Mitte Media Festival  

exploring the boundaries where video art and cinema merge

directors lounge at mitte media | program three

curated by klaus w. eisenlohr

Saturday, 6 May 2017 at 16:00

Fata Morgana Gallery
Torstr. 170
D-10115 Berlin-Mitte
U-Rosenthaler Platz

This program is comprising works of artists who have previosly been presented at Directors Lounge Monthly Screenings at Z-Bar.

Links:

Link Directors Lounge: http://www.directorslounge.net

Link Fata Morgana Gallery

Link Mitte Media Festival on Facebook

Exploring the boundaries where video art and cinema merge, the films of this program expand the traditions of experimental film with the experience of new digital media.

Directors Lounge Monthly Screenings is a format that gives filmmakers and video artists the opportunity to present a full program of their short films to an interested audience in the beautiful and intimate atmosphere of the cinema at Z-Bar in Berlin. Artists from Berlin and of international background creating films between experimental films and experimental documentary, analogue and digital formats, as well as live film performances, all are welcome to show.

Link Directors Lounge Monthly Screenings

 

urban research
selection 2014
James Harrar - Cinema Soloriens
Vlaamperd 2014 UK 5:54min


My films are often meditations on beauty, perception, allegory, sensuality and visual phenomenon. I strive to reacquaint the viewer with the moment of becoming aware of witnessing something - perhaps capture the essence of visual thought that is empty of fixed meaning.
still by James Harrar
Clemens Fürtler und Christian Vogel
Bildmaschine 07,Transit 2015 AT 3:30min silent


"... with Bildmaschine 07, the artist is no only moving between the media of sculpture, photography, painting, film and theatre, he is also creating a bridge from 20th century machine art to current contemporary art where the borders between man and machine have become more fluid."
still by Clemens Fuertler
Elaine Tedesco
Leme Posto 2011 BR 2:59min


In this video a woman, possibly the artist, stands on the curb in the nocturnal street facing a futuristic building, while cars pass by at very slow speed.
still by Elaine Tedesco
James Edmonds
Movement and Stillness 2015 DE 10:52 silent


Quiet observations, variations of light, from strong amber glows to diffused greys, intermittently entering the windows of an internal world. A film about coming home, archetypal images where the eternal meets the temporal. Calm reflection interspersed with travel and the endless search for significant forms, personal chapters of collage and remnants.
still by James Edmonds
Eric Stewart
Rah Rah 2013 US 3:58


wild/west cut-out/shoot-out Image
Eric Stewart Makes Films & likes telescopes.
still by EricStewart
Petra Lottje
Questions to the Moon 2017 CN-DE 4:46min


Chongqing could be positioned for both strong population and economic growth. The city has grand plans. I am deeply impressed in different ways ­ QUESTIONS TO THE MOON is the thoughtful result after a two week stay in this city.
still by Petra Lottje
Doris Schmid
LEG- 2012 DE 5:00min


LEG-  behandelt Aspekte und Anordnungen von Räumlichkeiten im Bild: Mehrere Video-Sequenzen sind auf Objekte aus Papier projiziert und dabei erneut gefilmt. Diese Objekte sind abgestimmt auf die unbeweglichen Motive im Bild:  Form, Kontur und Erhöhungen entsprechen den Gebäuden und Landschaften. Bildmotive sind Einwirkungen von klimatischen Ereignissen wie Wind (Tornado/Sturm) und Wasser (Überschwemmung): Eingriffe und Zerstörungen von Landschaften und Räumen sowie gleichzeitige Eingriffe in die Darstellung ihrer Abbildung.
still by Doris Schmid
Katya Craftsova
Time Conservation 2012 IN-DE 6:19

In the village Gelawas, India I explored life of local girls and women. Rajasthan is the most conservative state in India. The girls often don't go to school and can't speak English, the second official language in India. Mostly at the age of 18 the girls get married. Therefore they don't have much time for childhood. I met girls of different ages and all of them dream about marriage, but no one girl knows who will be her husband. This important decision is taken by the oldest man of a family, who usually smokes opium and drinks opium tea during all days. Dance is a very important part of local culture, every girl can and loves dancing. I asked girls from 5 to 17 years old to dance. They use the same poses every time and never were tired of repeating.
still by Katya Craftsova
John D´Arcy & Deborah Uhde
Back ande Vor DE-UK 2014 5:32


A meeting point. A missing point. A conversation at the border of languages. Deborah Uhde's special focus is set on experimental and documentaristic films, as well as on situative formats like installation or performance.
still by Deborah Uhde
Bernd Lützeler & Kolja Kunt
Unterwegs mit Maxim Gorkiy 2014 DE 10:14min

The film is based on six hours of Super-8 footage, shot by a middle-aged German couple during their round-the-world-cruise in 1980. When we first saw the innocent cruelty of this postcolonialist scenery, we were shocked and fascinated at the same time. However, we discovered that in these images contained several nested layers of perception: The tourist's look at the native. The native who performs as an indigenous. The tourist who documents this performance in order to review it later back home. And finally us, who discover this footage as an artifact and see something completely different in it. The voiceover now guides the attention and the judgement of the spectator, and therefore creates yet another layer of perception.
still by Bernd Luetzeler
Sandra Becker 01
4 Clips for Loops 2015 BR-DE 01:17min


The film clips shot in Brazil and edited to be shown as loops create an irritating narrative space if shown in sequence instead of being looped.
still by Sandra Becker01
Mélissa Faivre
The Space in Between 2016 DE 11:48

The Space in Between is an exploration of the relationships between inner and outer space, between the observer and the one being observed. It is a reflection on digital and performative abstractions, on point of views and self-image representations. The film is composed of two opposite parts. The first focuses on rooms and their surroundings which are rather empty, formal and cold. And the second part slows down the fragmented rhythm of the first by focusing on people in a more sensual and voyeuristic way. The narrative of this film happens in the gap between the camera and the subject, between the reality and its alterations.
still by Melissa Faivre
Gabriele Stellbaum
Honest Lies 2011 DE 9:45min

Honest Lies leads us through a meditation on moral courage, responsibility, and one individual's sense of impotence in acting against a totalitarian pretension of an unnamed political system. Set entirely in a dark, deserted parking garage Stellbaum's filmic structure draws us into a winding Dantean underworld of thoughts, memories, fears, and imaginations of what is yet to come. In a nighttime car park, a woman driver is caught without any means of escape while circulating nervously and lonely along the many turns , pointers and directions in this vast convoluted architecture. Are the stories truths or lies? The viewer becomes caught up in her escalating dilemma.
still by Gabriele Stellbaum
Mark Street
After Synchromy 2015 US 5:11


An homage and reimagining of Norman McLaren's 1971 film.
still by Mark Street
Felix Brassier. Thanos Chrysakis
Day Two Hundred Seventy Nine ­ Trails 2014 FR-UK 4:22


The film starts with sounds from the streets and the ringing of a bell. It could be the bell of the church, and seems to be located in small town France. The short movie could be interpreted as showing the day cycle in that town, but what is significant on the video level are the ways Brassier melts together the single images from time-lapse. When people appear in the movie, their images are being morphed into each other. The surrounding area of the person is being affected and becomes liquified. On the sound level, Chrysakis is also liquifying local sounds, voices and urban noises that seem to be speeded up without change of pitch.
still by Felix Brassier

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 Mitte Media Festival  

exploring the boundaries where video art and cinema merge

directors lounge at mitte media | program three

curated by klaus w. eisenlohr

Saturday, 6 May 2017 at 16:00

Fata Morgana Gallery
Torstr. 170
D-10115 Berlin-Mitte
U-Rosenthaler Platz

This program is comprising works of artists who have previosly been presented at Directors Lounge Monthly Screenings at Z-Bar.

Links:

Link Directors Lounge: http://www.directorslounge.net

Link Fata Morgana Gallery

Link Mitte Media Festival on Facebook

Exploring the boundaries where video art and cinema merge, the films of this program expand the traditions of experimental film with the experience of new digital media.

Directors Lounge Monthly Screenings is a format that gives filmmakers and video artists the opportunity to present a full program of their short films to an interested audience in the beautiful and intimate atmosphere of the cinema at Z-Bar in Berlin. Artists from Berlin and of international background creating films between experimental films and experimental documentary, analogue and digital formats, as well as live film performances, all are welcome to show.

Link Directors Lounge Monthly Screenings

 

urban research
selection 2014
James Harrar - Cinema Soloriens
Vlaamperd 2014 UK 5:54min


My films are often meditations on beauty, perception, allegory, sensuality and visual phenomenon. I strive to reacquaint the viewer with the moment of becoming aware of witnessing something - perhaps capture the essence of visual thought that is empty of fixed meaning.
still by James Harrar
Clemens Fürtler und Christian Vogel
Bildmaschine 07,Transit 2015 AT 3:30min silent


"... with Bildmaschine 07, the artist is no only moving between the media of sculpture, photography, painting, film and theatre, he is also creating a bridge from 20th century machine art to current contemporary art where the borders between man and machine have become more fluid."
still by Clemens Fuertler
Elaine Tedesco
Leme Posto 2011 BR 2:59min


In this video a woman, possibly the artist, stands on the curb in the nocturnal street facing a futuristic building, while cars pass by at very slow speed.
still by Elaine Tedesco
James Edmonds
Movement and Stillness 2015 DE 10:52 silent


Quiet observations, variations of light, from strong amber glows to diffused greys, intermittently entering the windows of an internal world. A film about coming home, archetypal images where the eternal meets the temporal. Calm reflection interspersed with travel and the endless search for significant forms, personal chapters of collage and remnants.
still by James Edmonds
Eric Stewart
Rah Rah 2013 US 3:58


wild/west cut-out/shoot-out Image
Eric Stewart Makes Films & likes telescopes.
still by EricStewart
Petra Lottje
Questions to the Moon 2017 CN-DE 4:46min


Chongqing could be positioned for both strong population and economic growth. The city has grand plans. I am deeply impressed in different ways ­ QUESTIONS TO THE MOON is the thoughtful result after a two week stay in this city.
still by Petra Lottje
Doris Schmid
LEG- 2012 DE 5:00min


LEG-  behandelt Aspekte und Anordnungen von Räumlichkeiten im Bild: Mehrere Video-Sequenzen sind auf Objekte aus Papier projiziert und dabei erneut gefilmt. Diese Objekte sind abgestimmt auf die unbeweglichen Motive im Bild:  Form, Kontur und Erhöhungen entsprechen den Gebäuden und Landschaften. Bildmotive sind Einwirkungen von klimatischen Ereignissen wie Wind (Tornado/Sturm) und Wasser (Überschwemmung): Eingriffe und Zerstörungen von Landschaften und Räumen sowie gleichzeitige Eingriffe in die Darstellung ihrer Abbildung.
still by Doris Schmid
Katya Craftsova
Time Conservation 2012 IN-DE 6:19

In the village Gelawas, India I explored life of local girls and women. Rajasthan is the most conservative state in India. The girls often don't go to school and can't speak English, the second official language in India. Mostly at the age of 18 the girls get married. Therefore they don't have much time for childhood. I met girls of different ages and all of them dream about marriage, but no one girl knows who will be her husband. This important decision is taken by the oldest man of a family, who usually smokes opium and drinks opium tea during all days. Dance is a very important part of local culture, every girl can and loves dancing. I asked girls from 5 to 17 years old to dance. They use the same poses every time and never were tired of repeating.
still by Katya Craftsova
John D´Arcy & Deborah Uhde
Back ande Vor DE-UK 2014 5:32


A meeting point. A missing point. A conversation at the border of languages. Deborah Uhde's special focus is set on experimental and documentaristic films, as well as on situative formats like installation or performance.
still by Deborah Uhde
Bernd Lützeler & Kolja Kunt
Unterwegs mit Maxim Gorkiy 2014 DE 10:14min

The film is based on six hours of Super-8 footage, shot by a middle-aged German couple during their round-the-world-cruise in 1980. When we first saw the innocent cruelty of this postcolonialist scenery, we were shocked and fascinated at the same time. However, we discovered that in these images contained several nested layers of perception: The tourist's look at the native. The native who performs as an indigenous. The tourist who documents this performance in order to review it later back home. And finally us, who discover this footage as an artifact and see something completely different in it. The voiceover now guides the attention and the judgement of the spectator, and therefore creates yet another layer of perception.
still by Bernd Luetzeler
Sandra Becker 01
4 Clips for Loops 2015 BR-DE 01:17min


The film clips shot in Brazil and edited to be shown as loops create an irritating narrative space if shown in sequence instead of being looped.
still by Sandra Becker01
Mélissa Faivre
The Space in Between 2016 DE 11:48

The Space in Between is an exploration of the relationships between inner and outer space, between the observer and the one being observed. It is a reflection on digital and performative abstractions, on point of views and self-image representations. The film is composed of two opposite parts. The first focuses on rooms and their surroundings which are rather empty, formal and cold. And the second part slows down the fragmented rhythm of the first by focusing on people in a more sensual and voyeuristic way. The narrative of this film happens in the gap between the camera and the subject, between the reality and its alterations.
still by Melissa Faivre
Gabriele Stellbaum
Honest Lies 2011 DE 9:45min

Honest Lies leads us through a meditation on moral courage, responsibility, and one individual's sense of impotence in acting against a totalitarian pretension of an unnamed political system. Set entirely in a dark, deserted parking garage Stellbaum's filmic structure draws us into a winding Dantean underworld of thoughts, memories, fears, and imaginations of what is yet to come. In a nighttime car park, a woman driver is caught without any means of escape while circulating nervously and lonely along the many turns , pointers and directions in this vast convoluted architecture. Are the stories truths or lies? The viewer becomes caught up in her escalating dilemma.
still by Gabriele Stellbaum
Mark Street
After Synchromy 2015 US 5:11


An homage and reimagining of Norman McLaren's 1971 film.
still by Mark Street
Felix Brassier. Thanos Chrysakis
Day Two Hundred Seventy Nine ­ Trails 2014 FR-UK 4:22


The film starts with sounds from the streets and the ringing of a bell. It could be the bell of the church, and seems to be located in small town France. The short movie could be interpreted as showing the day cycle in that town, but what is significant on the video level are the ways Brassier melts together the single images from time-lapse. When people appear in the movie, their images are being morphed into each other. The surrounding area of the person is being affected and becomes liquified. On the sound level, Chrysakis is also liquifying local sounds, voices and urban noises that seem to be speeded up without change of pitch.
still by Felix Brassier

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