Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/27-01-2015 -Event 3

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Tutorials Irina Botea: 10:15 - 14:45

  • 10:15 - 11:00Benjamin Li
  • 11:00 - 11:45 Elleke
  • 11:45 - 12:30 Joseph
  • 12:30 - 13:15 Lidia

lunch

  • 14:00 - 14:45 Caetano

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++++++++++++++++++Friday, 23.01.2015

10.00 Masterclass with Irina Botea in which she will mainly talk about her work and her approach to the medium.

Irina Botea (Ploiesti, Romania) has a BSc in Geology and Geophysics from Bucharest University (1995), a BFA and MFA from Bucharest University of Arts (2001) and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2006).

Over the past ten years Irina Botea have been engaged in an art practice that uses multiple media - digital video, film, video installation, performance, photography - to inspect the present socio political dynamics and the possibility of their transformation. Her work combines reenactment strategies with auditions and elements of direct cinema and cinema verite to look into the role trauma, history, language, and music play in the formation of the individual and the community.

The festival shows several of her most recent films the 24th of January, please find them here in English and Dutch:

https://www.iffr.com/en/combinedprogrammes/short-special-irina-botea-2015/

https://www.iffr.com/nl/verzamelprogrammas/short-special-irina-botea-2015/

http://www.irinabotea.com/ After Irina Botea’s masterclass, you will have the opportunity to visit two compilation programs of short films, a performance, and shorts in competition for the tiger awards.