Film programme

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.

Sektionen_Filmprogramm_1_No Other Land — Filmstill "No Other Land", Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor, PS/NO 2024, 96'

Sektionen_Filmprogramm_2_Compassion and Convenience — Filmstill "Compassion and Inconvenience", Vika Kirchenbauer, DE 2024, 30'

Sektionen_Fimprogramm_3_Magnolia — Filmstill "Magnolia", Dagie Brundert, DE 2013, 1'

Sektionen_Filmprogramm_4_Hypericin — Filmstill "Hypericin Yellow-Red Movie", Kerstin Schroedinger & Oliver Husain, 2024, 40'

Sektionen_Filmprogramm_5_How To Set A Troutline — Filmstill "How to Run a Trotline", Carl Elsaesser, US 2024, 18'

Sektionen_Film_6_Welcome Home — Filmstill "Seja bem-vindo ao lar / Welcome Home", Leonardo Pirondi, US 2023, 4'

Sektionen_Filmprogramm_7_Hey Sweet Pea — Filmstill "Hey Sweet Pea", Alee Peoples, US 2023, 11'

Sektionen_Filmprogramm_8_Phil Collins_neu — Filmstill "the meaning of style", Phil Collins, MY 2011, 5'

Sektionen_Filmprogramm_10_The Treasury of Human Inheritance — 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.

Sektionen_Aussstellung_1 — "AI & Me (The Confessional and AI Ego)", Octavian Mot, Daniela Nedovescu, Mots, 2023, work series

Sektionen_Ausstellung_2 — "Sleep Like Mountains", Lotta Stöver, DE 2022, Installation, custom horizontal planar 3D scanning machine, projection, software

Sektionen_Ausstellung_3 — "CROSSOVER/CROSSTALK (Version)", Pedro Oliveira, DE 2023, 00:06:58, drawing and 2-channel sound installation, 6’57”; Voice: Ece Canlı

Sektionen_Ausstellung_4 — "A voice becomes a mirror plane becomes a holohedral wand", Caitlin Berrigan, DE, CA 2023, 00:22:06, Installation

Sektionen_Ausstellung_5 — "Ring", Tanita Olbrich, DE, JP 2023, 00:09:11, single channel video, CCTV Camera, praying mantis (3D print) acrylic print, Voice Over: Manaka Nagai

Sektionen_Ausstellung_7 — "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

Sektionen_Ausstellung_8 — "Night Companions", Nieves de la Fuente Gutierrez, DE 2023,
mixed media: XR installation, modified Oculus Quest, sculptures

Sektionen_Ausstellung_9 — "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.