Berlin based artist Renata Daguerre presents films and videos from Córdoba, Argentina, Rotterdam and Berlin at Directors Lounge Screening at Z-Bar.

Many of Renata Daguerre's films are essentially portraits. They don't elaborate on psychological dramatization, rather, we could call them short vignettes of individuals who live in current time, and who often appear to be unadapted to ordinary life, in one way or the other. The artist at the same time likes working with analog material, super-8 or 16mm, or with an analogue video synthesizer. The reason for her choice is the way analogue recording (or processing) changes the appearance of the image, but also for the physicality of the material. Coming to Europe created an opportunity to expand her interest and to first work at the film laboratory Filmwerkplaats - Rotterdam, then at LaborBerlin.

A woman in Rotterdam tells about the different personas she’s adapting during different times of the week. She even has different names for the different personas. (“Achter de geraniums zitten”). In a similar setting, a person who is into music, dance and colors, takes Renata onto the street at Swinemünder Brücke in Berlins (El diablo nació en Colombia). An earlier film, set in Córdoba, Argentina, seems to be quite different on a first view (El Jardin / The Garden). We are being presented lush vegetation in an extended garden, and then a collection of flowers and herbs, all of which turns out to be the project of a physician of alternative, natural medicine. Each vignette, each persona evokes a micro cosmos, a world on their own.

The second strand of films, of “analog video”, and processed with an analogue synthesizer, appears to be some darker side, connected with darker music, or sounds. “Listen and Repeat” has been purely created with the synthesizer, while “X” and “El cuerpo eléctrico / The Electric Body”) are photographic images that have been processed with different techniques. They still evokes a whole world on there own, apart from the ordinary.

The artist will be present for Q&A; curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Artist Link:
https://vimeo.com/renatadaguerre

Links:
Directors Lounge: http://www.directorslounge.net
Richfilm: http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
Z-Bar: http://www.z-bar.de