We look forward to seeing you at the opening night on Tuesday 9 April , with free admission. Two magnificent screenings, the inaugural session at 7m , and "The Gift" at 8. A beautiful surprise screening, with 5 rare films shown in German premiere. Experimental fiction 0 color Germany, Austria Museum depots are places where things are kept out of sight, but also protected from all-too-schematic historical judgments. In the cage-like space of the repository, we see a naked musician working intensely on a composition.
He is inspired by artists who belong to a gray area between modernist aspirations and enthusiasm for Nazism, and whose works combine a taste for the exotic with local patriotism, religious fervor, and eroticism. Our mysterious protagonist tentatively plays a familiar melody. It's a song known to many of us, recognisable from dance floors across Europe - but how many of us have ever bothered to listen to its remarkably rascist and imperialistic lyrics? Assaf Gruber b.
Jerusalem, is a sculptor and filmmaker living and working in Berlin. The dynamic relationship between individuals and institutions is at the center of his practice, which aims to explore both how the political orientation of legacy establishments impact the lives of individuals and how these organizations choose to represent and communicate facts and their attendant artifacts.
Experimental fiction 4k color Slovenia, France The Gift is a film about the use and abuse of culture in times of political and ideological crisis. It tells the story of a competition for a perfect gift that could heal a broken nation. The Gift is composed entirely of historical ready-mades that include some of the most perturbing examples of art, music and architecture deployed as trojan horses of political powers.
Jasmina Cibic is a Slovenian artist currently based in London, who works in film, performance and installation. Experimental doc. What do monuments want, do, and stand for in our memories and public spaces? In what the artist calls three anticipatory actions, organized as grand-scale performances in the centers of Rome, Madrid, and Paris, we are confronted with three emblems of control and domination that still exert, undisturbed, their symbolic power from atop their pedestals.
