Poor Man's Expression.

Kino Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.

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To celebrate the release of Poor Man's Expression, various presentations and screenings are taking place at Arsenal and in the surrounding space on May 11th, 12th and 13th.


PROGRAM


Wednesday, May 11
I've seen it on a bigger screen before, the resolution was fine.

With special guests Steven Warwick and Ian White.


THE APPLE FROM THE EYE OF THE WORM (Nina Könnemann, 2000)

19.30 Program in Arsenal 2
"West Village Meat Market", Christine Noll Brinckmann, 1979, 16mm, color, 12 min.
"A Life, and Time: Alfred Leslie´s letter to Frank O´Hara + Roland Barthes on Racine", Ian White, 2011, reading.
"Self Fashion Show", Tibor Hajas, 1976, 35mm auf DVD, s/w, 15 min.
"The Last Clean Shirt", Alfred Leslie and Frank O'Hara, 1964, 16mm, s/w, 41 min.

21.00 Musical performance by Stephen Warwick.

In the foyer, Nina Könnemann ("The Apple from the Eye of the Worm", Dokumentation, 2000) in a setting with contributions by Eva Seufert, Ariane Müller, and Martin Ebner / Florian Zeyfang
& "Eureka", Ernie Gehr, 1974-1979, 16mm, s/w, 28 min.


Thursday, May 12
The director and his actor and his dog looking at footage going out for air

With special guests Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda.



19.30 Program in Arsenal 2
"Under the Brooklyn Bridge", Rudy Burckhardt, 1953, USA, 16mm, s/w, 15 min
"Songdelay", Joan Jonas, 1973, 16mm on DVD, 18 min.
"Real Italian Pizza", David Rimmer, 1970/71, 16mm, color, 13 min.
"A Man and his Dog Going out for Air", Robert Breer, 1957, 16mm, s/w, 2 min.
"The director and his actor look at the footage showing preparations for an unmade film", Morgan Fisher, 1968, 16mm, s/w, 15 min.
"Fuck Your Landlord", Thomas Kilpper, 2003, video, 11 min.
"Holzminden", Nina Könnemann, 2010, video, 3 min.

21.00 Screening of Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda´s 16mm film, "Caducean City", 2006

In the foyer, installations of films by Margaret Tait, You Never Know and permanent installations.


Friday, May 13
Oben ein Mond im grünen Bällchen (Above a moon in a small green ball)

With special guest Sebastian Lütgert.


SHEIKH ZAYED ROAD (Sebastian Lütgert, 2011)

19.30 Program in Arsenal 2
"The Evil Faerie", George Landow, 1966, 16mm, s/w, 1 min.
"A Leash for Fritz & Kale for Stray Bunny", Stephanie Taylor & Alice Könitz, 2006, video, 10 min.
"The Cut Ups", Anthony Balch, 1967, 16mm, s/w, 20 min.
"Rat Life and Diet in North America", Joyce Wieland, 1968, 16mm, 16 min.
"Mongoloid", Bruce Conner, 1978, 16mm, s/w, 4 min.
"The Evil Faerie", Judith Hopf & Henrik Olesen, 2007, video, color, 1 min.

21.00 Premiere of "Sheikh Zayed Road" (2011) by Sebastian Lütgert: a fragment from a film about capitalism, set in Dubai.

Plus permanent installations in the foyer, including films by Henry Hills ("Money"), P. White ("33 Yo-Yo Tricks"), Harry Smith, Nina Könnemann.





Poor Man's Expression – Technology, Conceptual Art, Experimental Film
With contributions by Stephanie Taylor, Sebestyén Kodolányi, Sebastian Lütgert, Henrik Olesen, Mathias Poledna, Sean Snyder, Daria Martin, Kirsten Pieroth, Martin Ebner und
Florian Zeyfang. Authors: Sabeth Buchmann, Anselm Franke, Ariane Müller, Branden W. Joseph, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Ian White and Axel John Wieder.
Sternberg Press, ISBN 978-1-934105-01-6.

as a point of departure we have assumed that there was once a close relationship between forms that now exist rather separately, namely the realms of visual art, experimental film, literature, poetry, music – and very much the development of technology, too. what is it supposed to mean that 16mm projectors now occupy their luxurious final performance sites at art societies and galleries, while iphone youtube (without open source codecs, to be sure) is the current way to watch a hollis frampton interview.

the other way around, isn’t the gentle entry of the genre of "experimental film" into the realm of "media art" of the 1980s and 1990s itself a transformation analog to general social and medial development brought about by the development of individualization and consumer society? in poor man's expression we have sought, through an advanced setting
("affirmative" neon light surfaces, and the exhibition's paradoxical bipartite spatial principle) to address the surrounding corporate architecture of the sony center as well as the film archive deep underground and the dark space of the avant-garde cinema.