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Griot at WOMEX 2011

Griot will screen at WOMEX: The World Music Expo on Thursday, October 27

Copenhagen
Denmark
26-29 October
www.womex.com

WOMEX has a three-year partnership with World Music Fair Copenhagen, an organization created by several key cultural players from Denmark to host WOMEX from 2009 to 2011: First and foremost Roskilde Festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival and Wonderful Copenhagen. The other principal members comprise the Danish Center for Culture and Development (CKU/DCCD), Global Copenhagen and World Music Denmark in cooperation with Welcome Meeting Management.

Film Screenings selected by the International Music + Media Centre in Austria
Screening Schedule

“WOMEX is an annual highlight and a center of my curatorial process. It’s a great opportunity to discover new artists, connect with colleagues from all over the globe and from home, too.”
Bill Bragin (USA), Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

“The most important international professional market of world music of every kind. This international fair brings together professionals from the worlds of folk, roots, ethnic and traditional music and also includes concerts, conferences and documentary films. It contributes to networking as an effective means of promoting music and culture of all kinds across frontiers.”
UNESCO Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity

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SONIC TRUTH Robert Flaherty Film Seminar

GRIOT the documentary will be participating in SONIC TRUTH Robert Flaherty Film Seminar

SONIC TRUTH
June 18 – 24, 2011
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

The audio dimension of documentary operates in several ways: as an element to confirm the fidelity of visual evidence (synch sound), as the conveyor of narrative (the voice-over), as evidentiary recording (the interview), and as a creative tool to counterpoint images. Sound recording and design can help capture a cultural environment, sculpt a sense of place, or evoke a historical period. But add music to the mix and contradictions arise – either moments of truth are powerfully underscored or the truth claims of documentary fall into question.

“Sonic Truth” will bring together a diverse group of filmmakers working in nonfiction and hybrid media to examine the sound and musical elements of their work. Sounds to be heard include city symphonies and country silences, animated documentary musicals, electronica of the 1920s, roots music, telephonic voices, a Senegalese griot, window washing in Shanghai as well as excerpts from Flaherty Seminar discussion recordings dating back to 1958.

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