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  • Directors Lounge: Andreas Müller-Pohle

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    Yumiko (Andreas Müller-Pohle, 2002)Special Directors Lounge screening: Andreas Müller-Pohle in Person
    The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, 2012
    Friday, 17 February 2012, 19h
    Naherholung Sternchen, Berolinastraße 7, 10178 Berlin / Mitte

    "Directors Lounge presents the first theater screening with Andreas Müller-Pohle, featuring a whole range of his video work.

    Water would seem to play an important role in Andreas Müller-Pohle's recent work, both in film and photography. It may also be a key for interpreting his work as a whole. In the case of Hong Kong Waters - the Asian metropolis is surrounded by water on three sides, the South China Sea and the Perl River Delta - the waters inspired a number of photo, video and sound works. 'Dark Waves,' 'Zig Zag' and 'Coasting' were conceived in Hong Kong. 'First of all, the water has to be surpassed in order to move around the city,' Müller-Pohle told me, and water embodies both dangers and chances for the city. The rising sea level, due to climate change, will put the city under threat. Large parts of the urban area have been reclaimed from the sea and will be in danger. However, the sea has also given the city a good trading position and a strategic importance.

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    A very different work in the program is 'Araki at Work,' shot in 1996 in Japan, but first published in 2011, a few months ago. Here, Müller-Pohle is the documentary photographer with a small un-intrusive camera, and driven by his interest in documenting the creative process of an artist. Araki, well-known as a provocative and commercial photographer, seems to surpass limits of privacy when working, especially seen from a European perspective. However, the film also reflects and produces the strange relations between 'observer and observed,' the settings in which the photographer worked with a model. As the video possibly takes the viewer to the limits of 'moral habits,' without being pornographic or offensive, the viewer becomes the observer of the observer, maybe even reflecting back on his or her own position as spectator, or voyeur.

    The program will include a discussion with Andreas Müller-Pohle. We thus expect an extraordinary evening that will be an eye- and ear-opener. And brains."
    - Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Curator

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  • Urban Research At Directors Lounge Program 2

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    Urban Research At Directors Lounge
    Program 2: The Future is Now, the City Imagination
    Wednesday, 15 February, 18h
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    Directors Lounge at Naherholung Sternchen
    Berolinastraße 7, 10178 Berlin / Mitte

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    Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 18:00 to Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 17:55

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  • 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Special Programmes

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    AAFF logoThe Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) announces the awards jury and special programs for its 50th season. Independent filmmakers and artists will present a vast body of work, March 27 - April 1, 2012, including films from the past 50 years of AAFF history.

    This year's AAFF jurors are avant-garde filmmaking legend Peter Rose, Whitney Biennial artist Michael Robinson and renowned curator and scholar Kathy Geritz.

    Peter Rose has made over thirty films, tapes, performances and installations since 1968, many of which have screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival over the past four decades. His works raise questions about the nature of time, space, light, perceptionand language. Rose has been widely exhibited, both nationally and internationally, having been included in shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Biennial, the Centre Pompidou, the Rotterdam International Film Festival and many more. As part of his free juror screening (all juror screenings are free to the public) Rose will show new work in addition to earlier works including Secondary currents, which played in 1983 at the 21st AAFF.

    As the winner of the Most Promising Filmmaker award at the 45th AAFF, Michael Robinson has garnered critical acclaim for his work and most recently he's been chosen as one of this year's Whitney Biennial artists. Robinson's work strives to cultivate new resonances between seemingly disparate elements, harnessing the surface connotations of specific landscapes, television shows, texts, songs and sounds as psychological triggers, ripe for reconfiguration. His work has been discussed in publications such as Cinema Scope, Artforum, and Art Papers, and he was listed as one of the top ten avant-garde filmmakers of the 2000's by Film Comment magazine.

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  • Urban Research At Directors Lounge Program 3

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    Urban Research At Directors Lounge
    Program 3: Activismo Experimental: Artists Involved!
    Saturday, 18 February, 18:45h
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    Directors Lounge at Naherholung Sternchen
    Berolinastraße 7, 10178 Berlin / Mitte

    In recent years, art has become increasingly political, again. The societies around the globe and even in Europe and the United States seem to wake up from the rigidity of the paralysing West-East conflict, and its aftermath, when there seemed to be no alternative to economic liberalism. Some artists take amazing risks to do public actions, others try to subvert written or unwritten laws in more subtle ways, however, in many ways, the society has become the material again for artists to experiment with. Furthermore, the cheeky and anarchist stance many artists have developed may have an influence on how the freedom to speech, which seems to be in jeopardy again, will be interpreted and used in the future.

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  • Urban Research At Directors Lounge Program 2

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    Urban Research At Directors Lounge
    Program 2: The Future is Now, the City Imagination
    Wednesday, 15 February, 18h
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    Directors Lounge at Naherholung Sternchen
    Berolinastraße 7, 10178 Berlin / Mitte

    The city we live in consists of much more than what we directly experience, and the program dealing with this idea "naturally" turns out to be divers and colourful. The things we see, the social environment we live in and experience is only one part of our "life in the city". The other part consists of news, media, stories, gossip, and an increasing number of images, shared and received on public and private channels. Thus, life in the city (let's call it a specific city: Berlin, Hamburg, London, L.A., or Singapor, you name it) does not turn into a storyline, I don't live "the story of my life", but it turns into a multifaceted image. As a consequence, we might say, city life in large parts is made of private and public, shared and unshared imaginations.

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  • Urban Research At Directors Lounge Program 1

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    Urban Research At Directors Lounge
    Program 1: Urban Observations and Local Studies
    Monday, 13 February, 20h
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    Directors Lounge at Naherholung Sternchen
    Berolinastraße 7, 10178 Berlin / Mitte

    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.

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  • Laida Lertxundi: Films and influences

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    Llora Cuando Te Pase / Cry When it Happens (Laida Lertxundi, 2010)Courtisane presents:
    Laida Lertxundi: Films and influences

    Monday February 13, 2012, 20:30h
    OFFoff Cinema, Gent (Belgium)

    Courtisane is proud to present for the first time in Belgium a survey of the work of Laida Lertxundi (Spain, 1981), one of the most talented young filmmakers working in the tradition of the avant-garde today. Lertxundi makes 16mm films with non-actors often shot within and around Los Angeles, where she’s been living for a number of years. Her films evoke external and internal spaces of intimacy, questioning how viewers’ desires and expectations are shaped by cinematic forms of storytelling, and searching for alternative ways of linking sound and music with found parameters, constructed situations and everyday environments. In recent years her work has been widely shown at festivals and venues such as MoMa, LACMA, the Viennale, the Rotterdam International Film Festival or the BFI London Film Festival. After having screened Cry When It Happens last year in the competition programme, Courtisane will once again showcase Lertxundi’s work during the coming Courtisane festival (21-25 March 2012), with the screening of her latest short film, A Lax Riddle Unit, which premiered last October at Views of the Avant-Garde during the New York Film Festival. As a prologue to this year’s festival, Courtisane will present at OFFoff four films by Lertxundi together with a selection of works by other filmmakers that have inspired her practice.

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  • Barbara Hammer: The Fearless Frame

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    Sync Touch (Barbara Hammer, 1981)Seminal American experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer is the protagonist of a month-long retrospective at the Tate Modern (3-26 February). The nineteen programmes that comprise this almost-complete survey of her work include from her latest films  as the premiere in the UK of Maya Deren's sink (2011) to some of his earlier super-8 films that have been rarely screened. Hammer will also re-enact her 1979 performance Changing the Shape of Film in the Turbine Hall and present three performative lectures on different aspects of her work. Theretrospective will combine Hammer's films with the works of other filmmakers whom Hammer considers crucial influences on her own work, such as Maya Deren, Chick Strand, Stan Brakhage, Shirley Clarke, Gunvor Nelson, Chris Welsby, Gina Carducci, Cecilia Dougherty, John Greyson, William E Jones, Liz Rosenfeld, Emily Mode, Scott Berry, Kirstin Rossi and more.

    Curated by Barbara Hammer and Stuart Comer

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