Announcement: Launch of CologneOFF VII

CologneOFF VII - 7th festival edition

Today, CologneOFF is happy to announce the start of the new season –
September 2011
when CologneOFF VII – the 7th festival edition in sequence !-
will be launched this time at three places

Beirut/Lebanon
CologneoFF 2011 Beirut
a collaboration with Sunflowrer Art Center
directed by Abdo Nawar – 30 August – 3 September 2011

Budapest/Hungary
CologneOFF 2011 Budapest
a collaboration with BuSho – Budapest International Shortfilm Festival
1-5 September 2011

Riga/Latvia
CologneOFF Baltic Sea V – Riga
5th venue of the presentation series around the Baltic Sea
a collaboration with Waterpieces Contemporary Art & Videoart Festival
coordinated by NOASS/ Riga – 8-10 September 2011

Together with 150 new films & videos,
CologneOFF VII will be pushing the nomadic festival project –
CologneOFF 2011 – videoart in a global context –> forward to 2012.

The solo feature of the month August 2011 will be
Larissa Sansour (Palestine) to be presented in Beirut,
and in September Irina Gabiani (Georgia) will be the solo artist to be presented in Riga.
The solo of the British couple Marianna & Daniel O’Reilly, solo artists of June/July – will be presented in Riga, as well.