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rencontres
internationales
new cinema
and contemporary art
HKW, Berlin
March 15-20, 2016
PARTNER VENUE /
CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS /
OTHER PARTNERS /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Senatskanzlei Berlin, Institut Français, City of Paris, British Council, Embassy
of the Kingdom of Denmark, The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Germany, Embassy of Portugal, CamõesInstituto da Cooperação e da Língua, Mondriaan Fund, Polish Institute Berlin, Embassy of Italian Republic,
Italian Cultural Institute Berlin, Canada Council for the Arts - Conseil des arts du Canada, Embassy of
Slovenian Republic, Myer’s Hotel Berlin, Hotel Tiergarten Berlin, Arte Luise Kunsthotel, abba Hotel berlin,
SORAT Hotel Ambassador Berlin, Livestream, Circus Family, Zitty.
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Contemporary visual culture is at the juncture
between today’s aesthetic, social and political
issues and challenges linked to the continuing
development of production and dissemination
technologies. Les Rencontres Internationales
proposes exploring these evolving practices.
Auditorium: most of the works presented are
German premières, notably by La Ribot, Adel
Abidin, Sarah Vanagt, Filipa César, Didier Faustino,
Clément Cogitore, Laure Prouvost, Maya Schweizer,
Su-Mei Tse, Johan Grimonprez and Hans Op de
Beeck, amongst others; the manifesto film “88:88”
by Isiah Medina will be screened on 16th March, as
well as “Spectrographies” by Dorothée Smith, with
the directors present; the film/event “Meurtrière”
by Philippe Grandrieux will be screened on 17th
March, as well as “Borobudur” in the presence of
the director Arnold Pasquier; throughout the week
there will be themed sessions with artists from all
over the world to discuss and share their work. The
weekend provides an opportunity to discover a
packed programme at the two screens in the Haus
der Kulturen der Welt, with notably the première
of the hypnotic film by Mauro Herce, “Dead Slow
Ahead” on Saturday 19th March. On the last day
of the event, Sunday 20th March, we are notably
showing Lamia Joreige’s film in her presence, “And
the Living is Easy”, Pedro Costa has been given
carte blanche, and for the closing session, Thom
Andersen’s latest film, ‘‘The Thoughts That Once
We Had’’, inspired by Gilles Deleuze’s film theory.
For six days, from 15th to 20th March, Les
Rencontres Internationales will provide a forum for
discovery and thinking devoted to contemporary
practices regarding moving image.
Between new cinema and contemporary art, this
unique platform in Europe provides rare insight to
contemporary audiovisual practices. Documentary
approaches, experimental fiction, video and
hybrid forms: the programme of Les Rencontres
Internationales is the result of thorough research
and invitations to striking artists from cinema and
contemporary art.
One of the main objectives of Les Rencontres
Internationales is to provoke thought about
contemporary international creation in terms of
moving image, examining and sharing creations
that question images and our period with a wide
audience. Les Rencontres Internationales offer a
rare programme intended to be shared as widely
as possible. In the company of artists and directors
from all over the world, we will present 120 works
from 40 countries, produced by artists who are
renowned on the international scene alongside
young artists and directors experiencing their first
presentation.
Les Rencontres Internationales wishes to
summarise the special features and similarities
of artistic practices between new films and
contemporary art, and to delve into emerging
artistic forms and their criticism. The desire is to be
part of a review of our contemporary image culture,
through a demanding and inclusive programme.
Nathalie Hénon and Jean-François Rettig
Directors and curators
Les Rencontres Internationales
This year, we are delighted to once again offer free
entry to the entire programme.
Following the opening evening, when we offer
the German première of a rare film/performance
‘‘Vapour’’ by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, with a
live performance by Michael Busch and after an
‘‘Alchemical’’ screening with six new films, many
highlights are in store this year in two screening
rooms at the HKW, the Theatersaal and the
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INDEX
Daily
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Information /
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Agenda /
Kalender
FOYER
7PM OPENING SCREENING /
ERÖFFNUNGS-SCREENING
9.30PM PARTY /
Party
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8PM ALCHEMICAL /
ALCHIMIE
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AUDITORIUM
THEATERSAAL
AUDITORIUM
3PM TECHNICOLOR /
TECHNICOLOR
7PM SUPER-POSITIONS /
SUPER-POSITIONEN
4PM DISCONTINUOUS /
UNTERBROCHEN
9PM SPECTROGRAPHIES /
SPECTROGRAPHIEN
5PM POSSIBLE WORLDS /
MÖGLICHE WELTEN
7PM DISTANT SPACES /
ENTFERNTE RÄUME
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17
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ar
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THEATERSAAL
AUDITORIUM
3PM UNRESOLVED /
UNGELÖST
7PM SPECIAL SCREENING
PHILIPPE GRANDRIEUX /
SPECIAL-SCREENING
5PM DEVICES /
ANLAGEN
7PM A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM /
EINE NACHT IM MUSEUM
9PM BOROBUDUR /
BOROBUDUR
M
ar
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AUDITORIUM
3PM ANTI-CLICHÉ /
ANTI-CLICHÉ
7PM ARCHITECTURES /
ARCHITEKTUREN
5PM TOPOLOGIES /
TOPOLOGIEN
9PM IDENTITIE /
IDENTITÄTEN
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20
M
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AUDITORIUM
3PM DISPOSSESSIONS /
ENTEIGNUNGEN
7PM SLOW AHEAD /
LANGSAM VORAN
5PM BREAKAWAY /
WEGBRECHEN
9PM ANTHROPOLOGY /
ANTHROPOLOGIE
THEATERSAAL
AUDITORIUM
1PM WORKERS /
ARBEITER
1PM SPECIAL SCREENING ON LA
RIBOT / SPECIAL-SCREENING ÜBER
LA RIBOT
3PM MINED SOIL /
VERMINTER BODEN
2PM ECO-SYSTEM /
ÖKOSYSTEM
4PM ICONIC /
IKONISCHE
3PM AND THE LIVING IS EASY /
UND DAS LEBEN IST EINFACH
5PM POST-TRAUMATIC /
POST TRAUMATISCH
5PM CARTE BLANCHE TO PEDRO
COSTA /
CARTE BLANCHE AN PEDRO COSTA
6PM CLOSING DRINK /
ABSCHLUSS-DRINK
7PM CLOSING SCREENING /
ABSCHLUSS-SCREENING
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Daily
program /
Tagesprogramm
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TUESDAY /
DIENSTAG
15
Mar
Auditorium
7PM OPENING SCREENING /
ERÖFFNUNGS-SCREENING
8PM ALCHEMICAL /
ALCHIMIE
9.30PM OPENING PARTY /
ERÖFFNUNGS-PARTY
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OPENING /
ERÖFFNUNG
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Tue. / Di.
15
pm
07
Mar
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
OPENING
SCREENING /
ERÖFFNUNGSSCREENING
German première
Music performance by Michael Busch
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Vapour | Exp. fiction
and live sound performance | hdv | b&w | 0:21:00 |
Thailand | 2015
“Vapour” takes place in Toongha in the region of
Mae Ram in Thailand, a village in which the director
has been living for a few years now. Clouds fall on
the village and swallow it for the day. They touch the
tiles, the beds, the chairs, the mats, the grass and the
people living there, contaminating everything with a
white vapour.
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OPENING /
ERÖFFNUNG
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Tue. / Di.
15
pm
08
Mar
Sebastian Diaz Morales
ALCHEMICAL /
ALCHEMIE
air, he appears to be weightless, as if dreaming.
Maybe there is nothing more than a void; maybe the
fall is endless. Felipe Esparza explores and crosses
hallucinatory landscapes, inspired by Ayahuasca,
an Amazon tribal drink, enabling new states of
consciousness to be reached. In Brazil, João Vieira
Torres and Tanawi Xucuru Kariri film a ritual and
question what can be seen. Georgy Bagdasarov
and Alexandra Moralesova reveal a double alchemy
in the transformation of a plant used by Native
American tribes, and film processing and vision.
Sandro Aguilar films the unsettling and bizarre
encounter between two individuals.
In the presence of Enna Chaton, Sebastian
Diaz Morales, Georgy Bagdasarov, Alexandra
Moralesova and Sandro Aguilar.
Enna Chaton, in collaboration with Céleste
Boursier-Mougenot: Errances | Video | hdv | colour
| 0:11:54 | France | 2014
Sebastian Diaz Morales: Suspension | Video | hdv |
colour | 0:12:00 | Netherlands | 2015
Felipe Esparza: Soga de muerto | Exp. film | hdv |
b&w | 0:06:26 | Peru | 2014
João Vieira Torres, Tanawi Xucuru Kariri: Toré |
Exp. documentary | hdv | colour | 0:15:00 | Brazil |
2015
Georgy Bagdasarov, Alexandra Moralesova: Rhus
Typhina | Exp. film | 16mm | b&w | 0:02:44 | Armenia,
Czech Republic | 2014
Sandro Aguilar: Bunker | Fiction | hdv | b&w |
0:30:17 | Portugal | 2015
Enna Chaton, in collaboration with Céleste BoursierMougenot, features nude visitors at an exhibition.
Sebastian Diaz Morales films a man falling in mid-
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OPENING /
ERÖFFNUNG
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Tue. / Di.
15
09
Mar
.30 pm
Photo by Joie Iacono
OPENING PARTY
/ ERÖFFNUNGSPARTY
Strange encounters
by Nasri
When Oum Kalthoum meets Serge Gainsbourg
meets Billie Holliday meets Aisha Al Marta meets
Sabah meets Taxi Girl meets Esther Phillips meets
Yasmine Hamdan meets Souad Abdallah meets
Jeanne Moreau meets Dina Washington meets
PJ Harvey meets Marylin Monroe meets Astrud
Gilberto meets Sara Vaughan meets Catherine
Deneuve meets Mohamad Mounir meets Madonna
meets Delphine Seyrig meets Soapkills meets
Ahmad Adawiya meets Eartha Kitt meets Mirwais
meets Bandali Family meets Feyrouz meets
Asmahan meets Cheikh Imam meets Marguerite
Duras meets Nina Simone meets Cole Porter meets
Omar Zeini meets Fleetwood Mac meets Tarab
meets Kitsch meets Choubi meets you.
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WEDNESDAY /
MITTWOCH
16
Mar
Theatersaal
3PM TECHNICOLOR /
TECHNICOLOR
4PM DISCONTINUOUS /
UNTERBROCHEN
Auditorium
5PM POSSIBLE WORLDS /
MÖGLICHE WELTEN
7PM SUPER-POSITIONS /
SUPER-POSITIONEN
7PM DISTANT SPACES /
ENTFERNTE RÄUME
9PM SPECTROGRAPHIES /
SPECTROGRAPHIEN
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SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
THEATERSAAL
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Wed. / Mi.
16
pm
03
Mar
Les Leveque
TECHNICOLOR /
TECHNICOLOR
Andrew Lampert: El Adios Largos | Exp. film | hdv |
colour | 0:11:13 | USA | 2013
Eske Schlüters: Title (Life goes on) | Video | hdv |
colour | 0:12:00 | Germany | 2015
Blake Williams: Red Capriccio | Video | hdv | colour
| 0:06:59 | USA, Canada | 2014
Les Leveque: Nine Hamlet RGB | Video | hdv |
colour | 0:05:55 | USA | 2015
In 2002 Andrew Lampert acquired a 16 mm black
and white film, in Spanish, called ‘El Adios Largos’,
that proved to be the only existing trace of the film
‘The Long Goodbye’, directed by Robert Altman in
1973. After ten years of restoration, the film has a
new lease of life with new colours. Eske Schlüters
plays with illusions, and produces a docufiction
about the incomplete production of a film by UFA
in the 40s. Blake Williams films machines and
landscapes in 3D where movement and immobility,
as well as red and blue colours collide. Les Leveque
recycles images from nine films inspired by Hamlet.
An algorithm separates the red, green and blue,
causing an unconscious disconnection mechanism
to occur.
14
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
THEATERSAAL
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Wed. / Mi.
16
pm
04
Mar
Damir Ocko
DISCONTINUOUS /
UNTERBROCHEN
In the presence of Thomas Mohr.
Volker Schreiner: Sites | Exp. film | hdv | colour and
b&w | 0:08:20 | Germany | 2015
Sophie Roger: C’est donc un amoureux qui parle
et qui dit | Exp. film | hdv | colour | 0:06:15 | France
| 2015
Thomas Mohr: Zu Hanne Darboven | Video | hdv |
colour | 0:08:27 | Netherlands | 2014
Damir Ocko: TK | Exp. film | 4k | colour | 0:19:46 |
Croatia | 2015
Volker Schreiner crosses three landscapes through
fragments of films. Sophie Roger observes and
draws the landscape seen through the slatted
boards in a loft, and pages torn from ‘A Lover’s
Discourse: Fragments’ by Roland Barthes. Thomas
Mohr pays tribute to artist Hanne Darboven’s
musical compositions, known for her monumental
installations, made up of thousands of drawings and
notes. An infinite visual and audible composition
appears through the breaks and duplications
between motifs. Damir Ocko constructs a complex
polyphonic work in which poetry meets sounds and
silences, a stifled word, bodies confronting and
requiring endurance.
15
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
THEATERSAAL
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Wed. / Mi.
16
pm
05
Mar
Salomé Lamas
POSSIBLE
WORLDS /
MÖGLICHE
WELTEN
Alex Monteith: Cascade Cove in the Shadow of
150,000 Bones | Exp. documentary | hdv | colour
and b&w | 0:13:00 | New-Zealand | 2015
Salomé Lamas: The Tower | Video | hdv | b&w |
0:08:45 | Portugal | 2015
Nova Paul examines an interior where light filters
through the space and time stands still. Juliane
Jaschnow and Stefanie Schroeder undertake a
journey in the industrial regions of former East
Germany. Factories are closing and well-being
centres are appearing, but the past is not far
below this new surface. Halida Boughriet films
young adolescents, confronting us with a collective
memory and a political memory that immobilise.
Julien Dubuisson conceives ‘Pavillon nocturne’ like
a small theatre inspired by Giacometti’s piece ‘The
Palace at 4 am’ (1932), in which the characters have
been been replaced by forms, creating a complex
and enclosed structure. In Kirkuk, Iraq, LouisCyprien Rials films flames emerging from the ground
of an oil field. Alex Monteith goes to Cascade Cove
in New Zealand, a bay close to the sites where the
first archaeological digs of New Zealand fjords were
carried out, looking for remains of the first colonists
and Maori culture. Salomé Lamas films a young
woman who attempts to blend in with a treetop, at
the point where the earth and sky meet.
In the presence of Juliane Jaschnow, Stefanie
Schroeder and Louis-Cyprien Rials.
Nova Paul: Still Light | Video | 16mm | colour |
0:06:35 | New-Zealand | 2015
Juliane Jaschnow, Stefanie Schroeder:
[ˈdʊŋkl̩ ˌdɔɪ̯ʧlant] | Exp. documentary | 4k | colour |
0:13:13 | Germany | 2015
Halida Boughriet: Des intégrations | Video | hdv |
colour and b&w | 0:16:07 | France | 2015
Julien Dubuisson: Pavillon nocturne | Video | hdv |
b&w | 0:05:45 | France | 2015
Louis-Cyprien Rials: Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
| Video | hdv | colour | 0:05:45 | France, Iraq | 2015
16
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
THEATERSAAL
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Wed. / Mi.
16
pm
07
Mar
Hans Op De Beeck
DISTANT SPACES
/ ENTFERNTE
RÄUME
that is a laboratory of perception where civilisation is
unsettled. Hans Op de Beeck creates an animated
film from his watercolours, introducing an additional
degree of fiction to what is never the reproduction
of a reality. Mike Hoolboom features images filmed
in a psychiatric hospital by Jeffrey Paull in 1967.
Fifty years later, he questions Donna Washington,
an autistic resident of this hospital at the time, who
tells her own story based on footage from the film.
In the presence of Dominik Ritszel.
Juan Manuel Echavarría: Silencio Invisible,
Darwin and Una Lección | Video | hdv | colour |
0:08:00 | Colombia | 2015
Jussie Nsana Banimba: Bimbambukila | Video |
hdv | colour | 0:06:01 | Congo-Brazzaville | 2012
Dominik Ritszel: Pogłos | Video | hdv | colour |
0:14:30 | Poland | 2015
Hans Op de Beeck: Night Time (extended) |
Animation | hdv | b&w | 0:19:18 | Belgium | 2015
Mike Hoolboom: Scrapbook | Exp. documentary |
16mm | b&w | 0:18:00 | Canada | 2015
Juan Manuel Echavarría refers to the war in remote
regions of Colombia that has escaped public
scrutiny. These places void of any human presence
evoke the country’s violent history and the need for
new possibilities. Jussie Nsana Banimba questions
the memory of the walls in Brazzaville, their
observation of the past and present. Sound is the
main protagonist in Dominik Ritszel’s film, in a town
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SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Wed. / Mi.
16
pm
07
Mar
Isiah Medina
SUPER-POSITIONS
/ SUPERPOSITIONEN
J Tobias Anderson presents three lively characters
discussing their innermost thoughts, pushing
communication to the point of absurdity. Scott
Fitzpatrick raises the question of ambition in life. A
cat responds. Naïmé Perrette blends the tale of a
family with images taken from the Internet, playing
on the discrepancy between the actual events
and their corresponding accounts. A grandfather
recounts his ancestors’ experiences, accompanied
by his wife commenting off camera. Alex Anikina
explores a land and its inherent language, from the
first maps of imaginary countries to contemporary
image databases. Matthias Fitz uses flows of
advertising images, stretching pixels and thus
creating an alternative system of interpretation.
Laure Prouvost creates a feeling of déjà vu, in
the face and possession of power, and summons
various interpretations of the same image. Isiah
Medina questions a generation’s concerns, and
films his friends from Winnipeg along with their
questions about philosophy, love and poverty. This
is an attempt to give meaning to chaos through
fleeting shots, superimpositions and voiceovers that
suddenly come to a halt.
In the presence of Alex Anikina and Isiah
Medina.
J Tobias Anderson: All Becomes Obvious,
Transparent | Animation | hdv | colour | 0:02:30 |
Sweden | 2015
Scott Fitzpatrick: Immortal Cats #1 | Exp. film |
35mm | colour | 0:00:55 | Canada | 2015
Naïmé Perrette: Forebear Forward | Video | hdv |
colour | 0:01:08 | France, Netherlands | 2014
Alex Anikina: Ostrannenie | Exp. film | hdv | colour |
0:08:13 | Russia, United Kingdom | 2015
Matthias Fitz: [commercial wallpaper] silence |
Video | hdv | colour | 0:01:11 | Germany | 2010
Laure Prouvost: How To Make Money Religiously
| Video | hdv | colour | 0:08:44 | United Kingdom | 2014
Isiah Medina: 88:88 | Exp. documentary | 4k | colour
and b&w | 1:05:05 | Canada | 2015
18
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Wed. / Mi.
16
pm
09
Mar
Dorothée Smith
SPECTROGRAPHIES /
SPECTROGRAPHIEN
In the presence of Benjamin Ramírez Pérez and
Dorothée Smith.
Benjamin Ramírez Pérez: A Fire in My Brain That
Separates Us | Exp. film | hdv | colour | 0:17:10 |
Germany | 2015
Dorothée Smith: Spectrographies | Exp. fiction | 4k |
colour | 0:59:00 | France | 2015
In an empty house Benjamin Ramírez Pérez produces
a spectral choreography of objects disappearing then
reappearing, operated by a technician who remains offcamera.
In ‘Spectrographies’ Dorothée Smith follows a troubled
man seeking what others aim to avoid, a ghost. He tries
to fill the emptiness left by the absence of a lost love.
The film transposes Derrida’s idea, according to which
cinema is the science of ghosts.
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THURSDAY /
DONNERSTAG
17
Mar
Theatersaal
3PM UNRESOLVED /
UNGELÖST
Auditorium
5PM DEVICES /
ANLAGEN
7PM SPECIAL SCREENING. PHILIPPE
GRANDRIEUX /
SPECIAL-SCREENING
7PM A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM /
EINE NACHT IM MUSEUM
9PM BOROBUDUR /
BOROBUDUR
20
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
THEATERSAAL
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Thu. / Do.
17
pm
03
Mar
Cecilia Lundqvist
UNRESOLVED /
UNGELÖST
Cecilia Lundqvist describes the inability of humans to
capture the fleeting nature of things. Simon Gerbaud
gradually makes objects disappear, dematerialising
the existence of objects and our belief in them. Brit
Bunkley films whirlwinds in abandoned towns in the
Californian desert. John Skoog films farmer KarlGöran Persson’s house. At the beginning of the 40s,
the farmer started to fortify his small house, to provide
refuge to villagers in the event of a Soviet invasion.
Elske Rosenfeld comments on the recording of the
first Central Round Table that took place on 7th
December 1989 in East Germany, two months after
the first big demonstrations, while a demonstration
roars outside. Eléonore de Montesquiou’s film is a
portrait or monologue of Kyril Zinovieff who was 100
years old at the time. He shares his impressions of
Russia. Born in 1910 in Saint Petersburg and a child
during the Russian Revolution, his family escaped to
Estonia then settled in England, where he became an
intelligence officer and translator. Anthony Haughey
explores ideological and political narratives, and
proposes a reflection on the Srebrenica massacre of
1995 when the Army of the Serb Republic of Bosnia
killed over 8,000 men.
In the presence of John Skoog, Elske
Rosenfeld, Eleonore de Montesquiou and
Anthony Haughey.
Simon Gerbaud: saVer | Video | hdv | colour |
0:06:30 | France, Mexico | 2014
Cecilia Lundqvist: Tilt | Animation | hdv | colour |
0:05:06 | Sweden | 2014
Brit Bunkley: Oil Petals (Pillar of Cloud) | Video |
hdv | colour | 0:03:42 | New Zealand | 2015
John Skoog: Värn | Exp. documentary | 4k | colour |
0:14:45 | Sweden, Denmark | 2014
Elske Rosenfeld: Ein bisschen eine komplexe
Situation | Exp. documentary | hdv | colour | 0:14:44
| Germany, Austria | 2014
Eleonore de Montesquiou: Relatively Small
Circles | Exp. documentary | hdv | colour and b&w |
0:09:35 | France, Russia | 2015
Anthony Haughey: UNresolved | Exp. documentary
| hdv | colour | 0:17:22 | Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina
| 2015
21
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
THEATERSAAL
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Thu. / Do.
17
pm
05
Mar
Sarah & Katrien Vanagt
DEVICES /
ANLAGEN
Nicolas Tubery contemplates the mechanisms of
video and the subject filmed in one and the same
act. An unusual filming device in a sheep pen
reveals a choreography of the effort and work.
Pat Collins and Sharon Whooley film a lighthouse
that becomes a metaphor for the filming process.
Sarah and Katrien Vanagt conduct a 17th-century
experiment enabling the device for ocular vision
to be observed. Jean-François Reverdy uses the
pinhole camera to reproduce the light of the desert
and film men who live there in a desert region of
Mauritania, the exploitation of iron quarries and the
transport of the mineral to the Ocean on board the
world’s longest train.
In the presence of Jean-François Reverdy.
Stéphane Pichard: Fécampoise | Video | hdv |
colour | 0:02:49 | France | 2015
Zachary Epcar: Night Swells | Video | hdv | colour |
0:05:14 | USA | 2015
Nicolas Tubery: Deman la tonda | Exp.
documentary | hdv | colour | 0:11:11 | France | 2015
Pat Collins, Sharon Whooley: Fathom | Exp.
documentary | hdv | colour and b&w | 0:21:30 |
Ireland | 2013
Sarah Vanagt, Katrien Vanagt: In Waking Hours |
Exp. documentary | hdv | colour | 0:18:13 | Belgium
| 2015
Jean-François Reverdy: Matière première | Exp.
documentary | hdv | colour | 0:26:02 | France,
Mauritania | 2015
Stéphane Pichard produces a sort of musical, a
‘docu-fanfare’, like we say ‘docu-fiction’. Zachary
Epcar presents a night-time landscape, and
transforms simple plants into Hollywood characters.
22
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
THEATERSAAL
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Thu. / Do.
17
pm
07
Mar
Alexander Glandien
A NIGHT AT
THE MUSEUM /
EINE NACHT IM
MUSEUM
Alexander Glandien: Making of | Exp. documentary
| hdv | colour | 0:30:00 | Germany, Austria | 2015
Zapruder: Speak in Tongues | Exp. documentary |
hdv | colour | 0:22:00 | Italy | 2014
Arthur Fléchard sees his garden like a medium for
experimentation where the mown lawn becomes
an aesthetic composition. Roswitha Schuller and
Markus Hanakam analyse discourse on the history
of art, and seek the secret order involved in any
disorder. Bubi Canal describes the unconscious
expressions of different characters whose memory,
imagination and reality are inextricably linked. In
an art gallery, Crispin Gurholt assigns his models
the same roles as they play in reality, curator, critic
and gallery owner. Loïc Vanderstichelen and JeanPaul Jacquet follow a researcher who identifies a
collection for a new museum under construction.
His scientific point of view clashes with heightened
emotional feelings that will lead him to mental
confusion. Alexander Glandien films working areas
in a contemporary art museum. Zapruder explores
a variety of links and dimensions between true and
false, and what appears to be an almanac of vision
elapses.
In the presence of Roswitha Schuller,
Markus Hanakam, Crispin Gurholt and Loïc
Vanderstichelen.
Arthur Fléchard: La Sémantique du mouvement |
Exp. fiction | hdv | colour | 0:02:35 | France | 2014
Roswitha Schuller, Markus Hanakam: Trickster
| Exp. film | hdv | colour | 0:13:15 | Austria, Japan |
2014
Bubi Canal: Hologram | Exp. fiction | hdv | colour |
0:01:39 | Spain, USA | 2015
Crispin Gurholt: Please Kill Me Live Photo # 27 |
Video | hdv | colour | 0:04:00 | Norway | 2014
Loïc Vanderstichelen, Jean-Paul Jacquet: La
cascade | Exp. fiction | 4k | colour | 0:17:40 |
Belgium | 2015
23
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Thu. / Do.
17
pm
07
Mar
Philippe Grandrieux
SPECIAL
SCREENING
PHILIPPE
GRANDRIEUX
/ SPECIALSCREENING
Philippe Grandrieux: Meurtière | Exp. film | 2k |
colour | 1:01:00 | France | 2015
“The subject of Meurtrière is The Thing. The Thing
is insane, mad, excitable, hysterical, grotesque,
phobic, dangerous, brutal, devouring, wild, sexual,
unpredictable, astounding, frenetic, atrocious,
worried, frightening, ecstatic, desirable, vulgar,
wicked, embarrassing, shameless, nervous,
obscene, sacred, sacrificed, furious and deadly. But
above all, The Thing has no intent.”
(Philippe Grandrieux)
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SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Thu. / Do.
17
pm
09
Mar
Arnold Pasquier
BOROBUDUR /
BOROBUDUR
In the presence of Mélissa Epaminondi and
Arnold Pasquier.
Mélissa Epaminondi: Il Grattacielo Nuovo | Exp.
film | hdv | colour | 0:08:10 | France, Italy | 2015
Arnold Pasquier: Borobudur | Fiction | hdv | colour
and b&w | 1:20:00 | France, Italy | 2015
Mélissa Epaminondi films the first modern
architecture in Sardinia that was built in 1965 and
is visible from everywhere in the city. Until 1970 a
bright star was put on top of it during the Christmas
period. During the same period man landed on the
moon. The film is an evocation of the collapse of
utopias.
Arnold Pasquier follows an architecture student
Federico in Palermo. He scours the city looking for
modern buildings to draw and photograph. In a park
he meets a young man, Borobudur, who will open
doors to another urbanity. Federico abandons his
daily life and discovers a city that transforms him in
the wake of this magical boy.
25
FRIDAY /
FREITAG
18
Mar
AUDITORIUM
3PM ANTI-CLICHÉ /
ANTI-CLICHÉ
5PM TOPOLOGIES /
TOPOLOGIEN
7PM ARCHITECTURE /
ARCHITEKTUREN
9PM IDENTITIES /
IDENTITÄTEN
26
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Fri. / Fr.
18
pm
03
Mar
Adrian Flury
ANTI-CLICHÉ /
ANTI-KLISCHEE
psychoanalyst, author and actor Eduardo Pavlovsky
in 1972. Miguel Peres dos Santos resumes and
compiles extracts from Dutch public television in
the 60s, in relation to emigration and the perception
of those considered as ‘other,’ thus establishing a
comparison between collective consciousness and
censored archives. Eduardo Cachucho questions
the use of language and emotions, commonly used
by politicians with a view to controlling the masses.
He echoes the conclusions of the psychological
experiments carried out by Hendrik Verwoerd, who
in the 30s wrote ‘A Method for the Experimental
Production of Emotions’ through the use of colours
and symbols. Can Sungu reveals a fictional universe
based on stereotypes, culture shock and trauma
in the lives of immigrants. ‘Replaying Home’ is a
video collage of extracts from Turkish films shot in
Germany in the 70s and 80s specially intended for
the Turkish community, who gathered to see these
films on video evenings.
In the presence of Miguel Peres dos Santos and
Can Sungu.
Adrian Flury: A place I’ve never been | Exp. film |
4k | colour | 0:04:40 | Switzerland | 2014
Diego Bruno: Galindez | Exp. documentary | 4k |
colour | 0:21:56 | Finland, Argentina | 2015
Miguel Peres dos Santos: Voices | Exp. film | hdv
| colour and b&w | 0:18:48 | Portugal, Netherlands
| 2015
Eduardo Cachucho: Flatland | Video | hdv | colour
and b&w | 0:08:05 | South Africa, Belgium | 2014
Can Sungu: Replaying Home | Video | hdv | colour |
0:30:00 | Turkey, Germany | 2013
Adrian Flury recreates a continuum from thousands
of touristic shots of sites in Athens taken from the
Internet, and revives them through the duplication
of images and perspectives. Diego Bruno
questions the creation and structure of ideology,
the role of intellectuals and the forms of historical
representations. Galindez begins with the play
‘El Señor Galindez’, written by the Argentinian
27
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Fri. / Fr.
18
pm
05
Mar
Armando Lulaj
TOPOLOGIES /
TOPOLOGIEN
internment and deportation camp during the Second
World War. Traces of the past surface. Galería
Perdida examines the dots that form a printed
image, and compares them to the structure of the
language, where each phonomenon is required to
form the meaning. Armando Lulaj recreates the
story of the American plane forced to land at Rinas
airport, on 23rd December 1957, after crossing
People’s Republic of Albania airspace. Velibor
Bozovic reconstructs his day on 3rd April 1994,
during which he was, as a soldier of the Bosnian
Army, accompanied by a military intelligence officer
to visit his father, a prisoner of war of this very army.
The meeting was filmed then broadcast on television
during prime time. 18 years later, Velibor Bozovic
revisits this documentary evidence, questioning
its status as propaganda, historical document and
personal recollection.
In the presence of Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan
Efrat and Maya Schweizer.
Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat: Nude
Descending a Staircase | Video | hdv | colour |
0:18:30 | Denmark, Belgium | 2015
Maya Schweizer: Le Soldat mourant des Milles |
Exp. film | hdv | colour | 0:13:00 | France, Germany
| 2014
Galería Perdida: The Blind Don’t See Black, They
See Nothing | Exp. film | 16mm | b&w | 0:05:41 |
Mexico, USA | 2015
Armando Lulaj: Recapitulation | Exp. film | hdv |
colour and b&w | 0:13:00 | Albania, Italy | 2015
Velibor Bozovic: My Prisoner | Video | hdv | colour |
0:21:41 | Canada, Bosnia Herzegovina | 2014
Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat question
individual and collective memory, and the
presentation of history. The video partly comprises
photographs taken by visitors at the Walter Benjamin
memorial in Portbou. Maya Schweizer films Les
Milles, a village in the south of France, home to an
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SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Fri. / Fr.
18
pm
07
Mar
Jasmina Cibic
ARCHITECTURES /
ARCHITEKTUREN
Fréderic Nauczyciel presents a ritual. Kendall Mugler,
part of the ‘voguing’ scene, puts his red stilettos on
and displays his very technical and daring, theatrical
and wild energy. Michelle Deignan makes two distinct
voices speak in a real and virtual simulacrum of
historical European buildings. One recites Kraftwerk
lyrics while the other quotes extracts from a science
fiction novel written in 1827. Jasmina Cibic films
four characters whose words are based on extracts
from discourse on architecture. She questions the
link between architecture and ideology. Su-Mei
Tse embarks on a walk. The emptiness is like time
suspended, this indefinite space similar to a short
pause before starting something. Sébastien Durante
sculpts his own bust and then throws it into water for
posterity. Pierre-Jean Giloux refers to metabolism,
a Japanese architectural movement in the 60s and
the last modernist utopia of the 20th century. In
Havana, Didier Faustino films the building built in
the 60s by the Italian architect Vittorio Garati. It was
for a dance school that never existed. Sasha Pirker
and Lotte Schreiber film the exhibition spaces at
the Architektur Forum in the Tyrol. The soundtrack
describes the use of the building, whereas the
images provide fragmented and static views.
In the presence of Frederic Nauczyciel, Michelle
Deignan, Jasmina Cibic, Su-Mei Tse and Sasha
Pirker.
Frederic Nauczyciel: Red Shoes | Video | hdv |
colour | 0:04:17 | France | 2015
Michelle Deignan: Ways to Speculate | Video | hdv
| colour | 0:03:44 | Ireland, United Kingdom | 2014
Jasmina Cibic: Spielraum | Exp. fiction | 4k | colour |
0:15:28 | Slovenia, United Kingdom, Serbia | 2015
Su-Mei Tse: Pays de neige | Video | hdv | colour |
0:07:40 | Luxembourg, Italy | 2015
Sébastien Durante: Rendre à Cesar | Fiction | hdv |
colour | 0:04:36 | France | 2013
Pierre-Jean Giloux: Metabolism | Fiction | hdv |
colour | 0:11:00 | France, Japan, Belgium | 2015
Didier Faustino: Exploring Dead Building 2.0 |
Exp. fiction | hdv | colour and b&w | 0:09:00 | France,
Cuba | 2015
Sasha Pirker, Lotte Schreiber: Exhibition Talks |
Video | 16mm | b&w | 0:09:00 | Austria | 2014
29
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Fri. / Fr.
18
pm
09
Mar
Zackary Drucker
IDENTITIES /
IDENTITIES
Richard Martin distorts the editing process, and
explores a sequence from a TV film. He reveals
the principal norms of the genre with its crude
and hypnotic predictability. Elisa Gómez Alvarez
multiplies an individual whose avatars waver
between fear and desire. Maëlle Gross films Ariane
V., a body-builder and Doctor of Life Sciences, and
proposes a reflection on moderation and excess in
the world of controlled body imaging. Dana Levy
meets several inhabitants of Everglades National
Park, like Adams without their Eve, for whom the
only women present are in cigarette advertisements.
Zackary Drucker portrays himself with his mother.
They discuss the names used for the vagina and
humiliate a handsome stranger who rings at their
door. Eve Sussman presents strange characters
who resume and act parts of speeches by famous
people, from Lady Di to Janis Joplin, in a factory
setting that turns into a court. Ira Schneider films
an improvised party in Orchard Street in the 60s,
organised by the members of Max’s Kansas City
club, where the Velvet Underground recorded its
first album. Janis Rafa films a bereaved couple
suspended in time in a house. Their grief echoes the
rain and everyday objects.
In the presence of Elisa Gómez Alvarez, Maëlle
Gross and Ira Schneider.
Richard Martin: Abcam | Video | hdv | colour |
0:07:54 | Canada | 2015
Elisa Gómez Alvarez: Me Myself and I | Exp. fiction
| hdv | colour | 0:05:13 | Germany | 2015
Maëlle Gross: Strike a Pose | Video | hdv | colour |
0:17:20 | Switzerland | 2014
Dana Levy: Eden Without Eve | Documentary | hdv
| colour | 0:05:02 | Israël, USA | 2015
Zackary Drucker: Southern for Pussy | Fiction | hdv
| colour | 0:04:40 | USA | 2015
Eve Sussman, Simon Lee: No Food No Money No
Jewels | Video | 4k | colour | 0:09:38 | USA | 2014
Ira Schneider: Somewhere on Orchard Street |
Exp. documentary | 16mm | colour | 0:08:06 | USA,
Germany | 2015
Janis Rafa: Three Farewells: The Last Burial |
Fiction | 4k | colour | 0:24:00 | Greece, Netherlands
| 2013
30
SATURDAY /
SAMSTAG
19
Mar
AUDITORIUM
3PM DISPOSSESSIONS /
ENTEIGNUNGEN
5PM BREAKAWAY /
WEGBRECHEN
7PM SLOW AHEAD /
LANGSAM VORAN
9PM ANTHROPOLOGY /
ANTHROPOLOGIE
31
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Sat. / Sa.
19
pm
03
Mar
Nicolas Boone
DISPOSSESSIONS
/ ENTEIGNUNGEN
In the presence of Wojtek Doroszuk and Nicolas
Boone.
Wojtek Doroszuk: Prince | Exp. documentary | hdv |
colour | 0:18:50 | Poland, Congo-Brazzaville | 2014
Rob Todd: Ice | Exp. film | 16mm | b&w | 0:09:00 |
USA | 2015
Nicolas Boone: Psaume | Fiction | 4k | colour |
0:48:20 | France, Senegal | 2015
Wojtek Doroszuk follows a man through the city in
Brazzaville. This daily walk is like a ritual amongst all
the chaos. Rob Todd examines variations in the light
as a condition of possible vision. Nicolas Boone
places us in a near future, in which the villages of
a Sub-Saharan region are deserted, and where only
the mad, the disabled and child soldiers continue to
roam the parched lands. A social life is tough in this
climate of survival.
32
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Sat. / Sa.
19
pm
05
Mar
Henrik Lund Jörgensen
BREAKAWAY /
WEGBRECHEN
Matti Harju and Joakim Pusenius suggest a state
of silence intersecting the notions of beginning and
end. Simo Ezoubeiri films a man whose wife has left
him alone after 30 years together. Tommaso Donati
observes a homeless woman looking for her dog
and the caretaker of the Museum of Prehistory. They
cross paths united through the same primary need
and move about seeking something higher. MinhQuy Truong evokes the feeling of déjà vu. People
are looking for each other, thinking that they will
find one another, although it is only an illusion of the
mind. Henrik Lund Jörgensen refers to landscapes
of the romantic pictorial tradition and films by Carl
Th. Dreyer. He films young men in their desire to
enrol and desertion. Wichanon Somumjarn follows
a man responsible for requisitioning payment drafts,
facing the contradiction between his obligations
and aspirations. Michael Macgarry reinterprets
Thomas Mann’s short story, ‘Death in Venice’, and
the eponymous film by Visconti, following a young
immigrant from West Africa, in his journey from the
Italian Alps to Venice.
In the presence of Tommaso Donati.
Matti Harju, Joakim Pusenius: Tomorrow was
Magnificent | Exp. fiction | 4k | colour | 0:15:25 |
Finland | 2015
Simo Ezoubeiri: Ladder | Fiction | hdv | colour |
0:07:26 | Maroc | 2015
Tommaso Donati: Faim | Exp. fiction | hdv | colour |
0:16:04 | Switzerland, France | 2015
Quy Minh Truong: Déjà Vu | Exp. film | hdv | colour |
0:09:00 | Vietnam | 2015
Henrik Lund Jörgensen: The Recruitment (And
Escape) Of A Plastic Soldier | Video | 4k | colour |
0:10:15 | Denmark, Sweden | 2015
Wichanon Somumjarn: The Young Man Who
Came From the Chee River | Exp. fiction | hdv |
colour | 0:16:38 | Thaïlande | 2015
Michael Macgarry: Sea of Ash | Fiction | hdv |
colour | 0:11:57 | South Africa, Italy | 2015
33
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Sat. / Sa.
19
pm
07
Mar
Mauro Herce
SLOW AHEAD /
LANGSAM VORAN
In the presence of Philip Cartelli.
Mariangela Ciccarello, Philip Cartelli: Lampedusa
| Exp. fiction | hdv, super8 | colour and b&w | 0:13:44
| Italie, USA, France | 2015
Mauro Herce: Dead Slow Ahead | Documentary |
hdv | colour | 1:14:00 | Spain, France | 2015
Mariangela Ciccarello and Philip Cartelli evoke the
volcanic island that appeared in 1831 several miles
from the island of Lampedusa, causing international
conflict, before disappearing six months later. We
cross the ocean on a cargo ship with Mauro Herce.
The ship’s machinery appears to devour the sailors.
This may be a drifting boat, or just the last specimen
of an endangered species, with its unstoppable
engines.
34
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Sat. / Sa.
19
pm
09
Mar
Mathieu K. Abonnenc
ANTHROPOLOGY /
ANTHROPOLOGIE
can be seen. Lucia Prancha films the inhabitants of
an island in Northeast Brazil, some of whom think
they are direct descendants of King Sebastian of
Portugal, who died in a battle in the 16th century.
Marco Godoy broadcasts a recording of Eduardo
Galeano over the system in the Bolivian jungle, one
of few regions in the world resistant to progress.
In dialogue with the book ‘L’Afrique fantôme’ by
Michel Leiris, Mathieu K. Abonnenc examines
the conservation of an anthropological collection
brought back by the Mission Dakar-Djibouti. The
film reveals the destiny and the memory of archives
through an imaginary account that indicates the
status of the relationships between the people.
In the presence of Marco Godoy.
Omar Chowdhury: The Colonies at Dusk | Video |
hdv | colour | 0:12:49 | Bangladesh, Australia | 2014
Iván Argote: Barcelona | Video | dv | colour |
0:05:16 | Colombia, Spain | 2014
João Vieira Torres, Tanawi Xucuru Kariri: Toré |
Exp. documentary | hdv | colour | 0:15:00 | Brazil |
2015
Lucia Prancha: Sebastião, O Fantasma | Fiction |
hdv | colour | 0:14:57 | Portugal, USA, Brazil | 2014
Marco Godoy: The System | Video | hdv | colour |
0:02:30 | Spain, Bolivia | 2014
Mathieu K. Abonnenc: Secteur IX B | Fiction | 4k |
colour | 0:42:35 | France | 2015
Omar Chowdhury delves into an increasingly
sombre landscape, near the former gold mines in the
Province of Victoria, Australia. Iván Argote sets fire to
the Christopher Columbus monument in Barcelona’s
Las Ramblas district. João Vieira Torres and Tanawi
Xucuru Kariri film a ritual in Brazil and question what
35
SUNDAY /
SONNTAG
20
Mar
Auditorium
1PM SPECIAL SCREENING. LA RIBOT /
SPECIAL-SCREENING
Theatersaal
2PM ECO-SYSTEM /
ÖKOSYSTEM
1PM WORKERS /
ARBEITER
3PM AND THE LIVING IS EASY /
UND DAS LEBEN IST EINFACH
3PM MINED SOIL /
VERMINTER BODEN
5PM CARTE BLANCHE TO PEDRO COSTA /
CARTE BLANCHE AN PEDRO COSTA
4PM ICONIC /
IKONISCH
6PM CLOSING DRINK /
ABSCHLUSS-DRINK
5PM POST-TRAUMATIC /
POST TRAUMATISCH
7PM CLOSING SCREENING /
ABSCHLUSS-SCREENING
36
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
THEATERSAAL
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Sun. / So.
20
pm
01
Mar
Frank Koolen, Kasper Jacobs
WORKERS /
ARBEITER
productivity. Pleurad Xhafa follows Xhiku, a man
who has been working in a factory in Tirana since
1973. He received the medal of honour for ‘fatiguefree worker’. After the fall of the communist regime,
the factory was privatised, and the former guard
became the owner of it. Xhiku is currently paid 3
euros per day.
In the presence of Frank Koolen and Kasper
Jacobs.
Rafiqul Shuvo: Faster Satiation, but only for
Nevertheless behavior | Exp. film | hdv | b&w |
0:06:38 | Bangladesh | 2014
Frank Koolen, Kasper Jacobs: Play Curacao |
Exp. documentary | hdv | colour | 0:29:28 | Pays-Bas,
Curacao | 2015
Simon Gush: Lazy Nigel | Video | hdv | b&w |
0:11:41 | South Africa | 2015
Pleurad Xhafa: Tireless Worker | Exp. film | hdv |
colour | 0:42:57 | Albania | 2015
Rafiqul Shuvo films workers in a country of extreme
political, social and cultural domination, and
questions connections between the notions of
people and nation. Frank Koolen and Kasper Jacobs
observe life in Curaçao, in the Caribbean with its
social rituals, contemporary games and the leisure
time of Homo Ludens (Playing Man). Simon Gush
passes through a small industrial town in the vicinity
of Johannesburg at the weekend when there are no
workers, and questions the notions of idleness and
37
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Sun. / So.
20
pm
01
Mar
La Ribot
SPECIAL
SCREENING.
LA RIBOT
/ SPECIALSCREENING
La Ribot: Film noir 001 // 002 // 003 | Vidéo | hdv |
couleur | 0:28:00 | Espagne | 2015
La Ribot takes another look at films that form
the history of cinema. In ‘Film noir 001’, La Ribot
features extras from two epics, ‘Spartacus’ by
Stanley Kubrick and ‘El Cid’ by Anthony Mann,
filmed in Spain in the 60s. An account of the
political and social movements in this period, the
film constructs the real story through anonymous
bodies. The series continues in ‘Film noir 002’ with
extras or workers from several films, leaving us to
thus contemplate their art of acting. The spatial and
choreographic aspect is central to ‘Film noir 003’.
Organised musically, the extras fill the background
space, creating a sensual and funny, sometimes
catastrophic, yet always impeccable performance.
38
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Sun. / So.
20
pm
02
Mar
Theo Prodromidis
ECO-SYSTEM /
ÖKOSYSTEM
In the presence of Jonas Matauschek, Emerson
Culurgioni and Theo Prodromidis.
Jonas Matauschek, Emerson Culurgioni : Leuna |
Exp. documentary | hdv | colour | 0:13:00 | Germany
| 2013
Theo Prodromidis: Towards the Production of
Dialogues On The Market Of Bronze and Other
Precious Materials | Exp. fiction | 2K | colour | 0:16:00
| Greece | 2013
Jonas Matauschek examines the surroundings of
a big factory. Individual points of view evoke the
relationship between social links and industry. Based
on the structure of Brecht’s text, ‘The Purchase of
Copper’, Theo Prodromidis establishes correlations
between the political structure and the structure
of finance, using their architectural form and their
specific features as a visual starting point.
39
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
THEATERSAAL
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Sun. / So.
20
pm
03
Mar
Filipa César
MINED SOIL /
VERMINTER
BODEN
In the presence of Filipa César.
Filipa César: Sol miné | Exp. documentary | hdv |
colour | 0:34:00 | Portugal, France | 2014
In this experimental film that is part of a research
project in progress, ‘People are the mountain’, Filipa
César revisits the work of the Guinean agronomist
Amilcar Cabral, from the study of soil erosion in the
Portuguese region of Alentejo until his commitment
as one of the leaders of the African Freedom
Movement. This way of thinking merges with the
documentation of an experimental gold mine site,
now managed by a Canadian company and located
in the same zone that Cabral studied at the time.
The film explores present and past definitions of the
ground as a designated area for memory, vestiges
and exploitation.
40
SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Sun. / So.
20
pm
03
Mar
Lamia Joreige
AND THE LIVING
IS EASY / UND
DAS LEBEN IST
EINFACH
attachment to Beirut and how difficult or impossible
it is to live there. For several months, the filmmaker
asked them to act out scenes that she conceived,
inspired by their love, professional or social lives.
She has made their daily lives into fiction, thereby
highlighting their unease. These scenes were acted
out in districts they live in, places dear to them.
The city and their feelings are intricately linked.
The anguish of the political instability of the Near
East and the fear of a devastating war lies beneath
the beauty of the images, beneath the apparent
sweetness of their lives.
In the presence of Lamia Joreige.
Nicolas Carrier, Marie Ouazzani: Tracing Ghosts |
Video | hdv | colour | 0:09:22 | France, Corée du Sud
| 2015
Lamia Joreige: And The Living is Easy | Fiction |
hdv | colour | 1:15:00 | Lebanon | 2014
Nicolas Carrier and Marie Ouazzani film a school
that, during the Japanese colonisation of Korea,
enrolled orphans in the occupying army. Now an
artist residency, there is a rumour that it is haunted.
By reproducing artistic, historical and touristic
images, three young Koreans awaken the memories
of what happened in this place in the past.
Lamia Joreige films Beirut. The city is immersed in a
strange calm while the surrounding region is ablaze.
Through five characters, mainly non-professional
actors, Lamia Joreige produces a unique portrait
of her hometown. Whether sales representative,
musician, student or actor, each confides their deep
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SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
THEATERSAAL
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Sun. / So.
20
pm
04
Mar
Adel Abidin
ICONIC /
IKONISCH
Clément Cogitore: sans titre | Video | hdv | colour |
0:24:00 | France | 2014
Adel Abidin: Michael | Video | hdv | colour | 0:16:10
| Finland | 2015
Alternately crossing forests, baroque ruins, control
towers and Roman catacombs in ‘sans titre’,
Clément Cogitore looks at a scientific community
in the footsteps of a magical animal. He questions
the unchanging nature of the meaning of the story
and image in the face of developing beliefs in
a confrontation between the subterranean and
elevated worlds, as well as archaism and new
technology. Adel Abidin questions the power of
contemporary icons and the belief that they generate
through the figure of Michael, interviewed after his
resurrection. His answers and speech are nothing
other than a compilation of his famous songs.
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SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
THEATERSAAL
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Sun. / So.
20
pm
05
Mar
Mariah Garnett
POST-TRAUMATIC
/ POST
TRAUMATISCH
Monira Al Qadiri brings together VHS images of an oil
well on fire in Kuwait after the first Gulf War in 1991.
These images, like scenes from the Apocalypse,
are accompanied by the sound of poems that the
television was broadcasting at the same time. At night
Johann Lurf films an arms and drones manufacturer
for military use in Austria. Guston Sondin-Kung
describes the participation of an intelligence officer,
from his hotel room in Denmark, in a cyber-attack
against an Iranian nuclear power station. Nadia and
Laila Hotait reinterpret the taking of hostages that
took place at Bank of America in Beirut on 18th
October 1973. Mariah Garnett films American war
veterans who continue to test their physical limits
on returning to civilian life. In ‘From Satin Island’,
in association with the writer Tom McCarthy, Johan
Grimonprez produces a haunting collage of disaster
and beauty. With ‘What I will’, we hear the voice of
the Jordanian-American poet Suheir Hammad, who
is seeking hope in the face of military parades and
anti-aircraft rifles. Lydia Moyer calls for reflection on
freedom in contemporary America following events
in Ferguson, Missouri.
Monira Al Qadiri: Waraa Al Shams | Video | hdv,
vhs | colour | 0:10:00 | Kuwait | 2013
Johann Lurf: Embargo | Video | hdv | colour |
0:10:00 | Austria | 2014
Guston Sondin-Kung: STUXNET in Denmark |
Video | 4k | colour | 0:04:37 | USA, Denmark, Iran |
2015
Nadia & Laila Hotait: The Night between Ali and I |
Video | 4k | colour | 0:09:05 | Spain, Lebanon | 2015
Mariah Garnett: Full Burn | Exp. documentary | hdv
| colour | 0:20:00 | USA | 2015
Johan Grimonprez: From Satin Island | Exp. film |
hdv | colour | 0:03:23 | Belgium | 2015
and: What I Will | Exp. film | hdv | colour | 0:01:11 |
Belgium, USA | 2015
Lydia Moyer: The Forcing (no. 2) | Video | hdv |
colour | 0:07:15 | USA | 2015
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SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Sun. / So.
20
pm
05
Mar
Pedro Costa
CARTE BLANCHE
TO PEDRO COSTA
/ CARTE BLANCHE
AN PEDRO COSTA
of paper that he asks to be returned, to this eviction
notice that greatly upsets José Albert at the end of
the process, one of four Cape Verdeans continuing
these discussions in Lisbon on the unlikely dignity of
living.” (Raymond Bellour)
“I was a good mason. I have never built a crooked
wall. My boss has never complained about me. One
day the work stopped, I lost my unemployment
benefit. No retirement pension and no welfare
benefits. I looked for work everywhere with no
success. I brought no money home, Suzete threw
me out.”
Pedro Costa: O Nosso Homem | Exp. documentary
| hdv | colour | 0:23:00 | Portugal | 2013-2015
With ‘O Nosso Homem’ (Our Man) Pedro Costa
produces “a variation in the line of the trilogy
devoted to inhabitants of the Fontainhas district in
Lisbon, which has been destroyed in the meantime.
It can be considered as a sort of appendix to the
third part, ‘Colossal Youth!’ in which the hero,
Ventura, reappears as one of the four characters
of this dialogue of hopelessness. They continue,
from one setting to another, from the darkest to the
brightest, driven by sumptuous settings and shades
of light and shadow that once made Jacques
Rancière say (about ‘Colossal Youth!’): “The faith in
the art which attests to the greatness of the poor
– the greatness of each and every man– shines
here more than ever. But it does not assimilate it
anymore to an affirmation of a greeting.” A figure
runs through ‘O Nosso Homem’ expressing its
mythical power: “from this fellow who takes people
to a better life,” surreptitiously slipping them a piece
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Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDI-FOYER
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Sun. / So.
20
pm
06
Mar
CLOSING DRINK
/ ABSCHLUSS
DRINK
You are all warmly invited to join us for a drink,
before the closing screening of Les Rencontres
Internationales.
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SCREENING /
Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
AUDITORIUM
John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
S-Bahn: Linien S5, S7, S9, S75 - Hauptbahnhof.
free entry
Sun. / So.
20
pm
07
Mar
Thom Andersen
CLOSING
SCREENING /
ABSCHLUSSSCREENING
Thom Andersen: The Thoughts That Once We
Had | Exp. documentary | hdv | colour and b&w |
1:48:00 | USA | 2015
Thom Andersen constructs this film around love and
the power of the seduction of films in this personal
history of cinema, inspired by Deleuze’s theory of
cinema. Like Deleuze he examines a huge area that
extends from Griffith to Godard, using cinematic
images not to explain, but to embody Deleuze’s
ideas in all their ambiguity, wealth and nuances.
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KONTACT /
CONTAKT
AKNOWLEDGEMENTS /
DANK AN
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.art-action.org
Venue / ORT:
• Dr. Bernd M. Scherer, Alexandra Engel, Silvia
Fehrmann - Haus der Kulturen der Welt
LES RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES
roARaTorio - BP 6501 - FR 75064 Paris cedex 02
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Institutions / Kulturträger:
VENUE /
ORT
• Michael Müller, Regierender Bürgermeister von
Berlin
• Patrick Klugman - Adjoint au Maire de Paris chargé
des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie,
Ville de Paris
• Claire Berger-Vachon - Chargée des relations
internationales, Direction des Affaires Culturelles de la
Ville de Paris
• Sophie Boulé - Responsable du Pôle Coopération
Culturelle & Urbaine, Délégation générale aux
Relations internationales de la Ville de Paris
• Jean-François Rabot - Institut Français
• Coby Reitsma, Mondriaan Fund
• Maja Brdnik - Ambassadress, Embassy of
Slovenian Republic in Berlin
• Luigi Reitani - Director, Italian Cultural Institute in
Berlin
• Annamaria Di Giorgio - Cultural Attaché, Italian
Cultural Institute in Berlin
• The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Germany
• Birgitte Tovborg Jensen - Cultural Attaché,
Embassy of the Kingdom of Denmark
• Elke Ritt - Head of Arts, British Council
• Ana Patrícia Severino - Cultural Attaché, Embassy
of Portugal
• Nicola Höschle - Embassy of Portugal
• Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
• Polish Institute in Berlin
• Canada Council for the Arts - Conseil des Arts du
Canada
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John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
S-Bahn S5, S7, S9, S75 bis Hauptbahnhof / Bus 100
HdKdW, Bus M85 Platz der Republik
EINTRITT FREI
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STAFF /
TEAM
LES RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES
• Directors, curators : Nathalie Hénon, Jean-François
Rettig
• Coordination at Haus der Kulturen der Welt:
Alexandra Engel
• Communication at Haus der Kulturen der Welt:
Silvia Fehrmann (management), Anne Maier, Nabila
El-Khatib
• Assistant: Delphine Paris
• Grafik Design: Josquin Bernaert
• Translation: Lou Jablonowska
• Screening coordination: Jozefina Chetko
• Projectionist - Haus der Kulturen der Welt: René
Christoph
OTHER PARTNERS / WEITERE PARTNER:
• Sasha Hilliger - Myer’s Hotel Berlin
• Stefan Ruckgaber - Tiergarten Hotel Berlin
• Kerstin Berger - Arte Luise Kunsthotel
• Steffen Squarra - abba Hotel berlin
• Sarah Rocholo - Sorat Hotel Ambassador Berlin
• Wout Westen - Circus Family
• Christian Reither - Zitty
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AND ALSO / SOWIE:
• Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Philippe
Grandrieux, Thom Andersen, Emmanuel and Kanako
• Mathilde Ferrer, Martine Markovits, Jean-Stéphane
Michaux, Sophie Martin
• with great thanks to the staff of Les Rencontres
Internationales
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