Directors Lounge Screening:

Karl F. Stewart
Impressions in Mind
Photographs and Video

Thursday, 27 March 2014
21:00, Z-Bar, Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

Karl F. Stewart makes a mark in digital photography and video with his saturated colors and his rigorous compositions showing urban landscapes. He works with a photographic hybrid combination between still images and videos that do not hide their origin in their photographic concept. After being a documentary photographer in the 70’s in Pittsburgh, his home town, he worked as an English lecturer in Italy for 24 years, before he took up photography again only 5 years ago, now going fully digital.

San Francisco, his next temporary residency after Italy, became his starting point for his relaunch in photography, where he mostly explored the downtown area. Not just the financial district of San Francisco, but a big part of the highly dense urban areas show an amazing economic growth with glossy surfaces and artificial contemporary green landscaping on one hand, and wide spread poverty of homeless people on the other. “The Unearthly Beauty of Simulated Nature in Contemporary Architecture” is Stewart’s most pronounced piece from that period, presented as a video-photo essay. At the same time, the artist started exploring motion-blur and photoshop cut-outs. “Impressions of Movement” is a series of panoramic works that resulted and which he continued in different countries such as USA, Italy and France. The time-based presentation of digital pictures, that seems to be natural to the medium, led to digital video as his preferred medium at the moment. The artist recently moved to Düsseldorf, where he continues exploring landscapes and urban settings in often unearthly colors. Like with “K-20”, showing a small fountain at the K 20 Museum in Düsseldorf, the examinations of urban-nature relations combined with sometimes witty surprising experiments, seem to propel his creative energy most successfully.

Artist Links:
http://kfstewart.com/
http://impressionsofmovement.com/

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Gabriel Lyons Loeb
Poems & Trampolines

Thursday, 31 October 2013
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2

10115 Berlin-Mitte

Gabriel Lyons Loeb is in love with pixelation and other digital artifacts as other artists are with the “Wabisabi” of Super-8, and the illuminating technical flaws of “spaghetti-style” developed small gauge film. For years now, he has used an old mobile phone camera to explore his surroundings and the media. He combines his poetry with video “blow-ups”, either coming from his own footage or from footage appropriated from the internet. One may ask if it is his love for a specific aesthetic, or if it is an artistic-bohemian gesture to use the cheapest material and a look that we usually regard as an internet-related shortcoming. It may be both, however, there may be a third motivation: in his final years at university he studied the effects of endless repetitions of footage he found on youtube and other transformative experiments, mainly by exposing himself. As earlier avant-gardists and pop-Artists such as Bruce Conner and Andy Warhol already found out, repetitions have a changing effect on our cognition and psyche.

His film “you smell good now” the longest film in the presentation may have a similar effect on the mind, even if not by repetition. It is a semi-narrative, semi-documentary style blow-up of 176x144px footage of Ann Arbor in winter. Shot during his partner’s three day visit, the film occurs in his favorite places. The fictive characters explore the town in an adolescent flaneurship sometimes becoming a passage à l’acte. In other parts of the film, they seem to conceive spontaneous lines of poetry from their experiences.

“wintersgarden” is another film shot in winter time, this time all around the place where he has lived for a year in Berlin-Neukölln. This time, it is a fuzzy portrait of “Körner Kiez” in winter colors and the chance-encounters on his walks. It uses another technique we know from analog filmmakers: it is edited in-camera, but then combined with big letters that for the viewer may or may not come together as a winter poem. The program will be completed with a number of poetry related films, some of which the author made on demand as part of a service previously offered through his website.

Gabriel Lyons Loeb will be present for Q&A. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

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http://gabrielloeb.com/

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ANJA DORNIEDEN & JUAN DAVID GONZALEZ MONROY
From Eye to Mouth, from Mouth to Eye

Thursday, 26 September 2013

Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzalez Monroy have dedicated themselves to avant-garde film and work together for several years, strictly with 16mm and Super-8.

At the same time they often address society-related questions in their films, with phenomenas ranging from the relation between hypnosis and psychoanalysis, from the nostalgia about East-German puppet houses, to spatial imaginations connected the term private sphere. As members of the Labor Berlin, they have created their own facilities to develop film, but also produce 35mm copies of some of their films. Working with film for them also means to extend the possibilities of single film projection towards a layering of projections, which becomes a performance by itself, in former days also called Expanded Cinema.

Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzalez Monroy will be present for Q&A. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Thursday, 26 September 2013
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Artist Links:
http://www.ojoboca.com/

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 Directors Lounge Screening:

Chris Henschke

Experimental Capture

Thursday, 29 August 2013

21:00,Z-Bar

Bergstraße 2,10115 Berlin-Mitte

Chris Henschke was artist in residence at the Australian Synchrotron in 2007-2008 and 2010, and his work has been much influenced by the desk to desk collaborations with scientists since then. Lately, he was also invited to the famous CERN in Switzerland, which hit the news for the probable discovery of the Higgs boson. Henschke sees many similarities between the work of artists and scientists, but he also sees a mayor difference in the perception of experimentation: “empirical science is based upon observation and measurement of repeatable experiments; however, in a phenomenological sense every experiment and observation is unique.”

In his work, Henschke on one hand documents his experiences at the Synchrotron, and combines it with visual observations and re-edits the footage in experimental ways. On the other hand, he started to do his own experiments with high voltage with a diversity of objects. Third, and possibly another way of experimentation, he plays electronic music and creates visuals that combine camera images with effects driven by the music.

Chris Henschke will be present for Q&A. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Artist Links:

http://www.topologies.com.au

http://sacrit.blogspot.de/2010/11/chris-henschkes-synchrotron-art.html

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RomanIstanbul
Director: Özgür Akgül
60 min, turkish with english subtitles
German premiere

Wed 14 August 2013,9pm

The film invites to watch and listen to the music of Istanbul.

Romanistanbul provides an insider view onto the current music scene of the megacity on the Bosporus with the example of a number of musicians who fuse traditional turkish music with current tunes, and who are member of the Roma minority in Istanbul: Ismail Tunçbilek, Orhan Sallıel, Göksun Çavdar, Hüsnü Senlendirici, Aytaç Dogan, Hasan Gözetlik, Mustafa Uysal (Kasık Mustafa), Cüneyt Sepetçi and Sercan Çalanlı (Arap).
At the same time a wonderful music film that allows the music to tell its own story, the film also gives the musicians a voice to tell their story and their engagement with music. Their commitment to music, to the tunes of Istanbul is also connected with their identity and the struggle of the Roma to be accepted as a part of the contemporary society. The film thus also mirrors the rapid changes, and current movements of this city between the promises of a global city, an expanding music scene and different cultural identities.
The director will be present for Q&A.

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Film Links:
http://www.romanistanbul.info/
http://film.iksv.org/en/film/287
www.studyokolektif.com

Part of the exhibition „Exploring Istanbul"
http://istanbulausstellung.wordpress.com
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/1-framesExploringIstanbul.html

http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesRomanistanbul.html

A project by
Photocentrum am Wassertor
vhs Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
http://www.fotokurs.info/
with support of
Städtepartnerschaftsverein Kadiköy e. V.

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Directors Lounge Screening:

Monika Rechsteiner
Reality Check

Thursday, 25 July 2013
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

Monika Rechsteiner’s films are metaphors of spaces, which unfold over the time of their viewing.

Firstly, they seem to be long panorama travels over photographic stills. This unfamiliar and possibly uncanny reduction seems to go against expectations of movement and depth in films. However the camera travels further onto different picture planes and different points-of-view. The films present frames and skeleton constructions of buildings, unfinished ruins or uncanny city panoramas, which seems to unfold from the inside. At the same time, the written or spoken discourse leads towards a completely different level. While discussing art and the production of art, or the unfolding ticker-news about Fukushima in 2011, we still are lead to a self-reflection of our perceptions. The realistically recorded and presented spaces thus turn into metaphors, into mental constructions. The program presents more well-known pieces such as „To Be Continued“ (about Tokyo-Fukushima) and „Wie von Selbst“ (As If By Itself), but also less known short works that originated in Super-8 and digital video.

Artist Links:

http://www.echtzeitverdichtung.org

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Txema Novelo
Visions from Mexican Underground

Thursday, 27 June 2013
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

Txema, artist from Mexico who just finished his Emare Residency in Bourges will present his newest video „Still Movie“, and a selection of his works related to Vale Vergas Discos, his music label involved with Mexican underground music.

Txema usually works with 16mm or super-8 and each of his films is related to a music piece starring the musicians. However, unlike commisioned „music videos“, these films show the artist’s visions for the tunes, the videos taking up a life and a story for themselves, and mixing urban life, images of nature and mythology. „Still Movie“ will be presented for the first time in Germany, as work-in-progress with 4 of 5 planned chapters of tribute to Walter Schmidt a largely influential first generation Mexican punk musician. Txema Novelo: ‘I share the same church as Dan Graham: „Rock’n Roll is my religion“’

The artist will be available for Q&A.

Artist Links:
http://www.valevergasdiscos.com/

http://yau.com.mx/artists/txema-novelo

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Directors Lounge Screening:

Lior Shamriz
Beyond Love and Other Things to Do

Thursday, 30 May 2013
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Berlin Premiere of „Beyond Love and Companionship“ and program of shorts. Lior Shamriz, who just premiered his new film at Oberhausen presents a selection of works from 8 years of filmmaking in Berlin and Israel together with his newest film.

Artist Links:
http://www.spektakulativ.com

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UDON by Usaginingen from the album “JAPANDORF” by Klaus Dinger + JAPANDORF

UDON by Usaginingen from the album “JAPANDORF” by Klaus Dinger + JAPANDORF

How Beautiful Japanese Morning Is by Yuichi Suita

黒いロングスカートの女 (Black Long-Skirt) by Hoji Tsuchiya

“CODEX DOLOR, 563 Aspects of Suffering, Episodes 34, 371 & 92 Presented in Part” by Stephen Dirkes

A Forest Within A Forest by Stefan Larsson

Bonobo No Souzo by Akinori Okada

Short Cuts To Japan – Black Box Kino im Filmmuseum, Saturday
May 25

日本デー!! Directors Lounge once again brings the Far East west, taking a diverse stack of short experimental films from its international trove in Berlin and making its way over to Düsseldorf’s annual German-Japanese festival known as Japan Day. Every manner of Japan will fill the screen at the Black Box Kino in the Filmmuseum in a presentation that continues DL’s vital and well-attended annual contribution to the event. Honourable Japanophile is most humbly invited to witness films from, about and inspired by Land of the Rising Sun. Irasshaimase, いらっしゃいませ!!

with short films by

Maeda Shinjiro, Yuichi Suita, Uemine Satoshi, Arikawa Shigeo, Hoji Tsuchiya, Akinori Okada, Taro Yasuno, Matron, Stephen Dirkes, Stefan Larsson, Usaginingen, Jeremy Rubier and Kimura Noriyuki

Kimura Noriyuki  Our Place 2011 5 min

Jeremy Rubier 岐路 ((CrossRoads) 2009 20 min

Shinjiro Maeda  ITO-kun 2011 5 min

Yuichi Suita How Beautiful Japanese Morning Is 2012 15 min

Uemine Satoshi Monju  2011 5 min

Arikawa Shigeo G・I 2011 5 min

Hoji Tsuchiya  黒いロングスカートの女 (Black long skirt) 2010 8 min 57s

Akinori Okada bonobo no souzo 2012 3 min 13s

Taro Yasuno  A Very Merry Unbirthday to you! 2011 5 min

Matron MONUMENT 3  2011 5 min

Stephen Dirkes Codex Dolor 2012 2 min

Stefan Larsson  A Forest Within A Forest 2010 05 min10s

Usaginingen UDON from the album “JAPANDORF” by Klaus Dinger + JAPANDORF* 2013 5min 42s

in attendance of Miki Yui*
curated and presented by Julia Murakami and André Werner

Black Box Kino im Filmmuseum‎
Schulstr. 4, 40213 Duesseldorf | map
May 25, 2013, 8 pm

Special thanks to:

VJ Chuu, Miki Yui, Kim Collmer, Alexei Dmitriev, Youki Hirakawa, Kenton Turk, Karl Neubert, Team Black Box / Filmmuseum and many others! 

DL is chaos in progress, everything is subject to change.

Directors Lounge Screening:

Gabriele Stellbaum
My over-groomed sense of entitlement

Thursday, 25 April 2013
21:00 Uhr
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

A woman, the sole character in the scene and obviously in some dependent employment stops to act according to the role expected of her as employe. With unblinking eyes she seems to follow a different agenda, or maybe a “vision”. She seems to act strange or unreasonable, however it could be the opposite, that all of her surroundings appear to be unreasonable to her. “I would prefer not to…” is her response when asked directly (Bartleby) This brief outline of “Bartleby” a video adaptation of the novel of Herman Melville basically matches several of Gabriele Stellbaum’s more recent works. Another response of the female main character is: “What you call a violation has been an act of disgust” (Summer Frost). The films are set in very different locations or studio sets. The camera follows her almost all the time, it is very rarely allowed to detach from her, and thus transmits a claustrophobic feeling, already. The picture is clear, pristine and of that unforgiving sharpness of high definition video realism, and still there is a sense of surrealism similar to some of Lars von Trier’s Dogma films (and “Dogville”). According to the artist it is all based on images, she starts a project with a mental image she has, and searches or builds the sets she is looking for: an office space that totally matches the color of her printed cotton dress (Bartleby); a public indoor pool and all the adjacent facility spaces connected with it (Friday, the 13th); a seemingly endless parking garage that functions as a spiral-shaped maze (Honest Lies); or a flat, snow covered winter landscape used as intermitted images.

Gabriele Stellbaum will be present for Q&A. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

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Artist Links:

http://stellbaum.wordpress.com/

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/becker/Gabriele-Stellbaum8-27-10.asp

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