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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Directors Lounge Screening:

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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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

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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/

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

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

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Detailed Program Infos:
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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

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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/

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 Directors Lounge Screening:

Rigoletti
Live Punkt Null
Video, Performance

Thursday, 30 August 2012
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Rigoletti Live Punkt Null – Live Point Zero
LIVE at DIRECTORS LOUNGE

This evening with Rigoletti alias Marion Pfaus will be a mixture of screening and performance. Rigoletti, who claims to have been granted the titel “the most unknown pop-star”, has made quite a name for herself. With her lively, busting ways, she has gained presence on a multitude of platforms and media.

To call her filmmaker would not be the right term, Rigoletti “makes videos”. She both addresses the media itself – “16:9 Full HD” is an ironical and media-political discussion of the “new media” high definition video, which uses the form of educational film – and she addresses themes ranging from mundane to politically charged topics such as the founding of “Humboldt 21”, an association she is promoting. “Humboldt 21” shall already be concerned with the planing and preparation of the demolition and remediation of the not yet built remake of the “Berlin City Castle” in the center of Berlin, which will be called “Humboldt Forum”. As experience teaches, buildings on this site would not last for very long, she argues, and remediations could be complicated and expensive, as the demolition of the “Palast der Republik”, the former GDR parliament building on this very site, has shown. It is thus a due task to have an early start with planing the demolition of the coming remake of the city castle. Such ironic interventions in public themes, seemingly trivial or stuck in concealed oppositions (like the castle discussion), are typical for Marion Pfaus. She such subversively questions the doxa, the prevailing opinion (not to be mistaken with common sense). Presented with dry humor and blazing dilettantism, the artist also makes clear her objectives are her serious concerns.

The artist, who studied media design, also works and publishes in other media. In collaboration with her colleague Felicia Zeller, she published online projects such as http://www.landessexklinik.de (State Sex Hospital) and the CD-ROM “Mut der Ahnungslosen” (Courage of the Ignorant). In 2006 her novel “Aus den Memoiren ein Verblühenden” (Memoirs of an Early Withering Flower) is published as book + CD.

Parts of her video work will be shown, the artist will perform live her concept of “Fremdbloggen” (third party blogging), and she will give a performance about the founding of the association “Humboldt 21” including the plans for the remediation of Humboldt Forum.

Artist Links:

http://www.rigoletti.de

http://www.humboldt21.de

http://www.wahl11.de

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Caroline Koebel
Drift and Dwell: Film and Video

Directors Lounge Monthly Screening

Thursday, 26 July 2012

21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Caroline Koebel works with a broad range of media and film expressions, bringing together many influences, super-8 experiences, punk, Vaudeville, the vivid Californian avant-garde scene around Craig Baldwin and his Other Cinema screenings, and conceptual references to Valie Export. If trying to trace back the film tradition she is drawing on, it would possibly be the subversive media practice that Amos Vogel started with Cinema 16 in New York from 1947 to 1963, a practice that was most interested in the discourse of different fields of cinema.

Caroline Koebel uses a number of styles and tries to create a dialog between analog and digital, handprocessed found footage meets digital camera and editing, political involvement comes together with poetic film. The program comprises earlier and new work of the artist, and different themes and styles, in the range from poetic film to experimental essay. Caroline Koebel, who is also a critical film writer, curator and an educator at Transart Institute will be present for questions and answers.

Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

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Artist link:

http://www.carolinekoebel.com