A rare opportunity to see the recent films of Munich-based artist Stephan Dillemuth presented for the first time with English subtitles.Curated by Anja Kirschner. Stephan Dillemuth is an artist who sees art as a tool for artistic research and critical reflection on the circumstances of contemporary life. His inquiry into recent changes in the idea of the public sphere takes place against the backdrop of our globalised, localised and fragmented publics. Considering the impact of ‘lifestyle’ as a new ideology of self-fulfilment and liberation, Stephan Dillemuth has investigated the German Lebensreform movements at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Avoiding didactic explanations or direct comparisons with the present, Stephan Dillemuth’s work settles in the gap between a contemporary and a historical reading.

Measures is a new series of seminars that use screening, reading, discussion and analysis to look at critical assumptions about the image and its meaning once a week over a 10 week period. The first series ‘Politics and the Experimental Film: a sense of urgency’ will by led by AL Rees with one session led by Patrick Keiller who will discuss his film Robinson in Space. The second series will be led by curator Maxa Zoller and will be advertised in January 2009.

Rees will examine key passages of work by (amongst others): Bunuel, Anstey, Richter, The Duvet Brothers, Vertov, Watkins, Le Grice, Gidal, Eatherly, Rhodes, Straub-Huillet, Conner, Debord, Welsby and Ivens seeking the elusive union of film and politics in the last half-century to question what a contemporary political cinema might be?

THE DOUBLE NEGATIVE COLLECTIVE
PRESENTS
ARTHUR LIPSETT: ABOUT TIME, A FILM RETROSPECTIVE
CURATED BY BRETT KASHMERE

June 4th, 5th, 6th, 12th
Cinémathèque québécoise
335, boul. De Maisonneuve Est (Metro Berri-UQÀM
514-842-9763
Price - Adult 7$  Student (13-30) 6$

The Double Negative Collective, a dedicated group of Montréal-based
filmmakers and curators of cinema, in collaboration with the
Cinémathèque québécoise and the National Film Board of Canada, invite
curator Brett Kashmere to present a film retrospective 0f Canadian
filmmaker Arthur Lipsett.  The exhibition takes place at the
Cinémathèque québécoise on June 4th, 5th and 6th.  Eric Gaucher’s
documentary on Arthur Lipsett screens on June 12th at 7pm.

Propelled to international attention through an Oscar nomination at the
age of 25, the legendary National Film Board artist Arthur Lipsett
remains an anomaly within avant-garde film histories. Uneasily
oscillating between a personal, artisanal tradition and the NFB’s
institutional mandate “to interpret Canada for Canadians,” he was a
popular experimental filmmaker whose eccentric, satirical collage films
were renowned around the world. Lipsett’s films were admired by diverse
film patriarchs such as Stanley Kubrick, Stan Brakhage, and George
Lucas.  The exhibition Arthur Lipsett: About Time presents an overdue
retrospective of Lipsett’s short but influential career, re-assembling
his dazzling collage work alongside correlative Canadian media artists
from the past half-century.

Brett Kashmere is a filmmaker, curator, and Visiting Assistant
Professor of Cinema Studies at Oberlin College in Ohio, USA.  Kashmere
has organized programs for the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Strasbourg, Light Cone, Cinémathèque québécoise, Eyebeam Center for Art
and Technology, Cinema Project, Vtape, and Cinematheque Ontario.

Vertrautes Terrain - Contemporary Art in/about Germany
A collaboration between www.tank.tv and ZKM

21st May 2008 – 30th June 2008 / 14th September - 30th September 2008

Artists on www.tank.tv
include: Bankleer, Com&Com, Danica Dakic, Sven Johne, Dias &
Riedweg, Alexandra Gerbaulet, Laura Horelli, Korpys/Löffler, Macellvs
L., Antje Majewski, Sascha Pohle, Özlem Sulak, Hito Steyerl and Florian
Thalhofer.

tank.tv
is pleased to collaborate with ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany) to exhibit film
and video work from their forthcoming exhibition 'Vetrautes Terrain'. tank.tv
will open its show simultaneously with ZKM, on May 21st, to become part
of the 'resonance space' of the exhibition. Bringing video work out of
the gallery space and making it available to an international audience
we hope to widen the scope of this timely focus on national identity.

"German
Art" or "Art from Germany", a label that has exhibition tradition, is a
fiction – owing to the fact that, in most cases, national political
determinations have little or anything to do with artistic practice. In
spite of this, country-specific questions relating to the search for
history, genealogies or tendencies represent a constant factor in art
history and the art business: the general exhibition is its most common
format.

Local backgrounds and national events are beginning to be seen as
essential and identity defining whilst national identities appear to be
levelling out. The place of the 'national' is becoming confused and
fraught with tensions in contemporary culture, not least because no
formal, measured thematic-cultural analysis of the idea of 'Germany'
has taken place.

It is against this background that the project 'Vertrautes Terrain –
Contemporary Art in/about Germany' conceives itself, namely, as a
resonance space within which the differentiated examination of works by
international artists, who reflect on Germany in distinctly different
ways as a historical, art, and social sphere can be carried out. The
focus on the German context refers to an "imaginary cartography", which
seeks to trace those concerns dealing with form and content, the
symptoms and the virulent features in art as set against the backdrop
of their socio-political presence.

Questions
of history, memory, cultural location, identity, biographic references,
structures, symbols, references of forms, clichés and the politics of
representation form the basis of the project: what interests artists
among the various nationalities today? In which connection do
references to Germany appear? Does there emerge from an "identity of
doubt" (Hans Belting) an arbitrarily disposed thematic volatility in
works of art? What aesthetic and artistic qualities do those works
possess, which make reference to German culture, history, persons or
places? Which roles do historically established quality seals and
current hypes (from Romanticism to the "Leipziger Schule") play in
international perception?

The exhibition is characterized by shared and changing images of what the concept "Germany" signifies.
Vetrautes Terrain is curated by Gregor Jansen and Thomas Thiel.

www.zkm.de
www.vertrautes-terrain.de