News 19 November 2020
EMAF 2021 will begin in five months, and despite these uncertain times of the Corona pandemic, we are looking ahead and working on a festival edition that will not only present our familiar, carefully curated film programmes, installations, live works and talks in Osnabrück, but will also take into account the special demands of the present moment with digital offerings. We will keep you informed over the coming months about details of our programme planning and new team members. Today we would like to introduce our new selection committee:
New Film Selection Committee
A warm welcome to our new selection committee! Eli Cortiñas, Mason Leaver-Yap and Philip Widmann, together with film section director Katrin Mundt, make up the curatorial team that will develop the competition and feature film programmes of EMAF 2021 in the coming months and present them at the festival.
Eli Cortiñas currently holds the professorship for Spatial Concepts at the HBK Braunschweig together with Prof. Candice Breitz. Her films and installations have been shown in solo and group exhibitions at Museum Ludwig, Kunsthalle Budapest, CAC Vilnius, SCHIRN Kunsthalle, SAVVY Contemporary, Museum Marta Herford, Centre Pompidou, Museum of Modern Art Moscow, Kunstmuseum Bonn and MUSAC, as well as at international biennials and festivals, including the the Riga Biennale, the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, the Short Film Festival Oberhausen and at Curtas Vila Do Conde. Cortiñas lives and works in Berlin.
Mason Leaver-Yap develops texts, exhibitions and events in collaboration with artists. Leaver-Yap most recently worked with Ingrid Pollard, Renée Green and Free Agent Media, Onyeka Igwe, Lin+Lam, Evan Ifekoya, Oreet Ashery, Laura Guy, Sunil Gupta and the Estate of Tessa Boffin, Sharon Hayes and Mathew Parkin, Lucy McKenzie, Iman Issa, Wendy Jacob, Alejandro Cesarco, Jimmy Robert, Rachel O'Reilly, Andrea Büttner, Alexis Mitchell and Sharlene Bamboat, Kat Anderson, Jamie Crewe and Beatrice Gibson. Leaver-Yap lives in Glasgow and Berlin.
Philip Widmann creates films, texts and film programmes. His films and videos have been shown at the Berlinale, IFF Rotterdam, Views from the Avantgarde, Yamagata International Documentary FF, FID Marseille, CPH:DOX, Wexner Center for the Arts, KW Berlin and Videonale, Bonn. He has compiled film programmes for Arkipel Jakarta, Image Forum Tokyo, the Kassel Dokfest and others. In 2017 Widmann received the EMAF Media Art Prize of the German Film Critics (VDFK) for his work "Das Gestell". He lives in Berlin.
Call for Entries
Our Call for Entries for EMAF 2021 is open until 31 December. Current works can be submitted in the Film, Installation and Expanded Media sections. Please find the submission platform here: https://submissions.emaf.de/
„Lichte Momente 2020 – Body Hacking“
"Lichte Momente" is a project of the Experimentalfilm Workshop e.V., which is also the supporting organisation of the EMAF. This year, for the 13th time, the outdoor video art exhibition will present works by international artists on the walls and facades of houses in Osnabrück's historic centre. Under this year's theme, "Body Hacking", visitors will experience art that can otherwise only be seen in a museum - with works by Stine Deja, Eva Papamargariti, Filip Custic and Younghee Shin.
For more information please visit: https://www.lichtemomente-osnabrueck.de/
