April 2007 Program April 1–30, 2007

• 40 YEARS OF ViDEO ART IN GERMANY
• GÜLSÜN KARAMUSTAFA A SELECTION
• ON ZIZEK

Zizek!
A Pervert's Guide to the Cinema

• NEW AND INDEPENDENT

Death of a President
Renaissance

40 YEARS OF ViDEO ART IN GERMANY
Digital Heritage: Exhibition of Video Art in Germany from 1963 to the Present
40 Years of Video Art in Germany programme was initiated by The German Federal Cultural Foundation documenting one of the prominent genres of 20th century art, of Germany's cultural heritage. The film programme is comprised of 59 films bringing together the most important names of avant-garde video art. Focusing on the consequential part of 20th century's video art, the programme explores a portrait of German art with a wide spectrum from 196O's to present day. The selection of the works has been carried out by an internationally known jury of experts: Dieter Daniels, Rudolf Frieling, Susanne Gaensheimer, Søren Grammel, Wulf Herzogenrath, Nan Hoover, and Doris Krystof. This programme aims also to preserve the films digitally.

PANEL: On German and Turkish Video Art
29 April Sunday 15:00
Speakers: Dr. Wulf Herzogenrath Kunsthalle Bremen, Director 
Gülsün Karamustafa, Artist
David Elliott İstanbul Modern, Direktör

1. PART 1 - 1963-1969

DVD, 162' ,

1963 Wolf Vostell
Sun in Your Head
5' 15"

1965 Peter Roehr
Film Montage 1-111
23' 55"

1965 / 1966 Samuel Beckett
He Joe
33' 52"

1968 / 1969 Jan Dibbets
TV as a Fıreplace
23'

1968 / 1969 Otta Piene / Black Gate Cologne
47'

1969 Gerry Schum
Land Art
31' 56"

PART 2 1969 -1971
DVD, 102'
1969 / 2004 Katharina Sieverding
Life – Death
50'

1970 Joseph Beuys
Filz TV
11' 25"

1971 imi Knobel
Projection
40'

PART 3 1972-1977
DVD, 160'
1972 Jochen Gerz
A Cry to be Consumed
19' 30"

1972 Telewissen
A Documentary of Humanity
30' 15"

1973 / 1977 Friederike Pezold
New Bodily Sign Language
55'

1974 Valie Export
To See and Hear the Space
4' 58"

1974 Ulrike Rosenbach
A Dance far a Woman
8'

1974 / 1975 Rebecca Hom
Berlin - Exercises in Nine Games
40'

1977 Richard Kriesche
Painting Covers, Art Uncovers
3' 12"

PART 4 1977-1978
DVD, 160'

1977 / 1978 The Schleyer Series 1/11
47"

1978 Robert Wilson
Video 50
51' 40"

PART 5 1979-1983
DVD, 149'

1979 Dieter Froese
The Piece in the Country (Failure Piece # 2)
11' 55"

1982 Gerd Conrad / Hartmut Jahn
An Essay on Holger Meins
1982 Our Point of View Today
110'

1982 Jean-François Guiton
Wooden Pieces
6'

1982 / 1986 Dieter Kiessling
Curtains
1 ' 30"

1983 Marina Abramovic / Ulay
City of Angels
20' 09 "

6. PART 6 1983-1984

DVD, 150'

1983 Michael Klier
Giant Man
82'

1983 Malaria!
Money
4'

1983 Franziska Megert-Vogt
Sweet Dressing
3'

1984 Die Tödlche Doris
Live Concert - Paris 1983

Played Back Benin 1984
4' 27"

1984 Nam June Paik
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
57' 52"

PART 7 1985-1993
DVD, 150'

1985 lngo Günther
Five Fifties in the Dark
5' 50"

1986 Marcel Odenbach
As if Memories Could Deceive Me
17' 35"

1988 Bettina Gruber / Maria Vedder
Anubi's Heart Flutter
4' 57"

1988 Kurt Raab / Hanna Baethe / Hans Hirschmüller
Missing Sodomy
47' 20"

1989 Jörg Herold
Body Within Body
11' 40"

1989 Norbert Meissner
Little Easter
6' 30"

1989 Volker Schreiner
WipeBoard
2' 58"

1992 Angelo Melitopoulos
Transfer
12' 23"

1992 / 1993 Dellbrüge & De Moll
Video - Theory 1 - 4, Remix, lnterview
25' 30"

PART 8 1996-1998
DVD, 128'

1996 Daniel Pflumm
Logos on Black
33' 22"

1997 Granular – Synthesis
Sweetheart
7' 30"

1997 Bjem Melhaus
No Sunshine
6' 15"

1998 Piotr Baran
Massdart
98, 57'

1998 Helke Baranowsky
Passage
3'

PART 9 1999-2001
DVD, 173'

1999 Christoph Girardet / Matthiad Müller
Phoenix Tapes,
47'

# 3 Derailed / # 4 Why Don't You Love Me?

1999-2003 Hito Steyerl
Normalities 1-10
37' 09"

2000 Rosemarie Trockel
Buffalo Billy + Milly
5' 45"

2000 Harun Farocki
Prison lmages
60'

2001 Christian Jankowski
The Holy Artwork
15' 52"

2001 Corinna Schnitt
Sleeping Girl
9'

PART 10 2001 -2002
DVD, 105'

2001-2002 Danica Dakic
NY Diary
25' 06"

2002 Alice Creischer / Andrea Siekmann
Always More
9' 37"

2002 Judith Hope / Stephan Geene
From Me Towards You
17' 47"

2002 Nina Könnemann
Unrise
10'

2002 Solmaz Shahbazi / Tirdad Zolghadr
Tehran 1380
45'

2002 / 2004 Bemd Krauss
Middle Frank Region Radio-Television
29' 25"

PART 11 2003
DVD, 147'

2003 Annika Eriksson
Arbeitswelt
140' 13"

2003 Jeanne Faust Röportaj
Interview
9'

PART 12 2004
DVD, 42'

2004 Volker Eichelmann
Kurlichtspiele
6'

2004 Korpys / Löffler
The Nuclear Football
30' 41"

2004 Jan Verbeek
One Wednesday Night in Tokyo
5' 35"

GÜLSÜN KARAMUSTAFA A SELECTION
The programme is comprised of a selection of video works including The Stairway, Men Crying, Memory of Square and Unawarded Performances by prominent Turkish contemporary artist Gülsün Karamustafa. Her subjects and visual language bring an unconventional perspective to the 20th century contemporary Turkish art. Her video work titled The Stairway is based on a short story of four Romanian boys who play the accordion on the Kamonodo staircase which was built by an eminent banking family in Galata, in the 19th century. On Men Crying, she invites famed Turkish film director Atıf Yılmaz as guest director along with renowned actors of the Turkish cinema to perform unprecedented roles. Normally, viewed concurrently on three adjacent screens, Memory of Square, in this programme will be screened back-to-back. Focusing on the relationship between public and private space, Memory of Square juxtaposes life in an apartment building facing Taksim Square vis-a-vis the history of the public square itself. The video work Unawarded Performances is a study of Gagauz women from Moldavia in lstanbul, who are often employed as caretakers for the elderly.

Merdiven/ The Stairway, 4' 46"
Erkek Ağlamaları / Men Crying, 7' 03"
Meydanın Belleği / Memory of Square, 17' 40"
Mükafatsız Fedakarlıklar/ Unawarded Perlormances, 24' 19"

ON ZIZEK

ZIZEK!
USA | 2005, DVD, 71', Color | English - Slovene; Turkish subtitles
Director: Astra Taylor
Cast: Slavoj Zizek

The author of works on subjects as wide-ranging as Alfred Hitchcock, 9/11, Opera, Christianity, Lenin and David Lynch, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek is one of the most important -and outrageous- cultural theorists working today. Zizek! captivating, erudite documentary explores the eccentric personality and esoteric work of this incomparable academic and writer who has been called everything from "The Elvis of Cultural Theory" to "A one Person Culture Mulcher".

A PERVERT'S GUIDE TO THE CINEMA
UK | 2005, DVD, 150', Color | English; Turkish subtitles
Director: Sophie Fiennes
Cast: Slavoj Zizek

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, an extraordinary reassessment of cinema, takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Philosophy and psychoanalysis' unruly child Zizek serves as our presenter and guide, delving into the hidden language of cinema. Zizek comments: "in order to understand today's world, we need cinema; literally, it's only in cinema that we get the crucial dimension which we are not yet ready to confront in our reality. lf you are looking for what is, in reality, more real that reality itself, look into cinematic fiction."

NEW AND INDEPENDENT

DEATH OF A PRESIDENT
UK | 2006, 35 mm, 93', Color | English-Arabic; Turkish subtitles
Director: Gabriel Range
Cast: Hend Ayoub, Brian Boland, Becky Ann Baker, Robert Mangiardi

The year's most talked-about film, Death of a President is conceived as a fictional lV documentary broadcast in 2008, reflecting on a cataclysmic event: the assassination of President George W. Bush on October 19th, 2007. The "documentary" combines archival footage and carefully composed interviews to refashion the event into a gripping story.

RENEISANCE
France, UK, Luxembourg | 2006, 35 mm, 105', Black-White | English; Turkish subtitles
Director: Christian Volckman
Voices: Daniel Craig, Patrick Floersheim, Catherine McCormack, Jonathan Pryce

In 2054, Paris is a labyrinth where all movement is monitored and recorded. Casting a shadow over everything is the city's largest company, Avalon, which insinuates itself into every aspect of contemporary life to seli its primary export - youth and beauty. in this world reality creates captivity.