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Next festival will be held on July
5th-12th, 2019 RIFF FOURTH EDITION welcomes all artists from the dance field, art field and film industry, and audience to a memorable stay at R.E.D. —a farm overlooking the beautiful EINA LAKE in Vestre Toten, Norway. We will fill the farm with national and international films from all over the world, and celebrate the art of movement —dance-art-cinema— in a vision that intends to build a bridge between the spectators and the art of filming, as well as between the different artists. We’ll launch RIFF DINNER, a new exhibition-performance-screening evening in our newly renovated Café Theatre where we’ll invite the audience to dine together with the New York City visual artist Justin Chirico, based in Namsskogan, the two contemporary dancers Hege Gabrielsen from Norway and Hannah Loewenthal from South Africa, and RIFF artistic director, Ella Fiskum. We are promising an unforgettable evening that combines art with great food, inspiring conversations and good company. A limited amount of tickets only for July 5th and 6th will be released on further notice. Stay tuned. The program will further include workshops, laboratory, expert panels, awards, opening and closing ceremony. The full program for 2019 will be launched on May, 20th. |
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RIFF THIRD EDITION JOYFULLY CONCLUDED
We thank all participants and audience and accomplices for a wonderful festival in 2018. In RIFF THIRD EDITION we had 3 awards winners, two honorary mentions, and one audience award. You can still see all details of the 36 main films of the official selection in our site: THIRD EDITION Here are the award winners 2018: RIFF WINNERS: -Harab -Omar -Limit HONORARY MENTION: -Hands On (Documentary) -Vanitas Audience Award Winner: -NAU The jury was formed by Alain El Sakhawi, Madeline Wood, Ella Fiskum and Yolanda M. Guadarrama. RIFF winners and honorary mentions get the possibility to have a residency at R.E.D., please contact Ella Fiskum directly to get information: ecfiskum@gmail.com RIFF gives special thanks to Alain El Sakhawi, who came to give a laboratory on dance and film, and to Ståle Stenslie, Inger Christine Årstad and Elisabeth Rom who participated in our Film Panel . |
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RIFF THIRD EDITION will be celebrated AUGUST 8-12. Shortly everything will be set to enjoy the different films RIFF offers. The official selection of dance, art and more traditional films has been done, including 39 main films from 19 different countries (3 from Norway). Shooting Stars: Yikai Wu and Alain El Sakhawi. Our selection on the farm (R.E.D. at Eina) is filled with different screenings rooms: R.E.D. ARENA: There will be 2 programs for films to be seen as a cinema screening, with characters and images that go from experimental to ecology, moral diatribes, history, migration, difficult situations and intimate matters. Two Iranian films will be in a special program. Also there’s a taste of documentary on dance around the world, for those dance lovers. Café Theatre: offers a program with strong visual contents and expressive screendance in a selection from Spain, Korea, UK, Greece and the USA. Bar: A combination of films danced by common people, urban movies, and a humoristic example on how we are trapped and hypnotized by mobile phones or tablets. Gallery Rooms: They offer shorter more experimental art films, in addition to animations. R.E.D. Room: A special “very red strawberry” film contrasting old and new bodies in beautiful and respectful images. Potato Room: A film dedicated to create conscience on the plastic we use in the world. It will exhibit a plastic trash installation. Aside, we will have concerts, panelists, awards and live performances. Also there’s a DRIVE IN MOVIE THEATRE with films screened every day in EINAWOOD at 22:00. Come with your car, enjoy films, food and celebrations. This program will offer Hollywood films and other surprises for seekers of film experiences in family, drama, musical, romantic and action films. Find more about DRIVE IN PROGRAM here. * In this link find more information about: RIFF THIRD EDITION * |
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OUR LABORATORY LEADED BY ALAIN EL SAKHAWI:
Learn from the excellent young dynamic progressive dancer, choreographer and filmmaker: Alain, the winner of last year RIFF JURY AWARD with his impressive film: WE NO LONGER WAIT FOR THE BARBARIANS, a very awarded film around the world.
His curiosity on different arts makes him combine his knowledge and passion. He offers this laboratory/workshop to lead young as well as experienced artists to get a perspective from the dance film genre, by challenging, supporting and focusing the idea of using movement and dance in film, combined with technical aspects and sharing his practice on filming. Here a list of purposes for this course: structured learning to focus in short and longer films, go through the story, design, direct, choreograph, architecture sight, points of view, body, and camera."
MORE INFORMATION HERE
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"I have rarely seen such an excellent use of movement and camera combined with a strong narrative and cinematographic grip, and when I heard that it was only 3 artists: dancers/choreographers/filmmakers on a limited budget doing EVERYTHING, not a big production behind, which I assumed - I got very impressed. So I urge everybody to come and join this wonderful workshop, and learn from Alain!"
Ella Fiskum
Learn from the excellent young dynamic progressive dancer, choreographer and filmmaker: Alain, the winner of last year RIFF JURY AWARD with his impressive film: WE NO LONGER WAIT FOR THE BARBARIANS, a very awarded film around the world.
His curiosity on different arts makes him combine his knowledge and passion. He offers this laboratory/workshop to lead young as well as experienced artists to get a perspective from the dance film genre, by challenging, supporting and focusing the idea of using movement and dance in film, combined with technical aspects and sharing his practice on filming. Here a list of purposes for this course: structured learning to focus in short and longer films, go through the story, design, direct, choreograph, architecture sight, points of view, body, and camera."
MORE INFORMATION HERE
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"I have rarely seen such an excellent use of movement and camera combined with a strong narrative and cinematographic grip, and when I heard that it was only 3 artists: dancers/choreographers/filmmakers on a limited budget doing EVERYTHING, not a big production behind, which I assumed - I got very impressed. So I urge everybody to come and join this wonderful workshop, and learn from Alain!"
Ella Fiskum
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Click here to go to TIKKIO and secure your place in the lab!!!
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Here the OPEN CALL for RIFF 2018
Your films are welcome!!! |
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HERE THE ENDING OF RIFF SECOND EDITION!
AND ENDING THE YEAR! With pleasure and lots of hard work, we celebrated RIFF SECOND EDITION last summer. Thanks to all authors who trusted the festival, also thanks to our sponsors and working team and thanks to everybody who was interested and present. Between the 40 films that were screened, the jury and the audience chose some winners. ALL THE WINNERS GET THE POSSIBILITY TO HAVE A RESIDENCY AT R.E.D.: Jury Award: Listen, by Hamy Ramezan and Rungano Nyoni. We No Longer Wait for the Barbarians, by Alain El Sakhawi. En Silencio, by Dixon Quitian. Audience Award: Time Between, by Katrine Bull Evensen, Øyvind Jørgensen and Camilla Vanebo. The jury was conformed by Elisabeth Rom, Eivind Slettemeås, Ella Fiskum and Yolanda M. Guadarrama. First of all, the award was going to be divided in DANCE, ART, CINEMA, but we found so difficult to catalogue films in a framed classification, so the three films were awarded without any particular classification, here the comments of the jury: “We chose Listen because it strongly touches you, they show an accurate message of helplessness of the main character, a woman in a situation of minority and disadvantage because of her gender and original culture. We also appreciated the imaginative script that manages complexity in a simple and astonishing way.” “We chose We No Longer Wait for the Barbarians because it does a very good combination of the different elements that compose the film. Also because of the good performers, the camera and the way of cutting. It has a joyful and colorful passion. This film is a really nice art work with a surprising ending.” “We chose En Silencio because it has a good way to tell a story that shows an underlying meaning, difficult to tell, about children abuse. It brings Culture together with dance. The energy of children has a primitive feeling that shares originality, simplicity and good dynamic.” We also were so happy to welcome Francezca Penzani, who leaded the laboratory for a second year at RIFF, developing the sessions with a very professional group of participants who shared their work with us. During RIFF SECOND EDITION we settled Einawood: EINAWOOD FOUNDATION As the Hollywood sign was erected in Los Angeles in 1923, Einawood was founded as a neighborhood where motion picture industry is emerging. EINAWOOD sign was inaugurated in Eina, Norway, on July 20th, 2017. The event was leaded by Ella Fiskum, Yolanda M. Guadarrama and Madeline Wood, RIFF Team: director, curator and visual creator of the sign. It is a playful action and also it is reality, as everything happens in the motion picture world. We wish you great celebrations and a so happy closing of year. RIFF |
Chriz Nypan and Ella Fiskum, Opening Riff.
Never ending Laboratory.
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EINAWOOD Inauguration.
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Elisabeth Rom, Ella Fiskum, Elise Schonhowd, Madeline Wood, Yolanda M. Guadarrama.
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Madeline Wood, Victoria Donnet, Katelyn Styles, Réka Szüks.
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RIFF SECOND EDITION
Our festival will be celebrated on July 28th and 29th.
The program is already announced here...
We are offering an OPENING RIFF, 40 INTERNATIONAL FILMS ranging from dance-art-short-feature-documentary-experimental-awarded-drama and love films, a CONCERT, LIVE PERFORMANCES, a SHOOTING STAR, INTERVIEWS with some directors, an EXPERT PANEL, AUDIENCE and JURY AWARDS, awarded films at EINAWOOD DRIVE-IN, INTERDISCIPLINARY LABORATORY, MEMBERSHIP facilities, and everything to enjoy the films pleasantly.
The aim of the festival is to show films which have a strong element of movement and dance, and to build a bridge between the art fields of Dance, Art and Cinema.
The 40 films come to EINAWOOD from 25 different countries: France, Colombia, Netherlands, U.S.A., Russia, Italy, Israel, U.K., Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Brazil, Croatia, Portugal, Uruguay, Poland, Finland, Iran, Zambia, Mexico, Sweden, Hungary and Norway.
The interviews will be done to some Norwegian film directors and other present creators from France, Hungary and the U.S.A.
Bar & Food on site.
FREE CAMPING.
Possibility to have FREE NSB TICKETS from and to Oslo (Limited places, contact us!)
Please, find detailed information in this link: SECOND EDITION.
Welcome to RIFF and EINAWOOD!
If you are interested in the Interdisciplinary LABORATORY: DANCE FILM, click here.
Our festival will be celebrated on July 28th and 29th.
The program is already announced here...
We are offering an OPENING RIFF, 40 INTERNATIONAL FILMS ranging from dance-art-short-feature-documentary-experimental-awarded-drama and love films, a CONCERT, LIVE PERFORMANCES, a SHOOTING STAR, INTERVIEWS with some directors, an EXPERT PANEL, AUDIENCE and JURY AWARDS, awarded films at EINAWOOD DRIVE-IN, INTERDISCIPLINARY LABORATORY, MEMBERSHIP facilities, and everything to enjoy the films pleasantly.
The aim of the festival is to show films which have a strong element of movement and dance, and to build a bridge between the art fields of Dance, Art and Cinema.
The 40 films come to EINAWOOD from 25 different countries: France, Colombia, Netherlands, U.S.A., Russia, Italy, Israel, U.K., Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Brazil, Croatia, Portugal, Uruguay, Poland, Finland, Iran, Zambia, Mexico, Sweden, Hungary and Norway.
The interviews will be done to some Norwegian film directors and other present creators from France, Hungary and the U.S.A.
Bar & Food on site.
FREE CAMPING.
Possibility to have FREE NSB TICKETS from and to Oslo (Limited places, contact us!)
Please, find detailed information in this link: SECOND EDITION.
Welcome to RIFF and EINAWOOD!
If you are interested in the Interdisciplinary LABORATORY: DANCE FILM, click here.
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RIFF FIRST EDITION
We were very glad to celebrate RIFF FIRST EDITION last July 29-31, 2016. RIFF official selection consisted on 33 films ranging from dancefilms, art films, short films, plus a drama, musical, romantic genre feature film. There was a Dance Film Laboratory lead by Francesca Penzani. Two live performances related with film, a Riff Opera Opening and a Riff Concert were in the program too. All this happened within the Arena, the Drive In Outdoor Movie Theater, and 5 Gallery Rooms at R.E.D. You can see the complete program in this link. AWARDS 2016 RIFF made two AWARDS, and the three winners got the possibility to have a residency at R.E.D. The winners: Jury Award: DESPAIR, by Alex Prager. Honorary mention by the jury: LA MAGNITUDE HUMAINE, by Florent Schwartz. Audience Award: SALT, by Maria Lloyd. The Jury was conformed by Morten Howland, Camilla Vanebo, Ella Fiskum and Yolanda M. Guadarrama. |
RIFF Shooting Star Yaniv Cohen, Maria Lloyd, Ella Fiskum, Minda Fiskum, Francesca Penzani.
Performance-piece by Sudesh Adhana.
Francesca Penzani’s Laboratory.
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RIFF FIRST EDITION, 2016
JULY 29-31
3 DAYS PROGRAM AT R.E.D.
OPENING DAY WITH FILM PROGRAM, JULY 29 AT 19:00
DRIVE IN, OUTDOOR CINEMA PARTY, SATURDAY, JULY 30 AT 24:00
CLOSING FILM PROGRAM WITH AUDIENCE AWARD SUNDAY, JULY 31 AT 19:00
OPEN FILM BAR, OPERA RIFF, LIVE PERFORMANCES AND MUCH MUCH MORE…
R.E.D. Film bar is open every day fron 18:00.
Tickets :kr 200,- Friday/Sunday. Drive in (member) kr 100,- Festival Pass kr 350,-
Address: R.E.D. Nyland Gård, Einavegen 1769-1771, 2843 Eina
More information: +47-915 63 424/938 66 135. www.riff-festival.com
See the program here.
JULY 29-31
3 DAYS PROGRAM AT R.E.D.
OPENING DAY WITH FILM PROGRAM, JULY 29 AT 19:00
DRIVE IN, OUTDOOR CINEMA PARTY, SATURDAY, JULY 30 AT 24:00
CLOSING FILM PROGRAM WITH AUDIENCE AWARD SUNDAY, JULY 31 AT 19:00
OPEN FILM BAR, OPERA RIFF, LIVE PERFORMANCES AND MUCH MUCH MORE…
R.E.D. Film bar is open every day fron 18:00.
Tickets :kr 200,- Friday/Sunday. Drive in (member) kr 100,- Festival Pass kr 350,-
Address: R.E.D. Nyland Gård, Einavegen 1769-1771, 2843 Eina
More information: +47-915 63 424/938 66 135. www.riff-festival.com
See the program here.
PRELUDE EDITION EXPERIENCE
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After a very good experience in our PRELUDE EDITION in 2015, we are working towards RIFF FIRST EDITION, 2016. The dates are programmed for July 29th - 31st.
We are aiming to show films that enhance brightness to our main leitmotif of dance and movement, ranging from short art films, interdisciplinary dance films, to prime feature films. The program for RIFF FIRST EDITION is already being selected, although we are opened for submission to be able to find those hidden crucial films we need to select. We will publish the final program in June. Francesca Penzani will conduct a workshop on film and dance. It is designed for professionals on dance or film, music, visual arts or multidisciplinary arts. More details about the workshop will be announced by the end of May. |
