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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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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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:

Karl F. Stewart
Impressions in Mind
Photographs and Video

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

Karl F. Stewart makes a mark in digital photography and video with his saturated colors and his rigorous compositions showing urban landscapes. He works with a photographic hybrid combination between still images and videos that do not hide their origin in their photographic concept. After being a documentary photographer in the 70’s in Pittsburgh, his home town, he worked as an English lecturer in Italy for 24 years, before he took up photography again only 5 years ago, now going fully digital.

San Francisco, his next temporary residency after Italy, became his starting point for his relaunch in photography, where he mostly explored the downtown area. Not just the financial district of San Francisco, but a big part of the highly dense urban areas show an amazing economic growth with glossy surfaces and artificial contemporary green landscaping on one hand, and wide spread poverty of homeless people on the other. “The Unearthly Beauty of Simulated Nature in Contemporary Architecture” is Stewart’s most pronounced piece from that period, presented as a video-photo essay. At the same time, the artist started exploring motion-blur and photoshop cut-outs. “Impressions of Movement” is a series of panoramic works that resulted and which he continued in different countries such as USA, Italy and France. The time-based presentation of digital pictures, that seems to be natural to the medium, led to digital video as his preferred medium at the moment. The artist recently moved to Düsseldorf, where he continues exploring landscapes and urban settings in often unearthly colors. Like with “K-20”, showing a small fountain at the K 20 Museum in Düsseldorf, the examinations of urban-nature relations combined with sometimes witty surprising experiments, seem to propel his creative energy most successfully.

Artist Links:
http://kfstewart.com/
http://impressionsofmovement.com/

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Directors Lounge Screening:

Gabriel Lyons Loeb
Poems & Trampolines

Thursday, 31 October 2013
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2

10115 Berlin-Mitte

Gabriel Lyons Loeb is in love with pixelation and other digital artifacts as other artists are with the “Wabisabi” of Super-8, and the illuminating technical flaws of “spaghetti-style” developed small gauge film. For years now, he has used an old mobile phone camera to explore his surroundings and the media. He combines his poetry with video “blow-ups”, either coming from his own footage or from footage appropriated from the internet. One may ask if it is his love for a specific aesthetic, or if it is an artistic-bohemian gesture to use the cheapest material and a look that we usually regard as an internet-related shortcoming. It may be both, however, there may be a third motivation: in his final years at university he studied the effects of endless repetitions of footage he found on youtube and other transformative experiments, mainly by exposing himself. As earlier avant-gardists and pop-Artists such as Bruce Conner and Andy Warhol already found out, repetitions have a changing effect on our cognition and psyche.

His film “you smell good now” the longest film in the presentation may have a similar effect on the mind, even if not by repetition. It is a semi-narrative, semi-documentary style blow-up of 176x144px footage of Ann Arbor in winter. Shot during his partner’s three day visit, the film occurs in his favorite places. The fictive characters explore the town in an adolescent flaneurship sometimes becoming a passage à l’acte. In other parts of the film, they seem to conceive spontaneous lines of poetry from their experiences.

“wintersgarden” is another film shot in winter time, this time all around the place where he has lived for a year in Berlin-Neukölln. This time, it is a fuzzy portrait of “Körner Kiez” in winter colors and the chance-encounters on his walks. It uses another technique we know from analog filmmakers: it is edited in-camera, but then combined with big letters that for the viewer may or may not come together as a winter poem. The program will be completed with a number of poetry related films, some of which the author made on demand as part of a service previously offered through his website.

Gabriel Lyons Loeb will be present for Q&A. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Artist Links:

http://gabrielloeb.com/

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 Directors Lounge Screening:

Chris Henschke

Experimental Capture

Thursday, 29 August 2013

21:00,Z-Bar

Bergstraße 2,10115 Berlin-Mitte

Chris Henschke was artist in residence at the Australian Synchrotron in 2007-2008 and 2010, and his work has been much influenced by the desk to desk collaborations with scientists since then. Lately, he was also invited to the famous CERN in Switzerland, which hit the news for the probable discovery of the Higgs boson. Henschke sees many similarities between the work of artists and scientists, but he also sees a mayor difference in the perception of experimentation: “empirical science is based upon observation and measurement of repeatable experiments; however, in a phenomenological sense every experiment and observation is unique.”

In his work, Henschke on one hand documents his experiences at the Synchrotron, and combines it with visual observations and re-edits the footage in experimental ways. On the other hand, he started to do his own experiments with high voltage with a diversity of objects. Third, and possibly another way of experimentation, he plays electronic music and creates visuals that combine camera images with effects driven by the music.

Chris Henschke will be present for Q&A. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Artist Links:

http://www.topologies.com.au

http://sacrit.blogspot.de/2010/11/chris-henschkes-synchrotron-art.html

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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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UDON by Usaginingen from the album “JAPANDORF” by Klaus Dinger + JAPANDORF

UDON by Usaginingen from the album “JAPANDORF” by Klaus Dinger + JAPANDORF

How Beautiful Japanese Morning Is by Yuichi Suita

黒いロングスカートの女 (Black Long-Skirt) by Hoji Tsuchiya

“CODEX DOLOR, 563 Aspects of Suffering, Episodes 34, 371 & 92 Presented in Part” by Stephen Dirkes

A Forest Within A Forest by Stefan Larsson

Bonobo No Souzo by Akinori Okada

Short Cuts To Japan – Black Box Kino im Filmmuseum, Saturday
May 25

日本デー!! Directors Lounge once again brings the Far East west, taking a diverse stack of short experimental films from its international trove in Berlin and making its way over to Düsseldorf’s annual German-Japanese festival known as Japan Day. Every manner of Japan will fill the screen at the Black Box Kino in the Filmmuseum in a presentation that continues DL’s vital and well-attended annual contribution to the event. Honourable Japanophile is most humbly invited to witness films from, about and inspired by Land of the Rising Sun. Irasshaimase, いらっしゃいませ!!

with short films by

Maeda Shinjiro, Yuichi Suita, Uemine Satoshi, Arikawa Shigeo, Hoji Tsuchiya, Akinori Okada, Taro Yasuno, Matron, Stephen Dirkes, Stefan Larsson, Usaginingen, Jeremy Rubier and Kimura Noriyuki

Kimura Noriyuki  Our Place 2011 5 min

Jeremy Rubier 岐路 ((CrossRoads) 2009 20 min

Shinjiro Maeda  ITO-kun 2011 5 min

Yuichi Suita How Beautiful Japanese Morning Is 2012 15 min

Uemine Satoshi Monju  2011 5 min

Arikawa Shigeo G・I 2011 5 min

Hoji Tsuchiya  黒いロングスカートの女 (Black long skirt) 2010 8 min 57s

Akinori Okada bonobo no souzo 2012 3 min 13s

Taro Yasuno  A Very Merry Unbirthday to you! 2011 5 min

Matron MONUMENT 3  2011 5 min

Stephen Dirkes Codex Dolor 2012 2 min

Stefan Larsson  A Forest Within A Forest 2010 05 min10s

Usaginingen UDON from the album “JAPANDORF” by Klaus Dinger + JAPANDORF* 2013 5min 42s

in attendance of Miki Yui*
curated and presented by Julia Murakami and André Werner

Black Box Kino im Filmmuseum‎
Schulstr. 4, 40213 Duesseldorf | map
May 25, 2013, 8 pm

Special thanks to:

VJ Chuu, Miki Yui, Kim Collmer, Alexei Dmitriev, Youki Hirakawa, Kenton Turk, Karl Neubert, Team Black Box / Filmmuseum and many others! 

DL is chaos in progress, everything is subject to change.

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

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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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