contemporary art and media
Sat 18 | 8:00pm
pictured: Primordial Breath by Rosetta Messori
Rosetta Messori IT Primordial Breath 5 min 18s 2011 | World Premiere in attendance
with music taken from the album: “Draw a line Egyptian contemporary music” by Khaled Shokry
Primordial Breath is a visual journey based on 18 photographs from her book Visioni Mediterranee (Skira 2010). In a continuous state of flux, photographer and filmmaker Rosetta Messori captures the essence of a movement to tell an imaginary story.
Sat 18 | 8:30pm
Telemach Wiesinger presents his new films
As filmmaker his experimental films are shown on numerous festivals and solo programs: International Film Festival Rotterdam, European Media Art Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Black Maria Festival, Festival de Cine Experimental Quito, Tampere Film Festival Finland, Filmfestival Seoul Korea, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Media City Windsor, Festival de film court de Brest, Internationales Kurz Film Fest Hamburg, INVIDEO Milan, Spanische Botschaft Tokio, Lausanne Underground Film Festival, VideoEx Zürich, Wisconsin Film Festival, Image Festival Toronto, Directors Lounge Berlin, TIE The International of Experimental Exhibition Denver, Cortometraje San Roque, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Artist’ Television Access San Francisco, Noordelijk Film Festival, Media Art Festival Friesland, Stuttgarter Filmwinter and many others.
With Andreas Gogol he received the TEAM-WORK-AWARD 2007 for the film and music performance “LANDED TAKES & SOUND TIMES” at the Festival for Expanded Media Stuttgart.
Telemach Wiesinger, born 1968 in Bielefeld/Germany. Studied Visual Communication at HbK Kassel/Germany, Diplom 1994. (Master of Arts)
As photographer he is working for many art books and Solo-exhibitions: Contemporary Art Center Athens, Centre d’Art contemporain Nîmes, Kunstpalast Lemberg, Takashimaya Matsuyama, Smokebrush Gallery Colorado Springs, Museum für Moderne Kunst Rupertinum Salzburg or Eté Photographique de Lectoure.
Visiting Lecturer at University of Wisconsin, Akademie für Kommunikation Freiburg, ENSCI Les Ateliers Paris, Institut of Art & Design Milwaukee, Evangelische Hochschule Freiburg, Akademie Schloss Rotenfels, Escuela de Arte Granada, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel, University of Illinois at Chicago and others.
Sat 18 | 10pm
pictured: Square Dance Hypnotist by Allan Brown
Christina McPhee US Penumbra Blind 4 min 56s 2012 | German Premiere
Barbara Friedman and Gilivanka Kedzior FR [ THE SECRET ] 3 min 18s 2011 | World Premiere
Allan Brown CA Square Dance Hypnotist 17 min 10s 2011 | German Premiere
Santiago Parres (EZO) ES Dove 2 min 40s 2011 | World Premiere in attendance
Ron Toole US Where Once Was When 11 min 32s 2011 | World Premiere
Maria Niro and Richard Broomhall US/GB Bird from the series Words 1 min 59 2011 | German Premiere
Derviches Associés FR Lenine 3 Coers 7 min 2011 | European Premiere
pictured: Dove by EZO
Peter Freund US CAMP 7 min 15s 2010
Santiago Parres (EZO) ES Sinecdoquanon 7 min 29s 2011 | World Premiere in attendance
Johanna Wagner SE Submerged 7 min 30s 2011 in attendance
Johanna Wagner SE Danaus Gilippus 10 min 2011 in attendance
73 min
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
Fri 17 | 7pm
pictured:Yumiko by Andreas Müller-Pohle
Kuratiert von Klaus W. Eisenlohr
Andreas Müller-Pohle, der bekannte Künstler, Fotograf und Herausgeber Zeitschrift European Photography präsentiert zum ersten Mal eine Auswahl seiner Videoarbeiten in einem Screening.
Entropia, screening version SV 6 min 1996
Hiroshima, SV 29/3/01 3 min 2002
Dark Waves, SV 2 min 2011
Zigzag 8 min 19 2011
Coasting 9 min 40 2011
Yumiko 8 min, looped 2002
Diskussion mit dem Publikum, Moderation K. W. Eisenlohr 15 min
Araki at Work, SV 12 min 1996/2011
*SV: gekürzte Screening-Version
Directors Lounge presents the first theater screening with Andreas Müller-Pohle, widely known as a photographer and editor of European Photography, featuring a whole range of his video work.
Water would seem to play an important role in Andreas Müller-Pohle’s recent work, both in film and photography. It may also be a key for interpreting his work as a whole…. (read more at:)
Fri 17 | 8:15pm
pictured: Jákob’s Ladder by Robert Carrithers and Marianna O (Auster)
Robert Carrithers and Marianna O (Auster) CZ Jákob’s Ladder 6 min 27s 2009 | German Premiere in attendance
A loose mystical portrayal of the Biblical story: Jákob’s Ladder,
inspired by Masonic lore and Prague mystic symbols. This is a short
film, told with marionettes and with the mysticism of Prague set
inside a 16th century belfry. The mystic traditions are explored
through nonverbal narration, cut apart with montage sequences and is
enhanced by the ethereal powerful music of Vladimír Hirsch.
A Magician has an appointment to keep with Death. Death
reveals higher spiritual knowledge to the Magician before he embarks
on his final spiritual journey.
pictured: Of This, Men Shall Know Nothing by Fritz Stolberg
Fritz Stolberg GB Of This, Men Shall Know Nothing! 6 min 11s 2010
Based on Max Ernst’s work of the same title, “Of This, Men Shall Know Nothing!” picks up on the psycho-sexual content of the painting and explodes its inherent occult knowledge into an intuitive journey to overcome duality. This alchemist quest via the unification of the five platonic solids and their duals culminates in the androgynous fusion of the masculine and feminine aspects of the main character.
Fri 17 | 8:30pm
pictured: still from The Door Ajar by Patrick Jolley
Renowned installation artist, photographer and filmmaker Patrick Jolley tells a self-spun tale of what may have happened during six lost weeks in the life of French poet Antonin Artaud, who in 1937 came to Ireland claiming to have in his possession the Staff of St. Patrick, which he wished to return to its rightful place. The lost time and its possible sequence of events, which ended upon Artaud’s arrest, are reconstructed from scant evidence and Artaud’s writing during the period. Jolley recounts his gripping vision in grainy Super8 and 16mm black and white imagery, diving into the surreal in a dense and unforgettable journey of stark poetic writings and stunning visual associations. A like-titled book written in collaboration with two co-authors has been published. Jolley’s solo and groups works have been shown in major festivals and exhibits the world over from Helsinki to Sao Paulo; in addition, a number of international museums have his works in their collections, among them the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Patrick Jolley IE The Door Ajar 84 min 2011
Fri 17 | 10:30pm
live performance of the album “Underlying Scapes”
Vladimír Hirsch is a Czech contemporary avantgarde composer, instrumentalist and sound alchemist, integrating contemporary classical, industrial and dark ambient music. His compositional style is characterized by polymodality and using digital technique to enhance sonic means of expression. Besides creating solo works, he is the founding member and leader of Aghiatrias, Skrol, Zygote and various other projects. He was also a member (keyboard player and vocalist) of the 80’s experimental post-punk group Der Marabu.
Thurs 16 | 7pm
pictured: Night and Day by Firas Khnaisser
Timothy Nohe US People as Verbs 3 min 17s 2011 | European Premiere
Laura Soria MX Love from L’Ephimere 1 min 03s 2010 | World Premiere
George Drivas GR Closed Circuit 4 min 55s 2005 | German Premiere
Tim Glover US 1000 Blisters 11 min 48s 2011 | European Premiere
Jean-Gabriel Périot FR Regardez Les Morts 24 min 2011 | German Premiere
Firas Khnaisser LB/GB Night and Day 14 min 2011 | World Premiere
60 min
Thurs 16 | 9pm
pictured: Dr. Valentyn Machines A Heart by Stephen Dirkes
Vicky Langan and Maximilian Le Cain IE Contact 3 min 2011 | German Premiere
Seppo Renvall FI Black 2 min 45s 2011
J.X. Williams US Credit Sequence from “Space Vixens" 3 min 1967
Woori Cho KR Oh Fate 10 min 02s 2010 | World Premiere
Florian Grolig DE MS. Found in a Bottle 9 min 15s 2010
Fabio Scacchioli and Vincenzo Core IT Miss Candace Hilligoss’ Flickering Halo 13 min 40s 2011 | German Premiere
John Christopher Gibson US Gillespie 8 min 08s 2010 | European Premiere
Stephen Dirkes US Dr Valentyn Machines A Heart 2 min 19s 2011 | World Premiere
Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare CA Main Attraction 30 min 2011 | European Premiere
J.X. Williams US The 400 Blow Jobs 5 min 1961
89 min