[rohrpost] Urban Research 2014 at Directors Lounge X

[richfilm productions]

Urban Research 2014
a part of the
THE 10TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE [DLX] 6-16 Feb 2014

Daily programs from 18:00 until late

Naherholung Sternchen
Berolinastraße 7
10178 Berlin / Mitte
located directly behind Cinema International und 
Rathaus Mitte, off U-Bahn Schillingstr.


Urban Research is a special film program during 
the Berlin International Directors Lounge with 
three screenings and a loop program during the 
festival. The program is concerned with urban 
themes curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr.

For years the urban landscape has been under 
rapid change. Due to the increased economic 
pressure and shift towards mono-functional uses 
of the city, public space more and more vanishes. 
The newly awakened interest in old city centers, 
which is a rather positive development, has also 
created new demands in conjunction with the 
deregulations of national and municipal city 
tasks: the city has mainly become an object for 
real estate investment.

On the other hand, new waves for urban movements 
towards a democratic renewal have appeared. A 
redetermination of public place may have come 
across, a new protest culture against the 
complete commercialization of the city has spread 
in places. Be it called neoliberal, new labor, 
social democratic, political-islam or 
post-Maoism, you name I. The radical loss of 
democratic political influences concerning urban 
development seems to have found a counter force 
in a rediscovery of the political space. The 
above sometimes extreme changes in the urban are 
also being reflected in creative art and film, or 
may even find their unique expression in the arts.

Urban Research I
The Future - The City
Sunday, 9 February 19:00 at Space A
http://berlinlounge.tumblr.com/tagged/9th%20Feb%202014

This juxtaposition of experimental shorts discusses futuristic
aspects of urban life. "The future ain't what it used to be" as a
much quoted Yogiism says. Rather than elaborating on science fiction
tales, the pictures combine and merge the present, past and future in
different surprising ways. Life in our times may come with more
challenges than just a space oddity.
Program:
Joe Merrell US Crisis Apparition 06:52 2013
Lorenz Fidel Huchthausen DE Alter Junge 04:28 2013
Pedro Miguel Santos PT Zigurate 05:52 2013
Monika Rechsteiner CH Real Estate II 08:30 2013
Fabian Heitzhausen DE Let's Play Modernism 04:26 2013
Matthew  Pell UK Escence 01:31 2013
Scott Fitzpatrick CD Places with Meaning 03:00 2012
Henry Gwiazda US choice 09:16 2012
Rhayne Vermette CA Full of Fire 02:15 2013 VP
Joas Sebastian Nebe DE Rush Hour 03:00 2013
LJ Frezza US Golden Eye 06:04 2013 GP
Elizabeth Ross MX Insomnio 04:17 2013
Christiane Thalmann UK Conversation on the Underground 05:29 2005
Noyman Gili IL Sounds of Discontent 02:49 2012
Sharon Horodi/ Cheb Kammerer DE Simply a Love Song 05:00 2006

Urban Research II
Memories of Non-Spaces
Tuesday, 11 February 18:00 at Space A
http://berlinlounge.tumblr.com/tagged/11th%20Feb%202014

Even with a culture of news channels, soaps, talk shows, personal
blogs, twitter and vimeo, we only hardly understand the complexities
of average life, and the implications of every day history. This
program between experimental and documentary shorts brings together
films dealing with micro-history. It is not just the American sprawl
that seems to be opaque to history-telling. The French provincial
town already seems to be as alien, when seen from a political
perspective.
Program
Jonathan Rescigno FR Destination Lune 25:00 2010
Jeymer Gamboa AR Reencuentro 02:00 2013
Benallal Mehdi FR Bois d'Arcy 24:00 2013 GP
Gabrielle Le Bayon FR Tender Pastures 06:00 2013
Anna Okrasko PL Lot's Wife 05:13 2013 WP
Txema Novelo MX Culpable 05:27 2012
Erika Matsunami JN/DE existence of risk - 1964  04:30 2013
Marina Chernikova NL Urban Surfing / Moscow2 01:30 2012 GP
Silvia Dal Dosso IT The 1 Up Fever 13:19 2013

Urban Research III
Subverting Leviathan
Friday, 14 February 20:00 at Space B
http://berlinlounge.tumblr.com/tagged/14th%20Feb%202014

The new democratic movements also seem to come with a reemergence of
public space in the sense of life in the street. Even if some
governments use all their powers to  suppress changes, urban
movements seem to give public space a new meaning.  With a focal
point on the largest city of Turkey, the program brings together
different short films discussing urban changes concerning Istanbul,
Damascus, Tel Aviv, Illichevsk (Ukraine), Belfast and Germany.
Program:
Nisrine  Boukhari SY  A letter between two cities / Damascus - Vienna
06:35  2013
Sharon Horodi/ Cheb Kammerer DE Black Stains 10:00 2007
Maria Gonchar UA Creative Cities of Ukraine 11:23 2013
Sirin Bahar Demirel TR Living with Leviathan 11:00 2013
Inconnu Artiz/ Erciyes Kerem TR The City and The Memory 32:41 2013
Sylvia Winkler/ Stephan Köperl DE Alexandra Open 02:00 2009
Gertrud Schulte Westenberg/ Matthias Coers DE Mietrebellen -
Widerstand gegen den Ausverkauf der Stadt excerpt: 09:40 2013
Bingöl Elmas TR Hey Neighbor! 44:45 2014 WP



Urban Research Loops
http://berlinlounge.tumblr.com/tagged/loops-and-installations

Laura Soria MX Reality, about Yoko Ono's Grapefruit in 20 Stations 29:57 2012
Russell Chartier/  Paul Botelho US 06:24:11 06:25 2012
Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint US Wilderness 
Collider Running time is up to you because
this is a nonstop real-time app  2012
Margarita Novikova RU Processes' Regulation 05:56 2010
Jonathan Rescigno FR Corengrato 10:00 2012
Yanovsky Yaroslav UA Dragonfly 2:42min 2013
Ada Kobusiewicz PL Azotara 10:35 2013
Roberta Orlando IT Bright Berlin Lights 02:58 2011
Fried Rosenstock DE Der Schatten meiner selbst 2:49 2012


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