urban research on film - directors lounge 2011
film / video / installation

 Program Overview

urban research
program 1:
places and locations — reality check

Sunday, 13 February 18:00

Going on field research, the filmmakers and artists of this programme record peripheral, vernacular but still memorable moments of their surrounding. If place is connected with memory, constructed by memory, these artists make aware, that memories may be connected to vernacular artifacts, to shop signs, ugly corners, technical constructions, street "furniture" or even telephone booths. If those vanish, something may get lost with them. The spatial representations and a reading of spaces in these films prove that the experience of place and location can be much more than a depiction or collection of memorabilia.

Visual research thus may connect us with reality instead of just showing landmarks or "sights", the "memorable" and camera-aided fact of "having been there" or the representation of the representative.

Bill Brown US
Chicago Corner 4 min 2010

Hope Tucker USA
Puhelinkoppi (1882 -2007) 7min 30s 2010

Stephanie Gray US
You know they want to disappear Hell's Kitchen as Clinton 17min 2010

Roberto Duarte DE/CL
131 2min 32s 2009

Uwe Doebbeke DE
Passagen 8min 2002

Paul Rascheja DE
Spaces 2min12s 2010

Marjan Laaper NL
At the Mall 1 min 26s 2009/2010

Ellen Lake USA
Seaworthy 3min 10s 2010

Christina McPhee US
Deep Horizon 7min:32 2010

Alla Kovgan US
New London Calling 10 min 2010

Deborah Phillips DE
Herman(n) 8 min 2011

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