Urban Research on Film 2013
Call for Entries
Deadline Dec 20, 2012
Urban Research is a film and video program
curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr for Directors
Lounge 2013. Urban Research encompasses
explorations of public space, the conditions of
urban life, and interventions in the urban
sphere, by international film and video artists
using experimental, documentary, abstract, or
fictive forms. For The 9th International Berlin
Directors Lounge artists' moving image in any
format except 35mm are welcome.
City life and modernity have been as strongly
connected as film and architecture, two art
practices, which had a strong impact in shaping
the character of the 20th century; playing a
major part in establishing and shaping the myth
of metropolitanism, the myth of modern art, and
of course including the work of
self-mystification. During the twentieth century
both broadcast radio and cinema embraced the
ideological myths of regimes of power. In
post-modern, post-histoire, and post-industrial
art practice, the controversy between l'art pour
l'art and political activism became even more
pronounced, their opposition may have been just
the flip-sides of one coin, while each side
promulgated their part of mythologies, these were
capitalized on more by the art market than they
were appreciated by centers of power or by a
critical public.
However more recently, a different, more critical
practice has developed and a growing number of
artists have become concerned with distinct ideas
about the changing social and spatial frameworks
of the city. Avant-garde film of the 50's and
60's and it's more current reception may or may
not have given new inspirations to these critical
art practices. Those artists intervene in,
irritate, and question the conventionally
received myths. While the digital revolution,
globalization and the spreading financial crises
have had a direct effect on the quality of urban
living space , artists use both analogue and
digital media to question common narratives and
produce new observations.
Urban Research 2013 will be first presented at
Directors Lounge 7--17 February 2013. The program
has also been presented internationally in
screenings in London, Mannheim, Hannover, Poznan,
Freiburg, Essen, Dordrecht, Senigallia, St.
Petersburg and Berlin.
Please ship to:
Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Urban Research, Osnabrücker Str. 25. D-10589
Berlin, Germany
Contact:
klaus |at| richfilm |dot| de
Online submission required:
<http://richfilm.de/DL2013/framesCall.html>http://richfilm.de/DL2013/framesCall.html
You may also consider to submit to Directors Lounge General Call -
I will send out an invite tomorrow. Please don't submit to both
Programs!
Directors Lounge General Open Call
<http://directorslounge.tumblr.com/submitting>http://directorslounge.tumblr.com/submitting
Links:
<http://richfilm.de/DL2013/framesCall>http://richfilm.de/DL2013/framesCall
<http://www.directorslounge.net>http://www.directorslounge.net
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Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Osnabrücker Str. 25, D-10589 Berlin, Germany
email: [email protected]
and film production: http://www.richfilm.de
phone: int.- 49 - 30 - 3409 5343 (BERLIN)
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