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 »
Ditch Plains
Shot in the East New York section of Brooklyn around the time of Hurricane Sandy, Ditch Plains (HDV, 29 mins) is a dystopian sci-fi street dance film featuring members of Ringmasters Crew. Like avatars running the levels of an apocalyptic video game, Ringmasters Corey, Jay Donn and Marty McFly hallucinate the city and its networks… Read more »
Wiederholen und Ausblenden – Repeat and Fade
The publication comprises a complex documentation of the artist´s solo exhibitions between 2009–2012 and includes essays by Hanne Loreck and Hans-Christian Lotz.
Ein Lied um Mitternacht. Chinesische Filmgeschichte von 1929 bis 1964
“A Song at Midnight sets out, for the first time in Germany, to present a substantial part of Chinese film history. Seen in retrospect, Chinese cinema prior to the Fifth and Sixth Generations may appear to pursue merely propagandistic aims. Yet what becomes visible upon closer scrutiny is one of the liveliest of national film… Read more »
Aune, or On Effective Demise
“Aune is a 19th century girl confined to her bed, living under the threat of amputation. She has dreams of a park that are both premonitions of the future and the site in which its absence is played out. An escalating sense of timelessness collapses Aune’s two realities, as her body takes on significance as… Read more »
Humphrey Jennings: Painting, Collage, Film
Rehearsing Collectivity – Choreography Beyond Dance
“Rehearsing Collectivity – Choreography Beyond Dance deals with existing interconnections between the concepts of choreography (as the organization of bodily movement in space and time) and collectivity. (…) The issue of collectivity has taken on an increased political, social and cultural relevance in light of contemporary phenomena such as social networking, mass migration and new… Read more »
Die Wende
“Die Wende (›the Turn‹ in German) is the story of a group of women from former East Germany who are training to perform a particular movement in synchronized swimming, called ›die Wende‹, in which the swimmer perform an underwater backwards loop. Thee women, most of them over 60, are part of a still active East… Read more »
Józef Robakowski
“Engaging in dialogue with other artists while at the same time rendering this visible in and through art has been one of the key aspects in Józef Robakowski’s (*1939, Posen) oeuvre from the 1960s. With this as its point of departure, the book covers, above all, the wealth of Robakowski’s ideas and methods in his… Read more »
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