Screen Forum Pro: WHAT ABOUT PRODUCTION? LOOP in Barcelona!

Time: May 20th to June 2nd (Mornings)

LOOP is an annual art fair that has coined itself as an international meeting point for video lovers around the world since 2003. LOOP’S SCREEN Festival, is a professional symposium that gathers for a collective examination of the present and future of moving art production.

The Forum Pro will be taking place in the framework of, and parallel to, LOOP Fair and SCREEN Festival. Parallel to and as an extension of the Debate Forum, the program of exhibitions, screenings and events of the SCREEN Festival includes a section entitled: What about production?

WHAT ABOUT PRODUCTION? was born from SCREEN’s intention to open up a space for professional encounters and discussions, in order to examine collectively the concerns and challenges emerging in the field of production of artists’ films and videos. They ask you to consider:

What happens with production in a precarious economical and cultural context? What models, schemes and criteria survive and which ones need to be reformulated? What should be produced—how and with what goals? With which structures and supports? What do we consider production: when does it start and when does it finish? Can art find answers in other traditionally differentiated audiovisual realms? What possibilities and challenges are generated by strategies such as self-production or crowd-sourcing?

WHAT ABOUT PRODUCTION? gathers in Barcelona key professionals with diverse and complementary experiences in the audiovisual production sector, with the purpose of establishing a dialogue between a wide array of moving image art production forms, structures and models. Formed around 6 round tables, curated by event moderators, the professional forum of debate aims to revise different platforms and production strategies; they hope to identify and present issues, as well as sketch future perspectives through the collective expertise and experience of its participants.

The roundtables and case studies will culminate in an ARTISTS’ FILM PITCH: six artists will be invited to present a project in front of a professional audience, with the aim of finding producers or co-production alliances to accomplish the works.

The WHAT ABOUT PRODUCTION section of the fair and symposium is built by inviting different and active production platforms and organizations to present recent works in whose production they have been involved. The aim is to map various typologies of structures that make possible artist’s research and production as well as foregrounding them as those who enable creation despite the difficult times.

Also coinciding the aforementioned events will be LOOP‘12: the platform for artists’ moving image projects presented by various galleries, which puts the accent on the presentation of premières and recent productions.

Speakers include:
John Akomfrah, Alessio Antoniolli, Tera Badia, Cabello/Canceller, Phil Collins, Pedro Costa, Simon Field, Ulrich Gebauer, Carles Guerra, James Lingwood, Bartomeu Mari, Lluis Minarro, Marco Muller, Maria Mur Dean, Davide Quadrio, Maria Ruido, Riot Cinema Collective, Fiona Tan, Agnes Varda, among many others.