CologneOFF
is happy to announce that
CologneOFF VI - 6th Cologne International Videoart Festival
will be launched in September as a preview on
–> BuSho - Budapest International Short Film Festival -
1-5 September 2010 - http://www.busho.hu
presenting a selection from the future CologneOFF VI festival program
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne,
based on the results of the international jury consisting of
Margarida Paiva ( Norway), Gioula Papadopoulou (Greece)
Macu Moran (Spain), Giorgio Fedeli (taly)
Jonas Nilsson/Eva Olsson (Sweden)
Mohamed Allam (Egypt), Tamas Gabeli (Hungary)

Open here the invitation

See selected artists –>

Shota Gamisonia (Russia) – Field, Clowns, Apple, 2008, 15:00
Ayman Azraq (Palestine) – Passport, 2007, 6:30
Mohammed Harb (Palestine) - Without Windows, 2009, 5:00
Rosa Futuro (Italy) – The Future is Rosy, 2010, 8:00
Shahar Marcus (Israel) – Homecoming Artist, 2008, 4:37
Dellani Lima (Brazil) - Bolivia, I miss you, 2009, 7:00
Robby Rackleff (USA) - Dark Fortress Occult Master of Space: Genesis Genesis, 2009, 3:00
Barry Morse (USA) – Mouse’s Birthday, 2010, 3:35
Francesca Fini (Italy) – Cry Me, 2009, 4:34
Ulf Kristiansen (Norway) - The Hope of Enduring Long, 2010, 1:00
Cyane Tornatzky (USA) - SELF PORTRAIT:The Home Scientist Gets to Know Herself, 2006, 5:53
Irina Gabiani: (Georgia) – Diachronicon, 2010, 1:00
Angela Washko (USA) – Washko’s PR, 2010, 2:00
Adam Dragojevich (Croatia) - Sweet Memory, 2010, 1:00
Bijoyini Chatterjee (Indiia) – When I was, 2009, 9:51
Jack Brandtman (Australia) – Nightlife, 2010, 1:00

CologneOFF is presenting in New Dehli not only its 6th festival edition, but also some of its partners —>
City Breath Festival Cape Town/RSA - curated by Kai Lossgott
Memory & Identity - videoart from Italy - curated by Giorgio Fedeli
Memory & Identity - videoart from USA - curated by Alysse Stepanian
Oslo Screen Festival - Norwegian selection - curated by Margarida Paiva
Portuguese Video Art - curated by Pedro Almeida & Sergio Gomes

see selected videos –>

Ulf Kristinansen (Norway) - The Care Bears - 2010, 3:00
Barry Morse (USA) - Mouse’s Birthday - 2010, 3:35
Emeka Ogboh (Nigeria) - [dis] connection - 2009, 1:58
Ocusonic aka Paul O Donoghue (Ireland) - Why Do You Have a Beard? - 2010, 6:02
Denise Hood (USA) - Disconnect - 2009, 3:47
Irina Gabiani (Georgia) - Diachronicon - 2010, 1:00
Sai Hua Kuan (Singapore) - Space Drawing No. 5 - , 2009, 1:02
Pablo Fernandez-Pujol (Spain) - 142-143 - 2010, 2:10
Shahar Marcus (Israel) - The Homecoming Artist - 2007, 4:37
Mohamed Harb (Palestine) - Without Windows - 2009, 5:04

Margarida Paiva , director of Oslo Screen Festival Norway)
Gioula Papadopoulou, curator of Videoart Festival Miden (Greece)
Macu Moran, director Video Art World (Spain)
Giorgio Fedeli, curator of Visual Container (taly)
Jonas Nilsson/Eva Olsson, curators Art Video Screening & coordinators of Orebro International Videoart Festival (Sweden)
Mohamed Allam, director Medrar Video Festival (Egypt)
Tamas Gabeli , director Budapest International Shortfilm Festival (Hungary)

made the selections via online voting.

Here are the results of the selected video creators from 36 countries:

Shota Gamisonia (Russia) # #
Johanna Reich (Germany) # #
Ubermorgen.com (Austria) # #
Ayman Azraq (Palestine) # #
Mohamed Harb (Palestine) # #
Dee Hood (USA) # #
Nathania Rubin (USA) # #
Alicia Felberbaum (UK) # #
Luc Gut (Switzerland) # #
Jon Rubin (USA) # #
Rosa Futuro (Italy) # #
Birger Åseson Storaas (Norway) # #
Jeffrey Anderson Bliss (USA) # #
Daveed Shwartz (Israel) # #
Shahar Marcus (Israel) # #
Debbie White (Australia) # #
Sai Hua Kuan (Singapore) # #
Dellani Lima (Brazil) # #
Karlos Alastruey (Spain) # #
Richard Bolland (RSA) # #
Confusion Group (Spain) # #
Neringa Naujokalte (Lithuania) # #
Renata Gaspar & Marcin Dudek (Poland) # #
Marianne & Daniel O’Reilly (UK) # #
Robby Rackleff (UK) # #
Barry Morse (USA) # #
Francesca Fini (Italy) # #
Ulf Kristiansen (Norway) # #
Emeka Ogboh (Nigeria) # #
Ocusonic aka Paul O’Donghue (UK) # #
Aiko Okamoto (Japan) # #
Marc Thele (Germany) # #
Henry Gwiazda (USA) # #
Cyane Tornatzky (USA) # #
Roland Quelven (France) # #
Aysegul Guryuksel (Turkey) # #
Olga Tzimou (Greece)
Pablo Fernandez Pujol (Spain) # #
David Geiss (Canada) # #
Fumiko Matsuyama (Japan) # #
Juan Obando (Colombia) # #
Tajinder Singh Dhami (UK) # #
Alfred Banze (Germany)
Angela Washko (USA) # #
Ayatgali Tuleubek (Kazakhstan) # #
John Criscitello (USA) # #
Lukas Matejka (Slovakia) # #
Megan Daalder (USA) # #
Jared Katsiane (USA) # #
Fintan Ryan (Ireland) # #
Maria Canas (Spain) # #
Dr. Boston (USA) # #
Aleksandar Grozdanovski (Macedonia) # #
Doug Williams (USA) # #
Julie Meitz (USA) # #
Jorge Garcia Velayos (Spain) # #
Cynthia Domenico (Brazil) #
Biying Zhang (China) # #
Luis Ascanio (Venezuela) # #
Bijoyini Chatterjee (India) # #
Jerome Symons (The Netherlands) # #
Niamh Heery (Ireland) # #
Ciento Volando Collective (Spain) # #
Gonzalo Cueto (Chile) # #
Shun Yu Mo (Hongkong) # #
Stephanie Barber (USA) # #
ilippo Tagliati (Italy) # #
Boris Eldagsen (Germany) # #
Laura Brocken (UK) # #
Xiaowen Zhu (China) # #

Special selection
Andrew Venell (USA) #

One Minute Films

Allison Beda (USA) # #
Sarah Bhimji (USA) # #
Jack Brandtman (USA) # #
Joe Candido (Finland) # #
Nicki Davis (USA) # #
Adam Dragojevich (Croatia) # #
Irina Gabiani: (Georgia) # #
Ulf Kristiansen (Norway) # #
Mores McWreath (USA) # #
Aaron Oldenburg (USA) # #
Adrian Zalewski (Poland) # #

Special selections by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Lemeh 42 (Italy) # #
Andi McGarry (Ireland) # #
Tadas Tvarionas (Lithuania) # #
Athur Tuoto (Brazil) # #
iaaai (France) # #
HP Process (France) #
Raphaël Blum (France) # #
Darko Stojkov (Serbia) # #
David Boris Miranda Hardy, Hector Falcón Villa, Brandon Watz and Katya Gorker (Chile) # #
Giulia Berto & Giulia Forgione (Italy) # #

Russian Feature
Mikhail Zheleznikov (Russia) # #
Kira Zhigalina (Russia) #
Shota Gamisonia (Russia) # #
Alexej Trotsenko (Russia) # #
Anna Nesterova (Russia) # #

Interactive
Ian Flitman (UK) ##

Out of competition
The Marcel Collective (Belgium) # #

Family Affair 2 - Father
Antti Savela (Sweden) # #
Anders Weberg (Sweden) # #
Richard Jochum (Austria) # #
Zellner Bros (USA) # #
Shahar Marcus (Israel) # #
Yin-Ling Chen (Taiwan) # #
Constantin Hartenstein (Germany) # #
Antonio Alvarado (Spain) # #
Zack Bent (USA) # #
Lindsay Foster (USA) # #
Virginia Colwell (USA) # #
Agricola de Cologne #

CologneOFF
is happy to install a partnership with
GAZA International Video Art Festival
http://www.gfvart.ps/

4th Gaza International Videoart Festival
Gaza - Jerusalem - Ramallah - Rafah - Jabalia - Bethlehem
19-24 June 2010

Download the festival program as PDF
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/gaza_video_art_festival_2010.pdf

featuring
Rafael Alcala (Puerto Rico)
Dario Bardic (Croatia)
Casey McKee (USA)
Nitin Das (India)
Alyssse Stepanian (Iran/USA)
Mihai Grecu (Romania)
Daniel Lo Iocono (Germany)
Istvan Rusvai (Hungary)
Yu Cheng Yu (Taiwan)

CologneOFF VI - 6th edition of Cologne International Videoart Festival - is coming with all its power.

On 4 May 2010, the submission period for the next festival edition ended, and another record can be announced –> in 2010 CologneOFF received 517 submissions from 40 countries, thus the quantity of submissions has nearly doubled compared with the year before.

The procedure will be the following:
CologneOFF will prepare a pre-selection to be reviewed the international jury, consisting of

Margarida Paiva, director of Oslo Screen Festival (Oslo/Norway)
Gioula Papadopoulou, curator of Videoart Festival Miden (Kalamata/Greece)
Macu Moran, director Video Art World (Barcelona/Spain)
Giorgio Fedeli, curator of Visual Container (Milan/Italy)
Jonas Nilsson, curator Art Video Screening & coordinator of Orebro International Videoart Festival (Orebro/Sweden)
Mohamed Allam, director Medrar Video Festival (Cairo/Egypt)
Tamas Gabeli, director Budapest International Shortfilm Festival (Budapest/Hungary)

After the selection period during June, in July the results of the jury selections will be published, in September 2010, CologneOFF VI will be launched and screened in the framework of BuSHO - Budapest International Shortfilm Festival 2010 .

In 2011, CologneOFF VI will form the basis of CologneOFF 2011 - Cologne International Videoart Festival to take place for the first time in Cologne.

CologneOFF V – Taboo! Taboo?
Curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

The festival theme goes down to the question whether the social ban, called TABOO can be still existing in times when all existing “taboos” are broken. While in non-Western societies this social ban is still widely practiced as a traditional form of moral ruling and using power, in the Western societies the traditional forms of social and moral banning are replaced by new, but individual ones, since the human being and the human society obviously is not able to live without guilt and moral restrictions.
There are countless mainly personal reasons why people are forced or forcing themselves to speak a ban, by refusing to talk about subjects, situations etc.Violence, whether domestic, social or administrative violence belongs to the old and new taboos.in all societies on the globe taking influence on memory and identity.
The present selection wants to show how video makers coming from different countries, cultures and societies reflect an ancient social act, which is more contemporary than ever.

CologneOFF V
AllArtNow International New Media Art Festival Damascus/Syria http://www.allartnow.com- 25-30 May 2010

Sreedeep (India), Casey McKee (USA), Margarida Paiva (Portugal)
Erika Yeomans (USA), Rafael (Belgium), Liu Wei (China)
Mihai Grecu (Romania), Dario Bardic (Croatia)
Alex Lora (Spain), Istvan Rusvai (Hungary)

CologneOFF V
Fonlad - Digital Art Festival
15-28 May Coimbra/PT - www.fonlad.net

Casey McKee (USA), Alex Lora (Spain), Frank Gatti (France)
Jym Davis (USA), Erika Yeomans (USA)
Margarida Paiva (Portugal), Istvan Rusvai (Hungary)

VideoChannel- Found Footage!
Bill Domonkos (USA), Deinse Hood (USA), Dr. Boston (USA), Alexander Mouton (USA),
James Woodward (USA), Constantin Hartenstein (Germany), Dennis Summers (USA), Jennifer Schwed (USA), Rajorshi Ghosh (USA)

CologneOFF V
One Shot – International Shortfilm Festival Yerewan/Armenia
17-24 May 2010

Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (iceland), Cythia Whelan (uk)
Jeanette Louie (USA), Sonja Vuk (Croatia)
Masha Yozepfolsky (Israel), Alysse Stepanian (Iran)
Margarida Paiva (Portugal), Larissa Sansour (Palestine)
Anna Porzelt (Germany)

CologneOFF V
Athens Video Art Festival
7-9 May 2010 - http://www.athensvideoartfestival.gr

Lin Fangsuo (China), Casey McKee (USA)
Margarida Paiva (Portugal), Anna Porzelt (Germany)
David Jakubovic (USA), Frank Gatti (France)
Alex Lora (Spain), Ioannis Roumeliotis (Greece)
Yu Cheng Yu (Taiwan), Philip Matousek (Germany)
Istvan Rusvai (Hungary)

1. Venue

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne will present a selection of CologneOFF V on Oslo Screen Festival - www.screenfestival.no
12 - 14 Mach 2010

In 2010, Oslo Screen Festival is partner festival of CologneOFF –> see also festival profile of Oslo Screen Festival on netMAXX - networked magazine - http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=133

More details about the selection presented in Oslo
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=463

2. Daily features
In February2010, CologneOFF is starting a new series of daily features of films from CologneOFF IV - Here We Are! on VAD - Video Art Database
http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1632

1.
In February2010, CologneOFF is starting a new series of daily features of films from CologneOFF IV - Here We Are! on VAD - Video Art Database
http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1632

2. Venue
CeC - Carnival of e-Creativitity Sattal/India - 19-21 February 2010 - will present the festival program of CologneOFF V.
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=448

more info about CeC’2010 see –>
http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec10/index.htm

More info about CeC - Carnival of eCreativity can be found on netMAXX - networked magazine
http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=117

1.
In January 2010, CologneOFF ist continuing the daily features of film from CologneOFF V - Taboo? Taboo! on VAD - Video Art Database
http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1272

2.
In February 2010, when the daily CologneOFF features are complete, CologneOFF will start to feature daily films from CologneOFF IV on VAD - Video Art Database, . Details to be announced in February 2010

3.
CeC - Carnival of e-Creativitity Sattal/India - 19-21 Febraury 2010 - will present the entire festival program of CologneOFF V.
http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec10/index.htm