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ABOUT THE CAMP
Cinema Camp is an International summer event in nature organized by “Meno avilys”, seeking to create the space for an informal dialogue about cinema. Here, film screenings are followed by discussions with filmmakers, film academics read specially prepared lectures, campers take part in creative workshops. Participants can also take a rest by the lake, and dance in the evenings.
Since 2010, the themes of the Camp were: "The boundaries of cinema genres", "Cinema and Freedom", "Cinema and History", "Cinema and Sound", "Cinema and the Body", "Cinema and Politics", "Cinema Eye", “Welcome to Anthropocene".
This year’s Camp is all about “Imperfect Cinema”. But what is it? “Imperfection” might relate to the process of creation, when filmmakers break established rules searching for unconventional language of their own. It could be born on the film set under artificial lights or on the street where everyone can be an actor. It might also be related to the materiality of cinema such as scratched films or glitched videos. Generally, imperfect cinema embodies the opposition to imposed norms, control, and power structures. But then, how do marginal cinema movements start, and how do independent filmmakers, deliberately turning away from the constricting financial mechanisms, work?
We will look for the answers to all of these questions and much more in the Cinema Camp.
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GUESTS
PEGGY AHWESH
Influenced by the 70s Super8, feminism and the punk underground, Peggy Ahwesh makes hybrid media and her work is fundamentally an investigation of cultural identity and the role of the female subject.
JEM COHEN
Jem Cohen is an Afganistan-born, New York-based filmmaker and media artist whose works are built from his own ongoing archive of street footage, portraits, and sound. His films and installations often navigate the grey area between documentary, narrative, and experimental genres.
AZIN FEIZABADI
Iranian Iranian born Azin Feizabadi is a filmmaker and visual artist who lives and works in Berlin. Swaying between fact and fiction, as well as poetics and immediate politics, his multidisciplinary works create both political imagination and emancipatory participation.
ERIKA BALSOM
Erika Balsom is a curator and academic based in London and focusing her work on the history of the moving image in art and experimental documentary practices.
ADAM AND ZACK KHALIL
Adam and Zack Khalil are filmmakers whose work often explores an indigenous worldview and undermines traditional forms of historical authority through the excavation of alternative histories and the use of innovative documentary forms.
HERB
SHELLENBERGER
Herb Shellenberger is a curator and writer from Philadelphia, based in London. His main fields of interest are experimental animation and film and contemporary art at museums, universities and art spaces.
MIRIAM DE ROSA
Miriam De Rosa lectures in media at Coventry University where she collaborates with the research activities of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures. She works as a curator and writes on experimental cinema, film theories and screen media.
ED HALTER
Ed Halter is a critic and curator living in New York City, and a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn. He teaches in the Film and Electronic Arts department at Bard College.
MARIA VINOGRADOVA
Maria Vinogradova is a film and media historian specializing in the study of minor cinema practices, especially in the former USSR and other socialist contexts.
MICHAEL CHANAN
Michael Chanan is documentary film-maker, critic, author of books and articles on early cinema, Cuban cinema, social history of music, and the history of recording.
ANDRĖJA ŠALTYTĖ
Andrėja Šaltytė studied painting in Vilnius, and media art in Leipzig. She has recently completed her first film-in-social-situ realized in the Eastern Ukraine. Currenlty she is working on the second part of the project.
IEVA BALODE
Ieva Balode is an artist and film curator working with analog image. She is a founding member of Baltic Analog Lab - artists collective providing a space and platform for analog film production, research and education. She is also a director of experimental film festival "Process" in Riga.
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PROGRAMME
Thursday, 9 August
Excursion in Salos
18:00
Imperfect Cinema. Several Stories. A short presentation by Lukas Brašiškis followed by a discussion with Lithuanian filmmakers
19:00
Andrėja Šaltytė presents her video installation “The 7th Declension”
20:30
Film screening Tercer Mundo, Tercera Guerra Mundial (Julio García Espinosa, 1970, 90’), film screening presented by Michael Chanan
21:30
Friday, 10 August
Future Perfect: a talk by Peggy Ahwesh of made and unmade films by Ahwesh with historical framework from Maya Deren. A follow-up discussion is led by Erika Balsom
17:00
Dinner time
19:00
Chance and Film, a talk by Jem Cohen and screening of his films
20:00
Music by Herb Shellenberger and Filomino DJ’s
22:30
Breakfast
10:00
Different But Equal: Soviet Amateur Film Clubs and the Culture of Imperfect Filmmaking, presentation by Maria Vinogradova
11:00
Politics of Imperfection: Angela Ricci Lucchi, Yervant Gianikian and Found Footage, presentation by Miriam De Rosa
12:30
Lunch Break
14:00
Imperfect Fit: the video mixtape as curatorial methodology, a presentation by Herb Shellenberger followed by a screening of the select short film program
15:30
Saturday, 11 August
Breakfast
09:00
Baltic Analog Lab: Latvian film collective presents a Baltic experimental film program
10:30
St. Tula, A Patron of Imperfect Films, Peggy Ahwesh’s tribute to Adolfas Mekas followed by a screening of Hallelujah the Hills (Adolfas Mekas, 80'., 1963, JAV)
12:30
Lunch Break
14:30
Imperfection of Films by Edward Owens, a presentation by Ed Halter followed by the screening of Owens’ films
16:00
Native Videographers Shot Back, screening of INAATE/SE (2016, 68') and The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets (2018, 10') by Adam and Zack Khalil followed by a discussion moderated by Leo Goldsmith
17:30
Dinner time
19:30
Matters around Uchronia: Azin Feizabadi talks about his recent film UCHRONIA (2018)
20:30
Mekas Duo koncertas
22:30
Muzika renka Matas Aerobica
23:30
Sunday, 12 August
Breakfast
10:00
Propositions on Technology and Imperfection by Erika Balsom and Ed Halter followed by a wrapping up discussion
12:00
Parallel Activities
Radio cinema. Close your eyes and open your ears.
Perfect and not so perfect stories in sound from Lithuania and elsewhere.
Curated by Vaida Pilibaitytė (LRT RADIJAS)
Friday and Saturday at 11 a.m. in the chapel
A Workshop by Azin Feizabadi (registration in advance required, giedre@menoavilys.org)
Friday 12:30 p.m.
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TEAM
CURATORS
Lukas Brašiškis
Austė Zdančiūtė
PRODUCTION TEAM
Gintarė Bidlauskienė
Giedrė Burokaitė
Dovilė Grigaliūnaitė
Žygimantas Jančoras
Goda Jurevičiūtė
Narius Kairys
Dainius Makūnas
Robertas Nevecka
Juozapas Paškauskas
Mantė Valiūnaitė
Austė Zdančiūtė
COMMUNICATION
Gintarė Bidlauskienė
Dovilė Grigaliūnaitė
TECHNICAL SUPERVISION
Audrius Antanavičius
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Gailė Pranckūnaitė
Mislav Žūgaj
VOLUNTEERS
Ona Kotryna Dikavičiūtė
Sima Jundulaitė
Dangiras Bugas
Julija Šilytė
Milda Valiulytė
Ugnė Balsytė
Elzė Marija Mažeikytė
Aušra Umbrasaitė
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INFORMATION
Arrival by Car
GPS coordinates: 55.8114° N, 25.3675° E
by Public Transport
take a bus from Vilnius or Kaunas to Kamajai Rokiškis direction), there will be the Camp bus waiting for you
Camping
Please build the tents in marked area only. Camping is for free. Please respect the nature and leave the place as you found it.
TICKETS
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