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Born 1963, attended the Merz Academy and graduated as a graphic designer from the Johannes Gutenberg School, Stuttgart. Since 2001, conceptual examination of the German state of mind. Member of Gedok Munich, studio at Platform Munich.

Brustbild 4.0

2020 | Animation on smartphone | 20 sec loop

Loved, desired, giving pleasure and life, creating identity or simply obscene – hardly any other part of the body is ascribed as many contradictory attributes as the female breast. In “Brustbild 4.0” I show the constant manipulation of women’s most feminine feature. Retouching apps and image programs on the smartphone allow quick access to one’s own perfection for the next selfie. In digital collage technique, wrinkled skin playfully morphs into multifaceted associations.

Born 1990 in Passau. Studied documentary film at the HFF Munich. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. Guest student at the Universidad de las Artes Aguascalientes Mexico.

Cosecha mecánica

2020 | Single-Channel Splitscreen Video 3 min

Non-playable Latin American game characters (NPCs) work in endless loops alongside propagandistic advertisements for cheap Mexican labor. “Cosecha mecánica” (“Mechanical Harvest”) juxtaposes the U.S. propaganda film WHY BRACEROS? (1962), contemporary sound recordings, and background characters from a modified video game side by side to visually examine how labor is reshaped and its value redefined to serve our consumerist needs.

Collaboration since 2015. Their joint works are interpretation of a peripheral place where lived and worked.

kirchmoarhof-d

2020-21 | interactive Installation

“kirchmoarhof-d” is a space made of 68 links. For several years we worked in a historical farm, shot videos and built objects. “kirchmoarhof-d” is a translation of this historical farm into a website-based environment. The visitor navigates independently through rooms generated from links, which were created with the help of photos, videos and 3D animations. The digital structure “kirchmoarhof-d” works the medium website as a narrative form against the grain. In particular, it attempts to understand the interconnectedness through links as space and to merge it with the spatial facts of the courtyard.

Works with abstract animation, video installation and audiovisual performance. Hattler is Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University Hong Kong. He lives and works in Senden, Bavaria and Hong Kong.

Serial Parallels

2019 | 9 min

This experimental animation film allows the observation of Hong Kong’s built environment from the conceptual perspective of celluloid film and accordingly applies techniques of film animation to the medium of photography. The city’s characteristic architecture, with its apartment blocks towering over the horizon, is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips, thus reducing its formal language to one aspect: serial parallels.

Born in Kaunas, Lithuania. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and Vilniaus Dailės Akademija Kauno Dailės Institutas. She is a member of the board of trustees for the Ostrale biennial O21 / Kaunas 2022. She lives and works in Munich and Lithuania.

EQUINOX K-7392

2019 | Part 2 of a three-part series | 7 min
Konzept: Patricija Gilyte | M: Donatas Bielkauskas (Donis)

In an industrial setting, illuminated pictorial spaces are created that oscillate between a making-of aesthetic, harbor scenes, and celestial spheres. The action depicts a port as a place in changing perspectives. The city becomes a galaxy, ships transform into spaceships, the sun becomes an eyeball, a fish and splits into two courses of action, which can also be seen in parallel in the double projection (Double Sun). The image creation is also space and time creation at the same time. The electric illumination changes into a cosmic glow. The plot shows a cycle of emergence and decline.

The character K marks the geographical point of view (place of production, the port city of Klaipėda), the number 7392 indicates the number of tea lights and thus the amount of light.

EQUINOX K-7392 was created in close collaboration with Lithuanian composer and sound artist Donatas Bielkauskas (Donis). The production sounds, sound of the harbor were recorded on site and turned into a piece of music composed especially for the project.

born 1985 in Würzburg, 2007 studied painting and sculpture at the Freie Akademie der bildenden Künste in Essen. 2018 Master student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. 2019 NRW Bank Art Award and LKART Scholarship of the Julia Stoschek Collection.

STIGMA

2020 | found footage video collage
31 min

Certain recognizable and sufferable types of abnormality have been summarized by the American sociologist Erving Goffman under the general term of stigma. Carriers of a stigma live a difficult life: they are rejected, spread discomfort, cause anxiety among the healthy, as far as the defect is recognizable to everyone. Others, burdened with secret stigma, must deny, deceive, play to continue to be considered normal; they live in fear of discovery and isolation. Lonely are both. (Tilmann Moser on Erving Goffman’s “Stigma”)

born 1968 in Erding. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

phasetrace

2021
two-second-flicks | Video installation
Idea + Animation: Georg Gaigl

On Instagram, Georg Gaigl shows his “two-second-flicks” in the new format of minimalist and poetic film sketches. The acting figures are isolated in front of a monochrome background. The titles are often alienated quotes such as “saying alive” and are spoken on the accompanying soundtrack, sometimes graphically reproduced in the film. The subjects consist of more or less clearly recognizable references to current topics in the contemporary media landscape. The work is continuously updated and is thus also an inventory of the rapidly changing political present.

The Filmkollektiv are Dominik Bais (1992), Vincent Hannwacker (1997), Marie Jaksch (1987), Mara Pollak (1986) and Julian Rabus (*1991) from the class of film and video artist Julian Rosefeldt at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.

Musarion

2020 | 29 min
R+B: collective of artists of the Academy for Fine Arts, Munich

today’s time. Phanias has retreated from Athens to the countryside to leave his old life behind. But one day he meets his former girlfriend Musarion, who wants to bring him back to his senses. The art film is about the struggle for an enlightened form of love that can conquer philosophical and political fanaticism. MUSARION is a film by five young artists and combines elements of the original text, opera, theater, video art and narrative film.

born in 1976 in Schongau. Lives and works in Berlin and Finland. 1996-2005 studied painting and film in Vienna, Helsinki and Potsdam.
Since 1997 production of videos, films and video installations in the field of tension between video collage and auteur film, which were shown in exhibition as well as film context. Member of various art collectives.

Glittering Barbieblood

2021 | Video | 27 min | Single-Channel
Sc+E+P: Ulu Braun

A young mother and her daughters under a bridge. The camera scans the surroundings and follows them around the world. We dive into an imaginative journey about sensory perceptions, self-discovery and social structures. A rebellious „painting by numbers“ under the radar of symbols: From the father (a Mercedes dealer) to the Barbie horse to the ruins of the world‘s largest car factory in Detroit.

born in Munich, early childhood and youth in Spain. 1980-1985 first texts, images and S-8 films influenced by Chantal Akerman and Chris Marker. Studied documentary film at the HFF Munich. Lecturer at the AdBKM, aesthetic theory. Freelance filmmaker, writer and producer lives and works in Munich and Malaga.

Saddling of a Mule – Tableau 1

2021 | 9 min
DOP: Elena Álvarez Lutz

In one shot: a mule is saddled for work. Every movement, every move is part of a precise choreography – a performance that is performed every morning, without an audience.
The work is the first part of a series about customs and traditions of rural Spain that resist modernity.