Directors Lounge Blog




the freshest impressions and critique

from

 

Sabrina Small and Jacob Birken are writing about Directors Lounge festival 7 - 17 February 2008

- on a daily base.



photographs by

Daniela Butsch
Klaus W. Eisenlohr
André Werner

• Where

Friedrich Strasse 112A
• the location
• map
from 6 pm - open end





• Base

• Directors Lounge
• Directors Lounge tv





• Family

• placeboKatz
• N.E.M.
• rich film
• ariadnefilm
• Berliner Licht und Silber
• gallery KMZA
• Kim Collmer




• Friends

• kristin
• marina
• tanja
• tagez
• telemach
• Rattapallax
>• Shaun Wilson
• wurst and gritz
• Edmund Piper
• IF Museum/Inner Spaces
• castle Plueschow
• LiveBox
• ZEBRA
• happy famous artists
• notes from somewhere bizarre
• jazzkeller 69
• Rote Loge
• valentina
• we make money not art
• zufallsproduktion

• art and culture

• andreaxmas
• a goy
•betacity
• cinegraphic
• conscientious
•chungking express
• 1+1=1
• eyeteeth
•fanhall studio
• le wub
• letra corrida
•nozap
•re-title
•roba
• sex blo.gs
• the Athanasius Kircher Society
•the reverse cowgirl

June 24
Contemporary Art Ruhr: Das Forum
Contemporary Art Ruhr: Das Forum
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at Zeche Zollverein Essen
at Zeche Zollverein Essen
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Directors Lounge presents: interactive installation by Amdré Werner. Photographs © Klaus W. Eisenlohr 2008

Directors Lounge presents: interactive installation by Amdré Werner.

Photographs © Klaus W. Eisenlohr 2008

June 20
Site view onto Zeche Zollverein. Images © Klaus W. Eisenlohr 2008

Site view onto Zeche Zollverein.

Images © Klaus W. Eisenlohr 2008

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DL audience at Contemporary Art Ruhr
DL audience at Contemporary Art Ruhr
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Directors Lounge at Contemporary Art Ruhr
Directors Lounge at Contemporary Art Ruhr
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Contemporary Art Ruhr Opening
Contemporary Art Ruhr Opening
June 17

contemporary art ruhr 08, the forum for media art, projects and photography

20.-22.6.2008

world heritage Kokerei Zollverein Essen

We will try to blog live from the venue.

Please check back on Friday, 20th of June

Opening & Vernissage:

20.6.08, 8 pm,

Kokerei Zollverein, Mischanlage, Arendahls Wiese, 45141 Essen



the fair: 21.-22.6.08, 11am - 7 pm, 21.6.,till 2 am



Special ExtraSchicht, 10 Cubes: 21.6.08, 6pm - 2 am, ExtraSchicht: only with ExtraSchicht-Ticket!

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May 27
Slow Space at no.w.here lab 28th may 2008klaus w. eisenlohr with steven ballshowing: slow space Light Reading’s 2008 series continues with a conversation between artists Klaus W. Eisenlohr and Steven Ball. Eisenlohr’s film Slow Space (2004) will be screened during the event. Klaus W. Eisenlohr is an artist, photographer and filmmaker living in Berlin. He is currently curator of “Urban Research”, an ongoing film and video project concerned with urban development and public space, at Director’s Lounge, Berlin. Eisenlohr’s recent work can be characterised as “camera-guided” rigorous research into exploring the body within the spaces it inhabits, and aiming to go beyond mere representation of public spaces through film, but to encourage a perception of space that goes beyond the camera’s frame. Slow Space (2004) is a film journey through buildings of glass architecture in Chicago. Street scenes and interviews complement this essay on public and private spaces.Slow Space takes the viewer on a visual trip through the city of Chicago without showing streets or plazas as they are seen in travel guides. Instead, the journey goes through places roofed and lit by glass architecture: Garfield Park Conservatory, Juvenile Court, Merchandise Mart, Cumberland Station, Nature Museum, Westside Future, César Chavez Elementary School, Tower Condominium, Jackson Academy, Lincoln Park Conservatory, a private living room, Gran Hyatt Regency and some other places. Scenes set in open urban space and interviews filmed in private homes complement this passage through public and private places. The project investigates the relationship between the body and the urban architectural environment over a period of three years. Searching the anomalies in “normal”, the filmmaker traces a ‘Desire for Modernity’ in the city’s architecture being shaped by pre- and post- modern forces. In addition, the film discusses the topic of public space in American cities through interviews with the Chicago artists and filmmakers Deborah Stratman, Chris Harris, Gretchen Till, Ken Fandell, Thomas Comerford and Eduardo Pradilla.Eisenlohr’s work has been shown internationally, with recent solo and group exhibitions at the Alten Wiehre Banhof, Freiburg, Germany, 2007, Inner Spaces Gallery, Poznan, Poland, 2007 and at the Helsinki International Artist-in-residence project room, Helsinki, Finland, 2006. Steven Ball is a time based media artist. His recent work has focused predominantly on working with digital video producing a series of works that are, among other things, particularly concerned with digital material processes and spatial representation. He is currently Research Fellow at the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.Light Reading is an ongoing series of critical dialogues that engage artists, writers and curators in conversation around a selected artist’s body of work.slow space: film infowww.steven-ball.netDirect Objective - Blogno.w.here labMore Milk Yvette - Blog 

Slow Space at no.w.here lab

28th may 2008

klaus w. eisenlohr with steven ball

showing: slow space



Light Reading’s 2008 series continues with a conversation between artists Klaus W. Eisenlohr and Steven Ball. Eisenlohr’s film Slow Space (2004) will be screened during the event.



Klaus W. Eisenlohr is an artist, photographer and filmmaker living in Berlin. He is currently curator of “Urban Research”, an ongoing film and video project concerned with urban development and public space, at Director’s Lounge, Berlin. Eisenlohr’s recent work can be characterised as “camera-guided” rigorous research into exploring the body within the spaces it inhabits, and aiming to go beyond mere representation of public spaces through film, but to encourage a perception of space that goes beyond the camera’s frame.



Slow Space (2004) is a film journey through buildings of glass architecture in Chicago. Street scenes and interviews complement this essay on public and private spaces.

Slow Space takes the viewer on a visual trip through the city of Chicago without showing streets or plazas as they are seen in travel guides. Instead, the journey goes through places roofed and lit by glass architecture: Garfield Park Conservatory, Juvenile Court, Merchandise Mart, Cumberland Station, Nature Museum, Westside Future, César Chavez Elementary School, Tower Condominium, Jackson Academy, Lincoln Park Conservatory, a private living room, Gran Hyatt Regency and some other places. Scenes set in open urban space and interviews filmed in private homes complement this passage through public and private places. The project investigates the relationship between the body and the urban architectural environment over a period of three years. Searching the anomalies in “normal”, the filmmaker traces a ‘Desire for Modernity’ in the city’s architecture being shaped by pre- and post- modern forces. In addition, the film discusses the topic of public space in American cities through interviews with the Chicago artists and filmmakers Deborah Stratman, Chris Harris, Gretchen Till, Ken Fandell, Thomas Comerford and Eduardo Pradilla.



Eisenlohr’s work has been shown internationally, with recent solo and group exhibitions at the Alten Wiehre Banhof, Freiburg, Germany, 2007, Inner Spaces Gallery, Poznan, Poland, 2007 and at the Helsinki International Artist-in-residence project room, Helsinki, Finland, 2006.



Steven Ball is a time based media artist. His recent work has focused predominantly on working with digital video producing a series of works that are, among other things, particularly concerned with digital material processes and spatial representation. He is currently Research Fellow at the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.



Light Reading is an ongoing series of critical dialogues that engage artists, writers and curators in conversation around a selected artist’s body of work.

slow space: film info
www.steven-ball.net
Direct Objective - Blog
no.w.here lab
More Milk Yvette - Blog

 

April 9

Signs of spring • DL 11th. April


Join us at our first spring screening, a bouquet of fresh films from all parts of the world.

Signs of spring on the silver screen, featuring shorts by Devis Venturelli, Lucas Figuera, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Song Di and Marbo Becker, just to name a few.
A special highlight will be ManFrau by Miriame Chamekh.
ManFrau will be screened in world premiere.

The screening will be followed by a live concert of Ost West Achse. Those of you who visited the Lounge at Friday, 8th of February will remember the stunning voice of Viktoria Lasaroff. Together with Christoph Bauer ( guit, voc) and Jens Voigt ( guit, voc) will she perform musical gems from the Pacific to the Black Sea.

 

Doors open at 8 pm. screening starts at 9:30 pm, the concert at 11 pm.

See you at the Scala, Friedrich Str. 112 A, 1st floor

 

 

stills taken from Devis Venturelli Io Sono Il Vento 

March 21

Directors Lounge - 介绍

Directors Lounge

contemporary art and media

www.directorslounge.net

介绍

• 前言

DirectorsLounge作为导演、制片人、电影艺术家和所有对电影艺术感兴趣的人们所制作拍摄的影片的试播展始于2005年柏林电影节。DirectorsLounge的运作为电影的合作创作提供了一个电影人内部的起始场所。

在柏林电影节期间，DirectorsLounge展映和介绍了一些少见、特殊、不为人们所知的无法以传统电影类别进行分类的电影。一些录像装置和舞台剧走出了银幕的界限得到了更深入的发展。

来自公众和成功电影人的好评鼓舞我们不仅将DirectorsLounge作为一个年度电影展同时也作为一个电影和媒体的平台继续发展下去。

•艺术空间

自从2005年这一影展开始以来，我们已被一些机构、艺术活动、电影放映场所邀请展出播映了一些特殊的影片。明年2月的柏林电影节，第二届DirectorsLounge将不仅仅在电影放映厅同时也在公开开放的场所展映我们的影片。我们的影展不从属于一个特殊的场所，而是在特别的地点作展映。因此，在一座18世纪古典城堡的起居室中展映21世纪的艺术影片，两者并不冲突，而是将不同时代的艺术氛围融合在了一起。

DirectorsLounge电视节目的播出，是通过网络这一新途径展映我们影片的第一步。然而，利用网络自由传播遇到了好莱坞大导演们的反对，我们必须要付出更多的辛劳才有可能实现这一目标。每天有上百名的访问者使调查栏中对试播展感兴趣这一板块不断提升，同时他们也指出，现实世界中的艺术影像运作需要重新定义。

艺术影展的重点转移到了介绍幕后的人们。例如：An evening with … 作为特殊电影艺术家的个人展示秀就是抱着这一目的。除我们正在进行中的这些有关艺术影片的活动之外，我们还与400家以上有好片子的制作组及拥有有价值的影片来源的电影节和电影展的负责人有紧密的联系。

•目标

DirectorsLounge在很短的时间内就获得了人们的认知。我们集中了一批各不相同的、各自独立的影片从而使人们能够了解那些来自于不同人的具有极大价值的短小、尝试性的片子。我们也继续邀请那些电影艺术家、影展负责人和电影评论家来进行辩论和探讨。那些将来的特别影片提高了电影试播展映的重要性，开发了新形式的艺术影片，加强了不同文化环境下独立的电影市场的运作。

我们展播录像装置，对转型的新艺术影片进行开发，在传统电影之外寻找新的表现形式。我们设想将艺术影片作为一种创作介绍给公众。我们计划通过艺术影片对过去的行为提出疑问；重建历史观点；给出个人的、社会的、伦理的准则和理解它们在社会中的作用，这也正是我们应该和公众进行探讨的地方。

公共领域并不是一个固定的领域，它无所不在、不断变化，因此我们也要不断改变，用不同的领域来寻找不同的影片和不同的问题。顾名思义，DirectorsLounge一直是个聚会的场所，人们在此或者小酌一番或者与友好的奇才高人们四处走走。我们将继续工作下去，对拥有长久话题的题材作不懈的努力。

• 需求

我们对作为一个与艺术家们合作的团体而感到自豪，我们也为来自各界的好评而欢欣鼓舞。没有许多朋友们无私的帮助，DirectorsLounge就没有成功的可能。越往前进，我们就越接近成功的顶点。希望在当代电影艺术中，DirectorsLounge不是孤单的，我们期待着各界广泛的合作和支持。

• 计划 (部分)

• Directors Lounge 2008年2月7日至17日，柏林。

• Directors Lounge and Fragments 放映Le Lieu Unique, 南特，法国，2008年11月23日。

• Contemporary Art Ruhr, 埃森（德国），2007年11月。

• Memory in motion art in the public space, 慕尼黑（德国），2007年9月。

• Asia Europe Mediations, 波兹南（波兰），2007年夏。

• Am Rande • On the edge, 录像装置与放映 Pyramide, 柏林, 2007年6月。

• Directors Lounge 2007年2月8日至18日，柏林。

• Directors Lounge 2006年2月9日至19日，柏林。

• a summer evening with … 每周四一个系列的特别放映。

• 部分选择性的特别放映, Inner Spaces Gallery波兹南（波兰），2006年5月12日、13日。

• Figures Of Motion 录像装置与放映Castle Plueschow，2006年4月28日至5月1日。

• inbetween • stereotypical readability Galerie der Künstler 慕尼黑（德国 ; 2006年4月13日）。

• 进行中的计划

• Directors Lounge 电视节目

• Directors Lounge 访谈

• 有关城市研究主题的节目 , 中国独立电影, 德意志民主共和国时期(东德)的实验电影。

• 若要了解整个目录的内容请浏览我们的网页。

• 合作者 (部分)

• Aspekte Gallery, 慕尼黑（德国）。

• The mocha film club, 孟买（印度）。

• AV-ARKKI 芬兰影视艺术制作中心, 赫尔辛基（芬兰）。

• association Fragments, 南特（法国）。

• purechance-production, 维也纳（奥地利）。

• Netwerk Galerij, 阿勒斯特（Aalst）（比利时）。

• Potenza Film Festival, 意大利。

• Fanhall Studio 北京。

• IF- Museum, 波兹南（波兰）。

• RODINA 俄罗斯电影艺术节中心, 圣彼得堡（俄罗斯）。

• 网址

• Directors Lounge http://directorslounge.net

• Directors Lounge television http://directorslounge.net/dltv/

• 个人联系方式

• Marina Foxley marina@directorslounge.net + 33 634423649

• Nadya Cazan nc@directorslounge.net +39 339 5314 734

• André Werner dl@directorslounge.net +49 30 427 805 69

• 电邮：dl@directorslounge.net • 电话: +49 30 427 805 69 • 网页：www.directorslounge.net

• Directors Lounge, A.Werner, Petersburger Platz 2, 10249 Berlin, Germany

• Directors Lounge是在以下诸位的努力下建立起来的A&O-gallery, Designhof e.V., Cinema Desaster, gallery KMZA 在它建立的过程中得到了以下诸位的帮助fragments, placebo FX, Berliner Licht & Silber 以及其他诸多朋友的 帮助。

Translation : Zhang Fan

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