cooltXchange weekend: screenings programme

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cooltXchange is a continuation of Cooltsalon’s hybrid, glocal project initiated in 2018, that includes production of collectively created zine and an associated event, so far, both known as Cooltzine). As of 2021 the zine retains the name, while the event becomes known as cooltXchange and doesn’t have a fixed format, but always includes at least one internationally shared programme element – live video transmission or online content. The local part of the event is co-curated by Zeren Oruc, iksvyart (Belgrade) and Amy Jackson (London). Confirmed shared international programme elements for 2021 are:

live video discussion with some of the 4th zine co-creators, including: Georgia Korossi, activist, independent writer, artist and curator of documentary, anthropological and experimental films, and currently Digital Content Producer at the BFI; Manchester-based figurative visual artist and illustrator, Tina Ramos Ekongo; Melbourne-based fine art photographer, Carmel Louise;

and screenings of short films and artist videos, selected by Cooltsalon’s curatorial team and reflective of the “Future Now” theme. Confirmed titles include:

Spike Island-produced, Jarman Award 2020 winner, In Vitro (al Mukhtabar) (dir. Larissa Sansour, Soren Lind, Palestine/Denmark/UK 2019, 28 min) starring Hiam Abbass (Succession, Blade Runner 2049, The Swallows of Kabul)  set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above. In the hospital wing of the
underground compound, the orchard’s dying founder, 70-year-old Dunia (Abbass) is visited by 30-year-old Alia (Maisa Abd Elhadi) – a clone born underground, who has never seen the town she’s destined to rebuild.

Different Kind of Heaven (2020, 24 min) by Serbian artist & researcher, Sanja Anđelković, a cross genre/theme CGI film that flourished from Sanja's time with Kair artist residency in Košice (Slovakia) in March 2020, right when the pandemic started; the work is set in a post-pandemic future, touching on the topic of unresolved environmental issues and a period of technocracy set.

EULOGY (2020, 5 min) by Brooklyn-based veteran visual artist & writer Susan Silas, a motion capture video featuring a 3D scan of artist’s bust, raising questions of humanity’s drive to achieve immortality in the face of the inevitable, mourning the world, embodiment and the idea of ditching our bodies altogether, while preserving a ‘self’.

The Future (UK, 2 min, 2013) is a playful stripped-down animation by the award-winning Brighton-based filmmaker, Alex Goddard, telling you everything you need to know about the future in a couple of minutes.

Full line-up can be found on https://cooltsalon.com/2021/05/05/cooltxchange-weekend-screenings-programme/
All selected titles will be split in two screening programmes, one for Saturday and one for Sunday, available worldwide but restricted to a 10-hr viewing window.

To watch the two programmes online: https://cooltsalon.com/2021/05/05/cooltxchange-weekend-screenings-programme/ 

The works will become available online on the dates and for the time period mentioned in the link.