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directors lounge at mitte media festivalradically subjectivecurated by klaus w. eisenlohr Friday, 19 April 2019 at 21:00 This program is mainly comprising works of artists who have previosly been presented at Directors Lounge Monthly Screenings at Z-Bar. Links: |
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Berlin is turning into a filmmaker's city again. We are not talking about mainstream cinema, but in terms of experimental and art production, there is a considerable growth. There are new places for film and video, new collaborations and a growing continuity. Directors Lounge is a proud part of it. Many of the new works strive for a radical subjectivity, a presence by virtue of their images. The tradition of experimental film becomes renewed maybe in a turn against tendencies of documentation and documented activism in art. With a world out of joint, a search for a genuine form and subjective expression may be more important than before. Reality, or rationality, for the sake of theory, may also be described as a form of radical subjectivity, following Keith Lehrer (American philosopher on epistemology), as it cannot be constituted only by knowledge and empirical evidence. Rationality is also based on an active construction of a world view, or a radical commitment to contemporariness. There is a reason, why dictators and anti-democratic movements mostly have turned against the contemporary art of their time, which also applies to right-wing populists, and religious fundamentalists. Subjectivity, image production by compositing, blending and merging create new views onto reality. Sometimes, however, it just needs a specific light, or the combination of two images in film montage in order to create a radically different view. These films are radically subjective in a way that they constitute reality, or a contemporary world.  Directors Lounge Monthly Screenings
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directors lounge selection
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Jos Diegel
Unendlicher Spannteppich (Des VIP-Empfangs-raums) 2018 35mm Experimentalfilm DV 0:45sec Ein experimenteller Footage-Film, der mit bunten Formen und Farben das Gedicht von Ann Cotten aufgreift, um es im selben Moment zu kontrastieren. Wettbewerbsbeitrag für Poetry Award Berlin. |
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Petra Lottje
Kollision DE 2019 50sec PREMIERE Petra Lottje often combines familiar images with common quotes. Here, Käthe Kollwitz meets with Johann Wolfgang Goethe in an uncommon way. |
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Margarita Novikova
while deriving a nightmare formula, 2017, 3:00 A stream of images, which seems to be a mixture of analogue and digital material. Microcosm and macrocosm, water, air, earth and fire seem to merge with an ironical twist. |
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Björn Speidel
Wanderlust #1, stereo3D, bw/anaglyphic, sound, DE, 2018 9min Wanderlust, iteration #1 follows the trees of an alley. There are 64 of them, seen with two eyes - and in spring again. The path offers no destination, the repetition changes. A twofold picture of time, space and wandering. This stereoscopic film delivers image pairs for two eyes using two different space-depicting concepts. The same trees are visited at two seasons. The soundscape tells of the oscillation of being on one s way or to know of others being on the move. |
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Maria Korporal
Dust Thou Art, 2017 DE 3:32 min "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." Meditation of the artist recovering from an eye operation, during her walks in Berlin in May 2017, where she met the famous statue of the Trümmerfrau* infested with caterpillar webs from the tree next to it, while the wind played gently with the strings of the artist's guitar, turning it into an aeolian harp. |
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Johnny Welch
Discharge Working II (16mm, DE 2018) 5:00 Min Johnny Welch commits himself to a radical exploration of blackness. I. Darkness: Flesh hate breeding half slaves. Division. Hell adores infinite fools. A. Blood: Dissolve fear beyond Eyes. Harmony. New Priest kills the Old. O. Sun: Drinking Fire of Fire. Undulations. Burning in Splendrous Desire. |
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Marissa Rae Niederhauser
Remember, 2019, DE, 9:22min Fragments of a surreal story, like ghosts replay in a night time garden. Is the memory referring to a dream, an individual memory, or a collective image? Or a dream from a different time? |
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Dagie Brundert
Pep Ventura, DE 2018 2:30min I love to ride the subway in cities that I do not know yet. I love the station names. My favorite name is: Pep Ventura. Pep Ventura! That sounds like a peppy adventure life! Or a spicy meal! Pep Ventura! I go there. The Pep Ventura place is desolate and boring, but anyway Š what is a Pep? What is a Ventura? I read and I learn: Pep Ventura was a Catalan musician. A poor boy who lived with his grandfather and played on handmade flutes. He spiced up the Cobla and the Sardana with new flutes and composed 550 songs. |
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Simon Tyszko
abacadraba (Haunting David Ellis) 3:57min This video is about a future that is in the past. |
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Deborah Uhde
cockpit, 2014, DE, 12:11min Cockpit is a control psychosis on 6 monitors. The journey leads from the earth's interior into the cosmic orbit. The starting point is the nuclear waste disposal site Asse. The documentary recordings of places and events are interwoven with an auditory mesh of sci-fi material from the age of nuclear euphoria. |
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Gabriele Stellbaum
Heretofore DE 2017 05:10min “You have made my stars disappear" is the defiant manifestation hurled from the disrobed speech in heretofore, a desperate appellation towards an implicit Other. It is a peculiar setting, a female protagonist behind glass, decisively articulating a monologue in an altered, dark and dwelled voice, addressing an audience that remains invisible. The entire scenery is shaken by partially erupting flashes of lightning, flickering over the tinkered firmament, that is there indeed. The stars are present, gazing back from the backdrop apathetically. The scene then turns into an autoreceptive spectacle for enacted pathos, gestures appropriated from a well known iconography. |
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Angela Christlieb
In an Alien Land, 2017 DE 7:41min A lyrical visual analogy, a poetic journey of a mysterious woman crossing seas. Abstract sequences are woven together revealing two parallel stories through a diptych. The split screen reveals two distinct places displayed side by side: a tropical serene landscape and an American metropolis which is eventually filled with political tension. With each segment of the film, we are shown different perspectives of place and time. Associations arise and dissipate over again. The film is a collaboration between Angela Christlieb who also stars in the film, and the New York artist, filmmaker, cinematographer Maria Niro. |
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Deborah Phillips
Nach Osten Schauen, DE 2019 2:23 min Looking out of the window while painting - images from Kunstquartier Bethanien. |
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Melissa Faivre
Underneath it all, DE 2017, 4:41min Underneath it all is an immersive experience merging our materialistic surroundings with the power and strength of nature. Water is omnipresent and shapes in a continuous flow the landscapes growing inside the space. It reaches a peak of harmony and abstraction where only the colour flow is perceivable, like a moving painting where the water current would be a brush. The realism and materiality of the sound textures create a tension with the surrealism of the images and call our senses to move in undefined places. |
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