Five young European media-makers have now started work on European Souvenirs, a unique international remix project. It is commissioned by ECF, in the framework of Doc Next Network.

European Souvenirs artists Karol Rakowski, Barış Gürsel, Farah Rahman, Malaventura and Noriko Okaku © Ricardo Barquín Molero

During the next few months, the artists will be taking up residencies in Seville, Istanbul, Warsaw and Amsterdam, where they will work with audiovisual materials from different European archives, looking into a more inclusive and complete idea of Europe. By re-mixing this media, they will review, re-investigate and re-consider prevailing imagery of (im)migrants in European societies and re-map Europe visually, geographically and mentally.

The artists work with audiovisual material from leading European institutions who have opened up their archives for this project: Eye Film Institute (Amsterdam), OVNI Archives and Filmoteca de Andalucía (Seville), Digital National Archive (Warsaw), SALT (Istanbul) and the British Film Institute (London).

The first residency took place from 17 to 22 April in Seville, with Spanish artist Fernando Malaventura coordinating the process. European Souvenirs will come together in a unique live cinema performance, premiering at ECF’s Imagining Europe event in Amsterdam in October 2012.

To check out what the five artists are doing, go to europeansouvenirs.eu to see their progress and results!

Trailer European Souvenirs - click to view

This work programme has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

From 11 to 15, April, the 14th edition of ZEMOS98 Festival will be celebrated in Seville. This year’s leitmotif is COPYLOVE which seeks to bring the focus on those communities where the economy of care, reciprocity and trust are essential elements for the management of the commons. The 14th annual ZEMOS98 Festival titles “Copylove: Commons, Love and Remix” has been built collectively through some encounters in which different cultural agents discussed ideas about place of the commons and love within the community, a place in which to deepen, crystallize and put into action the close relationship of both terms. This has created a local team composed of different communities and diverse people with whom to define and articulate the concept of COPYLOVE.

“COPYLOVE: commons, love and remix” is intended to be an open and collective journey in which to propose reflections on the role of taking affects and management of common resources within communities.

All the programme is available in Spanish here.

Some activities will be available online via streaming.

Esta tarde a las 19h en el I+CAS proyectamos una selección de vídeos pertenecientes a la media collection de la red Doc Next.

Los vídeos que se proyectarán en el Seville European Film Fest son los siguientes:

A Way by Sergey Kirasyan (Armenia)
Biżuteria Publiczna by Iwo Kondefer (Poland)
Bracia by Emi Mazurkiewicz (Poland)
Ece’esque by Bahar Demirkan, Okyar Igli, Hayati Kose and Morteza Moghaddam (Turkey)
Grown up at age of 11in Macedonia by Vladimir Tevcev (Macedonia)
Guilty until Proven Innocent by Danyal Laskar (UK)
Launderette by Bertie Telezynski and Alex Nevill (UK)
Lost in Translation by Akile Nazli Kaya (Turkey)
Sex Sense by José Manuel Borrego, José Manuel Expósito, Pedro Fernández, Rosario Fernández, Noelia Fernández, Belén Márquez, José Antonio Márquez, Iván Ruiz Vergara and Pablo Domínguez (Spain)
The last communist in Berlin by Robin Meurer (Germany)
TRON by Felipe G. Gil (Spain)
Zero Point by Gjorgje Jovanovic (Macedonia)

Doc Next Network will be present at the  European Culture Congress in Poland in September 2011. In Poland Doc Next Network will have hour-long screenings of selected films from the media collection on 8 + 11 September in the Festival Club. At the congres Doc Next Network has its own space in a container, designed by young Polish architects and graphic designers from Super Super and video artist Karol Rakowski.

This trailer was made especially for the European Culture Congress by our Polish hub partner Towarzystwo Inicjatyw Twórczych „ę”.

Doc Next Network is nominated for the Erasmus EuroMedia Awards 2011!

The Erasmus EuroMedia Award is an annual prize, launched in 1995, to outstanding media productions contributing to the development of a European society. Doc Next has been nominated for its media collection and the entire network that is providing content to this media collection.

The award ceremony will take place on 14 October 2011 in Vienna.  The ceremony is a meeting point for international media professionals. The afternoon presentation of the winners and the festive evening reception provide the ideal ambiences to socialise and exchange ideas. Covered by news media from all over Europe, the EuroMedia Awards attract attention to our work.

The EuroMedia Awards honour media productions that:

• enhance the media discourse on Europe
• provide a qualitative discussion of objectives, perspectives and challenges for the development of European Societies
• relate to European topics like cohesion, social values, migration, identity, solidarity …
• show an educational ambition
• invest ideas and ambition in an European Public Sphere