In collaboration with the Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre
Friday 30.10, 11:00-14:00 The Suzanne Dellal Centre, Yerushalmi hall
Pina Bausch photo by Shmuel Rachmani; Merce Cunningham by Mark Seliger for the Cunningham Dance Foundation
Homage to both dance pillars who passed away this year, edited and presented by Gabi Eldor. Including: dance movies (excerpts), panel discussions on their contribution to culture, art and the dance world.
There will be short presentations by experts in areas tangent to dance, related to Bausch's and Cunningham's works (music, theatre, scenery, technology, mythology and more, and personal testimonials from leading Israeli dancers.
Among the films to be screened: a short version of Ladies and Gentlemen over 65 - a documentation of a work by Pina Bausch with people over 65 years old (Israeli premiere. The full version of the film will be screened on Friday 30.10 at 16:00 at Tel Aviv Cinematheque).
Tickets: 65 NIS at the Suzanne Dellal box office, tel "03-5105656"
Ladies and Gentlemen over 65 - courtesy of Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv
Extracts from “John Cage” courtesy of Arthaus Musik Other extracts - courtesy of Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Art Safari: The Tantrums, Tears and Traumas
of making Art Documentaries
Friday 30.10, 12:30 Cinematheque 2
Art Critic, Award-winning Film Maker and self confessed Art Geek, Ben Lewis explains the theories, strategies and process of making cult documentary films on the subject of Contemporary Art.
This is a Master Class unlike no other. Using comedy, audience interaction and excerpts from his award winning series Art Safari and latest feature The Great Contemporary Art Bubble, Ben brings the experiences to life. Get the inside story on the day he almost threw his Sophie Calle rushes in the bin; how to get banned by Sotheby's and Damien Hirst and how to get free works of art by making television programmes.
Tickets: 65 NIS at the Cinematheque box office (03-6060800)
In partnership with BI ARTS (British Israeli Arts Training Scheme), an initiative of the British Council, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture and Sport.
Homage to Francis Bacon
In collaboration with Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Saturday 31.10, 12:00-13:30 Tel Aviv Museum of art
Celebrating the English painter's 100th birthday, the event will start with a lecture by Tal Lanir: "Fragment of a Crucifixion - The art of Francis Bacon", and continue with a screening of the film FRANCIS BACON which follows a day in the life of the painter.
Tickets: 45 NIS (including entrance to the Museum – open till 4pm)
at the Museum box office (03-6077020)
and at the Cinematheque box office (03-6060800)
This Award-winning television series, produced by the contemporary art organization Art21, provides a unique look at today’s artists. Art:21 reveals artists’ perspectives on current affairs, politics, economics, history and popular culture, as well as showcases the artists’ working processes and their studios.
After each episode a discussion will take place between an Israeli artist and an expert in the field which the episode explores.
Topics:
1. Systems (Fri 30/10, 15:15-17:00, cinematheque 1)
Artists examine why we find comfort in some systems while rebelling against others. Systems features artists who realize complex projects through acts of appropriation or accumulation. In some instances, they create projects vast in scope, which almost elude comprehension.
Julie Mehretu is an accomplished Ethiopian-American painter. Her often large-scale abstract paintings and drawings reference techniques of mapping and architecture to achieve a complexity that suggests turbulent atmospheres and dense social networks. Art21 filmed Mehretu in Berlin, where she has temporarily relocated her studio to accommodate an enormous painting - commissioned by a major financial institution in lower Manhattan - which, in its conception, addresses the history of market-based capitalism.
Influential mentor and teacher to several generations of artists, John Baldessari integrates elements of photomontage, painting, and language in his work. He employs visual juxtapositions to associate images with words and illuminate, confound, and challenge their meaning.
Kimsooja is a Korean-born artist who now lives and works in the U.S. She combines the techniques of video, performance and installation in pieces which feature repetitive actions, practices and forms. Often inserting her own body in dense urban environments, as well as in isolated rural settings, Kimsooja’s video works at times blur the boundaries between aesthetics and transcendent experience.
Applying strategies of mass production to hand-made objects, Allan McCollum explores the meaning of the unique work of art versus that of mass-produced objects for a society gripped by consumption. In order to create a recent new work, filmed by Art21, McCollum collaborated - strictly via email and phone - with craftspeople in Maine. He is best known for creating large quantities of nearly identical - yet still unique - component objects which then constitute a single work of art.
The speakers: Hilla Ben Ari - artist and lecturer, exhibited in major art venues in Israel and the world over. Ben Ari graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (BFA, 1999) and the post graduate program at Kalisher Tel Aviv (2003) and has a Masters Degree in Comparative Literature from the Tel Aviv University (2006). The female body as a crossroads of political and cultural contexts is at the core of Ben Ari's installations.
Lin Chalozin Dovrat - a linguist, interested in the junction between the terms ‘Change’ and ‘System’ in the context of language and politics. She is deeply involved in human rights and feminist-oriented civil activism and teaches at Tel-Aviv University and at Sapir College’s Film Department.
Tickets: 35 NIS at the Cinematheque box office 03-6060800
2. Compassion (Saturday 31/10, 15:00 cinematheque 1)
This episode features artists whose works explore the possibility of understanding and reconciling past and present, while exposing injustice and expressing tolerance for others.
Employing stop-motion animation, drawing and performance, William Kentridge creates poignant films and stage productions that transform sobering political events - such as apartheid, revolution, and colonialism - into poetic allegories. Kentridge, a South African artist perhaps most famous for his animated films, and who works in diverse media including sculpture, charcoal drawings and prints, was included in the 2009 Time magazine 100 most influential people and is currently staging Shostakovich’s The Nose for the Metropolitan Opera.
Carrie Mae Weems takes inspiration from colloquial forms - a joke, song, plea, or rebuke - to create complex photographic series that scrutinize subjectivity and insist that pernicious stereotypes be held up to the mirror of everyday emotional and intellectual life. In a recent video and photo series, filmed around the time of the 2008 United States presidential election, Weems reflects upon the legacy of the 1960s that led to this recent historic moment.
Doris Salcedo draws from the oppressive history of her country, Colombia, when creating her work. Her understated sculptures and installations embody the silenced lives of the marginalized, from individual victims of violence in her own country to the larger disempowered populations of the Third World.
The speakers: Ronen Eidelman received his MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. He is an artist, writer, activist and cultural producer engaged with linking art, culture and grassroots politics and works extensively in the public sphere. He is the co-founder and editor of Ma’arav, a leading online art and culture magazine, likes hats and enjoys wearing many kinds. Roy Tzohar is a graduate of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, New York. He currently teaches Indian and Buddhist culture and philosophy at the East Asian Studies Department and the Philosophy
Department at Tel-Aviv University.
Tickets: 35 NIS at the Cinematheque box office 03-6060800
Art:21 Editors & Producers (Israel): Rotem Ruff, Karin Rywkind Segal
Rene Letzgus will attend the screening of
Sheila Hayman, a descendent of Felix Mendelssohn, will present
The award winning director and art critic will attend the festival and conduct a 
Other extracts - courtesy of Merce Cunningham Dance Company 
