Граници: Ръководство за употреба

Screening Programme. curated by Florian Wuest (Berlin)

Граници: Ръководство за употреба

Автор: Красимир Терзиев 13 Май, 2009г.

May 20, 18:00h

Short Film Programme 1

Algier Report
Bernhard Dörries, BRD 1963, 15'

Contributing to the advent of the New German Cinema of the 1960s, Bernhard Dörries' Algier Report impresses by its experimental style mixed with documentary authenticity. The film shows the loneliness of an Algerian immigrant who continues to feel at risk and persecuted in West Germany. While he struggles for a residence permit, images from his past are blending in.


Frontera Sur
Helena Maleno, Alex Muñoz, ES 2003, 14'
Frontera Sur looks at the southern border of Spain, Europe's closed mainland edge to Africa. Many of those, who transgress it undocumented, work at the agricultural industries in the region of Almeria, living as almost invisible, exchangeable parts of a flexible economy, yet permanently controlled through technologies of surveillance. Under the pretext of a greater civilian security, they are kept clear from the public spaces reserved for the citizens with full rights and cultural legitimacy.


Inventur – Metzstrasse 11
Želimir Žilnik, BRD 1975, 9'

Želimir Žilnik's short film Inventur – Metzstrasse 11, produced during the years Žilnik spent in West Germany in the mid 1970s, portrays the inhabitants of an old tenement building in central Munich. Most of them are foreigners who reside in West Germany as 'guest workers'. They present themselves on the main staircase of house and talk briefly about their living conditions, biggest worries, fresh hopes and plans for the future – each in his or her own language.

Your blood is as red as mine
Julika Rudelius, NL 2004, 16'

"How does it feel to be black or dark-skinned, or white? What is light? And what does light do to a photo of a dark face? A white woman spends some time in a black community in Amsterdam where she talks to people about the colour of their skin, and about the photos that she makes of them. She asks, they respond. They ask, she responds, in an investigation of identity and the meaning of the clichés around 'black' and 'white'." (Esma Moukhtar)


One Day
Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, DK 2007, 30'

Intimate close-ups conceal faces but reveal sordid circumstances in One Day, Ditte Haarløv Johnsen's complex and utterly sensitive documentary about a West African woman working as a prostitute in Denmark. She finds both solace and sacrifice through her cell phone, connecting with the family and her daughter she hasn’t seen in six years, yet always remaining available to clients.

May 21, 19:00h

Short Film Programme 2

Chic Point
Sharif Waked, IL 2003, 7'

The male fashion show simulated in Sharif Waked's video visually explores the nexus of politics, consumption and desire. Chic Point bares the loaded politics of the gaze as it documents the thousands of moments in which Palestinians are forced to nude themselves in the face of interrogation and humiliation when they attempt to move through the expanding network of Israeli checkpoints.

Experiment on a Map
Barbara Kaiser, AT 2001, 10'

Barbara Kaiser's short documentary demonstrates how many Austrians weren't able to clearly identify all the new republics and provinces that had come out of the break-up of old Yugoslavia until 2001. It's an entertaining piece, effective and revealing in its simplicity, showing just hands which try and hesitate to attach the proper names to a map of outlined borders.


Territories
Isaac Julien, UK 1984, 25'
Isaac Julien's Territories is a milestone in the development of a black independent film aesthetic. Julien uses experimental forms to look at life in Britain in 1984, focusing on the ways traditional media represents black people and portraying the Notting Hill Carnival as an event about resistance. The film recognises that the different power dynamics that determine the experiences of the Black British are difficult to reduce to straightforward explanations and instead uses the term 'territories' to reflect the multiple agendas at work, involving race, class and sexuality.


Ottica Zero
Maja Borg, SE 2007, 13'

The ideas of 91-year-old futurist and industrial designer Jacques Fresco rely on scientific advancement linked to social wisdom which he finds corrupted in a world ruled by money and limited access to information. In Maja Borg's experimental documentary, Fresco appears in connection to the story of Italian actress Nadya Cazan. With TV and film offers flooding in, she refused to accept the competitive and superficial values of the society they represented. Ottica Zero follows Nadya on her search for alternative ways of living.

May 22, 19:00h

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Presentation by Sean Snyder (Kyiv/Tokyo)

Граници: Ръководство за употреба

Автор: Красимир Терзиев 11 Май, 2009г.

Sean Snyder (Kyiv/Tokyo) will discuss representation in various political, economic and cultural conditions. Using a series of examples, from the use of software and cut-and-paste iconography in the former Soviet Union, to representations of the west in late-Peristroika Soviet film and publications, he will propose that the use of images is often deceptively assumed to penetrate borders.

What does globalization look like? Presentation by Luchezar Boyadjiev (Sofia)

Граници: Ръководство за употреба

Автор: Красимир Терзиев 04 Април, 2009г.

What does globalization look like? 

22.05.2009, Friday, 18:00 - 18:50

The presentation and talk will explore the notion of urban visuality in the era of globalization. Though in fact some analysts claim that a process of de-globalization has actually started in recent months, the urban interface of cities all over the world displays similar features of how global processes in economy and ways of life are being configured for local consumption - visual and otherwise. Based on some of my works from the last 3-5 years, such as "Billboard Heaven" (2006-2009), "Don't mess with my Tutu!" (2008-2009), "Double Take(s) - interfacing cities" (2006-2009), and "At night all squares are Red: Moscow - a brave new world", (2007) among others, the talk will make a notional case for the visual melt-down of borders on the level of urban environments.   

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Икономика на границите

Граници: Ръководство за употреба

Автор: Красимир Терзиев 03 Април, 2009г.

Колекция от фотографии на къщи на митничари в Свиленград.

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Гранични пейзажи

Граници: Ръководство за употреба

Автор: Красимир Терзиев 03 Април, 2009г.

Пейзажи от едно пътуване около границата.

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