Ran Slavinʼs Work Is Centered on Time Based Media (Video, Cinema
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Ran Slavinʼs work is centered on time based media (video, cinema, sound composition) and the use of electronic technologies to explore dynamic juxtapositions between photography, fiction and digital media. His work is cross media and project based, often site specific, often citing the digital implications and increasing virtuality of our environment and times. With digital tools and insights, Rans work seeks to probe through chaos, unchartered territories of beauty (yes beauty) and compositions that bestow the uncanny through examinations of dream influenced arrangements of film narratives, fusing the digital and real, narratives of disorientation escalating to sci-fi and fiction. Ran has grew up with the digital tools of his generation which renewed the use and outlook of the image and video with post production sensibilities in mind. In his video installations films and soundtracks, characters and worlds of unresolved mysteries unfold, reconstructed dreams that entangle in fiction lead through a crime investigation in Tokyo (Call for Dreams feature film 2018) through unconventional (some might say experimental) visual story telling. Other works like “Variations Amud Anan” (video installation) assemble and examine dislocation, mythology, geo-political war with fiction intertwining in the southern Israeli desert of the Negev. Digital meditation and synthetic multiscreen environments immerse the viewer in “World5” multi channel video installation at The Herzliya Museum of Art (2016) a gun shot wounded man wakes in an underground parking lot trying to reconstruct his memory while a tied woman in a hotel room in Shanghai is plotting with a stranger on a phone (The Insomniac City Cycles film) or a medieval sci-fi quantum-quasi religious odyssey revealed by a young boy under Jerusalemʼs old city (“Ursulimum”) or the sound-synched barking people and barking dogs (Everything Is Urgent video). Selected shows - Mega billboards in Hong Kong (Sino-Niio illumination prize 2019) Times Square billboards New York (Zaz Projects 2018) Mediations Biennale Poland (2017) The Ostrale Biennale /Dresden (2017) CCA Leipzig (2016) The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art /Israel (solo, 2016) The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre /Cyprus (2015) Hong-gah Museum, Taipei (2014) Kunsthalle /Hannover (2013) Manifesta Satellite events /Belgium (2012), Museum on the Seam /Jerusalem (2012) Maerzmusik /Berlin (2011) Videoformes/France (2010) Petah Tikva Art Museum /Israel (2009) Tel Aviv Art Museum (2009) Netwerk CCA Belgium (solo 2008) Ars Electronica /Linz (mention of honor 2007) Liverpool Biennial (2006) Rencontres Internationales Paris-Madrid-Berlin (2006-2012) Venice Biennale of architecture (2004) Transmediale /Berlin (2003). FILM FESTIVALS 7th The Ficlapaz, La Paz International Film Festival, Bolivia 2020 (Winner Best Narrative Feature) 9th AVIFF Cannes Art Film Festival, France 2020 (Winner The Online Award) 3rd UAF Urban Audio-Visual FIlm Festival, Lisbon 2020 7th Athens Digital Arts Festival 2020 10th Cinefantasy International Fantastic Film Festival 8-20/9/2020 São Paulo, Brazil 59th Ficci, official selection, Colombia 2019 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival 2019 (market) 1st Oltre lo Specchio, official selection, Milano 2019 7th Asian Film Festival Barcelona, Official Panorama Section, 2019 23rd UK Jewish Film Festival, London 2019 17th Mindanao Film Festival, Philippines 2019 9th Nunes International Film Festival, Barcelona 2019 7th Cine Kasimanwa, The western Visayas Film Festival, Philippines 2019 34th Haifa International Film Festival, official selection, Israeli premier, 2018 22nd POFF Black Nights Film Festival, official selection International Premier, Tallinn - Estonia 2018 26th Camerimage Film Festival, official selection Poland 2018 4th Utopia Film Festival, official selection (Winner Best Film) Israel 2018 13th Ecu The European Independent Film Festival (Winner Best Actress) 2018 17th Cinema South International Film Festival, Israel 2018 Academy nomination (Ophir Awards) for best production design, Israel 2018 Torino film festival /Italy 2007 Music and recordings appear on the labels Crónica (Portugal), False Ind (Tel Aviv) and have also appeared on Mille Plateaux (Frankfurt-Berlin), Sub Rosa (Belgium), Rail Cables (Manchester), AK Duck (Jerusalem), Earsay (Tel Aviv), Nana Disc (Tel Aviv) Hed Arzi (Tel Aviv) Heart & Crossbones (Tel Aviv) CV 1967 Born in Jerusalem Israel 1975-78 Lives in San Francisco 1983-1986 Lives in London 1985 Lives in Singapore 1986-1990 B.F.A. Betzalel Art Academy, Jerusalem 1990-current – Lives and works in Tel Aviv SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 Temporary Intervention, Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv 2018 Sleepery Reality - Beita Gallery, Jerusalem 2018 Battlefields, Nicosa Art Center, NIMAC, Cyprus 2017 World5 (version#2), The Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Israel 2016 World5, The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel 2015 Escalation.mov. A video-sound installation at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art for one night 2013 Ghost, Eyes On You, Eye, Dancer, Beit Hansen, The Lepers Colony, Jerusalem 2012 The perspiration of illusion, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania 2012 Ursulimum, Givon Gallery Tel Aviv, Israel 2009 Insomniac City at La Tolerie, Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France 2008 Netwerk Centre for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium 2008 Works” at the Tavi-Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv 2006 Insomniac City vers3, Media Nox gallery, Maribor, Slovenia 2006 Monographic screenings at The Third Ear, Tel Aviv IL 1996 ʻBreathing Roomʼ at Office in Tel Aviv gallery, Tel Aviv Israel 1994 ʻSculpturesʼ at Sadnaot Haomanim gallery, Tel Aviv Israel 1992 ʻMindscapesʼ [part 1] at the Yavne Art gallery, Yavne Israel 1992 ʻMindscapesʼ [part 2 at the Betsalel Art gallery, Jerusalem Israel 1991 ʻElectricʼ at Beit Haomanim gallery, Jerusalem Israel AWARDS 2018 Call for Dreams, Utopia Film Festival, wins best film, Israeli feature film competition 2018 Call for Dreams wins best actress at Ecu The European Independent Film Festival, Paris 2018 Ophir Awards (equivalent to Israeli Oscars) nomination best production design, Israel 2018 “Newtopia” screened on the Tsim Sha Tsui Centre & the Empire Centre Hong Kong. Winner at the The Sino x Niio Illumination Art Prizes 2015 The Rabinovitch Foundation for Arts, catalogue funding 2015 Mifal Hapais Award for WORLD5 at The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art Israel 2011 New Fund for Cinema and Television 2007 Honorary Mention at the 2007 Prix Ars Electronica for The Wayward Regional Transmissions CD. 2006 The Rabinovich foundation for the arts – Cinema Project, Tel Aviv Israel 2006 Israel Lottery Council for the Arts, Israel 2006 Prize in Art and Design from the Ministry of Science, Pras idud hayetsira 2006 The Rabinovich foundation for the arts – Cinema Project, Tel Aviv Israel 2004 Prize for alternative music video with Lior Har Lev at the 951 video awards, Tel Aviv Israel 2002 Prize for best music video at the 951 video awards, Tel Aviv Israel 2002 First prize for sound design of channel ʼ5+ʼ idʼs, Promax, Los angeles USA 1999 Best soundtrack for music of documentary film ʻStressʼ at the Doc-Aviv Film Fest, Tel Aviv Israel 1996 Prize for original director at the haifa music video competition, Israel 1994 The Young Artist Award, Tel Aviv Israel 1991 The Sharet Fund Award, Tel Aviv Israel SCREENINGS & INSTALLATIONS 2020 Ashdod museum of Art 2020 Call for Dreams screens art The Tel Aviv Cinematheque VOD and Yes VOD 2020 Spectacle Theatre (Brooklyn NYC) online Twitch transmission event 2019 4 screenings of film and videos at The Macro Asilo Museum, Rome 2019 7 month theatrical screenings of Call For Dreams, Tel; Aviv Cinematheque 2019 Ursulimum at The Larva Society for Psychical Research, Jerusalem Artists House 2019 Screenings and talks at AFAR Forest residency program, Carmel Forest, Israel 2018 “Newtopia” screened on the Tsim Sha Tsui Centre & the Empire Centre Hong Kong. Winner at the The Sino x Niio Illumination Art Prizes 2018 Ursulimum” selected by the PhotoPhore screening in ADAF (Athens Digital Art Festival) 2018 Various works at times square billboards, New York City 2018 Two videos will show at Kelim Choreography Centre March Hare Dance Festival, Bat Yam 2018 Ursulimum” selected by the PhotoPhore screening at Athens Digital Art Festival Greece 2017 Virtual Garden, art between virtual and analogue reality. Poznan game arena. 2017 Ursulimum screening at Bangkok Underground Cinema Shorts – Noise Market 7 at the Bangkok underground film festival 2017 The Floating Life at The Wrong Biennale curate by Sharon Toval 2017 The Floating Life (1 channel) at The Roundhouse, London at TLV-LDN event. 2017 Art Summer Nights, (screening of The Floating Life 1 channel) The Norman Series, The Norman Hotel Tel Aviv 2017 Ursulimum screens in a program at The Jerusalem Film Festival 2017 Variations Amud Anan, OSTRALE Biennale for contemporary art in Germany, Dresden. 2017 Ursulimum at Data Cities, Centre Des Arts Enghien-Les-Bains / France 2017 Variations Amud Anan, Terra Mediterranea: In Action, at NIMAC, Nicosia, Cyprus 2017 The Philharmonic Installation (with Nevet Yitzhak) 2016 Installation 24, (permanent installment) Beit Hatfutsot Museum, Tel Aviv 2016 Staring Back at The Sun, New Museum, New York 2016 Staring Back at The Sun, Casa do Povo, São Paulo 2016 Staring Back at The Sun, International House, Philadelphia 2016 Staring Back at The Sun, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw 2015 EyeVersion2 installation at Block Club TLV 2015 Video work at Fresh Paint art fair 2015 Israeli videoart at Betonbox, Dusseldorf 2014 27.1 – “The Insomniac City