15th Pärnu Film and Video Festival 2009

The aim of the Pärnu Film and Video Festival has been to map the
Estonian audiovisual scape (film, video art, documentary anthropology,
virtual media) and offer insights into what happens in the rest of the
world on a non-commercial experimental level.

The concept that launched the Pärnu Film and Video Festival in the
1990s was to lose the defined and institutional borders between film
and video art, narrative and conceptualism, professionals and profane
ones, artists and cinema freaks. This energetic pluralism on a small
territory - refuting and clearing out hierarchies, defining common
grounds or confrontation - was a new thing in Estonia at the time and
was met with incredible reactions, when viewed in retrospect. A whole
new concept was formed for this purpose - the 'fideo festival'.

Once titled as the film event of barbarians, the alternative festival
has by now successfully met expectations with the help of the
information society. What comes next? Video art has risen from the
marginal status of a few experimentalists and enthusiasts into the
mainstream and the global technological evolution has been
overwhelming. Since the beginning of the 1990s, when there was only a
handful of VHS cameras in Estonia and it took months, not to mention a
small fortune, to book an editing session, things have moved on and we
have reached an audiovisual frenzy - now everyone has become the
director, cameraman and producer of their home cinema and don't need
anything aside from a mobile phone and the YouTube.

What is video art after video art?
The issue will be discussed at the Pärnu Film and Video Festival
second conference together with international professionals.

The festival will open with an interactive film-performance "Cause and
Effect" (Chris Hales, UK, & Teijo Pellinen, Finland) on Dec 4 at 7 PM.


VIDEO INSTALLATIONS
Dec 4 - 5, Port Artur 2 (floors 1 - 3)
Gerhard Lock, Silja Saarepuu & Villu Plink, Ville Karel Viirelaid,
Remo Randver, Jasper Zoova, August Künnapu, Andrus Joonas, Jan Berg,
Hille Karm, Hans-Gynther Lock, Liina Vedler, Alar Raudoja, Ulla Juske,
Nora Särak, Mart Vainre, Kristin Orav, Regina Kuningas, Artishok TV:
Maarin Ektermann, Margus Tamm, Elnara Taidre, Liisi Eelmaa, Indrek
Grigor.


MAIN PROGRAM IN THE PORT ARTUR 2 AV SYSTEM
Dec 4 - 5, Port Artur 2 (floors 1 - 3)
M.-L. Bassovskaja, J. Girlin, R. Unt, R. Heidmets, H. Volmer, P. Tall,
P. Tender, Chintis Lundgren, Rait Rosin, Gerhard Lock, Jan Erik
Nõgisto, Andres Maimik, Rain Tolk, Kaidi Kaasik, Vahur Laiapea.

Audiovisual performance: Video Jack (Lisbon) - "Master and Margarita"
Nuno Correia, André Carrilho (Portugal)
Dec 5 at 6 PM.



AV Conference "Video art after video art"
Dec 5 at 11 AM

Moderator: Al Paldrok
Participants: Raivo Kelomees, Chris Hales (UK), Teijo Pellinen
(Finland), Nuno Correia, André Carrilho (Portugal), Silja Saarepuu,
Artishok TV.


YOUTH PROGRAM
Dec 5 at 2 PM

Fire eaters, snowboarding films, video DJs and a skateboard films'
competition program for the Exit Awards.

Festival program director is Hannes Paldrok and designer Jürgen Joa.

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