DokfestForum takes place in cooperation with the Fridericianum and directs its focus on the intersection of film, documentary, and visual art. Over two consecutive evenings, a selection of videos by Rosa Aiello and Pallavi Paul will be presented. The screenings will be followed by a talk, where the artists will each discuss the ideas and strategies behind their respective works.
Mi. 15.11. | 18:30 – 20:00
Rosa Aiello: Hope for the Best
Rosa Aiello’s film works encompass a range
of styles from animation to documentary collage to cinematic narrative. She
takes an experimental approach and gathers material from what is at hand, in
her domestic space, in her relationships, on her habitually used streets. She
is interested in observing structures, social constructs like the family, and
the built world of architecture and city infrastructure. For DokfestForum, she
has put together a selection of her experimental documentary works which deal
with forms of human interaction: from attention to control, exchange to
fantasy. Subjects include some suburbs of Alberta, gifts of fruit and vegetable
crops from neighbours, a personal voice note, a moment at a wedding, and an
intersection in Berlin.
Rosa Aiello, born in 1987 in
Hamilton, Canada. She lives and works in Berlin, studied at the Städelschule in
Frankfurt, Oxford University and McGill University in Montreal. Her works have
been shown in numerous solo exhibitions and screenings, including Kevin Space
in Vienna (2022) and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2019). She has also been
involved in group exhibitions and screenings at Kölnischer Kunstverein in
Cologne (2022), Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan (2017) and ICA in London (2017)
among others.
Introduction: Julia Schleis, Curator Fridericianum
Screening: A Pressing Subject (2023), LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising (2023) and other works (in English)
Subsequently: talk with the artist (in English)
Do. 16.11. | 18:30 – 20:00
Pallavi Paul: The Blind Rabbit
Provoked by the brutal murder
of George Floyd and others, Pavalli Paul created the film THE BLIND RABBIT
(2021, 43 min.) exploring the history of systemic abuse of power and police
violence since the 1970s in her home country, India. Using allegorical means,
she interweaves various historical events: the 1975 – 77 state of emergency
declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, and the
2019 police attack on Jamia Millia Islamia students. The fictional narrative
supplements missing historical sources and accounts for the complexity of
multiple truths. Paul’s artistic practice, which includes installation, text,
photography, and performance in addition to film, is grounded in her scholarly
work.
Pallavi Paul, born 1987 in New
Delhi, lives and works in New Delhi and Berlin. She is an artist and scholar
with a PhD from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
in New Delhi. Her work has been shown at Tate Modern in London (2013),
Berlinische Galerie (2023, 2022) and Berlinale Forum Expanded (2022).
Currently, “How Love Moves: Prelude” is on view at Gropius Bau in Berlin, where
she is this year's Artist in Residence.
Introduction: Julia Schleis, Curator Fridericianum
Screening: The Blind Rabbit (2021)
Subsequently: talk with the artist (in English)
