[rohrpost] Directors Lounge - Jari Haanperän - Screening at Meinblau - Fr. 13-7-2010

[richfilm productions]

Directors Lounge presents:

Jari Haanperän
Spectres of Light
Directors Lounge Screening in der Galerie Meinblau

Friday, 13  August 2010
21:00

Galerie Meinblau
Pfefferberg
Christinenstr. 18/19
D-10119 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
U-Senefelder Platz



Jari Haanperän
Spectres of Light

Jari Haanperän lives in Berlin and together with 
Mirka Flander, his producer, he is running the 
gallery Suomesta. With his installations, Jari 
Haanperän takes up and further develops the idea 
of the Light Space Modulator by Laszlo 
Moholy-Nagy. Although Jari's film works on the 
other hand appear very different to the abstract 
spirituality of Moholy-Nagy's light machine, the 
two constituting elements seem to be the constant 
source of inspiration for artist and filmmaker 
Haanperän: light and the spirited machine. 
However with Jari, these elements seem to evoke 
their opponents: darkness, which is needed for 
the effects of light, or lumen, and the darker 
forces.

Maybe, in order to deal with darkness and those 
darker forces, we also need storytelling, dark 
humour and irony. At least, this is what Jari 
Haaperän is doing in his film works: he tells 
short stories. In several of Jari's films, the 
story goes back to the mechanical age:
"The Turkish Chess Machine" refers to the famous 
"Schachtürke", a mechanical Robot made in Austria 
in 1769. In "Kalavalo", on the other hand, the 
artist gives a surrealist vision of the first 
deep-sea exploration undertaken in a spherical 
steel box by biologist Charles William Beebe in 
1930. This saying, don't we see the mechanical 
age as the succeeding period of enlightenment?

In his most recent film work, the documentary 
"World of Light", however, there may be the hint 
for a turning point: Although the images all show 
images of dark spaces lit by multitudes of 
lights, in the narration a different idea 
emanates: what, if there will be too to many 
lights, too much light? Could it then be, that 
the future spectres will no more live in darkness 
but lie in light overflow, in over-lightenment? 
Like Jari, we still love the dark caves of cinema.
(Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr)


Programm:
Indoor Light
Kalavalo
The Dark Side of the Car
The Turkish Chess Machine/Die Turkische Schachmaschine
Bang
World of Light

Artist Link:
http://www.jarihaanpera.com/

More infos (curator's pages)
http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesJHaanperan.html


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