Portrait Volker Schreiner

Su, November 9 8:00 pm CinemaxX 3 Guests: Volker Schreiner, Prof. Michael Brynntrup

White Screen
Director: Volker Schreiner, D 1988, 3:42 min, BetaSP, colour



An attack on the white screen, the first video in this year's body of work. It's called a "sound and material video".


Wipe Board
Director: Volker Schreiner, D 1989, 3:42 min, BetaSP, colour



The Wipe characterizes a form of fading in film and TV by which one picture is wiped away by another. In 130 rhythmic changes of picture Schreiner creates a gripping unity out of a repeat.


Open Up
Director: Volker Schreiner, D 1991, 3:05 min, BetaSP, colour



"Open Up" is the third film from Schreiner’s early work. It is difficult to distinguish between reality and video-manipulation, and more and more layers seem to overlap and vanish.


Counter
Director: Volker Schreiner, D 2004, BetaSP, 6:30 min, colour and bw



From 226 to 0 in 6 minutes. Film history speeded up. An amusing structural path allowing us to reflect on our own patterns looking.


Cell
Director: Volker Schreiner, D 2006, 4:27 min, BetaSP, colour and bw



The medium TV without picture content, just hissing, as a prophet of disaster. With his installation Schreiner concentrates on the exact moment of the production of tension.


Scope
Director: Volker Schreiner, D 2008, 4:57 min, BetaSP, colour and bw



"Scope" is Schreiner’s latest video work. Cut-up artefacts of communication, blurred sounds, hissing, loudspeakers, and the listeners and messages can only be guessed.


Teaching The Alphabet
Director: Volker Schreiner, D 2007, 3:34 min, BetaSP, colour and bw



An alphabet from film moments. In "Teaching the Alphabet" Schreiner shows the very special form of language(s) in the film and how to decipher the connected and learned form.


Radar
Director: Volker Schreiner, D 2006, 5:14 min, BetaSP, colour and bw



A road to nothing, lit by flashes of light. Schreiner’s fragmental film "Radar" is a reflection about the light/shadow boundaries, about the ambiguous, confusing but guiding function of light.


Fiction Artists
Director: Volker Schreiner/Christoph Girardet, D 2004, 44 min, BetaSP, colour and bw



12 montages from over 100 films. Schreiner and Girardet combine extracts from Bmovies with film classics in order for us to think about the image of the (fictional) artist in film.


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