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Dada Changed My Life (2003)
Dada’s Mischief Continues…
After Being Barred From Exhibition at the IVAM, “Dada Changed My Life” World Premieres with a Protest
Dada Changed My Life, a 29-minute documentary about the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich where hundreds of artists locked themselves in, between February and April of last year, in an attempt to stop the construction of luxury apartments and a pharmacy on the grounds of the cradle of Dada (one of the most influential movements in contemporary art history), World Premiered at the 2nd Valencia Biennial on the 6th of September in the Convento del Carmen opposing the IVAM’s (Institute of Modern Art Valencia) last minute ban of the film from its screening series with prologue by the Equipo Vórtice which called for the resignation of several politicians and Spanish television directors.
Consuela Cisgar (Autonomous Secretariat of Culture) merely pointed to the closure of the programming cycle before the film’s presentation as the reason for its exclusion even though the program of the Valencia Biennial was changed and included a screening of its Official Premiere in Spain; within a space in the planned activities of William Alsop’s The Warehouse of Appropriate Behavior installation.
Daniel Martinez, one of the film’s three directors took this opportunity to express his outrage at the censorship to which the film has been subjected. According to him, the sex scenes which it contains and its criticism of the police were too provocative for the IVAM. “It’s hard to believe that the date is the reason for the refusal when we had presented the first edit of the film four months ago and they expressed their interest in screening it then.”
The film has already received a prize for Best Documentary at the 2003 DV Awards in Utah, an Honorable Mention at FOC Cinema in Castellón, Spain and is hitting screens all over the world. To date it has been selected to participate in the Raindance Film Festival in London, UK and five festivals in Spain: Festivalito International Digital Cine Festival of La Palma, Canary Islands; the Carmona Film Fest in Sevilla; Visual 03 in Madrid; Cádiz.doc in Cádiz and Eurovideo in Málaga.
Its New York Premiere is on the 4th of October at Brave Destiny: the Master Surrealist Exhibition and Film Festival (the world’s largest exhibition of living artists working today in Surrealism, Surreal/Conceptual, Visionary, Fantastic, Symbolism, Magic Realism, the Vienna School, Neuve Invention, Outsider, Naive, the Macabre, Grotesque and Singulier Art including Prof. Ernst Fuchs and H.G. Giger) at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Ten days later, on the 14th of October, it will be showcased in an evening of Dada absurdity at the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema along side German Dada, an alphabet documentary of the movement itself a Dadaistic experience and Hans Richter’s Ghosts Before Breakfast with intermittent spurts of nonsensical mayhem by DADAnewyork.
When fortune brings this new shout of protest your way don’t miss out.
Read about the film winning another award at the Nihilist Film Festival. January 2004.
Dada hits New York! Click here for info.
"Dada Changed My Life" Awarded 1st Prize at
"Brave Destiny: Master Surrealist Exhibition and Film Festival."
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