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 2013<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> loop program:<br> </h5> <p>mixed videos playing on different days of The Berlin International Directors Lounge Festival </p> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> Alice Bradshaw UK <br> <b>Rubbish</b>1:18min 2011 <br><br> <br><p>A montage of images from the Museum of Contemporary Rubbish.</p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/BradshawRubbish.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/BradshawRubbish.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"> Barbara Hindahl DE <br> <b>Lumen3</b> 10:00min 2011 <br><br> <br><p>Light, light flashes and images create a virtual space, fluktuating between perceptive and symbolic manifestation. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/HindahlLumen02.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/HindahlLumen02.jpg" width="308" height="232" border="1" alt="video still- click to open bigger image"></a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> <a href="http://agencyinbiosphere.com/" target="_blank" title="Artist Link">Markus Jeschaunig</a> AT <br> <b>Line-Flight Graz-Maribor</b> 120:12min 2012 <br><br> <br><p>A 56-kilometer long line-flight directly from Graz to Maribor generates a continuously filmed portrait of the living landscape along a straight line between the two closest Cultural Capitals of Europe (seen from a 200 meter height, perpendicular to the ground, point of view). </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/Jeschaunig_Linienflug_Graz-Maribor.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/Jeschaunig_Linienflug_Graz-Maribor.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://agencyinbiosphere.com/" target="_blank" title="Artist Link">Rouzbeh Rashidi</a> IE <br> <b>Homo Sapiens Project (48)</b> 5:00min 2011 <br><br> <br><p>Homo Sapiens Project is an ongoing series of personal video works by Rouzbeh Rashidi initiated in August 2011 for both online and screen context. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/RashidiHomoSap2.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/RashidiHomoSap2.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"> SET II <br> <br><br> <br> </td> <td class="text" align="center"> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> <a href="http://www.nadassor.net/" target="_blank" title="Artist Link">Nadav Assor</a> US/IL <br> <b>Strip / Lakeshore East </b>88:00min 2012 <br><br> <br><p>Strip is an ongoing project which utilizes a bicycle mounted video camera and custom software to generate organic, street level, panoramic video installations, a type of personal video map of specific locations and routes in across various sites, in which the architecture and landscape expand and contract according to the rider's motions. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/AssorStrip.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/AssorStrip.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://cuart.colorado.edu/people/faculty/luis-valdovino/" target="_blank" title="Artist Link">Dan Boord / Luis Valdovino</a> US <br> <b>Themes</b> 28:24min 2004 <br><br> <br><p>This post Cold War story proposes that history did not end with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, but has been reinvented in a children's theatrical production of Doña Faustina somewhere in Yucatan, Mexico. Within Themes the past, present and the future converge. Route 66 melts away into dioramas within an Oklahoma museum and the Venice of Dante becomes a hotel in Las Vegas. Not the symbol and not that for which it stands - the "theme" is the building block of the world viewed. This is a new century and Themes is here to nostalgically observe that they do not make the future the way that they used to. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/ValdovinoTheme.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/ValdovinoTheme.jpg" width="308" height="221" border="1" alt="video still- click to open bigger image"></a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> Daniel Kötter DE <br> <b>state-theatre #4 DETROIT</b> 0:53:44min 2012 <br><br> <br><p>Detroit, once America's center for auto-industry and theater, was shrinking to a third of its population. What used to be the space for theatrical presentation, nowadays presents the urban crisis. The city became a theater itself. The film stages the performative discourse of six locations, six neighborhoods, and six Detroiters: ã...weÕre sort of talking about Detroit in a way that it itself is a theater, that it itself is the object to behold.Ò </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/KoetterDetroitTheatre.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/KoetterDetroitTheatre.jpg" width="308" height="174" border="1" alt="video still- click to open bigger image"></a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> Anna Okrasko NL <br> <b>Untitled (Ik kijk naar de film) </b>45:46min 2012 <br><br> <br><p>Kanaleneiland district in Utrecht was build in 1960's according to ideals of functional cities. Nowadays, Kanaleneiland, which in recent years has been synonymous with social problems, goes through a gentrification process. I invited a group of people, living or working in Kanaleneiland (including myself) to stage together in front of the camera a fictional narrative. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/OkraskoUntitled.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/OkraskoUntitled.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://ruhrzilla.de" target="_blank" title="Artist Link">Invisible Playground</a> DE <br> <b>Ruhrzilla - Stadtspiel in Realversion</b> 21:47min 2012 <br><br> <br><p>The fiction of Monsters occupying the abandoned pedestrian area - the former heart of Mülheim - was used to give a new twist to the discussion about changes in the democratic construction of public space. You can also see the whole game as the collaborative production of a monster movie in which the city of Mülheim reimagines itself. "A rising number of monsters have been sighted in the small town of Mülheim...." </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/InvisiblePlaygr_ruhrzilla.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/InvisiblePlaygr_ruhrzilla.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://www.markstreetfilms.com/" target="_blank" title="Artist Link">Mark Street</a> US <br> <b>Hasta Nunca </b>1:03min 2008 <br><br> <br><p>Hasta Nunca follows Mario Ligetti, a middle-aged DJ in Montevideo, Uruguay whose call-in radio show exposes the city's "Secrets and Stories". As Mario's life becomes more entangled with that of his callers and listeners, his public and private personas are blurred and the intimate nuances of a city and its residents are revealed. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/StreetHastaNunca.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/StreetHastaNunca.jpg" width="308" height="169" 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.pieshake.com/Pieshake/About.html" target="_blank" title="Artist Link">Sasha Waters Freyer</a> US <br> <b>An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925</b> 9:30min 2012 <br><br> <br><p>An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925 is a lyrical essay film that captures the spirit of excess and adventure embodied by The Great Gatsby (published in 1925) in fragments from home movies of a wealthy American family on a Grand Tour of Europe and North Africa - illuminating truth as historically fleeting a la Walter Benjamin's dialectical image. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/Waters-Fryer_Travelogue.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/Waters-Fryer_Travelogue.jpg" width="308" height="225" 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.pieshake.com/Pieshake/About.html" target="_blank" title="Artist Link">Mayye Zayed</a> <a href=" http://vimeo.com/mayyezayed " target="_blank" title="Artist Link">(2)</a>EG <br> <b>Iskenderia </b>8:00min 2012 <br><br> <br><p>A montage of scenes from famous Egyptian fiction films, reflecting contemporary changes in Egypt. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/Zayed_Iskenderia.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/Zayed_Iskenderia.jpg" width="308" height="181" 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.rosebutler.com" target="_blank">Rose Butler</a> UK <br> <b>Platform</b> 6:20min 2012 <br><br> <br><p>Filmed at Blackfriars Station, Platform sychronises three screens of commuters in the station. A natural tempo occurs as the characters within the footage choreograph themselves creating ebbs and flows and prescribing the timeline. Using tracking and stabilizing software the frame is manipulated to become the main player of the sequence, and the characters within. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/ButlerR_Platform002.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/ButlerR_Platform002.jpg" width="308" height="78" 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.monocine.com/ " target="_blank" title="Artist Link">Pablo Mollenhauer</a> CL <br> <b>Fragments of Home</b> 19:50min 2012 <br><br> <br><p>Through five characters who live in London as immigrants, and whose lives have been entangled with the filmmaker in diverse ways, the film an imaginary journey in search for "Home". A journey through the physical and psychological spaces, through the tangible and intangible regions that embody the sensations and experiences of making a "home away from home" within the context of the global city. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/MollenhauerFragments.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/MollenhauerFragments.jpg" width="308" height="177" border="1" alt="video still- click to open bigger image"></a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> <a href="http://vimeo.com/user6017707" target="_blank" title="Artist Link">Irene Pacini</a> IT <br> <b>La Giostra, I giro II giro (The merry go round, I¡round II¡round)</b> 5:45min 2012 <br><br> <br><p>"La Giostra", is an imaginary trip through a dynamic route. A place that, with wonder, while you are traveling without thoughts on the carousel of the life, reveal its direct bond with death. This place is a historical cemetery, and I choose to explore this space where people go with special feelings, and where is a special silent. A place that most of people forget in daily life, but real in every town, just a urban space for the last moment of life. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/PaciniI_laGiostra.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/PaciniI_laGiostra.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://www.keremsaltuk.com" target="_blank">Kerem Saltuk</a> CA/TR/DE <br> <b>Phu and Ping Pong</b> 06:00min 2010 <br><br> <br><p>Phu is a retired Vietnamese immigrant living in Montreal, Canada. His biggest passion is playing table tennis. </p> </td> <td class="text" align="center"><a href="DLimagesXL/SaltukPhongPingPong.jpg" target="_blank" title="video still- click to open bigger image"><img src="DLimagesSML/SaltukPhongPingPong.jpg" width="308" height="230" 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/3194811884/installations-loops" 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" valign="middle"> <br> </td> </tr> </table> </body>