The Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier has launched a user-generated project that seeks cinematic reinterpretations of well-known works by several artists such as Paul Gauguin and August Strindberg.
Produced by the Copenhagen Art Festival and dubbed Gesamt (come together), the project is calling for five-minute film submissions from around the world inspired by any of these six sources: Gauguin's painting Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?; Strindberg's play The Father; James Joyce's novel Ulysses; sonatas by the French composer Cesar Franck; numbers performed by the entertainer Sammy Davis Jr; and the Zeppelinfeld monument in Nuremberg by Adolf Hitler's chief architect Albert Speer.
The submissions will be assembled into a single cohesive work by the Danish director Jenle Hallund, one of von Trier's script consultants, and will premiere on October 12 in Copenhagen. "The material can be raw and unedited, animated and polished, with audio, without audio, consist of still images, black and white or in colour – only your imagination and the six art works set the limits," said von Trier in a statement.
Entries can be submitted online until September 6. Visit www.gesamt.org for details.
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2018 ICC World Twenty20 Asian Western Sub Regional Qualifier
Event info: The tournament in Kuwait this month is the first phase of the qualifying process for sides from Asia for the 2020 World T20 in Australia. The UAE must finish within the top three teams out of the six at the competition to advance to the Asia regional finals. Success at regional finals would mean progression to the World T20 Qualifier.
UAE’s fixtures: Fri Apr 20, UAE v Qatar; Sat Apr 21, UAE v Saudi Arabia; Mon Apr 23, UAE v Bahrain; Tue Apr 24, UAE v Maldives; Thu Apr 26, UAE v Kuwait
World T20 2020 Qualifying process:
- Sixteen teams will play at the World T20 in two years’ time.
- Australia have already qualified as hosts
- Nine places are available to the top nine ranked sides in the ICC’s T20i standings, not including Australia, on Dec 31, 2018.
- The final six teams will be decided by a 14-team World T20 Qualifier.
World T20 standings: 1 Pakistan; 2 Australia; 3 India; 4 New Zealand; 5 England; 6 South Africa; 7 West Indies; 8 Sri Lanka; 9 Afghanistan; 10 Bangladesh; 11 Scotland; 12 Zimbabwe; 13 UAE; 14 Netherlands; 15 Hong Kong; 16 Papua New Guinea; 17 Oman; 18 Ireland
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