contemporary art and media
Mo 15th 11:30 pm
Frank Biesendorfer US/DE Homebodies S8 12 min 1998-2004
Kim Collmer US/DE Postcard From The Deep 3 min 49s 2010
Deborah White AU Version tours 4 min 30s 2006
Lucinda Schreiber & Yanni Kronenberg AU Autumn Story 3 min 30s 2009
FirekitesShaun Wilson AU Gothic Memoria 31 min 2009
Heiko Daxl & Ingeborg Fülepp DE Changes 13 min 2004-2008
Sun 14th 6:00 pm
The European image of Latin America, especially of Mexico is distorted; the mainstream media only repeats those images situated between the extremes of violence and poverty, and of exoticism on ethnic culture. Little does their audience get to know about the traditions of Latin modernism and maybe even less of the contemporary art scene. This program has an emphasis on works from and about Mexico City, but also features a work by the Cuban artist Adrian Melis, and a Spanish film about Bogota. All films take a critical and at the same time fresh and humorous view on urban themes. The glimpses on daily life through the artist’s camera may tell more about realities in urban life than television reports or news images.
Juan delGado UK/ES The Flickering Darkness 13min 32sec 2009
Stefan Demming DE The edge of the city 30min 00sec 2007
Verena Grimm Machtstrukturen 02min 32sec 2007
Markus Soukup UK TO OR AT A DISTANCE 10min 01sec 2009
Adrian Melis CU The making of fourty rectangular piece for a floor constuction 05min 30sec 2009
Jose Matiella+Ivan Meza MX Sintia 04min 28sec
Fernando Llanos MX Citta 03min 32sec 2004
Beatriz+CarlosMatiella MX Vecinos 02min 43sec
Beatriz+CarlosMatiella MX Buda 03min 06sec
Hector Falcon MX Simulacro 0min 41sec 2005
Verena Grimm La + Rocha 13min 45sec 2007
Verena Grimm La + Rocha
Special Loop Feature:
Anna Staffel DE Documenta12 13min 23sec 2009
Anna Staffel Documenta 12
For more information on the Urban Research program
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Sun 14th 8pm
stock`n`wolf / Tinka Stock & Sébastien Wolf DE Bob Log`s III Electric Fence 2min 25s 2005
Sylvie Boisseau and Frank Westermeyer DE Meine Familie und Ich 6min 27s 1997
Ulu Braun and Alexej Tchernyi DE Fish Soup 10min 20s 2005
Nine Budde DE Huck Go Ewst 13min 18s 2004
Tim Coe DE 0-8-15 3min 49s 2004
Helmut Dick DE Sunday Afternoon 9min 16s 2001
Judith Egger DE Biotopie 5min 25s 2005
Martin Erlenmaier DE Jubel (Jubeltürken) 4min 46s 2006
Dorotea Etzler DE To Go Strange – Fremdgehen 6min 3s 1993
Dietmar Fleischer DE Dranbleiben 6min 2005
Heike Gallmeier DE Protobobs 6min 59s 2003
Florian Gwinner DE Das Modell 1min 15s 2006
Alexander Györfi DE Pimui Home Recording with Carsten Erobique Meier 3min 57s 2005
Philipp Hartmann (F.K.Flumen) DE Kastraten und Männer 4min 30s 2005
Gab Heller DE For The Birds 1min 55s 2004
Philipp Hirsch DE IN 5min 30s 2005
Susanne Huth DE Run 7min 51s 2003/04
David Krippendorff DE Blame 5min 2002
Andy Leuenberger DE Boom Boom Boogie 4min 35s 2005
Maix Mayer DE Ideal City 5min 22s 2004
Lars Nagler DE Grid 1min 30s 2005
Sladjan Nedeljkovic DE Transformers 4min 42s 2004
Kristofer Paetau DE Artforum Accident 4min 41s 2005
Oliver Pietsch DE Out 11min 2s 2001
Nikki Schuster DE Geisterstunde 11min 2s 2005
stock`n`wolf / Tinka Stock & Sébastien Wolf DE Bob Log`s III Electric Fence 2min 25s 2005
Myriam Thyes DE A Little Meditation 1min 20002
Franz Wanner DE Pirts 1min 2000
Sun 14th 11 pm
As an extension of his film and video work – and as an antidote to it – Max Hattler performs his audio-visual works tonight live and direct. Max often collaborates live with other artist filmmakers like Noriko Okaku and Robert Seidel. Max also creates concert visuals or works live with bands including Basement Jaxx, The Egg, Economy Wolf, Dollskabeat and Ladyscraper.
Tonight he jams together with DJ Jouka.
“Max Hattler … master of the live re-mix.” APEngine, UK
Sat 13th 6:30 pm
Penny Lane & Jessica Bardsley US The Commoners 12min 30sec 2009
In 1890, a wealthy eccentric named Eugene Schieffelin collected every bird ever mentioned by Shakespeare and released them into Central Park. The only one to survive in the New World was the European Starling, now among the commonest – and most despised – urban birds in America. THE COMMONERS is an essay film about European Starlings, poetry, the rhetorical relationship between nationalism and environmentalism, and the paths people forge through history as they attempt to improve the natural world.
AND Sneak Preview:
Thomas Comerford US The Indian Boundary Line 42min 00sec 2010
Over the last eight years, Chicago musician and filmmaker Thomas Comerford has been at work on a series of quietly-observed films that contemplate the entwined social, political, and environmental histories of Chicago (Figures in the Landscape, 2002; Land Marked/Marquette, 2005).
His new film, The Indian Boundary Line, follows “a road very close to my home in Chicago, Rogers Avenue,” that traces the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis boundary between the United States and “Indian Territory” and examines the collision between “the vernacular landscape, with its storefronts, short-cut footpaths and picnic tables, and the symbolic one, replete with historical markers, statues and fences.
In its observations and audio-visual juxtapositions, THE INDIAN BOUNDARY LINE meditates on history and history’s relationship to the landscape, with its shifting boundaries, designs, uses and inhabitants across two centuries.”
For more information on the Urban Research program
Sat 13th 8 pm
Urban Research has been a successful program both at Directors Lounge Festival and in screenings in London, Hannover, Poznan, Freiburg, Essen, Dordrecht, St. Petersburg and Berlin. International artists present their vision of public space and urban landscapes. How is the condition of the public realm connected with urban space? Can we talk about urbanity as a common figure in urban life at all? Has public space been replaced by the electronic virtual spaces? Or, has public place been bounded, forcefully homogenized and “pacified” by surveillance and private security forces? Are there new developments, definitions and uses that make “public space” lively again? Artists find challenging views and concepts, or more importantly, they question anew the common concepts of urbanity.
UR1 Urban Research | Tomorrow, Night and Day
In the Aboriginal tradition “Dreamtime” is the ancient time of the myths. However, in Western concepts, the waking dreams in cities rather manifest a possible future, something that has the potential to become manifest from its yet virtual possibilities. According to Walter Benjamin, the day-dreaming of popular myths discloses potentials of future changes; and following those principles, the Situationists propagated dérive, the aimless strolling in the city as a cure against the false desires of the society of spectacle. The artists in this Urban Research program use vernacular, mundane urban settings and landscapes for their dreaming and imaginative shifts from the ordinary and expected. They may be read as much more than just a happy visual game.
Wolf D. Schreiber DE The Great Art Swindle 3min 30sec 2009
Steven Ball UK Aboriginal Myths of South London 10min 30sec 2010
Pilvi Takala FI Easy Rider 4min 25sec 2006
Joe Merrell UU Tomorrow Never Comes 4min 15sec 2009
Elena Näsänen FI Drive 9min 15sec 2003
Sophie Warren & Jonathan Mosley UK Fallout 9min 27sec 2010
Maarit Suomi-Väänänen FI Jalkeilla Taas (Up And About Again) 10min 49sec 2009
Gerard Freixes Ribera ES Alone – AislaDO 3min 20sec 2007
Henry Gwiazda US Claudia and Paul 5:05 p.m. 6min 38sec 2008
Yaron Lapid UK Night Meter 4min 23sec 2000
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne DE Encoded 5min 30sec 2008
Anders Weberg SW Elsewhereness:Yokohama 7min 00sec 2008
Pilvi Takala FI Amusement Park 1min 00sec 2001
Anders Weberg Elsewhereness:Yokohama
For more information on Urban Research program
Sat 13th 10 pm
Where else youʼll get a 90 minutes show compiled of singing turkish market workers, innovative Radioheadʼs music video, home movie of Animal Collective having night fun, Japanese pajama dance, Russian street performers and a flipbook based work?
Nowhere but here. For sure.
Andrei Kagadeev & Nikolai Kopeikin RU Russian Wanderer 4min 0s 2008
Celtic folk song
Jenny Coburn & Thomas Hicks & Will Perrens GB Rock My Boat 4min 10s 2006
DntelMiikka Lommi FI Summertime Cowboy 3min 27s 2007
Husky RescueMasha Godovannaya RU Untitled #1 4min 0s 2005
Gianluca Porcu aka LUAhmet Tas DE Apple & Ei 5min 35s 2007
Marco MeisterDaniel Eskils SE Sheʼs the One 4min 0s 2008
CaribouKeith Schofield US Toe Jam 3min 27s 2008
The BPAPavel Egorov RU Серебро / Silver 4min 0s 2005
DolphinAndre Maat & Henk Loorbach NL Squeeze Me 3min 25s 2008
Kraak & SmaakMarkus Wambsganss DE Lightning Bolts and Man Hands 6min 16s 2004
Hymieʼs BasementScott Coello GB Breasts on his Back 1min 46s 2008
Son of RobotEdgar Dubrovskiy LV-GB You Act Like a Baby 2min 50s 2008
Tribes of the CityCatrin Sonnabend DE Micronomic 3min 40s 2005
Lali PunaAndrew Gibbs SA – GB Florian 4min 34s 2008
CocoRosieK+Me JP My Way 4min 0s 2008
StarskeeJames Frost GB House of Cards 4min 32s 2008
RadioheadTilman Hatje & Lukas Thiele DE 4xtra 2min 38s 2008
SheiksRadical Friend US Insomnia 4min 17s 2007
Electric President
Lindsey J. Testolin US An Average Idea 1min 42s 2007
Love in OctoberMarc Craste GB Will the Summer Make Good for All of Our Sins? 4min 02s 2004
mumJon Leone US Fireworks 6min 50s 2007
Animal Collective
Lullatone JP Bedroom Bossa Band 2min 53s 2006
Lullatone
Overall: 85min 54s
Fri 12th 6:30 pm
Domique Gagnon CA Rip in pieces America 62 min 2009
« I was watching video on the Internet and I noticed that certain homemade clips were flagged for their content. As they were disappearing from free hosting sites, I started to save and edit them in a capsule format. Working in a gray zone about copyright, I nevertheless fulfill the authors’ will to contextualize their situation by grouping their videos together and more important diffuse / preserve their messages. » D.G.
« When this thing goes down_
and the crack-down happens_
all this information that is on the internet_
all these documentations_ not going to be there anymore, man_they are going to cut off
the main frame_delete all this information_
that’s it_you’re not going
to know anything. » RIP
Fri 12th 8 pm
This part of the selection gathers pros and amateurs, big musicians and bands youʼve
never heard of! Such mastodons of independent music as Sigur Ros will be accompanied by Moscowʼs ex-teenager Mujuice and the debut work by Guatemala-based Eduardo Benchoam will challenge already acclaimed animator Clay Lipsky. Intrigued?
Kristofer Ström SE Animals 3min 40s 2008
MinilogueKeith Schofield US One with the Freaks 3min 31s 2006
The NotwistPaul Banks GB Shorebound 2min 25s 2008
Epic45Alexei Terekhov RU Lights 3min 30s 2008
Lyapis TrubetskoyArni & Kinski IS Hoppipolla 4min 28s 2005
Sigur RosClay Lipsky US Sundown 3min 19s 2006
DaedelusTakayuki Kozyma JP Satellite 4min 58s 2007
4 bonjour’s partiesAV RU Dubus 4min 09s 2005
Zelany RashohoVirgilio Villoresi & Erica il Cane IT The Rain 3min 26s 2007
Lou RhodesLee Lennox GB Girl and the Sea 4min 40s 2005
The PresetsRaymond Prado US Wasted 4min 11s 2008
Matthew BryanPrice James GB OK 4min 20s 2007
ShitdiscoJesse Ewles US Central and Remote 4min 28s 2007
Grizzly BearRoma Litvinov RU Love Park! 5min 20s 2008
MujuiceMarie Losier US Papal Broken-Dance 6min 2008
Psychic TVSophie Gateau FR Boa 3min 01s 2006
Eglantine GouzyJodie Mack US A Joy 3min 03s 2005
Four Tet & Kieran HebdenTom Scholefield GB You Got Me Up 2min 0s 2006
Jamie LidellCelia Galan & Ana Lorenz ES Fugaz 4min 28s 2008
The Pinker TonesImery Watson GB – NZ Sloup 4min50s 2006
Susumu YokotaKids of Eighties FR Motherfucker 2min 53s 2007
FordamageEduardo Benchoam GT Just Like a Drummer 3min 47s 2008
The Wave Pictures
Overall: 86min 27s
Fri 12th 11:30 pm
MAR SHY SUN S MUSIC IS DESCRIBED AS 21ST CENTURY HIGH SPEED LOVE SONGS WHICH WILL MAKE YOU HIGH WITH OR WITHOUT DRUGS. THE MOTOR DRIVEN BEATS COMBINED WITH LIVE BASS OCASIONALLY ACCOMPANIED WITH GUITARS AND TRANCY INNOVATIVE SYNTHESYTHER SOUNDS TAKE YOU ON A SOFT BUT STRONG SHAMANISTIC HEAD TRIP AND IN A COMBINATION WITH UNIQUE MAR SHY SUNS VOICE THE MUSIC WILL TRANSCEND YOU IN THE ETHERAL REALM OF LOVE AND LONGING AND SEARCHING DESIRE.
together with Crypto doing the visuals