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WORLD5 new NFT collection on Rarible
WORLD5 distances from photography and empirical notions of reality or indexical models of the photography medium. WORLD5 is a secessionist space. It is a slow arcade, a space of wonder, an odyssey not under the jurisdiction of ‘first’, ‘second’ or ‘third world’ rules. It has no beginning nor end. Its reading is circular. A slow shifting and virtual arcade inspired by an ever expanding digitalis. WORLD5 has departed from ‘real’ representation and into an all encompassing virtual sphere. A techno topia, a utopia, a non place, a remote cyberia, a new some/nowhere.
NFT collection https://rarible.com/slavin
CALL FOR DREAMS selected AT OTB film awards Miami
New 30 min documentary film about Israeli-Iraqi poet Ronny Someck I directed, co-shot, edited and designed in collaboration with Nurit Kedar, Shula Spiegel Productions and Kan 11 Broadcaster debuted on Israeli channel11 date 13.1.2022 at 22:30. Part of the series “Muzot” casting prominent cultural figures.
Participating with “Smoke and Mirrors” video installation in Micha Figa’s new theatre production “The Unnecessary Man” by Ablomov, written and directed by Yehezkel Lazarov at Heichal Hatarbut Tel Aviv dates: 4/5/6/8 Jan 2022
Ursulimum at Zer01ne Festival Jerusalem
6480 Days selected by Cineaste International Film Festival of India
6480 Days selected by Kalpanirjhar International Short Fiction Film Festival, India
6480 Days – winner best experimental short film at Ojo Móvil Fest Peru
Call for Dreams in the feature film competition at Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival Italy
6480 Days official selection at Bastalavista Genre Film Festival 2021, Hamburg
6480 Days poster
Solo screenings at Cinema Tick Tack Antwerpen, August 29 until Thursday September 16 every night from sunset to 01:00AM + streaming
ARCHE-typus – Utopies of Social Architecture, 28.08. to 03.10. Kulturzentrum-Faust, Hannover
ARCHE’, Architecture of Universe, GAD Space 04, Pavillion 0, Venice
Curated by Tomasz Wendland, Harro Schmidt
Call for Dreams ,honorable mention at Deep Focus Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
I had the pleasure of art directing and editing the online and trailer of #SCHOOLYARD, a new documentary film by Nurit Kedar premiering august at The Jerusalem Film Festival
New review of Call for Dreams on Psychocinematography
6480 Days screens at www.psarokokalo.org + festival-of-nations.com
New review of 6480 Days by Diary of a Spectator
New review of Call for Dreams on Elements of Madness
3 new installations on display at The Ashdod Museum of Art, Israel
6480 Days opening 9/2/21 at Communication Disorder group show at Tel Aviv and Everything Is Urgent at Transmission Sound Windows.
6480 Days reviewed on Film Threat
6480 Days now showing at Utopia Film Festival
My follow up to Call for Dreams is this New short ‘6480 Days’ which is now live and airing at Utopia Film Fest, check it out here until 10.1.2021 http://futures.utopiafest.org.il/short/6480-days/
Call for Dreams review on Film Threat
CALL FOR DREAMS official selection Lift-Off , January 2021 UK, online.
Call for Dreams won the Best of the Fest Award at Dreamers Of Dreams Film Festival 2020/ London
Cooking For The Apocalypse
Cooking for the Apocalypse / Eco Noir: A companion for Precarious Times/ Group show. November 20–December 9, 2020. Symposium and book launch online: December 9 Exhibition Laboratory Merimiehenkatu 36 Helsinki Finland
Assemblage Staircase Gallery, group show, Tel Aviv
‘Call for Dreams’ won best narrative feature at La Paz International Film Festival, Bolivia
‘Call for Dreams’ selected for the 1st Edition of the UK Film Review Festival 2020
‘Call for Dreams’ selected for the 3rd Edition of Urban Audiovisual Festival, Lisbon on November 12-14 2020
‘Call for Dreams’ official selection and in competition at the 10th Cinefantasy International Fantastic Film Festival 8-20/9/2020 São Paulo, Brazil
Call for Dreams special screening at Athens Digital Arts Festival 29/7/2020
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Call for Dreams is now available at The Tel Aviv Cinematheque VOD
Call for Dreams won at AVIFF Cannes Art Film Festival 2020
Call for Dreams available world wide.
Streaming now on:
Amazon Prime: amzn.to/3ecxZzZ
ImdbTv: imdb.com/tv/watch/tt7520672?ref_=tt_wbr_fdv
TubiTV: tubitv.com/movies/513029/call_for_dreams
GooglePlay: play.google.com/store/movies/details/Call_for_Dreams?id=N2_Gbinhyvk.P&hl=en_US
Roku: therokuchannel.roku.com/details/a62f6035b44058cea0e8b2dada111688/call-for-dreams
Vimeo: vimeo.com/ondemand/callfordreams
Here is a rare opportunity to watch 90 minutes of my installation films online consecutively. Thanks to Garret Linn for initiating & producing this event as part of Spectacle Theater‘s (Brooklyn NYC) online Twitch transmission events, normally in the collectively run screening space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, now online naturally.
Tomorrow 7PM (EST) and free here – https://www.twitch.tv/spectaclenyc
Call for Dreams original soundtrack on Soundcloud
11 December at 19:30 Call for Dreams is part of the official selection at Nunes International Film Festival in Barcelona next month. Location: EL ATENEO LIBERTARIO DE GRACIA, CARRER DE L’ALZINA, 5 BARCELONA
Call for Dreams is part of the official selection at the 7th CineKasimanwa: Western Visayas Film Festival, philippines
Call for Dreams is part of the official selection at the 7th Asian Film Festival Barcelona
The Floating Life winner at The Esports Digital Arts Prizes by Cyberport &Niio. To be show at The Arcade at Cyberport Hong Kong early 2020
Disorientation group show at The New Gallery Artists Studios, Jerusalem
Opening 15.11.19 at 11:00
The term orientation, finding one’s position, originates in the Latin orientis or oriens, meaning “to shine” or “East,” to which ancient maps pointed. The act of adjusting the map to the correct picture of the world, turning it around to face east, was called orientation. When the compass was invented, magnetic north took its place as the main cardinal direction for Eurocentric mapmakers. Disorientation is a state of lack of spatial awareness in which one loses direction, whether it be geographic, concrete, or, metaphorical.
The exhibition is on view in the New Gallery, Teddy Stadium, a complex that stands aloof in terms of the city’s spread, severed from the fabric of the urban street life, neighborhood, and community. The works by the six participating artists engage in definitions of place and its relationship with its visual markers. They mark out a place while simultaneously subverting the possibility of orientation within it.
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Solo show at Rubin Museum in Tel Aviv, until 22.10.19
Read a new review about at Israel Hayom + Haaretz
Screenings and artist talk at MACRO ASILO Museum Rome
Call for Dreams screens on Saturday September 14th + artist talk
Battlefields screening on the 21st of september
Smoke and Mirrors on the 28th of september
Ursulimum on the 29th of september
16.6.19 http://www.siff.com/ CALL FOR DREAMS has been selected as one of the 7 films of this year’s SIFF Market Screenings at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
June 7 at 21:30 Call For Dreams atThrough the Looking Glass International Film Festival Milano at Cinema Arcobaleno, Viale Tunisia 11, Milano. Read a recent review on Cineclandestino.
Saturday 8.6 at 17:30 –>Round table “Cinema: from zero budget to the stars” Moderator: Davide Dubinelli. With: Marcel Barion (The Final Land), Ran Slavin (Call for Dreams)
16.6 – 20.6 art residency at the Carmel Forest Hotel Resort, North Israel
Curator Sharon Toval
Newtopia showing in D/EVOLUTION show at Venice Biennale
07.05.2019 – 15.05.2019 http://www.zueccaprojects.org/project/d-evolution/
The Larva Society for Psychical Research with the video installation Ursulimum. Until August at The Artists House, Jerusalem.
6-11.3.19 Call for Dreams at The International Film Festival of Cartagena DeIndias, Cartagena, Colombia
Recent interviews
Very happy to be showing the video work “Newtopia” during the festive periods of Christmas and the Chinese New Year in Hong Kong’s largest, and one of the worlds largest screens!
“Newtopia” will be screened on the Tsim Sha Tsui Centre and the Empire Centre screens during December and January as one of the winners at the The Sino x Niio Illumination Art Prizes
“Newtopia” The Sino x Niio Illumination Art Prizes, Hong Kong from Ran Slavin on Vimeo.
Description: The city sparkles in a mysterious mesmerizing futurist promise, between the present, past and future, science fiction and zen, suspended in this moment in time. The city as body, its molecular veins – light conveying information, forever on the move in a changing and morphing cycle.
7.12.18 Call For Dreams wins Best Film at Utopia Film Festival
Call for Dreams won the Israeli competition last night at Utopia Film Festival with Call For Dreams! Thank you Utopiafest and thank you Jury Members Lior Elefant, Israel, Co-director, Israeli Women in Film and Television Forum Angel Sala Corbi, Spain, Director of the SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya Pedro Souto, Portugal, Director of the Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, MOTELX
Took us by surprise.
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The jury of the Utopia Israel competition want to congratulate the organization of the Festival for a great selection, a perfect balance between pure genre movies and others more focused in the progressive genre hybridization and the break of frontiers of different cinema manifestations.
The winner for this jury is Call For Dreams directed by Ran Slavin (produced by Ronen Ben-Tal). A film that develops a rich structure of themes, a complex narrative between science fiction and video art and also a reflection about the nature of reality.
27.11.2018 + 30.11.18 – Call For Dreams International Premier at “rebels with a cause competition” Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
14.11 at 17:15, Multikino #10 | Call for Dreams screens at the directors debut competition and cinematographers debut competition in Camerimage International Film Festival, Bydgoszcz, Poland
28.9 20:00 2018 – Call For Dreams Israeli premiere screens at The 34th Haifa International Film Festival.
21.11.18 20:00 – Call for Dreams screens at Beita Gallery Jerusalem- screening and Q&A
Solo show at Beita Gallery, Jerusalem
Video Artwork October 18, Garment District Art Festival Billboard, Times Square New York
17.10 21:30 2018 – Call For Dreams screens in the Israel Cinema Day at The Tel Aviv Cinematheque, link to tickets: https://www.cinema.co.il/order/?evenid=20072 and at Cinema City, Glilot
28.9 20:00 2018 – Call For Dreams Israeli premiere at The 34th Haifa International Film Festival in a special event/
1.6.2018 OSTRALE Biennale opening in Malta with “Variations Amud Anan”
24-27.5.18 “Ursulimum” selected by the PhotoPhore to be included in “Tech Break” screening during ADAF (Athens Digital Art Festival) 2018, Greece
18.5.2018 New exhibition with a new 3 channel video installation titled “BATTLEFIELDS” at “DRONE VISION, WARFARE, SURVEILLANCE AND PROTEST” opening in NIMAC Nicosia, Cyprus
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New reissues of Israeli Indie music from the 80’s & 90’s in compilation vinyls NADIR with tracks from Shalosh Hait and RIR
15-24.3.2018 Two videos will show at Kelim Choreography Centre March Hare Dance Festival, Bat Yam
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Organic Urbanic, The Floating Life, Ursulimum, Omni Presence, are showing in a 5 week video art takeover by an alliance of international artists on the billboard at the corner of 41st St and Broadway (10 Times Square) Dec 4 – Dec 16 curated by Tamar Dresdner.
15th Garment District Arts Festival “Ursulimum (Excerpt)” By Ran Slavin from ZAZ on Vimeo.
24:7 Ran Slavin “The Floating Life 2017” Video Excerpt from ZAZ on Vimeo.
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1.11.17 The Floating Life at The Wrong Biennale, curated by Sharon Toval
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14.11.17 Ursulimum screening at Bangkok Underground Cinema Shorts – Noise Market 7 at the Bangkok underground film festival
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Ostrale (Dresden) Biennale catalogue arrived
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6-8.10.2017 Virtual Garden, art between virtual and analogue reality. Poznan. Curator Tomasz Wendland.
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8-11.9.17 The Floating Life (1 channel) screens at The Roundhouse in Camden – London at TLV-LDN event.
Curated by Marie Shek and Ori Gersht
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28.7.17 – 1.10.17 Variations Amud Anan installation will show in OSTRALE Biennale for contemporary art, Dresden Germany.
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27.7.17 Art Summer Nights, (screening of The Floating Life 1 channel + DJ) The Norman Series, 20:00 The Norman Hotel Tel Aviv
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17+19.7 21:00 Ursulimum screens in a program at The Jerusalem Film Festival
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18.7.18 – Digital Junkies in Strange Times album launch/listening @ Uganda Tel Aviv
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3.7.17 A pre premiere of Looted and Hidden Palestinian Archives in Israel, a film by Rona Sela which I edited, narrated and made the music to shows at The Tel Aviv Museum of Art and at the 47th International Film Festival Rotterdam – 24 January – 4 February 2018
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11.5.17-14.5.17 I have been invited to judge in the Depth Of Field competition at DocAviv The Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival
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29.6-5.7.17
Digital Junkies in strange Times through found speakers installed at the Cuckoos Nest, Jaffa
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20.4.17 – Ursulimum opens at DATA CITIES, Centre Des Arts ENGHIEN-LES-BAINS / FRANCE
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Variations Amud Anan installation is showing in Terra Mediterranea: In Action for 7 months at NIMAC, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Philharmonic video installation together with artist Nevet Yitshak, curated by Yudit Haviv, Tel Aviv 2017