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
14/01/2017 First version of Places of Articulation, in the form of a particpatory presentation, at the opening of the group exhibition Nothing But Longing, at VOID Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland. The exhibition is on till 11/03/2017
Mnemonic Gymnastics contribution in onMAPS digital magazine, issue #3
After an intense 6-months residency at the The Centre for Digital Art in Holon THE COMPLETE JESSY COHEN MUSEUM - finally opens!
27/09/2016, 20:00 - the israeli centre for digital arts, Holon
HOUSEWARMING - more screenings in september-cotober:
21/09 at the Beursschouwburg, Brussels, in the frame of a two-days programme by the SIC
23/10 at the screening programme of the FIAC (Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain), in Paris
29/10 at the Black Box of the Art university of Tirana, in the frame of "Teatri i Gjelberimit" exhibition, followed by a discussion with Krenar Zejno
The Vanishing Vanishing-Point at the online platform Saison Video, between 19/09 and 02/10 - In English or in French
HOUSEWARMING is part of the main programme at IHRFFA festival, Tirana. 26/09-01/10/2016
IDLERS & RIOTERS, a board-game created during a residency in the Curfew Tower in Cushendall (curated by Sagit Mezamer) will be our contribution to the Heart of the Glens Festival (12-14/08) in this town.
HOUSEWARMING is officially selected to docuTIFF festival 2016, Albania
Housewarming will be projected at the Jusuf Gervalla Cinema in Peja, Kosovo as part of the opening of the exhibition The Presence of the Real (curated by Galit Eilat) , on July 13, 19:00
Mnemonic Gymnastics is selected to Arquiteturas Film Festival, Lisbon. Screening on 15/10/2016 at 19:00
On July 20th, a mid-term event in the frame of our project "The Complete Jessy Cohen Museum". The programme starts at 17:00 with a reconstruction of an old photograph, led by Rona Yefman, followed by a tour by Boaz Cohen, radio presentator and author of the book "Little stories, big records"; a talk with Rachel Polet and Tikwa Sids, neighborhood activists; a lecture by Dvory Nmdar, archeologist and researcher about the archeological site that lays hidden under a playground in the neighborhood; and we will finish with a festive hommage to Ron Cinema (1964-1980) with drinks, food and a screening of SANGAM, in the presence of Yossi Milstein, the cinema's projectionist.
MNEMONIC GYMNASTICS will be shown during the 2nd "Welcome to Caveland" reflection day at the KUNSTEN FESTIVAL DES ARTS
The Vanishing Vanishing-Point is part of the exhibition Grammars of Place, curated by Anthony Marcellini at the Simone DeSousa Gallery in Detroit. April 29 - May 29, 2016
On April 26th, 2016 - an open day at the Israeli centre for digital art, Holon, where we will give a talk about recent works and present the Jessy Cohen Museum project, which we are developping there.
Same River Twice will be screened at the 14th EASA Biennial Conference: Anthropological legacies and human futures, Department of Human Science for Education 'Riccardo Massa' and Department of Sociology and Social Research at University of Milano-Bicocca, 20-23 July, 2016
HOUSEWARMING will have its international premiere at FID Marseille, in the Parallel Screens section, “Distorsions”.
14/07 - 15h30 - Cinéma Variétés Salle 2
17/07 - 10h15 -Villa Méditerranée
On April 2016 we will start our Museum project at The Israeli Center for Digital Art
Melancholy of Knowledge - 24/02 - 23/03/2015 Espace libre in Biel/Bienne. 24/02: Trinquer: screening, participatory table piece and dinner. 23/03: Se Mouiller: performance
During three weeks in February 2016 we will be at the Curfew Tower at Cushendall, Northern Ireland, on a residency
Housewarming, our new film, is soon out there. First screening at Beursschouwburg on 25/02/2015
The Vanishing Vanishing-Point is at Artport TLV till 12/01/2016 as part of the exhibition Decolonized Skies, curated by Hi&Low Bureau
LE GRAND PRIX DU JURY in the Filmer a tout prix festival, belgian shorts section, goes to The Vanishing Vanishing-Point!
Two new dates for Same River Twice, as part of the extra muros programme of Jean Rouch Film Festival: 13/12 at Mucem, Marseille, and 10/01/2016 at the Cinema la bergerie, Nangis.
In Tandem - a group exhibition, with our photo "recreation" (2003) and three water loops (2008), will open next week, 10/09/2015 at 20:30, Hansen House, Jerusalem. Curator: Avital Naor Wexler
Till the end of August 2015: Same River Twice is available online. Watch it here with English s.t. ou ici avec des sous-titres francais.
Skcolidlog and Other Inversions (2015) - A 4-channel video installation, will be first shown at the exhibition Preaching to the Choir curated by Maayan Sheleff, at Herzeliya Museum. Opening on 26/09
Same River Twice was selected to feature in the biennual edition of videofocus, with a 16-page interview in a beautiful layout.
The Vanishing Vanishing-Point, selected to FID Marseille festival (ecrans paralleles), july 2015
The Vanishing Vanishing-Point, will be part f the exhibition Space Above Space Below, curated by Liv Brissach, in the frame of the Kunst i Festival at Inderøy, Norway. Opening20/06
The Vanishing Vanishing-Point, will travel to Barcelona with the exhibition Decolonized Skies. Opening 23/05 at ADN Platform.
Mnemonic Gymnastic, a new video work will be install at Object D-0, Tito's atomic bunker in Konijc, Bosnia and will be on view as of 24/04, the opening date of The Project Biennial of Contemporary Art
Between 19 and 24/04 Amir will be giving a video workshop to teenagers in Pibor camp, South Sudan
Same River Twice- a screening in Jerusalem. 11/03/2015 at Mamuta, Hansen House.
Same River Twice is selected for the biennale edition of Videofocus publication (among 3900 submissions they say...)
House Warming (working title) has received the support of the VAF Film LAB commission, the CBA - Centre de l'audiovisuel à Bruxelles, the FilmsLAB commission of Wallonie Bruxelles and the Ostrovsky Family Fund - Soon in production.
We are happy to participate in the 2015 edition of The Project Biennial of Contemporary Art, D-0 ARK Underground in Konijc, Bosnia & Herzegoviga, with a (yet unknown) new work.
Let Us start From The Middle - the publications are here
23/01 - 22/03 Hostipitalité - group exhibition @ Iselp - curator: Florence Cheval (The Vanishing Vanishing-Point). Vernissage 22/01
Three vicious loops - belly, stoned and RaWaR, are featuring in the November issue of the online magazine HARAMA, "Emergency".
January 2015: More Same River Twice screenings. 15/01 at Art Plaza Mons, and 23/01 at Garcia Lorca Cultural Centre, Brussels.
Same River Twice is touring Poland in the frame of the Jewish Motifs traveling Festival. Screenings so far:
Piotrków Trybunalski, Ekran Wielu Kultur 30.06-2.07.2014,
M?awa, Museum on Wheels 15-17.09.2014,
Olsztyn, 8th Jewish Culture Days 20-25.09.2014
Cieszyn, Jewish Culture Days, 7-12.10.2014
O?wi?cim, Auschwitz Jewish Center, 6-27.10.2014
New dates for Same River Twice:
4+5 /09 - Milano Film Festival | 19,27,28/09 - festival de la ville de Quibec | 10/11 - Festival Jean Rouch, Paris | 19/11 - Iselp, centre d'art contemporain, Brussels | 25/11 RISC, Marseille
10/09/2014 Decolonized Skies, a group exhibition at Apexart NY, curated by Hi&Low bureau. The Vanishing-Vanishing point is part of the show.
06/09 in the frame of the exhibition Let Us Start From The Middle, we give a talk "A Land Voice-Overed", 19:00, at Tirana Art Lab.
05/09 opening of our solo exhibition Let Us Start From The Middle at Tirana Art Lab. Showing two new works, The Vanishing Vanishing-Point and As If. >>> Soon online. On 2-3-4/09, we give a mental-mapping workshop, its outcome will be part of the exhibition too. Open till 21/09/2014
Tips & Tricks in Porto Palermo festival, August 8-10, Albania, organized by Art Kontakt
SAME RIVER TWICE/DEUX FOIS LE MEME FLEUVE invited to Milano film festival, september 2014.
SAME RIVER TWICE/DEUX FOIS LE MEME FLEUVE - a screening and a talk @ Iselp, Brussels, 19 November 2014
Honorary mention to SAME RIVER TWICE/DEUX FOIS LE MEME FLEUVE at IndieLisboa, in the competative section "world Pulse"
House Warming has received a production grant from the Centre du Cinema of the Wallonie-Bruxelles Federation.
House Warming. A new project in the making. From April to December this project will partcipate in the SIC working platform, in May we're on a pre-production trip and Tirana and in August... IT HAPPENS.
Avant-premiere of I comme Iran, a film by Sanaz Azari, edited by Effi with some post-prod by Amir, on 25/04 at beursschouwburg
9-13 / 04 in Bucharest. Honored to be Jury members at the cinepolitica film festival