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JARMARK EUROPA

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The visual language established in Stevens' work presents the audience with critical yet often poetic forms in film, video and photography. Recurrent themes connect visual codes of landscape, borders and migration with more orthodox forms of documentation and reportage such as journalism and political dogma.

His short films have been exhibited internationally including the Whitechapel Gallery, 10th Istanbul Biennial, Tapei Museum of Modern Art, Serpentine Cinema, OVNI, Barcelona and Frieze film. His most recent film Atlantropa commissioned by Film London won Best False Fiction Jury Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival 2010. Stevens has also contributed to various publications such as Fresh Moves (Thames & Hudson) and Eight Metaphors (Lux) and has published two limited DVD/Book sets When I Sit Down to Write and Three Films on Language.

 

 

 

Samuel Stevens, Jarmark Europa (film still) Samuel Stevens, Jarmark Europa (film still)
Samuel Stevens, Jarmark Europa (film still) Samuel Stevens, Jarmark Europa (film still)
Jarmark Europa, 12' 39'', DVCAM, Warsaw, 2005
Taking its name from Europe's largest open-air market in Warsaw, where the video was shot, Jarmark Europa portrays a Vietnamese community within the market; an echo of Poland's communist past. The stallholders responses to being filmed is revealed in the video through the subtitling of the video that reveals a layer of communication missing at the time of the shoot. The vietnamese community, or mini Vietnam as it is locally known, now faces eviction in preparation for the 2012 European footbal championship.