VideoArt Garden is a 4-day open-air program of video art & film screenings, accompanied by thematic talks, sound and poetry experiments in the garden of Cazarma U, a historical building situated in the center of Timisoara, the European Capital of Culture 2023.

The selection of films is curated by artist Larisa Crunțeanu and curator Cristina Stoenescu, focused on artistic expressions from the region in partnership with local and international organizations. The selected works will feature guest-artworks as well as films submitted in a regional open-call.

The four-day event of films, talks and performances will focus on the theme of coatings, conceptually connecting the immaterial, ephemeral nature of time-based media with the textured body of paint varnish or sculptural surfaces, further underlining the cross-media ethos of the program.

The performative events and discussions with the guests will take place in the English language, while the screened films will be accompanied by Romanian subtitles.

The full schedule:

Thursday, 14 September, 18:00 - 00:00

18:00-19:00 - Talk, Joanna Zielenska, art historian, writer and performance curator

19:30-20:30 - LIVE Performance WIDT (artists duo: Antonina Nowacka, Bogumila Nowacka)

21:00-23:30 - Screening schedule:

• Anemone,by Ioana Țurcan and Gergana Ivanova (5.54min)

• DEBRI, by Antonio Hofmeister Ribeiro, Maru Mushtrieva, Liudmila Savelyeva (23.31min)

• Rite of Spring, by Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor (7.51min)

• Căutându-l pe Brâncuși, by Sergiu Sas (4.51min)

• 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD, by Ana Vaz (31min)

• Freudian Slip, by Mon Sisu Satrawaha (14.52min)

• Terror Nullius, by artist duo Soda Jerk (53.47min)

Friday, 15 September, 18:00 - 00:00

18:00-19:00 - Talk, Alper Turan, Adjunct Curator at Protocinema

19:30-20:30 - LIVE Performance artists: Barbora Kleinhamplová, Tereza Stejskalová, Georgeta Corca

21:00-23:30 - Screening schedule:

• Leeky Teeth, by Dafna Maimon, special Q&A in the presence of the artist (60min)

• Identity Tissues, by Natasha Nedelkova (12.32min)

• Non-places, by Ola Skowrońska (6.56min)

• Arrival, de Kleoniki Stanich (13.31min)

• A Sort of Vision, by Mihai Păcurar, Ioana Hogman and Vlaicu Golcea  (14.43min)

• Vampire Times, by Irene Reisner (13.27min)

• Mobiotrope, by Aleksei Martyniuk (1.26min)

• Carcass N2, by Vitaly Yankovy (2.40min)

Saturday, 16 September, 18:00 - 00:00

18:00-19:00 - Talk, Marie-Ève Lafontaine, artistic director Eva Kahan Foundation 

19:30-20:30 - LIVE Performance artists: Nguyen & Transitory

21:00-23:30 - Screening schedule:

• The Debt, The Epilogue of Long Friendship, by Jiří Žák (20.50min)

• Stone of Hell, by Tekla Aslanishvili (24.23min)

• Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part IV Reverse Shot, by Marwa Arsanios (35min)

• Vreau să sparg sera, by Teona Galgoțiu (20.44min)

• NATURE MORTE, by Nikola Stoyanov (5.20min)

• Source, Źródło, by Cristina Ferreira-Szwarc (6.50min)

• fill in the blanks, by Anna Baranowsky & Vlad Brăteanu (11.05min)

• The Stroker, by Pilvi Takala (15.16min)

Sunday, 17 September, 18:00 - 00:00

18:00-19:00 - Talk, Elena Sorokina, curator, writer and lecturer, co-founder of the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care (with Natasa Petresin-Bachelez)

19:30-20:30 - LIVE Performance artist: Jasmina Al-Qaisi

21:00-23:30 - Screening schedule:

• The Flies Hum Thy Name, by Cătălina Bucos & Ada Kopaz (9.45min)

• Sleeper's Manifesto, by Tereza Stejskalová & Barbora Kleinhamplová (11min)

• Circle, by Juliette Hüsler (2.36min)

• When Flamingos Fall from the Sky, by Dragoș Hanciu (15.34min)

• SEEKING PATTERNS, by Dagmar Schürrer (10min)

• A.I. made me do it: Ophelia, by Gioula Papadopoulou (2.23min)

• Myst, by Arthur Debert (8.41min)

• The Enchanted ménagerie, by Giulia Savorani (6min)

• This makes me wanna predict the past, by Cana Bilir-Meier (16min)

• Volcano: What Does a Lake Dream?, by Diana Vidrascu (21min)

Partners: Interart TRIADE Foundation, Goethe-Institut Bucharest, German Cultural Center Timișoara, Polish Institute Bucharest, French Institute Bucharest, Austrian Cultural Forum Bucharest, Still in Belgrade, NGO Aesop Belgrade, Manekino, CODRU Urban Garden

Media Partners: Acoperişul de Sticlă, Aivi Media Hub, Cinemap, curatorial.ro, filme-carti.ro, Glamour, IQads, Modernism, MovieNews.ro, Munteanu, Revista Arta, RFI Romania, Radio Romania Cultural, SMARK, Zile și Nopți