28 jan
Harun Farocki : Workers leaving the Factory
video, 37 minutes, b/w and color, 1995 (loop)
A video-essay on the opening image of filmhistory, the first film by the Lumières. Farocki regards them the precursors of the surveillance industry.
29 jan
Mark Lewis : Cold Morning
2009. Single screen projection, High Definition, 7'35". (loop)
When looped, the observation of a homeless man and two pigeons, in midwinter on a boardwalk, turns into contemplation.
30 jan
Tony Cokes : Margins and Bubbles Pt. 2
Video, 12:00 (2009) (loop)
With his animated text-video’s Cokes focusses on the relations between criticism, marketing, economics, and art practice: the “Art Critique Series.”
31 jan
Karen Yasinsky: I choose darkness
Stop motion animation video, (2009, 9 min.) (loop)
For this deadpan, and yet moving puppet animation, Karen Yasinsky used Robert Bresson’s film Au Hasard Balthazar as a starting point.
1 feb
Ken Jacobs: The day was a scorcher
Film expérimental | dv | couleur | 7'48'' | USA | 2009 (loop)
Animating a photoalbum into motion, Jacobs applies his magic on the home-movie genre. The faces of his family members appear with painterly grace.
2 feb
Al and Al: I want to run in my mountains
anaglyph video work, 3 min, 2009 (loop)
For this dance macabre, AL and AL transformed studio their performances into animations using motion tracking biometric technology.
3 feb
Ann Course: The Collaborators
Video, 3min45 (2010) (loop)
In her first dialogue-based work, the words come out as sparse as the lines of visual artist Ann Course’s rudimentary, yet powerful drawings.
4 feb
Laure Prouvost: Monolog
UK-France 2009 | 12 min video (loop)
Prouvost parodies her own role as a director, trying to turn the attention to the viewer and the ‘studio’ room itself.
5 feb
T. Marie: 010101
61 seconds, HD video, USA 2009
This loop is an ever-shifting motion painting comprised of the continual waves of saturated color. The title mimics the binary code.
6 feb
Alexander Kluge : Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike - Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital
570 Minuten. 4:3, Farbe und Schwarzweiß. Mono. Deutsche Originalfassung. 2008
In 1927 Eisenstein had the idea of filming Das Kapital by Karl Marx. Eighty years later, Kluge raises to the challenge.