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Filmprogramm (68 min):
Morgan Fischer - Projection Instructions
| 4 min | 1976 | 16mm | bw | sound | OVen | US
Valie Export - Body Tape
| 4 min | 1970 | digifile (Videotape) | bw | sound | OV (nodialog) | AT
Malcolm Le Grice - Berlin Horse
| 9 min | 1970 | internet (16mm) | col | sound | OV (nodialog) | UK
Anne Severson - Near the Big Chakra
| 17 min | 1971 | digifile (16mm) | col | silent | US
David Rimmer - Real Italian Pizza
| 13 min | 1971 | 16mm | col | sound | OV (nodialog) | CA
Richard Serra - Television Delivers People
| 6 min | 1973 | DVD (Videotape) | col | sound | OVen | US
Bill Viola - The Reflecting Pool
| 7 min | 1979 | DVD (Videotape) | col | mono | OV (nodialog) | US
Zbigniew Rybczynski - Tango
| 8 min | 1979 | digifile (35mm) | col | sound | OV (nodialog) | PL
Morgan Fischer - Projection Instructions
| 4 min | 1976 | 16mm | bw | sound | OVen | US
Normally the projectionist’s job is done correctly only when all the mechanics of projection are invisible to the viewers. The moment the image is out of focus or not centred, the moment we realise the sound is too low, we become aware of the projectionist, and we wait impatiently for the projectionist’s return to invisibility.
Der Film besteht ausschließlich aus einer Folge von Texten, die im Bild erscheinen und gleichzeitig vorgelesen werden. Dieser - geschriebene und gesprochene - Text enthält einen Satz von Anweisungen für den Vorführer, wie er seinen Apparat bedienen soll. Die einschneidenden Eingriffe, die er vornehmen muss, bringen zu Bewußtsein, wie der Apparat funktioniert, den er kontrolliert. Genau genommen sieht das Publikum nicht den Film, sondern achtet auf die Interaktion zwischen dem Bild auf der Leinwand (der Partitur) und dem Vorführer (dem Darsteller). Der Film ist eine Performance, bei der die Partitur sichtbar ist, während der ausführende Darsteller im Verborgenen bleibt.
(http://films.arsenal-berlin.de/)
Morgan Fisher, geb. 1942 in Washington, ist Filmemacher seit Ende der 1960er. Anfang der 1970er Jahren wurden seine Filme bereits im Museum of Modern Art und im Whitney Museum of American Art in New York gezeigt. Ende der 1990er Jahre hat sich sein Werk auf Malerei, Zeichnung und räumliche Installation ausgeweitet. 2005 widmete das Whitney Museum of American Art ihm eine große Retrospektive. Er lebt in Los Angeles.
Valie Export - Body Tape
| 4 min | 1970 | digifile (Videotape) | bw | sound | OV (nodialog) | AT
1: Touching – 2: Boxing – 3: Feeling – 4: Hearing – 5: Tasting – 6: Pushing
7: Walking – Performerin: Valie Export – In einer Reihe witziger, minimalistischer Studien, die jeweils durch Zwischentitel eingeführt werden, untersucht VALIE EXPORT die Beziehung von Wort und Handlung.
(http://www.sixpackfilm.com/de/catalogue/show/1647)
Valie Export, geb. 1940 in Linz macht seit 1968 Aktionen und Expanded Cinema; in den 70er Jahren Arbeit mit Video und Film; seit 1980 Lehrtätigkeit an verschiedenen Hochschulen in Europa und den USA; Ausstellungen und kunsttheoretische Texte; 1991-95 Professur an der Hochschule der Künste, Berlin; 1995-2005 Professur für Multimedia-Performance an der Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln; lebt und arbeitet in Wien und Köln.
Malcolm Le Grice - Berlin Horse
| 9 min | 1970 | internet (16mm) | col | sound | OV (nodialog) | UK
„Berlin Horse“ is made of 8mm home-movie footage shot by the artist near Berlin, and archive footage of a related subject. He weaves these together in repeating cycles of action, refilming images from the screen and colouring them, to heighten the viewer's awareness of film-time and the film-image.
Malcolm Le Grice, born in 1940, started as a painter but began to make film and computer works in the mid 1960s. He founded the London Filmmakers' Co-op workshop in the late 1960s, and introduced film to fine art students at St Martins School of Art and Goldsmith's College, London. He has also written critical and theoretical work including a history of experimental cinema 'Abstract Film and Beyond' (1977). His most recent works have been digital video installations.
Anne Severson - Near the Big Chakra
| 17 min | 1971 | digifile (16mm) | col | silent | US
An unhurried view of 37 human vaginas - ranging in age from three months to 56 years. – "Neither clinical nor leering, its strange neutrality makes it possible for the viewer to be simultaneously fascinated, repulsed, awestruck at the diversity of women's genitals, and finally, at their universality." - Ms. magazine
"The impression made by this film, its impact - has been enormous. ... This film is a new approach to our femininity." - Agnes Varda, Image and Sound
(http://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=2057)
David Rimmer - Real Italian Pizza
| 13 min | 1971 | 16mm | col | sound | OV (nodialog) | CA
Selected moments from eight months of street life outside a Manhattan pizza parlour, as seen from a fourth-floor loft. "People coming and going, changes in weather, light. My first dramatic film." (D.R.) "A cheerful, slightly crazy jauntiness prevails that may be as close as film form can come to really capturing a mood of the city." (Roger Greenspun)
(http://www.ubu.com/film/rimmer_pizza.html)
Richard Serra - Television Delivers People
| 6 min | 1973 | DVD (Videotape) | col | sound | OVen | US
Television Delivers People is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control that asserts itself subtly on the populace through "entertainments," for the benefit of those in power-the corporations that mantain and profit from the status quo. While canned Muzak plays, a scrolling text denounces the corporate masquerade of commercial television to reveal the structure of profit that greases the wheels of the media industry. Television emerges as little more than a insidious sponsor for the corporate engines of the world. By appropriating the medium he is criticizing-using television, in effect, against itself-Serra employs a characteristic strategy of early, counter-corporate video collectives-a strategy that remains integral to video artists committed to a critical dismantling of the media's political and ideological stranglehold.
http://www.ubu.com/film/serra_television.html
Serra kritisiert das Medium Fernsehen mittels durch das Bild laufender Sprachbänder, unterlegt von Kaufhausmusik, als ein Instrument sozialer Kontrolle, das unter dem Deckmantel der Unterhaltung die Machtstrukturen derer festigt, die davon profitieren: die Konzerne. Eine seiner Zeit vorausgreifende, intelligente System- und Kapitalismuskritik.
(http://films.arsenal-berlin.de/)
Bill Viola - The Reflecting Pool
| 7 min | 1979 | DVD (Videotape) | col | mono | OV (nodialog) | US
The Reflecting Pool – "Man wird hineingezogen in dieses Spiel von Spiegelungen und Reflexionen, Anwesenheit und Abwesenheit, Körperbildern und Phantomen - und soll in eine poetische Verzauberung und eine magische Vertauschung des Imaginären und Realen hineingeraten" (Hartmut Böhme).
(http://www.theomag.de/25/am96.htm)
Zbigniew Rybczynski - Tango
| 8 min | 1979 | digifile (35mm) | col | sound | OV (nodialog) | PL
Das Leben in all seinen Facetten läuft an uns vorbei: Liebe, Geburt, Kindheit, Familie, Arbeit, Hobby, Alter, Tod... Im Rhythmus des Tanzes, der für das Leben steht.
Zbigniew Rybczynski, born 1949 in Poland. 1969–1972 Lodz Film Academy. In Lodz, he worked as a cinematographer on educational, short and feature films and was a member of the avant-garde group „Warsztat Formy Filmowej“; 1977 he went to Austria where he later received political asylum; 1983 he won an Academy Award as Best Animated Short for „Tango“ (1980) and then moved to the USA. He created many outstanding music videos for various artists; 1994 he worked in Berlin at the CFB Zentrum to design new computer imaging techniques, later he taught experimental film at the KHM. Currently he lives in L.A.
[ Abbildung oben: aus dem Film 'Berlin Horse' (1970) von Malcolm Le Grice ]
Übersicht Sommersemester 2018
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