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Anahi's room, 2013

In production with support from the Danish Ministry of Education. A film about abuse, which will be recorded in Berlin in 2012.

Language: English
Subtitles: English, German, Spanish
Lenght: 60 minutes

OPEN, 2012

To be shot in Denmark during the summer of 2012. Produced with support from HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (DK).

Language: Danish, Greenlandic
Subtitles: English
Lenght: 30 minutes

EYES, 2012

To be shot in Berlin from the 24th - 30th of April 2012, at Greenland Eyes International Film Festival. Produced with support from NAPA.

Language: English
Subtitles: English
Lenght: 30 minutes

Greenland Eyes International Film Festival, 24th of April to the 30th of April 2012

Greenland Eyes International Film Festival is organised by Ivalo Frank in cooperation with Lill-ann Körber from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. The film festival will highligh films from Greenland as well as other filmic examples that deal with Greenlandic images while produced in foreign countries. The festival will take place at Arsenal Cinema with paralel talks at Humboldt University of Berlin.

ECHOES, 2010

ECHOES is an award winning experimental music documentary recorded on various abandoned military places in Greenland. The film is structued according to the sounds, structures and colours of the mosaic landscape of steep mountains. It tells the (love) story about two people who have met here, in in the midst of international politics and war history.

Language: English

Subtitles: Danish, English, German and Greenlandic

Length: 24 minutes

Faith, Hope and Greenland, 2009

Faith, Hope and Greenland is a poetic journey into the very hearts of the people of Greenland. Based upon interviews with leading representatives from the art-world including; film producer Mikisoq H. Lynge, visual artist Julie Edel Hardenberg, actress Makka Kleist and musician Peter Tuusi Motzfeldt ‘Tuumotz’ (whose music, along with songs from Nive Nielsen accompany the film), the four figures reveal their personal beliefs of what Greenland currently stands for and their dreams for a contemporary, Greenlandic society.

Language: Danish, Greenlandic

Subtitles: Danish, English

Length: 32 minutes

Upper Reaches of the Arts, 2007

Upper Reaches of the Arts is a portrait of Shanghai's contrastful cultural scene. The film gives an insight into the restrictive conditions, that the Chinese contemporary artists and cultural institutions, work under. At the same time it highlights some of the world's most preogressive cultutal personalities, including the then artistic director, who curated the first ever animation and comics biennale ANIMAMIX at the Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai.

Language: English

Subtitles: English

Length: 30 minutes

Rosinen & Blaue Blumen, 2006

Rosinen and Blaue Blumen feature former east Berliners and their thoughts regarding the fall of the Berlin wall and its consequences for everyday life. The films shows how the was DDR both a society, which shaped the comfortable lives for many, whilst at the sam etime being lifethreatening to those who were critical and who wante dto express themselves freely.

Language: German

Length: 2x30 minutes

The People from the North who Eat Meat, 2005

The People from the North who eat meat is a both humorous film showing a man and a woman fist fighting at night.

Length: 5 minutes

Wild Dogs of Sarajevo, 2004

Wild Dogs of Sarajevo is a pioneering film in the sense that it showcases some of the people who choose to live in post-war Sarajevo in order to help re-build war history's longest occupied capital. It is both a hardcore description of what war does to people and the human mind, whilst at the same time being an absolute love declaration to Bosnias capital, Sarajevo.

Language: English

Length: 30 minutes

Yellow Dogs, 2004

Yellow Dogs is a selection of four short films highlighting different contemporary artists. They surround around the questions: Why make art? They were part of an essay made for University of Lund, which investigated into the logic of artists and art and the creation of art.

Language: English

Length: 4x5 minutes

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in Greenland to Danish parents in 1975, Ivalo Frank is a Festival and Film Director based in Berlin and Copenhagen. She holds a BA in Philosophy from Copenhagen University and a MA in Social Anthropology from Lund University, specialising in the logic of art. She has made documentary films in various countries including Bosnia, China and Greenland. The content of her films range from post-war portraits to post-colonial perspectives and in-depth interviews with citizens from the former DDR. Ivalo Frank is the director of (amongst others) "Upper Reaches of the Arts", an introduction to Shanghais’ art galleries and cultural institutions and "Wild Dogs of Sarajevo“ a film highlighting war-tourism and the survivors of the longest occupation of any capital in history. Her latest film "ECHOES" (2010) premiered at Copenhagen Contemporary and is a musical journey portraying the personal stories that the American presence in Greenland, has left behind.

Ivalo Frank's films are exhibited in academic, film and art contexts and has been shown around the world, including at the Museum of New Art Detroit, the Museum of Contemporary Art (DK), the Humboldt University of Berlin and Metropolis Cinema in Hamburg. Her work has been screened at various international film festivals, including the London Underground Film Festival and the American Independent Film Festival. Apart from several nominations she has won the Honorable Mention Award at the Los Angeles International Film Festival, the Festival Award for Best Documentary at the London Underground Film festival and the Award of Merit at Best Shorts 2011.

Besides film-making, Ivalo Frank is the director of Greenland Eyes International Film Festival - the first ever festival to provide the Berlin audience with the chance to get a comprehensive insight into films from and about Greenland. She has contributed to a number of art catalogues, books and newspapers including (H)art (BE), Dagbladet Information (DK) and Asian Art Newspaper (UK). She speaks Danish, English, German and Spanish.

CURRICULUM VITAE

• 1975 Born to Danish parents in Nuuk (GL).
• 1997 - 1999: BA Philosophy, Copenhagen University (DK).
• 1999 - 2004: MA Anthropology, Lund University (SE).
• 2004 - Festival&Film Director based in Berlin (DE).

FILM (SELECTION)

• 2013

• Anahi's room, 60min.

  In production with support from the Danish Ministry of Education.

• 2012

• OPEN, 30min.

  In production with support from HEART.

• EYES, 30min.

  In production with support from NAPA.

• 2010

• ECHOES, 25min.

  Winner of the Honorable Mention Award at Los Angeles International Film Festival 2011, winner of the Festival Award for Best Documentary at the London Underground Film festival, winner of the Award of Merit at Best Shorts 2011. Nominated at Tromsø International Film Festival, the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, 28th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival. Selected for London Underground Film Festival, London Ladyfest Art Festival, Reykjavik International Film Festival, Kiel Film Festival, Malmö Documentary Film Festival, Soundtrack Cologne. Screened at Humboldt University of Berlin, Norway Mountain Film festival, American Independent Film Festival, Nordatlantens Brygge (Cph), Kino Arsenal Berlin, Shortcutz Berlin. Exhibited at Katuaq Art Center (GL), HBC Berlin, Contemporary Copenhagen, Tellus Cinema (SE), Culture Night Copenhagen and the Museum of Contemporary Art (DK). Distributed through Shorts International.

• 2009

• Faith, Hope and Greenland, 32min.

  Premiere at Babylon Cinema Berlin. Selected for Nordic Film Days Lübeck, Winnipeq International Film Festival, London Underground Film Festival. Screened at Hamburg Metropolis Cinema, Tellus Cinema (SE), Katuaq Cinema (GL), Kran Filmspace Bruxelles, Nordatlantens Brygge (Cph), Doc Lounge (Cph), Culture Night Copenhagen (DK), Kino Arsenal Berlin. Broadcastet on APTN (CA), KNR TV (GL), SVF (FO), RUV TV (IS), DK4 (DK). Distributed through Kranfilm.

• 2008

• If One Thing Matters, 75min.

  PA Director. Premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlin Berlinale) 2008.
• Selected for CPH:DOX, New York Film Festival, International Artforum London, International Film Festival São Paulo, Cinevue Festival Florida, South By Southwest Film Festival (USA), Lower East Side Film Festival (USA).

• 2007

• Upper Reaches of the Arts, 30min.

  Premiere at Kran Filmspace Brussels. Exhibited at Screened at New Life Shop Berlin, Katuaq Art Center (GL), Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center (DK).

• 2006

• Rosinen og Blaue Blumen, 2x30min.

  In cooperation with Kenneth A. Balfelt. Broadcastet in co-operation with Urban Art Stories, non-stop from the 29th April -16th May at Alexanderplatz and Tuchollaplatz, Berlin.

• 2005

• The People from the North who eat Meat, 5min.

  Premiere at Filmstuben Berlin. Screened at Cirque Audiovisual Köln. Exhibited at Non Art Amersfoort (NL).

• 2004

• Wild Dogs of Sarajevo, 30min.

  In cooperation with Lasse Lau. Premiere at Museum of New Art — MONA Detroit. Selected for Locandina Del Film Festival (USA). Screened at Kabine Copenhagen, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center (DK), Espace SD Beirut (LB).

• Don't Fall Down, 5min.

  Exhibited at Wiensowsky & Harboard (DE).

• Yellow Dogs, 4x5min.

  Screened at Lunds Universitet (SE).

• 2003

• A-lien & B-lien, 26x3min.

  PA Director. Broadcast on Bayerischen Rundfunk (DE).

BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTION)

• Berlin präsentiert Greenland Eyes International Film Festival (Reisenews Online.de, 2012)
• Greenland Eyes International Film Festival (Berlin.de, 2012)
• Mit grönländischen Augen (GT Worldwide, 2012)
• Q&A with Director Ivalo Frank (Youth and Urbanity, 2012)
• Grønlandsk filmfestival i Berlin (Sermitsiaq, 2012)
• Greenland Eyes IFF (Youth and Urbanity, 2011)
• Filmfestival - grønlandske film (Sermitsiaq, 2011)
• Filmfestival vil gøre verden klogere på Grønland (KNR, 2011)
• Grønlandsk filmfremstød i Berlin (KNR, 2011)
• Ivalo Frank wins Award of Merit (News Blaze, 2011)
• Flere priser til Ivalo Frank (AG Nyheder, 2011)
• Filmpris til Ivalo Frank (AG Nyheder, 2011)
• Nye film på Nordatlantiske Biodage (AG Nyheder, 2011)
• Inuit Live! (Politiken, 2011)
• Fortidens spor idag (Sermitsiaq, 2011)
• KUUK — kunst i omegnen af Grønland ( Politiken, 2010)
• Warum eine Grönländerin in Berlin friert (Berliner Morgenpost, 2010)
• Faith, Hope and Greenland (Zitty Berlin, 2010)
• Kunst fra kontaktzonen (Tidsskriftet Grønland, 2010)
• Samtale med Ivalo (Der er nogen hjemme, 2010)
• Overset historie om alle (Sermitsiaq, 2010)

WRITINGS (SELECTION)

• An everyday conversation (Jessie Kleemann, 2012)
• The Art of Government (Asian Art Newspaper, 2010)
• Nuummioq danser under Utah's sol (Dagsbladet Information, 2010)
• ECHOES (KUUK exhibitioncatalogue, 2010)
• 210609 (210609 exhibitioncatalogue, 2009)
• The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Literature(Asian Art Newspaper, 2009)
• Yuken Teruya (Asian Art Newspaper, 2009)
• On Top of the World (H-Art, 2009)
• 210609 (210609 exhibitioncatalogue, 2009)
• Neo Pop Culture in the East (Asian Art Newspaper, 2008)
• Together Forever (Q-magazine, 2007)
• Berliner Schönheit (Q-magazine, 2007)
• Q and Career (Q-magazine, 2007)
• Prefuse 73 (GAFFA DK, 2005)
• Henrik Rylander (GAFFA DK, 2005)
• Yellow Dogs — a study of artistic logic (University of Lund, 2004)
• Walter Benjamin's Ruins (University of Copenhagen, 2004)

GRANTS AND FUNDING

• EYES (2012). Production grant from NAPA
• Greenland Eyes International Film Festival (2012). Production grant from Sermersooq Municipality
• Greenland Eyes International Film Festival (2012). Production grant from Greenland's Self-governments Culture funding
• Working grant from the Danish Arts Council (2011)
• Anahi's Room (2011). Film funding from the Danish Ministry of Education.
• ECHOES (2010). Film grants from Sermersooq Municipality, The Self-Government of Greenland, the KUUK exhibition, Hotel Kulusuk, Ammasalik Museum, the Firma Sachtler (UK).
• Faith, Hope and Greenland (2008). Film grants from Royal Arctic Line A/S, Nuuk Municipality, KNR TV, Air Greenland, Greenland Tourism and Business Council, Tele Greenland, Copydan DK, Greenlands Home Governments Cultural Foundation.
• Upper Reaches of the Arts (2005). Film funding from the Danish videoworkshop.
• Wild Dogs of Sarajevo (2003). Film funding from the Danish videoworkshop.

GREENLAND EYES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL taking place at renowned Arsenal Cinema April 24-30, 2012, offers a unique experience of one of the most fascinating places on earth. The festival is exceptional in its combination of multiple perspectives on today’s Greenland such as film, art, music, storytelling, politics and scholarship. Greenland Eyes is proud to provide the Berlin audience with the first chance to get a comprehensive insight into films from and about Greenland. Starting with some examples from German-Greenlandic film history like Eskimo Baby (1917), starring Asta Nielsen, and SOS Iceberg (1932), starring Leni Riefenstahl, the festival focuses on the emerging Greenlandic film production and on international films showing today’s Greenland beyond widespread representations of a deserted ice-covered island, ‘eskimo exotism’ or sublime nature. Instead, the festival’s program will zoom in on urban Greenland; negotiations of the postcolonial situation; and reception of globalized pop culture in Greenland. Among others, the festival will screen (only for the second time in Germany) the first international Greenlandic feature film Nuummioq (2009), the international or German premieres of the first Greenlandic feature film Tikeq, Qiterleq, Mikileraq, Eqeqqoq, a low budget production from 2008; the most popular film in Greenland ever, Qaqqat Alanngui (2010); and the award winning short film ECHOES (2010) about the remains of the cold war in East Greenland. The film program will be supplemented with the workshop Greenland Film in Context at Humboldt University’s Nordeuropa-Institut, focusing on theoretical and practical aspects of filmmaking in and about Greenland. We will be welcoming numerous guests, noteably from Greenland and Denmark, to share their expertise on traditional and recent representations of Greenland; current political and cultural debates; and the contemporary scene for visual arts in Greenland. Greenlandic singer-songwriter Nive Nielsen and actor and storyteller Makka Kleist will contribute additional features to an understanding of today’s Greenland. We are proud to announce our cooperation with .HBC, a beautiful music and culture venue at the center of Berlin, which will host the finissage party. Welcome! Willkommen! Tikilluaritsi!

Greenland Eyes is curated by Ivalo Frank, Greenland-born and Berlin-based award-winning Film Director (i.a. Faith, Hope and Greenland & ECHOES) - and - Lill-Ann Körber, Scandinavian Studies scholar at Humboldt University.

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September 14th 2012 - January 6th 2013: Premier of 'OPEN' at HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art(DK)

September 5thth 2012: ECHOES & Faith, hope and Greenland at the Vestnordisk Kulturfestival, Reykjavik (IS)

JUNE, 22nd 2012, 8PM: ECHOES @ Bozar - Centre for Fine Art, Rue Ravensteinstraat 23, 1000 Brussels (BE)

Maj, 2nd. - 2012, at 7:15PM: ECHOES @ Multisala G. Modena, Trento Film Festival 2012, Via S.Croce, 67 c/o Centro Santa Chiara, 38122 Trento, Italy.

APRIL, 28th. - 2012, at 9PM: ECHOES @ Arsenal Kino, Potsdamer Strasse 2, 10785 Berlin, DE.

APRIL, 28th. - 2012, at 5PM: ECHOES @ Multisala G. Modena, Trento Film Festival 2012, Via S.Croce, 67 c/o Centro Santa Chiara, 38122 Trento, Italy.

April 27th. - July 1st 2012: ECHOES @ Berlin Biennale - Open call exhibition Space, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Kunst-Werke Berlin e. V., Auguststraße 69, D-10117 Berlin

APRIL, 24th. - 2012, at 7PM: Faith, Hope and Greenland @ Arsenal Kino, Potsdamer Strasse 2, 10785 Berlin, DE.

MARCH, 29th. - 2012: ECHOES and Q&A with Director Ivalo Frank at Shortcutz Berlin, Reichenberger Strasse 133, 10999 Berlin (DE)

MARCH, 17th. - 2012: ECHOES & Faith, Hope and Greenland @ Tellus Cinema, Stockholm, SE.

FEBRUARY, 9th.-26th. - 2012: Wild Dogs of Sarajevo @ Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen (DK)

FEBRUARY, 2nd. 2012, at 4PM: Faith, Hope and Greenland & ECHOES @ Humboldt University, Berlin, DE.

JANUARY, 21st. 2012: ECHOES @ the University of Greenland, Nuuk, GL.

DECEMBER 2011: ECHOES @ The London Underground Film Festival 2011, the Horse Hospital London, UK.

NOVEMBER, 22nd. and 29th 2011: ECHOES&Faith, Hope and Greenland @ The Childrens Home, Tasiilaq (GL)

NOVEMBER, 9th. 2011, at 8PM: ECHOES @ 28th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassell (DE)

NOVEMBER, 5th. 2011: ECHOES @ Soundtrack Cologne, (DE)

NOVEMBER, 3rd.-6th. 2011: ECHOES @ The Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York (UK)

OCTOBER, 14th. 2011: ECHOES @ Culture Night Copenhagen, Løvstræde 6 Postboks 1042, 1007 Copenhagen, Denmark, at 7PM and at 9:30PM

SEPTEMBER, 9th.-11th. 2011: ECHOES @ The Norwegian Mountain Film Festival 2011, Turtagrø, Jotunheimen, Norway.

MAY, 28th. - 2011: ECHOES @ Humboldt University of Berlin “Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften”. 9PM and at midnight.

MAY, 9th. - 2011: ECHOES @ HBC Berlin, Karl-Liebknecht Straße 9, 10178 Berlin, on the 9th. May 2011, 9PM. 

APRIL, 28th. - 2011: ECHOES @ Det grønlandske hus i Århus, DALGAS AVENUE 52, 8000 AARHUS C. 7PM-9PM. 

APRIL, 24th. - 2011: ECHOES @ Museum of Contemporary Art · Stændertorvet 3D, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark, Screening+artist talk, at 2-4PM. 

APRIL, 17th. - 2011: ECHOES @ Museum of Contemporary Art · Stændertorvet 3D, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark, Screening+artist talk, at 2-3PM.

APRIL, 9th. - 2011: ECHOES @ Kiel Film Festival, Kiel, Germany. 2PM. 

FEBRUARY, 19th. - 2011: ECHOES @ The Iranian Documentary Film Festival, Malmö, Sweden.

FEBRUARY, 17th. - 2011: ECHOES @ Nordatlantens Brygge, Nordatlantens Brygge Strandgade 91 1401 København K. 8PM. 

FEBRUARY, 12th. - 2011: ECHOES @ Secret Garden Club, KIM, Brunnenstrasse 10, 10119 Berlin. 9PM.

JANUARY, 21st.-23rd. - 2011: ECHOES @ Tromsø International Film Festival, Tromsø, Norway.

DECEMBER, 4th. - 2010: Faith, hope and Greenland @ London Underground Film Festival: The Horse Hospital, COLONNADE BLOOMSBURY, LONDON WC1N 1JD.

NOVEMBER, 18th. - 2010: ECHOES @ Humboldt University of Berlin.

NOVEMBER, 12th. - 2010: ECHOES @ London ladyfest arts festival, THE RELENTLESS GARAGE, 20-22 Highbury Corner, Islington, London N5 1RD.

NOVEMBER, 6st.-28th. - 2010: ECHOES @ Katuaq Contemporary Art Center, Nuuk.

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