Videos of Diffraktion 2012

Screening

Performance

Exhibition

Documentation by Andreas Kebschull

Photos of Diffraktion 2012

Members of LaborBerlin introducing the screening program. Photo by Andreas Kebschull

Drowning Sun. Photo by Joe Kake

Nr.8. Photo by Joe Kake

Steinbergkurve. Photo by Joe Kake

Smart Phone. Photo by Juan David Gonzalez Monroy

Chéri Chéri. Photo by Andreas Kebschull

ChériChéri. Photo by Paul Prendergast

My vomit. Photo by Paul Prendergast

DIFFRAKTION 2012

February 16th ‒ 18th 2012

Exhibition / Film Screening / Film Performances

LaborBerlin celebrates the analogue hand-processed film in a three-day event that includes an exhibition, a film program, and live film performances.

DIFFRAKTION is LaborBerlin’s very own annual event that showcases new works by its members and friends. After two successful editions in 2010 and 2011, LaborBerlin will once again take over Stattbad Wedding’s exhibition spaces and swimming pool hall. DIFFRAKTION will present a three-day exhibition, a film screening, and a performance night.

DIFFRAKTION kicks off with the opening of the exhibition on Thursday, February 16th at 6pm, and culminates on Saturday, February 18th with a film screening and special live acts. The closing party will take place in the swimming pool hall. LaborBerlin is proud to present Étienne Caire as a special guest. On Saturday evening Étienne Caire and Xavier Quérel will present their live cinema performance Chéri-Chéri-16mm projector, 33cl rock´n´roll.

Exhibition
February 17th ‒ 18th 2012
Fr ‒ Sa | 15h ‒ 20h
Opening | Thursday, 16th February 2012 | 6 pm
Free admission

With installations by Andreas Kebschull and Andreas Zech, Doireann O’Malley, Melissa Dullius & Gustavo Jahn, Juan David Gonzales Monroy.

Film Screening / Performance / Party
February 18th 2012 | 8 pm
Admission 5 Euro

Film Screening
Super 8, 16mm and digital projections. Works by Gustavo Jahn & Melissa Dullius; Arnaud Gerber; Jakob Kirchheim; Juan David Gonzales Monroy and Anja Dornieden; Nadja Tobias and Joen Szmidt; Blank Blank; Deborah Phillips; Guillaume Cailleau; Clara Bausch; Christopher Becks; Michel Balagué.

Film-Perfomances
Juan David Gonzales Monroy, Anja Dornieden, Lewis Watkins and Tobias Duvefjord, Chéri-Chéri

Party
Traditionally with the charming Rebeka Bar (Super8 and Vodka on wheels)
DJs: Edo Nisme; General Zaza; DJ Télépathe; Bill Robin
Visuals: Paul Prendergast; Nadja Tobias; Beatpix

DIFFRAKTION takes place with the friendly support Stattbad Wedding, screenshot und Filmkunsttechnik Olaf Saeger.

LaborBerlin e.V.
STATTBAD Wedding
Gerichtstraße 65, 13347 Berlin
S+U Wedding , S Humboldthain

Press contact: Melissa Dullius, labor.organisation@gmail.com

Click here to download the English press release
Click here to download the German press release

Chéri-Chéri -16mm projector, 33cl rock´n´roll

Anja Dornieden & Juan Gonzalez - Oro Parece

Jakob Kirchheim - Linölbüro

Deborah S. Phillips ‒ iiii

Nadja Tobias & Joen Szmidt - Flugplatzkatzen

Michel Balagué - At the end of the night

Cailleau and Russell at Berlinale

LaborBerlin is very proud to announce that the latest collaborative film by Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell will have its world premiere at this year’s Berlinale. The hand processed 16mm film was produced as part of LaborBerlin’s workshop in Athens last year, Hand Over Cinema, in which international fimmakers, cineastes, artists and students gathered to make their experiments in the capital of Greece. Cailleau and Russell’s film is called Austerity Measures, runs 8 minutes, and screens on February 11th and 12th at Forum Expanded. The film is a color-separation portrait of the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens: In a place where fists are raised like so many columns in the Parthenon, this is a film of surfaces – of grafittied marble streets and wheat-pasted city walls.

Cinéma Copains at Berlinale

Cinema Copains are Minze Tummescheit and Arne Hector, part of the group of founding members of LaborBerlin. We are excited that their latest film project, in arbeit / en construction / w toku / lavori in corso, about collaborative work processes and cooperative structures, will screen as part of this year’s Forum. IN ARBEIT relies on the basic social gesture of people introducing themselves to one another. To explore the possibilities of collective action, Minze Tummescheit and Arne Hector set off a chain of interviews, with the first interviewee leading the film team to the second, and so on. What they all have in common are the cooperative structures in which they work. To open the series, we meet film laboratory L’Abominable, the Coordination des Intermittents et Précaires, Île de France (CIP) and two Sicilian agricultural cooperatives. The most important question they debate is that of their own legitimacy: does it make sense or is it even possible to position oneself outside of industrial progress, the public arena of politics or the global market? We learn much about film laboratories and the materiality of film, about the relationship between trade and industry, about French employment policy for film and theatre professionals and the resistance it breeds, and about Mafia-dominated Sicilian structures. Each cooperative creates its own images, sounds and rhythms, with these images forming a series that ultimately becomes a collective political discourse, not least about cinema itself. Showdates are February 13th and 18th.

Director’s Lounge 2012

February is the busiest month for experimental cineastes in Berlin, and not just because of the big festival that hits town! There are many satellite events that pilot great films such as the International Director’s Lounge, now in its 8th edition, and of course our very own film show case DIFFRAKTION. Stay tuned for news on our program details and show times!
Meanwhile, we’re happy to say that LaborBerlin members Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn (the powerhouse duo known as Distruktur), and Jakob Kirchheim will be screening new works as part of Director’s Lounge on February 13th. Curated by Deborah S. Phillips, the program entitled Out of the Blue: Plötzlich wird alles anders features following filmmakers: Lutz Garmsen, Tanya Ury, Jakob Kirchheim and Teresa Delgado, Melissa Delius and Gustavo Jahn, Tsuyoshi Harada, and Deborah S Phillips.

Download the program flyer here

A Night of Collaborations

Sunday, January 29th: For the first time filmmaker Sylvia Schedelbauer and sound artist Jeff Surak (aka Violet) perform together live after six years of remote collaboration. Preslav Literary School and Rinus van Alebeek, two of the leading figures of the Berlin Cassette Underground, play as a duo, mingling melodies and tape narratives. RobinsonHotel at Bethanien, Kohlfurterstr. 41-43, 1st left (green) door, Room 322, 3F

Distruktur’s Light Show

Saturday January 28th: Brace yourselves for a weekend packed with music and live cinema! Get down with the sound of the underground: Rebel HiFi, Dub War, Tempa London. Visuals by Distruktur (Melissa Dullius & Gustavo Jahn) Theatre Wiesenweg 5-9. 10365 Berlin (Ostkreuz / Frankfurter Allee)

www.facebook.com/RebelHiFi
Soundcloud.com/rebelhifi
Distruktur

SO IS THIS. NOW.

LaborBerlin warmly recommends: TOMORROW! 25.01.12 At Arsenal! Films! As part of Madeleine Bernstorff‘s UdK Seminar! So Is This. Now. In the satire MACHORKA-MUFF (1962/63) by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, the rearmament of the FRG is criticized, Ula Stöckl‘s dumpster kid in NIEDRIG GILT DAS GELD AUF DIESER ERDE (1970) meets a sorry end, an attack on a university accounts department fails in 3000 HÄUSER (Hartmut Bitomsky 1967) and in the animation documentary DIE KRUMME PRANKE (1997) by Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann, Josef Strau and Amelie von Wulffen politicians sink into the ground by shaking hands with private capital.

LABeirut Film Workshop documentation