The film program at Art Basel this year, running from June 15 to June 20, is full of firsts — to wit, the feature film debuts of visual artists Takashi Murakami and Hassan Hajjaj, plus the European premiere of “Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict” (though American audiences already got a peek at the Tribeca Film Festival). Though Hajjaj has made film works before, for his first feature, he turns a documentary lens on Marrakesh’s Jemaa el Fna market with “Karima: A Day in the Life of a Henna Girl.” (His film, too, will have a U.S. premiere in advance of its Basel screening, at LACMA on May 13.) Murakami’s “Jellyfish Eyes,” meanwhile, incorporates his signature colorful characters into a fictionalized narrative that follows children in a Japanese country town fighting against natural disaster. Rumor has it some of those characters may even be at the premiere in costume — ready, as is Murakami’s Instagram-happy manner, for a selfie. And that’s not nearly all of what’s in store from the program curated by This Brunner and Maxa Zoller. Check out Basel’s full film lineup, below.
Monday, June 15, 2015
8.30pm | Takashi Murakami | Jellyfish Eyes, 2013 | Blum & Poe
Running time 100′, selected by Maxa Zoller
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Takashi Murakami and Maxa Zoller.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
8.30pm | Short Film program | Voices from the Off
Running time 56′; curated by Maxa Zoller
Karolin Meunier, Anfangsszene, 2015, 7’45”, courtesy of the artist
Mounira Al Solh, Now Eat my Script, 2014, 24’50, Sfeir-Semler Gallery
Kan Xuan, Object, 2003, 6’25”, Galleria Continua
Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Opaque, 2014, 10′, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Marcelle Alix
Laure Prouvost, It Heat Hit, 2010, 7’21”, MOT International
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Pauline Boudry and Maxa Zoller.
10pm | Short Film program | Morph My Mind!
Running time 54′; curated by Maxa Zoller
Julieta Aranda, What Right? 2014, 9’34”, OMR
Michael Snow, The Living Room, 2000, 20’20”, Jack Shainman Gallery
Oliver Laric, Untitled, 2015, 10′, Tanya Leighton
Katie Armstrong, Once More, Once More, 2011, 4’30”, Galerie Eigen + Art
Ed Atkins, Even Pricks, 2013, 8′, Cabinet, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
8.30pm | Film program | Lines of Beauty
Running time 99′; curated by Maxa Zoller
Kimsooja, Thread Routes – Chapter II, 2011, 23’40”, Kukje Gallery / Tina Kim Gallery
Hassan Hajjaj, Karima: a day in the life of a henna girl, 2015, 71′, The Third Line
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Kimsooja, Hassan Hajjaj and Maxa Zoller.
Thursday, June 18, 2015
8.30pm | Film program | Food (in) Chains
Running time 107′; curated by Maxa Zoller
Will Benedict & David Leonard, Toilets Not Temples, 2014, 25′, Gió Marconi, Bortolami
Agnès Varda, Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse, 82′, 2000, Ciné Tamaris,
Galerie Nathalie Obadia
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Will Benedict and Maxa Zoller.
Friday, June 19, 2015
8pm | Special screening | An Evening with Duncan Campbell
Running time 104′; curated by Sergio Fant, programmer Festival del film Locarno
Duncan Campbell, Oh Joan, No, 2006, 12′, Rodeo
Duncan Campbell, Bernadette, 2008, 38’10”, Rodeo
Duncan Campbell, It For Others, 2008, 54′, Rodeo
Saturday, June 20, 2015
7.30pm | Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict | Lisa Immordino Vreeland
2015, running time 94′; selected by This Brunner
— Anneliese Cooper (@DawnDavenport)
(Photo: Still from Takashi Murakami’s “Jellyfish Eyes,” courtesy Blum & Poe)
