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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 26 JULY 2015 This Week 39 KINEMASTIK International Short Film Festival will fly its flag for the 11th time this summer. Set be- tween August 7 and 9, the festival includes a strong and diverse selec- tion of short films currently on the international festival circuit. The festival will take place at Garden of Rest, Floriana, set to commence at 21:00 on each night. On Friday night, Los Angeles based Aus- tralian director Dave Ma brings us Trona, a youthful portrait of a less glamorous Califor- nia, De Smet from Hol- land by directors Tho- mas Baerten and Wim Geudens will entertain us with its oddity, and Eleanor Mortimer's Territory takes us to Gi- braltar, where she looks at the relationship be- tween humans and mon- keys, through the eyes of the monkeys. It won best short documentary at Hot Docs 2015. Saturday brings us Black Sheep, directed by the Christian Cerami, a gritty piece of fiction set in the North of England in which two brothers set out to attend and EDL street protest against radical Is- lam. Danish Ada Bligaard Søby's Hitchhikers examines margin- alised youth, and Ton Coeur Au Hasard by French director Aude- Léa Rapin takes us on journey with a very lonely young man travelling to meet a girl he has met on the internet, a mesmerizing portrait carried along by the vital force of actor Jonathan Couzinié. Sunday's programme, Neck of the Woods, will explore experimen- tal, psychedelic and cross-genre works currently at the forefront of short film. Samir Ramdani's Black Diamond, which won Best Original Film Score SACEM Award this year's Clermont Ferrand festival, weaves dreamily through an LA landscape, Pales- tinian filmmaker Basma Alsharif, whose penultimate film Deep Sleep was partly shot in Malta, will be showing her latest work, A Field Guide to the ferns, and Michael Robinson's The Dark, Krystle is a brilliant montage of 80s excess, via footage of vampy icons Linda Evans and Joan Collins from the 1980s soap Dynasty. London-based Maltese filmmaker and artist Rox- anne Gatt shares her post-internet work, Pamper Whore. On Sunday, August 9, an hour- long programme for children be- tween the age of 3 and 12 will mark 6th anniversary of Children's Film Festival. After the kids programme fin- ishes, Neck of the Woods will take over. The festival goes hand-in-hand with parties so both Friday and Saturday screenings will be fol- lowed by the Kinemastik party, where several international DJs will be setting the mood until the morning hours. AS part of the second edition of the Valletta International Visual Arts Festival (VIVA), the Valletta 2018 Foundation in collaboration with St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity is presenting another edition of its Curatorial School, to take place from August 31 to Sep- tember 4. The weeklong programme with international curators and academ- ics is intended for practitioners and students from a variety of re- lated areas including curating, fine arts, art education, and history of art. Participants in the course will follow a programme of lectures, attend hands on workshops, and be able to present their own cu- ratorial ideas during guided semi- nars. Lectures and workshops will be held at the University of Malta (Valletta Campus) from Monday August 31 to September 4 between 09:30 and 16:00. Morning sessions will be dedicated to lectures, while afternoon sessions (held between 14:00 and 16:00) will be reserved mainly for small group seminars and workshops. The theme for this year's pro- gramme is Curating: Communities and Contexts, and will deal with the relationship between exhibition, narrative and audience; contextual art; engaging audiences; socially engaged practices in contemporary art; art in public spaces; globalisa- tion and the curatorial field. Some sessions will present individual ex- hibitions curated by guest speakers and international artists talking about their own practice. This year's curators include Fulya Erdemci (curator of the 13th Istan- bul Biennial), Simon Sheikh (cu- rator and professor of curating at Goldsmiths in London), Mai Abu ElDahab (curator of Liverpool Bi- ennial 2014), Paul Ardenne (art critic and curator of Luxembourg Pavilion at Venice Biennale, 2015), Bassam el Baroni (curator of EVA Biennial in Limerick, Ireland, in 2014) and Adam Budak (chief cu- rator at the National Gallery in Prague). Other speakers include Lennard Dost (freelance cura- tor and art critic, artistic director of Nieuwe Vide), Mare van Kon- ingsveld (freelance curator), Libia Castro and Olafur Olafsson (art- ists), Ferhat Özgür (artist), Gail Feigenbaum (associate director at the Getty Research Institute), Leo Delgaauw (scholar), Zineb Sedira (contemporary artist) and Iury Lech (director of MADATAC, Ma- drid). Participation in the course will be through a selection process while tuition fees for the course are low: regular applicants will pay €100 for the whole course while registered undergraduate or postgraduate students pay €50 (student identi- fication required; Smartcard ac- cepted). Prospective participants in the course must submit a filled-in application form, downloadable via the link: http://www.viva.org. mt/#curatorial-school and a re- cent CV by the 4th August 2015 at noon. Results will be notified by August 6. For further information contact the Valletta 2018 Foundation on 2124 2018 or at projects1@valletta2018. org Dynamic showcase of films for 11th edition of Kinemastik film festival Applications for second edition of VIVA Curatorial School 2015 open Still from Trona, showing at the festival on August 7 Participants at last year's edition of the VIVA Curatorial School