ECHO III: For Memory’s Sake Creative Residencies on Love and Marriage in the Balkans” is an international cultural project dealing with the subject of marital practices, especially arranged marriages, the experience of love and gender relations in the Balkan context.
Between 1 and 12 March, an audio-visual creative residency will take place in Bucharest for six emerging artists, three from Romania and three from three other Balkan countries (Greece, Bulgaria and Albania).
The residency is facilitated by Letiția Popa and Cristina Iliescu and the whole project is coordinated by Ruxandra Simion, Letiția Popa and Cristina Iliescu.
On 13 March, at Residency9, starting at 19.00, the public event to end the residency will take place in collaboration with the feminist film club F-Sides.
The general public will then be able to watch the video-poems made by the six residents and the Albanian film “A Tale from the Past”, which is about arranged marriage.
PROGRAMME:
19:00 – 20:00 Audience screening of the residents’ work-in-progress video-poems;
20:00 – 20:20 Introductory talk (with F-Sides and Xhenis Shehu);
20:30 – 22:00 Screening of the film Pèrralle nga e kaluara, A Tale From The Past (1987, r: Dhimiter Anagnosti).
VIDEO-POEMS BY:
Ornela Alia
Elena Chirila
Ana Gurdiș
Gergana Ivanova
Katarzyna Wojtczak
Ioana Turcan
Project 101056213 — ECHO III