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Dada Changed My Life (2003)
"Dada Awarded Again…"
At its most recent screening at the Nihilist Film Festival in Santa Monica, Dada Changed My Life received 2nd Prize. This is the 4th award it has received: Best Documentary at the DV Awards in Park City, Utah; 1st Prize at Brave Destiny:Master Surrealist Exhibition and Film Festival in New York City; as well as a Special mention at Foc Cimema in Castellon, Spain.
It has been screened world wide at the Raindance Film Festival in London; Fano Internationa lFilm Festival in Le Puglie, Italy; Hidden Sound Fest in Turín, Italy; Eurovideo in Málaga, Spain; Cádiz.doc in Cádiz, Spain; Carmona Film Festival in Sevilla, Spain; Festivalito in the Canary Islands; Visual 03 in Madrid, Spain; the Robert Beck Memeorial Cinema in New York with live performances by DADAnewyork as well as having been exhibited at “Pabellón DD” at the Observatori Museum of Ciencias Príncipe Felipe in Valencia, Spain; “Urbania” at the Sala Amadís in the Injuve in Madrid, Spain; and the Convento del Carmen at the 2nd Valencia Biennial with live performances by Equipo Vortex.
It is also set to screen this Sunday January 18th, 2003 at 8:00 PM at the Williamsburg Arts and Historical Center 135 Broadway (corner of Broadway and Bedford Avenues in Williamsburg, Brooklyn) in a screening of the winners of the Brave Destiny:Master Surrealist Exhibition and Film Festival and will screen at the Festival de Cortometrajes de Mieres in Asturias, Spain; Premis Tirant in Valencia, Spain; the 2004 season of the Cabaret Votaire in Los Angeles and at Daydedada in New York City.
Daniel Martinez and Olga Mazurkiewicz are very pleased because as a result of the generous support of the Polish American Congress, the Polish Cultural Institute of London and the Instituto Cervantes, they were able to attend the Raindance Film Festival where they have begun work on an upcoming 16mm project about Dada and Independent Filmmaking by interviewing Lloyd Kaufman while he in London giving his master class at the Imperial College.
In the tradition of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Love the Bomb, Costa Gavra’s Z, Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine, Makmalbaf’s Kandahar, Francis Picabia and Rene Claire’s Entr’acte, the Marx Brothers and the rebellious and anarchic spirit which characterized DADA from its appearance in 1915 in New York and in 1916 in Zürich comes a documentary about the tumultuous times (beginning with Marcel Duchamp) in which the movement developed and morphed to its multi-faceted present day manifestations as well as its aftermath within the arts and cinema throughout America and Europe as a result of the legions of individuals who have continued taking a stand against each and every -ism, degradation, state of general imbecility of institutionalized ideas and fought for the right of every single being to choose their own way through this cosmic adventure known as life in the face of declining morals and indifference. In the guise of simplicity, silliness, black humor and all things in between, tearing open a hole in the proverbial fabric to expose the complicated truth of the point is that there is no point, giving us the possibility to emerge whole and laughing while demonstrating how these culturally and politically avant-garde activities and struggles have found root in present day society as well as interjecting Dada’s historical trajectory through the 50s, 60s and 70s: a Dada-revisionist account of this revolutionary movement’s relation to the moving image and modern life.
January 2004
Click here to read the article on the film's NY premiere.
Click here to read the article on "Dada Changed My Life" being banned.
"Dada Changed My Life" Awarded 1st Prize at
"Brave Destiny: Master Surrealist Exhibition and Film Festival."
Click here to read the article on Dada Changed My Life.
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