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Directors Lounge Screenings at Z-Bar
Alice and the Possible Cities
conceptual film tales
by Lemeh42
Short video works by the Italian artist group Lemeh42, aka Michele Santini & Lorenza Paolini.
Thursday, 20 August 2009
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte
Doors: € 5/ conc. € 4
Artist Link: http://lemeh42.indivia.net/
Lemeh42, a couple and art group from Senigallia, Italy, are presenting their work on video at Directors Lounge at Z-Bar. The program consists of charming, witty and divers short films. From “Alice in Wonderland” to “Study on Human Form and Humanity #01”, the range of touched genres in video and film history is amazingly wide. What makes the work specifically fresh and enjoyable, yet, is the tension between straight, conceptual thinking and a fairy-tale-like romanticism that relates to childhood experiences and fantasies. “Our childhood is like the fundamental years in our lives in which we have prepared everything and now we are using all that material to create our stories.” The work seems to fluctuate between the two concepts, which - as Michele admits - reflect their different characters, Michele being the rational conceptual part and Lorenza the romantic-melancholic one. Still, the two concepts always mix, as all their work is collaborative in different ways, in sometimes surprising ways, thus giving all of the video work both a dreamlike atmosphere and a stringent structure, plus, and in addition, a spicy taste of fine humour or irony. In these ways, the couple likes to make statements on our “reality”. Just, as they state, “we have matured our own point of view of reality and its inhabitants.”
Another element bringing the different pieces together is the collaboration with the musician Marco Scattolini (www.myspace.com/marcoscattolini), whose music for the films is largely based on piano compositions with additional arrangements of electronic or natural instruments.
Michele Santini/ Lemeh42 will be present at the screening, he will tell us about the collaboration with Lorenza Paolini, and of course, be available for Q&A.
(Klaus W. Eisenlohr)
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