Directors Lounge 2007 the program

Directors Lounge 2007 • ten days in february

2008-02-07T02:05:00.000Z

• The third Directors Lounge will take place from 8. - 18. february, at the time of the Berlin International Festival. Expect video art and experimental film from all flavors and parts of the world.
Beside the works from the open call are several curated programs, cooperations with fellow projects and institutions ensure ten cosmopolitan days.

Once again we will offer a hideaway, a meeting point as a relaxed space for filmmakers, videoartists and everybody interested in experimental forms of cinema and videoart.

• Specials include

• In Focus A I C Sao Paulo, Brazil

AIC Films is a co-production of Academia Internacional de Cinema and Rattapallax, Inc. to showcase some of the best films produced at this fresh school. Academia Internacional de Cinema (International Academy of Film) is an innovative educational institution that uses key elements from the best film schools around the world to create a highly specialized and creative program.

Curated by Ram Devineni from Rattapallax.
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• An Evening with aE3

Again aE3 from Nantes will be our host for a very special evening. Next to his personal work he will present a fresh collection from fellow directors, including Flotser from Belgium. Nearly all works presented at this enjoyable night will be screened in world premiere.
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• Animate Locate

Themed program with it´s main focus on new animated shorts

Again we present animated shorts from stop-motion to pure CG. Highlights and emerging artists from all parts of the world will give an overview of the actual state of this specific genre. Curated by Kim Collmer of "Forming Motion" fame.
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• Asia Europe mediations is going to be an exceptional artistic event, which will take place summer 2007 in Poznan. Several art institutions from Poznan, among them Poznan National Museum, will carry out this project. Almost 120 artists from two continents, will have an animated dialogue by all available, contemporary artistic means. Asia - Europe Mediations will present a preview in Berlin as a special part of Directors Lounge 2007.
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• Australian Gothic

The selection of emerging and established Australian video art represents a snapshot of current practice which evokes darkened themes of a 'Gothic Mode' exploring death, lost memory, sex, desire, trauma, sleep paralysis and violence.

Curated by Dr Shaun Wilson
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•China Doc in coperation with Fanhall Studios, Beijing

Curated by Marina Foxley and Zhu Rikun, founder of Fanhall Studios.

This special focus comprises of several long features and short videos and illustrates the singularity and the richness of independent Chinese documentary in a concise manner. Directors talk part 01 "Fanhall Studio spreading the spirit of independence in Chinese cinema" offers an introduction into the role of Fanhall for a new critical cinema in China.
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• FemLink Fragility

The FemLink's structure is simple: one artist from each country will

create a short video (2mn max.) around a common theme.

In 2006, the theme is "Fragility". The resulting video collage project builds a link throughout the world between women video artists and their work.

30 videos from 30 artists from 30 countries.

• Junge Wiener
A Remake Experiment By Cosima Reif

A lecture, a slide show to construe the subliminal signs of the Vienna boys. That´s what it´s all about. In Viennese.
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• In Focus Wolf Kahlen

Curated by Gallery KMZA.

A closer look into the work of one of the earliest video art pioneers.
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• In Focus LiveBox Chicago

LiveBox, a non-for profit space, utilizes Chicago's neighborhoods and skyline as galleries.LiveBox focus on filmic art that can be effectively experienced on a single monitor. Single channel video is the primary medium, however, web based, real time, interactive work; fundamentally any compelling new media idea fitting an appropriation with the screen will be considered.

Curated by Catherine Forster
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• Lust step one

a sketch of a neverrealized video-installation.

Torben Simonsen, creator of LUST Step One will guide us through an interactive labyrinth, where the spectator in each viewing will experience something unique.
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• urban research Themed Programme on Urban Development and Public Space

Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Urban space is under rapid change. The city has long played a predominant role in the work of artists, the city as image, as ideal, as Moloch, as source of joy and social destruction, and not least as icon of Modernity. With the increased dynamic of city development however - either as Shrinking Cities or exploding Megacities - more and more artists take up the issue of urban development and adopt urban space and public space as their theme.
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• ZEBRA

Assorted highlights from the biannual ZEBRA poetry film awards

curated by Thomas Zandegiacomo
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• In addition to screenings – and as the name suggests – Directors Lounge will always be a meetingpoint, a place to have a drink and to lounge around with other friendly lizards.

6:30 pm: Farewell Mix 01

2007-02-18T23:51:00.000Z

• 18 h 30 • 6:30 pm assorted Highlights

Farewell Mix 01

surprise, surprise

8 pm: Farewell Mix 02

2007-02-18T23:24:00.000Z

• 18 h 30 • 6:30 pm assorted Highlights

Farewell Mix 02

surprise, surprise

10 pm: Farewell Party

2007-02-18T21:15:00.000Z

• 22 • 10 pm Dance All Night

Farewell Party

Live Music (surprise, surprise), Strange Clips and Loungy Tunes by Djane Hatifa Zou

12 pm: Chinese New Year

2007-02-18T04:16:00.000Z

• 24 h • 12 pm Celebrating Chinese New Year

The Year Of The Pig

by, bye DL, welcome Piggy

6:30 pm: Urban Research • part 4

2007-02-17T23:50:00.000Z

•18 h 30 • 6:30 pmUrban Research curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

program D

Paul Druecke US Daley Plaza

• Paul Druecke US Daley Plaza 4 min 50s, DV, 2006

• Paul Druecke US Mainstreet Square 4 min 50s, DV, 2006

• Rebecca Meyers US Lions and Tigers and Bears 12 min, 16mm, 2006

• Edyta Stepien + Margaret Noble US Sonata 16 min 19s, DV, 2004

• Julia Halperin + Jason Cortlund US Interstate Part One 6 min, DV, 2006

more bout Urban Research on Film here

8 pm: ZEBRA poetry and film

2007-02-17T23:43:00.000Z

• 20 h • 8 pm Film and Poetry curated by Thomas Zandegiacomo

ZEBRA

• Assorted highlights from the biannual ZEBRA poetry film awards

In attendance of Thomas Zandegiacomo

• Antonello Faretta IT Just Say No To Family Values 4 min 37s, DV, 2005

received the award for poetry, film and politics
Poem: Just Say No To Family Values John Giorno

An elderly local woman of a village in Southern Italy endures defenceless and almost guilty, the new values dictated by the poet himself.
Hilflos und beinah schuldbewusst, erträgt eine alte Frau in einem süditalienischen Dorf, den Monolog des Dichters über die "neuen Werte".

• Shelly Wain GB The Cummerbund 3 min 21s, DV, 2004

Poem: The Cummerbund Edward Lear

In a night full of twittering creatures and glittering stars, romantically minded ladies should not stay alone.
In einer Nacht voller zwitschernder Wesen und glitzernder Sterne, sollten romantisch veranlagte Damen nicht allein bleiben.

• Taatske Pieterson NL One Person/Lucy 3 min 30s, DV, 2005

received the prize for Experimental Film Poetry 2006
Poem: One Person Taatske Pieterson

Thousands of reasons can cause the death of one person but there are only a few reasons for the death of thousands of people…
Es gibt tausende von Gründen, unter denen ein Mensch zu Tode kommen kann, aber nur wenige Gründe für das Sterben tausender Menschen...

• Eddie White, James Calvert AU Carnivore Reflux 7 min, DV, 2006

Poem: Carnivore Reflux Eddie White

A gastronomical, phantasmagorical nightmare from another time about a little known condition brought on by carnivorous excess.
Ein gastronomisch phantasmagorischer Alptraum aus einer anderen Zeit über den Zustand, den Exzesse des Fleischfressens mit sich bringen.

• Rong GB Oedipus 6 min, DV, 2005

received the ZEBRA Prize for the best Poetry Film 2006
Poem: Oedipus Nathan Filer

No film called Oedipus will ever end happily.
A hand warming tale of lust, incest, death...
Kein Film der Oedipus heißt, wird je ein gutes Ende haben.
Eine "Hand erwärmende" Geschichte von Lust, Inzest, Tod...

• Jason Lam AU Unfed 6 min 25s, DV, 2005

Poem: Cusping I-V Gareth Sion Jenkins

The painful eagerness of unfed hope: about the hidden inner landscape of our longing for connection, meaning and love.
Die schmerzhafte Begierde unerfüllter Hoffnung: über verborgene Seelenlandschaften voller Sehnsucht nach Verbindung, Sinn und Liebe.

• Ralf Schmerberg DE Nach grauen Tagen / After Grey Days 5 min, DV, 2003

received the ZEBRA Prize for the best Poetry Film 2004
Poem: Nach grauen Tagen Ingeborg Bachmann
The regular Sunday activities of a family are here not idyllic, but torture; the only means of escaping the hecticness lies with a balloon.
Das sonntägliche Treiben einer Familie ist hier keine Idylle, sondern Tortur. Da hilft nur ein Ballon, um der Hektik zu entfliehen.

• Eivind Tolas AU Love Is The Law 7 min, 35mm, 2003

Poem: Love is the Law Ole Mads Vevle

The message of love from the Christian tradition is perverted through a modern television news setting.
Die christliche Botschaft der Nächstenliebe wird in ein modernes TV-Nachrichten-Format übertragen.

10 pm: Australian Gothic

2007-02-17T21:00:00.000Z

• 22 h •10 pm Australian video art curated by Shaun Wilson

Australian Gothic

• Australian Gothic

will be a survey show of current emerging and established Australian video artists.Evidenced work will reflect a 'Gothic' mode, as further discussed by Gerry Turcotte in his essay 'Australian Gothic' (Turcotte, 1995), including Brendan Lee's Two Birds with One Stone, Brie Trenerry's fly infested Sleep Paralysis and Tammy Honey's pop-desire

• Alex Avtzoglou AU One Two Red Blue 10 min, DV

A Surreal journey into dreamscapes and lost memories featuring
a seductive and somewhat grotesque petting scene between a girl
and a squid.

• Larissa Hjorth AU Loosing You 1min 54s, DV

Filmed on a mobile phone in Seoul during 2005, the artist brings us
identity and romantic crisis through a cutesy rendition of South Korean
pop culture iconography.

• Tammy Honey AU Threesome 3 min 39s, DV

A tone deaf performance piece by the artist focusing on the darkened and
obsessive desire for pop music fame in a combination between an amateur
'You Tube' do-it-yourself video and the music video clip genre.

• Brie Trenerry AU She Creeps 2 min 36s, DV

The story of a girl who falls asleep, or is she really dead?, who
becomes the desire for flies.

• Marsha Berry AU Untitled 2 min 56s , DV

The concealed footage filmed on a mobile phone 15 minutes after an
earthquake in Hawaii in 2006.

• Shaun Wilson AU Uber memoria I: short version 8 min 48s, DV

Filmed on location in London and Southern Germany, this shorter version
of the wider 'Uber Memoria' series explores themes of lost memory by
restaging performative narratives originally found in the artist's
family home movies filmed in 1956 at the same locations.

• Brendan Lee AU Two Birds with One Stone 14 min 51s, DV

Originally screened as a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South
Wales in 2006, Lee brings us a dark and confronting dialogue between two
prisoners in a waiting room.

• Aaron McLoughlin AU Chloroplasm 4 min, DV

The story of a man who brings home a lady friend who gives him more than
he bargins for. What he thought was a sexy romp ends up with the 'Lady'
transforming into a green, dribbling zombie who disembowells her lover
in true 1970s horror style..

Shaun Wilson is a Melbourne-based artist, curator and academic working with themes of memory, place and scale. He is currently a Senior Lecturer and Program Coordinator of Higher Degrees by Research (MA and PhD) in the School of Creative Media, RMIT University.

12 pm: Muhammad And Jane

2007-02-17T03:31:00.000Z

• 24 h •12 pmmidnight feature

Muhammad And Jane

• Usama Alshaibi US/IQ Muhammad And Jane 80 min, DV, 2003

"Video maker Usama Alshaibi is the sort of canny visual stylist who can sustain a mood... the handheld videocam, tight close-ups, and disorienting angles create a potent sense of paranoia. The haunting score is by Andy Ortmann and Camilla Ha."

Ted Shen Chicago Reader

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6:30 pm: Urban Research • part 3

2007-02-16T23:00:00.000Z

•18 h 30 • 6:30 pm Urban Research curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

program C

• Caroline Koebel US Berlin Warszawa Express 19 min 50s, DV, 2006

• Seppo Renvall FI Inside 5 min, DV, 2004

• Alli Savolainen FI Abroad 3 min 40s, DV, 2004

• Stephane Leonard DE Coney Island 25 min, DV, 2006

• Karola Schlegelmilch FI Blumenthal 7 min 30s, DV, 2006

more bout Urban Research on Film here

8 pm: Tales

2007-02-16T22:28:00.000Z

• 20 h •8 pm assorted shorts compiled by Directors Lounge

tales

Olivier Grossetête FR Bateau Ivre I

• Anne Maisoneuve FR Once Upon A Time 2 min 11s, DV, 2006

• Olivier Grossetête FR Bateau Ivre I 12 min 45s, 16mm, 2001

• GUP-py JP Underhoney 12 min 10s, DV, 2005

• André Werner DE Die Stadt Der Sternschnuppen 17 min, DV, 1995/2006

• Devis Venturelli IT Lo Sono Il Vento 14 min, DV, 2006

10 pm: LUST – step one • A Guided Tour

2007-02-16T22:00:00.000Z

• 22 h • 10 pm live video a guided screening by Torben Simonsen

LUST

LUST – step one, a sketch of a neverrealized video-installation.
Torben Simonsen, creator of LUST Step One will guide us through an interactive labyrinth, where the spectator in each viewing will experience something unique.

These two characters
they have this thing going on
they cannot let go of one another
he cannot let go of her
and she tells him
we cannot be lovers
we can be friends
and he says, allright then honey
lets make a movie
she says, okay babe
what should that movie be about
that movie should be about you and me
beeing lovers in the movie
oh thats a great idea she says
and so the story begins
and so they go off
out into LUST

Those are the words of the first video you encounter in LUST step one. In 2002 “he”, Torben Simonsen, goes to America to make an erotic roadmovie.

On returning to Copenhagen Torben Simonsen spends the following three years editing the recordings in his working studios situated on the outskirts of the derelict dock yards of Copenhagen. During the editing process Torben Simonsen changes his focus from the story of Herman & Sylvia to the way the story is perceived. In this intense study of the nature of experience he experiments with different artistic genres and explores hybrids of the pictorial arts, installation and film making.
In the summer of 2005 he reaches the final & conclusive shape of the thing: LUST – step one, a sketch of a neverrealized video-installation. This installation is buildt upon text, sound and video from all phases of the project.
Torben Simonsen chooses the sketch as the project’s final form because he wants to focus on the ambiguous meanings of the material and because he wants to force the spectator to dwell on it’s many possibilities and uncertainties. Thus, LUST – step one, does not appear as a completed work, but as a vision of one.
Torben Simonsen’s aim is to maintain and recreate the original experience in the mind of the spectator. By utilizing the technical scope of the DVD-media, Torben Simonsen has with LUST Step One created an interactive labyrinth, where the spectator in each viewing will experience something unique.

12 pm: Eternity, Dream... And To The Core

2007-02-16T02:45:00.000Z

• 24 h • 12 pm TAZ Temporary Autonomous Zone

To The Core

• Sophie B FR Eternity, Dream... And To The Core 75 min, DV, 2006

Eternity, Dreams And To The Core chronicles a journey deep into anarchy, techno music, the malaise of a generation left unsatisfied with society´s solutions.

J'ai eu la chance de visionner un film documentaire étonnant abordant le thème des "rave-party". Ce sujet, presque tabou pour certains, surtout médiatisé par les polémiques de voisinage , de sécurité et d'hygiène, soulève pour le grand public bon nombre d'interrogations. Quels sont réellement ces milliers de participants prêts à partir à l'aventure par des chemins fléchés pour se retrouver au pied d'une grange désaffectée ou d'une clairière boueuse? Quels sont ces gens qui, au son d'une musique techno tonitruante, s'agitent, se défoulent jusqu'à l 'épuisement? Sont-ils des marginaux? des personnes en mal de vivre? ou juste des inconditionnels de la foule, de la musique et de la fête?

C'est ce que tente avec une certaine adresse de nous faire découvrir Sophie B.. Pour la circonstance, elle nous emmène dans un décor quelque peu triste et dans une ambiance peut- être plus militante que joyeuse. C'est vrai, on danse, on se défoule, on boit, on se drogue,on s'ennuie peut-être, et malgré cela, Sophie B. réussit la prouesse de nous rendre ce climat attachant en raison de l'esprit et des idées qu'il dégage. La société avec son ordre bien établi qui amène ses contraintes, ses religions, sa politique, sa loi du fric et ses préjugés de toutes sortes sont remis en cause. Les bonnes vieilles idées libertaires reviennent d'actualité. A la vue et à l'écoute de cette réalisation, on est bien obligé de reconnaître que ces raisons invoquées sont recevables et compréhensibles dans un monde où la démesure l'emporte sur la raison, laissant sur le flanc bon nombre de personnes et notamment de jeunes.

Cette oeuvre est illustrée par une mise en scène parfois surprenante par ses montages originaux, ses fort jolies couleurs sur fond de paysages cafardeux mais au combien réalistes et ses images remplies de messages et de symboles. La musique fort bien choisie rythme ce film entrecoupé de commentaires d'organisateurs ou de participants, parfois enthousiastes et plein d'espérance ou franchement désabusés. Surtout restez assis jusqu'au générique final dont la bande son apporte un clin d'oeil idéal au sujet abordé dans ce documentaire.

Au travers de cette rave-party, Sophie B. nous apporte un regard innovant sur ce milieu déroutant mais attachant. Même si parfois quelques longueurs se font jour, le spectateur ne peut que les comprendre tant elle met d'amour et de conviction à défendre un sujet qui semble, de toute évidence, lui tenir à coeur.

Il serait donc fort dommage pour la réalisatrice mais aussi pour les cinéphiles, que les professionnels du cinéma passent à côté d'un tel talent plein de promesses et d'imagination. Pourvu que ceux-ci puissent lui donner la possibilité d'entamer une brillante carrière, c'est mon plus vif désir!
G. Rocher

6:30 pm: Academia Internacional de Cinema, Sao Paulo

2007-02-15T23:50:00.000Z

• 18 h 30 • 6:30 pm AIC, Sao Paulo, Brazil curated by Ram Devineni

Academia Internacional de Cinema

• Roberto Andreoli BR Sete Grilos/Dois Cachorros (7 Crickets/2 Dogs)
5 min 24s, DV, 2005, Portuguese with English subtitles

• Catia Reis BR Curitibatuquetown 9 min 39s, DV, 2005, No dialogue

• Cristiano Burlan BR 4:48 am

9 min, DV, 2006, Portuguese with English subtitles

Selection of films produced at the Academia Internacional de Cinema in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Sete Grilos/Dois Cachorros (7 Crickets/2 Dogs) is an uncanny vision of a young man's insomnia through an interminable night based on a popular Brazilian poem. Screened at the 2006 Zebra Film Festival in Berlin and the Potenza International Film Festival in Italy.

Director: Roberto Andreoli
Director of Photography: Marcelo Uchoa
Editor: Everton Sebben
Producer: AIC & Lui Prado
Actors: Roberto Andreoli

Time: 5:24 minutes
Format: DVCAM
Date: December 2005
Language: Portuguese with English subtitles
Country: Brasil

Curitibatuquetown, reminiscent in style to Koyaanisqatsi, looks at Curitiba, Brazil from day to night. Brilliant photography, music, and editing.

Director: Catia Reis
Director of Photography & Editor: Everton Sebben
Producer: AIC & Catia Reis

Time: 9:39 minutes
Format: DVCAM
Date: December 2005
Language: No dialogue
Country: Brasil

4:48 am: A common man wakes up every day at the same time, and always does the same things. The film captures the rigorous routines of the mind.

Cristiano Burlan, actor and theater director, was a film student at the Academia Internacional de Cinema. He made several short films including Opus Hamlet Machine, Quase Nada, A Espera, 4:48 am, and Os Solitarios. Currently, he is finishing his first feature film, Coracoes Desertos.

Festival Screenings: 17th International Festival of Short Films in Sao Paulo.

Director & Screenwriter: Cristiano Burlan
Director of Photography: Pilar Perdomo
Editor: Eduardo Autran
Producer: Tatiana Borges & AIC
Actors: Leonardo Marquez

Time: 15 minutes
Format: DVCAM
Date: September 2006
Language: Portuguese with English subtitles
Country: Brasil

8 pm: Shorts Stories

2007-02-15T19:20:00.000Z

• 20 h • 8 pm assorted shorts compiled by Directors Lounge

Short Stories

• Joseba Fuentes ES Dos Veces (Twice) 24 min, HD, 2006

• Wolfgang Spahn DE Unter Die Haut 5 min 02s, DV, 2006

• Esteban Crespo ES Amar (To Love) 11 min,, HD, 2006

A young couple, passionately in love, in a mutual giving action, exchange their sexual identity.

• Yuri Shapochka UA Waiting 14 min 50s, HD, 2006

• Dany Campos ES El Canto Del Grillo (The Song Of The Cricket)
17 min, HD, 2006

10 pm: an evening with aE3 • 4 Hours In Shatila

2007-02-15T17:30:00.000Z

• 22 h • 10 pm

an evening with aE3

Again aE3 from Nantes will be our host for a very special evening. Next to his personal work he will present a fresh collection from fellow directors, including Flotser from Belgium. Nearly all works presented at this enjoyable night will be screened in world premiere.
Erneut wird aE3, Multimediakünstler aus Nantes, einen ganz speziellen Abend gestalten. Neben eigenen Arbeiten werden Werke befreundeter Regisseure, u.a. Flotser aus Belgien, zur Aufführung gelangen. Fast alle Filme werden als Weltpremieren zu sehen sein.

• aE3 FR/GB Facelines 2 min 25 s, DV, 2006

• aE3 FR/GB Residues After Sleep 6 min 8 s, DV, 2007

• aE3 FR/GB Excavation on a Battlefield 50 s, DV, 2007

• aE3 FR/GB The World's Pain 1 min 24 s, DV, 2007

• aE3 FR/GB Never Anything 41 s, DV, 2007

• aE3 FR/GB reVac (vacarme II) 11 min, DV, 2007

• Flotser BE The Fish and the Ring 12 min, DV, 2007

Afterwards / Im Anschluss

• Carlos Lapenas ES Cuatro Horas En Chatila (Four Hours In Shatila)

23 min, HD, 2006

The Sabra and Shatila massacre (or Sabra and Chatila massacre; Arabic: صبرا وشاتيلا) was carried out in September 1982 by Lebanese Maronite Christian militias against Palestinian refugee camps. The Maronite forces stood under the direct command of Elie Hobeika, who would later become a longtime Lebanese parliament member and in the 1990s also a cabinet minister. The number of victims of the massacre is estimated at 700-3500.

The camps were surrounded by Israeli Defence Forces throughout the incident. The degree to which the Israeli military was involved in the incident is a matter of controversy .

In September 1982 Jean Genet was in Beirut when the massacres took place in the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila. In response, Genet published "Quatre heures à Chatila" (Four Hours in Shatila), an account of his visit to Shatila after the massacres on which this film is based.

1982 kam es in Beirut im Lager Chatila zu einem Massaker von der Phalange-Miliz unter den Palästinensern. Der damalige israelische General Ariel Scharon hatte den phalangalistischen Truppen die Durchsuchung und Säuberung der Lager genehmigt.
Jean Genet, zu jener Zeit in Beirut, machte sich zwei Tage spater vor Ort ein Bild davon. Drei Tage später reiste er zurück nach Paris und arbeitete den ganzen Oktober an dem Essay „Quartre heures à Chatila“ („Vier Stunden in Chatila“) auf dem dieser Film basiert.

12 pm: assorted shorts

2007-02-15T01:45:00.000Z

• 24 h • 12 pm assorted shorts compiled by Directors Lounge

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• Tanya Jo Miller US Steal This Image 2 min 30s, DV, 2006

• WitKacy CA Kuleshov´s Paradox 10 min 30s, DV, 2006

• Carrie Fucile US Digging 4 min 45s, 1DV, 2006

• Sasha Waters US Her Heart Is Washed In Water And Then Weighted 12 min 45s, 16mm, 2006

• Gennaro De Pasquale CA Architecture Around 0DB 12 min 58s, DV, 2006

6:30 pm: The Making Of

2007-02-14T23:21:00.000Z

•18 h 30 • 6:30 pmThe Making Of a film by Viola Stephan

a documentary about vision, neuroscience and filmmaking

• Viola Stephan DE The Making OF 86 min, 35mm, 2005

How creative is science ?
How objective is filmmaking ?
Seeing is believing - a documentary about vision, neuroscience and filmmaking

Ein heiterer Essay ueber die Verbindung von Denken, Wahrnehmen und Kino, Kopfkino im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes, das anregt, Kino anders zu betrachten, als wir es bisher taten: Denn Film ist nicht nur Unterhaltung, sondern die Quintessenz unseres Denkens und Fuehlens, eine Analogie, die uns letztendlich tiefer zu uns selbst bringt.

Joachim Kurz

Starring Andreas Oehler, director of Hunger nach Heimat, to be screened afterwards.

In attendance of Viola Stephan

8 pm: Wolf Biermann - Hunger nach Heimat

2007-02-14T22:00:00.000Z

• 20 h • 8 pm Wolf Biermann

Hunger nach Heimat a portrait by Trude Trunk and Andreas Oehler

• Trude Trunk and Andreas Oehler D Wolf Biermann - Hunger nach Heimat 43 min, 2006

photo: picture-alliance

• Wolf Biermann during the legendary concert at the Sportpalast, Cologne, november 13th, 1976 that led to his denaturalization.photo: picture-alliance

In attendance of Trude Trunk and Andreas Oehler

Hunger nach Heimat (Hunger for homeland) by Trude Trunk and Andreas Oehler draws a sensible portrait of the seventy years old poet that gives an insight into his mind. They accompany the balladeer on his search for family roots in Hamburg, visit his working space, are guests among his family and follow him on concerts and into his Catalan summer residence.

Wolf Biermann has very rarely expressed himself in such a keen and striking way. Friend or foe, anyone who believes to know "his or her" Biermann, will get a surprise.

• Der Film von Trude Trunk und Andreas Oehler zeichnet ein einfühlsames Porträt des Dichters im 70. Lebensjahr, das einen Einblick in die heutige Lebenswelt Biermanns gewährt. Das Team begleitet den Liedermacher in Hamburg auf seiner Suche nach den verschütteten Wurzeln einer tragischen Familiengeschichte, ist Gast in seinem Arbeitszimmer und im Kreise seiner Familie und folgt ihm zu Konzerten ins In- und Ausland und in sein katalanisches Sommerdomizil

Selten gab der Dichter in einer vergleichbar eindringlichen Weise über sich Auskunft: Freund oder Feind - alle, die glauben "ihren" Biermann zu kennen, sollten sich auf Überraschungen gefasst machen.

source NDR

In Anwesenheit von Trude Trunk und Andreas Oehler

10 pm: Animate Locate • animation art

2007-02-14T19:10:00.000Z

• 22 h • 10 pm Animation Pixellation curated by Kim Collmer

Animate Locate

It is all about location- locations which give us comfort or discomfort, allow us to imagine, to laugh, squirm, locations that transport us or bring us quickly, and sometimes harshly, back to reality.

• Johannes Nyholm SE The Tale of Little Puppetboy
4 min 20 s, stop motion, 2005

• Virgilio Villoresi and Vivì Ponti IT Fridgedaire 5 min 41 s, cut-out, 2005

"Frigidaire is a stop motion animation about the birth, transformation, death and resurrection of a young girl. A hand takes her through a mad trip inside the house "Frigidaire". We took images from old magazines from the 40's-60's and from our reasearch of old books. The video is made with the collage technic and the sound is made by cuttings of old film."

• Meredith Root US Anxiety Invention 3 min, hand-drawn, 2006

• Norma V Toray US Army of Me 4 min 8 s, mixed media, 2004

• Anita Allyn US Imaginary Lines 2 min 20 s, DV, 2005

Anita Allyn’s Imaginary Lines creates collage from imagery taken from
American Road movies. Through precise editing and digital animation
manipulation, a new plotline emerges that recasts the American idealization of freedom and independence. The absence of stable, urban cities reflects transition and mobility; the isolated individuals reveal alienation and remoteness.

• Thessia Machado BR/US Today I'm Here 48 s, pixellation, 2006

A compressed account of the impermanence of memories.The act of forgetting is transposed to the skin as I walk the streets of the Lower East Side until the word past, embossed on my arm, fades away...The gradual smoothing and eventual fading of impressions, an intimate and intangible process, is rendered concrete.

• Eric Dyer US Copenhagen Cycles 6 min 35 s, zoetrope, 2005

• Kim Collmer DE/US Berlin Skin 2 min, mixed media, 2007

Painted photographs come to life through animation techniques- paint on glass, drawing, and digital techniques. Buildings and textures become places for daydreams and memory.

• Cecilia Lundqvist SE Making Pancakes 4 min 58 s, hand-drawn, 2005

• Hei Cheng GB Board 1 min, stop motion, 2005

• Lisa Barcy US Mermaid 15 min, stop motion, 2007

• *David Shrigley/ Chris Shepard GB Who I Am And What I Want

7 min 20 s, hand-drawn, 2006

A scribbled, strangely funny but highly unsettling examination of the human condition. The story of a man who bares his emotions, history, hang ups and desires in all of their dysfunctional absurdity then leaves us to assemble not only his identity but to question our own.

Looped before and after the show:

• Johannes Nyholm and Jen DeNike SE/US Fever Dreams Shot footage and animation, 2006

Fever Dreams has its origin and source of inspiration in our mutual experience of hallucinogenic dreams - dreams that come to you when half awake, half asleep, that are often frightening and cannot be distinguished from reality. Two women, it’s hard to differentiate them, in a white burnt out room - an empty space, their eyes flutter widely open and then shut, pupils gone, their gaze completely empty, turned inwards. Exaggerated, exhorting whispering voices, permeate from all directions, interrupted by planes of red static, creating a hypnotic pace that channels an invisible delirium into a schizophrenic psyche.

• Fawn Krieger US New World cut-out , 2004

The mythic story told in North American classrooms of the discovery of America is re-enacted through a looped video depicting a hand-constructed mini-scaled Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria entering a post-9/11 New York City landscape. NEW WORLD playfully shores up the construction of promise and belonging, amongst a backdrop that reminds us of colonialism and cultural erasure.

12 pm: Achtung Aufnahme • Noise Paintings

2007-02-14T11:38:00.000Z

• 24 h • 12 pm Leihberg, Kahlen, Penck

Performance documentations

Achtung Aufnahme

• Wolf Kahlen DE Achtung Aufnahme 18 mins, DV, 1980/92

In the night of February 1st, 1980, just before his leave to New York City,

Wolf Kahlen gave the first and last videoperformance in the history of the East German Regime at the occasion of his one man show at the Galerie Schweinebraden, East- East, GDR, which of course was an illegal place to show western decadent art. No citizen in East germany was allowed or had the chance to own a videocamera for obvious reasons. Only the army and secret police used them.

Wolf Kahlen dared to smuggle a camera across the border from Berlin West,

where he lived.

A great number of artists, writers, philosophers gathered in the small

gallery, where the artist moved a camera without viewfinder across objects and people in an endless rhythm, while the picture was simultaneously shown on the small TV on the piano.

The artist a.r. penck played drums in the same endless rhythmic manner.

Whenver Kahlen stopped the camera and called out ACHTUNG AUFNAHME (Beware, we are shooting) a.r. penck stopped the music as well,

the image on the screen frooze, a plate of glass was put in front of image,

Penck went up and painted on the glass: empathetically with the structure of the still or against it, by chance in the colours of the German flag: red, yellow and black.

16 plates originated from the event, were later printed illegally as silkscreens for a portfolio and smuggled out of the East.

This historic event on an open reel video tape is in this videodocument

commented by Wolf Kahlen 12 years later.

An exiting piece of East-West artists relations under the Socialist regime

and of great historic value of these two well known artists.

Helge Leihberg

• Helge Leiberg Noise Paintings DE

25 mins, DV, 1991/
2006

Die „Noise Paintings“ von Helge Leiberg, bei denen die Kratzeräusche projezierter Malaktionen elektronisch verstärkt werden, generieren Film ohne die Malerei zu verlassen. Die Aufzeichnung einer solchen optisch-akustischen Performance von Lothar Fiedler & Helge Leiberg (am 27.11. 1991) wurde erstmalig im April 2006 als Teil von Figures Of Motion gezeigt.

6:30 pm: Fighting Poland

2007-02-13T23:24:00.000Z

• 18 h 30 • 6:30 pm videos from Poland compiled by Lokal 30

Fighting Poland

• Zuzanna Janin

• Tomasz Kozak

• Maciej Kurak

• Monika Mamzeta

• Jozef Robakowski

• Piotr Wysocki

“Fighting Poland” seems to be a flamboyant picture of struggle seen from different, personal points of view. The fight that happens to each one of us, but in different time, place, circumstances. Fight which takes place next to us, sometimes unnoticed, but present...

8 pm: China Doc 04 • two shorts

2007-02-13T23:00:00.000Z

• 20 h • 8 pm China Doc part 04 curated by Marina Foxley

two shorts

• Xu Xin CN Carriage (che xiang) 18 min, bw, DV, 2004

Spring Festival is coming. It is the time for family reunion, including for the migratory workers who have left their hometown all year long struggling for a living in big cities. A cheap train ticket is their first choice. So begins the annual overcrowding of railroad transportation...

• Wei Tie CN People of Yangtze River 28 min, DV, 2005

A contemplative documentary showing the daily life of the business men, the peasants who sell agricultural products and the youths that wander and grow on the pier on the longest river in China, the Yangtze.

Marina Foxley will be present

In cooperation with Zhu Rikun and Fanhall Studio, Bejing

A description will follow

9 pm: selected shorts

2007-02-13T22:50:00.000Z

• 21 h • 9 pm selected shorts curated by Directors Lounge

• • •

• Laszlo Kerekes RS Digital Pinhole Movies 5 min , DV, 2006

• Masha Godovannaya RU Gnawed Vaity 8 min, DV, 2006

• Erik Urlings NL Exit Exit 16 min 5s, DV, 2006

• Zhenchen Liu FR Shanghai Shanghai 11 min 37s, DV, 2006

• Jean-Gabriel Périot FR Under Twilight 5 min, DV, 2006

10 pm: Andreas Gogol, Florian Krautkraemer and Telemach Wiesinger

2007-02-13T22:03:00.000Z

• 22 h • 10 pm An Evening with..

Andreas Gogol, Florian Krautkraemer and Telemach Wiesinger

Artistically seen, Andreas Gogol, musical collaborator of Simon Fisher Turner, C-Schulz and many others, has many lives. He is a filmmaker, a photographer and a musician while also being involved in several other fields of the fine arts.
Andreas Gogol is a well known name for friends of Directors Lounge as the acoustic half of the acclaimed LANDED TAKES & SOUND TIMES, a live performance by Telemach Wiesinger (Film) & Andreas Gogol (Sound) that has been shown in two, completely different, representations during Directors Lounge 2006 and later as part of our row of summer evenings.
Florian Krautkrämer was born 1977 in Freiburg, the South of Germany. Being involved in the Kommunale Kino, he began making films and videos, as well as leading seminars, giving lectures and introductions to films. Since 2005 he works as Assistant Professor in Braunschweig (media studies).

among others/ unter anderen

• Andreas Gogol DE

• Blickzeit 10 min, 16mm, 2001

• Can B Twix 7 min, 16mm/video, 2003

• HagiaSofia 4 min, 16mm, 2001

• N.Y.99 1 min 30s, 16mm, 1999

• Somogyzsitfa 6 min 30s, DV, 1999

• Florian Krautkraemer DE

• Der Duft Der Engelstrompete (The Smell of an Angel's Trumpet)

2 min 30s, 16mm , 2002

• InResonanz 8 min , 16mm, 2004

• Studie Ueber Die Zeit 5 min, 16mm, 2002

• Telemach Wiesinger DE Assorted Fresh Films

16mm, 2006

12 pm: John Cage • Chicago Underground Trio

2007-02-13T18:00:00.000Z

• 24 h • 12 pm The sound of one hand clapping • Chronicle

Wolf Kahlen • Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Music on Film

• Wolf Kahlen DE The sound of one hand clapping - John Cage at one of his last concerts 18 min, DV, 1990/99

• The sound of one hand clapping is Wolf Kahlen's homage to the work of John Cage. Cage, whom Kahlen knew since 1980, gave his actually last European public concert at the Akademie der Künste Berlin/GDR in 1990, a few months before his passing away. The main actors here are hands, actionless or acting, nervous or waiting. And clapping. The title corresponds to Cage's zen-buddhist philosophy and life style.

• Raymond Salvatore Harmon US Chronicle 75 mins, DV, 2006

• Chronicle is a live performance of the Chicago Underground Trio turned inside out as a dense experimental film. Chronicle is unlike any music performance film made to date. Often verging into the psychedelic, both sonically and visually.

6.30 pm: China Doc 03 • Outside

2007-02-12T23:00:00.002Z

• 20 h • 8 pm China Doc part 02 curated by Marina Foxley

Outside

• Wang Wo CN Outside 86 min, DV, 2005

The footage of this film was taken in Beijing between 2001 to 2005. It shows several snippets of trivial ordinary and accidental things that happen every day outside in the streets. By seing bits of daily life in the film, perhaps we can see our real life, its commonness, its unexpected and so on...

Marina Foxley will be present

In cooperation with Zhu Rikun and Fanhall Studio, Bejing

more about China Doc here

8pm. Nice Bombs • Usama Alshaibi

2007-02-12T22:45:00.000Z

• 20 h • 8 pm Nice Bombs by Usama Alshaibi

MY JOURNEY BACK TO IRAQ

Nice Bombs shows filmmaker Usama Alshaibi as he returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years. This documentary navigates through his unique relationship to an Iraq that is much different than the country of his childhood.
Usama captures the conflicting reactions to the conditions of life in Baghdad.
Through a wide range of opinions and experiences he provides a broad panorama of voices long neglected under Saddam’s regime.
His cousin Tareef enters the room upon hearing an explosion. “It’s a bomb. A Nice Bomb,” he explains. The phrase is indicative of his family’s nonchalance about their situation. As one young boy put it, “We’re Iraqis. It’s normal.” With humor and resilience Nice Bombs explores Usama’s dual role as both Iraqi and American.

• Usama Alshaibi US/IQ Nice Bombs 92 min, DV, 2006

more here

10 pm: Vienna Boys • Cosima Reif Live

2007-02-12T22:00:00.001Z

• 22 h • 10 pmDiavortrag A Remake Experiment By Cosima Reif

Junge Wiener Vienna Boys
(in Viennese)

the face of pure chance: The enchanting Cosima Reif

13 1/2 years after Falco's JUNGE ROEMER (Young Romans) it is about time to flatter the young Viennese. Prepotenz (such a charming Viennese term) as well as ingenuity, that may sparkle in the eyes of the young Viennese lads, is suspected by the elderly and therefor hidden. Thus making it necessary to construe the subliminal signs of the Vienna boys. That´s what it´s all about.

13 1/2 Jahre nach Falco's JUNGE ROEMER ist es an der Zeit, auch mal junge Wiener zu loben. Natuerlich auch zu tadeln. Sowohl Praepotenz (welch schoenes wienierisches Wort) als auch Genialitaet, die jungen Wienern aus den Augen blitzen koennte, wird natuerlich von den alten Wienern beargwoehnt, deshalb besser versteckt. Man muss also die Zeichen, die junge Wiener aussenden, zu interpretieren wissen.
Das ist, worum es geht.

Im Anschluss

• Nina Lassila FI Tele Pets 7 min 34s, DV, 2006

• Ianthe Jackson US Five 8 min, DV, 2006

• Stephen Haley AU Start Rek 14 min 24s , DV, 2006

11 pm: Strange Stories

2007-02-12T14:11:00.000Z

Strange Stories

• Nina Lassila FI Tele Pets 7 min 34s, DV, 2006

• Ianthe Jackson US Five 8 min, DV, 2006

• Stephen Haley AU Start Rek 14 min 24s , DV, 2006

• a description will follow

12 pm: Midnight Horror

2007-02-12T09:15:00.000Z

• 24 h • 12 pm MIDNIGHT HORROR three shorts

Warhol Zombies and Ghoulish Girls

• Usama Alshaibi US/IQ Muffin 5 min 30s , DV, 2000

Muffin is sweet. Muffin is soft. Muffin will spit and cut your head off.

• Mario De Giglio Bellemaren CA Uncanny 15 min, DV, 2006

• John Allen Gibel BR Pleromadromadhatu 33 min, DV, 2006

6:30 pm: Urban Research • part 2

2007-02-11T23:20:00.000Z

•18 h 30 • 6:30 pmUrban Research curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

program B

• Katerina Seda CZ Es gibt nichts da14 min, DV, 2005
Ein ganzes Dorf nimmt an einem gemeinsamen Zeitplan teil.

• Anu Pennanen FI Soprus 30 min, DV, 2006

Russian and Estonian Youngsters

• Jae-Joon Cho GB Bullying: Stand Alone 6 min 50s, DV, 2005

Teenager Conflicts of Violence and Drugs

more bout Urban Research on Film here

8 pm: China Doc 02 • Paigu

2007-02-11T23:00:00.002Z

• 20 h • 8 pm China Doc part 03 curated by Marina Foxley

Paigu

• Liu Gaoming CN Paigu 106 min, DV, 2006

Paigu is a young man from Jiangxi Province, selling pirate DVDs in Shenzhen to make a living. It is rather cynical that he sells only art films, knows everything about them but has never seen one. He said that he possibly would not understand them because of his poor education backround. He has always expected romance too, but he thinks that people like him has no chance to find true love.

Paigu ist ein junger Mann, der von der Provinz Jiangxi kommt, und gebrannte DVDs in Shenzhen verkauft, um für seine Bedürfnisse aufzukommen. Die Filme, die er verkauft, sind Autorenfilme. Er kennt sie alle, jedoch sah er davon keinen. Er denkt, daß er sie wegen seines schwachen Bildungsniveaus nicht verstehen kann. Er hofft, eines Tages der Liebe zu begegnen, obwohl er an seinem Glück zweifelt.

Marina Foxley will be present

In cooperation with Zhu Rikun and Fanhall Studio, Bejing

10 pm: Asia Europe mediations

2007-02-11T17:37:00.000Z

• 22 h • 10 pm Asia Europe Mediations

presented by Hania Kusmirek and Tomasz Wendland

Asian attitude • European attitude

still from Miroslaw Kaczmarek PL Pop Sentence 3 min 36s , DV, 2005

Part 01 of the screening presents assorted videoworks from Asia Europe mediations

Asian attitude • European attitude

• Asia Europe mediations is going to be an exceptional artistic event, which will take place summer 2007 in Poznan. Several art institutions from Poznan, among them Poznan National Museum, will carry out this project. Almost 120 artists from two continents, will have an animated dialogue by all available, contemporary artistic means. Assorted works will be presented by two of the artistic directors.

• Asia Europe mediations ein aussergewöhnliches Kunstprojekt welches ausgehend von Poznan, Polen 120 Künstler aus zwei Kontinenten im Dialog präsentiert. Eine Auswahl von Asia - Europe Mediations wird in Berlin durch zwei der Kuratoren präsentiert.

Part 02 presents a selection of emerging video artists from Poland

Part 01

• Andrew Eyman PL The End 5 min, DV, 2000/4

• Ukasz Gronowski PL Backstage 1 min 55s, DV, 2003/4

• Kei Takahashi JP Child´s Trip 6 min 10s, DV, 2005

• Peter Grzybowski PL News 19 min 40s , DV, 2004

• Nicolas Primat

QUELLQUE NOTES DE DOUCEURS DANS UN MONDE DE BRUTES

5 min 30s , DV, 2002

• Artur Klosifski PL Tokyo 19 min, DV, 2001

Part 02

• Miroslaw Kaczmarek PL Pop Sentence 3 min 36s , DV, 2005

• Michal Brzezifski PL Rise 2 min 2s , DV, 2005

• Grupa NUDA PL Shipyard Stills 3 min 25s , DV, 2005

• Gniewko Falana PL Melody 1 min 45s, DV, 2005
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• Ukasz Nowak PL Wie Owiec Plotka 6 min, DV, 2004

12 pm: You Can´t Come Closer

2007-02-11T09:02:00.000Z

• 24 h • 12 pm videos from Poland compiled by Lokal 30

You Can’t Come Closer

‘You Can’t Come Closer’ presents video-works of Polish artists which build intimate narration dealing with various emotional states or social situations. What binds these works together is the revisiting of Poland’s video & film making tradition using the human body as a means of communication

• Anna Baumgart PL Truth? 2001

• Zuzanna Janin PL In Between 2005

• Anna Janczyszyn PLOff the City 1993

• Anna Konik PL Transparency 2004

• Laura Pawela PL My talent Insurance 2006

• Józef Robakowski PL My Video Masochisms, 1990

• a description will follow

6:30 pm: selected shorts

2007-02-10T23:49:00.000Z

•18 h 30 • 6:30 pma closer look curated by Directors Lounge

selected shorts

• Sheri Wills US Gravity 14 min, DV, 2004

• Masha Godovannaya RU Gnawed Vanity 8 min, DV, 2006

• Jean-Gabriel Périot FR Undo 10 min, 35mm, 2005

• Masha Godovannaya RU A Few Drunkards At The Marsbar 1 min, S8, 2001

• abjectleaderSally Golding (film) Joel Stern (sound) AU
Bloodless Landscape 6 min 40s, 16mm, 2004

• Jean-Gabriel Périot FR Under Twilight 5 min, DV, 2006

• Sheri Wills US Effigy 2 min 30s, DV, 2004

• Masha Godovannaya RU Untitled #1 4 min, S8 DV, 2005

8 pm: In Focus: Wolf Kahlen

2007-02-10T21:00:00.000Z

• 20 h • 8 pmIn Focus curated by Gallery KMZA

Wolf Kahlen

Einer der ersten Videokunstponiere Deutschlands im Portrait

A closer look into the work of one of the earliest video art pioneers

Wolf Kahlen, SELBST-LOS/Self-less

Ich weiss nicht, wie man alle anspricht. Ich persönlich kann nur jemanden ansprechen.
I d not know how to address any-body. I can communicate with some-body only.
Es gibt keine Wirklichkeit. Es gibt nur Wirklichkeiten.
There is no one reality. I only know realities.
Nichts ist direkt erfahrbar, alles ist ver-mitte-lt, also objektiv falsch, persönlich wohl richtig.
No perception is pure of ..., anyone is media-ted, objectively wrong, personnaly maybe right.
Medien vermitteln.
Media mediate.
Im besten Falle zwischen der Situation und mir.
If I am lucky between matter and me.
Zwischen Materie und Immaterie.
Between material and the immaterial.
Ohne geistige Energien materialisiert sich garnichts.
Without spirit-ual energies no-thing matters.

(Wolf Kahlen 1980)

Wolf Kahlen, Trespassing

• Ich kann sagen was ich will 5 min, 1975
...ist ein frustrierendes Stück über Kommunikation an sich und technische Erfahrungen mit dem neuen Medium Video (hier die Trennung von Bild und Ton).

• Selbstversuch II (Körperrasur) 1 min 45s,
Es gibt keine Senkrechte in der Natur, ebensowenig wie eine Waagerechte oder gerade Linie, alles ist gekrümmt, einschliesslich der Zeit.

• Trespassing 5 min,
In dieser Arbeit gehe ich durch eine freistehende Wand. Physisch, durch eine Holzwand.

• Selbstversuch IV (Bräunung) 5 min 45s
Farb-Raumsegment aus der Serie: (7) Reversible Prozesse
Vor dem Bräunungsprozess des Rückens wird ein formaler Eingriff vorgenommen

• I can’t get hold of her 5 min, 1975
Bewegte Bilder von Barbara, keine Standbilder, frustrierende Versuche, sie in focus zu bekommen, Denkmäler ihres Gesichtes, ich kann sie nicht packen, die Bruchstücke des Portraits kommen nicht zusammen...

• Lindentunnel 7 min 36, 1991
Kellerängste in einem langen unterirdischen Tunnel. Er kreuzt Unter den Linden in Berlin vom Gorki-Theater zur Hedwigskathedrale, direkt an der Humboldt-Universität. Dort standen zu DDR-Zeiten, also kürzlich noch, die Panzerwagen der Volksarmee mit laufenden Motoren, wenn es potentiell an der Uni oben kriselte. Der oberirdische Lärm stammt nun vom neuen heftigen Autoverkehr auf der Strasse Unter den Linden. Der Tunnel atmet das Vorher aus.

• Some proofs/Some more proofs of water refraining from shaping 12 min 43s, 1991/2002
Tanz der Wassermassen, ihre plastischen, angehaltenen Formationen wie Zufallsskulpturen eines Kopfes, es gibt das eindeutige Portrait nicht (siehe auch: I can't get hold of her, 1975).

• Art Flood 4 min 22s
Die 'Beispiele zur Modernen Kunst' in Auswahl des Kunstkritikers Heinz Ohff für einen Vortrag haben Schaden genommen, sind prozesshaft zu etwas Neuem geworden.

• Schnelles grau 6 min 49s, 1990
Alles Ruhende da draussen blitzt nur mal gelegentlich auf oder ist plötzlich da, vor allem, wenn soviel geredet wird im soft seater zwischen Hangzhou und Ningbo. Und dann werden die Bilder stiller und langsamer bis zum Stillstand, jedes für sich irgendwann ein Gemälde.

• Wolken die Berge versetzen - In den Gelben Bergen Chinas / Clouds offsetting mountains - In the Yellow mountains of China
36 min, 1990/1999
The only permanent phenomena of our world, the changes of and in all, here you see them as a never ending dance and play of the forces of nature. Days in clouds and rain and wind. Huangshan is in every Chinese’ heart.

more here

10 pm: LiveBox Chicago

2007-02-10T06:00:00.000Z

• 22 h • 10 pm LiveBox, Chicago curated by Catherine Forster

Catherine Forster of LiveBox, Chicago presents a wide selection from a playful look at contemporary narratives to sharp and witty shorts and gorgeous non-narrative musings. Some of them based on childhood nursery rhymes and fairy tales.

• 22 h • 10 pm LiveBox, Chicago curated by Catherine Forster

art 1: "Didn’t Cha Know"

This selection of work is a playful look at contemporary narratives. All the artists deploy humor and tap into the mundane moments of life.

• David Lachman US Home Made 4 min 50s, DV, 2004

• Rachelle Viader Knowles CA In My Mind I am in NY 9 min 45s, DV, 2005

• David Lachman US Flower to Flower 6 min 50s, DV, 2004

part 2: "Knots and Crosses"

short, sharp and witty

• Irina Botea RO/US Aktion 1 min, DV, 2003

• Kazuhiko Kobayashi JPGate Vision 5min 24s, DV, 2005

• Thom van der Doef US Cup 4 min, DV, 2006

part 3: "Sparkling Diamonds"

The artists in this program load their work with saturated colors, intensity, high energy and inventiveness.

• Lee Arnold GB/US Alpinia 1 min 36s, DV, 2006

• Galina Schevchenko RU/US Flower Immersion 7min 35s, DV, 2006

• Patricia Shrigley GB Pilchard 4 min, DV, 2006

part 4: "Brothers Grimm"

This selection of work evocatively appropriates and manipulates childhood nursery rhymes and fairy tales.

• Jill Johnston-Price US PrickleE Britches 6 min, DV, 2006

• Catherine Forster US Humpty Dumpty 7min 35s, DV, 2006

part 5: "Experimental Melodies"

This selection is the most experimental and includes two gorgeous non-narrative musings.

• Carol Kim /US Chasing Pools 8 min 35s, DV, 2005

• Tony Gammidge GB A Short Song About Thread 4min 06s, DV, 2005

• Kim Collmer US/D Lichtwelten 4 min 30s, DV, 2006

• Scott Wolniak US The Pond to the Ocean 6 min 30s, DV, 2006

Catherine Forster will be present

For an indeep description of all movies go here

12 pm: Boy Meets Girl

2007-02-10T04:24:00.000Z

• 24 h • 12 pm assorted shorts compiled by Directors Lounge

Boy Meets Girl

• AV RU Dubus 4 min 9s, DV, 2005

• Angélica Chio MX Le t Us First Be Friends 3 min 24s, DV, 2006

• Ciro Altabás ES DVD 17 min 50s, HD, 2006

AV RU Dubus

A slow dance of the classical cinema to the music of Zelany Rashoho.

Angélica Chio MX Le t Us First Be Friend

Von einer gehörigen Portion Kontaktanzeigenromantik begleitet, suchen flüchtige Gestalten einander im Großstadtdschungel.

Ciro Altabás ES DVD

The Spanish comedy short titled "DVD" is about a geek and his love for video games, movies and an ex-girlfriend. It's a life lessons movie with game cameos from Tetris R-Type and creative GTA opening title sequences to name a few.

You can check out the movie in its entirety without subtitles on Google Video.

6:30 pm: FemLink: Fragility

2007-02-09T23:00:00.000Z

• 18 h 30 • 6:30 pm FemLink: The Videocollage

30 artists from 30 countries

Fragility

• The FemLink's structure is simple: one artist from each country will create a short video (2min max.) around a common theme.
In 2006, the theme is "Fragility".
The resulting video collage project builds a link throughout the world between women video artists and their work.
30 videos from 30 artists from 30 countries.

• Das Konzept von FemLink ist simpel. Eine Kuenstlerin pro Land erstellt einen kurzen (max. 2 min) Film zu einem gemeinsamen Thema.
In 2006 ist "Fragility" (Zerbrechlichkeit) das Thema aller Videoarbeiten.
Die resultierende Collage aus Videos versteht sich als Bruecke zwischen den Kuenstlerinnen und ihren Herkunftslaendern.
30 videos von 30 Kuenstlerinnen aus 30 Laendern.

still from Dalia Al Kury JO BEAUTIFUL BOY 2 min 2006

FemLink, the International Videos-Collage: FRAGILITY

• Marta Ares AR ME, X ? 1 min 40 - 2006
This video is a commentary on how much has been done, with covert or overt violence, and throughout history, to frame women within the "condition of fragility".

• Maki Horino JP THANKS FOR MY FRAGILITY 2min - 2006
The point of view of an artist-video on the relationship between the significant language in the art of video: "the image and the sound and the maginary language": one duration with the particular image. The two images are formed a relative representation with a certain perceptible brittleness: it is where the artist (video) is...

• Anna Barseghian AM FRAGILE 2min - 2006

• Anne Penders BE 2 min - 2006
Every thing lays down (in between)

• C.M. Judge US BOMBS R US 2 min - 2006
"Bombs R Us suggests the fragility of human life, made all the more fragile by the culturally accepted notion that human life is dispensable. Planes filled with bombs are dropped on neighborhoods filled with children and their families. The end does not justify the means."

• Esperanza Collado IR GLIMMERING LIGHT (ONE SECOND IN PARIS) 1mn30 - 2006
Glimmering Light is composed of different black and white still pictures, all belonging to the same photograph, taken in Paris.

• Marilena Preda Sanc RO AMONG THE CARS 2 min 2006
Among the cars is a video metaphor regard our city daily life. The video is focused on a city image mandala including my bodyscape projected on an aggressive backround of cars.

• Véronique Sapin FR AND THEN, THE TOTAL BLANK 2 min - 2006
When all is reduced to dust.

• Alli Savolainen FI SELF PORTRAIT 1'35" 2006
Self-portrait drawings during August 1998. At the time I was staying alone in a house, in a small village: Maze, north of Norway.
I could not speak norwegian language, there was no many people in the village at the time. No any places to go. Outside too many mosquitos to be. One little shop to buy food.

• Vicky Betsou GR DETACHED 2 min 2006
A female figure is revolving in a repetitive, self-referential act, until her sudden encounter with the "Other" (the male figure). We follow the transition from the subject (person) to the crowd (collective body).

• Cathy Vogan AU THE THIRD CHILD 2mn15 2006
It's about the third-world child: a begging scene. A plan-sequence where an A to Z of "isms" and other influential words fall into an ever-empty food bowl

• Daniela Kostova BG INVISIBLE 2 min 2006
These suits allow me to explore issues of silence and absence, integration and estrangement in different political and cultural environments. While drawing from theoretical concepts like the "subaltern" and the "double consciousness", through this work I am also exploring the space between the objective and subjective points of view.

• Rokhshad Nourdeh IR RAID LINE 2 min 2006
Walking on the dangerous line of the life. "As a woman, I decide walking on the "Red"-"Raid"-"Line" !

• Antonella Bussanich IT LIGHTPAINTING 2 min 2006
Onto a burning red screen, a dark shape sways forward, makes its way, little by little on to the frame and spreads across it.

•Cagdas Kahriman TR IN THE TEETH OF OPPOSITION 1 min24 2006
A man in front of his self consciousness between attraction and repulsion

• Maria Papacharalambous CY FRAGILITY 2 min 2006
A visual essay on fragile equilibrium.

• Sandra Kogut BR MATHILDE 2 min 2006
For Mathilde Lajta†: January 1905 - October 2005

• Kinga Araya PL DOPPLEGANGER 2 min 2006
The visual layering of a turning head is complemented by a simultaneous narration in Polish and English. Two Arayas talk to and against each other. The sentence “Self-portrait exhausts its meaning when it erases itself” is audible and layered throughout the entire video.

• Evgenija Demnievska RS TAIN 2 min 2006
“Tain” silvering (for mirrors); foil, tain, glace sans makes the image possible
Between the real and the reflected images we are experiencing the fragility of the situation, the fragility of the information, and the fragility of our perception. The totality is fictive as we can experience only the parts.

• Natasha Dimitrievska MK TEDI IN WHITE 2 min 2006
Fragility of the bad experiences, stories that hurt us but we carry inside, they fade but never gone.

• Prilla Tania ID ABOUT ME 2 min 2006
This video is actually telling about how I live my life. I see life as a fragile path, therefore I need to be careful in taking steps although I know my path will end one day. I describe this thought with this video of me peeling apple.

• Jacqueline Wachall and Klaudia Stoll DE DOUBLE EXTENSION 2 min 2006
You will see a changing choreography of slow - but at the same time meaningful and descriptive movements between ornament and body function.

• Nicoletta Stalder CH A SILENT EARTHQUAKE 2 min 2006
Though this Earthquake can't turn solid buildings into fragile piles of bricks, it rocked the fondations at my nicely settled lifestile thoroughly.

• Chantal Du Pont CA KARMA 2 min 2006
She swivels a shiny metal ball in view of the future which she takes within her hands. She is identifying the Buddhist concept of Karma, synonyme of 'action', as the transformation process that she had gone through while fighting for her life.

• Rachida Azsaou DZ REFUGE 2 min 2006
A curtain shows a long corridor.
A small light reveals lines, shapes, graphics of indefinable space.
A small light which guide us towards an angel
We are inside the cathedral of the holy heart!

• Claudia Aravena CL GREETINGS FROM PALESTINA 2 min 2006
"Part of a larger work titled Palestina Project, Greetings from Palestina deals with mobility of cultural identities, or transculturisation problems.

• Dalia Al Kury JO BEAUTIFUL BOY 2 min 2006
by filming my bed, i tried to portray an intimate relationship between myself and my beloved Adam whom i lost to the highest form of fragility†: sudden death. He is long gone but to this day i can not beleive i am still breathing.

• Yun Aiyoun KR FLOATING TIME 2 min 2006

• Anna Malagrida ES MELANCOLIA 1 mn 34s 2006

• Petra Bauer SE IMAGES OF A FILM FESTIVAL 2 min 2006
This is a short film about the relation between the production of images and the constructio of truth (or rather the fragilithy of truth).

8 pm: Urban Reseach • part 1

2007-02-09T22:00:00.000Z

• 20 h • 8 pmUrban Research curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

program A

Themed Programme on Urban Development and Public Space

Urban space is under rapid change. The city has long played a predominant role in the work of artists, the city as image, as ideal, as Moloch, as source of joy and social destruction, and not least as icon of Modernity. With the increased dynamic of city development however - either as Shrinking Cities or exploding Megacities - more and more artists take up the issue of urban development and adopt urban space and public space as their theme.
Urban Research on Film will present unique, refreshing, challenging and entertaining works addressing the contemporary live and the development of the urban landscape.
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• Sari Carel FI One Eye Open 4 min 30s, DV, 2006

• Oliver Whitehead FI Bike 4 min 30s, DV, 1999

• Seppo Renvall CN Drum Symphony Rumpu Zinfonia 21 min

• Oliver Whitehead FI Visual Violence 5 mIn 30s, DV, 1994

• Julie Murray CN Detroit Park 8 min, DV, 2005

• Thanos Chrysakis FI Nocturnal Dance 8 min 43s, DV, 2003

• Jeremy Beaudry US Wo ist Denkmal? 3 min 18s, DV, 2003

• Sari Carel FI One Eye Open 4 mIn 30s, DV, 2006

• Jani Ruscia FI Fluctuation Theme 7 min, DV, 2005

• Virginie Laganière CA Observatory 2 min, DV, 2005

• Ivan Martinez US Fear Itself... Yea Right 7 min , DV, 2006

more bout Urban Research on Film here

10 pm: China Doc 01 • Dream Walking

2007-02-09T19:00:00.000Z

• 22 h • 10 pm China Doc part 01 curated by Marina Foxley

Dream Walking

• Huang Wenhai CN Dream Walking (Meng You) 85 min, DV, 2005

• Li Wake CN Beyond Sound 30 min, DV, 2005

Dream Walking (Meng You)
Summer 2004, several artists talk about art, poetry, religion and improvise, perform while shooting. Among them, there are Li Wake, a behaviour artist, who helps the painter Wang Yongping to shoot his first film, Ding Defu, a famous painter in the 80s, and Bei Bei a famous web poet and also a night watchman.Their style of living, their attitude towards life are inherent to their artistic creation. Dream Walking is the second film of the trilogy of the Masses, the first was Floating Dust (2004). The film won the Great Prize at the Cinéma du Réel, Paris 2006

Beyond Sound

Hundred years ago, the first movie appeared in China. At the same time, the first deaf-dumb school in China “School of Enlightening” was established. In 2005, for the 100th anniversary of Chinese Movie and the deaf-dumb school, Li Wake chooses deaf-dumb people as the leading actors of the film. The film expresses the current living environment of the director and annotates the relationship between the country and its people in a visualized way.

Marina Foxley will be present

In cooperation with Zhu Rikun and Fanhall Studio, Bejing

12 pm: assorted shorts: Body Works and Inuit Games

2007-02-09T18:00:00.000Z

• 24 h • 12 pm assorted shorts

compiled by Directors Lounge

Body Works and Inuit Games

• Marina Foxley FR Still Life 14 min, DV, 2006

• Renata Padovan BR Silver Man 10 min, DV, 2006

• Usama and Kristie Alshaibi IQ/US Self -Contained 2 min 15s,16mm, 2004

• Anne Maisoneuve FR Inuit Games 7 min 39s, DV, 2006

8 pm: Willkommen • Bienvenue

2007-02-08T20:00:00.000Z

• 20 h • 8 pm Opening Night

Willkommen • Bienvenue

still from AV RU Dubus 4 min 9s, DV, 2005

Join us celebrating the opening of the third Berlin Directors Lounge 2007 with Heavy Swing by Don Bad´Habong, Loungy Tunes by Djane Hatifa Zou, cocktails and cinelicious tidbits.

Feiert mit uns die Eroeffnung der dritten Berliner Directors Lounge 2007 mit Heavy Swing von Don Bad´Habong, den Loungy Tunes von Djane Hatifa Zou, Cocktails und guten Filmen.
Die Türen öffnen sich um 20 Uhr für eine Nacht voller Überraschungen.

showroom, lounge, video installations, bar, cocktails, fun

from 9 pm on : welcome cocktails

2007-02-08T19:00:00.000Z

• 22 h • 10 pm Opening Night

welcome cocktail

Enjoy some teasing compilation from all flavours of this years Directors Lounge 2007

Begruessungscocktails als Einstieg in die Directors Lounge 2007

welcome cocktail 1

The first mix will start with the birth of cinema building a bridge to contemporary cinema within minutes. You will dive into the festival circuit and under the water. We will celebrate american sillyness, and say what we want, No to family values. And last but not least we will listen to the breathing and squeaking of reduced food packages. Just to name a bit.

Der erste Mix beginnt da wo das Kino das Licht der Welt erblickte, schlägt innerhalb von wenigen Minuten die Brücke ins 21 Jahrhundert, lobhudelt amerikanische Dusseligkeit, taucht ein in Licht- und Festivalwelten, sagt was er will, sagt nein zu "family values" und verschafft dem Quieken des Instant Futters eine Plattform. Um nur einiges zu nennen.

• Les frères Lumière FR L´arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat 1 min , 1895

• Laszlo Kerekesz RS L´arrivée d'un train à Treptow

1 min , Digital Pinhole movie, 2007

• Petra Bauer SE Images Of A Filmfestival 2 min 2006

• Ira Schneider US I’d Rather be Half Right than Vice President

5 min, 1968

• Wolf Kahlen DE Ich kann sagen was ich will 5 min, 1975

• Oliver Whitehead FI Bike 4 min 30s, DV, 1999

• Kim Collmer US/DE Lichtwelten 4 min 30s, DV, 2006

• Jean-Gabriel Périot FR Under Twilight 5 min, DV, 2006

• Usama Alshaibi US/IQ Allahu Akbar 5 min 30s , DV, 2000

• Antonello Faretta IT Just Say No To Family Values 4 min 37s, DV, 2005

• Irina Botea RO/US Aktion 1 min, DV, 2003

• Xu Xin CN Carriage (che xiang) 18 min, bw, DV, 2004

welcome cocktail 2

The second part explores the sensual relation of a girl and a squid, enters the Brazilian night, listen to the wind and, in the end, realizes that some girls are beasts.

Im zweiten Teil erfahren wir mehr über die sinnlichen Beziehungen einer jungen Frau zu einem Oktopus, verlieren uns in der brasilianischen Nacht, lauschen dem Wind und müssen erkennen, dass manche Mädchen Bestien sind.

• Alex Avtzoglou AU One Two Red Blue 10 min, DV

• Roberto Andreoli BR Sete Grilos/Dois Cachorros (7 Crickets/2 Dogs)

5 min 24s, DV, 2005, Portuguese with English subtitles

• Devis Venturelli FR Lo Sono Il Vento 14 min, DV, 2006

• Usama Alshaibi US/IQ Dogirl 5 min 30s , DV, 2000

welcome cocktail 3

The third part of our journey through the pictures let the music play, follows mans best friend, questions truth, experiences the law of love, seeks new friendships and realizes the cosmic order: "Boy meets Girl" "Girl leaves Boy" "Boy meets DVD"..
As you know, three things enhances every movie: Cyborgs, Zombies, Ninjas

Im dritten Teil unserer Reise durch die Bilder spielen wir zum Tanze auf, folgen unserem treuesten Freund, fragen nach Wahrheit, erfahren die Macht der Liebe, suchen neue Freunde und erkennen die ewige Abfolge: "Boy meets Girl" "Girl leaves Boy" "Boy meets DVD"..
Drei Dinge sind es die jeden Film verbessern: Ninjas, Cyborgs, Zombies.

• AV RU Dubus 4 min 9s, DV, 2005

AV are two video artists from St.-Petersburg, Russia

• GUP-py JP Reisehund 8 min10s, DV, 200?

• Eivind Tolas AU Love Is The Law 7 min, 35mm, 2003

• Anna Baumgart PL True ? 3min 30s, 2001

• Angélica Chio MX Le t Us First Be Friends 3 min 24s, DV, 2006

• Ciro Altabás ES DVD 17 min 50s, HD, 2006

11 pm: DL 07 The Party

2007-02-08T07:47:00.000Z

• 23 h • 11 pm Opening Night

Opening Party

Dance All Night

Live Music (surprise, surprise), Strange Clips and Loungy Tunes by Djane Hatifa Zou

• Installations • video loops

2007-02-07T23:03:00.000Z

• Installations

still from Quasi-Objects / Cinematic n.07 by Lorenzo Oggiano

• one channel works video loops

• Please note that not all installations will be shown at a time.

• Marie-Laure Ainoux FR Supreme Eyes 2006

• Magda Bielesz PL swimming Lesson 2004

• Stefano Giuriati IT Five Minutes Of Resignation 2003

• Happy Famous Artists NL Western Philosophy 2005

• Frans Van Lent NL Staan 2002

• Mindia Mnatobishvili FR Road Number Eight 2006

• Lorenzo Oggiano IT Quasi-Objects / Cinematic n.07 2005

• video loops as part ofUrban Research curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

• Karin Ludmann UK class="Orangebold">Cultivated Plants 54 sec, DV, 2002

• Hui-Min Tsen UK class="Orangebold">A Place in the Story 17 min 04 sec, DV,
2005

• Joe Merell US class="Orangebold">Sister Cities 10 min, DV 3-D, 2006

• Ushi F u. Walter Gramling DE class="Orangebold">Leerstelle Rückbau 11 min, DV, 2003

• Klaus W. Eisenlohr DE class="Orangebold">Helsinki Walks 60 min, DV, 2005

• multi touch console mtc

• only from thurs 8 - sun 11th.

• mtc crew DE multi touch console 2006

The c-base MultiTouchConsole mtc is a completely self-contained, touch-sensitive table built in spare time by a group of c-base members. A projector in the table displays an image on the table surface and an infrared-sensitive camera is used to track positions of fingers touching it. The mtc reacts to an unlimited amount of touches at once. more

•Lorenzo Oggiano IT Quasi-Objects / Cinematic n.07 2005

•still from Quasi-Objects / Cinematic n.07 by Lorenzo Oggiano

In this Sense Quasi-Objects regards actualization of data, production of biologically a-functional occurrences (bio-politically dysfunctional), dealing about Life, but without reference to the outcomes it is used to recognize; possibilities that can be viewed as transient outputs of an operative practice: aesthetics of process.

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• Happy Famous Artists NL Western Philosophy 2005

If we had a world of our own, everything would be nonsense.
Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be
what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is it wouldn't be,
and what it wouldn't be, it would.
You see? Happy Famous Artists

Happy Famous Artists are a collective combining ideas of Intelligensius Anarchus and Jeff Blind.

Our work is multimedial and conceptual with main areas of inspiration being the sciences, philosophy and psychology, political and social phenomena on one side, and classical as well as contemporary art and popular culture on the other. Our key interest lies in the research of how these perceived authorities shape and influence general perception of reality.

• Frans Van Lent NL Staan 2002

The work of Frans van Lent (Rotterdam 1955) is characterised by simplicity of form and subject matter. The starting point is the artist's body and its locomotion in relationship to the landscape.

For the recording of STAAN he stood for a long time in an empty landscape with his back to the camera. He used ten consecutive minutes without any further editing to form a loop. The immobility of the artist forms a contrast to the continuously changing weather.

• Vadim Schaeffler DE Motion 2006

• Magda Bielesz PL swimming Lesson 2004

"I'm fascinated with states which I can not (perhaps as yet) experience. I can’t swim. I fell down in the water when I was the child, so the only way for me to swim is to paint this, and I also made a swimming lesson video. The video is about this feeling: the only way to go to the sea for me is to go like a Jesus over the sea, because I’m afraid of the water. Thanks to this video my dreams come true."

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• program, flyer and poster

2007-02-07T16:07:00.000Z

here you´ll find the program, flyer and poster to download

the program • das Programmheft

right click, save as here for the cover pages (pdf)
"rechts klick, speichern unter" hier für den Umschlag (pdf)

right click, save as here for the inner pages (pdf)
"rechts klick, speichern unter" hier für die Innenseiten (pdf)

right click, save as here for a page by page version (pdf)
"rechts klick, speichern unter" hier für Einzelseiten (pdf)

the flyer • der Flyer

right click, save as the pics for a 300 dpi jpg.
"rechts klick, speichern unter" auf die Bilder für 300dpi jpgs.

the poster • das Plakat

right click, save as the pics for a 300 dpi/A2 pdf. (18meg)
"rechts klick, speichern unter" auf die Bilder für 300 dpi/A2 pdf. (18meg)