AVmotional – up:date

Pfadfinderei will give an insight into their latest project, the “Moderat Show” (Moderat = Apparat, Modeselektor, Pfadfinderei). The Show is the result of four month intense work of the visual collective and completed by an audiovisual DVD that comes with the regular album of Moderat. In a 45 minutes lecture, Pfadfinderei will talk about the creative approach, the production phase and the realisation of this project. You can expect a lot of interesting shots behind the scenes, inspiration footage and a close insight into the work structure of the Pfadfinderei collective followed by a screening of the DVD itself.

Pfadfinderei [ fɑ:d'fɪndɜ:raɪ ] is a design bureau operating on an international level. From motion design productions to the visualisation of events – Pfadfinderei offers a spectrum that crosses the boarders between functional design demands and advanced
multimedia art.

Finding and visualizing paths was the approach that led to the name Pfadfinderei (engl. pathfinders/boyscouts). Starting off in Berlin in 1998 as a vector orientated design bureau, Pfadfinderei soon expanded to what might be called an enhanced multimedia Wurstfabrik. The big passion of Pfadfinderei’s members has always been live visualisation of music. Back in the days they were VJing in various Clubs, nowadays they are planning, creating and performing visual installations on an international level.

Since 1999, the Pfadfinderei team consists of the same seven members who have diverse backgrounds in art and design. From typography, art direction and design to strategic visual planning, these experts will spice you up with the appropriate style. Pfadfinderei creations live from the individual characters of Pfadfinderei members who are united by a similar approach to aesthetics, style and daily beauty.

www.pfadfinderei.com

http://www.myspace.com/pfadfinderei

AVion – the AVmotional series of events for PROFESSIONALS and AV ADDICTS.
AVmotional Platform undertook a challenge from the start: bringing together visual artists who love music and experimentation and electronic music performers who have a thing for experiments and video, all on an uncensored playground. Keeping the freshness and effervescence of the interaction between representatives of different media is vital. So is the continuing experience exchange between Romanian and international artists, with its substantial influence over the contemporary AV and cross-media art scene. Thus, in time, a dynamic network of professionals will emerge and act in different zones of art and culture and will facilitate the accomplishment of new cross-media, interdisciplinary projects and
long-term AV cooperation. AVion, will take off / land, once a month, innovative & experimental: meetings and free discussions between professionals, screenings and AV Project presentations, Romanian or from abroad, AV leaders of the international scene, invited for workshops, presentations, live concerts, networking & good vibe.

www.myspace.com/avmotional

www.pplus4.ro

www.afcn.ro

www.rembrandt.ro

PLUG-IN is a series of audio-visual trainings integrated with leading European festivals. The aim is to popularize digital technologies as tools for creativity and innovations and to support the youngest generations of artists in Europe, while offering them opportunity for on-going training and artistic expression.

The pilot edition of PLUG-IN will take place in the frame of the 7th IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival, June 20th – 27th, 2009, in Balchik, Bulgaria, as part of the festival’s educational programme, called FILMER FORGE.

The PLUG-IN Programme combines lectures, workshops and production labs, through which the participants gain useful knowledge and skills, experience the collaborative nature of this artistic practice and, as a result, produce a short film together with their colleagues. In addition, they will take a close look at a major event in the audio-visual field and will have the opportunity to make important contacts and lay the ground for future collaborations.

PLUG-IN main trainers are Faisal A. Qureshi (UK) and Emilia Stoeva (Bulgaria) who are very experienced professionals in the audio-visual field (see their short biographies below).

The PLUG-IN participants will benefit from the full access to all IN THE PALACE festival events, including the competition and the special programme screenings, open lectures from noted guests, among which Krzysztof Zanussi, Sandy Lieberson, Pierre Bismuth, Yael Eylat Van-Essen and others. They will be able to attend the entertaining programme of live music acts and enjoy the unique atmosphere of the festival, taking place at one of the most beautiful places of the Bulgarian Black Sea coast – The Palace of Maria Alexandrina Victoria de Edinburgh – the grand daughter of the legendary Queen Victoria.

Presentation trainers

Faisal A. Qureshi made his first taste of film making at 19 when his treatment was commissioned by Channel 4 and made into a short award winning documentary. He later went to Northern Film School to study editing and sound design whilst also helping on the critically acclaimed 8 hour Stanley Kubrick documentary “Stanley & Us”. Since then Faisal has worked as a writer on various projects with features and TV series in development with broadcasters and production companies. As a director he has directed various short films and is now preparing a feature. He is also a part-time lecturer at the Escula Internacional Cine y TV in Cuba, Salford University and Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK. He has also worked on the British Council “I, Belong” project in Pakistan and the “Film ON” project in Uzbekistan.

Emilia Stoeva is a director of photography, a lecturer, and an associate dean for planning. She graduated  in cinematography from the National Academy of Theatre and Film Art (NAFTA) “Krastyo Sarafov” in 1979. Until 1990 she worked as a director of photography in Documentary and Science Popular Studio Education. From 1981 until now she is lecturer and teaches camera work, animation and film and TV-acting. In 1991 she took her PhD in cinematography and from 1996 she is an Associate Professor in NATFA. Emilia Stoeva is the director of photography of over 30 films. Her films have been selected for participation in different festivals like “Karlovi Vari’ 95”, the animation film festival in Leipzig, etc. She has more that 25 publications in documentary and animation cinema field, among which: English-Bulgarian Vocabulary of Photo, Film and Video Terms and Definitions (2001); Parameters in the Development of the Modern Documentary Cinema (1995); The Images in the Documentary Cinema (1992).

link:http://www.inthepalace.com