Preview - Film & Video Programme: SyncExistence

11.11.2010
11.11.2010

Preview - Film & Video Programme: SyncExistence

Suburb Within - Pekka Sassi (2009)
Suburb Within - Pekka Sassi (2009)

In eleven curated film and video programmes transmediale.11 presents at least 58 historical and contemporary moving image works from 18 countries. This year's main focus is a reflection on the vital ways in which 20th century cinema – through its editing techniques and new visual culture – contributed to promoting the sense of growing simultaneity, ubiquity and acceleration which the Internet has since increased exponentially.

Additional highlights: Specials on Lynn Hershman Leeson, the pioneer of interactive art, and Ho Tzu Nyen, the Award Nominee from Singapur, as well as the ArabShorts project.

Hardly any other media technique has deconstructed our idea of the unity of time and space more powerfully than that of film editing in cinema. It is this technique which made it possible to connect seemingly distant places while also extending, stretching or parallelising the course of things. Thinkers have therefore claimed that film editing not only created the "dynamisation of space" and "spatialisation of time" (E. Panofsky, 1936) but moreover a completely new type of perception defined by "simultaneity" and "universalism" (A. Hauser, 1953), characteristics indeed constitutive of the contemporary conception of life. Television and the Internet ultimately made this already highly condensed information ubiquitous. 

The film & video programme of transmediale.11 addresses the processual history around this universal outpouring of visual culture. Confirmed so far are at least 58 moving image works from 18 countries that will be shown in eleven curated screening programmes. The early, slow television culture of Nazi Germany and artistic explorations from the 1960s form some themes of these programmes. This year's Sunday matinee features the Russian appropriation comedy The Kiss of Mary Pickford from 1927, which will be accompanied by acclaimed film composer Peter Gotthardt live on piano. Moreover, there will be screenings of contemporary works approaching the curatorial premise from four different perspectives that have been selected from the submissions to the award competition.

Specials on Lynn Hershman Leeson, the pioneer of interactive art, and Ho Tzu Nyen, transmediale Award Nominee from Singap

ore, plus the ArabShorts project round out the programme. As always, there will again be opportunities for Q&As with directors and filmmakers attending transmediale.11. 

– Marcel Schwierin, Film & Video Curator

With films and videos from the following artists and more: Adel Abidin (Iraq/Finland), Ashim Ahluwalia (India), Eija-Liisa Ahtila (Finland), Jananne Al-Ani (Iraq), Jan Tobias Anderson (Sweden), Ziad Antar (Lebanon), Stuart Baker (UK), Magnus Bärtas (Sweden), Jim Finn (USA), Karl G'schrey (Germany), Mihai Grecu (France), Mohssin Harraki (Morocco), Lynn Hershman Leeson (USA), Fadma Kaddouri (Morocco), Lewis Klahr (USA ), Sergei Komarov (USSR), Korpys / Löffler (Germany), Lernert & Sander (Netherlands), Loucks & Norling Films (USA), Billy Lumby (UK), Maha Maamoun (Egypt), Jesse McLean (USA), Oussama Mohammad (Syria), Ruben Östlund (Sweden), Sharon Paz (Germany/Israel), Nicolas Provost (Belgium), Reynold Reynolds (Germany), Roee Rosen (Israel), Jani Ruscica (Finland), Helke Sander (Germany), Pekka Sassi (Finland), Wael Shawky (Egypt), John Smith (UK), Stephen Sutcliffe (UK), Pilvi Takala (Finland/Netherlands), Ho Tzu Nyen (Singapore), Camille Verbunt (Netherlands), Wolf Vostell (Germany)

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