Oberhausen: Special program and retrospectives

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Special programs and retrospectives of the
49th INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL OBERHAUSEN, 1-6 MAY 2003

Special program:

RE<LOKAL>IZATION
The short film is uniquely suited to confronting current issues and topics 
in a multifaceted, innovative and experimental manner, and the thematic 
focus of our special programs pays tribute to this characteristic quality. 
Are globalisation and its counter-movement, localisation, two aspects of 
one and the same development? How do filmmakers portray people's longing 
for identity and for clear lines of demarcation? To what extent does 
"local" imagery resist global understanding?
In the special program re<local>ization, curators from Southeast Asia, 
North and South America, North Africa and Europe will submit their own 
specific views on these questions as topics for discussion. The 14 
individual programs deal with various aspects of the theme, such as 
regionalism, territorialism, roots and family, demarcation/exclusion and 
inner world/outside world.
Curated and organised by Bady Minck, Vienna/Luxemburg and Katrin Mundt, Bochum
Guest curators: Pimpaka Towira, Bangkok; Keiko Araki, Tokyo; Marina 
Grzinic, Ljubljana; Ian White, London; Mark Nash, London/Cambridge, Mass.; 
Catherine David, Rotterdam/Paris; Viola Shafik, Cairo; Claudio Caldini, 
Buenos Aires.
Contact for special program: Katrin Mundt, sp at kurzfilmtage.de


FILM<LOKAL>
in co-operation with the Siemens Arts Program
In the context of the special program re<local>ization, five artists will 
each set up a different installation in the festival cinema. Each day of 
the festival a new work will be installed, available for viewing on that 
day only. The artists Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Markus Schinwald, Thomas 
Steffl, Costa Vece and Albert Weis will reflect on place, situation and medium.


Specials:

KLAUS LEMKE/RUDOLF THOME/MAX ZIHLMANN
The so-called "Munich Group" surrounding Lemke, Thome and Zihlmann has 
always been considered something of a counter-movement to the 
"Oberhauseners". Now appearing in Oberhausen after all, their short films, 
some as completely new prints, offer a look at one of the liveliest phases 
of German cinema.


DUSAN MAKAVEJEV
In 2003 Makavejev, perhaps the most well-known living Yugoslavian 
filmmaker, celebrates his 50th anniversary in film. To mark this occasion, 
the Short Film Festival will for the first time present his extensive short 
film oeuvre in a coherent program and in the presence of the director himself.


MARINA GRZINIC and AINA SMID
These two artists have worked together for the last 20 years, producing 
over 30 video art projects, one short film, numerous media installations 
and one CD-ROM. In a special feature entitled "The Zero Before the One" the 
Short Film Festival will show a selection of their acclaimed works on video.


CLAUDIO CALDINI
For the first time in Germany, the Short Film Festival will present a 
program of films by Claudio Caldini, one of South America's most 
influential filmmakers and video artists. Featured works will include 
productions on video and Super 8 from the 70s to the present.


PIRATE TV from St. Petersburg
Pirate television from the St. Petersburg underground, never before shown 
in the West  wild, bizarre, rare.


ALSO
Children's and Youth Cinema specials, films from NRW film schools, award 
winners from other festivals, international video clips, ...



Competitions:

A list of all works nominated for the competitions is available online from 
15 MARCH at www.kurzfilmtage.de.
The Short Film Festival will present ten programs with a total of around 70 
entries in the International Competition (2002 winner: Dream Work, Peter 
Tscherkassky, Austria), four programs in the German Competition (2002 
winner: Scratch, Christoph Girardet, Germany), six Children's and Youth 
Competition programs (2002 winner: De dag dat ik besloot Nina te zijn, 
Ingeborg Jansen, Netherlands, Children's Jury, and Ibiza, Bettina Oberli, 
Switzerland, Youth Jury) and the MuVi Award for the best German clip (2002 
winner: Take Me to Broadway, Nina Rohde, Music: Gonzales, Germany).


FILM MARKET AND PRODUCERS' DAY
A film market with the largest selection of current short films on video in 
the world (almost 5,000 in 2002), 15 viewing spaces, a catalogue that is 
already available online two weeks prior to the festival at 
www.kurzfilmtage.de, and a much-praised pleasant working atmosphere.
On Producers' Day, introduced in 2002 to resounding success, experts and 
filmmakers will once more engage in a lively exchange on a topic relevant 
to short film...
Contact for Film Market and Producers' Day: Hilke Doering, 
doering at kurzfilmtage.de


OBERHAUSEN MEDIA PARTNERS
ARTE has been a Festival partner for five years, and for the third time 
will bestow the ARTE Award for the Best European Film in the International 
Competition, including prize money of 2,500 euros. ARTE will also televise 
a special edition of the magazine program "KurzSchluss" featuring a 
selection of current films from Oberhausen.

3sat has also been a partner of the Short Film Festival for five years now, 
and will this year confer for the fifth time the 3sat Promotional Award to 
a nominee in the German Competition, with, for the third time, a purse of 
2,500 euros. 3sat will present German short films from Oberhausen in a 
special program televised in May 2003.

The Children's Channel of ARD and ZDF is for the fourth time sponsoring 
both awards bestowed in the Children's and Youth Cinema Competition, with 
prize money of 1,000 euros each.

The music magazine INTRO is media partner for the MuVi Competition for the 
second time this year, and will once again present all clips for the 2003 
competition on its online platform at www.intro.de, enabling users to 
submit their votes for the MuVi Online Audience Award.


NEW:
In 2003 for the first time, German brewery Diebels will donate all 5,000 
euros of prize money for the MuVi Award, and will in addition provide 
support for the MuVi Online Audience Award.


LOOKING BACK AT 2002
Over 400 works on film and video, four competitions, a special program 
entitled "Catastrophe", four retrospectives, film market, parties, film 
school works, Producers' Day, a freshly renovated festival cinema, a 
festival lounge, more than 1,000 accredited visitors, and more media 
coverage than ever before...


Please note:

Our ACCREDITATION DEADLINE is 7 APRIL 2003
The necessary forms can be obtained from the Festival.

Accreditations for PROFESSIONAL VISITORS:
Melanie Piguel, info at kurzfilmtage.de

PRESS accreditations:
Sabine Niewalda, niewalda at kurzfilmtage.de


CURRENT INFORMATION:
Always at www.kurzfilmtage.de


Oberhausen, 23 January 2003

Press Contact: Sabine Niewalda, niewalda at kurzfilmtage.de


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