The Film Society of Minneapolis St Paul, in partnership with Forecast Public Art, IFP Minnesota, Artists for Public Art 1777, and the Louvre Museum presents the US Premiere of this unique program of international films exploring public art. The films in competition were selected by a formidable list of jurors led by Wim Wenders. The program includes work by such notable artists as Niki de Saint Phalle and a piece, FILLING THE VOID, by Randy Walker of Minneapolis. Noa Karavan, director and founder of the program, will travel from Paris to be in attendance at the event.
Although millions of people all around the world experience Public Art at first hand on a daily basis, many of them do not always actually "see" them.
NowYouSeeMe! is an International Public Art Short Film Contest which aims to raise the awareness of the general public to works of art in the public domain and to promote the protection of these works.
The 8 winning films of the contest's first edition were screened at the prestigious Journées Internationales du Film sur l’Art at the Louvre Museum in Paris in January 2015. The jury, which was chaired by Wim Wenders and included Daniel Buren, Dani Karavan, Lech Majewski and Jaume Plensa shortlisted these films out of 72 entries submitted from 14 countries.
The contest was initiated by Noa Karavan Cohen, the president of Artists for Public Art 1777 in collaboration with the Louvre Museum, Arte Creative, BeauxArts Magazine, the Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes and the Polish Institute in Paris.
Film Lineup
- SO DA DU¨SSELDO RF - Dir: Kuesti Fraun
German w/ English subs | 3 min
In all the darkness there is some light.
- Launch Pad for Consciousness - Dir: Ezry Keydar
English | 6 min
In 1986, Ezra Orion, an Israeli sculptor and poet, initiated the second phase of the Mitzpe Ramon Desert Sculpture Park on the rim of the Ramon Crater. He created the work "Field of Rocks" as the largest component of the park; a 100 by 200 meters sculpture. This film presents Orion's work, vision, perception, & concept of tectonic sculpture and its supposed emotional impact on the viewer's conciseness. The film uses motion controlled time-lapse photography and excerpts from Orion's book Intergalactic Sculpture (2001) to depict his work.
- Today - Dir: Edgar Vandenbroucque
English | 4 min
Video clip for the song Today by New Gospel Family, on the Axe Majeur.
- The revival of the Columns of Buren - Dir: Anne Maregiano
French w/ English subs | 5 min
January 8th, 2010. Opening night of the renovation of the Columns create by Daniel Buren in the Palais Royal, Paris.
- Filling the Void - Dir: Deacon Warner; John Akre
English | 6 min
R. Walker created a public art sculpture in collaboration with the youth of Kuture Klub Collaborative at YouthLink in Minneapolis, an organization serving homeless youth. The resulting permanent steel sculpture is a dynamic work of colored fibers that are routinely re-configured by youth at Kuture Klub.
- Making Moveable Type - Dir: Jane Nisselson; Ben Rubin
English | 6 min
The public artwork Moveable Type parses the real-time content of the New York Times and displays it across an array of 560 small digital screens. The data is engineered to appear in clusters of numbers, maps, questions, photo captions, crosswords and other modules. The media artwork is located in the central corridor of the New York Times Building’s ground floor lobby (620 Eighth Avenue), and it is accessible to the general public.
- BRUUMRUUM! - Dir: Diane Toucedo
Catalan/Spanish w/ English subs | 12 min
BRUUMRUUM! Installation it's like a game in the public space that plunges people into a world of sound, rythm, color forms... A great equalizer that can measure and make visible the city movements and sounds.
- Sliding Flora - Dir: Talya Lavie
Hebrew w/ English subs | 12 min
Flora was born in the field, that’s what she keeps telling everyone. She is a waitress in a coffee shop that requires complex acrobatic skills. Flora cannot take it anymore. But she still hasn’t lost her dramatic talent...
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