The wide expansion of cinemas, job creation potential and the availability of huge audience are some of the factors for the growth of the Ethiopian film industry in quantity, not in quality.
Study reveals that Ethiopian film industry is booming in terms of number not quality. Establishing strong training institutions would help make the industry more competitive and attractive.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism co-organized a consultative forum Tuesday with the Ethiopian Film Professionals Association with the theme: “Films with Cultural Values for Renaissance.”
Presenting a paper on Ethiopian Films Prospects and Challenges, Wossenyeleh Tilahun noted that currently over 100 movies have been produced in a year thanks to the technology and the economic growth the country registered. The wide expansion of cinemas, job creation potential and the availability of huge audience are some of the factors for the growth of the industry, he added.
However, the films are produced without detail research, casting system, professional filmmakers and conducting feasible and risk assessment. Lack of attention and viable support from the government is also the other major hindrance, according to Wossenyeleh.
According to the study, some 60% of the respondents believe that the film industry has been growing in quantity but not in quality. Some 20% on the other hand say the industry is growing and the remaining have an opposite view.
Almost half of the films made this year are waiting to be released for long period of time due to lack of cinema houses and alleged corruption by managers. Some films have been released instead of the quality ones for some officials are allegedly receiving bribes.
“Ethiopian filmmakers have been invited to take part in various international film festivals but they fail to do so as they could not meet the international criteria,” he noted.
He recommended that government need to enact laws and establish special government institution that directly governs and supports the industry. The association must be strong in providing support to professionals in the sector.
According to the study, forums need to be organized to have discussion between the government and pertinent bodies to identify challenges and address them. Filmmakers are also expected fulfill their responsibility.
Currently, there are about 300 filmmaker enterprises and 39 cinema houses in Addis Ababa with the number of films showing 10 per cent growth..
Thorough discussion was held with participants on ways of improving Ethiopian film industry and overcoming the challenges and fulfilling responsibilities for a better future. The event was attended by various film professionals, directors, senior government officials and other pertinent bodies.
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DutchAmsterdam.com — On June 3, 2007, American photographer Spencer Tunick realized on of his large-scale ‘human installatations’ in Amsterdam.
Tunick’s art projects consist of photo shoots in which all participants are naked. All of these installations are held in public locations.
Since 1994 he has photographed over 75 such projects in cities around the world, including New York, London, Barcelona, and Vienna. He set a record for naked photography with a photo of 18,000 people in the buff in Mexico City last year.
Settings included a large and rather stark parking garage, but a bike ride by hundreds of naked woman across a nearby bridge drew more attention.
Another shoot featured nearly two dozen women standing on a custom-built iron bridge across the Lauriergracht.
The bridge was designed to become invisible once people were standing on it, creating the illusion of a bridge consisting solely of human bodies.
“It was very exciting and I didn’t even feel shy,” one woman said. Other participants expressed similar sentiments.
Tunick is not surprised. “My work has nothing to do with sex or eroticism,” he told a local newspaper. “I create dreams and memories no one will forget. Of course it has something provocative, but that is mostly in the fact that all these people are in adam-costume at an unnatural location, in the middle of the city, a bulbfield, or a museum.”
“I rather use the naked body mostly as an abstract form. The nudity in part symbolizes freedom. But it is more than that. It also references ancient magical rituals as they existed in classic mystery games.”
“I get people to shed their inhibitions basically because the people shedding their clothing are interested in contemporary art,” Tunick told the Associated Press.
Incidentally, the location for the installation was closely guarded — standard procedure for the shoots so that the photo crew does not have to deal with hordes of uninvited onlookers.
Partipants were first met at 3:30 am –and where only then told at which locations the sessions would take place.
“It was very hard to find space in a city meant for such a small amount of people,” Tunick told De Telegraaf. “I was very lucky to get almost 2,000 to fill a massive car park.”
Life-size pictures of the shoot were later displayed on billboards at various locations throughout Amsterdam.
Spencer Tunick’s Amsterdam installation was the first in an annual series of art projects to be commissioned by DREAM AMSTERDAM
Tunick calls his models ‘city adventurers.’ “People from all walks of life participate in my temporary installations — as I call these actions, because they are not performances. I am not looking for an audience, but rather need participants. People willing to use their stark-naked bodies to form a super-sculpture.”
“It is certainly not only nudists who come and help me,” the artists says. “There are always lots of art students who participate, but also housewives, teachers, electricians….”
The photographer says there is a small group of fans who follow him around the world. “They apply for almost every project. I think that’s great, but I do not want famous faces in my pictures, so I kindly ask them to stand in the back. The same thing applies to people with tattoos that are too prominent, or ones whose bikini tan lines are too clear.”
Tunick himself stays fully dressed. Not that he is a prude, but experience has taught him that his camera kit bruises and cuts his body. “You’ll agree that a nude photographer wearing only a vest for his lenses and roles of film looks dorky,” he says.
Tunick, who last April already shot some pictures in the bulbfields near Amsterdam, is please that so many people applied for his Amsterdam installation.
A few years back he barely managed to attract 400 people for a shoot in the Dutch city of Breda. But that was before he gained notoriety and become popular. He has been doing mass nude photo shoots since 1994. His breakthrough came when famous British collector Charles Saatchi commissioned him for a creation. Since then countless museums for modern art have sought him out.
This item was re-written using four articles we previously posted about Spencer Tunick’s Amsterdam shoot.
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