BLOD - Events
BLOD the feature / the BLOD method
The INEFF Festival and Symposium
University of Salford, MediaCity UK, 11-12 July 2023
The International Network of Experimental Fiction Filmmaking
Screening of BLOD the feature and presentation of the BLOD Method
The INEFF Festival and Symposium is a unique and innovative event that showcases the best and most exciting experimental fiction films from around the world. The event brings together filmmakers, artists, scholars, and industry professionals, and it is dedicated to exploring the creative possibilities and boundaries of experimental fiction filmmaking, and promoting the development of new modes of storytelling and audio-visual communication.
The event programming features a diverse selection of films that embody the experimental fiction filmmaking ethos, ranging from short films to feature-length works, as well as expanded cinema and VR. The films are chosen for their deviation from traditional narrative and stylistic norms and their emphasis on exploration and experimentation.
Filmsläpp/Film launch
Launch of three short films and a feature from the BLOD project.
Watch the films on YouTube or Vimeo
THE FOUR DAY INTENSIVE (26’)
Couples come to the center for applied interactive therapy (CAIT) to work out their differences. But will they? The therapists’ motivation is less clear.
AFTER (4’30)
A character is dealing with a never revealed past – a narrative without words.
RED VELVET (7’25)
A character reacts to an explicit piece of information which spurs collages of erratic footage from disparate places, situations and tempos – associations in a state of turmoil.
BLOD - the feature (90')
The story content revolves around female bleeding from cradle to grave as well as emotional swells in the wake of the blood – between people when bodies fail.
BLOD the feature - LA Underground Film Forum
Online festival
July 9th - 18th 2021
LA Underground Film Forum (LAUFF) is Los Angeles's premier showcase of experimentation in film, video and audio based mediums. It focus on avant-garde, art-house, independent and no/low budget filmmaking. The program provides a venue for filmmakers to reinvent and explore new approaches, to foster new forms of media art and to build an audience for such work. LAUFF aims to present a wide range of work exploring the many definitions and interpretations of the concept of “underground”.
BLOD - a film Kaleidoscope
Transversal Entanglements
Online conference
3 - 5 Jun 2021
Hosted by
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
BLOD presented as an exploration of conditions for improvisation, multiple perspectives, unpredictability and fluidity of form.
BLOD - the feature film available to screen by registered participants.
more info here
BLOD - Collaborators
Swedish Research Council
Symposium on Artistic Research
Online conference 25-26 Nov 2020
SKH Research Week
Online conference 19-22 Jan 2021
The project’s practical artistic exploration of collaboration was presented through a documentation of a streamed live performance followed by an introduction to the project and then a Q&A.
The 18 min video documentation is of a reading of the play Collaborators in front of a projection of the film* in the film BLOD. (*Ashes to Ashes, Blood to Blood)
The play is written from scenes and dialogue between the filmmakers in the feature version of BLOD – written scenes that have been transformed through the process of filming and editing are now being re-written for the stage based on their edited versions – in an ongoing loop where embodied experiences become text that is filmed, and the film becomes script for embodied experiences on stage.
(s)mash-up - presentation/workshop
Alliances & Commonalites
Online conference 22-24 Oct 2020
hosted by SKH/Uniarts
An opportunity to engage with BLOD materials, concepts and alternate compositions.
BLOD - the feature film available to screen by registered participants.
(s)mash-up focuses on compositional challenges ranging from political aspects of storytelling based on intimate and personal experience to ethical considerations in the shifts of meaning involved in recontextualizing content.
Questions:
- What in a clip or a whole clip got you going? Do you know why?
- How did you associate? How did you make connections between materials?
- What did you cut on? What was your bridge between cuts? Image objects, words, colors/light, movement, narrative etc.
- Did you bridge by opposition or continuity?
BLOD - Early screenings
23 jan 2020
Bion, Valhallav. 189
SKH - Forskningsveckan
Uniarts - Research week
14 feb 2020
Studio Acusticum, Piteå
Dokumentärfilmsdagen
LTU / Filmpool Nord / Piteå
BLOD(y) is an exposition of the work processes of BLOD – a research and film project trying to go beyond norms when it comes to content, aesthetics and modes of collaboration in cinematic storytelling.
The Open Space exhibit features the film, its source materials in different forms, works in various degrees of progress and scheduled talks on related topics.
The project is exploring collaboration across professions, between friendship and the collegial and beyond academic positions – alternating writing, filming, editing – a liquid and blurred line between life and art. Working on BLOD, all hands-on artistic processes are taken on jointly and uncompromisingly, while challenging power hierarchies, artist myths and traditional cinema’s demand for naturalism and narrative logic in both imagery and mise-en-scene.
The film BLOD revolves around female bleeding from cradle to grave, but is not all about liquids. It also examines emotional swells in the wake of the blood – between people when bodies fail. The film events where modes of creating, key issues and artistic ambition are embodied, are based on experiences of being human with brains, heart and uterus.
Stockholm 2019
Annika Boholm & Kersti Grunditz Brennan
BLOD(y) - samtal i OPEN STUDIO!
23 nov 2019 kl. 11
Anders Narling
brandman
23 nov 2019 kl. 14
Annika Boholm
BLOD-processens Liv&Skriv
24 nov 2019 kl. 11
Lena Moegelin
HBTQ-gynekolog
24 nov 2019 kl. 14
Kalle Norwald
sexolog
BLOD looking for extras!
WHAT DOES A GROUP OF WOMEN LOOK LIKE?
Do you want to be an extra in a PhD-project in film?
BLOD is a research project in film based on experiences with womb related events.
Annika & Kersti play all the parts but sometimes they’re part of a group that should be perceived as in sync with what the world actually looks like.
We’re looking for you who want to contribute to this group’s looking like a cross-section of the women of the world
in functionality, gender expression, skin tone,
body type, age…
Group scenes against green-screen:
A rave – we dance away!
A blood rite – we celebrate menstruation!
A dinner – with gynecological instruments!
A band - we play gynecological instruments!
A procession - we stride in formations!
Do one evening or both. You don’t need training in dance or theater,but we like so see a picture of you so that we can put this group together.
Pay:
We provide food when you arrive, fruit and water through the evening and of course you'll get invitations to future screenings. While we wait for external financing this is undfortunately what we can offer at this time.
What to wear:
We have costumes (a kind of dressy gowns) that can be worn
as they are or over regular clothes - pants/tights and t-shirt/tanktop/bra.
is Annika Boholm and Kersti Grunditz Brennan
and the artistic research collaboratively
initiated, conducted and published.