Ankündigung

Tagung
»Dokumentarfilm und Politik. Politiken des Dokumentarfilms«

13.-15. Oktober 2011
Kölner Filmhaus, Maybachstraße 111, Köln

Die Dokumentation und das Presseecho der Tagung sind online.

Documentary methods in art

Artists and Speakers

Katrin Mundt Curator, author and lecturer. Exhibitions and film projects, incl. for the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, regular contributions to magazines and catalogues.

Ulrike Franke/Michael Loeken Authors, directors and producers.
Founded the film production company loekenfranke in 1996. Documentary films for cinema and television channels, including: “Und vor mir die Sterne” (1998), “Losers and Winners” (2006).

Mischa Leinkauf Video artist and cameraman, studied at the KHM, Cologne 2005-2012. Since 2007, experimental feature and short films, video and room installations. Collaboration with Matthias Wermke.

Barbara Engelbach Ph.D, curator at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, for the contemporary art collection with photography, film and video.

Phil Collins Artist and professor of video art at the KHM Cologne. He works with films, photographs, installations and live events. Solo exhibitions incl. the British Film Institute, London (2011).

Stefanie Schulte Strathaus Film and video curator, Berlin. Since 1991 at arsenal – cinema, now: Institute for Film and Video Art. Member of the selection committee for Berlinale Forum, founder and head of the Berlinale programme Forum Expanded.

Marcel Odenbach Video artist and since 2010, professor of film and video at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Previously professor at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe and at the KHM Cologne.

Dietrich Leder since 1994 professor of documentary film, fictional forms and entertainment at the KHM Cologne, journalist (incl. for funkkorrespondenz) and documentary filmmaker.

Christa Blümlinger Professor of film theory at the Université Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Paris VIII). Most recently published: “Kino aus zweiter Hand. Formen materieller Aneignung im Film und in der Medienkunst“ (2009).

Philipp Hamann Studied at the KHM, Cologne, from 2006 to 2011. Video installations, wall installations and performances, incl. “Hoffentlich. Ja. Mehr als. Sonst” (2009). Spiridon-Neven-DuMont-Preis 2012.

Luke Fowler Artist, lives in Glasgow. Deals with the legacy of Ronald D. Laing, the famous Glaswegian psychiatrist, in several works. Turner Prize Nominee 2012

Fiona Tan Artist, works with painting, photography and video, lives in Amsterdam. 2009 designed the Dutch pavilion for the 53th Venice Biennale. Current works: Levensloop (2011), Cloud Island (2010), Rise and Fall (2009).  

Documentary methods in art

Programme

Documentray methods in art

Films shown at the symposium

OPEL. EINE SUCHE NACH ZUKUNFT by Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken

(Germany 2011, 30 min, German OV)
An apprenticeship with Opel in Bochum: one contract, three years perspective.
Six correct numbers in the lottery. Daily routine. Wake up. Take the train. Shop floor. Breaks. Only just started working life and the future is already uncertain.

ZWISCHENZEIT by Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke

(2008, 8 min, single channel projection)
On a rail trolley through Berlin’s underground tram network. A play of light and shadow and real danger in between the passing trains. The work’s unfamiliar perspectives refocus the viewer’s attention on time perception in train travel.

MARXISM TODAY (PROLOGUE) by Phil Collins

(2010, 35:30 min, German/English OV, English SUBs)
The film introduces three teachers of Marxism-Leninism from the DDR. They talk about their careers and their fates before and after the reunification of Germany. Their accounts are interpolated with archive material from highly ideological times.

DISTURBED PLACES – 5 VARIATIONEN ÜBER INDIEN by Marcel Odenbach

(2007, 34 min, one channel video installation, English OV)   
The film shows locations of the younger Indian generation such as silk shops, coffee shops, trains and markets in re-staged scenes. An occupation with the layering of meanings and media remodellings also enables Odenbach to integrate idealised notions about India that had circulated Western youth culture in the 1960s.

ABWARTEN UND TEE TRINKEN by Marcel Odenbach

(1978, 17 min, one channel videotape)
This black-and-white video piece looks at everyday activities and visits to cafés in Paris and plays with the most beautiful clichéd images of the French capital.

ALL DIVIDED SELVES by Luke Fowler

(2011, 93 min, english OV, HD Video)
This film about the psychiatrist Ronald D. Laing blends extensive archive material on the anti-psychiatry movement from television and other sources with newly filmed material. The result makes clear how the spirit of optimism in the 1960s was shaped by the media, how this was connected with the anti-psychiatry movement and uncovers the movement’s social and political interests.
(textlist of the film)

CLOUD ISLAND by Fiona Tan

(2010, 45 min, HD installation)
After the end of industrialisation, the Japanese island of Inujima, on the Seto Inland Sea, was left to decay and was abandoned by the younger generation. In May 2010 the Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum began with the building of 10 art pavilions. This unhurried film shows the transition into a period of waiting.