The EMAF screens experimental and artists’ films from around the world and is interested in forms that move along disciplinary peripheries or between film and performance, document and experiment. Short and long, digital and analogue films that relate to social and political reality in an exploratory and questioning way find their place here. At the same time, the EMAF is open to works that test new forms of cinematic presentation. Our aim is to make cinema a space for encounter and exchange: a space for projections beyond the status quo.
EMAF’s film programmes are developed in collaboration with international curators, artists and theorists who, as members of the programming team, select the contributions for competition and feature film programmes, or are invited to develop their own thematic programmes and series.
Filmstill "No Other Land", Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor, PS/NO 2024, 96'Filmstill "Compassion and Inconvenience", Vika Kirchenbauer, DE 2024, 30'Filmstill "Magnolia", Dagie Brundert, DE 2013, 1'Filmstill "Hypericin Yellow-Red Movie", Kerstin Schroedinger & Oliver Husain, 2024, 40'Filmstill "How to Run a Trotline", Carl Elsaesser, US 2024, 18'Filmstill "Seja bem-vindo ao lar / Welcome Home", Leonardo Pirondi, US 2023, 4'Filmstill "Hey Sweet Pea", Alee Peoples, US 2023, 11'Filmstill "the meaning of style", Phil Collins, MY 2011, 5'Filmstill "Sundown", Steve Reinke, US 2023, 8'Filmstill "The Treasury of Human Inheritance", Alexis Kyle Mitchell, CA 2024, 59'
Exhibition
Each year, the EMAF exhibition presents contemporary works by the most important and ambitious international and German media artists of the moment. It thus always focuses on current developments in digital culture and technologies and critical reflection on them.
The central venue for the exhibition, which brings together very diverse genres of media art, is the Kunsthalle Osnabrück.
"AI & Me (The Confessional and AI Ego)", Octavian Mot, Daniela Nedovescu, Mots, 2023, work series"Sleep Like Mountains", Lotta Stöver, DE 2022, Installation, custom horizontal planar 3D scanning machine, projection, software"CROSSOVER/CROSSTALK (Version)", Pedro Oliveira, DE 2023, 00:06:58, drawing and 2-channel sound installation, 6’57”; Voice: Ece Canlı"A voice becomes a mirror plane becomes a holohedral wand", Caitlin Berrigan, DE, CA 2023, 00:22:06, Installation"Ring", Tanita Olbrich, DE, JP 2023, 00:09:11, single channel video, CCTV Camera, praying mantis (3D print) acrylic print, Voice Over: Manaka Nagai"Small Acts of Violence", Aay Liparoto, BE 2023, 00:25:00, Cinematic Virtual Reality Experience, 25’, Produced by argos centre for audiovisual arts, co-produced by CON10UR, V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media and supported by Flanders Audiovisual Fund"Night Companions", Nieves de la Fuente Gutierrez, DE 2023,
mixed media: XR installation, modified Oculus Quest, sculptures"The Mime and the Ape", Erik Bünger, DE, AT 2023, 00:32:58, double channel video installation, 33`
Talks
The talks are given by internationally renowned scientists, artists, and experts from various disciplines.
In their contributions – lectures, panel discussions or lecture performances – they develop and discuss different perspectives on the annually changing festival theme.
Campus
The festival section EMAF Campus is also offering a platform to classes and specialist groups from European academies and universities.
The students present their work in captivating film programmes and a wide range of exhibitions.
The students’ contributions can be discovered not only in the festival cinemas, but also at various locations in the city centre of Osnabrück.
"Til Mandag", Nora Aarrestad, NO 2023, 00:03:00, Video installation"Harmony of Mindscape", Lena Köhler, Mariella Rusch, Mariella Priebe, Sina Lahrmann, Jona Bundschuh, DE 2024"Spoiler", Manuel Boden, DE 2020, 00:05:14, Music: Airchina"Blackbirds Singing in the Dark", Benjamin F. Stumpf, Prof. Dr. Kerstin Hallmann, DE, ES 2024"Ocean Hill Drive", Miriam Gossing, Lina Sieckmann, DE, US 2016, 00:22:00"Crying about the Passing of Time", Sonja Engelhardt, DE 2005, 00:01:05