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17.1.2012 Satoshi kon retrospective
The whole feature lenght film production of Japanese animation director Satoshi Kon will be finally available on big screens as a travelling retrospective in Finland! AAVE CIRCUITS will be presenting his four animation films Perfect Blue (1997), Millenium Actress (2001), Tokyo Godfathers (2003) and Paprika (2006) by travelling in the cities of Helsinki, Tampere and Vaasa. The whole event is free. For more information please visit the following link (only in Finnish):
http://www.aavefestival.org/satoshikon.html
15.1.2012 "Aave circuits" kicks off!
Our new programme AAVE CIRCUITS promotes the same artistic values of AAVE festival but with a wider range and a schedule that expands out of the main festival calendar in April. Next CIRCUITS programme consist in a film retrospective for the late Japanese animation director Satoshi Kon (1963-2010). The travelling retrospective will visit the cities of Helsinki, Tampere and Vaasa.
17.4.2011 Last festival day
After the unique Live Visuals performance at Porvoonkadun Baari, audiovisual artists Hugo Olim (PT) and Iván Torres Hdez (ES/FI) will continue today with the second part of the VJ workshop in Malmitalo (Kokoushuone 3) at 2pm. At the same time in Juhlasali, we will screen the works of two great animation directors - American Tex Avery and Russian Yuriy Norshteyn.
The programme continues at 4pm with a dance performance and a screening of short movies: the yesterday premiered multimedia dance show Measuring - coordinates, energy, time and gravity by Mikko Kallinen & The Company will be presented for the second time in Malmisali. Our guest curator Silke Schmickl will present in Juhlasali the second volume of Resistance(s), with experimental shorts from North Africa and Middle East.
Our Japanese film selection Oishii! will end today with Shara (Naomi Kawase 2003) at 6pm. Today's Live Cinema show will be hosted by Helsinki Poetry Connection collective. A fusion on poetry and moving images by Harri Hertell & Dxxxa D and J.K. Ihalainen & Sándor Vály (HU/FI). Showtime at 8:30pm.
The last session of the festival will be held in our official salon, Porvoonkadun Baari (Porvoonkatu 19) at 10pm. Don't miss the eclectic music and visuals by Dj Bunterman and Vj Maa-Nalle!
16.4.2011 Live cinema: seppo renvall, maija saksman & co.
In Seppo Renvall’s works one can sense the spirit of the cinematic liberation movement that defies hierarchic rules of moving image production. Renvall is one of the founding members of the legendary Helsinki Film Workshop which was started in the late 1980s. His films, videos and happenings have gained recognition in the most esteemed international arenas. The gruff beauty of life is reached in Renvall’s bohemian rhapsodies through note-keeping and cinematically rearranging of documentary visual anecdotes from everyday life. Renvall´s live-projects include ambulance happening Broken Heart Clinic and expanded cinema project “The Ball Show”, realised together with his brother Markus Renvall.
Maija Saksman is an artist of many disciplines who explores cityscape and human nature, using video as one of her main tools. Saksman is also a musician, composer and singer. Her works are often interventions into the cityscape which explore the concrete places in the city redifing the everyday space used by humans. In her music she reaches for the immediate, instant sense of community among the listeners. The sensibility for the everyday and life is joining in the dimensions of the memory and history where the fictive characters and experiences meet the lived, written-down dreams.
Saksman accompanies her videos with her own songs. Together with the group: Yhtäkkiä Tässä (Suddenly Here) and a video runaway Heli Haltia: in the role of Urho Ilmari Kukkamaa among others.
Renvall, Saksman & co: Sat 16.4.2011 at 9pm, Juhlasali
16.4.2011 Oishii! japanese delicacies: angel's egg
In Tenshi no Tamago there are only two primary characters: a girl who carries an egg and a man, who carries a cross. Mamoru Oshii´s anime movie can be seen as an allegory about the innocence, which is protected only by a fragile shell of an egg. The work is haunted by ghostly surrealism, bearing symbolistic references to many myths (including the myth of the Holy Grail). In its narration it is relying more to the enigmatic athmosphere than to the traditional way of storytelling, becoming maybe the purest and boldest representative of “the progressive anime” ever done.
Despite of its breathtakingly beautiful drawings and colours it is quite dark, post-apocalyptic fantasy film. Of the authors involved with the production one wants to mention especially the artist Yoshitaka Amano who designed the unique surrealistic environment and the unforgettable characters. The music that we hear in the soundtrack of Tenshi no Tamago is composed by a contemporary composer Yoshihiro Kanno and it is one of the very rare film music that he has made.
Angel's Egg: Sat 16.4.2011 at 7pm, Malmisali
16.4.2011 This is our n.a.m.e.: resistance(s) volume 1
Resistance[s] is collection of experimental film and video art from the Middle East and North Africa. Featuring nine artists from a variety of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, these intimite, poetic, and documentary works are witness to the region’s complexity, vitality, and diversity of creative energies. Distanced from the usual stereotypes, the artists aim to explore existential, political, and aesthetic issues of our time while opening up to new narrative perspectives that break with our media’s monotonous and repetitive imagery. Curated by Silke Schmickl and Christine Sehnaoui. Schmickl will present the screening.
http://www.lowave.com/
Resistance(s) v.1: Sat 16.4.2011 at 5:30pm, Juhlasali
16.4.2011 Audivisual dance performance: mikko kallinen & the company
In audiovisual solo dance performance Measuring - coordinates, energy, time and gravity the timeline is divided with tree independent videodance works: (IN), co-Rotation2 and Light Life. The work happens in between live performance and video-virtual world. Live solo is an instant choreography created in real-time by using Laban´s special models. The dancer investigates coordinates, energy, time and gravity. Working process is revealed in a form of a dance performance with subjective pont of view (Are there any other? / objectivity is just an illusion). Don't miss the premiere by Mikko Kallinen & The Company today at 4pm!
Measuring - coordinates, energy, time and gravity
Sat 16.4.2011 at 4pm, Malmisali
(IN) photo Merja Nieminen and Patrik Rastenberger
16.4.2011 VJ workshop: ivan torres hdez & hugo olim
Live visuals is nothing new but It is not until recently that is unfolding It’s real potential as a visual art. It´s no longer a video version of a DJ and professionals are more and more creating their own material and style and taking their performances outside the club culture into art galleries, theatre and festivals. There are few disciplines that cross so smoothly the lines between filmmaking, design, architecture and video art.
This workshop will give an introduction into the possibilties of this emerging art form and the creative process behind it from the material or footage to equipment and live performance. We will have a look at what is happening out there and who are the main participants.
Live Visuals part 1
Saturday 16.4.2011, Kokoushuone 3, at 2pm
Programme:
- Introduction to the term and history
- Main artists and styles, Who and Where
- Types of Vjing, Live visuals and Live Cinema
- Possibilites of the form
- Material and footage
- Audio
16.4.2011 Third festival day
Our third festival day starts with the VJ / Live Visual workshop by audiovisual artists Iván Torres Hdez (ES) & Hugo Olim (PT) at Malmitalo cultural centre starting 2pm. The programme will continue with the premiere of audiovisual dance permormance Measuring - coordinates, energy, time and gravity by Mikko Kallinen & The Company at 4pm. Our guest curator from Paris Silke Schmickl will present the screening of experimental short film Resistance(s) volume 1 at 5:30pm.
More Japanese films to see at 7pm, with Mamoru Oshii's rarely seen surrealistic animation Angel's Egg. The day at Malmitalo ends at 9pm with the Live Cinema performance by Seppo Renvall, Maija Saksman & co.
Also today AAVE is going to wander in the Kallio district by visiting Porvoonkadun Baari (Porvoonkatu 19), with the second VJ session by Iván Torres Hdez and Hugo Olim at 10pm.
15.4.2011 VJ sessions: Hugo Olim & Iván Torres Hdez
VJ sessions and VJ workshop by Iván Torres Hdez (ES/FI) & Hugo Olim (PT) will provide an interesting opportunity to interact with our audience. Live visuals performance at Siltanen is based on the fusion of styles from both artists thinning the line between abstract visual art and design accompanied by a set of electronic and acoustic soundscapes music.
Place: Siltanen, Hämeentie 13 B
Place: Friday 15.4. at 11pm
15.4.2011 Live cinema: dieter müh
Dieter Müh is the solo project of Devon (UK) based sound-artist Steve Cammack. Dieter Müh were formed as a trio in 1994 and have released their sounds on labels diverse as EE Tapes, Tesco Org, Harbinger Sound, Hanson Records, Xerxes and on Steve Cammack’s own label Haemoccult Recordings. Dieter Müh have also released on Finland based labels; Hyster Tapes, Kaos-Kontrol & Negative Foundation.
The sound of Dieter Müh (2011) is construction and de-construction of prepared loops and drones. Often filed under “dark ambient” and “organic industrial”, Dieter Müh incorporates hard electronic rhythms and vocals into his live sound.
For the AAVE Festival Dieter Müh will be performing a live soundtrack to the film “Burning Hunde Zähne”. The latest film by audio/visual artist Tim Bayes (aka Schuster). Tim is a former member of Dieter Müh now based in Perth, Australia. Dieter Müh will be Simon Kane for this performance.
Dieter Müh: Fri 15.4.2011 at 10pm, Juhlasali
15.4.2011 Live cinema: grey park
Substandard experimental electronics “unit” Grey Park began, one piece, 1994; in Orivesi, Finland. Now here in this millennium, the earliest major city in Finland, Helsinki from 46 patients superb Draft Five Live. Static lazy, strange atmosphere, a difficult sound, cut-up speech and so come & coffee brewing outdoor landscape in real time of mixed visuals when making ambient deep, in the Finnish winter forest.
Grey Park: Fri 15.4.2011 at 9pm, Juhlasali
15.4.2011 New Finnish Media Art: Ghost-Lights '11
Together with AV-arkki - The Distribution Centre of Finnish Media Art, AAVE has made a compilation of seven new experimental moving image works that have got distribution via AV-arkki during the year 2010. It will have its premiere in AAVE festival 15.04.2011. The name of the compilation is Virvatulet ´11 / Ghost-lights ´11. The works in the compilation will deal with the commonly shared human themes of ecstatic trembling for the lust for live, collective and personal myths, sorrow, recovery and travelling. After the festival the compilation is distributed internationally by AV-arkki.
During the screening the AV-arkki 2011 -price will be given to a person or institution that has given an important contribution to Finnish media art.
Ghost-Lights '11: Fri 15.4.2011 at 7:30pm, Juhlasali
15.4.2011 This is our N.A.M.E.: Arab Shorts
Arab Shorts is a web-based project showcasing nine online, curated film programmes by 11 curators from the Middle East and North Africa. The project makes use of the vast potential of the Internet as a powerful and alternative platform for the presentation and circulation of independent films beyond the festival circuit and beyond conventional distribution networks. For the first time, viewers can have unlimited access to a large pool of films, and information that they would otherwise not have had the chance to peruse. As a new and ambitious initiative, Arabshorts.net aims to establish and strengthen an innovative network of young independent filmmakers and curators from this region. It was started by Goethe-Institut in early 2009 and has had German film curator Marcel Schwierin as its artistic director.
http://www.arabshorts.net
Arab Shorts: Fri 15.4.2011 at 6pm, Juhlasali
TITLES:
1. Watani Habibi (My Beloved Homeland), trailer by Adballah Kawash, Jordan 1964, 3 min
2. Deaf Countries by Eyad Hamam, Jordan 2009, 2 min
3. Abdelkrim’s Battleship (Le cuirasse de Abdelkarim) by Walid Mattar, Tunisia 2003, 8 min
4. We Began by Measuring Distance by Basma Al Sharif, Palestine 2009, 19 min
5. El Central – Call Center by Mohammed Hammad, Egypt 2006, 18 min
6. Wahab by Toni Serra (aka Abu Ali), Morocco 1994, bw, 4 min
7. Oh Torment by Monira Al Qadiri, Kuwait 2008, 10 min
8. Eclipse Totale (Total Eclipse) by Yacine Mohamed Benelhadj, Algeria 2007, 9 min
15.4.2011 Panel discussion: silke schmickl & marcel schwierin
This year AAVE presents a panel discussion on distribution and curating of experimental moving image with the festival guests Silke Schmickl (FR) and Marcel Schwierin (DE). They will both tell about their own experiences of channels, filmmakers and networks in their practices. The panel discussion is organised together with Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. The event is open to everyone. Welcome!
Place: Finnish Academy of Fine Arts – Auditorium, address Kaikukatu 4
Time: Friday 15.4. 13.00 - 16.00
The discussion will be held in English.
15.4.2011 Second festival day...
WOW! Thank you all for coming to the opening. If you missed it, today's program isn't any less intriguing! See you today at the Finnish Art Academy, Malmitalo & Siltanen!
Oh yes, it's Ponytail
14.4.2011 Live cinema: ponytail
After the opening film Maborosi we will be experiencing the atmospheric, structurally fascinating visual music and auditive rhythms of Ponytail, by artists Gregoire Rousseau and Samuli Tanner (FR/FI). Yey!
Ponytail: thu 14.4.2011 at 8:30 pm, Juhlasali
14.4.2011 Oishii! japanese delicacies: maborosi
You are warmly welcome to the festival opening today at 6:00 pm! AAVE 2011 continues in showcasing contemporary film director Hirokazu Kore-eda's movies like we did in the last year. The opening film of the festival is his Maborosi (Maboroshi no Hikari, 1995), a melancholical, visually fascinating film which takes as its starting point the mystical death of the husband of the main character.
Maborosi: thu 14.4.2011 at 6:00 pm, Juhlasali
14.4.2011 Official festival trailer 2011
AAVE - Alternative AudioVisual Event 2011 festival trailer by audiovisual artist Jani Sorsa. The trailer contains the following works:
- Maborosi © Hirokazu Kore-eda, TV Man Union
- Nouba © Katia Kameli, Resistance[s], Lowave
- Angel's Egg © Mamoru Oshii, Amano Yoshitaka Jimusho, Tokuma Shoten, Tokuma Japan
- Light Life © Mikko Kallinen & The Company
13.4.2011 Aave kicks off tomorrow at malmitalo!
In our opening programme we are proud to present the visually intriguing film Maborosi by the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda. The evening will be topped with the live-installation Ponytail (Gregoire Rousseau & Samuli Tanner). Festival kicks off at 6:00 pm. See you soon!
12.4.2011 Mikko kallinen & the company: (in)
(IN) is a video work part of the audiovisual dance performance MEASURING – COORDINATES, ENERGY, TIME AND GRAVITY by Mikko Kallinen & The Company. Premiere at the AAVE festival 16.4.2011 at 4:00 pm. Animation by Merja Nieminen.
11.4.2011 More downloadable aave-wallpapers
Style up your desktop by downloading the festival wallpapers by graphic by Emil Bertell.
"Despite his young age, Emil Bertell has already established an international reputation, both as an illustrator and as a designer. He first started out with making fonts, mainly for his amusement (...)" >>> read more
3.4.2011 Live visuals -trailer
VJ Sessions: Hugo Olim (PT) & Iván Torres Hdez (ES/FI)
Siltanen 15.4.2011 / Baari 16.4.2011
30.3.2011 Facebook group
AAVE is now also in Facebook! Join the group and you will get updated information about the festival. Please visit the page > http://www.facebook.com/aavefestival
25.3.2011 Festival site opened
The ghost is back in town! AAVE, the festival of moving image premiered last year and will continue next April by taking over the spaces of Malmitalo for four days in 14.-.17.4.2011. The festival programme has expanded to nine sections, offering both versatile experimental and traditional film, video art, live cinema, dance performances as well as a panel discussion and workshop activities.
While the main event keeps rolling in Malmitalo, this year AAVE decided to also haunt the Kallio district. The Academy of Fine Arts will host a panel discussion with the festival's guest curators, the German Marcel Schwierin and Silke Schmickl from France. VJ activities can be experienced in two pearls of the area: restaurant Siltanen and Baari at Porvoonkatu.
