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Fri 14 | 8pm | space B

Subverting Leviathan

The new democratic movements also seem to come with a reemergence of public space in the sense of life in the street. Even if some governments use all their powers to suppress changes, urban movements seem to give public space a new meaning. With a focal point on the largest city of Turkey, the program brings together different short films discussing urban changes concerning Istanbul, Damascus, Tel Aviv, Illichevsk (Ukraine), Belfast and Germany.

Urban Research is a special film program during the Berlin International Directors Lounge concerned with urban themes curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr.

For years the urban landscape has been under rapid change. Due to the increased economic pressure and shift towards mono-functional uses of the city, public space more and more vanishes.

The newly awakened interest in old city centers, which is a rather positive development, has also created new demands in conjunction with the deregulations of national and municipal city tasks: the city has mainly become an object for real estate investment.

On the other hand, new waves for urban movements towards a democratic renewal have appeared. A redetermination of public place may have come across, a new protest culture against the complete commercialization of the city has spread in places. Be it called neoliberal, new labor, social democratic, political-islam or post-Maoism, you name I. The radical loss of democratic political influences concerning urban development seems to have found a counter force in a rediscovery of the political space. The above sometimes extreme changes in the urban are also being reflected in creative art and film, or may even find their unique expression in the arts.

Nisrine Boukhari SY A letter between two cities / Damascus – Vienna 06:35 2013

Sharon Horodi/ Cheb Kammerer DE Black Stains 10:00 2007 IA

Maria Gonchar UA Creative Cities of Ukraine 11:23 2013

Sirin Bahar Demirel TR Living with Leviathan 11:00 2013

artizinconnu TR The City and The Memory 08:40 2013

Sylvia Winkler/ Stephan Köperl DE Alexandra Open 02:00 2009

Gertrud Schulte Westenberg/ Matthias Coers DE Mietrebellen –Widerstand gegen den Ausverkauf der Stadt excerpt: 09:40 2014 IA

short intermission

Bingöl Elmas TR Hey Neighbor! 44:45 2014 WP

pictured: Urban Research Program Flyer.

TRT 56 min + 44 min

WP World premiere
EP European premiere
GP German premiere
IA in attendance

Urban Research is a special film program during the Berlin International Directors Lounge concerned with urban themes curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr. For years the urban landscape has been under rapid change. Due to the increased economic pressure and shift towards mono-functional uses of the city, public space more and more vanishes.

continue at Urban Research at Directors Lounge 2014

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

http://www.directorslounge.net

Full program details:

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

Z-Bar

http://www.z-bar.de

interventions, transforming public space at platoon kunsthalle
Monday, 18 March 2013, 8pm

For those who missed the program III of Urban Research at The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge , here is another chance at another fine location.

more and more artists chose to create art in public space, use it as a public stage, or try to actively change it. an “invisible performance”, invisible, because it has not been publicly announced, may not physically change a place, however it may change the ideas of how to use public space in general.

Filipe Afonso’s film Televisao is a (secret) filming of private spaces, where nothing more happens than the nightly projection of a television screen, and he questions the differences between public and private sphere. Laura Kissel records a specific situation. “Window Cleaning” in Shanghai shows two facade-cleaners, who become public performers with their high-up activities, but also possible unwanted witnesses of private scenes. Kika Nicolela confronts people in places where usually no cameras are allowed, and where instead surveillance cameras always record.
Gabrielle de Bayon, Signe Theill and Nuno Escudeiro use urban spaces for their performances changing the concept of common uses of public space. Katze und Krieg actively engage with their surrounding. Here, it is not the authorities, interfering, but the crowd, not tolerating a slow-down in the public rush. And it is again, Vladimir Turner together with Vojtech Fröhlich and other artists, who hijack commercial billboards, turning them into other, more public use.

Urban Research – Interventions, Transforming Public Space

Directors Lounge at Kunsthalle Platoon

Monday, 18 March 2013 8pm

Kunsthalle Platoon Berlin
Schönhauser Allee 9
10119 Berlin . Germany
U2 Senefelder Platz.

Entrance: 5 Euro

Urban Research is a film and video program curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr for Directors Lounge 2013.

Programme:

Filipe Afonso (PT): Televisao (2012)

Kika Nicolela (BR): Don’t! (2010)

Philipp Hartmann (DE/AR): Entre despacio y por favor no haga ruido! (2012)

Nuno Escudeiro (PT): Pass by… (2011)

Kollektiv Graukarte (AT): Transforming a Non-Place (2011)

Eduardo Srur (BR): Bandit Bull (2010)

AKIZ (DE): Painting Reality (2010)

Laura Kissel (US): Window Cleaning in Shanghai (2011)

Signe Theill (DE): The new Middle (2010)

Gabrielle Le Bayon (FR): Image of a City (2011)

Julia Dick und Katharina Sandner katze und krieg (DE): Die Abenteuer
von Sissi und Sissi (2012)

Vladimir Turner (CZ): Osviceni / Enlightenment (2012)

Jan Simanek, Vladimir Turner, Vojtech Frohlich, Ondrej Mlady (CZ):

Merry-Go-Round (2011)

photo: AKIZ, Painting Reality (2010)

Sat 09 | 6pm

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

pictured: Ezra Wube, Mela

Mon 11 | 7 pm

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

pictured: Michael Poetschko, Notebooks on Dislocation

Fri 15 | 6pm

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

pictured: Kollektiv Graukarte, Transforming a Non-Place

Sat 18 | 6pm

URBAN RESEARCH – III SPECIAL

Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Adam Kossoff’s Moscow Diary (pictured) and some surprise from the Urban Research Program

Sat 18 | 6:45pm

URBAN RESEARCH – III Activismo Experimental: Artists Involved!

Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Cesy Leonard, Eduardo Srur, Russell J. Chartier, Daniel Künzler, Diane Nerwen, Vladimir Turner, Sheldon Brown, Matt Grau, Brandstifter

With special guests: Frank Behnke, Klaus Beyer, Brandstifter, Tanja Roolfs, Carsten Wagner

OPENING OF THE SPECIAL EXHIBITION IN THE SCREENING THEATRE:

Brandstifter DE Asphaltbibliotheque Berlin 2011
Exhibition with lost and found sheets of paper

Find more infos about the Urban Research Program and the films at richfilm

Feb 18, the program

DAY 5, Feb 13th

SUDDENLY: IT CAME FROM HERE AND BEYOND

Fans of the sudden will like short films coming at them “Out Of The Blue” at [DL8] (the 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge), as curated and presented by Deborah S. Phillips, and including five World Premieres. Film titles like “PFFFHP TT!” can make you wonder just what you’ll be seeing. It all jumps at you starting at 18:00 (6pm). Then DL’s own Klaus W. Eisenlohr treats us to a program of Urban Observations and Local Studies at 20:00 (8pm), chock full of metropolitan moments. Look for Klaus there too, recognizable in his trademark fedora. Then still more follows, with the DL Selection IV at 22:00, getting underway with “Silhouette” by Astrid Busch (in attendance), and weaving its way through shorts from Finland, Ireland, Hungary, Italy, France and the U.S, with a couple of World Premieres in the mix. One film in this block is entitled “The Last Picture”, but we certainly promise you more. In Naherholung Sternchen (near Alexanderplatz at U-Schillingstr., second building behind Kino International)

KT/Team DL

pictured: 10 Moments by Wenhua Shi (Urban Research)

urban research
program I:
Urban Observations and Local Studies

Monday, 13 February 20:00

https://directorslounge.net/tag/13th%20Feb%202012

With:
Alejandro Bernal, Caroline Koebel, Yptu Enth, Wenhua Shi, Deron Williams, Leslie Supnet, Joel Wanek, Chris Kennedy, Sarah Christman

This beautiful program comprises films, which meditate on city impressions in rather leisurely pace. Urban observations are always subjective, especially if done with a camera. Also, undertaking observations is only possible when making a distinction. The observer, the camera is always part of the situation. Never is it possible to look from outside (the Hollywood ideal of realism, the “God eye’s view” is only possible in fiction). Thus, the distinctions we make are never clear cuts, the opposites spill back in, and the dichotomies unite as the complementary parts of the same idea.

Following the program of Deborah Phillips, this program shows films originating both on digital video and 16mm film, including the film projection of Chris Kennedy CA
Simultaneous Contrast and Sarah Christman US Broad Channel

Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

More about the Urban Research Programs at Directors Lounge:
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2012/framesUrbanResearch.html