A film on life in Japan after March 11, 2011. Yet, not focussing on the visible damages caused by the earthquake and tsunami, nor on the reconstruction and cheer-up activities following the disaster. Rather, interested in non-descript and invisible changes.
Ivo Wessel and Olaf Stüber, the duo behind Videoart at Midnight, say they’ve found a way to give art films the audiences they deserve – by bringing them out of the gallery and into the cinema. Collector Ivo Wessel and gallerist Olaf Stüber come together once a month at Babylon ...
The 59th International Short Film Festival invited “Videoart at Midnight Edition” to present it’s recent issues within the market section of the festival: Nuclear Voyage, Armin Linke, IT, 2008, 10’30” FRI, 3. May, Studio, 19.00 Kiss, Melanie Manchot, GB, 2009, 10’30” SAT, 4. May, Studio 19.00 Parking, Erik Schmidt, GE, ...
Annika Eriksson’s latest three works are realized as an ongoing dialogue with times of transition, here explored both through moments of resistance and passivity. In the realizations of these works, Eriksson has used Berlin, where she lives and works, as a point of departure.
Die Kunst erobert ganz neue Räume. Immer mehr Künstler entdecken für sich ganz ungewöhnliche Orte zur Inszenierung ihrer Kunst, auch Off Spaces oder Sites genannt. Ob Bunker oder Bar, alte Gefängnisse oder umgebaute Zollhäuschen, stillgelegte Supermärkte oder Kirchen, an solchen Szene-Locations erregen Ausstellungen mehr Aufmerksamkeit bei oft geringeren Investitionen. Es ...
Martin Skauen’s Slideshow Johnny is a portrait episode of an experimental outsider artist, dedicated to the bone, highly influenced by personal issues. Alternating between beat poetry, comedy and with a surreal, dark and poetic sensibility, the series of acts diverse in tone and subject matter.
Hitchcock in den Fingerspitzen: Douglas Gordon reinszeniert „Vertigo“ ohne Schauspieler, nur mit einem Dirigenten und einem Orchester. Am Freitag um 24 Uhr wird „Feature Film“ im Rahmen der Reihe Videoart at Midnight – ein Projekt von Olaf Stüber und Ivo Wessel – gezeigt. Douglas Gordon wird bei der Aufführung im ...
In 1999, four giants clashed with each other: There is Alfred Hitchcock’s film classic “Vertigo” from 1958 and its legendary composer Bernhard Herrmann. Hermann became world-famous through numerous films – not least through Hitchcock’s “Psycho”. There is James Conlon, one of today’s greatest conductors as leader of the Los Angeles Opera Company’s orchestra. And there is the young artist Douglas Gordon.
Seit vier Jahren zeigen Olaf Stüber und Ivo Wessel Videokunst im Kino Babylon in Berlin. Einmal im Monat an einem Freitag, immer um Mitternacht. Im letzten Jahr waren die beiden Documenta-Teilnehmer Omer Fast und Clemens von Wedemeyer zu sehen. Im Januar diesen Jahres ist Harun Farocki zu Gast und im Februar ...
Er ist einer der wichtigsten politischen Essayfilmer: Harun Farocki gastiert bei der Videokunstreihe “Videoart at Midnight” im Babylon und holt damit die Videokunst aus den Ausstellungsräumen. Glockenschlag Mitternacht, aber die pulsierende Hauptstadt möchte nicht schlafen. Ob man in den Cafés oder Bars bei Kerzenschein sitzt oder sich auf traumwandlerische Erkundungsreisen ...
Er ist einer der wichtigsten politischen Essayfilmer: Harun Farocki gastiert bei der Videokunstreihe “Videoart at Midnight” im Babylon und holt damit die Videokunst aus den Ausstellungsräumen. Glockenschlag Mitternacht, aber die pulsierende Hauptstadt möchte nicht schlafen. Ob man in den Cafés oder Bars bei Kerzenschein sitzt oder sich auf traumwandlerische Erkundungsreisen ...
In four film essays Ernste Spiele I-IV Farocki documents training methods at United States military facilities. Farocki juxtaposes footage filmed at the respective trainings centers, with sequences from computer simulations used in the training there.
Rebecca Ann Tess' practice is mainly based in the field of video and found footage imagery. Topics of interest have recently been queer theory as well as film and television history.
Bettina Nürnberg and Dirk Peuker present Flat Roofs for Mussolini, The American Houses and Zement
Armin Linke's Alpi is the result of seven years of research on contemporary perceptions of the landscape of the Alps, juxtaposing places and situations across all eight bordering nations and spanning the territories of four languages.
Clemens von Wedemeyer has developed a sculptural openair cinema at the border of the old city of Mardin, overlooking the Mesopotamian plain. hereas the front of Wedemeyers‘ double sided screen construction serves for film projections at night, the back of the screen functions as a mirror, reflecting the afternoon sun down to valley.
For Vengeance, a seven-part video narrative epic, Keren Cytter takes her own currently changing life situation as inspiration. Having recently moved to New York, Cytter adopted the US TV- platform of the “daily soap” as a structural format to processes classic themes of drama in personal relationships: love, envy, betrayal, and vengeance.
Christian Jankowski's work consists of performative interactions between himself and non-art professionals, between contemporary art and the so-called ‘world outside of art’. During the course of his artistic career, Jankowski has collaborated with magicians, politicians, news anchors, and members of the Vatican, to name just a few. Jankowski registers these performative collaborations using the mass media formats in which he stages his work - film, photography, television, newspapers.
Melanie Manchot’s practice is often looking at the individual in relation to cultural and social conditions as well as to public space. Situated at the threshold between the documentary and staged events the work frequently involves the participation of strangers and articulates modes of individual and collective experiences and relations.
In his computer-animated videos, Manuel Graf presents condensed versions of philosophical stories about time as a nonlinear continuum within which stages of development and innovations can be fast-forwarded and rewound. He camouflages complexity with naïve illustrations and technical perfection with analogue formats, such as his former teacher’s lecture.