Effi Weiss & Amir Borenstein Housewarming
In a two-dimensional dystopian landscape of deserted, half-built houses in ex-communist Albania, an allegorical version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears unfolds.
film screening
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25.02.2016
20:30
golden space
€€8/5
Like so many Albanians, the owners of the unfinished homes emigrated to the West after the end of the totalitarian regime (1991).
Effi Weiss & Amir Borenstein invade the liminal space of the houses and occupy their emptiness, while the voice of an Albanian iso-polyphonic choir* sings poems based on interviews with locals responding to the artists’ invasion.
This act of reverse immigration, from a place regarded as representative of Western affluence to a place considered destitute and deficient, critically inquires into the status of artists as privileged foreigners, short-term migrants who come to work with a local community. It’s a movement from the full to the empty, from excess to lack.
*a traditional form from southern Albania
BE/AL, 2016, 35’
AL spoken
EN subtitles
A film by: Effi & Amir
In collaboration with: Ilir Kaso
Original poems: Krenar Zejno
Iso-Polyphony Group: Ensemble Çipini, Vlora
Editing: Effi & Amir
Sound editing: Kwinten Van Laethem
Produced by: La chose à trois jambes asbl-vzw (BE)
Co-produced by: CBA (BE) and ORAFILM (AL)
With the support of: Centre du cinéma et de l'audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Vlaams Audiovisuel Fonds, Ostrovsky Family Fund, ARGOS - Centre for Art & Media
Effi Weiss and Amir Borenstein (born in Israel, currently living in Brussels) are an artist duo who have been working together since 1999. Their work is mainly video-based, and often involves performative elements and participatory methods. In addition to their own projects, Effi & Amir collaborate with other artists as editors, effects designers and animators.
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