RIFF MAGAZINE 2022

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EDITORIAL Dear All, Welcome to RIFF: R.E.D International Film Festival, dance-art-cinema.

For the seventh year in a row we are happy to celebrate dance, art, and the various possible audiovisual expressions that have a relation with movement. The festival will be celebrated from July 8th to 10th, 2022. This year’s theme is EXPLORING THE WORLD, and we continue our vision of building bridges between the performing and visual arts and the film industry.

Throughout this magazine we virtually distribute the films that are part of this year’s edition: the Official Selection. Each page contains a link to the films that have been carefully selected by the RIFF curatorial group. The films will be available from July 8th to August 7th. The official selection consists of 26* international films, including 3 Norwegian Films.

We have registered the consequences that the COVID pandemic has left on society, working artists, and cultural life, and we are grateful that the RIFF festival has been able to survive the last two years.

One of the films in this year’s program places us squarely on the topic of Ukraine, and forces us to think about the terrible events that have unleashed, and which looks absurd to any civilized idea.

With the festival and its curatorship, as well as its different events, we would like to contribute a little to society, taking culture as a weapon. This will help us take by storm the right to enjoy life and feel hope again, for humanity and its habitat: the planet. We would like to defend the right of all human beings to experience joy, compassion, and love.

In this program we’ll be sharing films that link local and urban culture with the arts and how it is transmitted throughout generations. The films are celebrating dance, and invites us further to fight racism and social class differences, and to respect the role of women, life, death and friendship.

For those who will be present at the festival we offer a variety of events, with CAFÉ EXPERIANCE, a two hours journey through performance and dance, installations and art, film, music and meals, as one of our highlights. The concept is developed by Ella Fiskum and is a collaboration with our Shooting Star, Festival Artist and dance and performance artists in residence at R.E.D. As the Hollywood sign was erected in Los Angeles in 1923, Einawood was founded during RIFF SECOND EDITION as a neighborhood where the motion picture industry is emerging. EINAWOOD sign inaugurated in Eina, Norway, on July 20th, 2017. The event was led by Ella Fiskum, Yolanda M. Guadarrama and Madeline Wood, RIFF Team: director, curator and visual creator of the sign. It is a playful action, but also a reality, as everything can happen in the world of motion pictures.

See the festival trailer HERE. Welcome to our festival, whether it is digital or in person.

Ella Fiskum Festival Director

*Due to authorization rights, 3 films are only available at our Venue.

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2022

CONTRIBUTION ELLA FISKUM (NO) - RIFF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Ella hails from Trondheim, Norway. She was educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, under Natalia Papina in St. Petersburg, and at the John Cranko Schule in Stuttgart. After working extensively as a contemporary dancer, she founded Ella Fiskum Danz working both as a choreographer, dancer, director, and producer. With 30 years of experience, producing over 19 full length stage productions and 21 films, she has received international awards and toured the world. In 2012 Fiskum relocated to a farm outside Oslo for the purpose of building up R.E.D. - an International Center for the Arts, which she is running. R.E.D. became a Regional Competence Center for Dance in 2018, and, since 2021, it’s funded by the government. She received the Vestre Toten Culture Prize in 2019, OA in 2020, and a five year working Government Grant (2021-2025). Fiskum founded RIFF in 2015. www.reddanz.com

YOLANDA M. GUADARRAMA (MX) - RIFF CURATOR

Yolanda M. Guadarrama. Mexican. Engineer, dancer, choreographer, audiovisual creator, coeditor of MOHO Magazine and Editorial. She is dedicated to the creation, exhibition and promotion of screendance, she made her first screendance in 1994. Movimiento en Movimiento Director (2013-2022). She was Cofounder of Motion festival in Berlin, 2008. Curator for RIFF festival, Norway for 7 years. She was a Screendance judge at LIFF, UK, 2017. Her work AILING ANIMAL obtained honorable mention in Agite y Sirva, 2015. POTATO EATERS obtained first place as an experimental short, Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival, 2018. Her works have been exhibited in several international festivals. She is a member of RED IBEROAMERICANA DE VIDEODANZA-Screendance Iberoamerican Net (REDIV). www.yolandamguadarrama.com

JULIE NARUM (NO) - RIFF DESIGNER AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSOCIATE

Julie Narum is a visual artist, as well as being involved in several projects within cultural life, events and cultural history. She has a Master´s degree in language, culture and communication, and is now employed at R.E.D. as an administrative associate.

Instagram: julie_narum_art

NAYELI BENHUMEA SALTO (MX) - RIFF ASSISTANT DESIGNER

Graphic designer and interdisciplinary artist. She is one of the curators of Movimiento en Movimiento festival; She is the founder, producer and manager of DANZAPERRA, a self-managed and independent publishing project. Nayeli gives workshops on movement, body and critical thinking of gender and body. She also gives workshops and consultancies on art projects. She’s just published her first book “Desert. Fragments to disappear”. nayelibenhumea.wordpress.com

YIKAI LUC WU (CN/US) - RIFF DESIGNER COVER PAGE MAGAZINE

Originally from China, Yikai Luc Wu is a film director and cinematographer based in LA who works in dance and narrative films. With a strong personal tempo, Luc works to capture irrational human emotion and analyze the rational logistic behind every physical movement. His works have been presented at Utah dance film festival and 40 North Dance Film Festival. He holds an MFA degree in film directing from California Institute of the Arts. He joined the RIFF team in 2018. www.yikai-wu.com

ANNA MARIA GENTILI (IT) - RIFF COLLABORATOR

Born in Italy, she’s a multifaceted artist, and she’s been having controversial exhibitions of photographs, video installations and traditional art since 2006, both in Italy and Norway, she currently lives in Norway. She’s been passionately organizing and curating festivals since 2004. She’s been supporting the RIFF festival since 2017.

MADELINE WOOD (FR) - RIFF ASSISTANT CURATOR

Madeline is a French visual artist and performer involved in many art contexts such as contemporary dance, performance, drawing (among others).

She is also co-founder of the publishing house Les Pinatas. She is currently writing for the dance critic review Les Démêlées and working with various artists, collectives and companies. She joined RIFF team in 2017. www.madelinewood.fr

HEDIYEH AZMA (IR) - RIFF MODERATOR

Hediyeh is an Iranian award-winning dance artist based in Oslo. She has 25-year experience in the field of Iranian court dance. She has also trained in modern, contemporary and classical ballet. Hediyeh was awarded ‘Best Performer’ and ‘Best Director’ at the Iranian Movement Festival. She holds an MA in Dance Anthropology from a joint program by NTNU(NO)/Roehampton(UK)/SZTE (HU)/ UCA(FR). Recently, her screen-dance film was selected by different International festivals. She performed in RIFF in 2019, is currently working on the site-specific dance project “The one from far”, and joined RIFF team in 2020.

JURY ODD JOHAN FRITZØE (NO)

Born 1962, educated from the State Ballet School in Oslo - dancing and choreographies on www.oddjohanfritzoe.no. The collaboration between dance, visual arts, and Norwegian composers has evolved into a distinctive artistic idiom – abstract and relevant. Also the founder of CODA - Oslo international dance festival. www.oddjohanfritzoe.no

FRANCESCA N. PENZANI (IT/USA)

Francesca N. Penzani, educated at London Contemporary Dance School and California Institute of the Arts. Since 1999, she has taught Dance for the Camera and Integrated Media at California Institute of the Arts. where she also started CineDance. Francesca has created collaborative and interdisciplinary classes at CalArts, been a guest artist in Taiwan, Munich, and taught laboratories in Mexico, Cuba and at RIFF in Norway.

Penzani has received several awards for her films from among others Women International Film Festival and International Independent Film Awards. Her newest dance film “Double Up” has been screened at more than 30 international film festivals and has won various awards. Francesca is a Faculty Emerita from CalArts and moving back to Italy in summer 2022. http://www.francescapenzani.com

ONLY AVAILABLE AT RIFF VENUE

ONLY AVAILABLE AT RIFF VENUE

ONLY AVAILABLE AT RIFF VENUE

A selection of films from RIFF will be presented at the festival KoresponDance in the castle of Zdar nad Sazavou in the Czech Republic. The film program is curated by RIFF Artistic Director Ella Fiskum in collaboration with KoresponDance Director Marie Kinsky.

Fiskum will present the films on site on July, 14th, 16th and 17th during the festival.

RIFF next year’s edition July 24th - 30th 2023 www.riff-festival.com