www.viscult.netSEPTEMBER 28TH - OCTOBER 3rd, 2005
JOENSUU, FINLAND
The Finnish ethnographic film festival, Festival of Visual Culture, will celebrate its fifth anniversary this year: five years of streaming live on the Web most of the films, discussions and lectures!
Further cause for excitement is the fact that this year's festival will be held in the Aallotar Film Theatre, in the very centre of Joensuu.
This years' theme is Intimacy.
Intimacy is a broad theme touching the lives of everyone in every culture. Festival of Visual Culture aims to show a wide range of documentary, ethnographic and anthropological films for the festival which encapsulate the theme in some of these areas: Love; Rites of Passage; Sexuality; Prostitution; Privacy; Relationships between the Sexes; and Intimacy and Health in cultures around the world.
The Festival of Visual Culture is a personal event, one in which the majority of filmmakers are present to introduce their work, encouraging the opportunity for profound discussions of the films, film-making, and culture.
The festival utilizes modern technology to bridge geographical obstacles and to our knowledge the first film festival in the world that streams all content - films and discussions alike - live on the Internet.
Film content is ethnographic, anthropological and documentary films.
This event is open to all interested persons.
Festival of Visual Culture
North Karelian Regional Film Association
Pekka Silvennoinen
Film Secretary
Länsikatu 15
FIN-80110 Joensuu, Finland
www.viscult.net
