London calling Urban Research at cogcollective

richfilm productions and Directors Lounge proudly announce:
Urban Research selection - Screening in London

4:00pm, Sunday 6th August 2006



still from SAVE by Roger Warren Beebe, 2005 USA 5:00 DVD


Urban Research on Film is an ongoing film and video screening project curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr for Directors Lounge in Berlin. Urban Research presents artists and filmmakers who address the progress of urbanity. Contemporary architectural and social impacts on urban developments and public space have become a theme for many artists. This collection of short films comprises documentary, experimental and intermediate forms. The similarities as well as the complementary uniquness of the works, together, give a refreshing, challenging and entertaining artists' view onto contemporary live in cities.

Don´t miss it if you are in town.

cogcollective at
Candid Arts
3, Torrens St
London, EC1V 1NQ

Urban Research at Urban Explorers

Dordrecht - Rotterdam
12 + 13 May 2007



Thanks to Katja Diallo/ Noordkaap, a selection of Urban Research, one of the major programs of Directors Lounge, can be presented during the Urban Explorer festival in the project rooms of Noordkaap, Dordrecht, NL

NOORDKAAP // U.E. // PROGRAMMA 11 T/M 13 MEI // FILM Een selectie uit het internationale filmfestival Urban Research, ondersteund door de Directors Lounge Berlin. Curator Klaus W. Eisenlohr

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Slow Space at no.w.here lab London

28th may 2008

Klaus W. Eisenlohr with Steven Ball

showing: slow space

Light Reading’s 2008 series continues with a conversation between artists Klaus W. Eisenlohr and Steven Ball. Eisenlohr’s film Slow Space (2004) will be screened during the event.
Klaus W. Eisenlohr is an artist, photographer and filmmaker living in Berlin. He is currently curator of “Urban Research”, an ongoing film and video project concerned with urban development and public space, at Director’s Lounge, Berlin. Eisenlohr’s recent work can be characterised as “camera-guided” rigorous research into exploring the body within the spaces it inhabits, and aiming to go beyond mere representation of public spaces through film, but to encourage a perception of space that goes beyond the camera’s frame.

Slow Space (2004) is a film journey through buildings of glass architecture in Chicago. Street scenes and interviews complement this essay on public and private spaces.

Slow Space takes the viewer on a visual trip through the city of Chicago without showing streets or plazas as they are seen in travel guides. Instead, the journey goes through places roofed and lit by glass architecture: Garfield Park Conservatory, Juvenile Court, Merchandise Mart, Cumberland Station, Nature Museum, Westside Future, César Chavez Elementary School, Tower Condominium, Jackson Academy, Lincoln Park Conservatory, a private living room, Gran Hyatt Regency and some other places. Scenes set in open urban space and interviews filmed in private homes complement this passage through public and private places. The project investigates the relationship between the body and the urban architectural environment over a period of three years. Searching the anomalies in “normal”, the filmmaker traces a ‘Desire for Modernity’ in the city’s architecture being shaped by pre- and post- modern forces. In addition, the film discusses the topic of public space in American cities through interviews with the Chicago artists and filmmakers Deborah Stratman, Chris Harris, Gretchen Till, Ken Fandell, Thomas Comerford and Eduardo Pradilla.

Eisenlohr’s work has been shown internationally, with recent solo and group exhibitions at the Alten Wiehre Banhof, Freiburg, Germany, 2007, Inner Spaces Gallery, Poznan, Poland, 2007 and at the Helsinki International Artist-in-residence project room, Helsinki, Finland, 2006.

Steven Ball is a time based media artist. His recent work has focused predominantly on working with digital video producing a series of works that are, among other things, particularly concerned with digital material processes and spatial representation. He is currently Research Fellow at the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.

Light Reading is an ongoing series of critical dialogues that engage artists, writers and curators in conversation around a selected artist’s body of work.

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Exploring City Scape Berlin, Chicago, Hannover
Short films by Klaus W. Eisenlohr


The Sky Above Alexanderplatz (1996, 16mm, colour, sound from CD) 16min

Klaus W. Eisenlohr's works are concerned with the
spatial practices of filmmaking, and with the
body in architectural and urban environments. The
Sky Above Alexanderplatz and Local Time + 2 1/2
are explorations of the urban environment
strongly related to the artist's photographic
work on architecture. These earlier films
anticipate themes in his more recent video
project, realized during a two-year residency in
Chicago. Slow Space - The Interviews investigates
the intellectual debate over the value of public
space in the postmodern city, and features
conversations with artists living in Chicago. In
his latest work the artist explores the question
of change in urban space and the social
constitution of place in metropolitan areas in
Germany. In Stadtrandzone Mitte in Langenhagen
(Center of Urban Periphery at Langenhagen) he
worked together with youths on how they use
public space and interact in public.

Klaus W. Eisenlohr, long time member of Directors Lounge, curated urban research, a themed program about film, video and media work by artists who are concerned with the theme of urban development and public space for Directors Lounge 2006

Exploring City Scape
a special screening and discussion at the
Arsenal/Friends of German Kinemathek Berlin

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 4:30 pm. The artist
will be present. The screening is free of charge.

Arsenal
Potsdamer Straße 2
10785 Berlin
U/SBahn Potsdamer Platz

Traute Raeume — Urban Spaces

Klaus W. Eisenlohr
Exhibition during "Inselglück, Moabiter Kulturtage" (Berlin Moabit cultural festival)

In Photography, Film and Media, Klaus W. Eisenlohr, artist and curator of "Urban Research" fame at Directors Lounge, explores the younger quarters of European cities. In the majority of cases far from the former historical city centres, these parts of the city are now the actual urban environments where most people live. And, these places have become newly evolved urban centres. While following these trails, and also undertaking art interventions, the artist investigates the social conditions of these public spaces. The resulting images, comprising spatial and urban visions, however overpass the restrictions of documentation and leap into openly pictorial creations.

This exhibition focuses on the most recent work of Klaus W. Eisenlohr from Helsinki: A large-scaled and high-resolution double projection presents a diversity of public places from the metropolitan area of the Finish capital. Some are taken from two different points-of-view, some from only slightly different camera locations, others with irritating different view points but matching compositions. Not merely with the size of the projections, which fill the field of vision of the viewer, but rather in combination with the gradual differences in POV, the series of images adds up to an almost cinematic viewing experience for the audience.

opening: friday, 29th, 8pm at Kunstagentur Friederike Hauffe

the exhibition runs only two days till first of July.
Expand for location details


30.06. — 01.07.2007

opening hours:
Fr 8—11 pm, Sa—Sun 2-8 pm

Kunstagentur Friederike Hauffe
Künstlerhaus Atelier 5
Stendaler Str. 5
10559 Berlin
2. cross building, 4.floor

invitation card (pdf)

A Summer Evening With Oliver Whitehead

Oliver Whitehead — films from 1967—2007

Oliver Whitehead from Helsinki, who recently showed his work in a retrospective at Cartes Flux Festival in Espoo/Helsinki, comes to Berlin to show his work at Z-Bar.

Oliver Whitehead has explored a wide range of fields within arts, such as drawing, painting, photography, computer imaging, film, video, installation, and sound stretching their expressive possibilities, and without respecting boundaries. He thus may be called a ³true media artist². In his early film work, he was influenced by the uprising Film-Coop movement in England and the French Nouvelle Vague. He however stopped making films when coming to Helsinki in 1970, where he since has worked as artist, and partly at Kuva Academy, the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.

In 1991, he has picked up with film and video again, now exploring his personal and built surrounding in most unorthodox ways. In most recent years, film and video have become a main focus in his work.

see "bike" by Oliver Whitehead on directorslounge television



As in "bike", where the camera travels along the shore of the city of Helsinki, his film work mostly evolves from captured impressions. Here, he depicts glances on people, traffic and architecture, edited in an Allegretto rhythm of movements. The film thus reflects the intrinsic meanings of a different but daily perception of urban life and the built surrounding. In "visual violence", a camera travels through contemporary interior public spaces and, as in other films, the captured immediate impressions tell about sensations, which are both political in their direct relationship to the body, and metaphorical in the ways they become examples of a 'bigger picture' of meanings in the world. The films thus are less part of a simulacrum made by the media but they are reflections on visual and media perceptions, and the ways our contemporary and vernacular surrounding can be read in meaningful ways.
In Whitehead's later work the subject matter comprises the structures and users of urban settings(...) The visual idiom and the overlaid soundtrack give the works a politically slanted narrative dynamic. The meaning of the films, on the other hand, arises from the combination of cinematography, editing, repetition and thematic combinations. These have an inherent political dimension in the works in that they oppose the solutions typical of commercial cinema." (Hanna Johannson)

With two films, Oliver Whitehead was already part of this year's Directours Lounge and some further Urban Research screenings. Now, we are proud to be able to give a more deep insight in his film and video work, and have the artist present his work at Z-Bar. The screening will be the opening of further summer screenings of Directors Lounge in August and September 2007.

german text here

Oliver Whitehead — films from 1967—2007
Sundag, 12 August 2007, 08:30 pm
Z-Bar, Bergstr. 2, Berlin-Mitte

Directors Lounge presents:a summer evening with Klaus W. Eisenlohr

july 6th 10pm
urban research:
short film selection
at Rote Loge

With the increased dynamic of urban development, more artists are concerned with urban space as a theme and issue. This selection shows a range of new short experimental and documentary work of international artists.

artists include Noëelle Georg, Diane Bonder, Papa 'n Razzi aka Kemmy Thyssen, Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Cornelia Erdmann, Roger Warren Beebe, Fabienne Gautier, Diane Bonder, Virginie Laganière, Dirk Holzberg and Jörg Pfeiffer.

Rote Loge Berlin
Simon-Dachstrasse 22, (next to Revalerstrasse)
S- and U Warschauer Brücke

related: 7 minutes about the theme gas station • into the red

into the red
Directors Lounge at the Rote Loge


a note to all our friends in Berlin:
Due to circumstances beyond our control we have to switch to a new location. The Rote Loge Simon-Dachstrasse 22, (next to Revalerstrasse) will be our new host. A charming venue dedicated to the cinematic arts.

see you there at our next screening:

july 6th 10pm
urban research: short film selection compiled and presented by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

With the increased dynamic of urban development, more artists are concerned with urban space as a theme and issue. This selection shows a range of new short experimental and documentary work of international artists.
more about our summer screenings here

Raum-Laboratorium: Der Ausbruch des Raumes

Room laboratory: The breakout of space

A banquet with talks about the relation between performance and space

Sometimes art does feed. Like on saturday when there´s chance to join a banquet, organized by raumlabor at the academy of arts, Berlin, that includes not only talks and presentations by Klaus Weise, Boris Sieverts, Leonhard Lagos Kalhoff, HospitalityClub, M:AI (Museum für Architektur und Ingenieurskunst NRW) and Klaus W. Eisenlohr of Directors Lounge but also fine food by gogofood, flowers by Steffen Braun and liquor by Antonia Dika.

Food for thought at it´s best

for details

Urban Research at CLUB*
presents:
Detroit Park ‹ Julie Murray
Nocturnal Dance ‹ Thanos Chrysakis
The Corridor ‹ Virginie Laganière
Slow Space The Interviews (excerpt) ‹ Klaus W. Eisenlohr

curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr
supported by Directors Lounge


Sat, March 3rd
Akademie der Kuenste Berlin / RAUM. Orte der Kunst
Hanseatenweg 10, 3pm (sharp) - 9pm, Clubraum
doors open 2:30pm, seats are limited

...and the winner is CUFF Awards

CUFF, The 13th Chicago Underground Film Festival concluded on Thursday August 23rd with an informal awards party held at the Uncommon Ground coffee house a few blocks from the Music Box Theater.
The three person festival jury consisted of former CUFF programmer Brian Mckenndry, Clara Alcott, curator of film, video and installation work at Chicago’s Heaven Gallery and Brian Chanken owner of Odd Obsession Video, Chicago’s leading video store for alternative cinema. In addition to the Jury Awards and Audience Award was selected based on ballots of festival attendees.
We notice with pleasure that two good friends of Directors Lounge are among the winners.
SAVE, by Roger Warren Beebe won as best Experimental and NICE BOMBS, directed by Usama Alshaibi, as best Documentary.

still from SAVE by Roger Warren Beebe, 2005 USA 5:00 DVD

SAVE, was shown in february as part of our ongoing screening project Urban Research, curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr, at Directors Lounge 2006, Berlin and recently in Poznan and London.
"A disused gas station offers a curious imperative to passersby: 'SAVE.' A riddle posed in the form of architecture: what is there to save? One more installment in the history of Americans pointing their cameras at gas stations; an attempt to figure out something about where we've been, where we're headed, and what's been left behind.
The first part of "S A V E" was edited entirely in camera."
2005, USA, 16mm/ DVD, 5 mins, colour, sound

NICE BOMBS 92 minutes, Directed by Usama Alshaibi

In Nice Bombs filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years. This documentary navigates through his unique relationship to an Iraq that is much different than the country of his childhood.
Usama captures the conflicting reactions to the conditions of life in Baghdad. Through a wide range of opinions and experiences he provides a broad panorama of voices long neglected under Saddam’s regime.
His cousin Tareef enters the room upon hearing an explosion. “It’s a bomb. A Nice Bomb,” he explains. The phrase is indicative of his family’s nonchalance about their situation. As one young boy put it, “We’re Iraqis. It’s normal.”
With humor and resilience Nice Bombs explores Usama’s dual role as both Iraqi and American.
We hope to featutre the work of Usama Alshaibi in our forthcoming screenings.

2006 CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS

Narrative Feature: BULLDOG IN THE WHITEHOUSE Director Todd Verow

Narrative Short: PAUL AND THE BADGER EPISODE #1 Director Paul Tarrago

Documentary Feature: NICE BOMBS Director Usama Alshaibi

Documentary Short: IN LOVING MEMORY Director Robert Todd

Experimental: S A V E Director Roger Bebee

Animation: HOW SHE SLEPT AT NIGHT Director Lili Carre

“Made In Chicago” Award: A LOVER’S DISCOURSE Director Tim Kinsella

Audience Award: DANIELSON: A FAMILY MOVIE Director JL Aronson

Special Jury Prizes:

THE WILD CONDITION directed by Rolf Belgum

ANIMAL MOTHER Director Jasmine Way

JEAN GENET IN CHICAGO Director Frederic Moffet


congrats to all from Team Directors Lounge

related: Usama & Kristie Alshaibi • NICE BOMBS • London calling

7 minutes about the theme gas station 7 Minuten zum Thema Tankstelle

Cornelia Erdmann, 7 Minuten zum Thema Tankstelle,
2001, DE, 7:00, DVD, colour, stereo sound, German language

"About the theme of filling station? ... I can only state that I have spend a lot of time there, more than I possibly should have. Being 18, 19, 20, 21 und I think even with 22, I thought it would be cool to linger at the filling station because all my friends used to hang out there too..."

In between the genres of documentary and personal fiction, the film is considered with how changing public spaces are effecting the experiences of youths.
Artist Cornelia Erdmann is a trained architect and lives in Weimar (DE). In her work she focuses on public art projects. To her, this is both related to her own interest in spacial, physical and topographical dimensions and to the potential of surpassing borders of art institutions. Interactivity, thus becomes her main concern, in media, between physical and vitual space, or between people and space. Taking up a critical stance, though, does not mean to ban humour and the smile of the audience.

7 Minuten zum Thema Tankstelle
will be screened july 6th 10pm
as part of urban research: short film selection compiled and presented by Klaus W. Eisenlohr at the Rote Loge Berlin Simon-Dachstrasse 22.
A charming venue already mentioned here

call for submissions

Dislocate
Ginza and Koiwa, Tokyo
28th July-18th August 2006

curated by Emma Lewis
In association with Trampoline and Ginza Art Laboratory

Dislocate is an exhibition examining the tensions between the local and the global - the elements and identity of one local space which are simultaneously intersected by countless global links and influences.

Video City
We are making a final call for video based works. These works will be shown on a showreel and others on single monitors. Moving image work submitted will engage with ideas of geographical and cultural dislocation.
Please submit video work on DVD or Mini DV.


Cardboard City
In our attempt to disturb the boundaries between inside and outside, real and virtual space we are going to make a giant city - out of cardboard - in the gallery.

With the idea of overlaying spaces - reconstructing the city - a new urban landscape will be created in the gallery space - containing the work of artists and the contributions of visitors to the exhibition. Contributors to the exhibition are therefore asked to consider potential architecture which may house their work. These will be replicated in the gallery space in cardboard - but artists are encouraged to supply materials to decorate these cardboard structures. We are asking artists to design and ideally make elements of this cardboard city, which may also house small 2D and 3D works. You are invited to research the urbanscape of Tokyo and particularly the areas of Ginza and Koiwa and design your own structure for the city - if you wish to make this yourself please ensure that it flatpacks - shoe box size is optimum. Over the exhibition we expect the city to grow and expand in new ways. If you are interested to contribute to this city please contact the curator emma@trampoline.org.uk

Please note that we will not be able to transport the artists to Tokyo but we will be able to transport the work.

Deadline to submit proposals is May 31st
Submissions should include:
Completed work
Description of work
CV
Supporting documentation

Please submit to:

Emma Lewis
Trampoline
Broadway Cinema
14-18 Broad Street
Nottingham
NG1 3AL
UK

emma@trampoline.org.uk


thanks Kim

Klaus W. Eisenlohr
8 & 16mm filmworks





Fellow curator Klaus W. Eisenlohr
presents personal several of his works at the kommunales kino freiburg.

Since 1991, filmmaker and photographer Klaus W. Eisenlohr has undertaken visual explorations with his camera. He started off with making Super-8 films, which have been in-camera edited with no further manipulation. This personal stance is being continued in his 16mm films through his own special way of rhythm of movements and edits. His research on architecture and spatial relations took him from Berlin to Chicago, where he has gone deeper into reflections on urban development and the vanishing of public space.

"Klaus W. Eisenlohr is writing filmic diaries with his mechanical camera. He has made his recordings with Super-8 and 16mm in underground tunnels in London, on athmospherical sky views at Berlin Alexanderplatz and about an amiable train stop in the no-mans-land. In his film language, we, the audience, discover the ways - besides the travel notes, rhythmical textures and structures that make us alert - of how Klaus W. Eisenlohr is using his camera like a typewriter keybord to tell intimate stories."
Telemach Wiesinger


kino avantgarde tuesday, 23th may,7pm

kommunales kino
im alten wiehrebahnhof

Urachstr. 40
79102 Freiburg

In case you´re not in Freiburg you can still watch
Courrour Station and Hair - Non Hair on Directors Lounge television