We are happy to announce that, as the SPECTRAL project enters its final months, we are organizing a tour of expanded cinema works comprising performances and installations to be presented in multiple venues in Germany and abroad.
For this second tour stop LaborBerlin members Bernd Lützeler, Björn Speidel, Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy (OJOBOCA) will present on the 9th and 10th of May a program of 16mm, 35mm films and performances at Gran Lux, a flexible space to accommodate all forms of art in connection with the cinema in Saint-Étienne (FR).
Program:
- A Running Woman – OJOBOCA, 16mm, 3 min, color, 2023
In an interview in the book “A Critical Cinema” by Scott Macdonald, Hollis Frampton stated that he had created three long films and one short film before releasing his film “Process Red” (1966), which was the earliest finished film he had distributed at the time of the interview. One of these earlier films was titled “A Running Man.”
He described it as “…a landscape film that was held together as a picaresque by an unidentified man who ran through the shots, who might appear anywhere in the space, go through it in some way, and exit—all at full tilt”. He mentioned that the film had been “projected to death”.
Inspired by this concept, we decided to create our own version of the film, adhering to the general premise outlined by Frampton. In a nod to the fate of Frampton’s film, our version was shot in color reversal and we are projecting the original print.
- Eigenheim – OJOBOCA, 16mm, 16 min, color, 2012
In the German Democratic Republic children played with dollhouses made to resemble the type of life they would one day grow up to have. Now many of these houses can be found for sale on eBay or in collectors’ hands. The dollhouses that survive do so as idealized images of a time and place that no longer exists. Through the words of their past and new owners, “Eigenheim” looks at the memories that once dwelled in these spaces to explore the remnants of a lost world.
- Print Analysis – OJOBOCA, 16mm, 2023, Film performance and reading with texts by Melissa Friedling, Savina Petkova, and Ben Nicholson. French translation by Bertrand Grimault.
In Print Analysis, our intention was to understand the choices behind the creation of a single cinematographic image. Using 16mm film, we endeavored to produce a perfectly satisfying shot: the destruction of a dessert in reverse motion. Despite numerous attempts we were unable to attain their envisioned result. Consequently, we sent 20 different iterations of the shot to film experts, asking for their expert analysis. Presented in the gallery are 16 mm projectors each looping four of these sequences, alongside the experts’ replies.
- Vintage Wisdom From The Ether – Bernd Lützeler, 16mm, 8 mins, color, stereo, Germany, 2023
It’s the year 2023. A small group of artists and academics celebrate a 100 years of 16mm film. Meanwhile, the TV tube, the eponym for YouTube, now incapable of receiving any moving image, has almost disappeared. Gone are the days when one could be lulled to sleep at night by the soothing white noise, but the neoliberal echoes from the 80‘s and 90‘s will reverberate in the ether for a long time… - The Voice of God – Bernd Lützeler, 35mm, 10 mins, color, stereo, unknown language, no subtitles, India/Germany 2011
If God would come down to earth and try to earn a living in Bombay, most probably he would very soon become successful as a voice over artiste, lending his voice to thousands of hindi movies and even more documentaries and public service films in India.
A melo-dramatic docu-drama with voice-over in stop-motion and long-time exposure. - Zwielicht (Twilight) – Björn Speidel, 2x 16mm double projection, anaglyph, 5 mins, 2017
This film puts the double-visibility of stereoscopic devices to the test. By the double projection of two independent projectors the sync in time is impossible and the common 3D effect gets obsolete. Now the projected images may be singular, parallel, inverted or synchronous to each other. With the offered experimental arrangement the own eyes could be observed at work.
This film is made on and with film. Following structural concepts three iterations examine the media itself. The film is not just penetrated by light but by punches, too. The images are limited by the screen or a mask or a hole. The offscreen becomes part of the picture and gaps, delays and afterimages tell film.
Gran Lux
Saint’Ètienne
France
9th and 10th of May
https://granlux.org/programmation/#12
The event is supported by the Creative Europe Program and the Senate of the City of Berlin