Off Point 2010

Adding to the official programme, Off Point presents works, artists and phenomena that explore and explain the documentary genre and introduce viewers to diverse ways of portraying reality through different forms of art and action.

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FixPoint:

FixC artist cooperative (Taiteilija Osuuskunta FixC) has assembled video installations moving within the limits of experimental cinema and documentary film in the lobby of Bio Rex.

Sunset Boulevard:

Sunset Boulevard, “a moving gallery”, is on display in the new exhibition room on the Simonkatu side of Lasipalatsi, generating encounters between different forms of documentary expression.

Daily program from 12pm to 7pm

Jan 26th TV Verite workshop. Open community television M2hz. Videos of Reality Research Centre’s projects.

Jan 27th Erkki Pirtola presents his video productions on the disappearing aspects of Finnish culture.

Jan 28th The Video Marthas gather, make and present their videos. Filmed, updated versions of traditional musical laments.

Jan 29th Open screening day including the history of the Helsinki Filmmakers’ Co-op.

Jan 30th Nature of Helsinki Videos by Kaupunkimetsäliike, the environmental organisation Dodo and many others.

Jan 31st Sunset boulevard Moving gallery and aphoristic videos of the Nomadic Academy.

Productions of the JäTeMaSa street video theatre.

Evening programme, starting at 7pm

Jan 28th Titta Halinen’s solo performance Take Away Al-Muna – Stories of Love and Misery

Jan 29th Video soiree and the sirens of DJ Tellus

Jan 30th The Osuuskassa Band and Maija Saksman’s songs for trees, flowers and passers-by

Throughout the festival the space is open for instant discussion, performances and moving picture. Programme details can be seen daily on DocPoint Info Center's blackboard. Community television M2hz (Yhteisötv M2hz) records and publishes footage of the festival on its webpage (m2hz.net). Off Point programme is compiled by Seppo Renvall and Maija Saksman.