Film and video
Film and video programmes on the theme “record, record” compiled by Nikola Dietrich/Simone Neuenschwander, Alice Koegel, Oliver Laric, Katrin Mundt and Seth Price.
Two screenings of each film programme are scheduled, of which one will be introduced by the respective curators (two, in the case of Oliver Laric). All screenings will take place in the Small Hall.
Most films will also be on view throughout the festival at video stations in the container in front of the festival centre.
Special Screening
Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us
Thu, 23.10.2008, 21.00 h - 22.00 h, Small Hall
On the occasion of a special screening, Vicki Bennett will offer a little insight into her working methods and present some of her films.
See also: Concert by Vicki Bennett: Fri 20.30 h, Concert Hall
Screening 1
Curated by Nikola Dietrich and Simone Neuenschwander
Fri, 24.10. 2008, 12.00 h - 13.30 h Small Hall
Sat, 25.10. 2008 16.30 h - 18.30 h Small Hall, with introduction by the curators
A Place called...
… is the search for a personal story that must time and again be told with new words and images. Hidden or barely noticed details either from family photo archives or the flood of mass media images are singled out in order to strike a balance vis-à-vis present circumstance. The films use alternative narrative methods and juxtapose individual and collective memory as a means of confrontation. They question how the construction of identity is defined and to which idioms and socially assigned factors it is subject. The personal biography of the artists is such that the filmed events are portrayed without moral pretension and with a measure of thoughtful, “at arms’ length” detachment.
Sean Snyder
Cascio, Seiko, Sheraton, Toyota, Mars...
(2004-2005) 13'9''
Adrian Paci
Albanian Stories
(1999) 7'
Andro Wekua
Sicut Lilum Inter Spinas (Like a lily in the back)
(2003) 7'
Sadie Benning
A Place Called Lovely
(1991) 14'
Klara Liden
550 Jamaica Avenue
(2004) 5'
Mark Raidpere
10 men
(2003) 9'
Anri Sala
Intervista / Finding the Words
(1998) 26'42''
Günter Zehetner
Fernsehen, Christine und ich
(1993) 9'
Nikola Dietrich has been the curator of the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basle since October 2007. Prior to that she was a curator at the Portikus in Frankfurt/Main and the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel.
Simone Neuenschwander studied Art History in Basle and currently works as a curator for the Kunsthalle Basel.
Screening 2
Curated by Alice Koegel
Fri, 24.10. 2008, 19.30 h - 20.30 h, Small Hall, with introduction of the curator
Sun, 26.10. 2008, 15.00 h - 16.30 h, Small Hall
“Why Birth Of A Nation? Because the film independents IS a nation in itself”. – Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas, the godfather of New York’s independent cinema, has been filming his life and the people around him since the early 1960s. In ‘Birth of a Nation’ he continues his examination of the potential of film as a diary and storage medium, in contrast to conventional documentation. From his personal archive of ‘portraits’ of 160 independent film makers and film activists including Chantal Akerman, Kenneth Anger, Bruce Conner, Tony Conrad, Ernie Gehr, Ken Jacobs, Paul Sharits, Carolee Schneemann, Jack Smith and Andy Warhol - captured on film over four decades - Mekas compiled a documentary that counters the perception of (film- or any other) history as an ‘objective category’, and shows the essential nation of cinema as a network of almost invisible human relationships.
Jonas Mekas
Birth of a Nation
(1997) USA, 16mm, Farbe, 80'
Alice Koegel is curator of contemporary art at the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie. Previously she was a curator at the Tate Modern, London, curator of projects for the Karlsruhe Centre for Art and Media Technology, and on the senior staff of the Ludwig Museum, Cologne. Since 1997 she has published numerous articles on contemporary art and film.
Screening 3
Presented by Oliver Laric
Fri, 24.10. 2008, 16.00 h - 17.00 h, Small Hall, commented by Oliver Laric
Sat, 25.10. 2008, 21.00 h - 22.00 h, Small Hall, commented by Oliver Laric
Oliver Laric gives an introduction to some thoughts and processes that lead amongst other things to oliverlaric.com. Videos by quincyonq, strettonage, sk8ryan15, carloferdinand, salebale, danandvince, moreismore44, icdeadpeople1, comtessephilippe, lauraddd, smokeymischief, Brazucaman, dannyboi123444, not2b4goten2002, KaiDaArtist, bonix23, BLAQDRIPPA, nono28000, alisha2009, ADDBFL, dachampishea, julylangelslim06, franzou47, HSG, jgnugent, jonip2, Ricardonez, ypok, x3alexandraa, Alfalfa8378927, GMSpice, zem84, CrunkSofa, parkez17 and UncleBling.
Oliver Laric (*1981), artist, lives and works in Berlin.
Co-founder of the blog www.vvork.com.
Screening 4
Curated by Katrin Mundt
Friday, 24.10.2008, 14:00-15:30, Small Hall, Saturday, 25.10.2008, 19:00-20:30, Small Hall (Presence of the Curator)
No record found
The films and videos in this programme examine the problem of recording, whereby the motif of disproportional growth of archives plays a less prominent role. They are less concerned with the noise of over-production than with the silence of certain documents, with the empty spaces in an archive, in a word: with absence. The films and videos reconstruct, stage, fabulate, in order to (re-)generate a bygone here and now, that may or may not have been like it seems ... As recordings they do not seek to up-date the past but to re-write it in a new way. Some works quite literally present the blurred points in memory, the delays between thought and action, between script and enactment. In so doing they don’t so much fill in the gaps as register the gaps. Others reflect on their status as technical images: as mnemo technology that abstracts actions into processes that can be repeated, and take permanent shape as disciplined, quasi mechanical bodies or finally, as image stores that don’t cause forgetfulness to implode but rather, contingency and the blurred contours of visual codes. The films and videos thus create their own unique poetics of that which cannot be found.
Steve Reinke
Ask the Insects
(2005) Video 8'
Bernd Behr
Hotel Palindrome (before R. Smithson)
(2006) Video, 10'
Keren Cytter
Something Happened
(2007) Video, 7'
Karl Kels
Stare
(1991) 16mm, 6'
Emily Wardill
The Diamond (Descartes' Daughter)
(2008) 16mm, 11'
David Dempewolf
Marguerite Duras, Alain Resnais (0.65,0.85,1.0 fps)
(2007) Video, 19'
Katrin Mundt, free-lance curator and author. Projects for the Württembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart, the hartware medien kunst verein, Dortmund, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, [plug.in], Basle and the Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, among others.
Screening 5
Videos by Seth Price
Fri, 24.10. 2008, 17.30 h - 19.00 h, Small Hall with introduction by Daniel Baumann
Sun, 26.10. 2008, 17.00 h - 18.00 h, Small Hall
In a conceptual, multi-disciplinary art practice that includes video, sculpture, and what he has called "redistribution," involving sound, music, and written texts, Seth Price engages in strategies of appropriation, recirculation and packaging to consider issues of cultural production and the distribution of information. Shifting and manipulating the detritus of commodity culture, his projects have included early sampler-based academic music, anonymous Internet-circulated video, and art historical imagery. Investigating the cultures generated and re-circulated by mass media technologies and information systems, Price ultimately questions the production and dissemination of art and meaning itself. www.eai.org
Seth Price
"Painting" Sites
(2000-2001) 18'12''
Seth Price
NJS Map
(2001-2002) 2'20''
Seth Price
Rejected or Unused Clips, Arranged in Order of Importance
(2003) 10'38''
Seth Price
Digital Video Effect: "Editions"
(2006) 12'
Seth Price, *1973, lives and works as an Artist in New York.