Six strolls. Shanghai before Mao, Berlin during Weimar Republic, interwar Paris, the Soviet Union during industrialization, Japan before invading Manchuria and Barcelona at the beginning of Spanish Civil War. It's just about wandering down the streets, taking a tram, having lunch in a restaurant, seeing how the ships unload their goods on the quay, entering a cinema, traveling cross-country by train, attending a concert, taking a bath in the lake, drinking in a nightclub ... As Joseph Roth quoted: "The tiny small part impresses more than the whole thing. I'm a stroller".
Major screenings, presentations:
Alcances 43 Muestra Cinematográfica del Atlántico 2011 (Cádiz, Spain).
Film Forum Zadar 2011 (Zadar, Croatia).
International 1001 Documentary Film Festival (Istanbul, Turkey).
28 Festival de Cine de Bogotá (Bogotá, Colombia).
Ivan GARCIA
Ivan Garcia was born in Girona in 1978, he grew up in Palafrugell and now he is living in Barcelona.
He is a librarian and archivist qualified by the University of Barcelona, and he studied film directing and editing at the Centre d'Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya (CECC) in Barcelona. His short documentary film, Ribot, got grants from the Ministry of Culture of Spain and from the Department of Culture of Regional Government of Catalonia. Ribot was selected in various international festivals such as Kiev, Bogotá, Dhaka, Docúpolis Barcelona or MadridImagen Madrid. His first full length documentary film, Warm Human Blood, won the First Jury Award of the Documenta Madrid 2008 documentary festival, and the film was selected in other international documentary film festivals (Memorimage Reus, Jihlava, Docúpolis Barcelona, Docúpolis Chile, Lublin ...).
On Hard Art of Strolling is his second full length film.
Filmography
- EL DIFÍCIL ARTE DEL PASEO (ON HARD ART OF STROLLING) 2011.
- LA SANGRE TIBIA DEL HOMBRE (WARM HUMAN BLOOD) 2007.
Application is now open to this year's Passport Controll Summer Workshop and Gathering, at the Kund Castle, Somogyfajsz! You can choose from a range of visual, music, family and gastronomy workshops. Click here for details!
Two Greek filmmakers will come to this year's Passport Controll - Summer Art Workshops and Community Gathering, to lead film workshop for students. Film director Karina Logothetis and sound designer Vasilis Zlatanos won the award for the Most Original Short Film at the 33rd edition of the Mediawave Film Festival this year, with their short fiction Pebble.