RomanIstanbul
Director: Özgür Akgül
60 min, turkish with english subtitles
German premiere

Wed 14 August 2013,9pm

The film invites to watch and listen to the music of Istanbul.

Romanistanbul provides an insider view onto the current music scene of the megacity on the Bosporus with the example of a number of musicians who fuse traditional turkish music with current tunes, and who are member of the Roma minority in Istanbul: Ismail Tunçbilek, Orhan Sallıel, Göksun Çavdar, Hüsnü Senlendirici, Aytaç Dogan, Hasan Gözetlik, Mustafa Uysal (Kasık Mustafa), Cüneyt Sepetçi and Sercan Çalanlı (Arap).
At the same time a wonderful music film that allows the music to tell its own story, the film also gives the musicians a voice to tell their story and their engagement with music. Their commitment to music, to the tunes of Istanbul is also connected with their identity and the struggle of the Roma to be accepted as a part of the contemporary society. The film thus also mirrors the rapid changes, and current movements of this city between the promises of a global city, an expanding music scene and different cultural identities.
The director will be present for Q&A.

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Film Links:
http://www.romanistanbul.info/
http://film.iksv.org/en/film/287
www.studyokolektif.com

Part of the exhibition „Exploring Istanbul"
http://istanbulausstellung.wordpress.com
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/1-framesExploringIstanbul.html

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

A project by
Photocentrum am Wassertor
vhs Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
http://www.fotokurs.info/
with support of
Städtepartnerschaftsverein Kadiköy e. V.

A Directors Lounge Screening
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Directors Lounge Screening:

Monika Rechsteiner
Reality Check

Thursday, 25 July 2013
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

Monika Rechsteiner’s films are metaphors of spaces, which unfold over the time of their viewing.

Firstly, they seem to be long panorama travels over photographic stills. This unfamiliar and possibly uncanny reduction seems to go against expectations of movement and depth in films. However the camera travels further onto different picture planes and different points-of-view. The films present frames and skeleton constructions of buildings, unfinished ruins or uncanny city panoramas, which seems to unfold from the inside. At the same time, the written or spoken discourse leads towards a completely different level. While discussing art and the production of art, or the unfolding ticker-news about Fukushima in 2011, we still are lead to a self-reflection of our perceptions. The realistically recorded and presented spaces thus turn into metaphors, into mental constructions. The program presents more well-known pieces such as „To Be Continued“ (about Tokyo-Fukushima) and „Wie von Selbst“ (As If By Itself), but also less known short works that originated in Super-8 and digital video.

Artist Links:

http://www.echtzeitverdichtung.org

Links:

Directors Lounge

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Full program details:

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Z-Bar

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Directors Lounge Screening:

Txema Novelo
Visions from Mexican Underground

Thursday, 27 June 2013
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

Txema, artist from Mexico who just finished his Emare Residency in Bourges will present his newest video „Still Movie“, and a selection of his works related to Vale Vergas Discos, his music label involved with Mexican underground music.

Txema usually works with 16mm or super-8 and each of his films is related to a music piece starring the musicians. However, unlike commisioned „music videos“, these films show the artist’s visions for the tunes, the videos taking up a life and a story for themselves, and mixing urban life, images of nature and mythology. „Still Movie“ will be presented for the first time in Germany, as work-in-progress with 4 of 5 planned chapters of tribute to Walter Schmidt a largely influential first generation Mexican punk musician. Txema Novelo: ‘I share the same church as Dan Graham: „Rock’n Roll is my religion“’

The artist will be available for Q&A.

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

http://yau.com.mx/artists/txema-novelo

Links:

Directors Lounge
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Full program details (upcoming):
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Z-Bar
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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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Z-Bar
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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

Full program details:

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

Links:

Directors Lounge

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Z-Bar

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Directors Lounge Screening:

Anna Okrasko
video works and selected films

Thursday, 28 March 2013
21:00 Uhr
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Anna Okrasko confronts modern Dutch urban environments with ephemeral everyday stories. In Sobota/Saturday/Zaterdag, the artist worked with a group of young Polish immigrants in Rotterdam, making them act for the camera instead of interviewing them. Interviewing them, according to Okrasko, would just have made them respond to the bad public image Polish workers have in the eyes of Dutch people. Rather, she wanted to show the way they live and the urban environment they live in. Using Polish documentary films from the late 50’s as an inspiration, she has them explore the city, playing games, just killing time and finally gathering at their home. As these early post-war documentaries are the artist’s favorite films, some scenes of Sobota/Saturday/Zaterdag are even quotes from those films, making it even more interesting to present them together. Another part of the program will be a glimpse into Untitled (Ik kijk naar de film) a work-in-progress about a quarter in Utrecht, “Kanaleneiland”. This quarter was part of a massive urban expansion plan of the city of Utrecht in the 60’s but soon after became almost exclusively occupied by emigrants, it used to be seen as a no-go area for people of Dutch origin, however nowadays it is under rapid change, hosting many students, artists and an artist residency program. Though not finished, Anna Okrasko shows stunning images from that area and the beginning of a story of “a tramp” looking for a place to stay.

Anna Okrasko, polish artist who lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands currently works as an artist in residence at Programme ABA (Air Berlin Alexanderplatz) with Mondriaan Fonds grant. Since she came to Holland, she became more and more interested in the issue of contemporary Polish immigration in the Netherlands.

Especially with the combination of some films from the past, Anna Okrasko not only addresses the issue of contemporary labor migration inside the EU, but the question how the contemporary society on one hand sells the dream of freedom via consumer products, and on the other seems to limit growth by xenophobia and the costs for education. It may be interesting to take Okrasko’s ideas further and compare the limits, chances and goals for young Europeans in the societies of the 50’s and today.
Anna Okrasko will be available for Q&A.
Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr.

Artist Links:
http://www.okrasko.blogspot.de
http://airberlinalexanderplatz.de/
http://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/

Links:
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http://www.richfilm.de
http://www.z-bar.de

More Detailled Program Infos:
http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesOkrasko.html

Sat 09 | 6pm

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pictured: Rhayne Vermette, Tudor Village: a one shot deal

HABITATS, HOMELANDS AND BRIDGES
curated and presented by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Kevin T. Allen US Bridge 10:58min 2012

Lyndsay Bloom US Williamsburg Bridge Walk 00:21min 2012

Chris Bravo US In Habitat 06:14min 2012

Stephanie Gray US It’s Not Roses for Five Roses 03:50min 2011-2012

Henry Gwiazda US deciding when 6:23min 2010-2012

Deborah Phillips DE iiiii 2:31min

Paul Turano US 104 Merrimac St 1:00min 2010

Rhayne Vermette CA Tudor Village: a one shot deal 05:15min 2012

Janus Victoria PH Aurora, My Aurora 15:21min 2012

Telemach Wiesinger DE Europa 20:00min 2012

Ezra Wube ET/US mela 1:41min 2011

Carlo Zanni IT My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar 4:11min 2007

Full UR2013 program with images and text:
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2013/framesURprogram1.html

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pictured: Ezra Wube, Mela

Mon 11 | 7 pm

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pictured: Laura Kraning, Devil’s Gate

PERSONAL HISTORIES = PLACES
curated and presented by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Sandra Becker01 DE gentrification 1:00min 2012

Alexander Isaenko UA Wash by fire 1:10min 2011

Laura Kraning US Devil’s Gate 19:49min 2011

Claudia Larcher AT Empty Rooms 10:45min 2011

Kristin Lucas US The Sole Ripper 3:39min 2012

Benna M.G. IT topic #5 6:20min 2009

Michael Poetschko AT/US Notebooks on Dislocation 19:44min 2010

Vanessa Renwick US Portrait #3: House of Sound 11 min 2009

Karl F. Stewart US/DE san francisco . the unearthly beauty of simulated nature in contemporary architecture 5:44min 2012

Gong Wenbo CN Le bleu 3:45min 2012

Full Urban Research 2013 program details with images and text:
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2013/framesURprogram2.html

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pictured: Michael Poetschko, Notebooks on Dislocation

Fri 15 | 6pm

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pictured: Vladimir Turner, Merry-Go-Round

INTERVENTIONS, TRANSFORMING PUBLIC SPACE
curated and presented by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Filipe Afonso PT Televisão 14:45min 2012

Nuno Escudeiro PT Pass by… 4:22min 2011

Philipp Hartmann DE / AR Entre despacio y por favor no haga ruido! 4:30min 2012

Julia Dick und Katharina Sandner aka katze und krieg DE Die Abenteuer von Sissi und Sissi 21:08min 2012

Laura Kissel US Window Cleaning in Shanghai 2:36min 2011

Kollektiv Graukarte AT Transforming a Non-Place 3:15min 2011

Gabrielle Le Bayon FR Image of a City 11:00min 2011

Kika Nicolela BR Don’t! 5:49min 2010

Jaime Rguez ES sawaruna 触るな【don’t touch!】 6:17min 2012

Signe Theill DE The new Middle 3:05min 2010

Vladimír Turner, Vojtěch Fröhlich, Ondřej Mladý and Jan Šimánek CZ Osvícení / Enlightenment 2:27min 2012

Jan Šimánek, Vladimír Turner, Vojtěch Fröhlich, Ondřej Mladý CZ Merry-Go-Round 2:05min 2011

Full Urban Research 2013 program details with images and text:
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2013/framesURprogram3.html

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pictured: Kollektiv Graukarte, Transforming a Non-Place

Directors Lounge Screening:

Guillaume Cailleau
Bolex, Loves and Other Measures
16mm and Live Super-8 Performance

Thursday, 29 November 2012
9:00 pm
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Guillaume Cailleau bridges conceptual working methods with playful references to the avant-garde. This playful mix of forms, expanded cinema, experiments with human perception, and poetic compositions makes the viewing experience very enjoyable for its richness. His sincerity, combined with a joyful wink  of the artist’s eye add to this impression. Explorations – or games – with color separation, the basics of color photography, are as much part his artistic arsenal as the lyric beauty of rich black and white contrast of high-con film combined associatively on an optical printer.
The artist will perform live, and will be available for Q&A.

Artist Links:
http://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-1910-guillaume-cailleau

Links:
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http://www.richfilm.de
http://www.z-bar.de

Detailed Program Infos:
http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesGCailleau.html