[spectre] Avanto Festival 2004 Helsinki

[Andreas Broeckmann]

The full programme see : http://www.avantofestival.com


Avanto Festival's 2004 programme announced

Avanto Helsinki Media Art Festival is Finland's annual event of 
non-conformist audiovisual art. The fifth Avanto will take place on 
November 18-21 2004. The festival venues are Kiasma Museum of 
Contemporary Art, Finnish Film Archive's cinema theatre Orion, Gloria 
Club, UMO Jazz Club, Mocambo Club, MUU Gallery and Gallery Huuto.

Once again Avanto focuses on such eternal questions as "Is the 
tradition of counter-cultural avantgarde art alive?", "What are its 
forms now?" and "What is the relationship between radical formal 
language and radical political content?"

Avanto's programme features artists of different generations and 
persuasions. Headliners of the music programme include Alec Empire 
(Germany), Astro Twin (Japan), Ohne (Switzerland/Germany/USA), 
Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine (France), Goodiepal (Denmark), COH 
(Sweden/Russia), Mattin (Basque country), Belgradeyard Soundsystem 
(Serbia), LŠjŠ *ijŠlŠ (Finland) and Kemialliset ystŠvŠt (Finland).

The main guests of the film programme are the pioneering 
structuralist film-maker and theoretician Malcolm Le Grice from the 
UK and the master of surrealist collage film CŽcile Fontaine from 
France. Austrian structuralist, actionist and destructionist film is 
represented by the works of Kurt Kren and Ernst Schmidt jr. from the 
1960's and the 1970's and by younger film-makers featured in the 
festival's international Avantoscope screenings. Other highlights 
include a rare screening of Andy Warhol's Sleep (1963) and an 
exclusive international selection of cinema without image in the Film 
Without Film screening.

More information:
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