FilmPlatform is a new space for Danish and international independent
films which do not achieve traditional distribution.
FilmPlatform is a
place where filmmakers, other artists and the audience meet.
FilmPlatform started in 2006, by Patricia Davelouis and Torben Olander,
as a space where emerging film artist could have a possibility to show
their works and have an open dialogue with the audience.
FILM AND LITERATURE
From
April to December 2006, FilmPlatform had a regular event taking place
every month first in LiteraturHaus, and in the later years in
collaboration with Caféteatret in Copenhagen. Each event starts with
selected short films that are related to a theme. After the
screening, invited writers and film directors could discuss how their
work
relates to the theme, inviting the audience to participate.
MULTIMEDIEPOESI
A montage of Nordic poetry and Video Art showed at Copenhagen
International Poetry
Festival in May 2006, and at ‘Skandinavisk Forening i Rom’
(The Scandinavian Association in Rome) September 2006.
KUN.KORTFILM International Short Film Festival:
January 17th-21st 2007.
Short
films from around the world where shown at 5 different cafés and venues
in the heart of
Copenhagen; focusing on the human contact, as well as having the aim of
showing the best quality international films to the audiences.
VIS.DIN.FILM
A monthly screening of
national and international short films of new talented film directors,
invating the artist to talks with the participation of the audience,
mostly aranged in Caféteatret at the heart of Copenhagen.
Copenhagen-San
Francisco, Scandinavian Short Film Festival. arranged by
Torben Olander, took
place on October 2007 at ATA,
Artist Television Access.
Behind FilmPlatform are:
Patricia
Davelouis
Film director. She has directed a number of short films and
documentaries, like ‘Tågekysten’ - Odense Film Festival 2004-,
‘Camposanto’- Berlin, Zebra poetry film festival 2004-, "Rejsen til det
ukendte" - Danish television, DR2- a documentary on danish poets and
shamanisme in the jungle of Peru; “Paraiso, rejsedagbog" 2006, an
experimental documentary about cultural and social contrasts between
young people from Peru and Denmark. Co-creator of Multimediepoesi, a
montage of Nordic poetry and video art shown in Copenhagen and in Rome
2006. Patricia Davelouis is FilmPlatform’s Director and leader of
Kun.Kortfilm International Short Film Festival. patricia@filmplatform.dk
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Ada Ortega Camara
Visual artist.
Film coordinator and project developer of 60seconds, Short Film Festival at
Copenhagen Metro since 2006. Cultural editor for the
internet magazine cultur.com
which focuses on digital art, and has worked as coordinator of the
seminar´Digitale Teknologier i
Billedkunsten´ (Digital Technologies in Visual Art,) with
Miltos Manetas among others, arranged by the Royal Danish Academy of
Arts in 2003. She has
experience arranging art exibitions from her past work
at Overgaden and
Fotografisk
Center.
She is also working on a PHD about Lars Von Trier
films for the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain. Co-producer
of Multimediepoesi, a montage of film and poetry, shown in Copenhagen
and in Rome 2006. Filmplatforms second chairman, she is
also in charge of the web design together with Antonieta Medieros. ada@filmplatform.dk
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Antonieta
Medeiros
works freelance with visual communication and illustrations. She has
been the coordinator for a course in graphic design and illustration
for the education ministry of Bolivia and the leading Spanish
publishers Santillana and SM. She has published a number of
children’s
books and taught visual communication and visual theory at the
University of Bolivia. She is a set designer and cartoonist at
Zentropa’s new project, ‘Edderhop’. She makes the graphic design
for Multimediepoesi and FilmPlatform. anto@filmplatform.dk
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