Klaus W. Eisenlohr and richfilm productions share news and documents from upcoming and past events.

Urban Research: For Directors Lounge 2008 in Februray, I will post here images and links from the submissions to Urban Research. This shall be a source for networking and inspiration, it is not a list of final decisions of the program.
via http://nwfilmforum.wordpress.com In 2005, in an effort to improve its image for the nationwide attention brought to the city by the hosting of the American sporting event, the 2006 Super Bowl, the city of Detroit began demolishing long-vacant buildings, hastening the natural slow decay caused by decades of industrial collapse. As the city dismantles itself, clues to its past resurface. Collections of scraps sifted from rubble—an archeology of unanswered questions—combine to tell a surrogate narrative filled with missing pieces and forgotten motives, old letters, photographs, and home movies. Fractured moments occurring on one summer day, maybe two, echo events from thirty years earlier. The day is sunny, but it is humid, and clouds are gathering. It is going to rain. Interview with Brent Coughenour Interview2 with Brent Coughenour

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In 2005, in an effort to improve its image for the nationwide attention brought to the city by the hosting of the American sporting event, the 2006 Super Bowl, the city of Detroit began demolishing long-vacant buildings, hastening the natural slow decay caused by decades of industrial collapse. As the city dismantles itself, clues to its past resurface. Collections of scraps sifted from rubble—an archeology of unanswered questions—combine to tell a surrogate narrative filled with missing pieces and forgotten motives, old letters, photographs, and home movies. Fractured moments occurring on one summer day, maybe two, echo events from thirty years earlier. The day is sunny, but it is humid, and clouds are gathering. It is going to rain.

Interview with Brent Coughenour

Interview2 with Brent Coughenour


via www.rotat.at Clemens Fürtler is building modells with electric trains and race car tracks. For him they serve as “image machines”. At the same time they become a metaphor of our media-influenced image of urbanity. Clemens Fürtler - artist page at rotat

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Clemens Fürtler is building modells with electric trains and race car tracks. For him they serve as “image machines”. At the same time they become a metaphor of our media-influenced image of urbanity.

Clemens Fürtler - artist page at rotat


via www.translucence.ca TRANSPORT posits public transport as a third space via a series of very short narrative video clips of stories that happened on public transport, “found” stories that happened to us or stories we witnessed, illuminating the quick insight that people have into each other when they travel or wait together. Carlo Ghioni Transport - project page

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TRANSPORT posits public transport as a third space via a series of very short narrative video clips of stories that happened on public transport, “found” stories that happened to us or stories we witnessed, illuminating the quick insight that people have into each other when they travel or wait together.

Carlo Ghioni

Transport - project page


via alexandria.placeinplaceof.net As a most conspicuous outsider walking the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, I came to see my presence in that city as a type of performance. Combining recorded audio of one such walk through a fish market with a staged walk in the studio, this video attempts to communicate the awkwardness of my reluctant yet daily public performance in Alexandria. Jeremy Beaudry - artist page

via alexandria.placeinplaceof.net

As a most conspicuous outsider walking the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, I came to see my presence in that city as a type of performance. Combining recorded audio of one such walk through a fish market with a staged walk in the studio, this video attempts to communicate the awkwardness of my reluctant yet daily public performance in Alexandria.

Jeremy Beaudry - artist page


via dani.cult.bg Negotiations (2006) is a video based on a site-specific performance presented at the exhibition Boundaries at MAN Museum in Nuoro, Italy (2006). This work is an extension of the project Invisible Suits (2005) and explores the limits of cross-cultural communication. In collaboration with Olivia Robinson I developed an interactive system that allows real time video manipulation. Daniela Kostova - artist page

via dani.cult.bg

Negotiations (2006) is a video based on a site-specific performance presented at the exhibition Boundaries at MAN Museum in Nuoro, Italy (2006). This work is an extension of the project Invisible Suits (2005) and explores the limits of cross-cultural communication. In collaboration with Olivia Robinson I developed an interactive system that allows real time video manipulation.

Daniela Kostova - artist page


via http://videomedeja.org/en/mick-skolnick Mick Skolnick: Urban Nocturne Filmed on the streets of Bangkok after dark, Urban Nocturne is an hypnotic panorama of the city that conveys a sense of space and a quality of light and sound that is unique to Bangkok. The film is a series of mesmerizing images set to original electronic music that is a mix of classical Thai vocals and trance-tronic beats. Mick Skolnick Film Preview

via http://videomedeja.org/en/mick-skolnick

Mick Skolnick: Urban Nocturne

Mick Skolnick: Urban Nocturne

Filmed on the streets of Bangkok after dark, Urban Nocturne is an hypnotic panorama of the city that conveys a sense of space and a quality of light and sound that is unique to Bangkok. The film is a series of mesmerizing images set to original electronic music that is a mix of classical Thai vocals and trance-tronic beats.

Mick Skolnick

Film Preview


via http://quadrafonica.blogspot.com/ In the beginning of 2008, video records were done for the first time in the same day in Buenos Aires, Lima, Manila, Santiago e São Paulo. They were exchanged by FTP or by mailing, depending of the speed internet connection of each collaborator. Samantha Crui

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In the beginning of 2008, video records were done for the first time in the same day in Buenos Aires, Lima, Manila, Santiago e São Paulo. They were exchanged by FTP or by mailing, depending of the speed internet connection of each collaborator.

Samantha Crui


via www.international-exhibitionist.org Tracing the life of a large construction site from demolition to the completion of new office space, ‘The Mirroring Cure’ focuses on the company secretary who decides to interview those employed around her. She wants to understand their relationship to work, their hopes, fears and anxieties. Ostensibly a documentary detailing the complexity of personal identities formed through being ‘at work’, as well as the effects of architecture on behaviour. Source: Charlotte Ginsborg at Camden Art Center

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Tracing the life of a large construction site from demolition to the completion of new office space, ‘The Mirroring Cure’ focuses on the company secretary who decides to interview those employed around her. She wants to understand their relationship to work, their hopes, fears and anxieties. Ostensibly a documentary detailing the complexity of personal identities formed through being ‘at work’, as well as the effects of architecture on behaviour.

Source: Charlotte Ginsborg at Camden Art Center


via www.clairehope.btinternet.co.uk In a performative journey around a corporate entrance space, the artist’s non-linear shifts in role subvert the expectations of the environment by descending into an apparently illogical and anarchic array of characterisations. Claire Hope - artist homepage

via www.clairehope.btinternet.co.uk

In a performative journey around a corporate entrance space, the artist’s non-linear shifts in role subvert the expectations of the environment by descending into an apparently illogical and anarchic array of characterisations.

Claire Hope - artist homepage


via www.emedialoft.org Barbara Rosenthal In striking directness and simplicity Barbara Rosenthal adresses issues of urban life. Link: Artist hompeage

via www.emedialoft.org

Barbara Rosenthal

In striking directness and simplicity Barbara Rosenthal adresses issues of urban life.

Link: Artist hompeage