OUT OF THE BLUE – Plötzlich wird alles anders

DAY 5, Feb 13th

We are proud to announce Berlin artist, filmmaker and curator Deborah Phillips will treat us again with a program based on film, and mostly presented on 16mm film. The artist is one of the most active promoters in Berlin in sharing her love for film and analogue techniques. The program for sure will comprise rarely seen treasures. And, we are expecting the world premiere of her new film “PFFFHP TT!”

Here is link to the program on 13 Febr:
https://directorslounge.net/tag/13th%20Feb%202012

Fri 17 | 6pm

pictured: Strange Land Vol I – The Miner by John Douglas


Gerard    Cairaschi    FR    SILENCES    11 min 30s    2012


PLACENESS curated by Shaun Wilson

Australian video artists respond to the notion of place and explore through the physical and mnemonic how locations impact on the ways in which art and land coexist within the image.

Seth Keen    AU   Purrumbete Verandah   3 min 40s    2011

Tammy Honey   AU   iLandscape #14    4 min 54s    2012

Brie Trenery  AU    untitled  2 min 32s

Marsha Berry  AU    Silvers of Necessity   1 min 49s    2011

Marie Sierra  AU    Knismesis    1 min 50s    2011

Dan Torre  AU   Country Road  0 min 20s    2005/12

John Douglas  AU  Strange Land Vol I – The Miner   8 min 47s  2010

Shaun Wilson  AU Uber Memoria XXI  1 min 02s   2012

John Douglas   AU    Strange Land Vol I – Starella   8 min 06s    2010

Kieth Deverell  AU    The Hawker’s Song   3 min 21s    2011


total ca. 50 min

Wed 15 | 8pm (upfront the Festiweltparty)

pictured: Sketch by Nicki Rolls (above) and Words by Jennifer Ross


curated by Kerry Baldry

One Minute Volume 5 (the fifth in the series of artists moving image programmes curated by filmmaker Kerry Baldry) is an eclectic mix of experimental, oblique and poetic moving image and features the work of 40 artists at varying stages of their careers. A myriad of approaches, techniques, media and processes have been employed, creating elusive, challenging and memorable work. All have one thing in common: that they have been edited within the time limit of 60 seconds.
Included in volume 5 are:
Marty St. James, Chris Paul Daniels, Gordon Dawson, Lumiere et Son (Sam Renseiw & Philip Sanderson), Guy Sherwin, Phillip Warnell, Kayla Parker & Stuart Moore, Jennifer Ross, Callum Cooper, Steven Ball, Esther Johnson, Paulo Menezes, Stuart Pound, Martin Pickles, Clint Enns, Katherine Meynell, Louisa Minkin, Kerry Baldry, David Kefford, Tina Keane, Annabel Dover, Ron Diorio, Michael Cousin, Riccardo Iacono, Michael Szpakowski, Kate Jessop, Jonathan Moss, Daniela Butsch, Eleni Xintaras, Alex Pearl, Zhel (Zeljko Vukicevic), Virginia Hilyard, Nicki Rolls, Nick Jordan and  Jacob Cartwright, Barry Lewis, Leister/Harris. 
45 minutes

Tues 14 | 11pm

pictured: Vile Beast by Justin Crooks


B-GRADE curated by Shaun Wilson

A collection of screen horror-based short films which celebrate bad taste, the technologically inferior, political incorrectness, bad acting, appalling story lines, and drug induced spiders.


Justin Crooks  AU   Vile Beast 4 min 2010

Justin Crooks  AU   Nightshift of A Vampire 10 min 30s 2010

Andrew Harrison  AU  Pidey 2 min 2005/2010


DL DOUBLE FEATURE (Selection)

Abhishek  Choudhury  IN The Double Shuffle 10 min 40s  2011

Sebastian   Harrer  DE  Angustia 19 min 33s   2010

48 min

fri 10 6pm

pictured: 3 channel-video (excerpt) Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, The Year we make contact, Media-Scape 2010 by Heiko Daxl

 
curated and presented by Ingeborg Fülepp and Heiko Daxl


mim&more emphasize media in in a broader sense. Operating from Berlin and Zagreb, mim&more is fostering the artistic exchange between both cities.

Anna Anders (DE) “Schlag auf Schlag / Blow by Blow”, 2002, 1:00

Antal Lux  (HU/DE) “Hypnosis”, 1996, 5:00

Heiko Daxl/Masami Akita (DE/JP) “Crack Groove” 1999, 4:00

Yukihiro Taguchi (JP/DE) “Ordnung / Order” 2008, 5:00

Candas Sisman (TR) “Flux”, 2010, 5:00

Noam Braslawsky (IL/DE) “Sysonos oznania Undercover N.B.L..”, 2008, 8:00

Costantino Ciervo (IT/DE) “Pale-Judea”, 2002, 8:00

Sirma Doruk (TR) “Beyond”, 2010, 1:30

Alen Floric (HR) “Bez Nazova / Untitled” 2008, 3:30

Ingeborg Fülepp / Heiko Daxl (HR/DE) “Avant/Garde/Robe” 2001, 4:00

James Higginson (US/DE) “Tarantula” 2010, 3:00

Sibylle Hoessler (DE) “Schmetterlingssonate / Butterfly Sonata” 2011, 2:00

Maru Ituarte (MX/DE) “Fleisch / Flesh”, 2009, 5:00

Maren Strack (DE) “Latex” 2003, 5:00

Peter Kees (DE) “Peter Kees dirigiert Wagner / Peter Kees conducts Wagner”, 2010, 3:30 / “Konzertmuschel”, 2011

Nina Kurtela (HR/DE) “DanceKingQueens” , 2010, 2:00

Maria Niro (US) “Lost Signals Drifting Satellites”, 2011, 4:00

Mona Mur & En Esch (DE) “Candy Cane”, 2010, 5:00

Ira Schneider (US/DE) “Nam June Paik is Eating Sushi in Miami Beach”, 2008, 1:30

Michael Saup (DE) “The Oracle of the Nuclear Plexus”, 2008, 3.30

Goran Skofic (HR) “White”, 2010, 4:00

Francois Vautier (FR) “Ants in my Scanner”, 2010, 2:00

Nika Radic (HR/DE)  “Cistim objektiv / Cleaning the Lens”, 2011, 1:00

86 min 30s

www.mediainmotion.de

Directors Lounge Screening

Steven Ball
Travelling Practice
video works
Thursday, 27 Oct. 2011
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Travelling Practice

Digital video works by Steven Ball 2003 – 2010. These works travel near and far, across physical and virtual space using material collected en route. Travel determines form, subject and object are fluid entities, digital experimentation becomes landscape study, hyperlocal excursion, and experimental documentary, as they explore and exhaust species of spaces and media.

Steven Ball has worked in film, video, sound and installation since the early 1980s. In the late 1980s he accidentally migrated to Melbourne, Australia. There he continued his practice making a number of film, video and sound and installation works, as well as being engaged in various curatorial, administrative, teaching and writing activities. Since returning to the UK he has worked predominantly with digital video, producing a series of works, which among other things, are particularly concerned with digital material processes and spatial representation.

Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Artist Links:

home: http://www.steven-ball.net

blog: http://directobjective.blogspot.com

videoblog: http://directlanguage2010.blogspot.com

Public Water: http://www.publicwater.net

More infos:

http://www.directorslounge.net

http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/

http://www.z-bar.de/Inhaltsseiten/kulturprogramm.html

Have you ever seen an experimental film?  |  DL at Timishort, Romania

Directors Lounge presents a program handpicked by Alexei Dmitriev at
Timishort in Timisoara, Romania, May 7th, 5pm
We are showing great films from around the world that already became
classics, but were never screened at Timishort due to the festival’s very
young age. We tried to fill it with works that are very diverse in topics
and techniques so this compilation could be a decent representation of
experimental cinema, especially for the ones who never encountered it.

Program:

UNLITh
Mihai Grecu / France / 2007 / HD / 07’58’’
An abstract dialogue between men and black dogs. In this cold and hostile
atmosphere, their gestures and reactions cause subtle tensions to arise.
Aggression and perplexity mutate the bodies and distort their environment.

Uso Justo
Coleman Miller / USA / 2005 / DV / 22’30’’
A 1950’s Mexican melodrama is turned inside out when an experimental
filmmaker arrives in the fictional town of Uso Justo .
Existential and hilarious, intelligent and ridiculous….Uso Justo is a
mindbending
subtitled experience in black and white and color where all your wishes
can come true. Trust me.

Energie!
Thorsten Fleisch / Germany / 2007 / HD / 05’08’’
 From a mere technical point of view the ordinary tv/video screen comes
alive by a controlled beam of electrons in the cathode ray tube. For
‘Energie!’ an uncontrolled high voltage discharge of approx. 30.000 volts
exposes photographic paper which is then arranged in time to create new
visual systems of electron organization.

La Descente
Robert Croma / UK / 2010 / HD / 08’20’’
Descent (noun)
    •    an act of moving downwards, dropping, or falling
    •    a downward slope
    •    a moral, social, or psychological decline
                    ~ Oxford English Dictionary

Planet Z
Momoko Seto / France / 2011 / 35mm / 09’30’’
Somewhere… the PLANET Z.
Plants rule on this planet, and all seems harmonious and delicate.
But liquid and sticky mushrooms show up little by little, and destroy the
idyllic life.

Back + Forth
Clint Enns / Canada / 2009 / Super 8mm / 03’20’’
Shot entirely in one take.  This film documents the happenings on one of
the strangest streets in Winnipeg.

Dies Irae
Jean-Gabriel Périot / France / 2005 / DV / 09’45’’
, remember
That I am the cause of your journey
Don’t lose me on that way.

Dubus
Alexei Dmitriev / Russia / 2005 / DV / 04’09’’
A slow dance of the classical cinema to the music of Zelany Rashoho.

Directors Lounge special screening:

CHRISTINA MCPHEE
The Delicate Landscape of Crisis
at REMISE
FREIES MUSEUM BERLIN
April 15, 2011

A premier survey of California-based McPhee’s experimental films from 2002-2011 will screen at 21:00 , 15 April , 2011 at  Freies Museum, Potsdamer Strasse 91 Berlin http://www.freies-museum.com/
Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr of Director’s Lounge, Berlin.

“Delicate structures arise in the transport of trauma”:  Christina McPhee traces landscapes of crisis, performing video montage like drawings in a data-field. From earthquake landscapes in the California desert, to Ground Zero in New York, to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, McPhee tracks the intimate topographies of environmental crisis in America.  McPhee (b. 1954 Los Angeles) is a visual and media artist whose films have shown most recently at Art Cologne OpenSpace with Vernissage.tv; Director’s Lounge, Berlin; Cinéphèmère at the Tuileries for FIAC, Paris; San Francisco Cinematheque, and ISEA, Belfast. Christina McPhee is represented by Silverman Gallery, San Francisco

“ McPhee…imbues documentary realism with subjective evocation to such an extent that the project effectively displaces the importance of the documentary imag°òs indexicality… Still photographs, composited images and video clips of the landscape, environment and vernacular shrines allow the viewer to piece together the relationship between geological instability and psychological trauma…. ”
Sharon LIn Tay, film critic, London (Studies in Documentary Film 2008)

http://www.directorslounge.net
http://www.freies-museum.com/
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/index.html

with support from Walden http://www.galerie-walden.de/
and Galerie Suomesta http://www.suomestagalleria.net/

Directors Lounge Screening at Z-Bar

Thursday, 24 March 2011

Seppo Renvall
Times, Songs and Material
16mm films and video

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

“Never very good technical quality“, "no sharp image“, "no tripod“, "everything kind of shaky“, "mainly things that are not interesting“, "no story“, "no one idea“ – when reading these quotes from Seppo Renvall on his own films, one could think he is practising some kind of anti-aesthetic. However, Seppo Renvall does not want to cause offence or a scandal. Rather, his "negativity“ is set against the grand gestures that predominate media, and the superlatives "most“, "best“ and "highest“ required by the art scene. Theodor Adorno uses the term "negativity“ in conjunction with resistance and connected with a countenance that does not allow reconciliation with the power, or the "wrong“ social situation. Since then, times have changed and this society may not any more require a "life in alert“ (Walter Benjamin) but now urges a life in agitation. Seppo’s negativity seems to be more gentle, and seems to function more as a shield or as subversion against that constant state of arousal the media and the art world expect from the arts and the artists.

"If something interesting is happening, I possibly decide to shoot in the opposite direction“, and often he finds something more subtle, more telling than the spectacle ahead. His sympathy goes to the little things in life, or maybe I should say: empathy. His films thus carry his empathy to the small situations in daily life. As a consequence, part of his work is made of home movies showing scenes with friends, family life, children and travel, shot and shown on 16mm.

The themes of his other films are quite divers but still connected with daily life, even if they seem to embrace the spectacle, like "Nonstoppampam“. In this (in original) 3-channel work, an array of gunshots is fired in rapid succession. We possibly need to know the fact that these people shoot with a real gun for the first time in their life in order to see, what S. Renvall was mainly interested in: the awes, the hesitation, the threat and the surprise on the recoil forces reflected on their faces “Exotique” and “Yötähteni” talk about spaces of in-between, between light and shadow, night and day, unconscious and waking. Combined with the music of Aslak Christianson and others, many of these films, mostly edited on video, become songs, rhapsodies of life and a strong subversion of the mirror, which the TV screen seems to be for us.

Seppo Renvall will be present for Q&A.

Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr
With support from Suomesta Galerie, Berlin

More infos at:

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

http://www.z-bar.de/
http://open.fixc.fi/public.php?nid_send=271&uid_send=15
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Suomesta-galerie/117934471569793

Programme:

16mm

Home Movies 4 2:00

Home Movies 1-3 7:00

Private Area 3:49

Video

The Price Of Our Liberty 08:09

Warm Front 5:24

Iris And Nalle 2:53

Planet Earth Encyclopedia 6:13

Dancing Shortly 1:13

Exotique 09:57

Dancing Shortly II 2:45

Drum Zymphony 21:15

Nonstop PamPam 4:20

Yötähteni 2:30