Akin: Embedding as Artistic Strategy in the Experimental Video of Eva Maria Rødbro & Keren Shavit

Time: March 8, 2018, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Location: Watson Theater, 316 Waverly Avenue

Eva Marie Rødbro (Copenhagen)
Keren Shavit (Brooklyn, NY)

Urban Video Project (UVP) presents AKIN, an evening of work by experimental video artists Keren Shavit and Eva Marie Rødbro, featuring hybrid documentaries in which the filmmakers insert themselves into the intimate interactions of an American family; followed by Q&A and a reception with the artists.

Please note, the event will be held in Watson Theater on the SU campus.

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES:

Keren Shavit is a mixed media artist and curator, living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and was a selected participant in the documentary workshop at the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film in Lodz and Sam Spiegel Film School, Jerusalem. Shavit has exhibited, published and screened her work in Israel, New York, Poland, Germany, China, Norway, and Iceland.

Eva Marie Rødbro is a photographer and award-winning maker of short films that explore youth culture in a variety of contexts. She was educated at art academies in Denmark and the Netherlands. Her most recent short We Chose the Milky Way (2015) screened at the 2016 International Film Festival of Rotterdam and at the 2016 Ann Arbor Film Festival, where it won the George Manupelli Founder’s Spirit Award. Her 2010 short, I Touched Her Legs, won The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist at the 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Most Inventive Film Award at the Odense Film Festival 2011, and was nominated for the NEW:VISION award CPH:DOX 2010.

Anneka Herre, Urban Video Project