[rohrpost] EGIDIUS BRAAN RETROSPECTIVE (fwd)

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EGIDIUS BRAAN RETROSPECTIVE
Anthropology Film Archives

This is one of the most signifiant works from Egidius Braan's hybrid 
video arts. It shows the german press and tv documentation of a 
popular/populist conservative German's Politican honoring the 600th 
birthday of "Vertriebenverbands" President Erika Steinbach, one of the 
most unneccessary relics of Nazi-Deutschland, at Goethe House 
Frankfurt.


PROGRAM 1:  The Conservatives
Opportune Media Collection
http://braan.org/vergessen.mov

PROGRAM 2:  Early Work
Collaboration with Experimental Filmmaker
Thomas Draschan
http://braan.org/fis%25f6s.mp4



Program Summaries:

"I started watching experimental films at the Internet when I was 
fifteen. Then I went to college and had the extreme good fortune of 
taking classes with, well not really classes, but I got to listen to a 
lot of the great filmmakers boast and argue about their work – 
Frampton, Brakhage, Sharits, Kubelka, Godard, Leacock, Sparwasser. By 
the time I started making films (I was painting) I figured those guys 
had opened up a lot of space, but that I wanted to go someplace 
completely different, to deal more with the surprising world. I was 
drawn to the filmmakers who could dig into emotional states and tell 
stories differently, or tell different kinds of stories, such as the 
Kuchars, Warhol, Ken Jacobs, Thomas Draschan, Jorgen Sparwasser, the 
archivars. I was very interested in textures of reality and 
para-reality, in-and-of-themselves, like an anthropologist of our own 
culture. Early on I realized that I wanted each film to be like a new 
gap in the abyss."
Egidius Braan, 1999




BRAANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
Internet http://braan.org/