URBAN RESEARCH ON FILM
curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr
With the increased dynamic of urban development, more artists are
concerned
with urban space as a theme and issue. This selection shows a range of
new
short experimental and documentary work by international artists.
We welcome Klaus W. Eisenlohr who will introduce this selection from
his
ongoing Urban Research film and video screening project curated for
Directors Lounge in Berlin.
URBAN RESEARCH ON FILM is presented by COGCOLLECTIVE.
screening at
Candid Arts Trust
3 Torrens Street
London
EC1V 1NQ
Nearest Tube: Angel
Tickets: £5 / £3 (concessions)
Contact: info@...
www.cogcollective.co.uk
...
URBAN RESEARCH ON FILM
Programme:
A PROMESSA
Noëelle Georg, Portugal, 2004, 4 min
"Oh no, my parents arrived - we need to move - ... - we made it!" The
promise of a future and a new life in the old modernist residencies,
the
artist depicts a possible beautification!
YOU ARE NOT FROM HERE
Diane Bonder, USA, 2005, 9 min
You Are Not From Here is a record of a rapidly disappearing vernacular
landscape. With an oblique narration about the process of
gentrification,
the film explores the notions of discovery, belonging, and the meaning
we
project on our environment. Created for the Kodak Against The Grain
Super-8
Invitational.
IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU WOULD BE HOME BY NOW
Diane Bonder, USA, 2001, 15 min
If You Lived Here, You'd be Home by Now is about the divisiveness over
land,
the relationship of public and private space in small town America, and
the
concept of home. Using documentary strategies, landscape stills are
juxtaposed to stories "ripped from headlines" of a small-town
newspaper. The
struggle over public space described in the stories, reflect universal
concepts of space, privacy and property ownership.
IN 'NA CITY
Papa 'n Razzi (aka Kemmy Thyssen), Germany, 2005, 8 mins
In 'na City seeks harmony and connectivity between images and music. A
collage of images from the City of Hannover - skyscrapers, traffic, the
surface of the city and its mesh - creates a new vision. Images and
colours
complement musical sounds and rhythms. Everyday space and vernacular
modern
architecture are the matrix of the pulsing music.
Music by Systetic, now named: i n d i z.
STADTSTRANDZONE MITTE IN LANGENHAGEN (excerpt)
Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Germany, 2005, 5 mins
In a changed urban environment, in the city-in-between, in the
urbanized
zones, the possible narratives have already changed. Occurrences,
happenings
and interaction are key for the transformation of a transitory space to
human space. In this excerpt of Stadtrandzone Mitte, a group of
youngsters
from Hannover show in a couple of scenes, how they interact in public
space.
The scenes were guided, photographed and edited by Klaus W. Eisenlohr.
SAVE
Roger Warren Beebe, USA, 2005, 5 mins
A disused gas station offers a curious imperative to passers-by: SAVE.
A
riddle posed in the form of architecture: what is there to save?
Another
instalment in the history of Americans pointing their cameras at gas
stations; an attempt to figure out something about where we've been,
where
we're headed, and what's been left behind.
NIGHT WALK
Fabienne Gautier, France, 2006, 7 mins
An improvised walk through Paris at night. "Slices of light graffito
Paris
at night: the tracery of the city's nocturnal bioluminescence."
(antimatter)
THE CORRIDOR
Virginie Laganière, Canada, 2005, 2 mins
A corridor, a passageway between offices, becomes the internal and
visible
projection of the outside city. Dream, hope or hallucination? Virginie
Laganière, with very dry humor, shows imaginary metamorphosis of the
daily
urban environment.
ON A SLOW BOAT TO CHINA
Sonja Lillebaeck Christensen, Denmark, 2005, 18 mins
Single men on the waterfront is not an urban phenomenon but solitary
men
are. The filmmaker tells us how she watches them. Her camera does not
watch
objectively, she peers, glances, stares, as she creates empathetic but
also
ironic stories for them. Sonja Lillebaek Christensen surprises us with
her
freshness while avoiding any rules or genres. And she tells us
something
about urban live in very simple ways, maybe because she does not really
feel
part of it herself.
FRAMEFUNK
Dirk Holzberg and Jörg Pfeiffer, Germany, 2001, 3 mins
For an hour a tram is transformed into an audio/visual laboratory by a
group
of artists, accompanied by the electronic band Mouse on Mars who play
live
on as it travels through the centre of Cologne. Live cameras capture
the
inner and outer environment of the tram, the video images are edited in
real-time and then projected back onto the passing urban landscape.The
resulting image stream is in turn filmed again, mixing the inner and
outer
space further. The architecture of Cologne becomes an integral part of
both
the construction and the projection of the acoustic and visual
timeframe.
www.cogcollective.co.uk
curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr
With the increased dynamic of urban development, more artists are
concerned
with urban space as a theme and issue. This selection shows a range of
new
short experimental and documentary work by international artists.
We welcome Klaus W. Eisenlohr who will introduce this selection from
his
ongoing Urban Research film and video screening project curated for
Directors Lounge in Berlin.
URBAN RESEARCH ON FILM is presented by COGCOLLECTIVE.
screening at
Candid Arts Trust
3 Torrens Street
London
EC1V 1NQ
Nearest Tube: Angel
Tickets: £5 / £3 (concessions)
Contact: info@...
www.cogcollective.co.uk
...
URBAN RESEARCH ON FILM
Programme:
A PROMESSA
Noëelle Georg, Portugal, 2004, 4 min
"Oh no, my parents arrived - we need to move - ... - we made it!" The
promise of a future and a new life in the old modernist residencies,
the
artist depicts a possible beautification!
YOU ARE NOT FROM HERE
Diane Bonder, USA, 2005, 9 min
You Are Not From Here is a record of a rapidly disappearing vernacular
landscape. With an oblique narration about the process of
gentrification,
the film explores the notions of discovery, belonging, and the meaning
we
project on our environment. Created for the Kodak Against The Grain
Super-8
Invitational.
IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU WOULD BE HOME BY NOW
Diane Bonder, USA, 2001, 15 min
If You Lived Here, You'd be Home by Now is about the divisiveness over
land,
the relationship of public and private space in small town America, and
the
concept of home. Using documentary strategies, landscape stills are
juxtaposed to stories "ripped from headlines" of a small-town
newspaper. The
struggle over public space described in the stories, reflect universal
concepts of space, privacy and property ownership.
IN 'NA CITY
Papa 'n Razzi (aka Kemmy Thyssen), Germany, 2005, 8 mins
In 'na City seeks harmony and connectivity between images and music. A
collage of images from the City of Hannover - skyscrapers, traffic, the
surface of the city and its mesh - creates a new vision. Images and
colours
complement musical sounds and rhythms. Everyday space and vernacular
modern
architecture are the matrix of the pulsing music.
Music by Systetic, now named: i n d i z.
STADTSTRANDZONE MITTE IN LANGENHAGEN (excerpt)
Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Germany, 2005, 5 mins
In a changed urban environment, in the city-in-between, in the
urbanized
zones, the possible narratives have already changed. Occurrences,
happenings
and interaction are key for the transformation of a transitory space to
human space. In this excerpt of Stadtrandzone Mitte, a group of
youngsters
from Hannover show in a couple of scenes, how they interact in public
space.
The scenes were guided, photographed and edited by Klaus W. Eisenlohr.
SAVE
Roger Warren Beebe, USA, 2005, 5 mins
A disused gas station offers a curious imperative to passers-by: SAVE.
A
riddle posed in the form of architecture: what is there to save?
Another
instalment in the history of Americans pointing their cameras at gas
stations; an attempt to figure out something about where we've been,
where
we're headed, and what's been left behind.
NIGHT WALK
Fabienne Gautier, France, 2006, 7 mins
An improvised walk through Paris at night. "Slices of light graffito
Paris
at night: the tracery of the city's nocturnal bioluminescence."
(antimatter)
THE CORRIDOR
Virginie Laganière, Canada, 2005, 2 mins
A corridor, a passageway between offices, becomes the internal and
visible
projection of the outside city. Dream, hope or hallucination? Virginie
Laganière, with very dry humor, shows imaginary metamorphosis of the
daily
urban environment.
ON A SLOW BOAT TO CHINA
Sonja Lillebaeck Christensen, Denmark, 2005, 18 mins
Single men on the waterfront is not an urban phenomenon but solitary
men
are. The filmmaker tells us how she watches them. Her camera does not
watch
objectively, she peers, glances, stares, as she creates empathetic but
also
ironic stories for them. Sonja Lillebaek Christensen surprises us with
her
freshness while avoiding any rules or genres. And she tells us
something
about urban live in very simple ways, maybe because she does not really
feel
part of it herself.
FRAMEFUNK
Dirk Holzberg and Jörg Pfeiffer, Germany, 2001, 3 mins
For an hour a tram is transformed into an audio/visual laboratory by a
group
of artists, accompanied by the electronic band Mouse on Mars who play
live
on as it travels through the centre of Cologne. Live cameras capture
the
inner and outer environment of the tram, the video images are edited in
real-time and then projected back onto the passing urban landscape.The
resulting image stream is in turn filmed again, mixing the inner and
outer
space further. The architecture of Cologne becomes an integral part of
both
the construction and the projection of the acoustic and visual
timeframe.
www.cogcollective.co.uk
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