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| Margaux Guillemard |
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Margaux Guillemard works mainly as an assistant director and artistic collaborator with the Swedish experimental film director Mia Engberg. Together, they are doing an artistic research,
a mix of theoretical thinking (the writing of a book) and creative process (the making of a feature film).
Margaux also teaches now Film and English at the University La Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III, after graduating in Film Studies at Birkbeck - University of London, where she studied under the supervision of Laura Mulvey and Ian Christie. Her courses focus on "The Representation of the City on Screen" and "Staging: Ethics and Aesthetics". She is often invited as a lecturer, host, jury member and film curator for different film festivals (documentary, short film, experimental) in Europe.
Finally, she directed her first short documentary essay entitled Orange Blossom, about the sensorial dimension of memory, which was screened at the Signes de Nuit Festival last year; and is currently working on another experimental documentary, on the interweaving stories inhabiting the building in which she grew up.
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| Eva Pervolovici |
Romania |
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Having graduated from an MFA in Edinburg and currently doing a PhD in cinema at Sorbonne, Paris 1, Eva Pervolovici is a young Romanian director who has on her record an impressive list of short films, video art, photographs and other participations in collective writing novels or art magazine. Multiple by its forms and styles of expression, the heteroclite work of Eva carries always the same intention: to make visible the subjectivity by leaving surrealism arise in everyday situations. In 2010 she was nominated for Berlin Today Award that offers her the opportunity to direct Little Red (world premier Berlinale 2011). Her short Lubaben, was shown in the official Tiger competition in Rotterdam 2011, while Mina was shown in Spectrum in the same festival. 2012 short film Ovo was premiered in Message to Man Festival, Saint Petersburg.
Her first feature film, Marussia, shown in Berlinale 2013, got the Francophony Prize in Transylvania IFF, Special Mention in Bordeaux IFF and Audience Award in Auburn Children and Youth Film Festival. Since then, Marussia travels all over the world, the latest festival being in Argentina (CineMigrante), Vienna (Let’s Cee), Osnabruck IFF; Pakistan, India, Bahamas, Columbia… The film was released in cinemas in France in January 2015 and in Romania in March 2015.
She currently develops another feature film as well as a documentary that received support of the French CNC.
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| Ludwig Schmidtpeter |
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Ludwig Schmidtpeter works in the fields of installation, photography
and film. He studied Fine Arts at the School of Fine Arts at
Saarbruecken in the late 90s and concentrated on photography,
websites, video and performance influenced by his Professor Ulrike
Rosenbach (who was in turn influenced by Joseph Beuys and was a
forerunner of feminist performance and video art in the 80s).
He made a couple of unauthorized music video clips that deal with
feedback patterns and editing techniques. Since 1998 his domain
„lu-x.de“ is his platform of publication.
For a while he focused on the internet as an open space (which was
true at that time) and computer art. His diploma project
"undefined_space" was an installation confronting analogue and digital
worlds, order and coincidence. A self-programmed application was part
of this project. It created randomized overlapping image-situations
where the user could determine the amount of chaos.
But then he was fed up with New Media, abandoned his computer and
decided to focus on installations that reflect upon new media and
energy without using electricity.
In 2011 Schmidtpeter received a scholarship at the Artist’s Village
Schoeppingen in North-Rhine-Westfalia to work on an installation
called „virtual power plant“. The idea was to symbolize the conversion
of spiritual into electrical energy using everyday objects.
Some installations followed until 2014.
His movie „Sacred Ground“ was finished in 2015 and got some
recognition and awards in the U.S. (Official selection Athens, Ohio
and STIFF, Seattle. Nominee for best documentary and best director,
winner „Independent Spirit“ at Idyllwild International Festival of
cinema).
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