art
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MONTREAL 2011: The cinema in your head
At the 29th festival of films about art, Festival International du Film sur l’Art (FIFA), DOX’s Kjetil Røed writes from different angles: psychological, conceptual, distortions of the real and intermedia reconsidered. But was the festival itself missing a historical and theoretical context?
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The transmediale festival in Berlin: Making films about themselves making films
The transmediale festival in Berlin is a quintessential summit for the discourse between art and digital culture. The “Immediated Autodocumentary” project – shot, edited and screened during the festival – points out how technology may have replaced the director with the transmedia producer.
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A monstrous ego-extravaganza art exhibition
Notorious uK street artist Banksy opens his clandestine world to the public and reveals the processes by which beautiful crimes turn into lucrative commodities. With cunning slapstick comedy, fumbling public-space invaders become black-clad ninjas, turning the precarious streets of Los Angeles into satirical gallery spaces.
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TORONTO 2009: Who Created Whom?
Remembering the past is what inspires reappropriation. With both their films, Backès and Bense give us work that has reproduced the essence of one man’s history into a documented artistic journey.
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Nature of art and creativity
The connection between "madness" and creativity has a long history, as does the notion of the "mad" having an inherent artistic capability. Such connections are explored in "The Living Museum" by Jessica Yu.