Directors Lounge Screening:

Sandra Becker 01
Bon Fim
Thursday, 30 April 2015
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

The Berlin artist Sandra Becker 01 works mainly with video, in a diversity of ways. Even though she also created feature length films, her interest lies in the more open form of short and very short clips. Her videos, shot and edited by herself, therefore are rather material for installations, video programs or, more recently, digital applications. Movements and changes of place are the resources for her recordings, scenes from every day life, which also like to be seen as metaphorical, but which are rarely merged into solid narratives. The artist, who often collaborates with other artists and who is one of the supervisors of the video studio of the Berlin Artist Association, will present a number of shorts and very short works together with some extracts of long formats. One focus of the works presented will be new shorts from her recent stay at Porto Alegre, Brazil. And there will be space for discussion.

Artist Link:
http://sandrabecker01.de

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Directors Lounge Screening:

Jan Soldat
Vom Rande her

Thursday, 26 February 2015
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Jan Soldat
Peripheral Vision
Vom Rande her

In his films, Jan Soldat portraits people whose private life defer from the social norm. The practice of sadomasochism, or love to animals does not find understanding by many, and thus these persons have been confronted with social marginalization. Watching the films of Jan Soldat may be even more disturbing, because he does not work with theater-like enactments as it is known from many trendy productions about the SM scene. Jan Soldat meets his leading characters in their private life. Instead of creating the illusion of sexual phantasies or fulfilled desires, the filmmaker is interested in the ordinary routines of daily life. And here, he creates exceptional captivating pictures, as he meets these men at eye level and gives them space to express themselves, making them true protagonists. And, the ways he frames and later on edits the scenes with much love to those details, he creates the attention that is needed to listen to the stories told and depicted in front of the camera.

(German Text)
Jan Soldat nähert sich in seinen Filmen Menschen, deren Privatleben von der sozialen Norm abweicht. Gelebter Sadomasochismus oder Liebe zu Tiere fällt bei vielen Menschen auf Ablehnung und führt entsprechend zu gesellschaftlicher Ausgrenzung. Verstörender noch können die Filme sein, weil Jan Soldat nicht auf theaterhafte Inszenierungen setzt, wie wir sie als bekannte „Szenebilder“ kennen, sondern den Menschen in ihrem Alltag begegnet, und gar nicht versucht, Begierde oder sexuelle Phantasien in Szene zu setzen. Viel eher interessiert ihn die Begegnung mit den Menschen. Hier leistet der Filmemacher außerordentliches, indem er den Menschen auf Augenhöhe begegnet und ihnen nicht nur Raum gibt, sich auszudrücken. Sondern auch indem er in der Inszenierung mit der Kamera und später im Schnitt mit Liebe zum Detail ihnen mit jener Aufmerksamkeit begegnet, die es benötigt, um sie als „Protagonisten“ selbst sprechen zu lassen.

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The artist will be available for Q&A. German with English subtitles.
Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Programm:
Zucht und Ordnung ⁄ Law and Order 2012 D 8:42 min
Geliebt ⁄ Be Loved 2010 D 15:45 min**
Der Unfertige ⁄ The Incomplete 2013 D 47:53 min

Artist Links:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Soldat
http://www.filmuniversitaet.de/de/filmuniversitaet/alumni/alumni/regie/tma/detail/7032.html

Film Links:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Der-Unfertige-The-Incomplete/170591753144653
https://www.facebook.com/pages/ZUCHT-und-ORDNUNG-LAW-and-ORDER/1428891620657840?fref=ts
http://www.filmuniversitaet.de/de/filmeprojekte/filme/detail/geliebt/0.html
**GELIEBT ist eine Produktion der Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
www.filmuniversitaet.de – distribution@hff-potsdam.de

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Directors Lounge Screening:

Katya Craftsova
Anthropological Travel Notes

Thursday, 29 Januar 2015
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Katya Craftsova
Katya, artist from Russia, currently works as an artist-in-residency at ZKU Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik. Her work is closely connected with a number of residencies and art projects she created in very different countries, such as Norway, Tanzania, Italy and India. Always trying to connect with local people, the artist is always interested in working with the stories the people tell her. With those stories she uses very different genres, like interview, paper-cut animation or straight documentary. And in the same way of personal narration, she also tells about the place her mother lives: Sebastopol.

The artist will be available for Q&A, moderated by Cordula Gdaniec. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr.

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

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Urban Research – Istanbul Films

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

Istanbul has drawn a lot of attention in Germany, lately. It has become a city fashionable not only for visits, but also for projects in architecture and art. The history of the past 60 years has been one of success. An incredible growth from around 1 million to estimated over 14 million inhabitants has been handled without the emergence of slums and widespread poverty combined with criminality as many other mega cities in the world have. The economic boom of the last 2 decades, based on a moderate modernization in the past and a growing middle-class, has also created a demand for democratic renewal on one hand. On the other hand, a new class of powerful rich in combination with a globalized monetary-economy try to further accelerate economic growth in the city, which causes a lot of controversies and a rising number of people possibly loosing the battle for urban renewal.
The films in this program show glimpses of different developments in the mesh of urban renewal. All of them combine artistic observations with a large sympathy to the people portrayed and places shown.

artizinconnu TR
The City and The Memory – Have you seen Sulukule? 08:40 2009
Sulukule is a former Romani area in Turkey which has been taken down by the government. Its inhabitants have been removed to Tasoluk, 45 km away.

Bingöl Elmas TR
Hey Neighbor! 44:45 2014 WP
One of the results of the urban transformation in Istanbul is the abrupt conversion of old neighborhoods into luxurious estates. The communities that have no relations with each other happen to find themselves side by side. Ultra-wealth and poverty have became neighbors. The film investigates both sides and the impossibility of relations.

Sirin Bahar Demirel TR
Living with Leviathan 11:00 2013
Through a personal story about the nationwide uprising in Turkey in summer 2013, the “Occupy Gezi” movement, this movie tries to show how the Turkish youth says “No!” by reclaiming the city against an over-reacting government and brutal police force.

Artist’s Links:
artizinconnu
Bingöl Elmas
Sirin Bahar Demirel

Press Links:
Z-Bar – http://www.z-bar.de/
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Directors Lounge at the PCFS – Post Colonial Flagship Store, Quartier 21, Vienna.

The “Post Colonial Flagship Store (PCFS)” exhibition project (concept: Sven Kalden and Georg Klein) showcases artworks camouflaged as consumer goods, and engages with a new, surreptitious form of colonialism.

The PCFS opened at quartier 21, Vienna’s center for contemporary “applied art” in the MuseumsQuartier.

We participate, thanks to the generous support of the artist in residence program of  quartier 21,  with a row of three screenings, Greeting cards from reality. 

Part III “Values” presented by André Werner, will be screened November 18th. 7:30pm, free admission.

Alan Aranha and Bharat Mirle IN Junction 01:41 2012

Max Hattler DE Collision 2:30 2005

KRONCK (aka Maximilian Gerlach & Jessica Benzing) DE Thank You Third World #1 1 min 2009

Dalia Huerta Cano  MX  ¿Olvida usted algo?  27:47  2012

KRONCK (aka Maximilian Gerlach & Jessica Benzing) DE Thank You Third World #2 1 min 2009

Barbara Marheineke DE Green Gold 13:10 2012,
courtesy aug&ohr medien

KRONCK (aka Maximilian Gerlach & Jessica Benzing) DE Thank You Third World #3 1 min 2009

Mihai Grecu  FR  We’ll Become Oil  8 min  2011

ZhenChen Liu CN Under Construction 10 min, DV, 2007

Elías León Siminiani ES The Commute 12min 30s 2009

Sirin Bahar Demirel TR Living with Leviathan 11:00 2013

Zaoli Zhong CN A Dangerous Question 05:35 2012

Tokomburu / Ion Papaspyrou and Zisis Kokkinidis GR I Am Not Here Now 09:30 2013

Hussen Ibraheem LB Typo 07:00 2013

TRT ca. 112 min

pictured:
Zaoli Zhong CN A Dangerous Question 05:35 2012 (top)
Mihai Grecu  FR  We’ll Become Oil  8 min  2011

Directors Lounge at the PCFS – Post Colonial Flagship Store, Quartier 21, Vienna.

The “Post Colonial Flagship Store (PCFS)” exhibition project (concept: Sven Kalden and Georg Klein) showcases artworks camouflaged as consumer goods, and engages with a new, surreptitious form of colonialism.

The PCFS opened at quartier 21, Vienna’s center for contemporary “applied art” in the MuseumsQuartier.

We participate with a row of three screenings, Greeting cards from reality. 

Part II “The Kids” presented by André Werner, will be screened November 4th. 7:30pm, free admission.

Habib Sadaat AF Kite of Wishes 13.27 2012

Ali Asgari IR Barbie 12:30 2012

Jimmy Hendrickx  BE Semalu 19:37 2013

Romain Gavras FR Stress 6 min 48s 2008 Music: Justice

Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera ES A Better Place 04:40 2013

David Munoz ES A Proposito de Ndugu / About Ndugu 16:00 2013

Ines Enciso ES Mofetas/Skunks 10 min 2008

Sahim Omar Kalifa BE/AE/IQ Baghdad Messi 16:00 2013

TRT 100 min

Part III “Values” presented by André Werner, will be screened November 18th. 7:30pm, free admission.

still taken from: Sahim Omar Kalifa BE/AE/IQ Baghdad Messi 16:00 2013

photo: Martin Duschner, Zollverein projection: Andre Werner, Dream Of The Japanese Beauty

Daria Korol BY touch. 02:40 2013

Alexander Heringer DE Fortune Faded 03:11 2012 / aug&ohr medien

Michael Fleming NL Avalanche 11:00 2013

Directors Lounge at the

Once again, you can catch us at the Zeche Zollverein at Contemporary Art Ruhr, 24 – 26 October 2014. As usual, you’ll find the Directors Lounge booth and the Auditorium with the C.A.R. Video Lounge in the SANAA building right behind the entrance. Stop by, say hello and take in our delectable film selection … See you at C.A.R.!
Participating artists (booth): Sandra Becker 01, Roger Deutsch, Michael Fleming, Carola Göllner, Julia Murakami, Ken Paul Rosenthal, Alan Smithee, André Werner

Directors Lounge at the C.A.R Video Lounge (auditorium) with
films by Philipp Artus*, Víctor Ballesteros, Sam Bell,Yanina Boldyreva and Alexander Isaenko, Chiara Caterina, Aude Danset and Carlos De Carvalho, Pedro Ferreira, Michael Fleming, Gerard Freixes Ribera, Mário Gajo de Carvalho, Max Hattler, Alexander Heringer*, Volker Heymann*, Masanobu Hiraoka, Roger Deutsch, Stephan Hilpert and Julia Murakami, Martha Jurksaitis, Daria Korol, Maria Magnusson, Olga Palomäki, Arthur Patching, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Javier Pernas, Stuart Pound, Diego Ramirez, Leyla Rodriguez and Cristian Straub, Jean-Michel Rolland, Ken Paul Rosenthal, Mauricio Sanhueza, Liga Steda, Walter Ungerer, Rhayne Vermette, Josh Weissbach, Aaron Zeghers / *aug&ohr medien

The complete program

Diego Ramirez AU Radish 02:27 2013
Mauricio Sanhueza PE Paroniria 06:37 2013
Sam Bell GB Promises 05:00 2013
Pedro Ferreira PT Home Sequences #1-4 13:00 2012/-13
Yanina Boldyreva and Alexander Isaenko UA/RU Duotone 07:00 2012
Volker Heymann* DE Drei Experten Drehen Auf 03:52 2013
Alexander Heringer* DE Fortune Faded 03:11 2012
Philipp Artus* DE Snail Trail 03:00 2012
Aaron Zeghers CA Living on the Edge 03:20 2013
Ken Paul Rosenthal US In Light, In! 12:00 2013
Roger Deutsch US Scherzo 05:00 2014
Josh Weissbach US Model Fifty-One Fifty-Six 11:02 2013
Mário Gajo de Carvalho PT The Place That Remains Deeply Unchanged Before My Random Passage Or One Way To See Ourselves Within The Out Of Field 03:13 2014
Rhayne Vermette CA Black Rectangle 01:30 2013
Walter Ungerer US ICI 07:32 2013
Leyla Rodriguez and Cristian Straub DE Isle Of Lox “Senses Suspended” 04:31 2013
Chiara Caterina IT Avant La Nuit 02:48 2013
Jean-Gabriel Périot FR The Day Has Conquered The Night 28:00 2013
Daria Korol BY touch. 02:40 2013
Max Hattler DE X 06:00 2012
Olga Palomäki FI Parallel Landscape 04:48 2013
Víctor Ballesteros CA VVOOLLVVOO 00:30 2013
Jean-Michel Rolland FR First Person Shooter 04:43 2012
Maria Magnusson SE Solarizaton 04:54 2013
Julia Murakami and Stephan Hilpert DE Mr. Blackburn 0:40 2014
music by Darius Greene US
Gerard Freixes Ribera ES The Parting Dance 03:00 2013
Martha Jurksaitis GB Bad Blood 02:43 2013
Stuart Pound GB All That Passed 01:00 2013
Javier Pernas AR/ES Piel/Skin 06:53 2013
Liga Steda GB Block 02:23 2013
Michael Fleming NL Avalanche 11:00 2013
Masanobu Hiraoka JP Land 03:41 2013
Aude Danset and Carlos De Carvalho Fr Premier Automne 10:30 2013
Arthur Patching GB Il Ritorno 04:24 2012

contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.) 2014 – the innovative art fair

Zollverein World Heritage Site
Gelsenkirchener Strasse 181
45309 Essen

Official Opening:
Friday, October 24, 8 pm

VIP-Preview:
Friday, October 24, 6 pm

Public fair hours:
Saturday, October 25, 12 – 8 pm
Sunday, October 26, 11 – 7 pm

Entrance fee at the art fair per day:
12,- € / 10,-€

Guided Tours:
Frank Schablewski,
+49 (0) 211 795 21 12 & +49 (0) 178 292 33 98

www.contemporaryartruhr.de

Greeting cards from reality at the PCFS – Post Colonial Flagship Store.

The “Post Colonial Flagship Store (PCFS)” exhibition project (concept: Sven Kalden and Georg Klein) showcases artworks camouflaged as consumer goods, and engages with a new, surreptitious form of colonialism.

The PCFS just opened at quartier 21, Vienna’s center for contemporary “applied art” in the MuseumsQuartier.

European and international artists reference the colonial background of their respective countries and its impact on contemporary life. Dependence, opportunities, hopes, and issues of identity are addressed, as are global investment strategies and the migration of labour.

We participate with a row of three screenings, Greeting cards from reality. 

Part I “Wanderers between the world” presented by Joachim Seinfeld, will be screened October 10th. 7:30pm, free admission.

Daniel Nicolae Djamo RO Progress Is A Beautiful Thing 04:46 2013

Fernando Jose Pereira PT News of Desolation 12:33 2013

Avi Dabach IL Excavation 3045/2013 06:00 2013

Hala Georges GB/SY From Rochester With Love 09:08 2013

Rob Brown GB Echoes 11min 38s 2009

Cristine Brache US Ad for Self-Immolation 03:23 2013

Victor Orozco Ramirez MX Reality 2.0 11:00 2012

Maximilian Westphal DE The New Killing Fields 13:00 2004-2009

Masahiro Sugano KH Why I Write  07:33 2011 Performance by Kosal Khiev

Irina Birger NL Irina Birger Thinks Drawing Is Important 15:13 2010

Schneider Robson S.B.B. Swiss Bolly Bahn 07:00

curated by André Werner and Joachim Seinfeld

quartier21 is a support structure that offers space and support to ca. 50 cultural initiatives within the MuseumsQuartier Wien. It is an integral part of the overall concept of the MuseumsQuartier.

The various groups represented here have transformed the quartier21 into Vienna’s center for contemporary “applied art.” The emphasis is on digital culture, media art, conceptual art, sound art and game culture, street art, design, photography, literature, and fashion.

Part II “The Kids” presented by André Werner, will be screened November 4th. 7:30pm, free admission.

Part III “Values” presented by André Werner, will be screened November 18th. 7:30pm, free admission.

Directors Lounge Screening:

Doris Schmid
projektionen

Thursday, 25 September 2014
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

The artist Doris Schmid, who lives in Berlin, works in very subtle ways with the meaning of images, and against it. She uses the instance of implied narratives, or better saying the seduction of narration as an opportunity to enhance other image qualities such as perceptions of time, augmented spacial illusions, the vanishing of the image, or its apparition. Schmid for this purpose uses layering of video images, and then condenses them by a meticulous editing process.

Layers bring different or similar images together and create a multi-dimensional image composition. Initially however, the layers are being created by projecting on 3-dimensional surfaces, instead of digital compositing. These surfaces may be hand-made cut-outs that look like drawings from stills, or they may be moving surfaces, projections from a car or a train onto houses; but they are always closely related to the moving image in some ways. The final videos seem to have an analogue and performative quality, and they thus unsettle the common image perceptions of film.

The artist will be available for Q&A. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr.

Artist Links:
http://www.dorisschmid.net/

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It might be only a tiny taste of what we get up to, the thinnest wedge of the whole juicy Directors Lounge melon, but if you’re swirling around the Berliner Liste contemporary art fair at Postbahnhof any time between now and Sunday (when the curtain drops), make a point of swinging by DL’s booth (G1.34 on the upper floor) for a handful of hypnotizing video moments culled from our store of films and film-ettes. Turkish media-art darling Erdal Inci’s mesmerizing GIFs, first screened publicly in Germany at [DLX]* this year and already drawing attention worldwide, will be there, as well as Korean, Greek, Japanese and Finnish picks (Hye Young Kim, Hara Katsiki, Shinkan Tamaki, Maria Björklund) plus visual conundrums and vortex configurations from DLers Julia Murakami and André Werner and more. Manned by Team DL members and waiting to see you.

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*10th Berlin International Directors Lounge, February 6 – 16, 2014