Temporary Cities

TEMPORARY CITIES
CYCLE OF FIVE DOCUMENTARIES
A PROJECT BY ZIMMERFREI
TEMPORARY CITIES
Temporary Cities is a cycle of documentary films that ZimmerFrei group has been making since 2010. They are portraits of cities filmed in small areas, which could span one particular part of the city, or a neighbourhood, a square or even a single bench, where the main theme is the residents daily life and temporary users’ perception of public space and the way they inhabit and transform it. At the moment there are five city portraits: Brussels, Copenhagen, Budapest, Mutonia and Marseille. The first chance for production was the commission of the Kunsten Festival des Arts of Brussels to make a film and an installation in the road where the festival was situated in 2010: rue de Laeken/Lakenstraat. The film involved the shops and offices which look out onto the road, producing a cross-­‐section of the daily working life of a part of the city of Brussels, therefore becoming a way of looking at the vast and mysterious “interior city”, which emerges in the collective consciousness of both the French and Flemish communities. The LKN Confidential film has therefore aroused the interest of some European festivals dedicated to art, performance and media in the public space which are rounded up in the European network called In Situ. Since 2011 the initial project of “City Portraits” has been renamed as the Temporary Cities series. The Hill was released in 2011, filmed on a little hill in the Nørrebro neighbourhood of Copenhagen, with production by KIT/InSitu; Temporary 8th (2012) was filmed in Budapest’s ex Roma neighbourhood, 8th District, with the production of Artopolis/PLACCC Festival/In Situ; Hometown|Mutonia was filmed in a temporary traveller camp in Italy and produced by Santarcangelo Festival and Regione Emilia-­‐Romagna Film Commission. The last film La beauté c’est ta tête was filmed in a small bar in Noailles, a neighbourhood not yet gentrified near the Old Port of Marseille, produced by Lieux Publics and In Situ network for Marseille European Capital of Culture 2013. The project will continue over the next two years, moving to the Netherlands, on the island of Terschelling with the co-­‐production of Oerol Festival and of In Situ network. In the meanwhile in October 2014 ZimmerFrei received a support from VAF -­‐ Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds for the writing of the screenplay of a new documentary project at CERN in Geneva (daily life of scientists and researchers working in the world’s biggest research centre for particle physics). Temporary Cities films have benefited from Creation Aid by IN SITU Network, as part of the META Project, with the backing of the European Community (DGEAC – Culture Program) and are having a good response, with several theatrical screenings and selections by documentary and film festivals. Among these, the Torino Film Festival 2012 dedicated a ZimmerFrei Tribute in the “Onde” section, projecting all the films from the series and Biografilm Festival did the same in 2014 in Bologna. Visioni Italiane 2013 festival in Bologna awarded Temporary 8th with Best documentary film prize. Hometown|Mutonia has been selected by Rome International Film Festival (CinemaXXI), Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival and Biografilm Festival in Bologna. La beauté c’est ta tête has been selected by Visions du Réel in Nyon, DMZ DOC in Korea and Biografilm in Bologna. All the five films will be screened in October 2015 at the 41th Film Fest Gent in Ghent, Belgium. ZIMMERFREI
ZimmerFrei is a filmmakers and artists’ collective formed by the video maker Anna de Manincor (Trento, 1972), the sound designer Massimo Carozzi (Massa, 1967) and the artist and director Anna Rispoli (Bassano del Grappa, 1974). The collective has two headquarters, one in Brussels and one in Bologna – the city where the group was formed in 2000. ZimmerFrei’s artistic practices range from video art to documentary films, sound and environmental installations, as well as photography, performances, workshops and public art projects. ZimmerFrei dives itself into urban and rural places in transformation, when the cities and temporary communities are formed, transformed and sometimes destroyed. Exploring the boundaries between public and private spaces, ZimmerFrei portrays, betrays and distorts images and everyday situations making them into sudden and temporary epiphanies. WEBSITE http://www.zimmerfrei.co.it/ http://vimeo.com/zimmerfrei ART GALLERY http://www.monitoronline.org/artists/zimmerfrei/ AWARDS Salina DOC Fest, Salina (I) 2014, Best Documentary What’s Culture Award, Biografilm Festival, Bologna 2014 Festival Visioni Italiane, Bologna 2013, DOC Award Gotham Prize, New York 2012 Premio Terna/AMACI, 2010 Festival Visioni Italiane, Bologna 2009, DOC Award SEAT Pagine Bianche d’Autore, 2007, First Prize Festival Videopolis, Padova 2007, First Prize Iceberg, Bologna 2001, Cinema and Video section Festival Opere Nuove, Bozen 2001 -­‐ Best Film GRANT VAF -­‐ Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (B): grant for the screenplay of the documentary film Almost Nothing (CERN: Experimetal City), 2014 FILMOGRAPHY 2014 La beauté c’est ta tête, (FR) documentary (production In Situ et Lieux Publics, Marseille), 60’ 2013 Hometown | Mutonia, (IT) documentary (production Santarcangelo •13, Regione Emilia-­‐Romagna Film Commission), 69’ Intervallo, (IT) short video (production SKY Italia), 10’ 2012 Temporary 8th, (HU) documentary (production Festival Placcc, Budapest – In Situ), 40’, DOC Award at the Visioni Italiane Festival, Bologna 2013 2011 The Hill, (DK) documentary (production Metropolis Biennale 2011, Copenhagen – In Situ), 40’ 2010 LKN Confidential, (BE) documentary (production Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Mokum, BNA/BOOT – Brussels), 40’ 2009 Panorama Harburg, (DE) video art (production Harburger Bahnhof Kunstverin) 2008 Ghost Track, (BE) video installation (production Manifesta7, Fondazione Roma Europa, Monitor), exposed at the Art Biennial Manifesta7 in Rovereto (I) 2008. Prima della Musica, video installation (production Fondazione Musica Per Roma) Domestic Exiles, video installation 2007 Memoria Esterna, (IT) documentary (production C/O Careof, Milano), 27’, DOC Award at the Visioni Italiane Festival in Bologna 2008 The Focus Puller, (BE) video (production Vooriut Arts Centre, Gent Film Festival) The Colony, (GR) video (production Festival Videodance07, Athens) 2006 why we came, video (co-­‐production Museum MAN of Nuoro and Monitor -­‐ Roma), 18’ Teenage Lighting, short movie, 12’ (co-­‐production Galleria civica di arte contemporanea di Trento and Monitor – Roma) Shooting Test, video series (co-­‐production Museum MAN of Nuoro and Monitor -­‐ Roma) Narcodive, video for smartphones (produced by Nokia -­‐ Connect to Art) 2005 Stone Money, videoart Panorama_Bologna, video art (production Bè – Bologna Estate) Panorama_Venezia, live media (production Fnv, Plug, Nuova Icona, festival Reaction for 51° Biennale d’Arte di Venezia – EXTRA 51), 2004 Panorama_Roma, videoart (produzione Monitor video & contemporary art) Sodium Pentathol, (BE) short movie 2003 Presente Continuo, video art Watersleep, short movie 2000 N. K. – Never Keep Souvenirs Of A Murder, (IT) video installation, 30’ SOLO EXHIBITIONS – CONTEMPORARY ART 2014 “Gotham Award. ZimmerFrei, Italian Institute of Culture, New York City 2013 “W. Sept parcours autour de Wielemans-­‐Ceuppens”, Wiels, Brussels, curated by Frédérique Versaen 2012 “Wh ere we come from”, L’Ozio, Amsterdam, curated by Silvia Cirielli 2012 “Panorama”, AuditoriumArte, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma, curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi 2011 “zimmerfrei. campo | largo”, MAMbo, Bologna, curated by Stefano Chiodi 2010 “TOMORROW IS THE QUESTION!”, Monitor, Roma 2010 “LKN Confidential”, Bruxelles nous appartient BNA/BBOT, Bruxelles 2010 “ZimmerFrei”, Qbox, Atene, curated by Christiana Galanopoulou 2009 “ZimmerFrei”, Front Room, Brooklyn NYC 2008 “Everyday (the satellite seems a little further out of reach)”, project “Inaudito”, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna, Roma, curated by Daniela Cascella and Oscar Pizzo La beauté c'est ta tête MARSEILLE (F) Sometimes a piece of graffiti glimpsed on a faded wall is enough to evoke an idea for a film. La beauté c’est ta tête, for example: an enigmatic aphorism hastily scribbled not far from a bar rooted in the heart of Noailles, the oldest district of Marseilles. A bar so tiny it’s like “your mother’s womb”, as one of the locals describes it. They don’t talk about philosophy here, but there are lots of stories floating around, because alcohol is doing the talking, creating a readiness to let oneself start sliding down the slippery slope. Lame ducks, who could have become thugs but are instead postal workers, these sons and daughters of drifters from all over, tossed around like nutshells by the waves of life, who rest a while on these grey imitation leather seats, their bodies pitching about in this drunken boat which is also their home port. The city is changing. It remains a slightly wild “stranger” that the ZimmerFrei collective (Massimo Carozzi, Anna de Manincor and Anna Rispoli) explores, in the company of these Bukowski-­‐like night birds who still dream of the open seas and struggle to adjust to the ongoing gentrification of Marseilles. direction ZimmerFrei production Lieux Publics and InSitu distribution Bo Film director of production Fabienne Aulagnier, Elisa Schmidt director of photography Roberto Beani sound Massimo Carozzi editing and second camera Anna de Manincor interviews Anna Rispoli editing assistants Gianluca Mattei, Davide Rossi postproduction and color grading Andrea Camozzi K6blue, Walter Cavatoi music Franco Fanfan Créa, Claude Debussy, Fanfare Vagabontu, Marcel Mouloudji, Orquestra Carlos Di Sarli y Rufino, The Malachrino Strings, Richard Wagner cast Damien Allabert, Rachel Allouche, Claire Astier, François Bacques, Franco Créa, Aminata Djalò,Agnes Bébé Forjoé, Stéphane Bisson, Catherine Chesneau, Eva Chevalier, Patrick Desbouiges, Véronique Derulle, Roberto Fuschino, Said Hamidona, Jargo Jakeda, Ben Kaci, Olivier Kattan, Annick Lobognon, Agnes Mavrin, Miloud Mahger, Eric Petit, Gérard Rémy, Jean-­‐Pierre Secq, Roxane Servière shooting format full HD, audio stereo screening format HD cam, Blu Ray duration 60 min origin France year 2014 language French subtitles English, Italian trailer https://vimeo.com/75151026 Hometown | Mutonia SANTARCANGELO DI ROMAGNA (I) A documentary film about the Mutoids’ camp in Santarcangelo di Romagna, a medieval little village in the middle of Italy, near Rimini. Mutonia is a strange village inside a village, a temporary town which has been transformed over time, relating to a bigger urban, territorial and social context. It was born out of the anarchic, iconoclastic and experimental spirit of the travellers and cyber punks who founded it; the town has been home to two generations of travellers and has become a place of origin, a “motherland” to come back to, or to stop and raise children. This original living place, made up of assembled scrap and vehicles transformed at home, now risks extinction, because there is no urban regulation which accounts for such an anomaly, which at its core was created by everyday life and invention, fragility and energy, transgression and the need for roots. subject ZimmerFrei production Santarcangelo dei Teatri in collaboration with Regione Emilia-­‐Romagna Film Commission director of photography Roberto Beani sound Massimo Carozzi editing Anna de Manincor post-­production Andrea Camozzi K6blue music Francesco Fuzz Brasini, Loren Connors, Kenny Diezel, Andy Macfarlane, Music For No Movies, Stefano Pilia, The Rock'n'Roll Kamikazes cast Andy, Aran, Debi, Elsalita, Florian, Freddy, Gabi, Garlix, Giuseppe, Hal, Kenny Diezel, KK, Josie, Lyle (Doghead), Lupan, Massimo, Mikey, Molly, Nina, Ninawa, Pamela Fussi, Quentin Pipestem, Rob, Ruth (Wolly Wormhead), Shona, Silvia (Rat's Rivets), Strapper, Su_e_side, Tommy Maltoni, Tom, Mutoid Waste Company, The Rock'n'roll Kamikazes, Wrekon shooting format full HD, audio stereo screening format DCP, HD cam, Blu Ray duration 69 min origin Italy year 2013 language Italian, English subtitles English, Italian trailer https://vimeo.com/75151026 trailer https://vimeo.com/73468748 Temporary 8th BUDAPEST Temporary 8th is dedicated to Eighth District of Budapest, a popular neighbourhood where a major restructuring started in 2006 with displacements of inhabitants, demolitions and constructions but suddenly stopped in 2008 with the global economic crisis. The destroyed buildings are now empty spaces with no defined destination, a mosaic of fractures in the urban fabric. What to do with these public and private spaces of non-­‐use? The film ventures into the desert lots, yards and homes to find out how the inhabitants transform the common areas and the face of their own city. subject ZimmerFrei production Placcc Festival co-­production In Situ direction Anna de Manincor/ZimmerFrei cinematographer Roberto Beani editing Anna de Manincor sound Massimo Carozzi music Béla Bartók, Massimo Carozzi, László Dubrovay, Jammal, Luciano Maggiore, Busa Pista with György Alföldi, Zoltán Erdös, János Jammal Fekete, Szilvi Kauker, Mrs Modori, Sàndor Mike, Gergely Nagy, András Pajta, Lorenza Pignatti, Busa Pista, Zsuzsi Szász, Samu Szemerey, Tamás Tavaszi, Emma Vidovszky e Tall Man producer Fanni Nanáy production assistant and translation Emma Vidovszky second assistant Zoltán Erdös translation Éva Vass color grading Andrea Camozzi K6Blue format full HD, audio stereo screening format Blu-­‐Ray duration 53 min language Hungarian, English subtitles English, Hungarian, Italian origin Hungary year 2012 trailer http://youtu.be/rFmb-­‐4V0v-­‐0 The Hill COPENHAGEN (DK) A dreamy documentary capturing the spirit of Nørrebro in Copenhagen, a working class and melted neighbourhood often troubled with social tensions, through the stories of the inhabitants of the popular tenements around an artificial hill. The hill that covers the Korsgade Sports Hall sets the stage for a subjective and imaginary portrait of the area and becomes a character in itself.
subject ZimmerFrei production Metropolis Biennale 2011 direction Anna de Manincor/ZimmerFrei producers Marie Viltoft Polli, Katrien Verwilt production assistant Miriam Nielsen cinematographer Roberto Beani editing Anna de Manincor sound Massimo Carozzi music Berrin Bas, Meriam Ouedghiri, Lone Thusing with Jonas Als, Nigel Davon Murphy, Jesper Edvarsen, Søren Jensen, Erik H. Jørgensen, Martha Larsen, Jakob Lund Njelsen, Graziella Noer, Jasmine Ouedghiri, Mustafa Özcan, Britta Raun Jensen, Bodil Trier format full HD, audio stereo screening format Blu-­‐Ray duration 40 min language Danish, English, French, Italian subtitles English origin Denmark year 2011 trailer http://youtu.be/ORbyFtfIrpE
LKN Confidential BRUXELLES (B) Portrait of an area of Brussels seen from inside the windows of shops and businesses, LKN Confidential was shot on a single and apparently ordinary street, Rue de Laeken/Lakensestraat. The commercial decadence of the street, once the belle époque of the 1960s had run its course, has since settled into a sort of lethargic cohabitation of workshops handed down over the generations, families of bakers and barbers who live behind their shops, prostitutes and pimps, dive bars, drug dealers, shops for collectors, the Flemish theater and the Masonic museum. The film enters and exits these privately-­‐owned public spaces, wondering how the world looks from behind the counter, what will happen next, what remains of work and indeed of life itself. concept ZimmerFrei production Kunstenfestivaldes arts, Mokum, BNA/BBOT direction Anna Rispoli e and Anna de Manincor interviews Anna Rispoli photography and editing Anna de Manincor sound design Massimo Carozzi boom operator Chiara Balsamo assistant editor Philippe Chatelain format MiniDV, audio stereo duration 40 min language French, Flemish, Italian subtitles English origin Belgium year 2010 trailer http://youtu.be/nze05uQyXmM