wall, at Hacubiya, Jerusalem, curated by Dan Orimian
By The Throat was awarded the Prix de la critique belge at festival En ville ! attributed by film journalists jury of Cinérgie
Three radio programmes created in the frame of L'Hypothèse d'une porte, will be broadcast on Radio Panik. 10/09, 24/09, 08/10 at 12:00
Shower Power (Sous la douche, le ciel) is selected to Social Change Festival, Chicago, 28-30/09
The installation Places of Articulation: Five Obstructions is traveling to IMPAKT and will be part of the exhibition Face Value. 18/08-10/10, opening on 17/10.
Festival En ville ! in collaboration with Beursschouwburg will host the Belgian avant-premiere of By The Throat on 13/10 at Cinema Galeries and the Belgian premiere at Beursschouwburg on the 26/11. Festival En ville ! also organises a Master class on the film, with Effi & Amir and Xavier Garcia Bardon, on 15/10 at 10:00, at Cinema Galeries.
New festival selections for By The Throat: Message To Man (Saint Petersburg), RIDM (Montreal), IHRFFA (Tirana), InScience (Nijmegen)
By The Throat had its European premier at IndieLisboa where it has won the Feature film Award at the Silvestre Competition.
The first of three radio programmes created in the frame of Hypothesis Of A Door, will be broadcast on 11/09 at 12:00 on Radio Panik. We will also be there to present the project. Hypothesis Of A Door is coming to an end with a festive closing weekend 11-12/09.
Effi & Amir are invited by Ramat-Gan Museum for Israeli Art to an online talk about their project The Complete Jessy Cohen Museum, on July 29th, 20:00
BY THE THROAT had its world premiere at Docaviv Festival where it won the Artistic vision award. (The prize money was refused by Effi & Amir).
More screening of CHANCE during July at cinema Nova: 8th, 15th, 21st at 20:00, in the presence of Effi & Amir
This June, CHANCE is in London, Paris, Brussels and more. 16, 25, 30 at Nova Cinema, Brussels - screenings followed by an encounter. 16/06 in Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, UK. 20/06 in Genesis cinema in the frame of London Migration Film Festival. 26/06 in Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris, in the frame of 25 Arts seconde festival.
A Hypothesis Of A Door - a participatory project at The CENTRALE For Contemporary Art - 28/05-12/09/2021
Plusieurs occasions de voir Sous la douche, le ciel prochainement: Sous la douche, le ciel
JVD, Lorient, France - 25/03/2021
TV5 France/Belgique/Suisse, 02/04/2021 + 04/04/2021
Maison de l’image, Strasbourg, France - 15/04/2021
Freiburger Filmforum - Festival of Transcultural Cinema - 07/05/2021
In the frame of The Complete Jessy Cohen Museum and in the context of the Covid related measures, we conduct an Observation workshop - weekly online encounters from 14/02 to 21/03.
CHANCE (2020,75') is selected to Rencontres Internationale Paris-Berlin’s Libraby
The short video RoWaR will be part of the group exhibition True Grid, at Unanimous Consent, Zurich. 31/10-13/12/2020
CHANCE will have its Belgian premiere at the FIFF, Namur. Two screenings on 05/10 at cinéma Caméo. at 09:45 in the frame of FIFF Campus, and at 20:00 as part of Palce au doc Belge.
3 screenings in France: On 07/10/2020 Sous la douche, le ciel will open the Festival Le monde au coin de la rue, Grenoble [CANCELED], followed by an encounter. On 14/10 at the miroiterie, Ivry-sur-Seinne, as part of teh festival 94Çachauffe, and on 20/11 at the Médiathèque Nef Europa, Vendôme-Villiers, followed by a encounter.
18/10/2020 Opening of the exhibition Voice Over at Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, curated by Maayan Shelef and where we will show a new work, Places of Articulation: Five Obstructions (installation).
22/09/2020 avant première de CHANCE au BOZAR, Brussels. Two screenings, 18:00 and 20:45. Docu-fiction, 75', Arabic with FR and NL subtitles.
Housewarming is part of Fiction Territoriale - a groupe exhibition at Point Culture, Brussels, curated by espace p( )tentiels and will be discussed in a talk with Raya Lindreng on 24/09. Exhibition dates: 18/09-25/09
The Kunsten Festival des Arts 2020 is cancelled and with it our performance, The 8th Letter. You're still invited to check-out the programme and see what the festival should have looked like.
A virtual residency at BIDUD, where we show video-compilation from 2008-2010 and a new video, Codcovid, published on 13/04/2020
Group exhibition at the artits-run space Unanimous Consent, Zurich. 22/03 opening cancelled, but the works are there, including our video, RoWaR.
During three months Sous la douche, le ciel is on view on Mediapart
10 December, Sous la douche, le ciel at Point Culture, Brussels
6-7-8 décembre 2019 at the Galerie de l’ERG, Brussels, Don't Interrupt Your Activity, a group exhibition curated by espace p()tentiel, with The Vanishing Vanishing-Point
Shower Power / Sous la douche, le ciel has received the Mario Rupsoli Prize at Festival Jean Rouch and was selected to Images en Bibliothèque. It will be projected with the other prize-winning films on December 19 at the Musée de l'homme, Paris
22 November 2019, Housewarming will be on view at Pohang Cultural Centre, South Korea in the frame of the show A Trans-Boreder Time Machine, curated by Espace P( )tentiel
29/09 Do not interrupt your activities, Housewarming will be part of an event curated by Espace p( )tentiel at La générale, Paris.
New festival selections for Sous la douche, le ciel. 15-17 octobre, 25e Image - Festival du film social, Paris and Nice. 15-23 novembre, Festival Jean Rouch, musée de l’homme, Paris.
New dates for Sous la douche, le ciel in Wallonie. 26 September at cinema Grignoux, Liège and on October 17 at Cinéma Caméo, Namur, followed by a talk with the directors.
July screenings Shower Power / Sous la douche, le ciel: 08/07/2019 at L'Engrenage, Charlieu (FR), 18/08/2019 Universita di Parma (IT),
17/06 Same River Twice/ Deux fois le même fleuve at the Belgium Cinematek. Followed by a convesation with Emmanuel Marre.
Upcoming screeing of Sous la douche, le ciel: 22/05 - Syndicat Potentiel Strasbourg (FR), 29/05-01/06 Festival La Salle en Cevènnes (FR)
April 2019 - production residency at ARTPORT, Jaffa-Tel-aviv
The 24th edition of the online magazine Harama, featuring The Vanishing Vanishing-Point
Sous la douche, le ciel - March 2019: 15/03 - Cine Club Garcia Lorca, Brussels 28/03 - Badje asbl, Brussels 30/03 - Festival Itinérances, Alès (FR)
16/02 - 01/06 Flowers of Our Land, group exhibition at the Israeli Centre for Digital Art, including The Vanishing Vanishing-Point
Sous la douche, le ciel is on view at the online platform TENK, until 23/3
January 2019 screenings of Sous la douche, le ciel: 06/01 - Looped TV broadcast on BX1 tv 14/01 - La Tricoterie, Bruxelles 25/01 - Centre Culturel Schaerbeek 22+24/01 - FIPADOC 2019, Biarritz 26/01 - Nuit du Cinéma Militant, Lyon
SCKOLIDLOG and Other Inversions, the 4-screen installation version of Housewarming, is part of the exhibition We Play, We stage And We're Enacting, at FoCA - Pallbock Art Centre, Jeonju, Korea. Curated by Espace potentiel.
The Torch Lighting Ceremony (1999) is featuring in the online magazine Harama, issue #22, October 2018
On 16/10 Effi & Amir will give a workshop and a presentation about The Complete Jessy Cohen Museum at the Lab.Bode, Bode Museum, Berlin.
We Are Natives. A new exhibition by artist Tamir Erlich opens at The Complete Jessy Cohen Museum. 20/09-15/12/2018
18/10 Deux fois le même fleuve (Same River Twice) will be screened in the frame of the platform Ça s'debat chez moi.
Many screenings of Sous la douche, le ciel are coming up in November: 14/11 Picardie Laïque, Mouscron, 15/11 La vieille chechette, Saint Gilles, 17/11 Café Babelmet, Schaerbeek, 21/11 Archipel 19 -Centre culturel de Berchem-Ste-Agathe - Koekelberg, 25/11 Festival cinéma d’attac - Botanique, Bruxelles, 26/11 Festival Intergalactique d’image Alternative, Berst, 26/11 école Cardijn d’assistants sociaux à Louvain la neuve, 27/11 Coop City, St Gilles, 28/11 Escale du nord, Centre Culturel d'Anderlecht
October: Two screenings in France of Sous la douche, le ciel. 12/10 at Ateliers Quand la Mer Monte, Annonay. And on 13/10 at the Terra Nostra festival, Cévennes (FR)
20/09 18:30-22:00 : L'action citoyenne: avec, contre ou sans le pouvoir ? projection de Sous la douche, le ciel. Mundo-b, Brussels.
25/08 Multiple screenings of Housewarming, In the frame of Seasonal Neighbours, a project by Ciel Grommen in the village Borgloon
Visite festival, Het Bos, Antwerpen, is showing Sous la douche, le ciel, on 17/08. The screening will be preceded by a short film - Etre vivant by Emmanuel Gras et will be followed by a talk.
Sous la douche, le ciel - in July at Cinema Aventure, Brussels. Starting on 08/07/2018, 19:00.
A 2-screen installation version of Housewarming/Skcolidlog and Other Inversions will be part of the group exhibition Un | settled, at Raversyde domain, Ostende. 01/07/2018 - 11/11/2018 curated by KAAP and Argos
Sous la douche, le ciel on BX1 - Brussel's TV. On Sunday 1 July. Several broadcasts during the night, as of 20:00.
01/06, 09/06, 17/06 - Sous la douche, le ciel - screenings + discussions + music at Cinema Nova, Brussels
Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) will show Mnemonic Gymnastics as part of the exhibition Instructions For The Audiance, the first curated exhibition at the SeMA Bunker, curated by Jimin Lee 03/05-01/07/2018
A screening of The Vanishing Vanishing-Point and an artist talk at the Parlor Room, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 29/03/2018
Sous la douche, le ciel / Shower Power is selected to Millenium festival at the belgian full length competition. 21/03/2017 19:00 at Cinema Palace, Brussels
Sous la douche, le ciel (2018, 85'), will have its avant premiere at the Beursshouwburg, on Ferbruary 7th, 20:00
Mnemonic Gymnastics is selected to the International Video Art Festival Now&After ’18 at the competition section. Moscow, Artplay Design Center 7-16/02/2017
Mnemonic Gymnastic is part of the re-opening show of Hamekarer (The Refrigerator), Tel-Aviv. Opening on 28/12/2017
An in-depth text by Brianne Cohen about The Vanishing Vanishing-Point, published at The Journal of European Studies.
The Vanishing Vanishing-Point is part of the a group exhibition Caminar, pensar…derivar at Centro de Arte y Naturaleza (CDAN) de Huesca (Spain), 02/11/2017-04/02/2018 .
On 27/09/2017 at 18:00, a screening of Housewarming followed by a talk with Florence Cheval, l'Iselp
Housewarming is selected to The Apricot Tree Int. Documentary Film Festival, Armenia, in the short film competition section. 1-5 October. Screenings in Yerevan and Ujan.
Housewarming is part of the exhibition COM NU TIES, at L'iselp, Brussels and will be on view between 22.09.2017 — 13.10.2017.
The short video Hugging Goethe, is part of the screening programme What Are Monuments Made Of, curated by Udi Edelman, at the Kauno Biennale, 15/9-30/11/2017
HOUSEWARMING is selected to the Arkipel International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, in the International competition section. 18-26 August, Jakarta, Indonesia
SKCOLIDLOG and Other Inversions - An online artist publication on Oral Site platform
Mnemonic Gymnastics at Håll, Sustainability and Design Festival in Malmö, 6 June 2017
Epiphany On Vacation at Copenhagen Photo Festival - 5-11 June 2017, several screenings per day at the Østre Gasværk Teater in Copenhagen.
7 May - HOUSEWARMING will be projected at REJA, Tirana in the frame of the Mediterranea biennial
What Does a Place Tell? How Can It Be Told? 11-15/04/2017 A workshop with the group ATA, at Kamza, Albania
23/05/2017 Same River Twice at the Belgian Cinematek, in the frame of the programme 40 years of cinema workshop. Produced by the CVB.
Housewarming - a screening at le Cinema des cineastes, Paris, 07/03/2017, programmed by Nicolas Feodoroff (organised by Le Bal)
12 February, screenings in Amsterdam of King Size Shower (2008) as part of Promise od Suspense, surated by Superstition. At Skatecafe and Rongwrong
A screeing of Same River Twice, at Het Bos, Antwerpen, as part of the programme VISIT II, where filmakers are invited to show a film and to select another. Our selection is Museum Piece by John Smith. 24/02/2017
