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- Some things need fire to grow and art can be a powerful force changing lives of simple residents. An acclaimed Polish artist Karolina Bregula comments on art, fear of catastrophe and unexplainable events in her new Polish-Norwegian video art project "Fire-Followers" being shot in Bergen this spring. "Fire-Followers" is a fake documentary about Bergen as a quiet city in the Northern Europe being endangered due to its artistic heritage. The idea of the project came last May 2011 when Karolina Bregula was in Bergen at Faggfabbriken for a student exchange. The film revolves around the fact form Bergen's history - throughout the ages the town has burned regularly. In Bregula's film despite of modern methods aimed at protecting the town from fires so that its inhabitants could finally live without thinking that any moment a new catastrophe would appear, the fear has never left them. The whole town is talking about art historians who believe that without fires the progress of art would be impossible. "In their opinion, if the art heritage is not destroyed, the young artists will not be able to work" Bregula explains her concept. "For the historians in my film only fire can help to come out of a deadlock. The residents suspect that the art historians are running a secret organization which aims to set the fires destroying the historical art and so museums, galleries and private art collections are all considered to be in danger" she adds. It is a film about fear and paranoia casting a shadow on a peaceful city life but it can also be read as artist's institutional critique or a reflection on the relation between art and its recipients. Currently the movie is being presented on 55th La Biennale di Venezia.
- The film follows the phenomenon of creation and development of independent rock scene in Wroclaw until today.
- Armenian master of ancient art of singing takes a group of young European actors on an initiatory journey to the places where this art was born.
- The story of a small group of people coming from a city that has ceased to exist. Forced to move, the characters awkwardly try to find their way in the new reality. Among them is a ticket seller. The woman neglects her professional duties and personal life, devoting herself completely to the unusual passion of collecting teeth in this way filling the void in her life and trying to build a new representation of people who come from a non-existent place. The collection of teeth, at first chaotic and collected without a specific concept, with time becomes a well-thought-out collection of objects archived and stored according to methods developed by the heroine, which resemble the methods of museum workers. With time, the collector realizes that her collection is symbolic capital, which, like the title monument, can be used to control other people's emotions. The collection, insignificant at first, thus becomes a potential tool of power.