Forecast Festival 2023

Mentorships for Audacious Minds – Edition 7

Film Performance Festival

© Mia Stark // Camille Blake

© Alexis Guillier // Camille Blake

© Luciana Decker Orozco // Camille Blake

© Peny Chan // Camille Blake

© Tom Casani // Camille Blake

© Hamza Baig // Camille Blake

© Mentor*innen // Forecast

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Ticket Prices

Day Ticket
8 Euros, discount 6 Euros

→ Festival Ticket
14 Euros, discount 10 Euros

Programme starts at 7.30 pm, doors open from 6.30 pm.

Ticket Prices

The workshops are accessible to festival pass holders or ticket holders for Saturday, March 18. Spaces are limited, please register in advance.

Ticket Prices

The workshops are accessible to festival pass holders or ticket holders for Saturday, March 18. Spaces are limited, please register in advance.

Ticket Prices

The workshops are accessible to festival pass holders or ticket holders for Saturday, March 18. Spaces are limited, please register in advance.

Ticket Prices

Day Ticket
8 Euros, discount 6 Euros

→ Festival Ticket
14 Euros, discount 10 Euros

Programme starts at 5 pm, doors open from 4 pm.

An invitation to myriad artistic interventions and dialogues has been issued by the mentoring programme “Forecast”, which promotes the transdisciplinary exchange of forward-looking artistic ideas on an international scale. The festival, the pinnacle of the programme’s seventh edition, takes place from 17-18 March at Radialsystem.

At the festival, six young film artists, performers, musicians and creative thinkers will present projects that have been created over the past ten months in collaboration with their internationally renowned mentors. In addition, the six mentors will be showing their own works developed especially for the Forecast Festival. Contributions in a variety of formats ranging from stand-up comedy to deconstructed magic, immersive film installations and voice experiments can be discovered. The programme is complemented by discussions and workshops.

 

Friday 17 March

„Expanded Magic“: Tom Cassani (Mentee) und Florentina Holzinger (Mentor)
Performer Tom Cassani is expanding the limits of magic as an embodied performance in Expanded Magic.

„An Anthology of Glances“: Mia Štark (Mentee) & Ana Prvački (Mentor)
Artist Mia Štark's performative piece An Anthology of Glances probes, using humor and a taste for the absurd, the importance of changing perspectives.

 

Saturday 18 March

„Purgatoire (Cinema that Kills)“: Alexis Guillier (Mentee) und Alia Ibrahim (Mentor)
Alexis Guillier is researching a deadly accident on a 1968 Lebanese film set in project Purgatoire (Cinema that Kills).

„What Humans See as Blood, Jaguars See as Chicha“: Luciana Decker Orozco (Mentee) und Laura Huertas Millán (Mentor)
Luciana Decker Orozco is exploring storytelling about deities, sacred objects, and spaces in the Andes with a film project titled What Humans See as Blood, Jaguars See as Chicha.

„The Marblous Four“: Hamza Baig (Mentee) und Daliso Chaponda (Mentor)
Hamza Baig is developing a web series, The Marblous Four, centered on an unlikely superhero in a Pakistani village.

„鳳殞 (Sorrow of the Phoenix)“: Peny Chan (Mentee) und Rully Shabara (Mentor)
Performer Peny Chan's project seeks to experiment with and deconstruct the style of the Peking Opera.

 

Workshops, Saturday 18 March

„Gestures of Maintenance“ – A workshop on networked thinking by Studio Inscape
Trained as architects and urbanists, the members of Rotterdam-based Studio Inscape aim to translate eco-philosophical theory into practice within the built environment. Participants in this workshop will consider spatial arrangements, power relations, and possible future scenarios.

„Borderline Investigations“ – A walk on the edge by Tevi Allan Mensah
Workshop, 3-4 pm
Architect and visual artist Tevi Allan Mensah invites participants to reflect together on the new narratives of tomorrow through a fundamental act: a walk. During the workshop preceding the walk at 4pm, participants will prepare archetypes such as traveling structures, flags, and banners to accompany the odd procession while discussing borders, past and present. The workshop involves building a light wooden structure and screen-printing flags. Suitable for ages 7 and up.

Parade, 4-5 pm
Architect and visual artist Tevi Allan Mensah invites participants to reflect together on the new narratives of tomorrow through a fundamental act: a walk. This tour will explore the former Berlin Wall territory and its surroundings near Radialsystem to contemplate on the margins as areas of potential for change. The parade is open to all ages and begins at 4pm. 

Biographien

Forecast offers artists and creative thinkers from anywhere in the world the chance to work with accomplished mentors toward bringing their projects to fruition. As an international mentorship program with annual editions, Forecast transcends neatly defined disciplines and genres to provide insight into creative production processes, and carve out space for the questions on the minds of the next generation of trailblazers.

Programme

Programm Friday, from 7.30 pm

Florentina Holzinger Site-aware performance on the theme of Bodies in Action
Tom Cassani Expanded Magic
Mia Štark An Anthology of Glances
Florentina Holzinger, Tom Cassani, Mia Štark, and Ana Prvački: In conversation, On pushing the limits of performance art, deconstructing physical practices, and redefining the role of the audience.
Ana Prvački German premiere of a mystery piece

 

Workshops Saturday, from 3 pm

3-4 pm: Studio Inscape: Gestures of Maintenance – A workshop on networked thinking
3-4 pm: Tevi Allan Mensah: Borderline Investigations – Workshop
4-5 pm: Tevi Allan Mensah: Borderline Investigations – Parade

 

Programme Saturday, from 5 pm

Luciana Decker Orozco What Humans See as Blood, Jaguars See as Chicha
Laura Huertas Millán Screening and discussion on strategies of resistance and survival in her moving-image work, followed by a conversation with Luciana Decker Orozco.
Alexis Guillier Purgatoire (Cinema that Kills)
Followed by a conversation between Alexis Guillier and investigative journalist Alia Ibrahim, moderated by writer and performer Sofi Naufal.
Alia Ibrahim Screening and talk based on the experience of a refugee in Berlin
Daliso Chaponda An intimate stand-up performance
Hamza Baig The Marblous Four
Peny Chan 鳳殞 (Sorrow of the Phoenix)
Rully Shabara An exploration of the voice as a medium of creation, and language as material for experimentation

 

The full programme can soon be found at: www.forecast-platform.com

Language

English

Credits

Forecast is a project by Skills e. V. in cooperation with Radialsystem.

Forecast is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and by the Austrian Culture Forum. Forecast is a member of LINA.

 

Media partners: Exberliner, Digital in Berlin, CLOT Magazine, Neural, and Eurozine.

 

Radialsystem is parter of JUGENDKULTURKARTE Berlin.
More info at: www.kulturprojekte.berlin

An invitation to myriad artistic interventions and dialogues has been issued by the mentoring programme “Forecast”, which promotes the transdisciplinary exchange of forward-looking artistic ideas on an international scale. The festival, the pinnacle of the programme’s seventh edition, takes place from 17-18 March at Radialsystem.

At the festival, six young film artists, performers, musicians and creative thinkers will present projects that have been created over the past ten months in collaboration with their internationally renowned mentors. In addition, the six mentors will be showing their own works developed especially for the Forecast Festival. Contributions in a variety of formats ranging from stand-up comedy to deconstructed magic, immersive film installations and voice experiments can be discovered. The programme is complemented by discussions and workshops.

 

Friday 17 March

„Expanded Magic“: Tom Cassani (Mentee) und Florentina Holzinger (Mentor)
Performer Tom Cassani is expanding the limits of magic as an embodied performance in Expanded Magic.

„An Anthology of Glances“: Mia Štark (Mentee) & Ana Prvački (Mentor)
Artist Mia Štark's performative piece An Anthology of Glances probes, using humor and a taste for the absurd, the importance of changing perspectives.

 

Saturday 18 March

„Purgatoire (Cinema that Kills)“: Alexis Guillier (Mentee) und Alia Ibrahim (Mentor)
Alexis Guillier is researching a deadly accident on a 1968 Lebanese film set in project Purgatoire (Cinema that Kills).

„What Humans See as Blood, Jaguars See as Chicha“: Luciana Decker Orozco (Mentee) und Laura Huertas Millán (Mentor)
Luciana Decker Orozco is exploring storytelling about deities, sacred objects, and spaces in the Andes with a film project titled What Humans See as Blood, Jaguars See as Chicha.

„The Marblous Four“: Hamza Baig (Mentee) und Daliso Chaponda (Mentor)
Hamza Baig is developing a web series, The Marblous Four, centered on an unlikely superhero in a Pakistani village.

„鳳殞 (Sorrow of the Phoenix)“: Peny Chan (Mentee) und Rully Shabara (Mentor)
Performer Peny Chan's project seeks to experiment with and deconstruct the style of the Peking Opera.

 

Workshops, Saturday 18 March

„Gestures of Maintenance“ – A workshop on networked thinking by Studio Inscape
Trained as architects and urbanists, the members of Rotterdam-based Studio Inscape aim to translate eco-philosophical theory into practice within the built environment. Participants in this workshop will consider spatial arrangements, power relations, and possible future scenarios.

„Borderline Investigations“ – A walk on the edge by Tevi Allan Mensah
Workshop, 3-4 pm
Architect and visual artist Tevi Allan Mensah invites participants to reflect together on the new narratives of tomorrow through a fundamental act: a walk. During the workshop preceding the walk at 4pm, participants will prepare archetypes such as traveling structures, flags, and banners to accompany the odd procession while discussing borders, past and present. The workshop involves building a light wooden structure and screen-printing flags. Suitable for ages 7 and up.

Parade, 4-5 pm
Architect and visual artist Tevi Allan Mensah invites participants to reflect together on the new narratives of tomorrow through a fundamental act: a walk. This tour will explore the former Berlin Wall territory and its surroundings near Radialsystem to contemplate on the margins as areas of potential for change. The parade is open to all ages and begins at 4pm. 

Biographies

Forecast offers artists and creative thinkers from anywhere in the world the chance to work with accomplished mentors toward bringing their projects to fruition. As an international mentorship program with annual editions, Forecast transcends neatly defined disciplines and genres to provide insight into creative production processes, and carve out space for the questions on the minds of the next generation of trailblazers.

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