News 2 April 2020
THIS IS NOT A FESTIVAL
For the original period of the festival, the EMAF will make nine film programmes of the International Competition available to the public free of charge as a stream on a website developed specifically for this purpose.
Please find the streaming-page under streaming.emaf.de.
As a media art festival that offers, in addition to film screenings, a dense programme of exhibitions, talks, performances and workshops, the EMAF is dependent on specific spatial and technical conditions and opportunities for direct interaction. This diversity of different forms of presentation has distinguished the EMAF for many years. After the outbreak of the Corona Pandemic, it soon became clear that a large part of this diversity - especially the space-related installations and performances and talks developed especially for the festival - could not be presented this year.
We have therefore developed a website in recent weeks, where for the original period of the festival (22-26 April 2020) the nine film programmes of the International Competition will be shown almost entirely as a stream. The offer is not limited to accredited festival visitors, but is open to the public and free of charge.
We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to the participating artists for their great willingness to make their works available to us for this purpose - even though they were conceived for other spaces, situations and with other forms of communication in mind. We are therefore more than happy to be able to provide an insight into extraordinary cinematic works of the last three years.
We are very pleased that further programmes will be shown elsewhere: The film programme compiled by Herb Shellenberger for the thematic focus "First Person Plural" will be presented in September 2020 at the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (UK). The series "The New Death" curated by Jaakko Pallasvuo and Steve Reinke will also be offered later, as part of the EMAF 2021.
In addition, we are offering an online study session planned for the festival with the author Stefano Harney under the title "Corrupting and Sharing". Harney references the festival theme "First Person Plural". He proposes a theory that enables a view of sharing as something that is not interpersonal but instead fundamental.
Up to 15 people can participate in the Zoom conference. Interested persons can apply until April 16 at info@emaf.de with a brief cover letter (max. 300 characters including spaces) describing your motivation. The online study session starts on 24 April at 18:00.
This is not a festival. We have therefore intentionally refrained from showing the programmes on a fixed timetable and instead are making them available for the entire five days.
Thank you for your interest and we wish you happy and above all healthy Easter and Passover holidays!
Your European Media Art Festivals Team
PS: If you’d like a small impression of the EMAF as we had planned it through mid-March, you can find the entire festival programme here at our website.
