DOUBLE FEATURE PLUS...!
Minifestival about interferences and interactions, references and relations, structures and stratifications
7.12.2009
Bar Kuka, Turku
Linnankatu 17
7pm
8.12.2009
Saaren Kartano
Saaren rantatie 21, Mietoinen
6pm
Nomadic Academy of Experimental Arts (Kokeellisten taiteiden nomadinen akatemia), FixC co –op and film club Kinokopla present Klaus Eisenlohr´s films Slow Space (2006) and Center for Urban Periphery (2005) + experimental works by FixC –artists and invited friends.
Klaus W. Eisenlohr was born in Tuttlingen, Germany, and has been living in Berlin since 1989. He studied in Berlin and Chicago. The main focus of his works, many of which have received grants for, is in photography, experimental film and media art. In his work he is concerned with relations of body, architecture and public space
Slow Space. 2006. 72min. 16mm
Slow Space takes the viewer on a visual trip through places of glass architecture in Chicago.
Filmed entirely within the urban constructed environment that makes up this contemporary North American city, Slow Space is a visually arresting investigation into how space is described, defined and ultimately experienced. Berlin filmmaker Klaus W. Eisenlohr commutes this relationship with the outside 'world' via an array of constructed transparencies in the glass domes and atriums that formed so much of architecture's modernist preoccupation for a constructed inside/outside dialectic. Descriptions and ultimately opinions on the status of public space in Chicago form part of the film's identity via a series of interviews conducted from the participant's private domains. Street scenes with performers complement this film essay
Center of Urban Periphery. ("Stadtrandzone Mitte") 2005. 43min. Video.
"What is public space today?" The filmmaker poses this question at the beginning of his research with reference to the city of Hannover. The resulting film takes the viewer on a trip through a number of public spaces in Hannover´s metropolitan area. Devised as a series of portraits with varying urban qualities,the film dwells not only on the visible urban attributes but also on the activities and connectedness that ´make-up´ a public space. Undertaking an array of spatial explorations, the film seeks to find out as to what kinds of interference or interventions can activate public place(s).
OUT OF CONTEXT (Compilation by FixC):
Juha van Ingen: Flutter (2006, 3'31)
Flutter: “In electronics, rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency. In structures, rapid periodic motion caused by interaction of structural mass, stiffness, and aerodynamic forces...” (Wikipedia)
Mi Duncker: Lovebites (2004, 1’)
Lovebites is an intimate animation which shows the outcome of a carnal ritual, the bitten words on a human skin expressing love.
Seppo Renvall: Back to the Humanity (2007, 4’16)
Back to Humanity is a video work about industrialization and the destructivity
of the machines. The work is based on archive material filmed with a special high speed film camera used originally for the purposes of different industries.
Laura Horelli: Editing (2004, 5')
Voice-over: Machiko Harada, Yumi Miyahara
Yamaguchi C-able is a local TV-network broadcasting to 200,000 households in
Southern Japan. The art centre AIAV commissioned 1, 2 or 5 min. artists' videos to be transmitted in between programs instead of commercial breaks.
Gun Holmström: Purge (2009, 4’45)
Purge is inspired by the light interacting with the canals in Berlin.
Music by Gosti
Kari Yli-Annala: Guardian creatures (2005, 2?51)
In Guardian Creatures the father-figure is taking care of the baby with great enthusiasm. Terrible Light Creatures are also on guard. The general atmosphere of the piece is close to a fairytale or a horror story in reverse, where the most gentle creatures can look quite horrific.
Rita Jokiranta: Fighting the Evil (2007, silent, 2’25)
Fighting the Evil reflects the ancient tradition of using fireworks to frighten away evil spirits as well the news imagery of bombings and rocket attacks.
Reality and dreams or nightmares begin to blend. The unrest of the external world creeps into the video sequences, colouring what we see. Ordinary things
and familiar details are juxtaposed with other things, such as media images, and emotions and facts can perhaps no longer be distinguished from each other.
Erkka Nissinen: Vantaa (2008, 11’50)
Vantaa is an iconoclastic musical journey blending together twisted tonyouslerian atmosphere, flowers from Teletubby-land and disneyish suburbian planning. The search of the lost yoghurt includes characters “Arnold Schönberg” and “Karl-Heinz Stockhausen”.
THANX TO
Kinokopla, Bar Kuka and Saaren Kartano 
