About the RIFF-festival
This festival was born in July 2015. It is settled on a farm over looking Eina Lake, just outside Oslo. Surrounded by breathtaking Norwegian countryside.
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.
This festival was born in July 2015. It is settled on a farm over looking Eina Lake, just outside Oslo. Surrounded by breathtaking Norwegian countryside.
Its mission is to build a bridge between the different fields of performing- and visual art, and the film industry; hence the subtitle: dance- art- cinema. The festival aims to show films that have a strong element of movement and dance including interdisciplinary expressions such as screendance, art films, to the more traditional and conventional short films and full feature films.
The name of the festival, RIFF, was not chosen only because of the initials, but also because of the meaning of the word used in jazz, riff is supposed to be a music phrase that is improvised, creative, energetic, outpouring. And we wanted to relate our festival to such ideas of freedom in creation.
We would be delighted if RIFF can grow to be an important arena to show films of excellence; a platform to give workshops and master talks; a place for invited guests and public to share thoughts, knowledge and experiences.
Yolanda M. Guadarrama from Mexico City has been invited to be the curator of RIFF in collaboration with Ella Fiskum.
RIFF is based at R.E.D. (Residency Eina Danz), which is an international, national and regional arena for arts and culture, running with a full year interdisciplinary residency program, production house for dance and film productions, located at Nyland farm in Eina, Norway. One hour and ten minutes from Oslo. R.E.D. was founded by Ella Fiskum.
RIFF celebrated its PRELUDE EDITION in 2015, and after that, every year, there has been the FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH and FIFTH EDITIONS, you can see the details in the PREVIOUS EDITIONS menu.