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  • Projektion - Lucide

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    Weird War (Albert Alcoz, 2011)Projektion - Lucide
    Thursday, March 1st, 2012, 19:30h
    kunstraum t27/Kunstverein Neukölln, Thomasstr. 27, 12043 Berlin-Neukölln

    This Projektionen programme on the "Lucidness" theme represent different artistic struggles with dream states, with different awareness ...

    Curated by Deborah S. Phillips

    - Paysages humains (Alice Baillaud, Performance, ca. 10 Min)
    A winter dance with immobile, transparent figures. Again and again, flit past a young woman in summer dress and a big kid too - until the wind carries them away, and intimate, fleeting thoughts whisper that could also be ours.

    - Anxious Automation (Richard Serra, 16mm, 5 Min, 1971)
    Two camera views by Joan Jonas, which performs a series of four movements, while the cameras into the picture - and zoom out of it. The movements of the actor and the cameras enter into a reciprocal relationship - with a soundtrack by Philip Glass.

    - Naturfilm (Tsuyoshi Harada, 16mm, 14 Min, 2007)
    The water, light, waves and the wind meet and cross, creating images in motion.

    - Mater (Anke Doepner, 16mm, 6 Min. 1991)
    The film begins with a boat ride. The water flows in streams, trees lose their leaves. At the end a daughter settles accounts with her mother, with a knife.

    - Weird War (Albert Alcoz, Super 8, 9 Min, 2011)
    Weird War is a found-footage film consisting of documentary on Super 8 measures. Explosions happen backwards, soldiers are injured, even deleted using direct methods on the film. At different levels, the film proves that war is always nonsense.

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  • 30-30 Vision

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    Sanctus (Barbara Hammer, 1990)30-30 Vision
    Thursday, March 1st, 2012, 19h
    Arts @ Renaissance, 2 Kingsland Ave., Williamsburg (Garden Level)

    Round Robin Collective presents 30-30 Vision, a program of experimental films and videos exploring medicine's charged relationship to the body. Showing work by both mature and emerging filmmakers, the works delve into fantasies surrounding photography's proximity to rational study, the social structures control, and left-over institutional spaces of empty corridors and rooms. Filmmakers Barbara Hammer, Caitlin Berrigan, Katherin McInnis, and Mary Billyou will be in attendance for conversation afterward.

    Program is as follows:

    - Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained, Martha Rosler, 1977 (shown as a loop)
    - 1-9, Mary Billyou, 2008
    - Concoctions, Caitlin Berrigan, 2004
    - Underexposed: The Temple of the Fetus, Kathy High, 1994
    - Shelter, Katherin McInnis, 2012
    - Sanctus, Barbara Hammer, 1990

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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.

    http://www.riverproject.net

    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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