The Agent RiA:registeredinart at the Middle Eastern Film Festival, Edinburgh 6 - 20 February 2012
For the first time, artists' video is part of this film festival programme, curated by Lyndsay Mann of The Agent RiA, in association with James McKenzie, and featuring works by Erkan Özgen (Turkey) and Hakan Akçura (Sweden).
RiA events programme:
- Channel screening: 1 - 28 February, The Agent RiA:registeredinart
- Theatre screening: Friday 10 February, 6.30pm, Filmhouse
- Theatre screening: Monday 13 February, 6.10pm, Filmhouse
- Artist's talk and screening: Saturday 18 February, 4 - 6pm, Stills
Theatre Screening:
Friday 10 February, 6.30pm
Kurdish Lesson 1, (2010)
Kurdish Lesson 3, (2011), Hakan Akçura
followed by Fotograf (66), Kazım Öz, (2001)
Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ
Theatre Screening:
Monday 13 February, 6.10pm
Breath (6) Erkan Özgen, (2008), followed by
Min Dit: The Children of Diyarbakir (102) Miraz Bezar (2009)
Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ
MESP 2012 The Agent Ria:registeredinart Artist’s Talk and Screening - Hakan Akçura:
Saturday 18 February, 4 - 6pm at Stills
An invitation to a collective screening with the artist, where he will introduce this work and discuss his practice.
Phuket: Two Sides of the Islands. Sea Gypsies were the first people to settle in Phuket over 1000 years ago and still survive today selling fish, seashells and craft items to locals and tourists. Akçura’s documentary shows aspects of this community’s contemporary life and the precarious nature of sharing the waters of Thailand’s tourist paradise.
Artist Hakan Akçura has exhibited widely across Europe and the Middle East. Recent exhibitions & screenings include: Ars Retorica, Universite Paris 8, Paris; Where Fire Has Struck, DEPO, Istanbul; Videfesta’ 10, Goethe Institute, Ankara; Temps D’Images Festival 2010, Lisbon; and HEP, Sazmanab Project, Tehran.
FREE, booking recommended.
Email: programme@stills.org
Stills Scotland's Centre for Photography, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh EH1 1BP
The Agent RiA would like to thank:
Erkan Özgen and Hakan Akçura, James McKenzie, Neill Walker at EICSP, Silke Schmickl at Lowave, Benjamin Cook at LUX, Filmhouse, Stills and Creative Scotland.
Links:
Festival Programme
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