CONCERT

The 1st Edition of the FORUM OF NEW EUROPEAN OPERA in Abbaye de Pontlevoy in France (July 29th - August 1st, 2010) presents Michal Kosakowski’s JUST LIKE THE MOVIES. Paolo Marzocchi, the composer of the music of JUST LIKE THE MOVIES, performs the music as a live-performance on the piano.

DATE

July 29th, 2010 - 8.30pm

LOCATION

Euram-Center / Manège
Abbaye de Pontlevoy 1
Place du College
41400 Pontlevoy
France

LINKS

Forum of New European Opera - Programme
Paolo Marzocchi

FESTIVAL

Andy P. Smith presents Michal Kosakowski’s experimental movie JUST LIKE THE MOVIES on 9/11 at Williamsburg’s new cinema: IndieScreen.
Flick Film Fest shows 13 local and international short films, split between two hour-long programs, including discussions with some of the festival’s filmmakers.

DATE

July 27th, 2010 - 7.30pm

LOCATION

IndieScreen
285 Kent Ave. (at S.2nd St.)
Brooklyn, NY

LINKS

Flick Film Fest
Flick Film Fest - Press Release

PERFORMANCE

Associazione Amici della Musica di Modena
presents on the occasion of
PASSIONI (E STORIE) PER LA MUSICA
musica/dialoghi/narrazioni/improvvisazioni/sonorizzazioni

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES - LIVE
Paolo Marzocchi performs the music of the award-winning film JUST LIKE THE MOVIES live on the piano.

DATE

5 July, 2010 - 10pm

LOCATION

Chiostro Palazzo S. Margherita
Corso Canalgrande 103
41100 Modena - Italy

LINKS

Associazione Amici della Musica di Modena
Paolo Marzocchi

SCREENING

June 14, 2010 / 6 pm

Ries Straver presents Michal Kosakowski’s award-winning film JUST LIKE THE MOVIES and his latest film THE HEART OF IT at Fabrica, the Benetton group communications research center in Catena di Villorba, near Venice.

LOCATION

Fabrica, Benetton’s Communication Research Center
Villa Pastega, via Ferrarezza
Catena di Villorba
31020, Treviso, Italy

FILM 1

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
Short Film/Experimental, Austria 2006, 21 minutes

Director, Writer, Editor, Producer: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Paolo Marzocchi

“It’s just like the movies!” was usually the first reaction of those watching the events of 9/11 in New York unfolding on their TV screens, no doubt recalling the endless number of catastrophes that Hollywood has proposed over the years. Now confronted with the reality of one such scenario – of unprecedented destructive and symbolic resonance - a feeling of déjà vu arises while looking at these images.
This paradoxical déjà vu presents a great challenge to our realism. If documentary images are graphic testimony of real events, then footage of 9/11 is evidence of the realization of the existing fiction.
Just Like the Movies is an attempt to re-construct the events of 9/11 by highlighting the parallels between the fictive worlds and the images of the real events.

AWARDS
2007 Best Short Film / 12th Milano Film Festival - Italy
2007 Best Short Film / Amsterdam Film Experience - Netherlands
2007 Best Original Music / 4th Sedicicorto Int. Film Festival Forli - Italy
2006 Best Experimental Film / 14th Int. Short Film Festival Santiago de Chile
2006 Special Mention of the Jury / Nowords Film Festival - Bolzano - Italy

FILM 2

THE HEART OF IT
Experimental/Documentary, Germany/Austria 2010, 26 minutes

Producer, Director, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Writer: Goran Mimica
Music: Paolo Marzocchi
Serbian with english subtitles

“Novi Sad, Serbia. The portrait of an urban society, the Balkans, 21st Century. The people in the center – the people at the periphery. Post-war spirit, but only because we know what happened in Ex-Yugoslavia. The Heart of It? The work which has to be done, day after day. The fact that you have to stoop down to collect a potato, every sack of cabbages has to be tied by hand. Because it is the daily work of the hands which transcends the reality of the present and shows life in itself in its hypnotic stream between the past and the future.”

LINKS

Fabrica - Benetton’s communication research center

OPENING

Invitation for the book presentation & show opening of Michal Kosakowski’s

49 MURDER FANTASIES

(publisher: Sensationsverlag, Mayerhof, with introduction by Prof. Dr. Bernd Scheffer - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and drawings by Max Boehme)

and the Austrian premiere of

FORTYNINE

(49 short films, 1996-2006, approx. 160 min)

DATE

June 10th, 2010 - 8 pm

LOCATION

Rauchsalon
Gumpendorferstr. 47
1060 Vienna, Austria

Duration/show: til beginning of Sept. 2010
open daily from 6 pm

ABOUT

The book “49 Murder Fantasies” consists of video interviews that Michal Kosakowski made with people of different professions and ages - on the topic of murder, death penalty, media, violence and god. All respondents participated before in the project “Fortynine”.

Between 1996 and 2010 Michal Kosakowski produced 49 short movies on the subject of killing. 49 killings, dreamt up by inhabitants of the metropolis of morbidity – Vienna. In 1996, Kosakowski began to inquire into fantasies of killing – at first among his relatives and friends, then widening the circle to include artists, musicians and, eventually, actors. Within a decade, Kosakowski made 49 short movies, an essential element of which is the fact that these killing fantasies were put into practice with the complicity of the respondents themselves and depicted in the 49 videos.

Not a single one of the 160 performers has a criminal record or was ever involved in any real acts of violence. And yet poisoning, torture, suicide, execution, ritual murder, violence by and against women, men, and children, murders motivated by sexual, political, and mental aberration come face to face with the recipients’ emotions, naked and uncensored.

“Fortynine” also featuring 7 Deadly Sins by Lucas Vossoughi

LINKS

FORTYNINE Trailer
FORTYNINE TV-Reportage
Rauchsalon
Sensationsverlag

SCREENING

June 2nd, 2010 / 8 pm

For the first time Michal Kosakowski presents his award-winning film JUST LIKE THE MOVIES at the Goethe-Institut Ukraine in Kiev, on the ocassion of the exhibition

WIR ARBEITEN - IHR SPINNT

curated by Prof. Olga Lagutenko and Oleksiy Koval

LOCATION

Goethe-Institut Ukraine
wul. Woloska 12/4
04655 Kiev

Entry Free!

LINKS

Goethe-Institut Ukraine
Oleksiy Koval
Invitation/Poster

SCREENING

May 19, 2010 / 9 pm

MINDPIRATES PRESENTS FILMMAKER NIGHT @ VEREINSHEIM

1st FILM

THE HEART OF IT

An experimental documentary by Michal Kosakowski and Goran Mimica
Germany/Austria 2010, 26 minutes

Serbian with english subtitles

“Novi Sad, Serbia. The portrait of an urban society, the Balkans, 21st Century. The people in the center - the people at the periphery. Post-war spirit, but only because we know what happened in Ex-Yugoslavia. The Heart of It? The work which has to be done, day after day. The fact that you have to stoop down to collect a potato, every sack of cabbages has to be tied by hand. Because it is the daily work of the hands which transcends the reality of the present and shows life in itself in its hypnotic stream between the past and the future.”

and

2nd FILM

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES

Short Film/Experimental, Austria 2006, 21 minutes
Director: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Paolo Marzocchi

This shortfilm won numerous awards such as the 2007 Best Short Movie / 12th Milano Film Festival - Italy, Best Experimental Film / 14th Int. Short Film Festival Santiago - Chile and Special Mention of the Jury / Nowords Film Festival - Bolzano - Italy.

“Its just like the movies!” was usually the first reaction of those watching the events of 9/11 in New York unfolding on their TV screens, no doubt recalling the endless number of catastrophes that Hollywood has proposed over the years. Now confronted with the reality of one such scenario – of unprecedented destructive and symbolic resonance - a feeling of déjà vu arises while looking at these images.

This paradoxical déjà vu presents a great challenge to our realism. If documentary images are graphic testimony of real events, then footage of 9/11 is evidence of the realization of the existing fiction.

Just Like the Movies is an attempt to re-construct the events of 9/11 by highlighting the parallels between the fictive worlds and the images of the real events.

LOCATION

Vereinsheim
Schlesische Str. 38
3rd Hinterhof, Kreuzberg
Berlin, Germany

Wine, beer and free popcorn

Doors Open at 8 pm
2 EURO Entrance

LINKS

The Heart of It - Trailer
Just Like the Movies - Film
Mindpirates

SCREENING

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
November 28, 2009 / 8 pm - University of Bayreuth

LOCATION

University Campus, Bayreuth
GW 1 (Geisteswissenschaften 1)
Universitätsstr. 30
95440 Bayreuth, Germany

9/11 AS CATALYST - AMERICAN AND BRITISH CULTURAL RESPONSES

Michal Kosakowski is showing his award-winning film JUST LIKE THE MOVIES on occasion of the International Conference organized by the University of Bayreuth and the University of Erfurt and sponsored by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung and the Bavarian American Academy.

The conference will investigate North American and British cultural responses to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and to the social, political and cultural effects that have developed in their wake – including further attacks such as the ones in Madrid (2004), London (2005), and Mumbay (2008). While official political discourse was dominated by the notion of 9/11 as a historical rupture and by the conceptualization of a “War on Terror” that had to be fought with military force abroad and by curbing civil liberties at home, a close look at a wider spectrum of texts and discourses reveals that responses to the attacks and to the impact of terrorism in general have been much more diverse and complex. Whether the events of 9/11 mark a historical caesura or not – a contested claim that will be among the key issues at stake at the conference –, they certainly had a catalytic effect on the cultural production in various media: in literature, in the theater, in the news media, in film and television, in the realms of music and dance. This cultural production shows the first contours of a cultural memory that has symbolically negotiated experiences of shock, trauma, and commemoration as well as the various political, social and economic developments in our post-9/11 world. The papers presented will address first wave responses to the attacks as well as second wave responses of the years following; they will focus on their participation in the shaping of discourses of terror (mindedness), fear, violence, mourning, religion, nationalism, civil liberties, migration and globalization; they will explore how a diversity of ethnic, racial, and gendered perspectives have explored the diffusion of public and private sphere and how they have revisited (and revised) national narratives of identity formation; and they will discuss the aesthetic repercussions 9/11 and the “War on Terror” have had on the aesthetic and conceptual notions of postmodernism.

LINKS

9/11 as Catalyst - American and British Cultural Responses

SCREENING

September 14, 2009 / 21 pm - Spazio XYZ

LOCATION

Spazio XYZ
Via Inferiore 31
Treviso, Italy

CIMENA 2.0

We start the next film season with a special upgrade of our cinema night.
CIMENA 2.0 brings you a fresh selection of independent films and live interviews with its creators.

Monday, September 14 at 21.00 we open the season with the award winning film JUST LIKE THE MOVIES by Michal Kosakowski.

Popcorn, beer and a live interview with the film’s director.

Curated by Ries Straver

LINKS

Spazio XYZ
Ries Straver

SCREENING

June 25, 2009 / 8 pm - Lothringer 13

LOCATION

Städtische Kunsthalle München
Lothringer 13
Lothringerstr. 13
81667 Munich / Germany

On the occasion of Goran Mimica’s residency in the Villa Waldberta, two movies, “KANNIBALISMUS” and “THE HEART OF IT”, by Michal Kosakowski will be shown in the Gallery for Contemporary Art of the City of Munich.

“For centuries Balkanibal has sat on his throne, in his Peninsula, at the crossroads between East and West, proud, suspicious and stubborn. For centuries he has mutilated himself and demanded respect for these bloody rituals from travelers.
The last time I saw him, his body was a heap of riven flesh and infected wounds. He was sat on the throne, in front of the mirror. His face was covered in deep scars, and, instead of a nose, there was a dark, putrid hole gape. With the stump of one hand he supported the Polaroid camera, and in the palm of the other, fingerless, hand, he held his own balls.” Goran Mimica

LINKS

Goran Mimica
Städtische Kunsthalle München Lothringer 13

SCREENING

May 15, 2009 / 5.30 pm - Cinéma 1

LOCATION

Centre Pompidou
Large cinema hall of the Centre Pompidou

Place Georges Pompidou
75004 Paris

The award-winning film “Just Like the Movies” will be shown in the large cinema hall of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

LINKS

Centre Pompidou - Cinema
Programm “Artention” of North Rhine-Westphalia
Leaflet by the Centre Pompidou (pdf)

SCREENING

8 April 2009 / 8pm - Programa 6: Joven cine experimental alemán

LOCATION

Edificio Sabatini. Salón de Actos
Calle Santa Isabel, 52. Madrid
Entrada: gratuita. Aforo: 140 localidades

The award-winning film “Just Like the Movies” will be shown in the Auditorium of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.

LINKS

Leaflet by the Museo Reina Sofia (pdf)
Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia

OPENING

3 April 2009 / 6pm

LOCATION

Historisches Museum, Minoritenkirche / Dachauplatz 2-4 / Regensburg
Städtische Galerie “Leerer Beutel” / Bertoldstr. 9 / Regensburg

“Der katholische Faktor”

An exhibition on contemporary art from Poland and Germany, curated by Maciek Czapski and Christian Schnurer.
Michal Kosakowski is showing his early filmwork “IS GOD MODERN?” from 1997 in the beautiful space of the Minoritenkirche (church) in Regensburg.

Exhibition: 4 April - 17 May, 2009
Tuesday - Sunday: 10-16

LINKS

Der katholische Faktor - Exhibition

OPENING

Saturday, January 10, 2009, 5 – 10 pm

LOCATION

KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e.V.
KW INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Auguststr. 69, 10117 Berlin

Highlights from the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin.

Having successfully shown films from the last Cologne KunstFilmBiennale two years ago, KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin is again presenting a selection of highlights from this unique international festival of films by artists. The selection includes films by John Bock, Babette Mangolte, and Sarah Morris, and also new works by a young generation, including Keren Cytter, Nathalie Djurberg, Hans Op de Beeck, Alex McQuilkin, and Markus Schinwald.

KW is also showing a selection of entries to the last BILD-KUNST Promotional Award for experimental film competition featuring films in many genres that are pursuing new experimental form and content.

Highlights from the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin is shown at the forth floor at KW.

Participating artists:

Doug Aitken, Shoja Azari, Guy Ben-Ner, John Bock, Daniel Burkhardt, Yasmine Chatila, Keren Cytter, Nathalie Djurberg, Willie Doherty, Ay?e Erkmen, Thorsten Fleisch, Christoph Girardet / Matthias Müller, Anthony Goicolea, Christina von Greve, Florian Gwinner, Jesper Just, Timo Katz / Jan Fuchs, Idris Khan, Michal Kosakowski, Nicolette Krebitz / Jonas Weber Herrera, Clare Langan, Babette Mangolte, Michael Mazière, Sarah Morris, Laurel Nakadate, Hans Op de Beeck, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Alex McQuilkin, Johanna Reich, Pablo Reinoso, Astrid Rieger / Zeljko Vidovic, Julian Rosefeldt, Martin Sastre, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Ingo Schiller / Stephan-Flint Müller, Markus Schinwald, Robert Seidel, John Smith, Hito Steyerl, Javier Téllez, T. J. Wilcox

Presented by Gabriele Horn and Katia Reich

An event by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, supported by the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Thanks to JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Düsseldorf

KunstFilmBiennale is an initiative of the SK Stiftung Kultur, the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the City of Cologne. It takes place in cooperation with the Filmstiftung NRW and VG Bild-Kunst and is supported with funds of the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Exhibition: January 11 – 25, 2009

LINKS

Kunstwerke Berlin

OPENING

30 January 2009 / 6pm

LOCATION

Landgericht Leipzig / Harkortstr 9 / 04107 Leipzig, Germany

“Das Böse ist ein Eichhörnchen”

At the occasion of the opening of the art group exhibition of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Klasse Intermedia, Michal Kosakowski presents his movie JUST LIKE THE MOVIES embedded in the space of the Landgericht in Leipzig, Germany.

Exhibition: 1 February - 13 February 2009
Monday - Thursday: 8-17 Friday: 8-14

LINKS

Das Böse ist ein Eichhörnchen - Exhibition

COMPETITION

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES

Imaginaria Film Festival starts with the demand to partecipate in the process of cinematic language mutations that redefine the iconography of our time.

Imaginaria launches a new experience: to create an ideal connection between the international and independent cinema and the autors and movements of the digital scenarios. An eccentric and unusual journey compared with the national cinematic programme. The meeting between technological innovation and creativity represents today a new perspective where to find movie and shortmovie, film and digital, musicvideoclip, web downloading and videoart installations.

LINK

Imaginaria Film Festival

COMPETITION

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
30 June, 2008, 9.30pm

LOCATION

Cinema Estivo Giardino Pubblico
Trieste/Italy

Maremetraggio – International Short and debut works Film Festival is an annual project (first week of July) of the Maremetraggio Association at its 9th edition will take place in 2008 from June 27 to July 5.
Maremetraggio, has reached its eighth edition in 2007 and shall continue its tireless activity offering to its audience high quality works with a unique pan-European coverage (also through its CEI dedicated section) promoting countries of low capacity production, young professionals and inter-cultural dialogue.

Maremetraggio Section dedicated to shorts that, in the previous year, have won the most important European Festivals. The event’s strong emphasis on European works, will see many national and non-national European short films compete for the final prize of € 10.000,00.

LINKS

Maremetraggio - Int. Short Film Festival

SCREENING

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
14 June, 2008, 7.30pm

LINK

Living Room Show

PREMIERE

STRASSENMUSIK - NEUE MUSIK?
A new film by Michal Kosakowski
29 May, 2008, 7.10pm

LOCATION

Prinzregententheater
Prinzregentenplatz 12
81576 Munich, Germany

LINKS

Munich Chamber Orchestra
Prinzregententheater

COMPETITION

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
15 March, 2008, 8.45pm

LOCATION

Cinema Vittoria - Sala Metropolis
via Cavour, 16
12042, Bra, Italy

LINK

Corto In Bra International Festival

SCREENING

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
15 February, 2008, 8.30pm

LOCATION

Debaliecinema
Amsterdam, Netherlands

LINK

Amsterdam Shorts!

COMPETITION

ALESSANDRO KOKOCINSKI
6 December, 2007 - 8pm

LOCATION

Lothringer 13 - Städtische Kunsthalle München
Lothringerstrasse 13
81369 München, Germany

Mit sensiblen Bildern begleitet der Künstler den Bildhauer beim Finish einer keramischen Arbeit. Detailaufnahmen seiner Skulpturen, ungewöhnliche Perspektiven  und  überraschende Schnitte machen den dargestellten Künstler und sein Arbeit plastisch spürbar.

LINK

Filmnach8

COMPETITION

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES

LINK

Festival Du Film De Vendome

SCREENING

SECTION AIXPERIMENTAL - “CINÉMA REVISITÉ 3″

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
5 December, 2008, 7pm
6 December, 2008, 4.30pm

LOCATION

Ecole d’Art, Aix-En-Provence, France

Revisited cinema… revisit cinema.
Although cinema was sentenced to a slow death, it doesn’t want to die. That is why it has to be transformed, eternally. Salvage, rubbing-out, scratching, colouring, cutting up, sticking, stripes, masks, editing are the weapons of the filmmaker who practices recycling, “poor art whose poetics comes from chance, smuggling and rerouting” (Nicole Brenez). Always working from pre-existent material (film extracts, images or recorded sounds, quotations…), the filmmaker is creating a new autonomous film which has a new meaning. There’s by doing this, a great matter of love for cinema, of will to appropriate images and at the same time to free them and enlighten different concerns : plastic, aesthetic, narrative, political… One has to tear up and to rip up lovingly to bring cinema to life and maintain it alive indefinitely. Found-footage film, re-use film, salvage film, recycled film… whatever it is called, it is the capacity of cinema to think itself and to think the world that is claimed.

LINK

Festival Tous Courts

COMPETITION

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
19 November, 8pm
20 November, 5pm

For the twelfth time, Siena will be turning on the spotlights for its International Short Film Festival to be held from 19 to 24 November 2007. A week-long fest of short films with the super International Competition: around the world in seventy films, to enjoy the finest in world production. Running in counterpoint to these competitions, as always, there will be a rich series of retrospectives; beginning with a tribute to one European country which, this year, takes us to Austria. And then, longer journeys to Japan and Brazil, and our African stop, for 2007, is Egypt.

LINKS

International Short Film Festival Siena

COMPETITION

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES

The month of November is marked by the return of FIKE 2007 - Évora International Short Film Festival. The Auditorium of the University of Évora will be the centre of the Festival which promises to be the greatest and the most participated ever. From November 16th to 24th, 101 films from the five continents will compete for the Fiction, Animation and Documentary Prizes.

Films and guests from such different countries as Israel and Iran, United Kingdom and Uganda, will fulfill the nights of a week where Cinema will mark the rhythm of Concerts, Workshops and Master Classes. It’s a Culture and Art Festival open to everyone.

LINKS

FIKE 2007 - Évora Int. Short Film Festival

DATE

Workshop/Lecture with Michal Kosakowski and Paolo Marzocchi
“L’immaginario filmico nella percezione della realtà
Il caso: JUST LIKE THE MOVIES”
13 November, 2007 - 4-6pm

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
Live Performance by Paolo Marzocchi
13 November, 2007 - 8.15pm

LOCATION

WORKSHOP/LECTURE

Universita’ degli Studi di Macerata
Aula 8
Piaggia dell’Università, 11
62100 Macerata, Italy

LIVE PERFORMANCE

Cineteatro Italia
Via Gramsci 25
62100 Macerata, Italy

LINKS

Cittateneo - Università degli Studi di Macerata
Università degli Studi di Macerata
Paolo Marzocchi

CONCERT

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
Live Performance by Paolo Marzocchi on the piano
11 November, 2007, 5.30pm

LOCATION

Teatro delle Passioni
Viale Carlo Sigonio, 382
41100 Modena - Italy

Anteprima Concerti d’Inverno
Paolo Marzocchi - pianoforte, synthesizer sounds
Michal Kosakowski - videoimages
Music of Mussorgsky, Liszt, Berg and Marzocchi

LINKS

Associazione Amici della Musica di Modena

SCREENING

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
Live Performance by Paolo Marzocchi on the piano
9+10 November, 2007 - 8.30pm

LOCATION

Teatro Cristallo
Via Dalmazia 30
Bolzano, Italy

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES is a 21-minute video with music by Paolo Marzocchi.

In more than 600 Hollywood movies (produced before 2001) Michal Kosakowski looks for images of what he just saw and finds, in 52 films, the entire sequence of events that happened on that day in September 2001.

Almost all of us saw the events of September 11, 2001 on television. We knew these images from our cinematic experiences and thus found it almost impossible to recognise them as events that actually occurred, and even more difficult to accept them as such in the moment we witnessed them. It was at this early point in time that Michal Kosakowski stepped in: minutes after the event he was sketching out a first draft for his project.

In more than 600 Hollywood movies Michal Kosakowski looks for images of what he just saw and finds, in 52 films, the entire sequence of events that happened on that day in September 2001.

Intimately involved in the project, Paolo Marzocchi is a composer and musician. His perception of the 9/11 events led him a century into the past, right to the early days of cinema. For him it is the style of the silent picture era that sets the tone for Just Like The Movies.

LINKS

Short Film Festival Opere Nuove
Teatro Cristallo
Cineclub Bolzano

WINNER OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON
BEST IN SHOW - JUST LIKE THE MOVIES

This prize was awarded by the jury (Emile Fallaux, former Rotterdam Filmfestival director, Job ter Burg, editor of Paul Verhoevens BlackBook, Ronald Ockhuyzen, filmjournalist, Rosto AD, animator) out of the 96 films that were shown in the festival.

LINKS

Amsterdam Film Experience 2007

SCREENING

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
2 November, 2007 - 8pm

LOCATION

3rd Ward
195 Morgan Avenue
Brooklyn - New York

On Friday, November 2nd, 2007, ChiefMag.com partners with 3rd Ward, Brooklyn’s finest creative facility, for a blow-out evening that includes a silent art auction, film screenings, and a live rock show. Only at 3rd Ward, a 20,000 square-foot creative workspace, would such a multimedia event be possible. ChiefMag.com is Brooklyn’s premiere arts and culture magazine. Having recently celebrated their one-year anniversary, ChiefMag.com has gained popularity for reporting on artists and musicians just before they get big. Chief has established a loyal audience, an ever-growing event mailing list, and write-ups in notable publications.

Chief is known to be on the forefront of cutting-edge nightlife. The cool kids of Brooklyn rely on Chief to host the most fun and exciting event of any evening. The SILENT AUCTION, NOT SO SILENT ROCK SHOW kicks off with an early evening screening of original films including shorts, documentaries, and experimental films by Eugene Mirman, Michal Kosakowski, Nick Chatfield-Taylor, Ries Straver.

The Silent Auction itself will feature 50 works of art by Chief artists, both local and international. Individual works will start at an opening bid of $50. Displayed in the main space throughout the night, the auction also functions as a star-studded group exhibition by renowned and accomplished visual artists, including: Dennis McNett, Matt Furie, Kim Schifino, Mike Houston, Sarah Small, Timothy Archibald, Erik Tidemann, Mike Force, Hope Gangloff, The Mangina, Toilet Town, Leon Reid IV, Nick Chatfield-Taylor and more. And of course, no Chief event comes without a live musical performance!

LINKS

Silent Auction
Chief Magazine

DOWNLOAD

Press Release 

OPENING

30 October - 10 November, 2007

LOCATION

Teatro Cristallo - Sala Mostre
Via Dalmazia 30
Bolzano, Italy

Presentation of the 13 Image Collages of JUST LIKE THE MOVIES embedded in an installation.

LINKS

Short Film Festival Opere Nuove
Teatro Cristallo
Cineclub Bolzano

WINNER - BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC

Just Like the Movies - Music by Paolo Marzocchi

I started to think of the music as a glue for the heterogeneous material of the movie. You should not notice that in one scene it’s raining and it isn’t in the next, or that it’s winter in the early seventies, and few seconds later people are playing chess in Central Park, dressed in a much later style. And, in certain cases, I’d like to preserve in the music the “Hollywood feeling” the film images of the genre.

So I decided to write “silent movie” music, for piano solo. The naked sound of the piano contrasts starkly with the stunning impact of the images, binding them together. There is the “ghost” of Hollywood music atmospheres, as well a clear tribute to the ragtime-based music of the first silent movies. In certain passages, electro-acoustic sounds are added to the acoustic piano notes, and the performer has to interact with them. The electro-acoustic parts are taken from a piece “B1, Study for a Night-Crossing Journey” that I had written earlier, and fit the atmospheres of the film perfectly.
We can also say that our collective journey across the Night started with September 11th.

Paolo Marzocchi 2006

LINKS

Paolo Marzocchi
Sedicicorto Int. Film Festival Forli - Italy

WINNER - SHORT FILMS COMPETITION

Just Like the Movies by Michal Kosakowski, Austria, 2006, DV, 21’

Teatro delle Albe, that with great delight and responsability was the Jury at Milano Film Festival for the section Short Films, is glad to send to the winner the reason of their choices:

“In the chaos produced by the visual bombing of the big media, Just like the movies takes an action towards an ecology of image, giving clarity to a more and more impassive and dogmatic collective mind. The clever editing work, swallowing cinema at every step, crosses over all categories. By taking hold of mainstream movies, Michal Kosakowski points out the prophetic character of cinema itself. Just like the movies makes us aware of the tragedy of reality, and have the vicious circle which entrappers us in the achieved show-business society. The music of Paolo Marzocchi discloses the paradox of a silent movie about modernity.”

LINKS

Milano Film Festival
AnotherTV

The movie JUST LIKE THE MOVIES is nominated for the Bild-Kunst Award for experimental film.

Screening

Section CRITICISM OF THE SYSTEM
18 October, 2007 - 3pm

Location

Filmforum of the Museum Ludwig
Bischofsgartenstr. 1
Köln - Germany

The world of images has come into motion. The ever increasing significance of the inter-disciplinary crossing of artistic borders between visual arts and cinema, arthouse movies and art film, museums and cinemas remains as the most important theme of the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale. This worldwide unique mixture of festival and exhibition takes place in Cologne and Bonn from 18th - 24th of October. Once again, short and feature-length films will be shown from and about artists who illustrate the interaction of the visual arts and the “seventh art”, film. With an International Competition compiling numerous premieres and a competition for young filmmakers, both with significant prize money, KunstFilmBiennale offers the latest overview of what is presently taking place cinematically in art and artistically in film.

LINKS

KunstFilmBiennale
Museum Ludwig Köln

Screening

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
Section FOCUS ON FOUND FOOTAGE
14 October, 2007 - 5.30pm
18 October, 2007 - 10.30pm

Location

Vooruit - Domzaal
Ghent - Belgium

FOUND FOOTAGE FILM
On the occasion of the lecture on ‘Focus on Found Footage’, the festival programmers have put together a programme with found footage films. For many film makers found footage has been a source of inspiration to knock up a story. The young Jonathan Caouette for example has reconstructed his life in the impressive “Tarnation”. With amateur images and recorded telephone conversations, he has created an extraordinary multimedia magnum opus. Director Peter Delpeut started juggling with images from the Dutch Film Museum, where he worked, to make “The Forbidden Quest”, in which he makes his audience believe in the incredible story about a missing ship. And in “Grizzly Man”, Werner Herzog, the German legendary director, uses the film material of a killed bear lover to establish the border between animal love and insanity. Together with “Capturing The Friedmans”, “Lyrisch Nitraat”, “El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War”, “Welt Spiegel Kino” and the short films “Geschiedenis van de Onbekende soldaat” and “Just Like The Movies” they are part of the History Replayed Found Footage.

LINKS

Flanders Int. Film Festival Ghent

Screening

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
6 October, 2007 - 6.15pm

Location

Cinema Neues Arena
Hans-Sachs-Str. 7
München - Germany

Subway U1/U2 Fraunhoferstraße
Tramway 17, 18, 27 Müllerstraße

The second edition of UNDERDOX - document and experiment, the international film festival for the experimental and artistic film: 36 international productions and 16 artists‘ videos will be presented at the Neues Arena, Werkstattkino and in the showroom of the ZKMax. Again this year will bring you as Munich or German premieres, a large variety of films situated on the borderline between document, experiment and fiction.

LINKS

Underdox Festival
Arena Kino München

Screening

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
COMPETITION
6 October, 2007 - 10.30am

Location

Camera di Commercio Forli, Sala Zambelli
Piazza Saffi 36
Forli - Italy

LINKS

Sedicicorto Int. Film Festival Forli

Opening

11 Sept, 2007 - 8pm

Screening

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
Live Piano Performance by Paolo Marzocchi
11 Sept 2007 - 9pm

Location

Galery SAKAMOTOcontemporary
Oranienstrasse 164 (Ecke Oranienplatz)
Berlin - Germany

The Galery SAKAMOTOcontemporary opens on September 11th, 2007 with the preview of the award-winning exhibition JUST LIKE THE MOVIES.

For the first time in Berlin the exhibition deals with the events of 9/11.
In more than 600 Hollywood movies (produced before 2001) Michal Kosakowski looks for images of what he just saw and finds, in 52 films, the entire sequence of events that happened on that day in September 2001. His reconstruction begins.

Intimately involved in the project, Paolo Marzocchi is a composer and musician. His perception of the 9/11 events led him a century into the past, right to the early days of cinema. For him it is the style of the silent picture era that sets the tone for Just Like The Movies. A century of image construction by the media collapses in the face of the events of September 11, 2001, in the early 21st century, the beginning of the third millennium AD.

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES is an attempt to re-construct the events of 9/11 by highlighting the parallels between the fictive worlds and the images of the real events.

Links

SAKAMOTOcontemporary

Screening

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
8 September, 2007 - 10pm

Location

Placa Pepet Pol
Arbúcies Barcelona - Spain

Our aim with this network is to organize short film screenings in small towns in which it is currently difficult or almost impossible to view these kinds of films. Doing so we want to help unknown film makers to show their films in unconventional places, we want to develop new exhibition markets doing a pedagogical function, to introduce more people into the charms of the short film genre.

In the network, we work individually with each city hall to elaborate a personal short films program in the line of each town’s characteristics. In this occasion we’ve considered one of your films to be projected in the program presented in Arbúcies (Barcelona) on the 8th September 2007.

LINKS

Mecal Int. Short Film Festival
City of Arbúcies

Screening

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
24 August, 2007 - 9pm

Location

Boekentoren (Book Tower)
Ghent - Belgium

Viewmaster wants to surprise us each summer with films on special locations. This year they chose the famous “Boekentoren”. The Boekentoren (Book Tower) is a famous building located in Ghent, designed by the Belgian architect Henry Van de Velde. It currently houses 3 million books of the Ghent University library. 11 viewmasters select films, the theme: ‘Toren-tour-tower-turm’. Courtisane compiles short work that will be screened the 24th of august.

LINKS

Courtisane
Viewmaster07

Screening

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
4 August, 2007 - 8pm

Location

Led Art / Art Klinika
Grckoskolska 5
Novi Sad - Serbia

The idea of Michal Kosakowski’s short film Just Like The Movies, shown exclusively in Art Klinika (Novi Sad, Serbia) on July 4 2007, is based on the concept of déjà vu. From the moment I arrived in Art Klinika, half an hour before the screening, I had a feeling that this concept would spread to the whole evening: first, I was warned that few people visit Art Klinika on a Saturday night, regardless of what’s on. Then came a downpour, which delayed the start of the film by 30 minutes in order to give the “determined” the chance to make it, as this short film (21”) would be shown only once. When it became clear that no-one else would come, the screening went ahead for some twenty, I was told, “regular patients”. There was only one more detail missing to complete my feeling of “déjà vu”: in countless cinemas all over the world, when the words THE END appear the river of spectators, led by the sad smokers, gets up and leaves the premises, paying no attention to what’s on the screen, to those names of all the people who have worked on the creation of the film. On Saturday night this reaction did not happen.

The best in Kosakowski’s film is not even the skill with which the director has borrowed footage from Hollywood blockbusters and then pasted it into a mosaic reminding us of the barely visible border between fiction and reality, but the reaction of the audience during the credits. There was the answer to what triggered my feeling of “déjà vu”. I’ve seen this film about 20 times since its premier in Munich two years ago, with audiences varying from 20 to 300 people, but the silence and tension which accompanies the film is common to all audiences. It was the same in Art Klinika. No-one moved, until the screen went blank.

Goran Mimica

LINKS

Ledart / Artklinika
Danas - Newspaper
Goran Mimica

BORDERLINE MOVING IMAGES 2007

Screening

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
Live Performance by Paolo Marzocchi
23 June, 2007 - 8pm

Location

Soho Shangdu
Shopping Mall Chaoyang District
Daqiao n. 8
Beijing - China

SPONSOR
Austrian Cultural Forum Beijing

Paolo Marzocchi performs live on the piano. In occasion of the Grand Opening of Borderline Moving Images, starting off with the exhibition “Seduction” in the Beijing Creative art Centre, two performances will be featured as a prelude to the events unfolding in the next few days.

The Gehua Tower building is located in the very heart of Beijing city; siding the 2nd ring road, this is a suggestive intersection where the low-rise centre opens up to the view from the main space and the rooftop in a vast expanding horizon, while on the other the contrasting character of verticality and vibrancy of the city life and hectic pace provides a perfect scenario for a metaphorical communication with its intrinsic nature.

In order to highlight our commitment to this visionary and creative communication with the city texture and its subjective interpretation we are presenting two powerful performative events for the opening night.

While bringing forward the vocational multidisciplinarity of artistic experimentation, we’re presenting two live audio/visual sets that powerfully make use of moving images to construct evocative narratives; while dialoguing with the environment they solicit different ways of interacting with all of its different factors: the landscape, its sounds, the emotional bliss of the life within.

Links

Borderlinefestival
Austrian Cultural Forum Beijing

20 YEARS OF THE EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL –
THE FORUM FOR EXPANDED MEDIA IN EUROPE

Screening

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
Section FINAL CUT
26 April, 2007 - 10.30pm

Location

Cinema Arthouse 4
Erich-Maria-Remarque Ring 16
Osnabrück - Germany

Links

EMAF

4TH INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
LISBOA - PORTUGAL

Screening

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
Section DIRECTORS CUT
21 April, 2007 - 5.45pm
27 April, 2007 - 5.45pm

Location

Cinema Londres 2
Lisboa - Portugal

Links

Indielisboa

Screening

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
Section ALPHAVILLE UNITED PART II
14 April, 2007 - 5.15pm

Location

Gartenbaukino
Parkring 12
Wien - Austria

Alphaville cordially invites you to its 10-year birthday celebration taking place on April 14th 2007 at the beautiful Gartenbaukino!

Starting at 2:30 pm we will be showing, throughout the day and with no entry fee, films of all sorts, many by established filmmakers and artists who we have come to know and respect, as well as some examples made by our very own Alphavillains, most notably the world premiere of ‘Embrace’ by Lucas ‘Birdman’ Vossoughi at 7.30 pm. Later on in the evening a unique filmic birthday bouquet will be prepared by the Austrian Filmmuseum, including some truly mind-blowing work by Guy Maddin and Bruce Conner and one of the funniest films ever made, Big Business (1929), presented with live piano accompaniment. And, as a midnight surprise, Bernhard Fleischmann will be playing with the screen of the Gartenbau.

And, naturally, there will be music as well….

Starting at around 6pm, there will be numerous musicians and DJs playing in the foyer, starting with soundcollector extraordinaire, Kalle Laar, DJ Tapiresque, quite a few of the Sofa Surfers at around midnight, and most likely ending sometime in the early morning with Christopher Just on the turntables.

No day like this would be complete without a gala premiere and we are pleased to present a unique approach to filmmaking in the form of quite possibly the first true film remix. Director Timo Novotny got ahold of all the footage shot by Michael Glawogger for his famed Megacities project, proceeded to reassemble it, shot his own footage in Tokyo, let the Sofa Surfers write some original music and came up with something all-together new. Somewhere between documentary, music film and experimental work, Life in Loops (A Megacities RMX) has been booked to over 30 festivals and took home the prize for best documentary feature at last years festival in Karlovy Vary.

Links

Alphaville 10

Exhibition

1 April - 10 June, 2007

Opening

31 March, 2007 - 5pm

Location

Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr in der alten Post
Viktoriaplatz/Platz der ehemaligen Synagoge 1
Mülheim an der Ruhr - Germany

GROUP EXHIBITION
curated by Ines Wiskemann

“Fear on the rise” – “Growing anxiety” – “Living with fear”. Headlines like these bear witness to a growing sense of anxiety that pervades increasingly large segments of society. Despite high standards of security, a level of prosperity that remains high by international comparison and the availability of insurance policies for practically every conceivable risk, a latent, persistent feeling of vulnerability and insecurity appears to have become an essential aspect of contemporary social and personal life.
The exhibition “KAVA KAVA – Facets of Fear” explores the phenomenon of fear from a contemporary, current perspective and presents the positions of twelve international artists in an open arrangement of highly personal perceptual approaches. In addition to questions relating to the origins and atmospheres of fear, the artists also focused on mechanisms of collective and personal anxiety as well as possible means of coping with fear. In a broad spectrum of works and artistic media – from drawing, painting and photography to video and multimedia to sculpture – the participating artists address the theme from different directions, thereby creating a complex exhibition constellation involving interacting threads of discourse. The title of the exhibition, “KAVA KAVA – Facets of Fear”, refers to the kava-kava root, an extract of which is used as a remedy for symptoms of anxiety.

Links

Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr

Screening

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
COMPETITION
30 March, 2007 - 4pm

Location

Eforie Cinema
2 Eforie St.
Bucharest - Romania

In August 2006, the entire public opinion was shocked at the news that the young filmmaker Cristian Nemescu and his close friend and colleague, the sound-designer and composer Andrei Toncu, died in a car crash. They were both in the prime of their careers, at a point where their works had already created a powerful echo in the world of young filmmakers everywhere, receiving acknowledgement, awards and, most of all, strongly contributing to the long awaited rebirth of Romanian cinema.

NexT is the expression of the need to compensate for this absence. Professionals in cinema, TV and other media, people who were forced to think things over by this painful and brutal event, decided to react firmly, in the only possible way: encouraging and actively supporting the young and very young filmmakers, as well as the aspiring filmmakers, in finding their own way.

As a first act, ”NexT” Cultural Society decided to organize a film festival in Bucharest, from the 29th to the 31st of March 2007.

Links

Next Film Festival

22ND NEW MEDIA & VIDEO ART FESTIVAL

Screening

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
16 March, 2007 - 3.15pm
23 March, 2007 - 4.30pm
27 March, 2007 - 2.30pm
31 March, 2007 - 4.00pm

Links

Videoformes

Screening

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
COMPETITION
9 March, 2007 - 10am

Location

Cinema Plevna 5
Tampere - Finland

Tampere 37th International Short Film Festival takes place on March 2007. Again the festival celebrates the art of short film within five bright days and late nights. Previous year 120 festival screenings seduced an audience of almost 30 000 spectators. Besides the International and Finnish Short Film competitions the festival will screen a wide variety of films.

This year the special themes focus on Black Africa, Sami Culture of Northern Scandinavia and Masters of Polish Film Schools. Megapolis programme catches glimpses of giant cities. Special screenings are devoted to the 50th Anniversary of The Finnish Film Archive. The festival will also host seminars, exhibitions, concerts and club nights.

Links

Tampere Film Festival

Opening

8 March, 2007 - 7pm

Exhibition

9 March - 29 April, 2007

Location

ZKMax Showroom
Passage Maximilianstrasse / Altstadtring
München - Germany

Exhibition curated by Diana Ebster

MAKING OF THE VIDEO-INSTALLATION FORTYNINE
Discussion between Michal Kosakowski and Prof. Dr. Bernd Scheffer (LMU München)

Links

ZKMax

A TV-Reportage about the exhibition FORTYNINE
at the Lothringer 13, Städtische Kunsthalle München, Germany.

Screening

19 February, 2007 - 10.30pm
Treffpunkt Kultur, ORF 2

LINKS

ORF TV

36TH ROTTERDAM FILM FESTIVAL
24 January - 4 February 2007

Screening

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
25 January 2007 - 10:15 pm - Lantaren 1
27 January 2007 - 2:15 pm - Venster 2

The International Film Festival Rotterdam offers a quality selection of worldwide independent, innovative and experimental cinema and visual arts. Devoted to actively supporting independent filmmaking from around the globe, IFFR is the essential hub in Holland for discovering film talent, for catching premieres, and for exploring its competitions, main sections of recent feature films, short films and documentaries, visual arts exhibitions, theme sections and debates.

During twelve festival days, hundreds of filmmakers and other artists present their work to a large and devoted audience in 24 screening venues located within central Rotterdam. Up to 3,000 press and film industry representatives visit the festival to report and catch the buzz on its premieres or to take part in CineMart, the largest co-production market for film projects. The 36th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam takes place from January 24 up to and including Sunday February 4, 2007. Within the festival, CineMart takes place from January 28 till February 1, 2007.

Links

Rotterdam Film Festival

9. INTERNATIONALES FESTIVAL FÜR STUMMFILM UND MUSIK
BERLIN - DEUTSCHLAND
23-28 JANUARY, 2007

Screening

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
28 January, 2007 - 11am

Location

Cinema Babylon Berlin-Mitte
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30
Berlin - Germany

Metro
U2 - Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

TV feature at ARTE - METROPOLIS - 20 January, 2007

Links

Steven Garling

Mit Filmen wie „United 93“ ist der 11. September fünf Jahre nach der Katastrophe zum Stoff für Hollywood geworden. Die schrecklichen Ereignisse sind schon viel früher über die Leinwand geflimmert.

Der 11. September 2001 – ein Albtraum. Bilder, die wir sonst nur aus Filmen kannten. Aber schockiert hat uns ja eigentlich nur die Tatsache, dass plötzlich alles real war! Im Kino hätte uns so was nicht umgehauen! Der Kurzfilm „Just like the movies“ besteht nur aus Szenen aus Katastrophen-Blockbustern. Aneinander geschnitten entsteht so der Tag des Anschlags. Die Bilder aus Armageddon, Godzilla oder Deep Impact bekommen, nach dem 11. September, eine völlig neue, eine prophetische Bedeutung.

Für den Regisseur von „Just like the movies“ Michal Kosakowski, sind Videotheken fast so was wie sein Wohnzimmer. Seit seinem 14. Lebensjahr macht er Filme und kennt alles, was Hollywood jemals auf die Leinwand gebracht hat. Sein Geld verdient er mit Werbefilmen – doch manchmal ist auch Zeit für Kunstprojekte wie „Just like the movies“. Wie viele andere, hatte auch er am 11. September ein Deja Vu. Kosakowski sichtete über 600 Katastrophenfilme, um in seinem Film dem Grauen des 11. September möglichst nahe zu kommen. Im April war Premiere von „Just like the movies“ in München. In einer begleitenden Ausstellung hat Kosakowski die Bilder gegenübergestellt, bei denen die Ähnlichkeit zwischen Realität und Fiktion besonders deutlich wird. Er liefert damit den Beweis: Hollywood wurde von der Realität eingeholt. Die Ähnlichkeiten sind schockierend.

Man hört keine Boom Effekte, keine Schreie oder Explosionen. Stattdessen verbindet Stummfilmmusik die ganzen Filmschnipsel. Für Kosakowski ist diese Art der Musik der Link zum Thema Wahrnehmung von Fernseh- und Kinobildern. Kosakowski zeigt auch Abläufe der Katastrophe, die wir so nicht sehen konnten. Sein Film bündelt die Visionen der Filmemacher aus der Traumfabrik.

Links

ARTE TV