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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:

ANJA DORNIEDEN & JUAN DAVID GONZALEZ MONROY
From Eye to Mouth, from Mouth to Eye

Thursday, 26 September 2013

Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzalez Monroy have dedicated themselves to avant-garde film and work together for several years, strictly with 16mm and Super-8.

At the same time they often address society-related questions in their films, with phenomenas ranging from the relation between hypnosis and psychoanalysis, from the nostalgia about East-German puppet houses, to spatial imaginations connected the term private sphere. As members of the Labor Berlin, they have created their own facilities to develop film, but also produce 35mm copies of some of their films. Working with film for them also means to extend the possibilities of single film projection towards a layering of projections, which becomes a performance by itself, in former days also called Expanded Cinema.

Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzalez Monroy will be present for Q&A. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Thursday, 26 September 2013
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Artist Links:
http://www.ojoboca.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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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.

alte feuerwache >> projektraum
Marchlewskistraße 6
10243 Berlin
Telefon 030 | 293 47 94 26
U5 Weberwiese

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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31. May – 2. June at the Zollverein world heritage site

It is a fine tradition that we present the C.A.R. Video-Lounge together with the C.A.R. media art fair. Next to works from participating galleries, our friends of Kroatien Kreativ and invited artists we will screen selected works from The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge.

contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.) is an innovative and dynamic fair format. Since 2006 C.A.R. comes two times a year, as a media art fair in summer, emphasizing video and media art, installations, performances, environmental sculptures, multimedia projects and contemporary photograpy. In autumn with a more classical art fair for contemporary art – C.A.R. . covers the entire spectrum of fine arts and their most important current influences.

C.A.R. Videolounge 2013

Katharina Merten DE Speaking In Tongues 2:34 2012

Beata Obst DE Stroboskop B 2:48

Wei-Ming Ho TW Self-Destruction For Eternity 6:26 2011

Cornelia Eichhorn FR Ved´Ma 14:00 2012

Julia Charlotte Richter DE You Hear Something 7:47 2011

Lucie Mercadal DE Hafenpfütze 4:21 2012

Kroatien Kreativ 2013 curated by Ingeborg Fülepp

Nadija Mustapic HR An Afternoon Without Gravity 14:41

Marijan Crtalic HR

Directors Lounge Selection

Irina Birger NL Irina Birger Thinks Drawing Is Important 15:13 2010

Stefan Larsson JP 9 states of ambivalence 01:30 2012

Andre Chi Sing Yuen DE Sword-Sharpness of Expression 02:26 2012

Alessandro Amaducci IT Black Data 04:05 2012

Michael Higgins IE The Poorhouse Revisited 15:00 2011

Valentina Besegher Scotti IT Try Hard Johnny! 04:11 2007

Roger Deutsch US Prelude 07:15 2011

Eleonora Manca IT I Sing the Body Electric Borderskin 03:49 2012

Fabio Scacchioli and Vincenzo Core IT Spectrography of a battle 03:42 2012

Stephen Dirkes US The Offering 05:23 2012

Shaun Roberts US Dear Texas Highways 11:13 2009

Bernd Luetzeler DE The Voice of God 09:35 2011

Ana Rodríguez León ES Memorais 07:00 2012

Reed O’Beirne US Last of Our Kind 13:19 2012

Alessio Rutigliano IT Six triptychs 06:55 2012

Maximilian Schmoetzer and Fabian Heitzhausen DE The Conversation 03:24 2012

Artists presented at the DL Booth

Videos

Mihai Grecu and Thibault Gleize RO Glucose 07:18 2012
Takahiro Suzuki US Horizon 06:38 2012
Keren Zaltz IL Cradle 01:49 2011
Céline Trouillet FR SONG N°15/20 05:21/4:12 2012
Alan Smithee Are You Afraid 2012 loop
Pedro Ferreira PT Dance Dance Fire Dance 06:00 2012

Photography/Painting

Robert Carrithers US
Marijan Crtalic HR
Carola Goellner DE
Julia Murakami DE/JP
André Werner DE

Impressions from the C.A.R.

pictured: ““I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then” by Julia Murakami, 2013 from the series “Once Upon A Time”, C-Print, Edition of 10, 6.7 x 9.6 inch (print) | 11.8 x 15.8 inch (framed), signed and dated on the front
© Julia Murakami

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

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 at the Filmmuseum Duesseldorf, April 20th, 7pm – 2am

We have been kindly invited by the Filmmuseum Duesseldorf to present selected shorts during Duesseldorf´s Night Of The Museums, a special art event when 40 museums and galleries open their doors for one night.
During this night, all of Duesseldorf’s cultural establishments present an exciting program from music, workshops, lectures to art, as well as a wide scale of culinary surprises.

We screen three programs, next to an animation-special, curated and presented by Kim Collmer and a luminosacoustic live performance by Croatian artists Lightune.G (Bojan Gagic and Miodrag Gladovic)

Show me shorts! #1

around 7:30pm

Joerg Brinkmann DE Entschleunigter Moses 02:05 2011
Claudia Guilino DE Stony Sleep 06:24 2011
Pasha Е RU Robots 04:39 2009 music: Dolphin
Roger Deutsch US Prelude 07:15 2011
Charles Fairbanks US/MX Irma 12:15 2010
Emilio Rizzo IT The Story of Dreams 02:38 2009
Richard Pierre CA Squeaky Shoe 01:50 2012
Reuben Sutherland GB Happy Up Here 02:58 2009
Andre Chi Sing Yuen DE Sword-Sharpness of Expression 02:26 2012
Bruce Knox DE Alienated 02:32 2011
Antoine Hilaire FR Cross the Fader 03:26 2008 music: Jamaica
Heiko Daxl and Ingeborg Fuelepp DE Tomaten 03:00 2004
Masha Godovannaya RU Untitled #1 04:00 2005
music: Gianluca Porcu aka LU

Show me shorts! #2

around 10:30pm

Nina Lassila FI Günter und Mutti 03:17 2011
Simon Ellis GB What About The Bodies 07:20 2002
Lucia Nimcova SK Exercise 05:54 2007
Neil Ira Needleman US A Charming And Quaint Tale Of Brutal Revenge 07:50 2012
stock`n`wolf / Tinka Stock & Sèbastien Wolf DE Bob Log`s III Electric Fence 02:25 2005
Franz Wanner DE pitrs 01:11 2000
D. Kimm & Brigitte Henry CA Mademoiselle Clara, Rabbit-Tamer 06:26 2010
Andre Werner DE Die Augen Der Menschheit 14:00 2007
Kote Camacho ES La Gran Carrera 06:55 2011
Chema Garcia Ibarra ES The Attack Of The Robots From Nebula-5 06:20 2008
Javier Chillon ES Decapoda Shock 09:15 2011
Guilherme Marcodes BR Tyger 04:30 2006
Juan Pablo Zaramella AR Luminaris 06:00 2011

Show me shorts! #3

around midnight

Coleman MillerUS Uso Justo 22:00 2005
Sandra Araújo PT Tape Loading Error 02:55 2012
Oded Arad IL Bartholomew 09:08 2012
Karl F. Stewart DE/US Animaux Découpages 04:33 2012
Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare CA Main Attraction 30:00 2011
Make the Girl Dance FR Baby Baby Baby 04:21 2009 music: Make the Girl Dance
John Christopher Gibson US Gillespie 08:08 2010
Joe McClean and Sarju Patel US How To Make David Lynch Movie 09:50 2011
Keith Schofield US Toe Jam 03:27 2008 music: The BPA

location:

Black Box, Filmmuseum Duesseldorf, Schulstraße 4, 40213 Duesseldorf

pictured: still from Coleman Miller’s “Uso Justo”

FORMING MOTION presented by Kim Collmer

part of Directors Lounge at the Filmmuseum Duesseldorf, April 20th, 8:30pm

Kim Collmer delivers some of her absolute favorites for a special edition of animations and videos from her Directors Lounge screenings.
How to describe the work? It’s a real mix! Humorous yet uncomfortable, light but heavy, slick though messy. The main overriding theme – genuine artistic expression.
Some of the artists showing include: Tobias Anderson, Buckius & Manos, John N. Cambell, Jennifer Hope Davy, Janet Galore, Cecilia Lundquist, Johannes Nyholm, Ho Yoel Ryu, Meredith Root and more!

Buckius & Manos, 101 Ways to Humanize Technology, 2007, 03:11

Meredith Root, Anxiety Invention, 2006, 03:00

Hei Cheng and Mike Chan, Board, 2005, 01:00

Janet Galore, Party Party Chisai-san, 2006, 01:30

Ho-Yeol Ryu, Ampel,2002, 01:30

Eric Dyer, Copenhagen Cycles, 2005, 06:35

Ho-Yeol Ryu, Autobahn, 2002, 01:30

Kim Collmer, Berlin Skin, 2007, 04:00

Cecilia Lundqvist, Making Pancakes, 2005, 04:58

Johannes Nyholm, The Tale of Little Puppetboy, 2005, 04:20

David Shrigley, Chris Sheperd, Who I Am And What I Want, 2006, 07:20

Ho-Yeol Ryu, Billards, 2002, 01:30 min

J Tobias Anderson, Whereto I Go, 2005, 04:46

Bridget Walker, One Verse, No Chorus, 2007, 05:32

John N. Campbell, Li: The Patterns of Nature, 2007, 09:07

Jennifer Hope Davy, It’s Your Timing, 2013, 01:00

location: Black Box, Filmmuseum Duesseldorf, Schulstraße 4, 40213 Duesseldorf

pictured: still from Who I Am And What I Want by David Shrigley, Chris Sheperd

If you’re in Albuquerque, New Mexico, visit our fellow film festival Experiments in Cinema v8.53 (April 3rd & 15-21, 2013) and “witness cinema like you have never experienced it before!”.

Festival director Bryan Konefsky presented a truly stunning EIC program at this year’s DL9. Now it’s our turn to show selected tidbits from The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge [DL9].

Experiment 6 (April 17th, 2013)
with short films by Oded Arad, Stephen Dirkes, Karl F. Stewart, Matthew Lancit, Eleonora Manca, Neil Ira Needleman, Reed O’Beirne, Alessio Rutigliano, Fabio Scacchioli and Vincenzo Core, Keren Zaltz and Juan Pablo Zaramella. Curated by Julia Murakami and André Werner