KINO FOTOGRAFIC: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS BY BERND LÜTZELER
Monday 7th October at 7 pm
voluntary admission
We cordially invite you to the accompanying programme to the exhibition Travel with Caution! by German artist and filmmaker Bernd Lützeler. On Monday 7 October at 7pm he will visit us for a special screening of five of his experimental short films, three of them projected in their original celluloid formats. The captivating movies combining shot and found footage on 8mm, 16mm and 35mm film material are literally a celebration of the analogue experiment. Bernd Lützeler takes you on a fascinating journey from purely abstract, to stylized, to documentary and even mockumentary approaches, from the 1960s to the present, through Germany, the USA and India.
Bernd Lützeler (*1967, Düsseldorf) studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin. His films have been showcased at various venues and festivals around the world, including the Centre Pompidou, Berlinale, Rotterdam and Ann Arbor Film Festivals, among others. He lives and works between Berlin and Mumbai. www.bernd-luetzeler.de
FULTU FALTU FILIM
India / Germany 2018, 2 mins, 35mm
Age-old, physically decayed Super-8 material, found in a thrift market in Mumbai, scanned on a home-made film scanner, sent through a glitch environment under Linux and finally, digitally exposed to 35mm polyester print film.
VINTAGE WISDOM FROM THE ETHER
Germany 2023, 8 mins, 16mm, English on-screen text
This experimental abstract film extracts white noise and brings it to the fore as a celebration of the 16mm analogue medium and as a purely audiovisual memory of the greatest era of television broadcasting.
HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE OUT OF WRECKAGE AND RAGS
Germany 2022, 8 min, Super-8 to digital, English voicever, no subtitles
Found footage: An expat Indian couple in the US of the 1960’s presents their recently gained wealth in front of the camera. The peaceful images are juxtaposed with a hateful voiceover, lifted from the soundtrack of the fundamentalist Christian propaganda film “Streets of the Walking Dead“ (1954).
TRAVELING WITH MAXIM GORKIY
Germany 2014, 11 min, Super-8, German voiceover, English subtitles
An elderly married German couple on a world cruise. Wherever they land, the same spectacle takes place: in every harbour local folklore groups welcome them with a dance performance. A narrator guides us to the various cultures and draws our attention towards the extraordinary within the ordinary.
CAMERA THREAT
India / Germany 2017, 30 min, 35mm to digital, Hindi with English subtitles
Media artefacts of diverse origin and formats collide on the silver screen and merge into a subjective view behind the curtains of the Indian film metro Mumbai: Seated on a casting couch, two actors are getting stuck in various strange and absurd impromptu conversations.
Bernd Lützeler’s exhibition was supported by the Goethe-Institut Czech Republic. Our exhibition programme is supported by grants from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the State Fund for Culture of the Czech Republic, the City of Prague and the Prague 1 Municipal District. Thank you!