[blackboardfilms] is a film production, discourse platform based in Berlin and New York, specializing in interdisciplinary films by artists and filmmakers outside of a studio system. The company supports and collaborates with individuals and institutions around the world on project development, research, [post]production and distribution and is advised by an international board of artists, filmmakers, theorists, producers and friends.
[Screenings,Exhibitions, Events]
»A FORMAL FILM IN NINE EPISODES, PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE« - 35mm/ HD, 52'', Stereo, Colour [Bombay, India/Germany, 2011]
World Premiere: London International Documentary Film Festival, London, May 13 - 28, 2011
South-East Asia Premiere: 9th World Film Festival, Bangkok, January 20 - 27, 2012
»Despite the misleading and pretentious title, A Formal Film in Nine Episodes, Prologue & Epilogue (2011) offered another of the festival’s biggest surprises. An example of the “Rotterdam effect” that marks the well-funded, transnational hybrid efforts bankrolled by that city’s festival, Mario Pfeifer’s film does contain some strong formal elements, mostly following the now-familiar contours of observational cinema as updated by maximal sound design and painterly camerawork. The factory scene is muscular, even devastating. As the camera tracks from a dappled ceiling to a hoary array of ice-encrusted tubes illuminated by blue-green fluorescence, one could sense a collective jaw-drop amongst the filmmakers in the theater. All this is fine and well, but who could have predicted that such a tour-de-force would end with a romantic coupling? Yes, quite literally, a kiss. It’s a beguiling film that must be seen to be believed, even if you can’t quite believe where it leaves you.«
Colin Beckett & Jason Livingston: BLURRED BOUNDARIES: Selections from Migrating Forms 2011, The Brooklyn Rail, 07/08-2011
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Reconsidering The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, Califorina by Lewis Baltz, 1974 at International Festival of Documentary and Short Films of Bilbao, November 11 - 18, 2011
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»Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974« revisits one of the industrial structures Lewis Baltz documented in his historic "New Topographics" from the outside and depicts the interior setting of a metal workshop with an eleven minute tracking shot. During this time, the 1974 book version has been reconsidered from back to front, each turning page a montage within the continuous 16mm black and white footage. An interview with J.R. Billington, a company owner in this building for nineteen years, discusses the socio-economical situation in military manufacturing in Orange County in the 1980's and today.
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Yet Untitled [»Pieces of Nature«] 2008 at the Museum of Art and Design, New York, July 29th, 2011
A Film by Mario Pfeifer, S16mm transferred to HD, Stereo Colour, 11''30
Pieces of Nature (2008) describes both performance and studio filmproduction. Situated in a loose, self-reflexive narrative poised between the traditions of structural film, dance and theater, the carefully-choreographed film follows actors in what appears to be a casting process. Breathing, moving, and literally constructing the film before our eyes, crew members and the director himself are also revealed as actors, literally mirroring a photograph by Jeff Wall's famed photograph "Picture for a woman" [1979].
The Chrysler Series
Thom Andersen & Mario Pfeifer
May 2nd, 2011
The Chrysler Building, New York
Film Screening of Get out of the Car (2010, 16mm, Colour, 34'' ) & Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974 (2009, Dual 16mm, B/W, 13'')
CONVERSATIONS, 2011
Book Launch and Panel Discussions on Mario Pfeifer's Reconsidering The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974 (Sternberg Press, 2011)
Toronto, Goethe Institut, April 5th, 2011, 4:00pm
Tim Saltarelli in conversation with Mario Pfeifer
Los Angeles, LAXART, April 10th, 2011, 4:30pm
Andrew Freeman, Allan Sekula, Catherine Taft
New York, White Columns, May 3rd, 2011, 6:00pm
Lucy Gallun, Alex Kitnick, Andrew Roth
Berlin, KOW Berlin, May 22nd, 2011, 6:00pm
Julia Moritz, Vanessa Joan Müller
Salzburg, Fotohof, May 31st, 2011, 8:00pm
Michael Mauracher, Martin Hochleitner
Further conversation in Paris tba!
Reviewed in Kaleidoscope #11 by Alhena Katsof
http://www.sternberg-press.com
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"Reconsidering »The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, Califorina«by Lewis Baltz, 1974" has been awarded with Salon Video Art Prize 2011, London.
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Canadian Premiere of "Reconsidering »The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, Califorina«by Lewis Baltz, 1974" at Toronto's IMAGES FESTIVAL 2011, March 31st - April 9th
Film Screening, April 5th, 2011, 6:30 p.m. at Jackman Hall, in the Program » Reconsider The New« besides Judy Fiskin's The End of Photography, The Prichard by Kevin Jerome Everson and Make It New John by Duncan Campbell.
Measuring the Distance - A Review of the 24th Images Festival by Genevieve Yue, 05/2011
» In Reconsidering the New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974, Mario Pfeifer similarly moves the audience through two side-by-side screens, the left passing through the interior of a building in a tracking shot, and the right flipping backwards through the photographs in Baltz’s New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape. As J.R. Billington, a building manager, describes the history of the southern California complex, both views eventually arrive at the corrugated garage door at the front of the same building, though like Guided Tour they don’t quite match up. It’s more than the over thirty years that separate Pfeifer’s 16mm footage from Baltz’s photographs, or the slight lag in one of the projectors in the screening I attended – in the present-day view, the door doesn’t completely shut. The past remains cracked open, imperfect, vulnerable to the machines that purport to document it. Billington identifies a flaw in Baltz’s exterior shot, how the entire image had been reversed and was not, as he says, “a true image.” “You being a photographer,” he tells Pfeifer, “you must know how that happened.”«
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[blackboardfilms] will participate in Berlinale Talent Campus #9, Berlin International Film Festival, February 12th - 17th, 2011.
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STORIES AND STAGES at Frankfurter Kunstverein & Zollamt, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, December 11, 2010 - February 13, 2011> Opening reception, December 10,2010, 7pm > Curators: Lilian Engelmann [FKV] & Bernd Reiss [MMK]
Comprising an exhibition, a performance series, and artist interventions in the Rhein-Main edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , “New Frankfurt Internationals” honors the immense artistic potential of the region by presenting artists who live and / or studied here and many of whom are now among the“new internationals” of the global art scene. The project is conceived as a repeating exhibition and a nationally and internationally prominent platform for emerging artists from Frankfurt and surrounding areas.With the title “Stories and Stages”, the first “New Frankfurt Internationals” edition focuses on works addressing various techniques and forms of narrative. Many artists use the media of film, photography, or sculpture as stages upon which their narratives play out. The works presented at Frankfurter Kunstverein mostly refer to concret stories or events, which are deconstructed by fragmenting or reassembling them. At MMK Zollamt the artists show everyday materials or symbols and combine them to suggest potential acts and alternative spaces or timeframes.
»A FORMAL FILM IN NINE EPISODES, PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE« - 35mm/ HD, 52'', Stereo, Colour [Bombay, India/Germany, 2010]
New Frankfurt Internationals: Stories and Stages at Frankfurter Kunstverein
Photo: Norbert Miguletz, 2010 © Frankfurter Kunstverein
A FORMAL FILM IN NINE EPISODES, PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE describes a contemporary Asian Metropolis through an observational, anthropological approach of filmmaking. Each scenery in those nine episodes depicts landscape, architecture, interiors or humans from rural communities to factories, medical facilities or ancient and religious sites which all share miraculous beauty, a critical view on the cities development as well as cultural phenomena’s and aesthetic explorations. Slowly establishing two characters, the film leaves its’ documentarian nature and progresses into a narrative, which purely follows two humans, sharing their movements in time and space letting us remember a cinema of love in the Asian context.
Shot on 35mm in only single takes without repeating any action, the production of the film itself tries to be aware of its outsider position looking at a contemporary, vastly booming Third World Country and it’s cultural history of 5,000 years by simply capturing and re-enacting experienced situations. Trying to avoid a clear genre definition to this film, it is entirely shot on location in the city of Mumbai and it’s suburbia. Both performers, Gopal and Nandhini, work on regular day jobs and live in Bombay’s suburbia - and have never participated in a film project ever in their lives before.
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NEW TOPOGRAPHICS at Landesgalerie Linz, November 10, 2010 - January 8, 2011> Opening reception, November 10,2010, 7pm
Curators: Gabriele Hofer, Martin Hochleitner
including Artists Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd und Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore und Henry Wessel jr., and a contemporary section including works by Joachim Brohm, Andrew Phelps and Mario Pfeifer.
"Reconsidering »The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, Califorina«by Lewis Baltz, 1974", 2009
Synchronized dual 16mm projection with sound, looped, 13''
»Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974« revisits one of the industrial structures Lewis Baltz documented in his historic "New Topographics" from the outside and depicts the interior setting of a metal workshop with an eleven minute tracking shot. During this time, the 1974 book version has been reconsidered from back to front, each turning page a montage within the continuous 16mm black and white footage. An interview with J.R. Billington, a company owner in this building for nineteen years, discusses the socio-economical situation in military manufacturing in Orange County in the 1980's and today.
“New Topographics” is co-organized by the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, and the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. The exhibition tour has been made possible by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
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To Hari 2010
A Video by Mario Pfeifer, Stereo, Colour, 3''20
»To Hari« is an intuitive description of a young boats'man journey during sunset on the Tungabhadra River in South Central India. The pure conversation between passenger and boat man offers insight in the boy's routine of paddling along the river. The elegance of his movements and way to gently describe his actions, show Hari's life situation as laborer and child in beauty and doubt about the journey's continuation …
World Premiere at 8th World Film Festival Bangkok 2010, November 5 - 14 [www.worldfilmbkk.com]
Screenings in Section Guts Nouveau > November 7th, 2010 > 7:40pm > Paragon Cineplex 14 & November 10th, 2010 > 11:00am > Paragon Cineplex 13
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»Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974« revisits one of the industrial structures Lewis Baltz documented in his historic "New Topographics" from the outside and depicts the interior setting of a metal workshop with an eleven minute tracking shot. During this time, the 1974 book version has been reconsidered from back to front, each turning page a montage within the continuous 16mm black and white footage. An interview with J.R. Billington, a company owner in this building for nineteen years, discusses the socio-economical situation in military manufacturing in Orange County in the 1980's and today.
Release Date: [October 22, 2010]
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Once again KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin is focusing on contemporary films by international artists. For the third time—after the great success in 2006 and 2009—highlights of the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale are presented in Berlin. In Berlin the program from the 2009 Cologne biennale is supplemented by a selection of new films. Two stories of KW are devoted to films by Doug Aitken, Mirosław Bałka, Bjørn Melhus, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Javier Téllez, as well as works by the younger generation including Keren Cytter, Adam Leech, Dani Gal, and Alex McQuilkin. On the third floor films are presented in thematic archive stations. A fifth station is dedicated to works from last year’s BILD-KUNST Promotional Award for experimental film competition and the submissions by students of film schools and art academies. On the fourth floor the films can be seen on a large screen.
Yet Untitled [»Pieces of Nature«] 2008
A Film by Mario Pfeifer, S16mm transferred to DVD/ Beta SP, Stereo Colour, 11''30
Pieces of Nature (2008) describes both performance and studio filmproduction. Situated in a loose, self-reflexive narrative poised between the traditions of structural film, dance and theater, the carefully-choreographed film follows actors in what appears to be a casting process. Breathing, moving, and literally constructing the film before our eyes, crew members and the director himself are also revealed as actors, literally mirroring a photograph by Jeff Wall's famed photograph "Picture for a woman" [1979].
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[blackboardfilms] announces the distribution of three films by Mario Pfeifer through arsenal distribution - institut for film and video art. _ __
arsenal distribution encompasses some 2,000 titles. The distributor emerged from the desire to make the films screened at the Forum accessible to an international audience after the end of the festival. They are screened largely in art house cinemas and by non-profit organizations. In 2002, this area was expanded to include artistically experimental film work that verges on fine art. The presentation of video art and experimental films that often do not fit into the cinematic norm in terms of form or content in our own facilities, at festivals or in art and gallery spaces helps continue the investigation into the conditions of cinema.
UNTITLED [»TWO GUYS«] 8’’, HD, Colour, (2008)
YET UNTITLED [»Pieces of Nature«] 12’’,HD, Colour ,(2008)
»Reconsidering THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE CALIFORNIA by Lewis Baltz, 1974« 13’’, 16mm, B/W(2009)
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»A FORMAL FILM IN NINE EPISODES, PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE« receives a post-production funding by werkleitz - centre for media art. _ __
A FORMAL FILM IN NINE EPISODES, PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE describes a contemporary Asian Metropolis through an observational, anthropological approach of filmmaking. Each scenery in those nine episodes depicts landscape, architecture, interiors or humans from rural communities to factories, medical facilities or ancient and religious sites which all share miraculous beauty, a critical view on the cities development as well as cultural phenomena’s and aesthetic explorations. Slowly establishing two characters, the film leaves its’ documentarian nature and progresses into a narrative, which purely follows two humans, sharing their movements in time and space letting us remember a cinema of love in the Asian context.
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From June 29 to July 4, 2010, the "Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid" will create a space of discovery and reflection between new cinema and contemporary art in Berlin at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. In the presence of 100 artists and filmmakers from all over the world, this rare event will propose an international programme of film, video, multimedia. It includes 24 screenings with film premieres and a video program, a multimedia concert, a cycle of debates and panel discussions.
Screenings: Wednesday Jun 29, 2010 at 23:00h & Friday Jul 02, 2010 at 14:00
»Untitled [Two Guys]« 2008
A Film by Mario Pfeifer, HD, Stereo, Colour, 7''30
»Untitled [Two Guys]« is the product of close collaboration and dialog with two Berlin-Kreuzberg adolescents with a migration background. Based on a fictionalized script thetwo protagonists move through social spaces, and occupy these spaces aesthetically. Their acting/playing with a rich repertoire of body language, modish gestures and expansive music escalates the ambivalent relationship between the two and the camera that, following them, does not so much capture but project. Between the viewer and the protagonists, the media-apparatus itself becomes more and more prominent, bringing itsown mediality to the fore, claiming an eerily violent presence. Mario Pfeifer in this work creates an exceptional visibility of the protagonists, the viewers, the author and the medium that is the globa circuit of lifestyle culture. They all appear as actors; the video is the site of their conflict-ridden entanglement, in which no one ultimately exercises control or follows their interests. The all embracing mediality manifests itself in random set-offs of immanent violence – a power that functions without being owned. »Untitled [Two Guys]« captures and deconstructs the functioning of (sub)cultural codes in a "globalized society" and the mechanisms of image-production and reproduction.
"Reconsidering »The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, Califorina«by Lewis Baltz, 1974", 2009
Synchronized dual 16mm projection with sound, looped, 13''
»Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974« revisits one of the industrial structures Lewis Baltz documented in his historic "New Topographics" from the outside and depicts the interior setting of a metal workshop with an eleven minute tracking shot. During this time, the 1974 book version has been reconsidered from back to front, each turning page a montage within the continuous 16mm black and white footage. An interview with J.R. Billington, a company owner in this building for nineteen years, discusses the socio-economical situation in military manufacturing in Orange County in the 1980's and today.
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Friday, June 25, 2010, 24:00 | 12 a.m.
BABYLON, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, big cinema hall
(admission free)
Film Screening of Recent Works & Current Projects in Progress by Mario Pfeifer
The first part of the screening resembles recent film and video works
UNTITLED [»TWO GUYS«] 8’’, HD, Colour, (2008)
YET UNTITLED [»Pieces of Nature«] 12’’, S16mm to Beta SP,(2008)
»Reconsidering THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE CALIFORNIA by Lewis Baltz, 1974« 13’’, 16mm to HD,B/W(2009)
Intermission: »to Hari« - a short video from South India (2010)
During the second part of the screening Mario Pfeifer will introduce current projects in development and post-production.
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Art Basel's week-long program of films by and about artists, curated by film scholar Marc Glöde and collector This Brunner.
And This Is How The Story Goes... Curated by Marc Glöde
Telling stories – weird, smart, abstract, straightforward, complicated... it is the never-ending fascination for the filmic narrative that connects this diverse corpus of films. In the range of different formats these works unfold the question 'What is narration?'.
»Untitled [Two Guys]« 2008
A Film by Mario Pfeifer, HD, Stereo, Colour, 7''30
With Michaela Meise, Rä di Martino, Guy Ben-Ner, Mario Pfeifer, Korpys/Löffler, Sean Snyder.
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MULHOUSE BIENNALE 010
Mulhouse Parc Expo Hall 2000, 120, Rue Lefebre, Mulhouse, June 13th - 16th, 2010
»Untitled [Two Guys]« 2008
A Film by Mario Pfeifer, HD, Stereo, Colour, 7''30
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EUROPEAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2010
Osnabrück, Germany - April 21t - 25th, 2010
Productions by internationally renowned media artists and the innovative works of new masters from the academies will be presented at the 23nd European Media Art Festival (21-25 April 2010). The EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. As a meeting point for artists, curators, distributors, gallery owners and an audience of specialists, the festival has a great impact on the topic and aesthetics of Media Art. Each year the festival offers its visitors a current overview of new experimental films, performances, lectures, an exhibition and the Media Campus.
»Untitled [Two Guys]« 2008
A Film by Mario Pfeifer, HD, Stereo, Colour, 7''30
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»No School Today«, 2005
A Video by Antje Majewski, 15'', Colour, Stereo
[blackboardfilms] announces the distribution of Majewski's No School Today through Portland Green Cultural Projects, London [http://www.portlandgreen.com/]
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Nominated for SALON VIDEO ART PRIZE 2010, London
Matt Roberts Arts is pleased to announce the opening of our first annual art prize dedicated to video art and animation. 41 artists have been selected by Mike Sperlinger (Assistant Director - Lux), and Zineb Sedira (artist working in Photography, Video and installation).
»Untitled [Two Guys]« 2008
A Film by Mario Pfeifer, HD, Stereo, Colour, 7''30
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Lichter Filmtage 2010, Frankfurt am Main
nominated for Competition: Yet Untitled [»Pieces of Nature«] 2008
A Film by Mario Pfeifer, S16mm transferred to DVD/ Beta SP, Stereo Colour, 11''30
Pieces of Nature (2008) describes both performance and studio filmproduction. Situated in a loose, self-reflexive narrative poised between the traditions of structural film, dance and theater, the carefully-choreographed film follows actors in what appears to be a casting process. Breathing, moving, and literally constructing the film before our eyes, crew members and the director himself are also revealed as actors, literally mirroring a photograph by Jeff Wall's famed photograph "Picture for a woman" [1979].
Screenings: Friday March 19, 2010 at 22:15h
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SENSES OF CINEMA WORLD POLL 2009
Bangkok based Jit Phokaew selected »Reconsidering The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974« as one the favourite 10 foreign short films in 2009.
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Videokunst Förderpreis / Video Art Award 2010, Bremen Jan 9, 2010, 7pm
Join us for the 2010 Video Art Award, Bremen award ceremony at Städtische Galerie Bremen, Buntentorsteinweg 112, D 28201 Bremen
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RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS 2009, Nov 30 - Dec 9, 2009, curated by Nathalie Hénon & Jean-François Rettig
From November 30 to December 9, the "Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid" will create a space of discovery and reflection between new cinema and contemporary art in Paris.With the presence of 120 artists and filmmakers from all-over the world, this rare event will propose an international programme of film, video, multimedia. It includes many film premieres, a video program, multimedia concerts, a cycle of debates and panel discussions. A video library will offer a space where the whole programming, made up 90% of premieres, can be viewed and reviewed on request.This year's programme has been selected from 5500 submissions as well as by invitations made to certain artists and filmmakers. It is the result of an elaborate international search for works: 150 works from Germany, France, Spain and 50 other countries, made up of internationally-known artists and filmmakers as well as young artists and filmmakers presented for the first time.
Centre Pompidou"Reconsidering »The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, Califorina«by Lewis Baltz, 1974"
Theatre du Chatelet > »Untitled [Two Guys]«
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ANTIREPRESENTATIONALISM conceptual and socially orientated art in leipzig 1997 - 2009
II. ISSUES OF EMPATHY, November 28, 200 - JANUARY 15, 2010 9; Opening NOVEMBER, 27, 2009 6 pm, KOW, Brunnenstrasse 9, D 10119 Berlin, Germany
Curated by Alexander Koch and Nikolaus Oberhuber
»Untitled [Two Guys]« 2008
A Film by Mario Pfeifer, HD, Stereo, Colour, 7''30
»Untitled [Two Guys]« is the product of close collaboration and dialog with two Berlin-Kreuzberg adolescents with a migration background. Based on a fictionalized script thetwo protagonists move through social spaces, and occupy these spaces aesthetically. Their acting/playing with a rich repertoire of body language, modish gestures and expansive music escalates the ambivalent relationship between the two and the camera that, following them, does not so much capture but project. Between the viewer and the protagonists, the media-apparatus itself becomes more and more prominent, bringing itsown mediality to the fore, claiming an eerily violent presence. Mario Pfeifer in this work creates an exceptional visibility of the protagonists, the viewers, the author and the medium that is the globa circuit of lifestyle culture. They all appear as actors; the video is the site of their conflict-ridden entanglement, in which no one ultimately exercises control or follows their interests. The all embracing mediality manifests itself in random set-offs of immanent violence – a power that functions without being owned. »Untitled [Two Guys]« captures and deconstructs the functioning of (sub)cultural codes in a "globalized society" and the mechanisms of image-production and reproduction.
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»THE LEGEND OF THE DEVIL'S HILL AND ENDLESS SEARCH FOR FREEDOM« at the 7th Bangkok WorldFilmFestival 2009
A film by Keren Cytter, 75min, HD, Stereo, Colour, ©2009
The movie describes the story of Georg Hobmeier and Julia Münstermann - two friends who share the same apartment. Julia is participating in Georg's ongoing film project. One day Georg Hears about the Devil's Hill - The highest hill in Berlin. The hill used the CIA in the cold war to observe the city. Georg feels that this place can serve a great part in his film project, but in that time exactly Julia decides she don't want to co-operate anymore with him. The film is build from repetitive fragments made of different styles.
Screenings Dates: 13.11.09 (11:00) Venue : Paragon 9; 14.11.09 (21:00) Venue : Paragon 9
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NEW TOPOGRAPHICS Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA], October 21, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Curator at LACMA: Charlotte Cotton and Edward Robinson, Photography
including Artists Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel, Jr, Timothy O’Sullivan, Walker Evans, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Dan Graham and a comissioned work by the Center of Land Use Interepretation (CLUI)
"Reconsidering »The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, Califorina«by Lewis Baltz, 1974", 2009
Synchronized dual 16mm projection with sound, looped, 13''
»Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974« revisits one of the industrial structures Lewis Baltz documented in his historic "New Topographics" from the outside and depicts the interior setting of a metal workshop with an eleven minute tracking shot. During this time, the 1974 book version has been reconsidered from back to front, each turning page a montage within the continuous 16mm black and white footage. An interview with J.R. Billington, a company owner in this building for nineteen years, discusses the socio-economical situation in military manufacturing in Orange County in the 1980's and today.
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ANTIREPRESENTATIONALISM conceptual and socially orientated art in leipzig 1997 - 2009
II. TROUBLE WITH REALISM, October 17 - November 21, 2009; Opening October 16, 6 pm, KOW, Brunnenstrasse 9, D 10119 Berlin, Germany
Curated by Alexander Koch and Nikolaus Oberhuber
Yet Untitled [»Pieces of Nature«] 2008
A Film by Mario Pfeifer, S16mm transferred to DVD/ Beta SP, Stereo Colour, 11''30
Pieces of Nature (2008) describes both performance and studio filmproduction. Situated in a loose, self-reflexive narrative poised between the traditions of structural film, dance and theater, the carefully-choreographed film follows actors in what appears to be a casting process. Breathing, moving, and literally constructing the film before our eyes, crew members and the director himself are also revealed as actors, literally mirroring a photograph by Jeff Wall's famed photograph "Picture for a woman" [1979].
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FRAGMENTED SERIES OF MOVEMENTS
A Film screening curated by Tatiana Echerverri Fernandez at SE8, London, UK, September 26 & 27 2009, 7''30 pm
»Untitled [Two Guys]« 2008 HD, Stereo, Colour, 7''30 Artists include Samuel Dowd, Aron Kitzig/Lars Dreiucker, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Antje Majewsky/Juliane Solmsdorf, Amy Patton, Mario Pfeifer, Laure Provost, Miriam Steinhauser SE8 is pleased to announce we shall be showing a series of films curated by Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez in our outside space on the 26th and 27th September to coincide with ‘Deptford X’. “Fragmented series of movements” brings together films that address aspects of architecture through different modes of video making.Far from trying to analyse the complexities of language between architecture and filmmaking, these videos offer forms of narrative that address the heterogeneous relationship between space and memory.
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ANTIREPRESENTATIONALISM conceptual and socially orientated art in leipzig 1997 - 2009
I. POLITICS OF REDESCRIPTION, September 5 – October 10, 2009; Opening September 4, 6 pm, KOW, Brunnenstrasse 9, D 10119 Berlin, Germany
Curated by Alexander Koch and Nikolaus Oberhuber
"Reconsidering »The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, Califorina«by Lewis Baltz, 1974", 2009
Synchronized dual 16mm projection with sound, looped, 13''
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»New Age« 2007 at X Initiative, New York, August 20th 2009
A Film by Keren Cytter, 73'', BetaSP/ 35mm, Colour, Stereo
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Yet Untitled [»Pieces of Nature«], 2008
Nomination for Hessischer Filmpreis 2009, Frankfurt am Main, Germany - Award Ceremonies October 16, 2009, Alte Oper Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Nomination for Bild-Kunst Award for Experimental Film, KunstFilmBiennale Cologne, Germany - Award Ceremony November 1, 2009
As a unique combination of exhibition and festival, presenting short and feature-length, experimental and narrative film, the Cologne-based KunstFilmBiennale has since 2002 systematically been exploring the borders between art and cinema. From October 28 to November 1, 2009, the KunstFilmBiennale will once again offer an overview of what is currently happening with film in art and art in film - in movie theatres, galleries and museums in Cologne and Bonn.
Bild-Kunst Award for Experimental Film competition is open to films innovative in form and content in the experimental, documental and narrative genre.
Venues in Cologne: Filmforum im MuseumLudwig, CINEDOM Cologne
Venues in Bonn: Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Kunstmuseum Bonn
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»THE LEGEND OF THE DEVIL'S HILL AND ENDLESS SEARCH FOR FREEDOM« at Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
A film by Keren Cytter, 75min, HD, Stereo, Colour, ©2009
Berlin-based artist Keren Cytter screens her new film The Great Tale of The Devil's Hill and The Endless Search For Freedom (75min, Digital Video, 2008-2009). Cytter’s films are characterised by a non-linear and cyclical logic, her poetic montages of images recalling amateur home movies and video diaries. This distinctly analytical approach to film-making challenges the way in which the strategies and clichés of the media permeate our reality.
Park Nights 2009 at the Serpentine Gallery
Park Nights is an annual series of events staged every Friday night in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. This year’s programme includes music, theatre, performances, talks and film screenings. The website gives details of the events that run over the summer until September. The season culminates in October with Poetry Marathon, the latest in the Gallery’s acclaimed series of Marathons, conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery Co-Director.
All events are held in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009
Designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA
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THREE RECENT FILMS by Mario Pfeifer at ATA GALLERY, San Francisco
Untitled [»Two Guys«], 2007
Yet Untiteld [»Pieces of Nature«], 2008
"Reconsidering »The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, Califorina«by Lewis Baltz, 1974", 2009
ATA GALLERY
June 7th, 2009, 8pm
992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110,
Call (415) 824-3890
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»No School Today«, 2005
A Video by Antje Majewski, 15'', Colour, Stereo
Official Selection for 55th Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, 2009, Program» Unreal Asia 10: Uncanny Geographies« curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong & David Teh
From the ancient cycles of village life to the uncanny geographies of Asia’s mega-cities, Unreal Asia unhinges some familiar stereotypes of Asian culture, revealing a host of remarkable singularities, from pious punks to cross-dressing migrants, from home-made helicopters to dancing ghosts and subversive karaoke.
Festival Screening: May 5th, 5:00 pm
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»About the Object«
Amy Patton with Christina Linden
Opening Sunday, January 11, 4-6 pm
Exhibition on view January 11 - March 22, 2009
SculptureCenter
44-19 Purves Street
Long Island City, NY 11101
The point of departure for Hairpin-Magic Wand was an ancient Egyptian artifact at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Haphazardly placed between two labels in its vitrine, it is impossible for a visitor to identify the object with the information provided. This video, which was shot in the space in which it is now being projected, shows two actresses rehearsing a single monologue. Written in response to the object's situation and partly from its perspective, mysterious voices chime in and allow the hairpin/magic-wand to speak. The work was developed as part of a year-long collaboration with curator Christina Linden. Additional elements of the project will be presented in an exhibition opening April 19 at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
The exhibitions opening Sunday at SculptureCenter will also include "In Practice" projects by
Carey Ascenzo, Becket Bowes, Tyler Coburn, Wojciech Gilewicz, Samara Golden, Rachel Mason, and Peter Simensky
and work by Walead Beshty, Melanie Gilligan, Gabriel Kuri, Michael Rakowitz, Blake Rayne, Karin Schneider, Simon Starling, Carey Young in "The Space of the Work and the Place of the Object.
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»New Age« 2007
A Film by Keren Cytter, 73'', BetaSP/ 35mm, Colour, Stereo
Official Selection for 6th World Film Festival of Bangkok, International Premiere October 26th 2008, 8:30 pm at Paragon Cineplex 12, Bangkok, Thailand; Further Festival Screenings Oct 28th, 6:00 pm, Paragon Cineplex 12. To celebrate, we are hosting a little office/housewarming party after sunset, PDT October 26, 2008 and screening Keren's video installation THE VICTIM. Please stop by in L.A.'s chinatown !
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»Untitled [Two Guys]« 2008
A Film by Mario Pfeifer, HD, Stereo, Colour, 7''30, Nomination for Hessischer Filmpreis 2008, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Sun Screens 2008: Festival Screening at Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany, 30/08/2008 2pm
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Yet Untitled [»Pieces of Nature«] 2008
A Film by Mario Pfeifer, S16mm transferred to DVD/ Digi Beta, Stereo Colour, 11''30
Installation Screening at Staedelmuseum Frankfurt am Main, Germany 07/09/2008 - 21/09/2008
[In Production]
»The Los Angeles River - Project« An experimental narrative by Mario Pfeifer, HD, Stereo, Colour [Los Angeles, US, 2009]
> TransvideoStudios anounced that »The Los Angeles River - Project« has been awarded for a Post-Production Grant 2009/2010.
> Filmmakers Alliance announced that the »The Los Angeles River - Project« has been chosen for Fiscal Sponorship. >"Filmmakers Alliance is a community of film artists dedicated to the advancement of true independent film through community action. FA provides a unique mutual support system through which members share time, energy, expertise, equipment, and, most important, creative support for one another's film projects from concept through distribution. FA members work together to restore humanity, authenticity, diversity, originality, intelligence, relevance, personal vision and emotional resonance to American Cinema." Jacques Thelemaque, President- Filmmakers Alliance
Filmmakers Alliance, Inc. is a 501 ( c ) 3 publicly supported charitable and educational organization. Gifts to Filmmakers Allaince by U.S. taxpayers are tax deductible for U.S. income tax purposes, per IRS regulations.
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»The legend of the devil's hill and endless search for freedom« A film by Keren Cytter, 120min, HD, Stereo, Colour
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»The De/Re - Construction of Erawan Shrine«, [WT,2008/9] A documentary project by Mario Pfeifer in Bangkok, Thailand
[Distribution Partner for Selected Films - arsenal institut for film and video art]
UNTITLED [»TWO GUYS«] 8’’, HD, Colour, (2008)
YET UNTITLED [»Pieces of Nature«] 12’’,HD, Colour, (2008)
»Reconsidering THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE CALIFORNIA by Lewis Baltz, 1974« 13’’, 16mm, B/W, (2009)
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»Reconsidering THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE CALIFORNIA by Lewis Baltz, 1974« 13’’, 16mm, B/W, (2009)
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[Publications]
Mario Pfeifer: “Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974“, Sternberg Press 2011. Designed by Devin Dailey, typography by Till Gathmann.
ISBN 978-1-934105-29-0 // 15.oo € / $20.00
“Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974” is published on the occasion of Mario Pfeifer’s contribution to the “New Topographics” exhibition, currently on display at the Landesgalerie Linz, Austria. First shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this project retraces the historic 1975 exhibition “New Topographics: Photographs of the Man-Altered Landscape” and probes its current relevance for a group of younger artists such as Joachim Brohm, Andrew Phelps, and Mario Pfeifer. In the 1970s, photographers like Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, or Bernd and Hilla Becher helped to alter our notion of landscape. No longer just natural, but also architectural and particularly industrial topographies were considered landscapes and represented as such.
Mario Pfeifer’s book documents and completes his 16mm film project “Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974”. In 2009, Pfeifer explored the original site of one of Lewis Baltz’ iconic industrial motives. While Baltz focused on the architectural shell and its surroundings, Pfeifer enters the factory and displays the interior, the industrial as well as artistic production processes that were shielded from Baltz' formalistic reductionism.
Pfeifer’s publication comes as a critical reader with contributions by Chris Balaschak, Julia Moritz, Vanessa Joan Müller and Martin Hochleitner. It revisits familiar topics of landscape representation and of realism, and traces Mario Pfeifer’s position within this context. The book also contains a historic text by Lewis Baltz from 1974 as well as a recent email conversation between Baltz and Pfeifer. Coinciding with the book’s release at Sternberg Press in January 2011, KOW will issue a photographic edition by Mario Pfeifer. [Text by Alexander Koch]
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