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

Full program details:

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

Artist Links:

http://stellbaum.wordpress.com/

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

Links:

Directors Lounge

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Z-Bar

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FORMING MOTION presented by Kim Collmer

part of Directors Lounge at the Filmmuseum Duesseldorf, April 20th, 8:30pm

Kim Collmer delivers some of her absolute favorites for a special edition of animations and videos from her Directors Lounge screenings.
How to describe the work? It’s a real mix! Humorous yet uncomfortable, light but heavy, slick though messy. The main overriding theme – genuine artistic expression.
Some of the artists showing include: Tobias Anderson, Buckius & Manos, John N. Cambell, Jennifer Hope Davy, Janet Galore, Cecilia Lundquist, Johannes Nyholm, Ho Yoel Ryu, Meredith Root and more!

Buckius & Manos, 101 Ways to Humanize Technology, 2007, 03:11

Meredith Root, Anxiety Invention, 2006, 03:00 
Hei Cheng and Mike Chan, Board, 2005, 01:00
Janet Galore, Party Party Chisai-san, 2006, 01:30
Ho-Yeol Ryu, Ampel,2002, 01:30
 
Eric Dyer, Copenhagen Cycles, 2005, 06:35
Ho-Yeol Ryu, Autobahn, 2002, 01:30
Kim Collmer, Berlin Skin, 2007, 04:00
Cecilia Lundqvist, Making Pancakes, 2005, 04:58
Johannes Nyholm, The Tale of Little Puppetboy, 2005, 04:20
David Shrigley, Chris Sheperd, Who I Am And What I Want, 2006, 07:20
Ho-Yeol Ryu, Billards, 2002, 01:30 min
J Tobias Anderson, Whereto I Go, 2005, 04:46 
Bridget Walker, One Verse, No Chorus, 2007, 05:32
John N. Campbell, Li: The Patterns of Nature, 2007, 09:07 
Jennifer Hope Davy, It’s Your Timing, 2013, 01:00
location: Black Box, Filmmuseum Duesseldorf, Schulstraße 4, 40213 Duesseldorf
pictured: still from Who I Am And What I Want by David Shrigley, Chris Sheperd

Directors Lounge Screening:

Anna Okrasko
video works and selected films

Thursday, 28 March 2013
21:00 Uhr
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Anna Okrasko confronts modern Dutch urban environments with ephemeral everyday stories. In Sobota/Saturday/Zaterdag, the artist worked with a group of young Polish immigrants in Rotterdam, making them act for the camera instead of interviewing them. Interviewing them, according to Okrasko, would just have made them respond to the bad public image Polish workers have in the eyes of Dutch people. Rather, she wanted to show the way they live and the urban environment they live in. Using Polish documentary films from the late 50’s as an inspiration, she has them explore the city, playing games, just killing time and finally gathering at their home. As these early post-war documentaries are the artist’s favorite films, some scenes of Sobota/Saturday/Zaterdag are even quotes from those films, making it even more interesting to present them together. Another part of the program will be a glimpse into Untitled (Ik kijk naar de film) a work-in-progress about a quarter in Utrecht, “Kanaleneiland”. This quarter was part of a massive urban expansion plan of the city of Utrecht in the 60’s but soon after became almost exclusively occupied by emigrants, it used to be seen as a no-go area for people of Dutch origin, however nowadays it is under rapid change, hosting many students, artists and an artist residency program. Though not finished, Anna Okrasko shows stunning images from that area and the beginning of a story of “a tramp” looking for a place to stay.

Anna Okrasko, polish artist who lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands currently works as an artist in residence at Programme ABA (Air Berlin Alexanderplatz) with Mondriaan Fonds grant. Since she came to Holland, she became more and more interested in the issue of contemporary Polish immigration in the Netherlands.

Especially with the combination of some films from the past, Anna Okrasko not only addresses the issue of contemporary labor migration inside the EU, but the question how the contemporary society on one hand sells the dream of freedom via consumer products, and on the other seems to limit growth by xenophobia and the costs for education. It may be interesting to take Okrasko’s ideas further and compare the limits, chances and goals for young Europeans in the societies of the 50’s and today.
Anna Okrasko will be available for Q&A.
Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr.

Artist Links:
http://www.okrasko.blogspot.de
http://airberlinalexanderplatz.de/
http://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/

Links:
http://www.directorslounge.net
http://www.richfilm.de
http://www.z-bar.de

More Detailled Program Infos:
http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesOkrasko.html

interventions, transforming public space at platoon kunsthalle
Monday, 18 March 2013, 8pm

For those who missed the program III of Urban Research at The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge , here is another chance at another fine location.

more and more artists chose to create art in public space, use it as a public stage, or try to actively change it. an “invisible performance”, invisible, because it has not been publicly announced, may not physically change a place, however it may change the ideas of how to use public space in general.

Filipe Afonso’s film Televisao is a (secret) filming of private spaces, where nothing more happens than the nightly projection of a television screen, and he questions the differences between public and private sphere. Laura Kissel records a specific situation. “Window Cleaning” in Shanghai shows two facade-cleaners, who become public performers with their high-up activities, but also possible unwanted witnesses of private scenes. Kika Nicolela confronts people in places where usually no cameras are allowed, and where instead surveillance cameras always record.
Gabrielle de Bayon, Signe Theill and Nuno Escudeiro use urban spaces for their performances changing the concept of common uses of public space. Katze und Krieg actively engage with their surrounding. Here, it is not the authorities, interfering, but the crowd, not tolerating a slow-down in the public rush. And it is again, Vladimir Turner together with Vojtech Fröhlich and other artists, who hijack commercial billboards, turning them into other, more public use.

Urban Research – Interventions, Transforming Public Space
Directors Lounge at Kunsthalle Platoon
Monday, 18 March 2013 8pm

Kunsthalle Platoon Berlin
Schönhauser Allee 9
10119 Berlin . Germany
U2 Senefelder Platz.

Entrance: 5 Euro

Urban Research is a film and video program curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr for Directors Lounge 2013.

Programme:
Filipe Afonso (PT): Televisao (2012)

Kika Nicolela (BR): Don’t! (2010)

Philipp Hartmann (DE/AR): Entre despacio y por favor no haga ruido! (2012)

Nuno Escudeiro (PT): Pass by… (2011)

Kollektiv Graukarte (AT): Transforming a Non-Place (2011)

Eduardo Srur (BR): Bandit Bull (2010)

AKIZ (DE): Painting Reality (2010)

Laura Kissel (US): Window Cleaning in Shanghai (2011)

Signe Theill (DE): The new Middle (2010)

Gabrielle Le Bayon (FR): Image of a City (2011)

Julia Dick und Katharina Sandner katze und krieg (DE): Die Abenteuer
von Sissi und Sissi (2012)

Vladimir Turner (CZ): Osviceni / Enlightenment (2012)

Jan Simanek, Vladimir Turner, Vojtech Frohlich, Ondrej Mlady (CZ):

Merry-Go-Round (2011)
photo: AKIZ, Painting Reality (2010)

Directors Lounge Screening:

Guillaume Cailleau
Bolex, Loves and Other Measures
16mm and Live Super-8 Performance

Thursday, 29 November 2012
9:00 pm
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Guillaume Cailleau bridges conceptual working methods with playful references to the avant-garde. This playful mix of forms, expanded cinema, experiments with human perception, and poetic compositions makes the viewing experience very enjoyable for its richness. His sincerity, combined with a joyful wink  of the artist’s eye add to this impression. Explorations – or games – with color separation, the basics of color photography, are as much part his artistic arsenal as the lyric beauty of rich black and white contrast of high-con film combined associatively on an optical printer.
The artist will perform live, and will be available for Q&A.

Artist Links:
http://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-1910-guillaume-cailleau

Links:
http://www.directorslounge.net
http://www.richfilm.de
http://www.z-bar.de

Detailed Program Infos:
http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesGCailleau.html

La Magique Noire: Movie Night at Platoon Kunsthalle 

Monday Nov. 19th 8pm

This will be the first of an ongoing row of collaborations with Platoon Kunsthalle. We will spice up the Movie Nights with assorted shorts from our archive.

This Movie Night combines  Bar25: Days out of Time by Britta Mischer, Nana Yuriko with La Magique Noire by Aloura M. Charles.

La Magique Noire
A tourist in 1930’s Paris wanders into La Magique Noire Café and finds himself in the company of a mysterious Mulatto woman. As they share absinthe, the tourist soon realizes things in this magical bar are not as they seem!
Starring Adam Johnson, Phyllis Johnson and Lia Johnson
Official Selection: Mill Valley Film Festival, Palm Springs Film Festival, Coney Island Film Festival

Bar25
worlds away from society’s conventions and norms, Bar25 became the melting pot from which a truly Berlin culture emerged. fhe film follows the creators of Bar25, four young individuals whose freewheeling way of life, of music, individuality and never ending energy transforms a riverside wasteland into a fantasy land by the river Spree. but if the community’s life appears fulfilling from the outside, living it day after day isn’t easy. Bar 25 is a wonderland-night-and-day-club in Berlin, an enchanted adventure playground where adults become children again.

the film investigates the ambivalence of the community, of these so-called ‘business hippies’, questioning whether their form of living is valuable and authentic or if their hedonistic never-ending parties are a mere form of escapism.

kunsthalle/berlin
Schoenhauser allee 9
10119 berlin . Germany

U2 to Senefelder Platz, walk south (2min)

U2, M8, Bus 142 to Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, walk north (2min)

U8 to Rosenthaler Platz, walk east (6min)

Directors Lounge Screening:

Thorsten Fleisch
Berlin Premiere
Hex Suffice Cache Ten

A surreal escape of a disintegrating mind into neon-lit nightmares from a discarded future.

plus 16mm Filmprogramm
Selected from his private Educational Film Archive

Thursday, 1 November 2012
21:00 Uhr
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Hex Suffice Cache Ten
Produced by Thorsten Fleischcinematography, Script & Music by Thorsten Fleisch

Starring Lise Ivanouw, Daniel Scheimberg, Timo Fleisch and Thorsten Fleisch
Length: 12:42 minutes / Format: HD / Year: 2012

Synopsis:
A surreal escape of a disintegrating mind into neon-lit nightmares from a discarded future. Suddenly interferences from sub-particle proliferation occur within the protagonist’s body, a transformation can’t be avoided.
This exploration of cinematic space within an implosion of cerebral space is a daring tale of aliens, experiments on humans, video games and mutation. It is showering the unsuspecting viewer in handmade visual and aural stimuli from planet Fleisch.

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

Links:
http://www.directorslounge.net
http://www.richfilm.de
http://www.z-bar.de

More detailed program infos:
http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesThorstenHex.html

Directors Lounge Screening:

Phlipp Hartmann |  f.k.flumen
Von der Notwendigkeit dessen
Video
With guest Jan Eichberg

Thursday, 27 September 2012
21:00 Uhr
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Von der Notwendigkeit dessen (whereby according to necessity)
Philipp Hartmann, whose short film comedies about Karlsruhe called “Der Anner” (“the other, there” in Southern Dialect) have been audience favorites on festivals, also works in very different styles with film, preferably with Super-8, and with much more subtle humor. Tracking the traces of Alexander Humboldt or his grandfather in Latin America, reflecting on the physical-poetical conditions of condensation trails in the sky, or recording the last remnants of an old lady who passed away, he always combines documentary with fictional approaches in such subversive, subtle ways that the viewer at the same time may be following the “movies of his own mind” or his own associations while watching these films. In addition, Philipp Hartmann will present Jan Eichberg as guest artist in the program, who creates short narratives in similar aesthetic ways. Both artists with be present and available for Q&A.

Artist Links:
http://flumenfilm.de
Jan Eichberg
http://www.elephantterrible.com/en/jan-eichberg/

Links:
http://www.directorslounge.net
http://www.richfilm.de
http://www.z-bar.de