FRAGMENTS ON MACHINES by Emma Charles at ZKM Center for Art and Media // Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest

01.SCREENINGS

The center piece of the Kassel Dokfest is the film program, divided into three sections:

02.MONITORING

Up to 16 contemporary media installations and sculptures by up-and-coming as well as well-known artists will be presented at the exhibition Monitoring.

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03.DOKFEST LOUNGE

The DokfestLounge is not only the location for audiovisual performances by international artists, VJs and DJs but also the nocturnal meeting point for our guests after 10.30 pm.

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04.INTERFICTION

The Workshop symposium interfiction offers lectures, presentations and workshop-sessions concerning a yearly changing topic, which takes a closer look at the political, social and artistic aspects of the medium internet.

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05.JUNGES DOKFEST

This educational side program is aimed at school students from the 7th till the 13th grade as well as teachers. The project consists of special film programs as well as workshops about film analysis and criticism under the guidance of media educators.

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06.DOKFEST FORUM

The DokfestForum offers panels, lectures and screenings that raise questions about the interfaces between film and art. During the daytime the DokfestForum as a festival meeting point will provide a café with a video library for accredited guests.

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07.EDUCATION

With the Hessian University Film Day, the presentation of a European Film College and hands-on workshops and lectures, the Kassel Dokfest offers possibilities for further education, information on education opportunities and access to professional networks for (Hessian) up-and-coming filmmakers.

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INTERFICTION

FRAGMENTS ON MACHINES by Emma Charles at ZKM Center for Art and Media / 02.09.2015

The shortfilm FRAGMENTS ON MACHINES directed by Emma Charles celebrated its German premiere at Kassel Dokfest in 2014.

From September 4 to January 31 the film is part of the exhibition Infospheres in the Museum of Contemporary Art at ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe.

Working with both photography and moving image, her work explores metropolitan spaces of productivity that are hidden from the public eye. FRAGMENTS ON MACHINES reveals the physical framework and materiality of the internet in the financial district of New York. The physically closer the firms and banks are, the faster their algorithms can trade – much faster than our human capabilities.

The ZKM Center for Art and Media and the Kassel Dokfest are cooperation partners and operate, together with the documenta Archive and the European Media Art Festival, the website mediadatabase.de, a database for media art and art documentation.