Das Filmforum der HBK präsentiert im Wintersemester 2022/2023:

Montag | 24.10.2022 | 19:00 h

Kurzfilmprogramm: Reality vs. Wirklichkeit

(Einführung ins Semesterprogramm, Prof. Michael Brynntrup)

„Das eine, was sich über Kunst sagen läßt, ist, daß sie eines ist. Kunst ist Kunst-als-Kunst, und alles andere ist alles andere.“ (Ad Reinhardt). – Das Internet hat nicht nur unsere Sehgewohnheiten verändert, sondern auch unsere Realitätswahrnehmung. Das Internet vergisst nie; dennoch (mit dem Wissen um Deep Fake und Big Data): Die Flüchtigkeit unseres Konsumverhaltens und die Oberflächlichkeit des 'Anderen' filtert unseren Blick auf die Welt. Mit Hilfe jeweils aktueller Tools und Techniken werden Außenwelten, Stadträume (und Archtekturen) visuell neu konstruiert. Aber auch die Bilder vom Selbst (und vom Du) sind mit ganz neuen Extremen der Inszenierung konfrontiert. – Wenn sich eines sagen lässt: Die Grenzen zwischen Dokumentation, Fiktion und Experiment lösen sich auf. Und einmal mehr stellt sich die Frage: Ist das Kunst oder…? (MB)

Filmprogramm (72 min):

Lolo & Sosaku - Painting Machines (Robots creating art)
0:32 min (instagram-clip) | 2021 (ongoing) | digifile (kinetisches Objekt) | AR/JP/ES

Joris Ivens - Regen
12 min | 1929 | DVD (35mm) | bw | sound | OV (nodialog) | NL

Guy Roland - Pacer
4:00 min | 1995 (2015) | 16mm (2K remastered) | col | sound | OV (nodialog) | CA

Adam Chitayat - Axel Boman: Out Sailing
5:00 min | 2022 | HD (internet footage) | col | stereo | OV (nodialog | TH/US

Auguste Lumière - Danse Serpentine
0:42 min | 1896 | digifile (35mm) | col (hand-tinted) | silent | OV | FR

John Woodell - The Dancing Baby GIF
0:24 min | 1996 | 3D-Animation | col | silent | OV | US

Bob Bottle - Mx Qwerrrk's QWOJI (Virtual Dance Project)
2:52 min | 2017 | HD (3D cyber experience) | col | sound | US

John Bergeron - I Feel Fantastic
2:31 min | 2004 (upload 2009-04-15) | digifile (miniDV?) | col | sound | OVen | US

NN - You Can't Help But Watch
1:22 min | 2006 (download 2006) | QT (320x240) | col | stereo | OVen | US

JK Keller - Living My Life Faster (Daily Photo Project)
1:41 min | 2006 (download 2007) | QT (320x240) | col | mono | OV (nodialog) | US

Lutz Mommartz - Margrets Film
14:50 min | 2007 | digifile (miniDV) | col | sound | OVde (SUBen)

Natalie Bookchin - Testament Installation excerpts
8:20 min | 2009-2017 | HD (internet footage) | col | sound | OVen | US

Ryan S. Jeffery & Boaz Levin - All That is Solid Melts Into Data
(chapter 3 "The Glass House")
6:18 min (excerpt from 53 min) | 2015 | HD (internet footage) | col | sound | OVen | US

Ralph Schulz - Testimonials
9:30 min (video loop) | 2016 | HDV | col | sound | OVen | DE

Lolo & Sosaku - Painting Machines (Robots creating art)
0:32 min (instagram-clip) | 2021 (ongoing) | digifile (kinetisches Objekt) | AR/JP/ES
Lolo & Sosaku investigate the possibilities of sculpture as an expanded field. The nexus that unites their work is the quest for an object in contact with its surroundings and with the spectator, an object that seeks friction and tension, exploring the capacity of creating new meanings.
Their work moves between different artistic languages such as sculpture, installation,
kinetic art and painting, often incorporating music and sound. Its modus operandi is to constitute itself as a subject and to reach from its machinic materiality to transcendence, to mysticism and to the unknown.
(www.loloysosaku.com)

Joris Ivens - Regen
12 min | 1929 | DVD (35mm) | bw | sound | OV (nodialog) | NL
Als eine Art Stadtsinfonie filmt Joris Ivens das urbane Leben Amsterdams und sein sich veränderndes Erscheinungsbild während eines Regenschauers. 1932 bat Joris Ivens Lou Lichtveld, eine Tonfassung davon zu machen, und 1941 inspirierte der Film Hanns Eisler im Rahmen eines "Filmmusikprojekts" zu seinen "Vierzehn Arten, den Regen zu beschreiben".
Joris Ivens (1898-1989) schuf mehr als 80 Filme in mehr als 20 Ländern und ist vielfach ausgezeichnet worden. Von 1915-17 Studium der Ökonomie in Rotterdam; ab 1922 Studium der Fototechnik in Berlin; ab 1926 konzentriert er sich auf den Film. Er ist Mitbegründer der Filmliga, des ersten niederländischen Filmklubs.

Guy Roland - Pacer
4:00 min | 1995 (2015) | 16mm (2K remastered) | col | sound | OV (nodialog) | CA
Pacer looked at the world in a way no film had before it. The geometry of the city and its construction, the artistry of Montreal's landscape seen the hyper-prism of a camera racing through time on different dimension. Compressed imagery and physical motion combine in a never-been-seen-before kind of way.
Pacer can lay claim to being the first hyperlapse film, or at the very least, to being the precursor to it's development. It was shot on a Bolex 16mm camera in Montreal, Quebec in 1995. Shooting single frames, all the 'effects' are done in camera
(www.vimeo.com)

Adam Chitayat - Axel Boman: Out Sailing
5:00 min | 2022 | HD (internet footage) | col | stereo | OV (nodialog | TH/US
The visual smorgasbord that is the video for the track Out Sailing was directed by Brooklyn based Adam Chitayat. Speaking about the project Adam says, "Over the course of the COVID lockdowns - desperate for the outside world beyond my doorstep, city, state and country - I started crafting a project entirely using Google Maps Streetview images. I viewed and downloaded the world from my desk, finding amazing spaces, altering, hand tracking, and creating time-lapses and shots. I wasn't quite sure what to make of the material until I heard Axel Boman's latest album and a lightbulb went off."
(www.nowness.com)

Auguste Lumière - Danse Serpentine
0:42 min | 1896 | digifile (35mm) | col (hand-tinted) | silent | OV | FR
Early filmmakers loved dancers. I can't locate the source of this film, but iterations of the Serpentine Dance were particular favorites of both Thomas Edison and the Lumiere Brothers. Inspired by dancer Loie Fuller's famed skirt dances, in which colored lights projected onto her billowing garments, this film (and others like it) was hand-tinted to achieve similar affects. Fuller's solo was mesmerizing, and her copycat film subjects no less so.
(https://www.ubu.com/film/lumieres_danse-serpentine.html)

John Woodell - The Dancing Baby GIF
0:24 min | 1996 | 3D-Animation | col | silent | OV | US
The "Dancing Baby", also called "The Oogachacka Baby", is a 3D-rendered animation of a baby performing a cha-cha type dance. It quickly became a media phenomenon and one of the first viral videos in the mid-late 1990s.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_baby)

Bob Bottle - Mx Qwerrrk's QWOJI (Virtual Dance Project)
2:52 min | 2017 | HD (3D cyber experience) | col | sound | US
QWOJI is Mx Qwerrrk's first live-movement visual, shot by Björk's personal photographer Santiago Felipe, and edited/imagined by artist Bob Bottle. Using over-saturated imagery, Bottle creates animations that simultaneously engage 2D and 3D space in constructed collage environments in which the figure exists...ultimately creating a cyber experience that leaves the viewer unsure of where fantasy ends and reality begins.
(www.worldofwonder.net)

John Bergeron - I Feel Fantastic
2:31 min | 2004 (upload 2009-04-15) | digifile (miniDV?) | col | sound | OVen | US
Eines der ersten Videos in den sozialen Medien war der zutiefst beunruhigende YouTube Clip: “I Feel Fantastic” – Ich fühle mich fantastisch. Zuerst wurde das Video 2009 von dem Nutzer Creepyblog hochgeladen, der außer diesem Video keine anderen hochlud. Der Clip hatte in kürzester Zeit schon 6 Millionen Clicks. Im Fokus dieses Videos steht eine blasse Puppe “Tara the Android”, die den Titelsong singt. Ihre Stimme entsteht durch ein sehr primitives Computerprogramm, dass menschliche Stimmen wiedergeben kann. - Die bizarre Rätselhaftigkeit des Videos führte in den folgenden Jahren bis heute zu zahlreichen Spekulationen und Gerüchten einer grossen Community, aber auch zu intensiven Nachforschungen zur Entstehungsgeschichte.

NN - You Can't Help But Watch
1:22 min | 2006 (download 2006) | QT (320x240) | col | stereo | OVen | US
This is the most BORING ever! But you will watch! You have to see why it is so bad...
ps...this is intended to be comedy! its not intended to be purely serious so if you dont like it dont waste time commenting! (youtube.com / 2007)
In den frühen Youtube-Jahren gab es eine Sektion 'profile_videos', in der einzelne User eigene Portraitvideos hochladen konnten. Das Video 'You Can't Help But Watch' ging in wenigen Monate viral (Views: 556,331 | Comments: 6913 | Favorited: 1202 times). Das Video ist heute nicht mehr online.

JK Keller - Living My Life Faster (Daily Photo Project)
1:41 min | 2006 (download 2007) | QT (320x240) | col | mono | OV (nodialog) | US
One man's face - a year in photos – The best web projects are trivial, anal and almost autistic in their attention to detail. This is all three. It gets pretty exciting a third down the page when the chap buys some new glasses and gets a hair cut. (B3ta-newsletter, 2007).
Started the project at age 22. Currently about 46. Although my birthday happens every year...hint, hint. - The project will continue until the day I die. Only then will it be complete, and worth its true value. Hopefully the completion date is far off, but you never know, right? Unfortunately, I won’t ever see it finished. It’s really a heckuva Catch-22 I’ve set up for myself.
(Jonathan K. Keller; https://jk-keller.com/o__o/daily_photo/info_faqs/)

Lutz Mommartz - Margrets Film
14:50 min | 2007 | digifile (miniDV) | col | sound | OVde (SUBen)
Margret stirbt. Auf ihren expliziten Wunsch hin filmt sie ihr Lebenspartner in den letzten Stunden ihres Lebens. Als Zeichen für die Kunst, das Leben und wider das Wegsehen. Ein Film, der Diskussionen aufwirft und uns so nahe ans Sterben heranführt, dass man am liebsten weglaufen möchte. Eine Möglichkeit, die für Menschen, die sterben jedoch nicht mehr zur Auswahl steht.
(Katalog DOKfest Kassel, 2008)
Margret, since more than 45 years my partner, hated to be photographed. - For four weeks she is with cancer in hospice. Late in the evening a phone call reached me, she had made herself ​​naked, I should come, take a picture of her, "a photo for the Arts". Irritated I drove to the hospice, but without a camera. When I saw her before me, I understood how serious she was. - The next day, her wish was fulfilled as if it would have been mine, with this both our lives fulfilled miraculously. (LM)
(www.mommartzfilm.com/FilmeLutzMommartzEN/194-Margret_e.htm)

Natalie Bookchin - Testament Installation excerpts
8:20 min | 2009-2017 | HD (internet footage) | col | sound | OVen | US
Testament is a multi-channel sound and video installation that present collective portraits of the shared self, reflecting on the peculiar blend of intimacy and anonymity, and of the simultaneous connectivity and isolation that characterizes contemporary social life.
(www.bookchin.net/projects/testament)

Ryan S. Jeffery & Boaz Levin - All That is Solid Melts Into Data (chapter 3 "The Glass House")
6:18 min (excerpt from 53 min) | 2015 | HD (internet footage) | col | sound | OVen | US
Equal parts building and machine, a library and a public utility, data centers are the unwitting monuments of knowledge production to the digital turn. This documentary video traces the historical evolution of the structures that make-up “The Cloud”, the physical repositories for the exponentially growing amount of human activity and communication taking form as digital data. While our “smart tools” and devices for communication become increasingly smaller, thinner, and sleeker, the physical infrastructure they require grows larger, affecting and shaping the physical landscape and natural resources. The rhetoric surrounding so-called “Big Data” proclaims it as the solution to every problem faced by either governments or private industry. This film looks to the often-overlooked materiality that “The Cloud” is reliant upon, in order to elucidate its social, environmental, and economic impact, and call into question the structures of power that have developed out of the technologies of global computation.
(www.ryansjeffery.com/allthatissolid)

Ralph Schulz - Testimonials
9:30 min (video loop) | 2016 | HDV | col | sound | OVen | DE
Sie alle sprechen über ein Kunstwerk, seinen absolut umwerfenden Charakter, seine Kraft. Manchmal lässig und cool, manchmal auch ernst und professionell. "Normale" Menschen oder selbsternannte Experten vertrauen der Webcam ihre individuellen Einschätzungen an. […] "Wovon" die Rezensenten sprechen - sie wissen es wirklich nicht. Im Glauben, ein bestehendes Produkt nach gängiger Logik zu rezensieren, produzieren sie in erster Linie das Produkt, das Kunstwerk, das sie zu bewerten glauben. (Selbst-)Ironischerweise fallen Produzent und Rezensent in eins. In seiner tautologischen Form betreibt 'Testimonials' eine präzise, humorvolle und zugleich kritische Analyse der zeitgenössischen Verstrickungen zwischen Kunst und Markt unter den Modalitäten des Internets.
(Vivien Grabowski)

[ Abbildung oben: aus dem Film 'Regen' (1929) von Joris Ivens ]