[rohrpost] *¨°¨* Discreet Structures - tomorrow 25.11. Jutojo in der Z-Bar - DL screening *¨°¨*

[richfilm productions]

Directors Lounge Screening in der Z-Bar
Donnerstag, 25.11.2010
21:00
Discreet Structures
Films by
Toby Cornish und Johannes Braun/  jutojo Berlin

Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte


Discreet Structures, the title of the program 
with Toby Cornish and Johannes Braun, refers to 
the compositional qualities of their films. It 
also applies to the linking to local architecture 
or urban places, and to the ways the artists work 
with musical scores. Both artists' work mainly 
originates in Super-8 or 16mm footage, which they 
shoot and then process digitally. And most films 
are product of collaborations with musicians.

Two visits to Sarajevo in 2003 and 2004 gave Toby 
the opportunity to make a structural film in this 
historically and politically charged place: 
Sarajevo Vertical. The bridge, where arch-duke 
Franz Ferdinand was murdered, which gave way to 
the declaration of war in 1914, the name Tito on 
a bridge, and the white graves of killed Muslims 
from the most recent war, all appear in the film 
but only as a backdrop, or as the ground on which 
the visitor stands. If "Sarajevo Vertical" has or 
needs a symbolical/political reading is up to the 
viewer. First of all it is the rule of 
composition of filmmaker Cornish to align every 
image to a vertical line while shooting and then 
edit the film on principles of repetition, 
rhythm, acceleration and size of the vertical 
line.

Toby Cornish is interested in metric structures, 
in interferences of loops with different lengths, 
which due to their complexity might lead to a 
chance operation, similar to musical structures 
of John Cage or Steve Reich, and which in the end 
where the result may surprise the artist as much 
as the audience. With "Rückbau", a film about the 
destruction of the East German parliament 
building, he takes this strategy further. With 
the help of digital programming, the film 
composes itself and anew on each presentation.

Johannes Braun, on the other hand is less 
interested in chance operations but in the 
totality of visual-acoustic composition. His film 
Teufelsberg also shows his background as trained 
architect. The images unfold his explorations of 
building structures while he tries to capture 
traces "of hope and disillusion, of making and 
destroying, still to be sensed" in the rubble and 
the left-over walls. They also comment on already 
past (and forgotten) plans for future 
developments, including architecture drawings and 
a former model apartment of the already scattered 
utopia for a commercial hot-spot on Teufelsberg. 
The visually dense composition thus not only 
shows the beauty of the bygone structures but 
also contains an edge of irony.

With "Gaz", a collective product, the filmmakers 
again show their strength of working with 
compositional structures. Gaz was composed to a 
graphical score, which the filmmakers and the 2 
musicians worked on independently of one another. 
The film celebrates the early industrial designs 
around gasometers and gas-lights, still to be 
found in Berlin's city center.

Toby Cornish and Johannes Braun will be present 
and available for Q&A after the screening.
Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr


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