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Karl Kels

Karl Kels (born October 22, 1960) is a German experimental filmmaker who lives in Berlin. He was a student of Peter Kubelka`s film and cooking class at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. He has taught filmmaking at the Gesamthochschule Kassel, at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt, at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and at SUNY Binghamton.

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Germany

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  • Light Movement 11

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    Light Movement 11 brings together a selection of filmmakers, most of whom have had screenings in the series over 2015. This is a great chance to see a selection of films which convey the general dirrection of the series so far, all shown in their original formats. We also welcome several of these filmmakers to the screening in person.

    Plus some music in the bar from DJ mfx (reboot fm)

    Dates: 

    Friday, January 29, 2016 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    SPEKTRUM - Berlin, Germany

  • Light Movement 9: Karl Kels

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    Kondensstreifen (Karl Kels, 1982)

    This month Light Movement is extremely delighted to host Karl Kels, who will be presenting in person a selection of 16mm films from 1981-94 plus a very special 35mm screening of Sidewalk from 2008.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - 20:00 to Thursday, November 5, 2015 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    SPEKTRUM - Berlin, Germany

  • Magic Lantern Presents: Print/Process

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    Magic Lantern Presents: Print/Process
    16mm Films by J.J. Murphy, Phil Solomon, and Karl Kels
    Wednesday March 20, 2013, 20h
    95 Empire Black Box Theater, Providence, RI, USA

    Film, tape and digital video are all subsets of cinema, much like oils, acrylic, egg tempera, spraypaint and watercolor are all included under the heading of painting. Nevertheless, while sharing the predominant qualities of what we generically call "cinema," each material has its own specific aesthetic materiality that is perhaps best revealed in the event of its own failure or deterioration. The video image becomes filled with horizontal lines of interference or static noise; digital images break down into smears of pixels and stuttering motion; similarly, film has its own special form of visual decay. In 1974, J.J. Murphy re-photographed the same minute of footage fifty times; the product of this experiment was Print Generation, a supremely structuralist work that plays at the cinema's limits of abstraction and representation both on the levels of image and sound. Rarely screened and long available only in the most faded of 16mm prints, Print Generation is shown here in a new, immaculate restoration that brings the alchemical of play of Murphy's film back to life. *Print Generation* is complemented by two other works that engage directly with the theme of generation and decay: the enigmatic *Secret Garden* by American filmmaker Phil Solomon, and *Starlings*, an early work by Austrian filmmaker/documentarian Karl Kels. Like the car dredged up from the marsh at the end of Hitchcock's *Psycho*, these pieces put film's materiality on display as a field of potentiality from which a figurative image, like the return of the repressed, may or may not emerge.

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  • Media City 14 Awards

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    Grand Prize:

    - Bachelor Machines Part I & Part II (Rosalind Nashashibi, Scotland, 2007)

    2nd Prize:

    - Victory over the Sun (Michael Robinson, USA, 2007)

    3rd Prize:

    - Public Domain (Jim Jennings, USA, 2007)

    Honourable mentions (in alphabetical order):

    - Androa Autoportrait (Matthias De Groof and Kristin Rogghe with Androa Mindre Kolo, Belgium/ DR Congo, 2006)

    - Bay Bridge from Embarcadero (Guy Sherwin, England, 2004/2007)

    - Dislocated Smaller Parts (Bruce McClure, USA, 2008)

    - Golf House and Grey Heron II (Helga Fanderl, Germany, 2006)

    - Land of Cockaigne (Rachel Reupke, England, 2007)

    - Observando el Cielo (Jeanne Liotta, USA, 2007)

    - Room of Chromatic Mystery (Arthur & Corinne Cantrill, Australia, 2006)

    - RR (James Benning, USA, 2007)

    - Sidewalk (Karl Kels, Germany, 2008)

    - Sketch Film #5 (Tomonari Nishikawa, Japan, 2007)

    - Take into the air my quiet breath (Speculative Archive, USA, 2007)

    The jury:

    Amy Beste is Director of Public Programming for the department of Film, Video & New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she organizes the visiting artist series "Conversations at the Edge" at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

    Vincent Grenier has been making experimental films and videos since the early 1970s. His films have been exhibited at the Pompidou Centre, the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), and countless other international venues and festivals. Grenier is currently Chair of the Cinema Department at Binghamton University in New York.

    Mike Sperlinger is Assistant Director of LUX, London, which holds the UK's most significant collection of artists' film and video. He has contributed to publications including Frieze, Radical Philosophy and Art Monthly, and recently edited the book "Afterthought: New Writing on Conceptual Art (Rachmaninoffs, 2005)

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