---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [transversal] the Sunshine Socialist Cinema presents Kuxa Kanema on Nov 15 From: "Kalle Brolin" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, November 13, 2012 1:12 pm To: "maillista transversal eipcp" <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
On Thursday November 15 2012 the Sunshine Socialist Cinema presents: Kuxa Kanema in Mozambique - talk and filmclips ************************************************************************************ During the symposium CIRCULAR GROUNDS #1 the Sunshine Socialist Cinema will introduce a couple of clips from Kuxa Kanema newsreels, recorded in Mozambique in the mid 1970's. Kuxa Kanema means "Birth of Cinema". When Mozambique gained independence in 1974 after nearly 500 years of colonial rule, the Marxist FRELIMO party and the president Samora Machel founded the National Institute of Cinema in order to produce and distribute images of the country re-building itself into an independent nation. The 10 minute Kuxa Kanema newsreels were screened weekly in cinemas and through mobile screening units transported around the country in old VW buses. The people working on these newsreels were all novices, educated by foreign filmmakers invited by FRELIMO from Yugoslavia, Cuba, Brazil and the Soviet Union. Jean-Luc Godard attempted to help set up a national television system, teaching people in rural villages to film using video cameras. The anthropologist Jean Rouch set up documentary filmmaking workshops which shot so-called Cartes Postales every morning on 8 mm and then screened them the same evening, in the first instance of what became known as Varan Workshops. Postcards on film, of the people, by the people, and presented to the people. In Kuxa Kanema, film was meant to be an educational tool used to create an independent Marxist state. Its' example has inspired several contemporary artists to comment upon it. Kuxa Kanema speaks of jilted idealism and of conflicting desires, of a wish for art to get to play a part in the construction of a new society. The symposium CIRCULAR GROUNDS #1 is arranged by Redakzia at Skogen in Gothenburg, and includes presentations by Håkan Thörn and Kuba Szreder. Redakzia is produced by curator Corina Oprea and artist Maria Draghici. http://edit-projectroom.org/projects/redakzia Open to all, free entrance - see you Thursday! ************************************************************************************ Sunshine Socialist Cinema is an outdoor cinema powered by solarpanels, run by artists Kalle Brolin and Kristina Müntzing. Were re-distributing surplus light from day to night by solarpanel and projector, and screen films that generate discussion on radical leftwing topics. Our themes include post-industrial survival, political filmmaking, artists joining political collectives, and more. Our activities include public screenings, studygroup discussions, field trips, and presentations hosted by other institutions. The cinema is installed in a garden in Höja in the southern Swedish countryside, with screenings occurring regularly during the summer months. A 230 W solarpanel provides power for a 270 W projector, meaning two hours of sunlight gives us one and a half hour of projected film at night. Screen and bleachers purposebuilt, free entrance, artworks on display, and connections developed gradually with local organizations. Programming is discussed and technical issues worked out in a study group run within the local workers educational association, ABF, where were also figuring out a typology of political film and filmmaking. http://sunshinesocialistcinema.wordpress.com/about/ ************************************************************************************ Next event: On December 1 2012 the Sunshine Socialist Cinema presents Stalin by Picasso or Portrait of Woman with Moustache by Lene Berg at Socialistiskt Forum in Stockholm. http://www.abfstockholm.se/socialistisktforum/ ************************************************************************************ _______________________________________________ transversal mailing list | info: http://lists.servus.at/mailman/listinfo/transversal -- Moldova Young Artists Association "Oberliht" http://oberliht.com . . . . . . . . . . . https://lists.idash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oberlist portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova information gateway for arts and culture from Moldova
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On Thursday November 15 2012 the Sunshine Socialist Cinema presents: Kuxa Kanema in Mozambique - talk and filmclips ************************************************************************************ During the symposium CIRCULAR GROUNDS #1 the Sunshine Socialist Cinema will introduce a couple of clips from Kuxa Kanema newsreels, recorded in Mozambique in the mid 1970's. Kuxa Kanema means "Birth of Cinema". When Mozambique gained independence in 1974 after nearly 500 years of colonial rule, the Marxist FRELIMO party and the president Samora Machel founded the National Institute of Cinema in order to produce and distribute images of the country re-building itself into an independent nation. The 10 minute Kuxa Kanema newsreels were screened weekly in cinemas and through mobile screening units transported around the country in old VW buses. The people working on these newsreels were all novices, educated by foreign filmmakers invited by FRELIMO from Yugoslavia, Cuba, Brazil and the Soviet Union. Jean-Luc Godard attempted to help set up a national television system, teaching people in rural villages to film using video cameras. The anthropologist Jean Rouch set up documentary filmmaking workshops which shot so-called Cartes Postales every morning on 8 mm and then screened them the same evening, in the first instance of what became known as Varan Workshops. Postcards on film, of the people, by the people, and presented to the people. In Kuxa Kanema, film was meant to be an educational tool used to create an independent Marxist state. Its' example has inspired several contemporary artists to comment upon it. Kuxa Kanema speaks of jilted idealism and of conflicting desires, of a wish for art to get to play a part in the construction of a new society. The symposium CIRCULAR GROUNDS #1 is arranged by Redakzia at Skogen in Gothenburg, and includes presentations by Håkan Thörn and Kuba Szreder. Redakzia is produced by curator Corina Oprea and artist Maria Draghici. Open to all, free entrance - see you Thursday! ************************************************************************************ Sunshine Socialist Cinema is an outdoor cinema powered by solarpanels, run by artists Kalle Brolin and Kristina Müntzing. Were re-distributing surplus light from day to night by solarpanel and projector, and screen films that generate discussion on radical leftwing topics. Our themes include post-industrial survival, political filmmaking, artists joining political collectives, and more. Our activities include public screenings, studygroup discussions, field trips, and presentations hosted by other institutions. The cinema is installed in a garden in Höja in the southern Swedish countryside, with screenings occurring regularly during the summer months. A 230 W solarpanel provides power for a 270 W projector, meaning two hours of sunlight gives us one and a half hour of projected film at night. Screen and bleachers purposebuilt, free entrance, artworks on display, and connections developed gradually with local organizations. Programming is discussed and technical issues worked out in a study group run within the local workers educational association, ABF, where were also figuring out a typology of political film and filmmaking. ************************************************************************************ Next event: On December 1 2012 the Sunshine Socialist Cinema presents Stalin by Picasso or Portrait of Woman with Moustache by Lene Berg at Socialistiskt Forum in Stockholm. ************************************************************************************ |
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