ŻUBROFFKA International Short Film Festival

Festival ZUBROFFKA is an open event not restricted by anything, respecting diversity and variety so characteristic for the region of Podlasie, it’s a place bringing together artists open to the WORLD, PEOPLE who have a sense of humour , who value NATURE and its products. The festival tries to provide a platform for exchanging ideas and thoughts, which will enable creative meetings of artists from eastern and western countries. Therefore we are visited by artists from Belarus, the USA, Latvia, the UK, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Germany, Russia, Poland, both professionals and amateurs.

The screenings and accompanying events, just like in the previous years, are going to take place in FORUM cinema and FAMA club, as well as in other partner venues, such as University in Bialystok, Bialystok railway station, Art School in Suprasl, “Borderland Centre” in Sejny. During the Festival apart from the competition screenings we aim to present a series of film and music attractions from all over the world.

more http://www.zubroffka.pl/en/

Film screening at the Arsenal Gallery power station:

 
2 December 2015, Wednesday, 18.00
 
Arsenal Gallery power station, ul. Elektryczna 13 (the entrance from ul. Świętojańska)

KIJEK/ ADAMSKI: like it! – A SUBJECTIVE MUSIC VIDEO ANTHOLOGY

The authors of our visuals, an artistic duo Kasia Kijek and Przemek Adamski, especially for the inauguration of the music video competition at ZUBROFFKA, rummaged through their favourite clips in recent years. Since they themselves create internationally awarded great music videos, you can be sure the presented set will expand your perception! This is what the artists write about their choices: “Music video is a visual form that allows you to explore the most experimental visual concept, both technical and narrative. This is a kind of testing ground on which we review our own ideas, but also fervently look at the actions of other artists. Despite changing media and marketing standards, music video has an unflagging popularity and continues to be a source of inspiration both for directors of longer-form films and creative workers in advertising agencies. From a large amount of works we have seen in recent years, we have selected the bravest, most brilliant or simply most memorable. We hope you like them too. ”

Program:
Metronomy: Month of Sundays, dir./reż. Callum Cooper, 3’30”
Darwin Deez: Free, dir./reż. Ninian Doff, 4’46”
Clubfeet: Everything You Wanted, dir./reż. Josh Thomas, Oh Yeah Wow, 3’43”
Connan Mockasin: Faking Jazz Together, dir./reż. Fleur & Manu, 4’15”
Willow: Sweater, dir./reż. Filip Sterckx, 4’01”
Liars: Brats, dir./reż. Ian Cheng, 3’03”
Manchester Orchestra: Simple Math, dir./reż. DANIELS, 5’21”
Passion Pit: Cry Like A Ghost, dir./reż. DANIELS, 4’45”
Jon Hopkins: Open Eye Signal, dir./reż. Aoife McArdle, 8’
Dan Deacon: When I Was Done Dying, dir./reż. Jake Fried, Chad Vangaalen, Dimitri Stankowicz, Colin White, Taras, Hrabowsky, Anthony Schepperd, Masanobu Hiraoka, Caleb Wood, KOKOFreakbean, 5’45”
Cold Specks – Neuroplasticity, reż. Alex Takacs, 8’03”
Jack White: Sixteen Saltines, dir./reż. AG Rojas, 2’54”
Bonobo: First Fires, dir./reż. Young Replicant, 4’48”
Joel Compass: Back To Me, dir./reż. Ian & Cooper, 3’
Kurt Vile: Never Run Away, dir./reż. HARRYS, 3’37”
Bonobo: Cirrus, dir./reż. Cyriak, 3’22”

3 December 2016, Thursday, 17.00

Arsenal Gallery power station, ul. Elektryczna 13 (the entrance from ul. Świętojańska)

Żubroffka special: CHINESE ALTERNATIVE TRANSFORMATIONS (64′)

Chinese transformations are one of the most fascinating cultural and political contemporary phenomena. Always cherished and appreciated mainstream animation studios stopped seeking new forms that would enable fusion of traditional Chinese arts with animation medium in 1990s and turned towards simplifications and consumerism. The rebirth of artistic language that would express individuals’ feelings and views can be credited to the specific and small group of mostly young authors. Among them one can find Lei Lei, one of the most impressive new Chinese talents currently in residence in France. His surreal My My and Missing One Player combine children-like naive imaginary with colourful and disturbing visuals. Shen Jie from Shanghai, author of non-narrative Run! and The Stammer enjoys loop sequences filled with subversiveness and deformations. History and specific historical memory full of traumas and innuendos became highly relevant subject in Pan Tianshou of Joe Chang who is a leading professor at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou; Chasing of visual artists Xia Weilun and Wu Chao as well as Ketchup of Guo Chunning and Yan Baishen, married couple of animators. Guo Chunning is also a pedagogue at Renmin University in Beijing. Her student Yao Liu is an author of intimate and touching Short-Sighted. Animated music videos is an autonomous and equally interesting story. Sunday Morning was made for the punk band Joyside by the famous Beijing-based, counter-cultural label Maybe Mars that used to create and stimulate alternative music scene of Chinese capital through production, recording, organizations of concerts and promotion. One could have perceived Maybe Mars’s activities as an expression of range against mainstream filled with kitch aesthetics and ultra-sexual narratives. Chick Chick made by Superfun for Wang Rong Rollin could be an example of such practice however it is impossible to unnotice its self-irony and ability to play with gender stereotypes.

Kurator/Curator: Olga Bobrowska

Program:
1. Sunday Morning, dir./reż. & prod. Maybe Mars, China 2001, 1’44”
2. Chick Chick, dir./reż. Superfun, prod. Wujixing Culture, China 2014, 3’50”
3. My My, dir./reż. & prod. Lei Lei, China 2011, 4’33”
4. Run!, dir./reż. & prod. Shen Jie, China 2012, 3’22”
5. Short-Sighted, dir./reż. Yao Liu, prod. Renmin University of China, China 2015, 3’40”
6. Ketchup, dir./reż. & prod. Guo Chunning, Yan Baishen, China 2012, 6’28”
7. Pan Tianshou, dir./reż. Joe Chang, prod. Joe’s Film, China 2003, 5’23”
8. Missing One Player, dir./reż. and prod. Lei Lei, China 2015, 4’32”
9. Stammer, dir./reż. & prod. She Jie, China 2013, 3’15”
10. Chasing, dir./reż. Chao Wu, Weilun Xia, China 2011, 27′