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Director: Kim Noce Synopsis: “City of Ladies” an immersive poetic animation documentary created through multi-disciplinary art practices to foster hope, change and promote self-development; through the exploration and recognition of personal views and ideologies.. The film is inspired by “The Book of the City of Ladies” by Christine de Pizan (1364 – c. 1430) The film has been created in two formats: one in traditional flat screen and the other in 360 monoscopic. The film has a total of three versions. One flat screen version and two 360 versions. Each version captures a different stage of the process of thinking, making, watching and feeling the collection of voices, sharing their thoughts about today’s world. The trilogy comprises of 3 short films:
Cities of Ladies (WE) Flat screen
Cities of Ladies (YOU) 360 VR
Cities of Ladies (I) 360 VR Cities of ladies has been created by Kim Noce and produced with the support from Arts Council England’s Emergency Response Fund, Animate Projects Arts, in association with QUAD Derby and Phoenix, Leicester. Director Statement: The I’m Only Human is a commission from Animate project to respond to the theme related the sensory, physical and empathetic qualities of immersive platforms to the human senses, with the plan that artists will be encouraged to engage other disciplines (science, medicine) and the people affected. I developed the idea during lockdown whilst being on the vulnerable list and I had not left my apartment even for shopping. Like everyone I am found coping mechanisms. I started reading about past pandemics. The Black Death resulted in a shift in the world view of people in 1400 Italy and led to the Renaissance, allowing new individual voices to come to the forefront and a deeper social responsibility developing across Europe. The Spanish flu led to free health care. These changes started with self-discovery and the importance of individual voices being courageous in saying what they believed in, even if it was against the norm. To feel a new way, sensing a new future. The film is inspired by the life and writing of Christine de Pizan (1364–1430). Christine lived through the year of the Black Death epidemic, losing her husband and father and to survive she became the first woman-mother in Europe to support herself by writing. Christine wrote in many different literary forms on a wide range of topics including debates about equality and justice that are still discussed today. In “The Book of the City of Ladies” Christine creates a symbolic city where she enters into a dialogue with allegorical and real past female figures; fostering a different view of love, compassion and social responsibility. She explores their importance in society by voicing their unique individual and personal ideology discovered through self-reflection and based on her own “peculiar senses” as a woman. Through this film I want people to feel and think new ideas, new ways, individually: this is the time for change. Following the structure of the “City of Ladies” I created a short-animated film to explore the question Christine asks. I interviewed people from different social strata, culture and life journeys expressing their view for a new world today. A view that come from their inner self. Visually I captured the slowness and solitude of the confined environment of “a traditional under the camera animation set up” as a 360 portrait of myself animating. The viewer will witness some of the scene from the book revisited through the words of the interviews. Through the participation process I hoped to create a collective voice of a snippet of today wishes for humanity. The process, the location and the time to make the film it is for me as important as the final result; and it is incorporated in the film. The act of making, thinking, feeling through time. CITIES OF LADIES 1 (WE)
Trailer (30 sec)
Film (5.50 sec)
1:1 letterboxed in 16:9
On vimeo https://vimeo.com/475929306
On Vimeo embeded subtitles https://vimeo.com/484838716
Filmfreeway https://filmfreeway.com/CitiesofLadies1-WE
Password on request at kimnoce@gmail.com CITIES OF LADIES 2 (YOU)
360 Trailer (30 sec)
Film (5.50 sec)
360 Monoscopic To view on headset via Vimeo app https://vimeo.com/475099033
Filmfreeway https://filmfreeway.com/CitiesofLadies2-YOU
Password on request at kimnoce@gmail.com CITIES OF LADIES 3 (I)
360 Trailer (30 sec)
Film (5.50 sec)
360 Monoscopic To view on headset via Vimeo app https://vimeo.com/480037169
Filmfreeway https://filmfreeway.com/CitiesofLadies3-I
Password on request at kimnoce@gmail.com Premier
10 December 2020 I’m Only Human films premiere + artists’ Q&A, Animate Projects, London, UK Awards
Cities of Ladies 1 (WE)
2021 Winner Best Poetic Animated Documentary- New York Nil Gallery NY, USA
2021 Winner Best Animation, International Moving Film Festival KHOUZESTAN, Iran
2022 Winner BEST ANIMATION 3rd Ichalkaranji International Short Film Festival, India
2022, Winner Audience Award 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival – Tāctus 360, Athens, Greece Cities of Ladies 2 (YOU)
2021 Winner Best Animation VR New Wave Short Film Festival Munich Germany
2021 Winner Best Animation VR Roma Short Film Festival, Rome, Italy.
2021 Winner Best VR and 360 Varese International Film Festival, Varese, Italy
2021 Winner Best VR and 360 Tagore International Film Festival, India
2021 Winner Best VR and 360 Bridge Festival, Vancouver, Canada
2021 Winner Best 360 Brandenburg International Film Festival Berlin, Germany
2022 Winner Best 360/VR New York Nil Gallery, NY, US
2022, Winner Audience Award 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival – Tāctus 360, Athens, Greece Exhibitions
13 -17 Oct 2021, Full trilogy – 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival – Tāctus 360 Shorts live venue, Athens, Greece
27-28 Aug 2022, Pareidoile – Salon International du Dessin Contemporain – Jan Philipp Fruehsorge – The Drawing Hub, Château de Servières 11-19 boulevard Boisson 13004 Marseille Official Selection
Cities of Ladies 1 (WE)
14 December 2020 Interface Video Art Festival 2020 Zagreb, Croatia
16 December 2020 Rome Independent Prisma Awards 2020 Rome, Italy
17 December 2020 Shortfundly Annual Film Festival Chennai, Tamilnadu, India|
18 December 2020 Anatolian Short Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
19 December 2020 Eastern Europe Film Festival, Craiova Dolj ,Romania.
27 December 2020 Finalist Near Nazareth Festival ( NNF), Afula, Israel.
3 January 2021, Le Mains Gauches Marseilles, France
2 January 2021 Golden Short Film Festival, Experimental Shorts, Rome, Italy
2 February 2021, New York Nil Gallery NY, USA
14 march 2021 Obskuur Ghent Film Festival Experimental Shorts, Ghent, Belgium
1 May 2021 Festival del Cinema di Cefalù Cefalù, Palermo, Italy
24 May 2021 IFFNY Experimental Shorts, NY, USA
21 March 2021 9th International Video Poetry Festival at The Institute of Experimental Arts Athens Greece
22 March 2021 Venezia Shorts Venezia, Italy
1 June 2021 LETNetworks presents: #AmLatino Film Festival NY, USA
15 July 2021 Barcelona Indie Filmmaker Festival, Barcelona, Spain
19 July 2021 Lift Off Festival, Pinewood Studios, Bucks,UK
16 August 2021 Festival Film Bahari Jawa Barat Indonesia
28 August 2021 The Tylerman Film Festival Hosted by Cantigny Park Illinois, USA
1-30 Sept 2021, Encounters Short film festival, Bristol, UK
24-26 Sept 20-21 3rd Rising of the Lusitania Anidoc, Gdansk, Poland
30 Sept 2021, 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival– Tāctus Animation, Athens, Greece
1 -10 Oct 21 , Lucca Film Festival Animation Shorts, Lucca, Italy
17 Nov 21 International Portrait Film Festival 75, Ivan Asen II, Sofia, Bulgaria
20 Nov 21 Screen Culture International Film Festival, London, Uk
27 Dec 21 ,International Moving Film Festival ABADAN & KHORAMSHAHR (ARVIND FREE ZONE), KHOUZESTAN
20-26 Jan 22, 15th British Shorts Film Festival., Berlin, Germany.
20 Jun 22, HKAFF Hong Kong ArtHouse Film Festival., Hong Kong. Special Screening and Tours
8&9 September 21 Alhambra Cinema,Penrith for Encounters Film Festival 2021 Highlights UK
22 September 21 Luxe Cinema,Wisbech for Encounters Film Festival 2021 Highlights UK
25 September 21 Rio Cinema,London for Encounters Film Festival 2021 Highlights + Q&A UK
26 September 21 Filmhouse,Northampton for Encounters Film Festival 2021 Highlights UK
27 September 21 Exeter Phoenix,Exeter for Encounters Film Festival 2021 Highlights UK
28 September 21 Derby QUAD,Derby for Encounters Film Festival 2021 Highlights UK
29 September 21 Galeri Caernarfon,Caernarfon for Encounters Film Festival 2021 Highlights UK Cities of Ladies 2 (YOU)
30 May 2021 Winner VR and 360 Bridge Festival, Vancouver, Canada
2nd July 2021 Winner Best Animation VR New Wave Short Film Festival Munich Germany
3 July 2021 Winner Best Animation VR Roma Short Film Festival , Rome, Italy.
18 July 2021 VR and 360 White Unicorn International Film Festival Kolkata, India
31 July 2021 Winner Best VR and 360 Tagore International Film Festival, India
1 August 2021 TISFF Tokyo International Short Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan
15 August 2021 Winner Best VR and 360 Varese International Film Festival, Varese, Italy
30 August 2021 Free Film Awards NYC, NYC, California, USA
28-29 August Thessaloniki Free Short Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
7-12 Sept 2021 New York Tri-State International Film Festival, NY, USA
24 September 2021 Winner Best 360 Brandenburg International Film Festival Berlin, Germany
19-26 September 2021 World Cinema Film Festival, London UK
24 September 2021 Les Femmes Underground Film Festival Los Angeles, CA, USA
24 September 2021 Brandenburg International Film Festival Berlin, Germany
24 September 2021 Toronto Indie Filmmakers Festival Toronto, Canada
19-26 September 2021 World Cinema Film Festival, London UK
30 Sept 2021, 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival – Tāctus 360, Athens, Greece
12-16 October 2021 Courant3D/ Immersivity Angouleme, France
13 -17 Oct 2021, 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival – Tāctus 360 Shorts live venue, Athens, Greece
15 -17 Oct 2021, Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories 360 & VR venue in person, LA, USA
22 Oct -2nd Nov 2021, Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories 360 & VR online, LA, USA
30 October 2021 LUSCA Fantastic Film Fest, San Juan, PR
11-13 November Vestlab Experimental 2021 LA, USA
13 November ANNY: Animation Nights New York, NY 10038
1 December London Lift-Off Film festival, UK
15 December Melbourne Lift-Off Film Festival 2021 Melbourne, Australia
15 December African Smartphone International Film Festival Lekki, Lagos
7-10 Jan 2022 Winner Best 360/VR New York Nil Gallery NY, USA
10-12 Feb 2022 ,VR Indiefilmfest Phoenix, AZ. USA
15-16 Oct 2022 10th Annual Edmonton Short Film Festival, Canada
11 Nov 22 Montreal International Animation Film Festival – ANIMAZE Canada.
13 Jan 23 Tagore International Film Festival – 3rd Sun Of The East Awards 2022 – Utsarga Mancha,Shantiniketan, Bolpur Birbhum – 731204, West Bengal, India Cities of Ladies 3 (I)
13 -17 Oct 2021, 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival – Tāctus 360 Shorts live venue, Athens, Greece
2022, Winner Audience Award 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival – Tāctus 360, Athens, Greece |
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