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Continuing The Dazzle

Directors Lounge at Mitte Media Festival 2019.

More spliters of light and shadow, colour and monochrome, scream and silence are set to crystallize out of the chaos of the cosmos, all this (potentially) before your very eyes. This can only mean Directors Lounge is shaking the sparks out of its treasure box and letting them fall to earth where you can position yourself to see them descend and sparkle. Chosen event and venues for this meteor shower: the 3rd Mitte Media Festival, spread between two earthly recepracles going by the names Fata Morgana Gallery and Z-inema in the Z-Bar.

Making an appearance on Earth, shortly after having left it, will be legendary off-the-waller Jonas Mekas, cruising out of another dimension into two dimensions on the big sceen in Peter Sempel‘s Jonas in the Jungle, one of three features Sempel felt impelled to make in his attempt to capture the enigmatic creative force in a format that earthlings can observe. Mekas may have departed after 96 years of sharing our earthbound corridors, but his stamp on the world of avant-garde film art is showing no signs of fading. Sempel, not least a worthy name in his right through his work with luminaries Cave und Bargeld, Hollywood-New Yorkers Scorsese and Hoffmann, stage screamers Hagen and Lemmy, Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno of Japan and conceptual artist Dieter Meier of Yello (and more), will make the trip to be on hand for further illumination of his illumination.

In addition, there will be chips and chunks of the kind of cinematic strangeness that few others besides DL can come up with, including works by Allan Brown, Anton Corbijn, Roger Deutsch, Olivier Dekegel, Masha Godovannaya, Guy Maddin and many others. Your part in the proceedings: be there.

Mitte Media Festival | Directors Lounge Presents:

Radically Subjective curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr Friday, April 19th, 9.15-11.15 pm Fata Morgana Galerie – Front Room read more

Selected Gems from the DL Archives – Bizarre, Hypnotic, Wonderful – Saturday, April 20th, 7-9 pm Z-Bar Zinema, Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin read more

Peter Sempel – “Jonas in the  Jungle”, 2013, 94 min In attendance of Peter Sempel (Hamburg) Saturday, April 20th, 9-11 pm | seats are limited! Z-Bar Zinema, Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin read more

The complete Mitte Media Festival Schedule:  www.mittemediafestival.com

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Directors Lounge Screening Maria Korporal Lines in Between the Maze

Thursday, 28 März 2019 21:00 Z-Bar Bergstraße 2 10115 Berlin-Mitte

Metaphors combine beauty with a call for a better life. The Berlin artist Maria Korporal studied in the Netherlands and was working and living in Italy until 2013. Her videos, installations and performances show a strong technical affinity, while at the same time, the content of her works often criticizes the Western and economically oriented civilization. Her films are hybrid combinations of recorded video footage, animated text and digital animations from drawings and photographs. Often inspired by lyrics, they could be read as visual poetry or video aphorisms. The short narratives also remind of fable tales from another age, addressing contemporary issues of love, gender and nature.

The artist will be present for Q&A. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Artist Link: https://www.mariakorporal.com/

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CONTEMPORARY ART RUHR, MEDIA ART FAIR, 8 – 10 MARCH 2019

“Mysteries of Love” presented by Leo Kuelbs Collection

Leo Kuelbs Collection is proud to present “Mysteries of Love,” a group show exploring changing ideas of love and identity.  All of the visual material was created by female artists working with a variety of soundtrack collaborators from across Europe and the USA. 

Leo Kuelbs Collection specializes in presenting collaborative video works and is based in NYC and Berlin.More information at www.leokuelbscollection.com

Artists:                   Maria Naidyonova, Daniel Kostova, Radka Salkmonnova, Sarah Mock, Daniela Imhoff, Zoe Duchesne, MarieVicMarieVic, Kinga Toth Soundtracks: Danil Denisov, Anna Leevia, Alex Hamadey, Daniela Imhoff, Kinga Toth and Theo Crocker 

Videos Included:

“Pieces,” by Maria Naidyonova (2019) “In the Jaws of the Merman,” by Daniela Kostova (2017) “Champion of Love,” by Daniela Imhoff (2017) “New Age Transformation” by Radka Salcmannova, (2017) “Who am I ,” by Sarah Mock (2017) “L’envolee,” by Zoe Duchesne (2016)                   “Chicks+Cock,” by MarieVicMarieVic (2016) “What is the New Game?” by Kinga Toth (2017)

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image credit: “Pieces,” by Maria Naidyonova (2019),  “Who am I ,” by Sarah Mock (2017) and “Chicks+Cock,” by MarieVicMarieVic (2016) as part of 'Mysteries of Love,' presented by "Leo Kuelbs Collection"

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CONTEMPORARY ART RUHR, MEDIA ART FAIR, 8 – 10 MARCH 2019

Directors Lounge presents the c.a.r. Video Lounge with

Medienwerkstatt Berlin: Green

“GREEN”, a compilation of experimental video works from the Medienwerkstatt Berlin, an artist-run project of the BBK Berlin

Grün sind alle meine Kleider und alles was ich hab. Grün ist auch die Farbe unserer Greenbox, mit der Hintergründe verändert werden. Die Natur ist grün und grün steht für den Klimaschutz.

Herbert Liffers  Paranoia  02:47 Sandra Becker Greenbox Studio  00:51 Hanna Schaich 400 000 times 04:42 Jakobine Engel Rückzug – Retraction 05:00 Sandra Riche Nach mir die Sintflut – After Me The Deluge 04:34 Christa Biedermann Rückzug – Paranoia 01:17 Heike Franziska Bartsch Umschalten – Freiraum 02:20 Silvia Amancei und Bogdan Armanu Life of a Tree 09:41

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Directors Lounge Screening Björn Speidel About the Depths of the Plateau

Thursday, 28 February 2019 21:00 Z-Bar Bergstraße 2 10115 Berlin-Mitte

With his experimental films, the Berlin based filmmaker Björn Speidel explores the relationship between image and imaging surface. For several years, he has investigated the image’s depth by the use of stereo 3D.

Lately, 3D cinema has become a new hype in the mainstream. The new trend is related to reaching for a more immersive cinema and competing with computer games. Björn Speidel takes a different stance by considering stereoscopic pictures as a tableau with depth. This opens a different approach to the concept of three-dimensional images. Instead of just representing an image of the world, a single picture may unfold a whole world of its own. Within only few image “incidents” virtual sensations start to occur that could not exists outside the image - a fragile utopia.

The films of Björn Speidel often combine several stereo 3D technologies. The topic of woods, of trees, reappear in his films as a metaphor as well as a structure of repetition and noise. The German saying of not seeing the woods because of all the trees may describe the repetitive background noise created by his individual works. These motives (re)appear as a combination of chance and structural montage.

Finally, (experimental) filmmaking is always related to the used apparatus. Thus Björn Speidel is exploring a diversity means of analogue film, analogue video and digital media. The screening will include the first presentation of the „Video-Harp“ as a world premiere.

Artist Link:

https://www.bjoernspeidel.de/

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Directors Lounge Screening Gabriele Stellbaum My House Is On Fire

Thursday, 29 November 2018 21:00 Z-Bar Bergstraße 2 10115 Berlin-Mitte

Gabriele Stellbaum creates art films that are performance and story-based at the same time. It is the second time, the artist presents her work at Directors Lounge. Coming from sculpture, she turned to light projections and time-based multi-channel slide projects and finally to video. The program presents a number of very new and more recent works that she created in Berlin.

She calls her work “poetic film art” and one could add: “...with a twist”. Stellbaum often works with a single, or only a few characters on simple settings, mostly in locations in Berlin or in her studio. However, what starts like a story of a narrative short film, does not progress the usual way. The poetry of the scenes and the dialogues (sometimes a monologue) is rough, sometimes disturbing, and reminds of Beckett and Brecht. The dramatic conflict of the pieces, at the same time, remains unresolved, and the missing culmination point creates a rather flat open-ended dramaturgy. The artist tells me about a breathing technique, which Beckett required from the actors in some of his plays: They were asked to articulate his rather long sentences in one breath, bringing the actors almost to exhaustion or fading. Stellbaum characters often seem to suffer from a similar breathlessness caused by circumstances beyond their control, circumstances as groundless as the accusations of Kafka's judges at the castle.

In

“Heretofore” (2017)

the artist appears as main protagonist in her video, like in other pieces. A short glimpse, a slightly wider shot, shows, what the reverb of the sound already has revealed: she stands in a small box behind a window and that frames her upper body incorporating (however not fully convincingly) the kind of political speaker we would expect for candidates for judges or senate.  The box is decorated with a wallpaper of five-edged stars. She, the performer, does not try to immerse the viewer into a Hollywood realism. It is the language, however, that creates the illusion of real speech.

“Undoing the Linear” (2017)

is quite different in comparison with most of Stellbaum's more recent work. The setting may remind of a late Beckett piece. Located in an old Berlin ballroom, the field of view of the camera has been marked with tape as a virtual rectangle on screen, and the performer strictly moves only along the marks, or inside the marked space. However, it quickly becomes clear that the action, or performance, does not lead into the heavy existential narrative of a Beckett play. Instead, it is centered on the sound. The performance becomes a duet between the artist and the piano.

A more typical Stellbaum piece is

„Close Huddle“ (2017).

An empty Berlin pre-World War II tenement with worn, old-fashioned wall paper but with freshly painted double-winged windows is the background for a kind of chamber theatre piece with two women wearing the same non-specific beige dress. The two women converse within and about an internal shared space that they seem to have created for themselves, without being friends. The dialogue lingers on reflections about closeness and sharing, without creating a warm or more friendly feeling between each other. Close Huddle is unsettling without drama or obvious reason. The two women seem to reasonably discuss grounds for becoming connected with each other or the outside, but the discourse disperses into individual anxiety.

Stellbaum's films are sometimes funny in a wicked way, and sometimes subversively unsettling. She mostly leaves it open to the viewer to find direct references to society or politics. It will be an intense night to view and to discuss the films. As usually she will be present for Q&A.

Artist Link: https://stellbaum.net/

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contemporary art ruhr, 
the innovative art fair, 26 – 28 october 2018

Directors Lounge presents genre-straddling slices of cinematic art and cuts of media experimentation at the c.a.r. video lounge with Angela Christlieb and Maria Niro’s “IN AN ALIEN LAND”, Céline Trouillets “SONG” series and experimental works from the Medienwerkstatt Berlin and Leo Kuelbs Collection.

contemporary art ruhr, World Cultural Heritage Site Zollverein, 
 
Gelsenkirchener Str. 209, 
45309 Essen

Opening Reception: Friday, October 26, 8 pm, V.I.P.-Preview, 6 pm

Céline Trouillet's “SONG” series

Growing up in the 1980s, Céline Trouillet was part of the first generation to be constantly exposed to music video clips in a period that also saw the advent of Karaoke in Europe, which encouraged the notion that anybody could become a pop star, an idea that also led to public interest in amateur TV talent contests. Each portrait contains multiple layers of signification that are open to interpretation. The films are formally similar, yet each portrait is unique and the creative possibilities are only limited by the number of songs in existence and the number of individuals willing to sing them.READ MORE

Leo Kuelbs Collection: Light Year 31: Identity 0.0

Curation & concept by Leo Kuelbs with Aaron Riedel.

Featuring new work from: Radka Salcmannova + Alex Hamadey, Sarah Mock + Daniela Imhoff, Thomas D. Rotenberg + Theologian, Sarah Trouche, Naormi Meijia Wang, Mai T. Segura & Harald V. Uccello + Alex Hamadey, Kinga Toth + Normal Gergely, Vadim Schäffler, and Richard Jochum + Xiren Wang.

Identity 0.0 is a collaborative video and sound program exploring the changing meanings of “self” and “individuality.” Digital reality has allowed for enhanced communication, thus the possibility of easier integration, between individuals from cultures near and far. What was foreign is now only a keystroke away. Gender can be manipulated through science and philosophy, just as intentions for good or ill can be disguised easily through a variety of avatars and aliases. Nationalism and religious identities strain to remain powerful and effective versus the strong tides of this evolution of the self. All heading towards a further integration of humans (the terrestrial) and artificial intelligence, aka “The Singularity.” READ MORE

IN AN ALIEN LAND  by  Angela Christlieb and Maria Niro

The film is a collaboration between filmmaker and artist Angela Christlieb based in Vienna and who also stars in the film, and the New York artist, filmmaker, cinematographer Maria Niro. The concept came about during Christlieb’s visit in New York in the fall of 2016, during the presidential elections in the USA.

Artist Booth:

Phhotography, paintings and installations by Carola Göllner, Julia Murakami, VISUMAN, André Werner

contemporary art ruhr, 
the innovative art fair 2018

World Cultural Heritage Site Zollverein XII, 
 
Gelsenkirchener Str. 209, 
45309 Essen building A5, A6, A8, A9, A12

Opening hours: Friday, October 26, 8 pm, V.I.P.-Preview, 6 pm

Public fair hours: Saturday, October 27, 12 am – 8 pm Sunday, October, 28, 11 am – 7 pm

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CONTEMPORARY ART RUHR, MEDIA ART FAIR, 26 – 28 OCTOBER 2018

Directors Lounge presents

Leo Kuelbs Collection: Light Year 31: Identity 0.0

Identity 0.0 is a collaborative video and sound program exploring the changing meanings of “self” and “individuality.” Digital reality has allowed for enhanced communication, thus the possibility of easier integration, between individuals from cultures near and far. What was foreign is now only a keystroke away. Gender can be manipulated through science and philosophy, just as intentions for good or ill can be disguised easily through a variety of avatars and aliases. Nationalism and religious identities strain to remain powerful and effective versus the strong tides of this evolution of the self. All heading towards a further integration of humans (the terrestrial) and artificial intelligence, aka “The Singularity.”

Through this increasingly singular appendage, we continually manipulate our identities towards various audiences, as well as encapsulate our ever-changing notions of reality and our place within it. We “block”, we “add”, we “friend”, we “share”, we “filter,” all generating rapid snapshots of some form of our evolution. If one identity doesn’t fit, we are free to tear it down and build a new construct. And we can do it infinitely.

These individual patterns reveal how we wrestle with, and attempt to balance, our desires to be anonymous while simultaneously asserting some form of ourselves - our pasts, our views, our ideas of our future selves. Also, the differences and similarities between identity portrayal patterns of individuals reveal commonalities on multiple demographic levels.

Our own personal series of re-inventions is ironically what pushes us to demand privacy control against a seemingly limitless world of access into our digital histories. We crave unlimited exposure and reach, but want to have the ability to leave no trail to our past selves; so that we may never be interpreted in any other way than as we have deigned in the seemingly infinite moments.

Creators are asked to look back as they look into the future through the lens of the present and explore once important communal identities versus this shift into a more individualistic and digital reality; and how these shifts and their resulting patterns may manifest themselves in the creation and behavior of integrated societies of the foreseeable future.

Curation & concept by Leo Kuelbs with Aaron Riedel.

Featuring new work from: Radka Salcmannova + Alex Hamadey, Sarah Mock + Daniela Imhoff, Thomas D. Rotenberg + Theologian, Sarah Trouche, Naormi Meijia Wang, Mai T. Segura & Harald V. Uccello + Alex Hamadey, Kinga Toth + Normal Gergely, Vadim Schäffler, and Richard Jochum + Xiren Wang.

www.leokuelbscollection.com

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“Light Year 31: Identity 0.0“ will be screened as part of the DL program at the contemporary art ruhr video lounge presented by Directors Lounge.

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CONTEMPORARY ART RUHR, MEDIA ART FAIR, 26 – 28 OCTOBER 2018

Directors Lounge presents

Céline Trouillets "SONG" series

Céline Trouillet was born in 1975 in Colmar, France. She graduated from the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg where she now lives. She regularly presents films in international exhibitions and festivals and has received a number of grants from the French Ministry of Culture. Her films have been awarded prizes at the Octobre Rouge Festival in Luxembourg, the Videomedeja Festival in Serbia, the Ozon Festival in Poland and the AVIFF Cannes Art Film Festival in France. The "SONG" series of "singing portraits" involves a continuous close-up of singing heads facing the camera and performing in real time. Growing up in the 1980s, Céline was part of the first generation to be constantly exposed to music video clips in a period that also saw the advent of Karaoke in Europe, which encouraged the notion that anybody could become a pop star, an idea that also led to public interest in amateur TV talent contests. Each portrait contains multiple layers of signification that are open to interpretation. The films are formally similar, yet each portrait is unique and the creative possibilities are only limited by the number of songs in existence and the number of individuals willing to sing them.

SONG N°27 - 4'50 - 2018  (HD 16/9) Voice: Amini Skhiri Music: "Un autre monde" ("An Other World") by Telephone Amina is a Belgian psychologist and former contestant on the TV talent show The Voice. She affirms her right to freedom of expression both in religious and artistic terms, which she does not regard as mutually exclusive.

SONG N°26 - 3'25 - 2018  (HD 16/9) Voice: Cathy Beaumont Music: "La vie en rose" ("Life in Pink") by Edith Piaf She was a friend of the late French singer Barbara who gave her the earrings she is wearing in the film. She also regularly performs covers of songs by Edith Piaf, another singer whose work reflects the bitter-­sweet struggle of existence.

SONG N°25 - 3'05 - 2017  (HD 16/9)

Voice: Elena GuerinMusic: "Negua joan da ta" by Zea Mays

A Basque girl sings a love song that serves as a link to Dora Maar, the singer’s makeup representing the tears in Weeping Woman, Picasso's 1937 portrait of his mistress and muse who was behind the creation of Guernica, depicting the bombing of the Basque capital (the anniversary of which is this year). Weeping Woman was derived from a figure in Guernica. Picasso consistently portrayed Maar weeping because, for him, women were "suffering machines".

SONG N°24 - 4' - 2015  (HD 16/9)

A young man performs "Wild World" by Cat Stevens. The pictorial aspect suggested by the backdrop evoking nature in terms of fauna and flora, combined with the classical references hinted at by the floral crown worn by the singer, associated with pagan gods, conjure up the savage and Dionysian side of the world. This is echoed by the title of the song and reminds us that the destiny of human beings lies beyond their control, at the mercy of external forces.

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Céline Trouillets "SONG" series will be screened as part of the DL program at the contemporary art ruhr video lounge presented by Directors Lounge.

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Directors Lounge Screening Johnny Welch Arcane Rhythms

Thursday, 25 October 2018 21:00 Z-Bar Bergstraße 2 10115 Berlin-Mitte

Johnny Welch, filmmaker and photographer from Sydney, Australia lives in Berlin for more than 3 years and is an active member of Labor Berlin. Since coming to Berlin, his work has become more strongly connected with the aesthetic of analog film, with the possibilities of optical printing. Even if edited and projected digitally, analog compositing seems to allow him to create a richer image of high density and depth.

Based on black and white techniques (mostly), the films seem to explore sheer blackness, instead of a black and white aesthetic. Strongly connected with punk music, dark wave and electronic noise, the filmmaker achieves a stunning quality of deep black color with his films. Experimental techniques of emulsion lifts and cracks, combined with black ink, sometimes with an additional tint of red or toning with blue, are combined with dark images of male and female characters. The driving rhythm of the sound track enhances the impression of blackness. Another connection is Aleister Crowley, a controversial figure, and a British occultist from the beginning of the 20th century who inspired a number of important artists and filmmakers like Kenneth Anger and even Fernando Pessoa. Welch's film Aurum (super8 / digital) from 2018 is a contribution to Crowley's Liber 777, a book related to occult or cabalistic games with numbers. For Johnny Welch, the occupation and meditation with occult theory may be a search for liberating ideas, or it may even be used as a release from the haunting personal messages once ago sent by peers. (Discharge Working I and II, 2017/18).

For the viewer, the work has an attracting, maybe haunting quality, tinted with a stunning black color. The black sun (in Aurum) for example is an amazing symbol without the need of occult references, and it is a beautiful image interwoven with blackness of painted film material that may stay in the mind of the viewer as a striking image on its own account.

The artist will be present and available for Q&A after the screening. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Artist Link: https://www.johnnywelchfilm.com/

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Directors Lounge Screening Laurence Favre Digging the Archive Thursday, 27 September 2018 21:00 Z-Bar Bergstraße 2 10115 Berlin-Mitte

Laurence Favre from Switzerland and living in Berlin, works with photography, film and video on projects. She creates narratives concerned with collective and individual memories, and how they relate to archives or individuals. Found material, 8mm found footage, was a reason for her to visit places, talk to and interview people. In the case of a hospital in South-Africa, a Swiss mission during the time of racial segregation, the construction of a collective memory become problematic, however,  the collection of different stories and divert personal memories may become even more important. The box with films from a missionary working at the hospital, a personal archive in itself, for Favre became a starting point to visit the former hospital in Shiluvane, to find people who were working in the mission or share memories.

Favre's background in sociology informs her research, her art project shifts towards contemporary ethnographic research with experimental forms that do not attempt to construct an “objective reality”. And she is a member of Labor Berlin. On a first step, she converted the original 8mm films to digital, and created a narrative from it, by repeating images, inverting them, by mixing letters found in real archives with personal comments she writes, in a way her subjective version of the archive. During her first visit, she also collected interviews with local people who used to work at the mission.

And she shoots 16mm (non-sync, in color and in b/w) for her new project: A series of portraits mixed with passages of landscape and combined with fictive letters to the late doctor of the mission by former members of the mission who live in South Afrika. At this screening, Laurence will present “Nwa-Mankamana” the film from 2013, an edited reel called “Shiluvane Talks” and excerpts of “Lettres au Docteur L” as work-in-progress.

The artist will talk about the different facets of working with archives that she became engaged in, and she is looking forward to discuss her work.

Artist Link: http://lrncfvr.net/ https://dafilms.com/director/9946-laurence-favre

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Julia Murakami | André Werner | Fata Morgana Gallery Berlin

 14. – 20. September | Torstr. 170, Berlin-Mitte

Photography, mixed media and installations.

Opening Friday, September 14, 7 pm

Ahead of the Berlin art week the Fata Morgana gallery opens an exhibition of works by Julia Murakami and André Werner that is as subliminal as it is immersive.

What both artists unites is an artistic approach that does not only reflects an existing reality but rather transcends into the imagery of new realities.

The multiverse of Julia Murakami is filled with layers of Greek mythology, Marvel heroes and Hollywood icons, a world unbound to gravity where dreams and Chimeras lure in the dark. Julia Murakami depicts this strange and surreal realm with a casual implicitness that, like old family photographs, triggers a moment of déjà vu. And, in fact, private photographs, self-portraits and memorabilia are often the starting point in the works of Julia Murakami. Images from unknown, yet familiar worlds.

André Werner is rather an observer than a producer of pictures. Like an ornithologist with a camera, he is a hunter and collector in the realm of the images. What get caught in his machinery of TV sets, cameras, printers and copiers, is often already an image of an image of an image. The pictures that are freely floating in the net, constantly multiplying themselves, are frozen in a single moment of their metamorphoses, not to capture them, but to celebrate their autopoietic beauty.

The alchemical process of creating such images is as important as the final output and the interactive video installation “circles” offers the spectator a chance to become part of such a play in a game with his own image. Louise Blissett Julia Murakami und André Werner 14.9. – 20.9. Fata Morgana Opening 14.9. 7 pm Finissage 20.9. 7 pm

Julia Murakami und André Werner

14.9. – 20.9. Fata Morgana

Opening 14.9. 7 pm

Finissage 20.9.  7 pm

Featuring an illustrated lecture by

Cosima Reif

: The Vienna Collection

New stamps by the Austrian Pure Chance Postal Service.

Fata Morgana Galerie Torstraße 170 | Berlin Mitte

Mo – Tues 4 pm – 7 pm Sa – Sun 4 pm – 8 pm

and by appointment

The exhibition is kindly supported by Z-Bar, Directors Lounge and Bürkle IT

Images from above :

Julia Murakami and André Werner by Joachim Seinfeld

Julia Murakami, from the series Exercises in Levitation I–III, 2015.

André Werner Was vom Kino übrig bleibt | What Remains Of Cinema. #2 Autopoiesis 2018.

André Werner, Circles | Interactive video installation for 13 monitors and a curious person, 2017 

Cosima Reif, 50 Jahre Aktionismus, 50 years of (Viennese) Actionism, stamp from the Austrian Pure Chance Postal Service, 2018

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CONTEMPORARY ART RUHR, MEDIA ART FAIR, 1 – 3 JUNE 2018

IN AN ALIEN LAND  by  Angela Christlieb and Maria Niro

Montages reveal a journey over time and space, as the film builds to evoke a hovering state of hallucinogenic like pictures of the subconscious.  The protagonist, moving simultaneously between space and time, is at once in an imaginary dream and at other times in a state of reality. The camera, both observational and voyeuristic, follows her on her journey as she crosses waters. We are lulled into a dream state by the film’s lush colors and its Super-8 film like quality. Then the story pivots as architecture and landscape become actors and interact with one another, the protagonist makes it to her final destination; New York City in the midst of a political crisis. Turmoil has overtaken the beautiful landscape and we are at once awakened into reality. The film is accompanied by a sound collage consisting of a minimalist musical element which build with electronic noise, fragments of shortwave radio, and then live sound of human protests. The film is a collaboration between filmmaker and artist Angela Christlieb based in Vienna and who also stars in the film, and the New York artist, filmmaker, cinematographer Maria Niro. The concept came about during Christlieb's visit in New York in the fall of 2016, during the presidential elections in the USA.

IN AN ALIEN LAND will be screened as part of the DL program at the contemporary art ruhr video lounge presented by Directors Lounge.

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Credits: Angela Christlieb and Maria Niro, Directors, producers, editors and sound design | Soundtracks: Hallicrafters (Eric Hubel, Algis Kysz), Chris Janka. "Secretly sharing the landscape of the living" by Martin A. Smith.

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CONTEMPORARY ART RUHR, MEDIA ART FAIR, 1 – 3 JUNE 2018 

“Magnetic Mirror” by Storyboard Artist Isabelle Meyrignac

Isabelle is a qualified, multi-skilled camera operator, Storyboard Artist and video editor. She studied classical hand-drawn illustration, 2D animation and Comic Strip design at Ecole Emile Cohl in Lyon, France, before starting her career in 1999 working as a creative in the advertising industry in London. She taught herself camera operation and video editing since then as well. She then went to the MET film school Berlin in order to further her camera and editing skills. Isabelle is now working as a full-time freelancer in the film and TV industry, bringing all her accumulated skills and life experience together.

Furthermore, her fluency in English, French and German allows her to work efficiently across borders. Her problem-solving and astute communication skills compliment her technical and creative abilities.

Isabelle's physical fitness and can-do-attitude make her an outstanding camera crew member who can also take a video project from concept to finish.

Her current exhibition at the Contemporary Art Ruhr is an extract of her storyboard for future TV mini-series ‘Magnetic Mirror’.

Isabelle Meyrignac’s storyboard series will be shown at the contemporary art ruhr, media art fair presented by Directors Lounge.

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CONTEMPORARY ART RUHR, MEDIA ART FAIR, 1 – 3 JUNE 2018

“Transit “by Medienwerkstatt im Kulturwerk des bbk berlin

The program shows recent films from Medienwerkstatt dealing with the subject of identity. In times of transition the works reflect topics from changing housing environments to new governmental regulations of surveillance as the new Chinese point system on so called „good“ behaviour. Thoughts still seem to be free up in the sky where birds take on beautiful abstract formations.

Works by Gabrielle Mainguy, Lucy Powell, Silke Gänger, Bettina Rave, Elena Gavirisch, Sandra Becker, Stephanie Hanna, Thorbjørn Christiansen, Lioba von den Driesch and Nicola Rubinstein

TRANSIT will be screened at the contemporary art ruhr video lounge presented by Directors Lounge.

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Gabrielle Mainguy, Our Physical Engagement , 7:45 min, 2017

Lucy Powell "Hill Climbing With Random Restarts" 2 synchronisierte Videos (moving in) und (moving out) von jeweils 2 Stunden und 40 Minuten. Ausschnitt aus „moving in“ 7 min, 2017

Silke Gänger, K77, 9:04 min 1997/2017

Bettina Rave, Painting, 5:30, 2017

Elena Gavirisch, The Mirror, 2 Kanal Video 6:47 min, 2011/2017

Sandra Becker YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON, 2 min, 2018

Stephanie Hanna, Mensch Musil, 3:33 min, 2011/2017

Thorbjørn Christiansen, Die Ruine, 9:10 min, 1983/2017

Lioba von den Driesch Echos, 4:30 min, 2018

 Nicola Rubinstein DISPERSION, 1:44 min 2017

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DO THE MONKEY! YEAH, MONKEY TIME!

Out on the (Fata Morgana) floor, four suspiciously alien creatures (Tristan Honsinger dragging voice and bow across low registers), Moeko Yamazaki (beating a ritual drum to within an inch of its life), Izumi Ose (as silver and silver gets, all a-glitter and a-twitch) and Woody Hoofer (acting up with his body as a sensual weapon) got very close indeed to the gathering one of during DL's various presentations for the Mitte Media Festival 2018. A slew of unearthly film cuts and an ethereal installation were also part of the mix. Who needs gravity, after all?

Izumi Ose, Tristan Honsinger, Woody Hoofer and Moeko Yamazaki, photos: DL

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MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO (IT UP RIGHT)

Backstage pix from the very strange troupe before their DL performance at Fata Morgana Gallery, which sprang straight out of Hiroki Mano's film "Spiritual Meetin'". Part of our presentation at the Mitte Media Festival. If you missed it, well....

Performers of the night: Izumi Ose, Moeko Yamazaki, Tristan Honsinger and Woody Hoofer. Photos: KT/DL