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Artist in focus: Johannes Nyholm
The Swedish multi-talent Johannes Nyholm earned his marks in music videos, but in the last few years he focused on his autonomous work. This work consists of animations en videos in which distorted child fantasies are incorporated in different ways. His work is shown in different settings: on film festivals (twice on Cannes for Director’s Fortnight), in museums and online: the trailer of his latest film Las Palmas (better known as Baby Trashes Bar in Las Palmas) has reached 11 million viewers on YouTube.
Pluk de Nacht has kept tabs on Nyholm for years and is delighted to give this unique artist a central role within the festival. Next to a retrospective on the big screen, the Artist in Focus program offers various other activities, in which the public and other artists are asked to participate.
Retrospective Johannes Nyholm
On Thursday August 11th Pluk de Nacht will show the much awarded work of this young filmmaker. Highlight of the evening will be the showing of his latest film ‘Las Palmas’, for which the trailer has been watched over 11 million times! Apart from his own film night, Nyholm will surprise the festival with a few mysterious performances on the big screen, the festival terrain and a few secret locations around Amsterdam.
Drunk babies competition: enter and win!
Johannes Nyholm’s daughter was but one year old when she blew us away with her striking performance in his short film Las Palmas, which will premiere on Pluk de Nacht August 4th. In a fictional scale model of a Spanish tourist bar, little Helmi was allowed to do anything she wanted. She wobbles, drinks and steals food off the plates of other guests (puppets controlled by daddy Nyholm) and delivers a perfect cliché of a drunken holidaymaker.
Johannes Nyholm and Pluk de Nacht invite everyone to create a similar scene and submit it. These short films will be added to the online trailer of Las Palmas and will therefore an international audience of millions. A Wholphin DVD box is given to the best short films.
To enter, send your photo or film to drunkbaby@plukdenacht.nl. For files bigger than 5MB, use www.wetransfer.com.
Workshop Happy Streets: Stefano Strocchi
Stefano Strocchi teaches you to look at the city, a place where we wander around, past and around each other, where we are outside and never alone.
Using our mobile phones he wants you to connect with the people drifting past.
In this workshop Stefano takes you and your smartphone out on the streets to capture a passerby’s one single memory on video. You are then asked to look for images and sounds that suit this memory. While looking for the right sights and sounds, you are being documented for a ready-to-montage film which will be put on internet. The day after, the short films made with the smartphones will be put together in a split-screen montage for the big screen in Happy Streets.
This workshop is lead by Stefano Stocchi, producer and director of multimedia and documentaries. He was born in Italy, lives and works in Canada and in 2008 created the much applauded interactive web documentary www.fromzero.tv, which then premiered on IDFA DocLab.
For the workshop we use a few iPhone 4 apps. A certain amount of experience with filming a documentary and taking interviews is requested. Also, you need a fully-charged iPhone 4 (but do bring your charger) with at least 4 GB of free space. Participation is free but do mind that there is only room for 4 participants.
When: Wednesday August 10, Pluk de Nacht festival terrain ‘het Stenen Hoofd.’
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This year, filmmakers from all over Europe have been invited to experiment and create completely new material. In order to make this experience memorable, Pluk has organized two activities in which filmmakers can get to know each other better and help each other to further develop their projects. One of these activities is Try-out Night. During this industry meeting they will show each other their work.
When: Wednesday August 10th Invitation only.
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Small Worlds: Dienke Groenhout & Gigja Reynirsdottir
A bizarre miniature world is revealed under a small plastic dome, like a settlement on a strange planet. As you stand in front of the bluescreen, you appear in that world. Will you be able to climb the mountain? Do you get lost in the woods or will you be eaten by the giant ‘apple man’?
Small Worlds is a mobile bluescreen studio in which you can experiment as long as you want and manipulate the image to your own liking. Small Worlds was designed for Pluk de Nacht by Dienke Groenhout from Holland and Gigja Reynirsdottir from Iceland. Their first joint collaboration, Pocket Garden, premiered in 2007 and has since then been shown on various Dutch festivals.
Shown continuously
A Photo moment: Sanne Rovers
Flash! Capture your best memory of Pluk de Nacht in Sanne Rovers’ photo booth. Everything’s allowed, as this is your booth and photo moment. Can you manage to look exactly the way you would want to look if you had a choice? Test it in the darkest corner of the festival terrain ‘het Stenen Hoofd’.
A Photo moment is the first interactive installation by documentary maker Sanne Rovers, in cooperation with Dutch festival Oerol and Pluk de Nacht.
Shown 11,12 and 13 August
Workshop Birdifying (‘Vervogelen’): Thijs van Vuure
To participate you won’t have to be able to fly or sing because Dutch artist Thijs van Vuure developed a scientifically proven method in which anyone can reproduce a bird’s song. The trick is he lets people imitate slow motion recordings of a bird singing. Speed up these recordings, and they sound exactly like a real bird.
Van Vuure has had this fascination for birds for as long as he can remember, particularly for owls and wrens. He has always dreamt of being a bird and now that he knows how to translate bird song to the human perception, he is a grand step closer to that dream. Shown continuously www.thijsvanvuure.nl.
Offline try-out: Bla Bla (National Film Board of Canada)
A curious little man looks at you questioningly. Move the mouse over the screen and he anxiously follows you every move. Click once, and a small miracle happens. Click twice and something painful follows. Third click, there’s no way back in the bizarre fantasy world of BlaBla, a ‘film for computers’ from Canadian artist Vincent Morisset.Earlier this year, in cooperation with the National Film Board of Canada, Morisset launched this project as an interactive website. Pluk de Nacht invites you to try out the first offline version of BlaBla. Shown continuously
Orbit(Film), a solar system of short films
Mike Plante (Cinemad) and Mark Elijah Rosenberg (Rooftop Films) commissioned acclaimed filmmakers to each make a film about a planet, dealing with the science of outer space through creative and emotional storytelling and visual poetry.
Some or all of the original source material comes from NASA footage, reinterpreted by each filmmaker to make a portrait of the respective planet, so that the avant garde of art may inspire the avant garde of science.
Shown continuously in the Orbit(Caravan)
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