Sunday 1 November, 8 pm Dis-Patch Festival CINEMA FOR THE EAR
AM/PM & Laurent Benner (CH)
Vladislav Delay & Lillevan (FI/IE)
Thursday, 5 November, 8 pm Dis-Patch Festival
RETINA TRACES screening
PICTOPLAZMA (DE) animation festival selection part 2
LINE (USA) presents color field variations
KINOVIDA (FI/IE) in concert
Friday, 6 November, 8 pm Dis-Patch Festival RASTER - NOTON SHOWCASE
Screening utp_alva noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto (DE/JP)
MIKA VAINIO (FI)
BUYTONE (DE)
Sunday, 8 November 5 pmDis-patch and Webfest present DOT FM Presentation and panel discussion // participants: Last FM, B92 FM, Resident Advisor ltd.
Moderator: Srđan Erceg (Webfest, RS) 8 pm Pan Sonic (FI) in concert
For more information about the Dis-Patch Festival line up, please visit: http://www.dis-patch.com
6 - 11 November FREE ZONE Film Festival "To be as broad and as open as possible is the ideal to aspire to. It is around there somewhere that the "free zone" lies. That space is open to everyone ready to dedicate themselves to others, no matter how different others may be. This is the space where life becomes film, only to immediately influence someone else's life"
David Albahari (introductory essay accompanying the festival catalogue).
The 5th FREE ZONE Film Festival will be held from 6 to 11 November at two venues: the Balkan Cinema and the Belgrade Cultural Centre.
The six-day event offers the audience an opportunity to see twenty-eight feature-length or short documentaries and feature films winning awards at the world's most renowned festivals. The protagonists of the films to be shown this year refuse to wait and become victims (Katalin Varga). They do not fight "against", but rather "for" something (A Jihad For Love), examine the past so as to build a future for themselves (My Neighbor, My Killer; Storm) take their destinies into their own hands as best they can, some armed with a camera (Burma VJ: Reporting From the Closed Country, We Live In Public), others ladle in hand (Cooking History). There are no big words or pomp. In the global village, ordinary people change the world. Small steps mark the beginning of big changes. Are you ready for the action?
Single Showing Ticket - 200 dinars. Tickets are sold from 3 November at ticket booths of the Belgrade Cultural Centre and the Balkan Cinema.
The proceeds go to the Fund B92 Food for All drive. SEE YOU IN THE FREE ZONE!
Additional information about the festival is available at: www.freezonebelgrade.org
Programme
Friday 6 November, 7 pm >>OPENING<< Belgrade Cultural Centre 7 pm Cooking History, directed by Peter Kerekes
(Slovakia/Czech Republic/Austria/Finland, 2009, 88') 9 pm Rabbit A La Berlin, directed by Bartosz Konopka (Poland/Germany, 2009, 39')
Saturday, 7 November Belgrade Cultural Centre 5 pmThe One Man Village, directed by Simon El Habre
(Lebanon, 2008, 86') 7 pm Russia 88, directed by Pavel Bardin (Russia, 2009, 104') 9 pm The Girlfriend Experience, directed by Steven Soderbergh (USA, 2009, 78') Balkan Cinema 5:30 pm Rough Aunties, directed by Kim Longinotto (UK, 2008, 103') 7:30 pm Storm, directed by Hans-Christian Schmid (Germany/Denmark/The Netherlands, 2009, 110')
Sunday, 8 November Belgrade Cultural Centre 5 pm A Jihad for Love, directed by Parvez Sharma (USA/UK/France/Germany/Australia, 2007, 81') 7 pm We Live in Public, directed by Odri Timoner (USA, 2009, 90') 9 pm Katalin Varga, directed by Peter Strickland (Romania/UK/Hungary, 2009, 82') Balkan Cinema 5:30 pm Mostar United, directed by Claudia Tosi (Italy/Slovenia, 2008, 54) 7:30 pmAbout Elly, directed by Asgar Farhady (Iran, 2009, 119')
Monday, 9 November Belgrade Cultural Centre 5 pm Defamation, directed by Yoav Shamir (Israel/Denmark/USA/Austria, 2009, 91') 7 pm The Cove, directed by Louie Psihoyos (USA, 2009, 92') 9 pm London River, directed by Rachid Bouchareb (UK/France/Algeria, 2009, 87') Balkan Cinema 5:30 pmYoung at Heart, directed by Stephen Walker, Sally George (UK, 2007, 107') 7:30 pmSomers Town, directed by Shane Meadows (UK, 2008, 75')
Tuesday, 10 November Belgrade Cultural Centre 5 pmBurma VJ: Reporting From the Closed Country, directed by Anders Ostergaard (Denmark, 2008, 84') 7 pm On the Way To School, directed by Ozgur Dogan, Orhan Eskikoy (Turkey/The Netherlands, 2008, 81') 9 pm Goodbye Solo, directed by Ramin Bahrani (USA, 2008, 91') Balkan Cinema 5:30 pmPetition - The Court of the Complainants, directed by Zhao Liang
(China/Switzerland/VB/France/Belgium/Finland, 2009, 120') 7:30 pm Teza, directed by Haile Gerima (Ethiopia/Germany/France, 2008, 140')
Wednesday, 11 November Belgrade Cultural Centre 5 pm My Neighbor, My Killer, directed by Anna Aghion (USA/France, 2009, 80') 7 pm Happy Land, directed by Goran Dević (Croatia, 2008, 50') Three, directed by Goran Dević (Croatia, 2008, 30') 9 pm Disgrace, directed by Steve Jacobs (Australia/South Africa, 2008, 120')
Balkan Cinema 5:30 pmStories On Human Rights (22 different authors, Germany/Russia, 2008, 88') 7:30 pmThe Yes Men Fix the World, directed by Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno (France/USA, 2009, 87')
Thursday, 12 November, 8 pm Promo concert to launch the second album of Jesenji orkestar (Autumn Orchestra) SONGS OF THE MOON AND A TRAIN The promo concert by Jesenji orkestar (Autumn Orchestra) to launch their second album will feature songs from the previous album too. This time the band will be stronger thanks to the guest appearance of Ivan Čkonjević who will be playing the guitar and percussions. Additional guest appearances are a possibility and the audience is welcome to take an active part in the concert. This is the first and exclusive opportunity for the audience to buy the new album, each copy of which is marked by its own number and makes part of a limited number of copies made. Daniel Kovač was joined by guest performers on the album and guest appearances include: Milan Bjelica, Kralj Čačka, Ivan Čkonjević, Sonja Lončar, Vladan Maksimović, Milica Mitić, Vuk Stevanović, Aleksandar Stojković St. The album was produced by Milan Bjelica and Daniel Kovač. It was recorded by Milan Bjelica at Chambre Libre except for the song "Vrednost oluje" recorded by Marko Perunović during the Lepi Ritam Srca radio show and finished by St somewhere in Goribor. Album art was conceived and made by Ana Marija Cupin. Mastering: Digimedia studio. Songs written by: Daniel Kovač.
Ticket price: 150 dinars.
Tickets will be sold at the door, one hour before the concert.
13 and 14 November ŽENERGIJA (FEMALENERGY) BLUST Festival- cancelled :( http://www.zenergija.org
Thursday, 19 November, 8 pm THE DARIEN DILEMMA
The film THE DARIEN DILEMMA tells the true story of an event that took place in Serbia in the years immediately before the German occupation of the kingdom of Yugoslavia. The focus is placed on a convoy of a thousand Jews from Central Europe fleeing the Nazi rule. In 1939, they tried to venture down the river Danube hoping to reach Istanbul and ultimately Palestine. Unfortunately, they only managed to go as far as Kladovo where they faced the winter and the Danube covered by ice and closed for navigation. So they waited in vain for a ship to appear on the Romanian side of river to take them away.
The authors of the film, father and son Nachum and Erez Laufer explore this touching epic tale by talking to the survivors, the former passengers of Kladovo Transport and reconstruct the events and persons taking part in them in an emotional and moving way.
Free entrance.
Supported by Israeli Embassy. http://www.dariendilemma.com/eng/
Friday, 20 November 1- 3 pm Conference marking the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child WE CARE
Child Rights Centre marks November 20th, 1989 the date when the he United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child by organizing the conference titled WE CARE.
The conference is a joint effort of the Child Rights Centre and Save the Children Norway marking the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The event is aimed at raising the awareness of the public of the fact that the rights of the child in Serbia are not upheld and familiarizing the wider public with the accomplishments of the Children's Coalition monitoring the implementation of children's rights in accordance with the optional protocols accompanying the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Come and show that you care!
Saturday 21 November 3 - 6 pm WOMEN'S DAY - women's surprise meeting
Žene na delu - Women at Work invite you to participate in a surprise workshop. The regulars who have been taking part in Women's Day activities and those who have not had the time to join us before are both welcome. As always, we will be relaxed, doing practical things in the spirit of our activist approach providing support for women wishing to fill their leisure time with high-quality activities in the city. As usual, the workshop will be led by a very capable woman. This surprise meeting will also provide an opportunity for us to offer provide free copies of a book we worked on with other women contemplating on what and how we are doing and also how much time we spend resting, having fun and enjoying ourselves. In late November and early December every year, women's organizations in Serbia join in the international campaign fighting violence against women. We will be informing you about important local current events, because women have the right to life without violence! If you have ideas you would like to share with us, bring them to the November's Women's Day or, as always, write at: net@zenergija.org.
During a short break and before the event we will be offering refreshments: tea, coffee, water, fruit, some sweets and a wide selection of material and books on women's activism! This time too, we will do our best to provide free copies of feminist publications, brochures and books by female authors.
The workshop is free and open to all women, friends, daughters, colleagues, neighbours, moms and grannies. The venue and the programme are accessible to women with disabilities, as well as those who would like to bring their children. Feel free to inform us of your needs so that we can give you best possible form of support. Welcome!
The Women's Day project began in 2008 and continues throughout this year too. With more than 300 women taking part in the programme so far, we are even more enthusiastic about continuing to invest efforts in improving the quality of the activities that women living in the city can choose in their free time. We have prepared an exciting programme to be carried out in collaboration with some new fabulous women, while others who have already participated in this event will be joining us again!
We are also our very pleased to announce the expansion of the Women's Day programme to Novi Sad where it is being carried out successfully. Additional information about the programme available at: http://n-l-o.org.
Spread the word among your female friends!
For more details about Women's Day, please visit: http://zenergija.org.
Saturday 21 November, 8 pm POETRY RING 12 Active Poetry Training
Active Poetry Training POETRY RING has become the most popular literary event in the city. The forthcoming September edition will feature poetesses and poets, new and seasoned, beginners and stars, favourites and renegades, wild ones and offenders, sensitive and fickle, quarrelsome and squeamish, diligent and discouraged but no quitters.
+ unexpected guest poets
+ guests of the evening
+ distribution of the book published with the money from the proceeds from the previous POETRY RING
A Škart production
Organized by REX
Entrance fee: 100 dinars
The proceeds will be invested into the publication of the next book in the Poetry Ring book series (this form of self-financing opens up possibilities for the appearance of first books of poetry by authors active outside the mainstream and unwilling to accept the dictate of the market). If you would like to participate, please write to: pesnicenje@gmail.com.
Sunday 22 November, 7 pm MY CITY Festival - BUDAPEST 7 pm Opening of the exhibition Budapest Spa City 7:30 pm Screening of the Budapest Spa VJ set
8 pm Performance by Balint Szombathy
8:30 pm Tudosok in concert www.myspace.com/tudosok
For several years now, the ship / cultural centre A38 in Budapest has been carrying out the project / series of unconventional festivals named My City. The project is aimed at presenting the culture of important cities from a peculiar angle. The cultural scene of Belgrade was already featured in this unique floating cultural centre in 2007 and now the focus of the one-day festival is on the culture in Budapest and a selection of artists active in the city.
The ship A38 is a member of Trans Europe Halles (TEH) www.teh.net, a European network of independent cultural centres among whose members is Cultural Centre REX. http://www.a38.hu
Tuesday
24 November, 8 pm DUO DONEDA in Concert / KOCHER - improvisation
Michel Doneda, soprano saxophone (F)
Jonas Kocher, accordion (CH)
Guests: Duo Blank Disk (Zrenjanin)
Wednesday, 25 November, 12 pm - 11 pm ECO FESTIVAL organized by ZELENA OMLADINA (GREEN YOUTH)
The organization Zelena omladina (Green Youth) has conceived the festival of environmental films as an interesting and useful way of introducing the public to current or future environmental problems. It will showcase five feature-length films about the influence of Man on the environment, climate change, recycling and preventing further damage to the planet. Short videos covering these topics will be shown during the breaks between the films.
Zelena omladina Srbije (Green Youth of Serbia) is a non-governmental organization founded in 2000 with the aim of promoting green ideas and lifestyle. It brings together young people, mostly students ready to take an active part in solving local problems, raising the awareness of the local people about global issues and actively contribute to building the society.
Thursday, 26 November, 8 pm EXPLICIT MUSIC presents Lawrence English in concert
As part of the Explicit Music project carried out in collaboration with the REX cultural centre, CHINCH - Contemporary Music Initiative presents Australian multimedia artist, composer and curator Lawrence English in concert.
English is primarily interested in the audio component of natural phenomena, distortion and constant change of the source of sound itself by using concrete field recordings and sounds produced by instruments altered by the application of analogue, digital and other sonic filters. This is how the artist adds "another layer of sonic fog" onto the original material, creating rounded and fluctuating sound sculptures that are stimulating to hear. Lawrence English's work is released on the record labels such as Touch music, 12K and Winds Measure, Baskaru, while he himself is in charge of part of the selection of the ROOM40 label. The Wire magazine highlighted that his "use of space and silence is remarkable", while many other expert opinions indicate that English is one of the very best representatives of the modern concrete music today.
The concert is organized with the support of the City Secretariat for Culture, Belgrade and the Belgrade city borough of Stari grad. Ticket price: 150 dinars www.lawrenceenglish.com www.chinch.org www.explicit-music.org www.rex.b92.net
29 November - 6 December, 8 pm SHORT ELECTRONIC FORM FAIR 10 Sunday, 29 November, 8 pm Opening of the Fair The topic of SEF 10 is "30 Seconds in ex-Yu"
All submissions that meet the basic requirements of the open call (relatedness to the topic, duration of up to 30 seconds, electronic form, innovativeness, media appeal) received not later than 20 November, will be shown at the exhibitions simultaneously held in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, Vranje, Podgorica, Banjaluka and elsewhere... The exhibitions will take place from 29 November to 6 December, 2009.
Recommended formats for submissions are wav, ogg, mpeg, avi, html, swf, gif. More detailed instructions regarding the formats and the ways of submitting works can also be obtained by sending an e-mail to kef@rex.b92 or by visiting the questions and answers section of the site http://www.rex.b92.net/kef.
Starting this year, MTS introduces the SHORT ELECTRONIC FORM FAIR section: Mobile in the ex-Yu showcasing to up to 30 seconds long videos and series of photographs made using camera-equipped mobile phones.
These submissions will be continually shown on the special page of the Short Electronic Form Fair web site. The author of the best work in this category will be presented with a special prize awarded by Telekom Srbija i.e. MTS. Unlike the submissions intended to be shown at exhibitions only, the works in the MTS section will be made available to the public to vote for even during the open call. The votes cast by the visitors of the Short Electronic Form Fair web site will decide the award winner.
The experience of the previous nine fairs has shown that audio works remain underrepresented or not sufficiently heard. On the occasion of the 10th Short Electronic Form Fair, creations in this domain will be given additional 30 seconds and will be allowed to last up to one minute. This is to encourage the authors in the area of sound, voice or speech and open up possibilities for recording and submitting short stories too. The winners in this category will also receive a special prize awarded by the Museum of Yugoslav History.
The call is open to all interested individuals.
SUBMISSIONS - files not larger than 15 MB ARE TO BE SENT EXCLUSIVELY BY USING THE UPLOAD PAGE: "Submissions" or IF THE MATERIAL IS RECORDED USING A MOBILE PHONE, it is to be uploaded to the MTS Special page.
The most successful participants will be awarded three identical prizes by the Rex (ex-Yu) jury at the opening of the exhibitions.
The prizes consist of TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT
3 x 50,000 dinar worth of equipment of the winners' choice.
The audience awards will be given after the closing of the exhibition. They consist of the total amount of money collected from the donations that audience members give receiving ballot tickets in return. http://www.rex.b92.net/kef
Organized and produced by Cultural Centre REX in collaboration with the New Media Department of the Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad; Dušan Cvetković, Niš; Dom omladine (Youth Cultural Centre), Banjaluka (BiH), Faculty of Visual Arts , Podgorica (Montenegro).
Short Electronic Form Fair 10 is carried out with the support of the Belgrade city borough of Stari grad, the City Secretariat for Culture, Belgrade and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia.
Friend of the project and sponsor of the MTS Special award for the work made by using a mobile phone: Telekom Srbija - Mobile Telephony of Serbia
Media sponsor: RDP B92
Media support: RTV Atlas (Podgorica, Montenegro), CastraNET Radio (Banjaluka, BiH)
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The Short Electronic Form Fair is an exhibition of electronic art works that last not longer than 30 seconds or can be viewed during that time. Authors are expected to create within the time frame ruled by the advertising industry and mass communications. A short video or audio recording, spoof ad, scroll text message, slogan, jingle, web banner or a web site, screen saver, a series of photographs made in 30 seconds, flash or 3D animation or any other media product can reflect your vision, become a vehicle for a critical appraisal of the world we live in, alternative form of entertainment or echo your need to find your way around the media jungle. SEF is open not only to artists, but also to all consumers of media culture. www.rex.b92.net/kef
* The BIBLIOTOK project aims to introduce the wider public to the publications focusing on contemporary art, theory of culture, literature, comics, gender studies and minority groups. The library at REX has many such publications that appeared in the volatile conditions in the 1990s and after 2000. How does the general public perceive and understand the content of these magazines, studies and collections of articles about the still topical issues from the worlds of culture and politics? This is the question we aim to find an answer to together with the people living in three buildings in the vicinity of the REX cultural centre. The people in each building have been given a dozen publications, among which the issues of magazines Arkzin, Reč, Profemina, Stripburger, Prelom, Remont, etc. This project is still open to other groups and individuals as part of the project FLUX AROUND US. www.rex.b92.net/fluxokonas
* REX hosts:
- meetings of the Mirabela club.
The club brings together people who love vegetation and other forms of life on this planet. Its members enjoy roaming in nature and listening to its rhythms. They are mainly students and graduates of biology, biochemistry, ethnomusicology and other disciplines, but the club equally welcomes all other people who respect nature. Mirabela was founded as a result of an informal activity aimed at discovering the surroundings of Belgrade on foot. The inaugural meeting of the Mirabela club, Belgrade-based non-profit organization promoting environmental projection was held on 22 November, 2008. http://www.mirabela.org/