“Remembrance” to Multiplié dance festival
A selection from the short film cycle «Remembrance» are to be screened at the dance festival MULTIPLIÉ 2012, which takes place in Trondheim from April 19th to 25th. Multiplié is a festival which bends the idea about what dance can and cannot be, and whom can be a potential dancer or choreographer. «Remembrance» consists of 8 short films, each based upon the same video materiale but xxx, edited and with individual sound works, creating 8 very different expressions. The films were a collaboration with people from the dance scene in Trondheim. Read more about the films here.
“body.move” to Icelands 700IS
The double-screened video piece “body.move” are to be screened at the Iceland festival 700IS, a festival for experimental film and video. The festival runs from March 23th to 28th in Egilsstadir, and the screening is part of the program for Papay Gyro Nights. Brush up your Icelandic knowledge and read more about 700IS here.
“Nor Noise” to the Orkneys
“Nor Noise” skal this February be screened at the 2nd Papay Gyro Nights, the international contemporary art festival on the isle of Papa Westray, Orkney. The film is programed in a series with experiemental films and video art. The festival has previously exhibited both “Remembrance” and “body.move”. This 2nd edition of the festival takes place from the 6th to the 12th of February. Please visit the festival here
“Turn My Head” finally gets premiere screening
During the Kulturnatta 2011 in Porsgrunn my short film “The Way You Turn My Head” finally has its premiere – three years after its shooting… A lot of technical problems and a heavy work load have made the completion of this film a more than cumbersome process. Read more about the process here.
Stian Sandersen plays the main character in a fragmented portrait of a man who simply isn’t qiute there…
Other participants are Malin Bratlie, Vibeke Lie, Rikke Runde, Dominique Hardy and Lene Kleven. Musical modulation of Chopins music is done by Jan William Fines. This is Pastiche Films production no. 15. Read more about the film here.
The screening takes place at Porsgrunn Art Society at these times: 16:00, 17:00 and 18:00. The screenings are free and open for all, but it should be noted that the film is not suitable for smaller children.
“Nor Noise” to Kongsberg Jazz Festival
The Noise documentary “Nor Noise” is to be screened at Kongsberg Jazz Festival this summer. The festival runs from July 6th to 9th and has besides its concert program also a yearly film program. The film was selected as a part of this years series with films about experimental music. Parts of the film was also shot at Kongsberg, like the interview with Otomo Yoshihide. The screening will take place on saturday, July 9.
“Remembrance”, “body.move” to the Orkneys
Two of my video works will in February be screened at the art festival PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS 2011, which takes place on the little island Papa Westray (Papay), a part of the Orkney Islands. “Remembrance” and “body.move” are part of the festivals programmes for experimental film and installation pieces. The festival has this poetic description of it self: “In February, when nights are long and weather can be vicious and only brave ones will dare to undertake a journey across the rough sea, the Island will be transformed into the art gallery, where works will be displayed in unconventional locations, changing perception of the timeless landscape.” A good place to be screened, in other words.
Festivalen is running from the 14. to the 21. February, and is arranged by LAND ART – PAPA WESTRAY, an artist run, international art project started in 2007.
“No Secrets”… on Vimeo
My good friend, Tore Bøe, founder and coordinator of the art collective Origami Republika has posted some excerpts from a documentary slash installation piece I did for him for an exhibition he held at Sound of Mu in Oslo, Norway in 2008. The video “There Are No Secrets” and the exhibition, together with a concert evening, was centred around Boes acustic laptops. See Clip 1 by on Vimeo by clicking here; clip 2 is an interview and you see it by clicking here. The excerpts are posted due to the release of the online album “010A oslo 2008″ is released as a free download on origami.teks.no/boe.
“The Moment” on Vimeo
The contemplative video piece “The Moment” by Tom Løberg is now published on Vimeo. It features music by Two Limited and was the drone-noise duo’s project for 2010 and their first “music video”.
You can read about the video here, and see the piece by clicking here.
Nor Noise at the Belgian cinemateque
Nor Noise will be screened at the Belgian cinemateque in the beginning of December, as a part of a large project about Norwegian Noise and experimental music held at AB (a concert venue in Brussels), in collaboration with Bozar and the Belgian cinemateque at the The Royal Belgian Film Archive. The screenings takes place at December 4. and 9 as part of the series “Norway Now”. Read more about the screenings here.
Nor Noising in the countryside
Nor Noise is to be screened at the Støy på landet-festivalen held at Rognes outside Trondheim. Literally translated, Noise in the Countryside, it is described as a “cooperative underground festival for sonic transgressions, art and cognitive accelleration.” What a great concept for a festival!
The screening takes place Saturday June 17. at 11:00 am, so rise and shine! You can read more about the festivals program by clicking here (MySpace), or by going to their Facebook event-page here. And I know where to go for my summer holiday next year!
The Letter on Vimeo
Tom Løberg’s short film, “The Letter” is now posted on Vimeo. “The Letter” is Løbergs first short film, made back in 2004. A calleidoscopic story about a solitary man who receivers a letter from … himself? With Per Erik Walslag, Cecilie Thørring and Erling Lona, and with sound work by noted noise artist Lasse Marhaug.
Read more about the film here – and click here to see it.
“body.move” at collective exhibition
June 5. 2011 there will be an exhibition and literary salon at Keimsgård in Porsgrunn, aranged by the Keimsgård atists collective. I will participate with the video piece “body.move”, which will receive its premier screening. Also on the program is a live performance from Chicago, soup and readings by several local authors. The evening ends with a party and music from DJ Justin Cage. The arrangement is free and open for all. The exhibition is also open Sunday 6th, Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th of June.
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“Nor Noise” to ARTe SONoro in Madrid
Nor Noise is to be screened as part of the program for a large exhibition with a concert series, performances, installations and films about sound art – Exposición ARTe SONoro – at La Casa Encendida in Madrid in June. The program runs from April 23th to June 30th; Nor Noise is to be screened the 16th of June. Click here to download the festival program.
“Remembrance” on Vimeo
The short film cycle REMEMBRANCE is now posted as a channel on Vimeo. You can now see all the eight films by clicking here. The films, by Tom Løberg with Per Walslag, Nina Therese Aune and Asbjørn Stenmark, are all based on the same video material. Each film is modified to the music of a chosen artist. The artists participated are Anla Courtis and Maria Paz Levinson, Golden Serenades, Origami Tacet, Oren Ambarchi, Michael Duch, Guilty Connector, Lasse Marhaug and Hild Sofie Tafjord.
The films have since the release in 2007 had several screenings as an art film project, in Trondheim, Oslo, and Porsgrunn.
More information about the films can be found by going here.
New video piece
Still a new video piece finished, done at the spur of the moment – hence the title “The Moment”. Read more about it here.
“Nor Noise” to No signal
Nor Noise is to be screened at the No Signal-festival in London in September. Curator for the festival is Eric Namour. You can visit the festival home page by clicking here.
New video installation piece
The video installation piece “body.move” is now finished. Hope to get it shown some time later this spring. Read more about it here.
Info-video for Fylkeslegen i Telemark
Pastiche Films have delivered an information video to Fylkesmannen i Telemark. This concludes PF’s work with the commercial side of video production. All subsequent jobs generating an income will from now on be handeled by TARGET media.
“Nor Noise” lecture-text here
You can read my lecture at the Bergen Støyfest by clicking here.
“Nor Noise” lecture at Bergens Noise-Fest
I’ve been booked to give a lecture about NOR NOISE and noise music in general, at the Bergen Støyfest, arranged by UTMARK at Landmark/Bergen kunsthall October 9. – 10.
Not all of NOR NOISE will be screened, but this means that the film now has been shown at more than 20 film- and music festivals around the world since it’s release in 2004. I think that’s a more than good enough reason to mark the occation with a little celebration in Bergen, while having my ears blown out with some good, hard core noise :)
Artists performing at the festival are Merzbow (JP), Consumer Electronics (UK), Skullflower (UK), Skull Defekts (SE), John Wiese (US), and Maranata (NO). You don’t want to miss this one!
Material shot for new video installation
Tom Løberg has shot material for his new video installation piece, “body.move”. The piece will be presented this winter.
Great expectations
Things happen. Suddenly I’ve made appointments to do two video works, one for Telemark idrettskrets and their project SOLA, and one for Porsgrunn kunstforening, documenting the opening of Ole John Aandal’s exhibition “Juvenilie” at the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China. So I get a free trip to Beijing, in other words.
But hey! you may exclaim – how are you going to get those jobs done when you can’t even finish The Way You Turn My Head because of lack of editing tools?
Well, the payment from these jobs will enable me to buy a new PC and software and get it all in the can by autumn. I’m not saying it’s a plan, for my plans have backfired on me before. But it is an opportunity to get it done and over with once and for all… and I get a free trip to Beijing!
Much more to read
A handful of new essays have been posted, among them an interview with Mike Kuchar, a portrait of Divine, and scholary essays about Peter Greenaways A TV Dante and David Finchers Seven.
More to come later!
More to Read
This site has now been updated with essays written by Tom Løberg Hovinbøle, about films, film makers and the art of film. Most are from his time serving the Programming Committee at the Cinemateket in Trondheim. Several more essays will be posted throughout the winter.
Unfortunately the essays are in Norwegian but translations in English will follow later.
The turning has begun
The shoothing of Tom Løbergs new short film – The Way You Turn My Head – started this Thursday. A very smooth production day sent every one home some hours earlier than scheduled – and bodes well for the continuing work. The plan is to wrap the shooting November 15.
You can follow the production here, on our regularly updated “director’s journal” for the film.
PF’s new webpage up and running
Finally the new webpage for Pastiche Films is up and running.
Tune in here for information about our projects, links to our films and videowork, read some of Tom Løberg’s essays about making film or follow his journal about the making of The Way You Turn My Head.
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