HBK BRAUNSCHWEIG 2005

Sa, November 12 10:30 pm CinemaxX 4

It has become a tradition to screen recent film and video work from the local school art (HBK) in its own special programme at the Braunschweig International Film Festival. Since 1972 there has been a special film-as-fine-arts studies course on offer at the school. All manner of films are made and encouraged, including experimental, documentary, animated and narrative works, as well as now popular video and multimedia installations and internet art. The common element to all these projects is a personal, individual vision, free of all censorship and commercial pressures.


Eine Rede
Director: Mirko Martin, D 2005, 7 min, DVD, colour, GV



The Christmas speech of President Horst Köhler in 2004 recited by different people in their own homes. By thus having the text recited under altered conditions, its rhetoric and its content are examined closely.


kleiner bloeder film
Director: Kathrin Maria Wolkowicz, D 2005, 5 min, DVD, colour, GV



About the gardener and his children, the princess in the bus and in the kitchen.


Daumenlutscherin
Director: Ute Stroer, D 2005, 13 min, DVD, colour, without dialogue

An independent interpretation of the story by Heinrich Hoffmann about a boy named Konrad who disregards his mother's strict admonition "not to suck his thumb".


Traffic
Director: Mirko Martin, D 2005, 7 min, DVD, colour, without dialogue



A loading dock in Southern Spain is the stage for constantly telephoning truck drivers. The hectic activity at the site is reflected in the rhythm of the videos.


Koppel
Director: Dennis Feser, D 2005, 3 min, DVD, colour, GV



"Koppel" is a bizarre emancipation strategy as well as neurotic involvement.


No. 5
Director: Maroan el Boubou, D 2005, 8 min, DVD, colour, without dialogue



"Death is not an event in our lives. Death is not something you experience. If you understand timelessness as eternity and not unending time, then the person who lives in the present lives eternally. Our lives are as endless as our field of vision is boundless." (Ludwig Wittgenstein)


Für die Katz
Director: Christian Plähn/Peter Beyer, D 2005, 30 min, DVD, colour, GV



This documentary film describes Mr. Wölk's daily walk through the abandoned factory halls of the Wilke Werke in Braunschweig. After the closure of the factory the former worker now looks after the cats living there.


Extract from Filmingpool

• Geschichte vom Tölpel Hans, Florian Krautkrämer, Deutschland 2005, 8 min, DVD, colour, without dialogue
• Armor the inner man, Sebastian Neubauer, Deutschland 2005, 7 min, DVD, colour, GV
• Ego-Shouter, Sebastian Egert, Deutschland 2005, 1 min, DVD, colour, without dialogue

The participants of the filming pool produce independant films from a common collection of material but with their individual soundtracks. The work with the common collection leads to widely differing results.

PORTRAIT: IRIS SELKE

Su, November 13 3:15 pm CinemaxX 4 Guest: Iris Selke



Iris Selke, born in Bielefeld in 1966, came to the Braunschweig School of Art in 1995 and received her diploma in 2003. The different artistic tastes of her mentors are seen again in Selke's interdisciplinary works. She studied film with Mara Mattuschka and Birgit Hein, photography with Dörte Eißfeldt and performance with Marina Abramovic.

The contemplation on the strength of expression of the human body is the red thread going through all her works. Selke explains: "In order to communicate things I use the body sometimes as an object, and sometimes I transform it by using other objects. I am in no way concerned with showing self-destruction or torture; rather I would like to convey a living impression of the physical and mental traumas to be found in our collective memories." The question of personal and social identity, the place of history and politics in art and in everyday life as well as the significance of sexuality and gender are central themes which continue to nourish these memories. With the resulting works she was invited to many art festivals in the whole of Europe.


Remember the good old times (15 min)

By tracing the form of a projected prison cell around her the inmate converts her memories and her suppressed energy into positive creativity and finds her personal way out of her isolation.


HHHHHi (4:30 min)

From the inside to the outside without words. Laughing is difficult. Am I a similarity? Femininity? Mouth open, mouth shut. Eyes open, eyes shut. But it's me. I see. I weep. It's me.


Maria et Luigi (2 min)

Maria and Luigi are very much alike and are still not the same. A continuous story of attraction, desire and of misunderstanding.


Narziss (1 min)

Breaking your own mirror image enables you to break through your own narcissism and allows you to see what is hidden behind the façade.


Chicago Pigeons / The rats of the sky (3:32 min)

Snapshots, moods and images arranged on film. A statement that leaves me in the middle of nothingness. But with time things, gradually begin to rearrange themselves like a puzzle.


Lion (4 min)

A performance following the story of the beginnings of Rome. The lion statue figuratively represents the provider. Irritation and argument are attained by a naked woman in an unusual place.


Splendid Isolation (7 min)

The expression "splendid isolation" received its historical significance at the time of British colonialism. In its artistic interpretation it permits of many-sided associations.


Jipijajee! Ich grüße mein Volk. Jipijajee! (1:13 min)

A 16 mm film shot in St. Petersburg at the site of the Bronze Horseman, a statue by the French sculptor M. Falconet (1766-1782) in honour of Peter the Great, founder of the city.


Ophelia (4 min)

To what extent is it possible to co-ordinate human action with human thought? In the political unrest of our time the elaboration of the old theme "To be or not to be" acquires a special and highly explosive significance.




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