Screenings - Page 6 of 11 - Directors Lounge

Meet us at the Berliner Liste, the fair for contemporary art, during the Berlin Art Week, September 18 to 21, 2014. We´ll screen a selection of silent single-channel installations from DL X, the 10th Berlin International Directors Lounge.
Artists include Maria Björklund, Erdal Inci, Hara Katsiki, Hye Young Kim, Alan Smithee, Julia Murakami, Shinkan Tamaki and Andre Werner. Photography by Julia Murakami is on display at the booth of our good friend Calla Mar.

playlist:

Alan Smithee | Julia Murakami Lost Masterpieces #1 (red) 2010
Alan Smithee are you afraid of…, 2012
Erdal Inci TR Pictogram 1,4s 2013
Hye Young Kim KR Unfulfilled Desire II blindness 21:00 2013
Erdal Inci TR Camondo Stairs 0,4s 2013
Hara Katsiki Starseed 2012
Erdal Inci TR Flood of Light 1,4s 2013
Andre Werner DE Yeosu Mandala | community 2014
Erdal Inci TR Hieropolis Amphitheatre 1,4s 2013
Andre Werner DE Yeosu Mandala | necessity 2014
Erdal Inci TR Taksim Spiral 0,8s 2013
Andre Werner DE Yeosu Mandala | territory 2014
Shinkan Tamaki JP Passages 2013
Maria Björklund FI TKihi-Kuhi2011

Directors Lounge booth G1.34 first floor
Calla Mar booth A 0.43 ground floor

The BERLINER LISTE will be held September 18 to 21, 2014.

Opening: Wednesday, September 17 from 6 pm, Postbahnhof and Fritz Club

Fair location: Postbahnhof, Straße der Pariser Kommune 8, 10243 Berlin

Entry: Day ticket 13 €, Concessions 9 €, both including brochure

pictured: Alan Smithee | Julia Murakami Lost Masterpieces #1 (red) 2010

“This alternate fair is by now the oldest event of the Berlin Art Week, still smoking the competition.” pK.

The BERLINER LISTE will be held September 18 to 21, 2014.

Opening: Wednesday, September 17 from 6 pm, Postbahnhof and Fritz Club

Fair location: Postbahnhof, Straße der Pariser Kommune 8, 10243 Berlin

Entry: Day ticket 13 €, Concessions 9 €, both including brochure

pictured: Hye Young Kim KR Unfulfilled Desire II blindness 21:00 2013

A new necessity – Community & Territory

The Yeosu International Art Festival is a biennial event that will be held from September 4th to September 21st 2014 at various locations of the town Yeosu in Southkorea.

Art director Sun-jung Kim invited 30 artists from 15 different countries, among them Andre Werner who presents the 3-channel work Yeosu Mandalas and Erdal Inci, featured artist at DL X, for the 5th edition of the Yeosu art biennial.

Three silent video loops. necessity | community | territory.
Based on a closed-circuit installation of a camera interacting with a black and white tv-set. A small piece of overhead sheet with the word necessity, community or territory printed triggers the coressponding mandala.

Marking 2014, as the 5th successful consecutive year to hold Yeosu International Art Festival, Yeosu city hopes the hosting of this festival will show the ability to dissolve rapidly developing urbanism of Yeosu and changes of our world communities at large by empathizing with the more intimate and mature Art themes. Diverse Artists will introduce to the public their new creations and masterpiece, and the crowd will respond with various proposed methodologies to the various artists work and their creations.

Directors Lounge Screening:

Bernd Lützeler
Filmi Fundas

Donnerstag, 28. August 2014
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Bernd Lützeler
with Eric Wilhelm Da Cruz

(German:)
Bernd Lützeler arbeitet als Künstler und Filmemacher sowohl mit analogem Film, als auch mit digitalen Medien. In seinen Arbeiten beschäftigt er sich mit der Ästhetik und Wahrnehmung von Bild und Ton und deren Wechselwirkungen mit Technologie und Gesellschaft. Ein weiterer thematischer Schwerpunkt sind die unterschiedlichen Erscheinungsformen des bewegten Bildes in der indischen Alltagskultur. Diese Themen setzt er nicht nur in linearen Filmprojekten, sondern auch in Film- und Raum-Installationen um. Einige der heute präsentierten Arbeiten sind aus Kollaborationen mit anderen Künstlern hervorgegangen, u.a. mit Kolja Kunt und mit seinem langjährigem Kollegen Eric Wilhelm da Cruz, der darüber hinaus auch einen eigenen Film zeigen wird.

(English:)

Bernd Lützeler, artist and film enthusiast who works with Super-8 and 35mm, also combines film and video in multi media installation work. In his work he is concerned with sound and image as distinct interfering media and their relations with technology and society. Also, he takes a specific interest in aspects of the audio-visual pop culture of India. He is a strong collaborator in order to create and exhibit. He worked with Kolja Kunt and Eric Wilhelm da Cruz on several projects. Part of the presentation will be an adapted super-8/video live show of “Eternal Showdown”, and a film by his colleague Eric Wilhelm da Cruz.

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

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Directors Lounge Screening:

Elaine Tedesco
Whispering

Thursday, 31 July 2014
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

This is set of videos by Brasilian artist Elaine Tedesco, a selection of works created between 1988 – 2012 and a work in process that she is realizing in Berlin. Divided into 4 groups: Video performances, domestic video notes, conversations and photography, it shows estrangements on looks at the daily life. Elaine Tedesco currently stays in Berlin at an artistic residence promoted by Instituto Goethe.

Artist Links:
http://www.comum.com/elainetedesco/
http://www.goethe.de/ins/br/poa/ver/res/de12352197.htm

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Julia Murakami and Stephan Hilpert DE Mr. Blackburn 40s 2014 World Premiere

Andre Werner DE Opening Robert Rauschenberg 6 min 37s 1990

Sandra Becker01 DE Processing 2 min 2013

Hye Young Kim KR Unfulfilled Desire II Blindness 21 min 2013

Directors Lounge at Gallery On, Seoul / South Korea,

C.A.R. Network III, the innovative art fair, 9 July – 1 August 2014

Opening Reception: 9 July, 5 pm

Gallery On, B1 Young-chung Bd. 69 Sagan-dong Jongno-gu Seoul 110-190 Korea

Directors Lounge, the Berlin-based platform for contemporary art and media, presents selected single channel works at Gallery On, Seoul during the C.A.R. Network III. The looped installations range from classic short animation to gif-based online works and interactive processing, giving a glimpse into new tendencies of motion-based media art.

With video works by Sandra Becker01, Erdal Inci, Hara Katsiki, Hye Young Kim, Julia Murakami and Stephan Hilpert, Alan Smithee, Andre Werner

List of video works:

Sandra Becker01 DE Processing 2 min 2013

Erdal Inci TR Taksim Spiral 0,8s 2013 / Pictogram 1,4s 2013 / Hieropolis Amphitheatre 1,4s 2013 / Flood of Light 1,4s 2013 / Camondo Stairs 0,4s 2013

Hara Katsiki DE Starseed 2013

Hye Young Kim KR Unfulfilled Desire II Blindness 21 min 2013

Julia Murakami and Stephan Hilpert DE Mr. Blackburn 40s 2014 score: Darius Greene, World Premiere

Alan Smithee Are You Afraid Of … 2013

Andre Werner DE Opening Robert Rauschenberg 6 min 37s 1990

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Directors Lounge Screening:

Philip Widmann und Karsten Krause
Szenario

Thursday, 26 June 2014
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Szenario, a collaboration of the filmmakers Philip Widmann and Karsten Krause appears to be a documentation about a love affair; a chronicle of 3 months in fall 1970, when a married man called Hans starts an affair with his secretary, called Monica, also married.

The main character of the film could be called “the suitcase”, though, a collection of notes, photographs, tickets and other papers from a suitcase, apparently collected by “him”, the male lover. The notes conof diary entries, where Hans meticulously wrote down every date he met with Monica, how long they had sex, and in which position they had intercourse. He also added to the record the places and circumstances they met, yet and always in the spare lasistnguage of a book keeper or bank clerk. The typewritten notes are spoken by a female voice, while the film images show passages of urban landscape of Köln, mostly slow tracking shots, some of them from car, and both at night and at day time.

What looks like a straight documentary at first, however, turns out to be something altogether different if the viewer looks more precisely. It turns out to be a sophisticated narration that keeps irritating by indulging the viewer into the immersions of story telling on one hand, and showing doubts on its own media:
contradictions in sound, picture and story telling. The techniques of irritation or Brecht-like alienation effects start right from the beginning. It is thus worth to try a more close reading from the beginning again, of the opening scenes of the film. A young woman with large red glasses starts reading from a script. -*°°*- Full text at richfilm.de

Artist Links:
http://www.workscited.de/

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Directors Lounge Screening:

Johanna Domke
with Marouan Omara
Cairo Times

Thursday, 29 May 2014
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Crop is an astounding video piece about a state-owned newspaper building in the center of Kairo. Filmed in 2012 shortly after the revolution in Egypt, the video represents an interesting, historic moment in time, and it is at the same time a reflection on image making and image representation in times of political changes regardless of local bounds or temporality.

Set at the press house of Al Ahram (the Pyramids), a conservative newspaper that has been the national official press organ since President Nasser, the viewer is guided to explore the rooms of the house from the top down, following its hierarchy of places, literally from the representative offices down to the cellars with printing machines and packaging of newspaper bundles. While the camera unfolds step by step the complexities of a building, a photo-journalist talks about the beginnings of photo reportage in Egypt. He tells us he missed the revolution staying at the hospital. He speaks about the restrictions photo journalism has had to face from its beginning both from a conservative islamic society, and a regime controlling every publication. At first the journalist seem to be one person, but that is a fiction. His narration actually is a composition of 19 statements of different interviewed journalists, whose opinions differ in complex ways. The sound track of the film is comprised of two separate layers: the ambient sound that goes along with the passage of places that we follow inside the building, and on the other side the voice-over of the interviewed journalist. This voice-over creates a real contrapuntal montage in the sense of Eisenstein’s statement on sound film, whereas the ambient sound creates a poetic flow of images, a narrative of space.

The film, a collaboration between the video artist Johanna Domke and the film director Marouan Omara, was in several ways a lucky moment. Domke had planned her residency in Kairo at Townhouse Gallery before the beginning of the Arabic revolution, and the filming itself, including all the preparations and necessary permissions, was only possible in that short period of time of changes before the new regime took control again. The film thus represents a unique time in history while at the same time it gives a comprehensible glimpse of what it is like to work as a journalist under the restrictions of censorship. As Johanna told me, the team always asked for where the censorship actually had taken place, and were always referred to a different department. There was no official censorship office or censorship management, it was just part of the system as a whole. In certain ways, the press house depicted in the film truly resembles Kafka’s castle, where the power never manifests. Watching the film on the other hand may also give the impression of utterly familiarity with the building and its subdivisions, its poetry of space, the familiarity of bureaucratic space. In “Poetics of Space” Gaston Bachelard talks about the philosophy of space using a big family house as an example, something I always felt to be imperfect at least in reference to modernity, and in certain ways, the film “Crop” completes the picture of a modern poetics of space.

The artist, Johanna Domke, will be available for Q&A.

Crop by Johanna Domke and Marouan Omara

Program:
Cairo Times 12:23 min, 2013
Crop 47:08 min, 2012

Artist Links:
www.johannadomke.net

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For the fourth year running, Directors Lounge answers the call to make its unique contribution to an exploration of the essence of Japan at the highly popular Düsseldorf festival called Japan Day, the largest of its kind worldwide.
Amidst an impressive presentation of cuisine and lectures, DL will attend to an audio-visual sally into Japan’s cultural being in the form of film art, as presenters in the Black Box cinema of the Filmmuseum. Not simply a sushi of well-worn superficialities, but a series of onscreen dives into the Japanese collective soul, cutting off distracting excess with the efficiency of a kaiken dagger.

Among these flickering outings will be Tetsuya Tomina’s “At The Last Stop Called Ghost Chimney,” an unsettling ride into an ominously persistent past in the form of four thermal power plant chimneys long gone but still present… to some eyes. Here, subtext rides along with three passengers whose manner and movement within darkened, compositionally stark spaces evokes the aesthetics of Manga as well as the masked formality of Noh. But this is just one of many; more awaits the avid Japanophile, conveniently closer than the distant isles themselves. Far Japan, not far at all. Directors Lounge is the Bullet Train to take you there.

With films by Julia Kim Smith, Pedro Collantes, Rebecca Culverhouse, Akinori Okada and Daisuke Hagiwara, AUJIK, Simon Lereng Wilmont, Masanobu Hiraoka,Tetsuya Tomina ; curated by Julia Murakami and André Werner

Location:
Directors Lounge at the Black Box Cinema,
Schulstr. 4, 40213 Duesseldorf (map)
17 May 2014, 8 pm
Don’t miss the fireworks afterwards!

The program:

Julia Kim Smith 99 Luftballons 2 min 2s 2014

Pedro Collantes ES/NL/JP Serori 15 min 20s 2014
There is always a first time for everything, even for celery.
http://mizunonaka.com/serori

AUJIK SE/JP anxOxna 4 min 55s 2014
Trees structured as a neural network
Axon and Dendrites-branches connecting through multiple forms of synapses. Individually programmed receptors. Flexible synthetic neurotransmitters. Axon terminal with receptive chaos outcome .
Post synaptic density calibrated through external sentient impacts.
A pan-computational AI-system.
http://www.aujik.com

Simon Lereng Wilmont DK Chikara – The Sumo Wrestlers Son 32 min 20s 2013
The film follows the 10-year-old Japanese boy Chikara and his struggle to become a sumo wrestler. His father, Harumitsu, was a professional sumo wrestler from one of Tokyo’s most successful sumo club, so expectations surrounding Chikara are extremely high. Today his father owns a noodle shop where he works a lot. Their only time together is when they train Sumo wrestling. It’s a very valuable time for Chikara. Chikara wants to impress his father, but when he’s there Chikara get’s really nervous and everything seems to go wrong. The annual national Sumo Championship is approaching and it means everything to Chikara to do well, so his father will be proud of him.

Rebecca Culverhouse Kichigai 28 min 52s (pictured)
In a city that never sleeps, the party never dies…. KICHIGAI is the semi autobiographical story of a real night out – or to be more precise, a blur of surreal nights out in Tokyo, mixed together with a cast of crazy characters and manga style subtitles.

Akinori Okada and Daisuke Hagiwara JP Yaoyoro´s 3 min 45s
Some Japanese believe in an ancient philosophy called Animism (Yaoyorozu), which basically states that everyday objects have their own life stories. We have created frame animations (root: anima, meaning “life”) based on our interpretation of those stories. 八百万の神に感謝！
http://yaoyoros.com

Masanobu Hiraoka JP Land 3 min 41s 2013
Abstraction and metamorphoses

Tetsuya Tomina At the Last Stop called Ghost Chimney 19 min 16s 2013 (pictured)
To spend more time with the bus driver she always liked, on the last day of school, a girl rides to the last stop called Ghost Chimney. Depending on the angle, it is looked one chimney or four chimneys. The girl and the bus driver dream of a world beyond the last stop… http://tetsuyatominafilm.com/

Directors Lounge monthly screenings

Thursday, 24 April 2014, 9pm

Z-Bar Bergstraße 2 10115 Berlin-Mitte

In attendance of the artist

Jonathan Rescigno works with a documentary approach towards his films, while transmuting into fictional stories. His starting point are day-to-day issues of his close surroundings, which then can shed the light to some greater matter. At the time he combines narrative methods with elements of early Avant-garde and Nouvelle Vague.

His search for a personal language and expression beyond the documentary school urged him to progress from earlier studies at film school to art school in Metz and further to “Film and Creative Documentaries Direction” in Strasbourg, where he finished his Master. His pictures combine a sensitive research of places and people with an essayistic image-oriented montage creating open and atmospherical depictions that give to the viewer space for interpretation.

In his films, Rescigno keeps coming back to themes concerning the region Lorraine, where he grew up. Lorraine used to be the prospering French coal mining area, connected with the German Ruhrgebiet by the so called Montanunion (European Coal and Steel Community) after the Word War II. With deindustrialization, the region has undergone difficult changes still under way. The films of the artist investigate questions of identity in the changing post-industrial landscape, and when the term migration is at risk to change meaning in French society.

Jonathan Rescigno verfolgt einen dokumentarischen Ansatz, den er aber zugleich verwandelt und fiktionalisiert. Ihn interessieren Geschichten des Alltags seiner Umgebung, die aber zugleich von allgemeiner Bedeutung sein können, und er verbindet so Mittel des narrativen, sozial engagierten Filmes mit Elementen der frühen Avantgarde und der Nouvelle Vague. Diese Suche nach einer eigenen Bildsprache brachte ihn auch dazu, von der Filmschule an die Kunsthochschule Metz zu wechseln und schließlich mit Film and Creative Documentaries Direction in Straßburg abzuschließen. Seine Bilder verbindet eine subtile Recherche von Orten und Menschen mit einem essayistischen Bildansatz in der Montage, der eher einer offenen atmosphärischen Beschreibung folgt und dem Betrachter den Spielraum zur eigenen Interpretation läßt, statt in dokumentarischer Manier Fakten zu konstruieren.

Der Künstler ist anwesend und wird in das Programm einführen. Mit anschließender Diskussion.