Shape Shifting Nobody Knows, When it was Made and Why prendas – ngangas – enquisos – machines {each part welcomes the other without saying} Three books for three films of Elke Marhöfer and Elke Marhöfer & Mikhail Lylov
Archaeology & Exorcisms: Moving Image and the Archive
Identity, leaflet and booklet design for two day conference: Archaeology & Exorcisms: Moving Image and the Archive. The two-day conference Archaeology & Exorcisms: Moving Image and the Archive examines the role of the archive in the research, preservation and distribution of artists’ moving image in a series of presentations, screenings and panel discussions. The conference… Read more »
Primate Colors
Film Poster 16mm film transferred to digital, color/sound, 30 min. 50 sec., China (Hong Kong), 2015. Primate Colors was shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015. The film pursues and accelerates methods and forms elaborated in ethnographic and anthropological filmmaking. The anthropological understanding of following subjects to record their lives is re-oriented. Rather than… Read more »
Shape Shifting
Film Poster 16mm film transferred to digital, color/sound, 18 min. 26 sec., Japan, 2015. Shape Shifting was shown at Berlinale Forum Expanded 2015. Granting culture to the nonhuman world, the film “Shape Shifting” outlines a cartography of a particular landscape. A landscape, which can be found in many parts of Asia and in Japan is… Read more »
Telling and Retelling
Poster design for the artist´s permanent commissioning at Zealand Institute of Business and Technology, Campus Roskilde, Denmark in 2014. The complex work “Telling and Retelling” comprises site specific installations such as curtains, vitrine with objects, films and a poster. Photography by Johannes Christoffersen
Fokus Junge Kunst
Ernste Spiele / Serious Games
In the four video projections Serious Games, Farocki examines the use of computer game technologies in the training of American soldiers. We see young recruits at the screen engaging in simulated combat training, for example, which barely differs from games produced for entertainment. The series thus depicts how our collective imagination of war is being… Read more »
The Girl Who Followed Marple
Title Graphics design for silent digital video The Girl Who Followed Marple, 10 min., 2014. With Lucy McKenzie and Richard Kern, Alison Yip, Thea Westreich, Ashley Carr, Suzanne Modica, Beca Lipscombe, and Duncan Hannah Filmed by Richard Kern. Decor by Lucile Desamory and Caitlin Keough
HOUSE STYLE
HOUSE STYLE presents a series of new commissions initiated by Panel with Annette Lux and Steven Cairns in response to, and alongside, a specially selected film programme sourced from the British Film Institute National Archive. HOUSE STYLE takes as its starting point a monthly Technicolor film series called Roundabout (1962–1974). Roundabout was designed to promote Britain… Read more »
My Throat My Air
In Fahrenholz’s films, dialogue is often recited affectlessly, even as interlocutors are copulating as in Implosion (2011). But here the distanced delivery seems less owed to Bertolt Brecht than to the numbness of the characters and the coldness of their relationships: Fahrenholz treats filmic forms, narrative, and actors’ performances as discrete elements, meaningful structures that… Read more »
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