The Unseen Festival 2018: Camera Lessons. Tuesday, September 4, 7:30pm
T H E U N S E E N F E S T I V A L 2018
Camera Lessons
Join us on Tuesday, September 4, 7:30pm for night 4 of the Unseen Festival. We will screen work by Karen Akerman and Miguel Seabra Lopes, and Bernd Lützeler. Preceding the screening will be a reading, curated by Diana Nguyen, featuring Emelia Kamaldulski and Lara E. Wilber.
Outubro Acabou (October is Over) – Karen Akerman & Miguel Seabra Lopes – Brazil/Portugal – 2015 – 24 min
Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred. http://cargocollective.com/migka/outubro-acabou
Karen Akerman and Miguel Seabra Lopes have worked together since 2010 with fiction, documentary, experimental, and expanded cinema.
Camera Threat – Bernd Lützeler – Germany/India – 2017 – 30 min
Somewhere in the rather dreary spheres of Mumbai’s film industry, stuck between star-cult, superstition and the daily gridlock, Camera Threat explores the ambivalent, and sometimes paranoid relationship that this film city has with the moving image as such. Seated on a casting couch, two actors are getting trapped in their impromptu conversations on the unwanted side effects of a world that no longer bothers to tell facts from fiction. An expanded multi-genre film within the constraints of the so-called Masala Formula popularly known from Indian cinema.
Bernd Lützeler: “In my films, installations and expanded cinema works I often explore the techniques of moving image production and presentation in interrelation with their form and perception. Therefore, loops, found footage and the disclosure of DIY- and analogue technologies have become an integral part of my work. I am an active member of the artist-run filmlab LaborBerlin e.V., a space where filmmakers can process, edit and copy their own films on 8 and 16mm celluloid film. Another strong influence in my work are the aesthetics of popular Indian culture. Over the last sixteen years I have spent a significant amount of time in Mumbai where some of my projects were produced. What fascinates me, is seeing universal global themes like urban angst, mass media or migration gaining an emphasis against the backdrop of inequality and overpopulation in contemporary urban India.” – BL
Reading Curator and Readers