Relationships in Space and Time


(BALi, KulturBahnhof Kassel)

Cinema grants to us a representation of the world how it is, how it was, or how it could be. In doing so, it synthesizes connections between images and thus between locations, between the present, the past, and the future, between individuals and groups, between the contents of its imagery and whatever has been left out. Conjunctions, which become evident only through the films. The program compiles six films that manage to transport meaning through their audio-visual montage into the world where there used to be none. Implicitly, they question the status-quo of documentary filmmaking fundamentally. (Sebastian Markt)

Turista

Digital recording and its easy accessibility has made filmographic productions quite commonplace. After ten years in Buenos Aires, the filmmaker has returned to Germany reviewing now the clips she has taken with her phone over the years. Fleeting private recordings, observed now as if they were the raw material to a film of which the meaning is yet to be disclosed. Images created with no distinct purpose in mind now interrogate after life and our relation to images per se. The attempt to order them amalgamates into an attempt to introduce order to life itself. "Lately, I've been imagining Film as a triangle: A camera, the person opposite, and me. Nobody understands the other so while we roll, we invent a new language."… >>>

  • Duration: 10 Min.
  • Premiere: German Premiere
    • Director: Nele Wohlatz

    Zoologische Gesellschaft

    As objects of cinematography, animals are quite flamboyant: alien and at the same time peculiarly human in their behavior. In her work, the visual artist Ann Oren arranges audio-visual recordings of zoo-animals. It emerges a fine web of seeming relation: action and reaction, call and response, a play that finally culminates into a collective animalistic concert. Relating the different animals to each other through audio-visual montage creates the impression of a relationality amongst the animals; a society of animals. The film thus comments not only on the communities inside and amongst the zoos, but on (human) communities, who created zoos as both, counter-image and self-reflection.… >>>

    • Duration: 10 Min.
  • Premiere: German Premiere
    • Director: Ann Oren

    1I15

    A static black-and-white frame of urban streets and squares, an off-screen voice sharing their names: in the Austrian city of Graz 94% of all traffic area is named after men. 1 | 15 catalogs those carrying female names. Frame by frame the film moves from the periphery to the center of the city. The serialization of the standardized method creates a new landscape of consciousness besides the architectural image of the city as the social dimension becomes visible. Through the urban geography of these locations, the gender relations inside the decision process behind public remembrance culture symbolically transcends the specificities of this city.… >>>

    • Duration: 3 Min.
    • Director: Karl Wratschko

    Sehr gepflegt und gut gelegen

    A mansion, a lawn, some trees: an unmoved frontal view, 9 minutes long. We hear an off-screen voice: co-director Lukas Marxt commands/directs what goes on in the image. He calls up participants in a remote-controlled choreography: a certain "John" and his lawn-mower, remote-controlled by him; a "Mandy" whose drone ("camera 2") hovers above the house; and co-director "Jakub" Vrba, the only on-screen person, who climbs a ladder and holds up a cornet that emits smoke and sparks. Marxt´s orders make it happen: a strange ritual of 'order' in a bourgeois home which, as the film´s title says, is „Beautifully maintained and well located“. Maintenance provides continuity; here it locates us in a reversal of time: In this film, things don´t just go forward (order–>execution); there is also retroactivity at play. (Fragment from Drehli Robnik’s text)… >>>

    • Duration: 9 Min.
    • Director: Jakub Vrba, Lukas Marxt

    Listen to the Beat of Our Images

    ECOUTEZ LE BATTEMENT DE NOS IMAGES / LISTEN TO THE BEAT OF OUR IMAGES 60 years ago, the French government decided to establish its space center in Kourou ( French Guiana, South America). 600 Guianese people were expropriated to allow France to realize its dream of space conquest. Combining field investigation and video-editing processes on archives, "Listen to the Beat of Our Images" gives a voice to an invisibilized and silenced population.… >>>

    • Duration: 15 Min.
  • Nominated: Goldener Key
    • Director: Audrey Jean-Baptiste, Maxime Jean-Baptiste

    Migrants

    The starting point for the video work MIGRANTS is the return of tens of thousands of migratory birds every evening to their roost in the Dollart, a bay formed by storm tides in the German-Dutch border region. In their search for food, they cross political borders – which are completely irrelevant to them – on a daily basis. Instead, the seek orientation along the large landscape formations, which in the Wadden Sea constantly move and shift in relation to each other. In the montage, the theme of the border is taken up and transferred into a temporal grid: a cut is made each second. Within this framework, an almost continuous movement is written with the aid of disparate shots: from approach to landing, from day to night, and from an agricultural environment to a dystopian, post-industrial setting.… >>>

    • Duration: 5 Min.
  • Premiere: World Premiere
    • Director: Daniel Burkhardt