University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern SwitzerlandHochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW, Basel Daniel Brefin, Artist filmmaker and Research Associate at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland invited Difference Screen to be part of Art Education Network Week 16 to 20 January 2017 an intensive week of workshops, discussions and presentations under the theme ‘EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF MIGRATION’. The occasion focussing on migration was an appropriate last showing for the Difference Screen project.

Raj Kumar Mazinder, Professor of Printmaking, Assam University, Silchar, attended the 2015 Jorhat screenings and on hearing of my intention to revisit Assam in 2016 requested further screenings at Silchar. One took place at the University, another at Beekshan Cine Commune Film Club. Raj Kumar also arranged screenings at Aizawl, Mizoram and Agartala, Tripura, two states with a tribal past. Mizos like Nagas had been famous headhunters until the middle of the 20th century. The Mazinder family, Raj Kumar, Swapnali and their son Shom, accompanied by painter Uttam Ghosh and his wife Jamuna travelled with me to Aizawl. I soon discovered Mizoram to be different to many places in India. …

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http://www.cubecinema.com http://www.differencescreen.net 1.00pm Registration, refreshments 1.30pm – Introduction 20 minsAims, screenings and countries – Bruce Allan, Ben EastopIdentity, culture, difference – From the Fabric of Things – Gareth Evans 1.50pm – Screening – Landscape and identity 1Sounds from Beneath Mikhail Karikis and Uriel Orlow 6:475 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown Shelly Silver 10:00Staging Actors, Staging Beliefs Renata Poljak 12:00Hollywood Daniel Brefin 12:20(42mins) 2.35pm Questions and discussion (15mins) 2.50pm – Screening – Landscape and identity 2Travelling Fields – Inger Lise Hansen 8:40Mumbaikar Ganesh – Collin D’Cunha 5:10Friends He Lost At Sea – Henrik Lund Jørgensen 5:32A Drone Wrapped Up in Flying Carpets – Riaz Mehmood 6:06Mantra – Gordana Andjelic-Galic 5:30Collective …

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Having originally arranged provisional dates for Difference Screen to close at Arnolfini, staff cuts and restructuring at the gallery necessitated a change of plan. Cube Cinema, Bristol was a suitable and sympathetic venue to review the Difference Screen Project. We were supported by independent curator for artists’ moving image Carmen Billows, curator and writer Mercedes Vicente with Gareth Evans film curator, Whitechapel Gallery moderating. Artists attending included Difference Screen contributors Neville Gabie Collective Breath and Arpine Tokmajayan A 3000 times walked way. The afternoon was divided into two broad themes Landscape and Identity, Conflict and Migration with groups of films followed by discussion.  Aims of the core activity reflecting on changing political …

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Difference Screen presented 11 screenings in India in a fast moving programme beginning at Bangalore before moving to the North East – Assam, Nagaland, Santiniketan and Calcutta. If Difference Screen is a celebration of difference, then India with its diversity of peoples, cultures, languages and religions represents difference unparalleled elsewhere. Bangalore is the IT capital of India, considered by many to be its most happening city. Our invitation to screen in Bangalore came through artist Surekha, whose work internationally has included Spike Island, Bristol and the Asian Triennial, Manchester. Surekha has also been instrumental in assisting with artists’ workshops through Khoj India and the Triangle Trust and the development of …

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Arnolfini, Bristol, 6 September 2015 Many thanks to Difference Screen for putting on this presentation – an eclectic mix of international short films on the theme of landscape, identity and culture – at Arnolfini, Bristol recently. I was at times amused, unsettled and curious and at others completely non-plussed and irritated. A thought provoking and thoroughly agreeable way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Interested to hear that a selection of films had been taken on tour in Mongolia, I wondered (out loud) how it had been received (well, apparently) and who had seen it? It had been a joint venture with Nine Dragon Heads and together they had managed to …

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LOVELY DAYS The idea and the ambition around starting Video days in Bol was to open a dialogue with a broad audience, familiarize the public with contemporary art and to entice curiosity. This is precisely why I believe that Bol and summertime present the ideal setting for commencing the cycle; due to my personal connections with the village of Bol, the landscape and the people, but also due to the fact that Bol is not merely a well-known tourist destination but also a cultural one, ever since the times of Italian artist Tintoretto whose painting “Madonna and Child” has been a part of the collection of Dominican Monastery in Bol …

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‘a platform for production, presentation and artistic debate’ http://www.quartair.nl/engels/index-eng.htm 2 July. On one of the hottest days of the year we boarded IC 146 Berlin – Hannover – Amersfoort – Utrecht Centraal – Den Haag, an old train. The air conditioning began to fail somewhere before Hannover. Staff brought boxes of bottled water and moved us from one carriage to another. Later as it became apparent it wasn’t an isolated carriage without a/c, the system packed up altogether and getting hotter and going ever more slowly we eventually came to a stop at Rheine, where a sorry mass of confused people evacuated the train and were left wondering what to …

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Difference Screen presented at Abteilung für Alles Andere on Wednesday 1 July 2015. An artists’ run space for 25 years Ackerstraße 18 has a particular niche in the Berlin art scene; the Abteilung is run by Stefan Riebel and his sister Ulrike. ‘On the occasion of the 25th birthday of the “Künstlerhaus am Acker!” and the 5th birthday of the “Institut für Alles Mögliche”, we take a look back at the history of the building at number 18 Ackerstraße, where the Institut has been based since 2011.’ http://25-jahre.kuenstlerhaus-am-acker.de/ Although he was unable to attend we began the evening with Stefan’s work untitled #81 The programme featured a selection of works …

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Difference Screen – Summart, Istanbul 27 May 2015 Istanbulʼs main street, Istiklal, is a constant human tide across its width, flowing past shops, restaurants, and enticing side streets, all day and late into the night – like the Bosphorus itself which separates east and west. Galatasari fans celebrate winning the League in Istiklal We are drawn time and again into this human surge to take us into different parts of the city and, on one occasion, come across SALT Beyoglu. The space is filled with high, curling white walls which, it turns out, constitute a laser-cut reproduction of part of the coastline, an installation by Neyran Turan. His silent movie, …

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