Urban Research at Directors Lounge 2013

<body> <table border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="10" summary=" " align="center"> <tr><td> </td><td><a name="top"><img src="images/shim.gif" width="1" height="10" border="0" alt=" "></a></td><td width="10" v-align="top"> <img src="images/shim.gif" width="10" height="1" border="0" alt=" "></td></tr> <tr><td width="10" v-align="top"> <img src="images/shim.gif" width="10" height="1" border="0" alt=" "></td> <td width="580"> <img src="images/UR2013flyer.jpg" width="816" height="540" border="0" alt="Urban Research 2013" title="Urban Research 2013"> </td> <td><img src="images/shim.gif" width="10" height="1" border="0" alt=" "></td></tr> </table> <br> <br> <table border="0" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="10" width="750" align="center" summary=" "> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="*"><a name="a10"><img src="images/shim.gif" width="350" height="1" border="0" alt=" "></a></td> <td width="*"><img src="images/shim.gif" width="350" height="1" border="0" alt=" "></td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td colspan="3" class="text"><h4>urban research on film - directors lounge 2012<br> film / video / installation </h4> </br> <a href="framesUrbanResearch.html" target="archive" title="program overview"><img src="images/blueSignBack.gif" width="13" height="13" align="left" border="0" alt="back"> Program Overview</a><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"><a name="a10"><img src="images/shim.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" alt=" "></a></td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text" colspan="2"> <h5>urban research<br> program II:<br> personal histories and the city's future </h5> <p>Monday, 11 February 2013 — 19:00 </p> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> <p>Another way to create a place are the mental constructions we do in order to connect with space, unlike official grand narratives. Laura Kraning tells a local legend about "Devil's Gate" connected with Jack Parson and Aleister Crowley, which may be connected with experiences of this place in the periphery of Los Angeles. Michael Poetschko's film Notebooks on Dislocation on the other hand, shows his ways of connecting thoughts with places, and thus his film, instead of being a lament on loss, is a stream of place-related memos. A coherent narrative seems not to be missing, instead it would be inadequate. </p> <p>Other films provide even more fragmented stories, like Alexander Isaenko, whose images "Wash by Fire" are underlaid by obscure imperatives. Gong Wenbo confronts us with our imagination, what is behind the metal fence in "Le Blue" - the blue city? Kristin Lucas and Claudia Larcher go a step further and present us pure constructions of space, though with a humane twist. Two other filmmakers are concerned with current changing urban environments, Sandra Becker01 "gentrification" and Karl F. Stewart "San Francisco. The unearthly beauty of simulated nature in contemporary architecture".</p> <p>Mixing experimental fiction, documentary and imaginary spatial representations, this is possibly the most experimental film program of this year's Urban Research. It may also question the common idea of coherent narratives being fundamental for place-making.</p> </td> <td class="text"><p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> Sandra Becker 01 DE <br> <b>gentrification</b> 1:00min 2012 <br><br> <br><p>In front of my studio window construction work changed the environment. Now it's an elegant expensive area with narrow corners. Life seems to continue and people seem to get used to it. Now the aim is to make money and to live in small boxes. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/Becker01Gentrification.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still - click for larger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/Becker01Gentrification.jpg" width="308" height="231" border="1" alt="video still - click for larger image"></a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> Alexander Isaenko UA <br> <b>Wash by fire</b> 1:10min 2011 <br><br> <br><p>This is a story of the latent terrorism, the accidental, not realized harm, the loss of reference points. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/IsaenkoWashBFire.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/IsaenkoWashBFire.jpg" width="308" height="172" border="1" alt="video still- click to open bigger image"></a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> <a href="http://www.laurakraning.com/about.html" target="_blank" title="Artist Link"> Laura Kraning</a> US <br> <b>Devil's Gate</b> 19:49min 2011 <br><br> <br><p>Explores the metaphysical undercurrents of a Southern California landscape scarred by fire and lyrically depicts the physical and mythological terrain of DevilÕs Gate Dam through a central figure. The film merges a portrait of a transformed landscape with a fragmentary textual narrative. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/KraningL_DevilsGateSW.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/KraningL_DevilsGateSW.jpg" width="308" height="183" border="1" alt="video still- click to open bigger image"></a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> <a href="http://claudialarcher.com/" target="_blank" title="Artist Link">Claudia Larcher</a> AT <br> <b>Empty Rooms</b> 10:45min 2011 <br><br> <br><p>The camera eats into nothingness, it glides along an empty surface whose rough grain resembles minimalistic interplay of shapes and forms and material analyses that refer the spectators back to themselves. Larcher creates an uncanny mood, though at the same time she goes beyond representation and breathes life into these spaces, making the walls dance. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/Larcher_empty-rooms06.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/Larcher_empty-rooms06.jpg" width="308" height="173" border="1" alt="video still- click to open bigger image"></a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> <a href="http://kristinlucas.com/" target="_blank" title="Artist Link">Kristin Lucas</a> US <br> <b>The Sole Ripper</b> 3:39min 2012 <br><br> <br><p>The Sole Ripper is a digital book that can be experienced as a moving image or interacted with as a film strip. It contains an architectural view of a fictional pedestrian roller coaster modeled for an empty lot in Manhattan. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/LucasTheSoleRipper.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/LucasTheSoleRipper.jpg" width="308" height="186" border="1" alt="video still- click to open bigger image"></a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> Benna M.G. IT <br> <b>topic #5</b> 6:20min 2009 <br><br> <br><p>This is part of a series of seven short movies that can be distinguished for the aesthetic appearance: very bad video quality as a choice. - A monstrous silo, that cloaks the sight, that mortifies the limbs, that obliterates the intellect, that darkens the path. A visual syntax. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/Benna_topic5.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/Benna_topic5.jpg" width="308" height="231" border="1" alt="video still- click to open bigger image"></a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> <a href="http://www.leaking-maps.net/wordpress/ " target="_blank" title="Artist Link">Michael Poetschko</a> AT/US <br> <b>Notebooks on Dislocation</b> 19:44min 2010 <br><br> <br><p>Notebooks on Dislocation approaches the complexity of the contemporary city through different perspectives, methods, stories and optics. It is conceptualized as an audiovisual travellogue and assemblage of urban experiences, mnemonic itineraries, notebook entries, and philosophical speculations. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/PoetschkoM_notebooks.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/PoetschkoM_notebooks.jpg" width="308" height="173" border="1" alt="video still- click to open bigger image"></a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> Vanessa Renwick US <br> <b>Portrait #3: House of Sound</b> 11 min 2009 <br><br> <br><p>The Portrait Series is part of an ongoing series of filmed places, stories and histories of Cascadia. "Black and white 35mm footage, subtly tinged with loneliness, both juxtaposes and compliments the rich, vibrant voices sampled from a radio broadcast tribute to the record shop..." </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/RenwickVanessa_HouseOfSoundSW.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/RenwickVanessa_HouseOfSoundSW.jpg" width="308" height="223" border="1" alt="video still - click for larger image" title="video still - click for larger image"></a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> Karl F. Stewart US/DE <br> <b>san francisco — the unearthly beauty of simulated nature in contemporary architecture </b>5:44min 2012 <br><br> <br><p>Downtown San Francisco as example of new contemporary city centers in the United States. Its architecture saturated with color stands erect as abstract forms of solid mass shimmering in the sun. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/Stewart-simulated_nature-1-1.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/Stewart-simulated_nature-1-1.jpg" width="308" height="205" border="1" alt="video still- click to open bigger image"></a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> <a href="http://www.gongwenbo.com/" target="_blank" title="Artist Link">Gong Wenbo</a> CN <br> <b>Le bleu</b> 3:45min 2012 <br><br> <br><p>What I am trying to say is these image effects like Blue Screen, through this technology I detach people, scene and objects, then trying to study and understand the relationships among them. From this point on, for me, the colour blue is erasable. The purer the blue is, the more transparent it is. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/WenboLeBleu.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/WenboLeBleu.jpg" width="308" height="173" border="1" alt="video still- click to open bigger image"></a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> <p align="right"><a href="#pagetop" title="page up">top <img src="images/blueSignUp.gif" width="13" height="13" border="0" alt="up"></a><br> <a href="http://berlinlounge.tumblr.com/post/3195837572/urban-research-ii" target="_blank" title="Directors Lounge Programme"><img src="images/blueSignFwd.gif" width="13" height="13" border="0" alt="Link" title="Link"> Directors Lounge 2012 daily program</a></p> </td> <td class="text" align="center" valign="middle"> <br> </td> </tr> </table> </body>