MISSION EYE & EAR: BERLIN

MISSION EYE & EAR: BERLIN
Live Improvised Music + Experimental Film from San Francisco and Berlin
Thursday, August 2, 2012, 8pm

Filmmakers:
Konrad Steiner
Kathleen Quillian
Sylvia Schedelbauer
Paul Clipson
Carl Diehl
Bill Basquin
Alfonso Alvarez

Musicians:
Jason Levis, percussion
Lisa Mezzacappa, contrabass
George Cremaschi, contrabass/electronics
Ritwik Banerjee, saxophone/electronics
Chris Heenan, winds
Piero Bittolo Bon, winds
Alessandra Eramo, voice/electronics
Wendelin Buechler, guitar/electronics

A series curated by San Francisco bassist Lisa Mezzacappa in collaboration with Artists Television Access (ATA)

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Pink Melon Joy
Harzer Strasse 119, Neukölln
Admission by Donation

FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS

TODAY TODAY TODAY

Florida-based experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe is in town and will present a special open-air/backyard-screening of his FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS!

In his film performances, which he has presented around the world, Roger uses multiple analog and digital formats, from Super8 to 16mm to video, running up to 8 projectors simultaneously and combining images live on the screen. His films use found footage, as well as self-produced material, from educational to abstract cameraless films and East German animation movies. FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS is made up of a selection of his recent “expanded cinema” works.

We’ll start at 10pm sharp(-ish)!
Outdoors between Skalitzer Straße 76 and 78
Running time: 70 min.
Keep your fingers crossed for good weather and come on over!

Roger’s website:
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rogerbb/

Filmmakers’ Choice

UNTITLED COLOURMATION, 1991

Filmmakers’ Choice am 25. Juni in Kino Arsenal (Kino 2), 19 Uhr
“Ich habe nach Filmen gesucht, in denen Farben, Texturen, Licht und Zeit ein größeres Gewicht haben als Menschen und Erzählungen. Mehr und mehr wurde meine Recherche auch zu einer Entdeckungsreise in die osteuropäischen Bestände des Arsenal-Archivs. Wir fangen an mit einem Naturbeoachtungsfilm (VIRAGAT A NAPNAK). Mit den zauberhaften Kompositionen von Christoph Janetzko (EXÚ) verzehrt sich die Realität. Malerei in Bewegung (ENCOUNTER) und animierte Knöpfe (GUZIK) führen zu meinem Maltrickfilm in verschiedenen Dimensionen (UNTITLED COLOURMATION). EYE MUSIC IN ED MAJOR, ein Klassiker aus purer Farbe und Licht, geht einem der spannendsten Künstlerporträts vorweg: WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI. HEAT SHIMMER, ein subtiles -Beispiel für den 3-Farben-Separationsprozess, bringt uns am Ende zurück zur Beobachtung von Phänomenen in der Natur.” –Deborah Phillips

Analogue Zone Screening #1, Kairo

Click here to download the flyer

Hand Over Cinema im Arsenal

EINLADUNG: Hand Over Cinema // 09.05.2012 // 20:00 // Kino Arsenal, Filmhaus am Potsdamer Platz, Potsdamer Str. 2, 10785 Berlin

Filmemacher, Künstler, Studenten und Amateure aus Deutschland und Griechenland sowie aus Ägypten, Serbien und den USA haben in einem siebentägigen Workshop, der im September 2011 im LabA (Laboratory Athens) und im Goethe-Institut Athen stattfand, eigenhändig Filme über die griechische Hauptstadt hergestellt. Sie haben mit Super8- und 16-mm-Film gedreht, haben das Material selbst entwickelt, geschnitten und projiziert. Das Ergebnis sind 19 Kurzfilme, die nun als Gesamtprogramm in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. in Berlin erstmals außerhalb Griechenlands präsentiert werden.

Zu Gast aus Athen: Vassily Bourikas, Katerina Evangelakou, Alexandros Kontos, Yannis Yaxas und aus Berlin: Clara Bausch, Guillaume Cailleau, Matthias Fritsch und Philip Widmann.

Die Filme – die Filmemacher – das Programm:
Download Hand over Cinema – Programm

Der Workshop „Hand Over Cinema Athens 2011“ ist eine Koproduktion von Goethe-Institut Athen und LabA, in Zusammenarbeit mit LaborBerlin e.V. und wurde von Vassily Bourikas kuratiert.

LaborBerlin meets Kinolab

LaborBerlin joins local lab, KinoLab to present two days of talks and screenings in Bogota, Colombia. The event is hosted by the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. On Friday March 23rd Juan David Gonzalez and Anja Dornieden will present a talk about the independent film lab model and the creative possibilities of working with 16mm and super8. Then they will project a selection of their recent films and of those by members and friends of LaborBerlin. On Saturday Colombian filmmaker Dairo Cervantes will give a talk on the advantage of using super8 to make short fiction films and screen three of his films. Finally there will be a screening of films by film students of the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University.

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