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.
Martin Brand
The observing and the cinematic and photographic recording of persons give rise to a personal, essay-like approach to an area
6 months ago
via www.ica-d.hu
Zsolt Keserue
“Design cannot do more than create the frame in which human life can settle. Life carves down the edges of the crystal, softens hard forms, shapes the environment. One has to provide space carefully for instictive development. The structure must not be so hard that it would resist the constant mobility and change in life, that would make it inhuman. ”
6 months ago
Batbox/Beatbox
One of the most interesting features of Jani Ruscica’s work is its ‘oblique’, continually changing nature, in which it is difficult to distinguish a fixed point, a univocal direction. As a matter of fact, the artist identifies a sense of persistent temporariness of the present, taking account of the transitoriness and fickleness of individual identity and social relationships.
6 months ago
via www.arkepix.com
Eléonore de Montesqiou
Using a documentary-like practice made up mainly of interviews and film, Eléonore de Montesquiou collects personal stories and descriptions that she turns around into fiction. Link
6 months ago
