Filminstitut UdK

27/11/2020

This semester, Constantin Hartenstein is teaching a seminar together with Prof. Jimmy Robert on the topic „Video Performance“. In the block seminar, the participants develop their own performances which will be presented in an exhibition in Berlin February and April, 2021. The seminar reflects on new forms of performance art and its ability to question social categorisations, discourses and contents beyond heteronormativity.
In their first meeting, the group answered the following task through a performative action online: „Describe your current state of mind in one word. What word is stuck in your head these days the most?“ This is the result.

23/10/2020

New acquisitions for Filminstitut‘s library and Video Lounge.

16/10/2020

Check this out! This is @constantinhartenstein ‘s upcoming seminar with Prof. Jimmy Robert. Scroll right and see the second picture for detailed information. We wish y’all a good start to the new semester!

09/10/2020

This is Hana Yoo.
Alumni of class Nina Fischer. Her works mainly deal with the altered mental states derived from technical apparatus.

What are you working on currently?
: I am currently writing a script, which is a dialogue between a fish in the lab and a rat ghost.
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Tell us a little about your creative flow?
: Mostly from readings! Then I try my best to make them non-sense.
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Her recent work will be presented in a solo exhibition from 29.10 to 11.11 in Diskurs Berlin. You will see many cows there!

https://yoohana.net

02/10/2020

A throwback to the final exhibition of Constantin Hartenstein's Seminar Weltuntergang Display in July.

25/09/2020

This is a film excerpt from Frédéric Jaeger's short. The film has received a 'Honorable Mention' at the Achtung Berlin Film Festival last week. Frédéric is a graduate of film studies and philosophy of the Freie Universität Berlin, currently studying film at UdK Berlin under prof.Thomas Arslan. He is also chief editor of German online movie magazine critic.de and a freelance film critic.
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Short Synopsis:
For the shooting of his new film, Navid travels to the outskirts of the city, to where the easternmost subway in Berlin has its terminus. His plan is simple: he wants to find misogynist men and convince them to wear women's clothes so that they can finally experience misogyny at first hand. But his assistant knows better.

11/09/2020

This is the trailer of Hazal Kara and Sezin Ertek’s short YANKI. Hazal Kara is an alumna of Prof. Thomas Arslan’s Narrative Film Class. Sezin Ertek is currently doing her Meisterschüler in the same class. They are currently working on their upcoming project. we are looking forward to see more from them and wish them best of luck!
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Synopsis:
„Scared and courageous, at home but not feeling safe at the same time...
A woman, a journalist, having served prison time because of her book, wins her freedom back and comes back to life she left behind. A chaotic Istanbul combined with the traumas of dark days past, she spends a day full of fear and paranoia. Is it possible to get used to live in constant fear?“
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@hazalkara
@sezinertek
Cinematography: @aysealacakaptan

04/09/2020

Fresh arrivals for Film Institut Video Lounge!

28/08/2020

This is a short trailer of our Philipp Fröhlich’s latest work! He is an Alumni of Thomas Arslan's narrative film class. He just finished post production for the feature documentary „The third person“ which follows the daily life of Phearong - a young Khmer woman working for the British embassy in Phnom Penh - and her partner Mateusz - a young man from Poland working for the EU delegation to Cambodia.

https://philippfroehlich.cargo.site

14/08/2020

Ignition Cycle Ecology of Attention #1
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The performance-exhibition "Ignition Cycle" takes as its point of departure an energetic and repetitive point in time at which the body is forced to be in a continuous state of performing; balancing between lethargy and acceleration.
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With performances and installations by Nicholas Grafia & Mikołaj Sobczak, Constantin Hartenstein, Janne Nora Kummer & Anton Krause, Nguyễn + Transitory, Ania Nowak, Lilly Pfalzer
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August 29, 2020; 6-10 pm
Alte Münze, courtyard and basement house 3, Molkenmarkt 2, 10179 Berlin
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Free admission - more information under:
https://mmpraxis.com

07/08/2020

While @filmfestlocarno is going on and showing an inspiring selection of films, here is a special recommendation from us: O Bobo by José Álvaro Morais, one of the unique masterpieces of Portuguese cinema. Available online on Mubi.

“It is a kaleidoscope of gestures, words, sounds, mise-en-scène, scene transitions and shot junctions. Everything is operatic in The Jester. But there’s nothing grand about it, because it’s a comic opera. The film’s musicality, which is sensual, swinging and ironic, does not conceal the seriousness of the wounds.”
- Miguel Gomes

31/07/2020

Friday's good news: Wolf Kino is back! Check out their upcoming events & workshops and the films showing now. Welcome back Wolf

24/07/2020

July This is Silke Schwarz. She is an alumni of UdK-Media Art. Her latest work can be seen at Kunstverein Tiergarten (Galerie Nord) as a part of the exhibition „this far and no further“ till the end of August. Detailed information on her webpage:
http://www.schwarzsilke.de/
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• How do you stay creative nowadays? - Everyday life inspires me. What do I personally perceive? Which topics are negotiated socially? What happens on the social media channels, which headlines accompany us all day long? In what language are political news communicated? What social fears haunt us, what moves us as a collective? And the associated feedback, to what extent do I put myself in a particular discourse as an individual? • What are you working on at the moment? - I am currently preparing the next exhibition for the Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel, which will open in October. Together with the artist Jana Doell, we both enter into a dialogue with our works.
Exhibition: It's all about you and me, Oct 4 - Nov 1, 2020.

17/07/2020

by Häly Heinecker (script), Clarissa Undritz (singing) and Hedi Yatouji (composition) at UdK Rundgang 2020

10/07/2020

Come see our works from the seminar Weltuntergang at #KunstRaumStadt this upcoming Thursday and Friday at UdK Konzertsaal, Fasanenstr. 1b (windows)

Der Alternative Rundgang findet an folgenden Tagen, zu folgenden Zeiten statt:
Donnerstag, 16. Juli, 16.00 - 22.00 Uhr
Freitag, 17. Juli, 10.00 - 16.00 Uhr
@ Konzertsaal der UdK Berlin

26/06/2020

Works in progress for our upcoming group exhibition!

ARTISTS
Shiwa Ghanbari
Anastasia Hafermaas
Julie Hart
Häly Heinecker
Christina Huber
Anna Ilin
Jason Jo Michael Kittner
Alexander Klaubert
Selina Laut
Zuki Ringart
Liese Schmidt
Maxim Tur
Clarissa Maria Undritz
Hedi Yatouji

Display
Mansteinstr. 16
10783 Berlin

OPENING, July 3, 6pm
EXHIBITION, July 4-5, 2pm – 6pm

The UdK Film Institute and Display are hosting WELTUNTERGANG, an exhibition of works resulting from the eponymous seminar held by Constantin Hartenstein at UdK's Institute for time-based media.

As a starting point for an extreme model of thought, imagine this: ALL relevant energy resources on earth have been used up. Electricity per se is nonexistent. All hard drives, projectors, cameras and technical devices can only be used to a very limited extent. In this neo-surreal set-up, the participants of the seminar developed their own artistic works - without the use of any electricity for production and presentation. During the exhibition, the gallery is operated entirely without electricity as well.

Due to life-changing cuts in the current, own filmmaking process and limited availability of means of production, how can we rethink "the cinematic" realm? What is "the new normal" in film? And how can (moving) images exceed their medium?

Live performances by Hedi Yatouji/Clarissa Maria Undritz as well as Selina Laut take place at the opening night. Please arrive early.

Restricted visit conditions: 2 pers. at a time, with face mask and outside 1,5 distance rule

Organizational Assistance: Deniz Simsek
Curatorial Advisor: Marie du Pasquier
Design Invite: Max Quecke

We acknowledge the necessity to stand up against racial injustice, police violence and against racism, and stay in solidarity and support.

19/06/2020

Highly recommended: @playback_shortfilm

This excellent hybrid documentary short, 2020 @teddyaward winner, is now available at @hotdocs_

12/06/2020

June - This is Maryna Makarenko. She is doing her Meisterschüler in the class “Experimental Film” of Prof. Nina Fisher.
These are video stills from her installation “Walking on a Sleeping Elk”, that illustrates the subculture of urban exploration “stalking” that emerged in post-soviet countries in 90s.

• How do you stay creative nowadays?
-To stay creative I move. Ideas never come to me if I sit down with a paper to generate them. They come when I dance, run, spend time with friends, stay with nature, basically come back to simple Paleolithic activities. Studio practice is a final touch after putting all these colours together. I enter my creativity through my physicality. Sometimes it feels like it is triggered by the most boring actions.
•What are you working on at the moment? -On making friends with my inner dictator, nourishing the child inside, not giving too much power to my body over my mind and vice versa and creating a mind-space for my Meisterschüler project about eating the Sun.

http://marynamakarenko.com/

#udk #mediaart

(The portrait of Maryna, first image, by @fochesatoalessandra ) @ Filminstitut UdK

05/06/2020

Film recommendation of the month: Ashes by Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2012, 20’

"Ashes contemplates love, pleasure, and the destruction of memory. The surroundings of everyday life are shared with extreme intimacy. For Apichatpong, Thailand, while full of beauty, is slowly collapsing into darkness.”
Available at @mubi library!

29/05/2020

#Repost @scharaun
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Starting this Friday! new SCHARAUN website with online project KINO SIEMENSSTADT running from 29.5.20 - 28.5.20 @olafstueber #videoart #videoartatmidnight #architecture #anrisala #artistfilms

22/05/2020

In Filminstitut’s online seminar WELTUNTERGANG, by Constantin Hartenstein, first project ideas have been presented. Beautiful works are coming up for our exhibition in July! Brief info:
The seminar deals with the presentation of artistic works of time-based media after a fictitious apocalypse. The participants will develop their own artistic works, which will then be shown in a final exhibition in @_display_ DISPLAY BERLIN - completely without electricity - in July 2020. & @constantinhartenstein and @ds.constantinopolis
#udkberlin #berlinart

30/03/2020

VITRINE is an exhibition project which started in the seminar "Banned Movies" at the UdK Filminstitut. Each week, a student showed a new work that related to current circumstances, a movie that we discussed or a free topic. It's probably Berlin's smallest gallery 😂

VITRINE even has a website. Check out the exhibitions here:

www.vitrine-berlin.de

We will continue with new exhibitions soon. Stay tuned ⚒

@udkberlin
@schrankamflur 👋🏻

#udkfilminstitut #vitrineberlin #microexhibition #artinsmallspaces

06/02/2020

It's a wrap 🥬 #drehschluss #verbotenefilme #workinprogress #seminar #udk

29/01/2020

Gabriel Rosza filming a soon-to-be censored film for the seminar "Banned Movies" by Constantin Hartenstein @udkberlin Medienhaus ... stay tuned ...

#udk #seminar #bannedmovies #filming #makesomemagic #deadfish

15/12/2019

Filminstitut UdK updated their address.

Filminstitut UdK updated their address.

15/12/2019

Filminstitut UdK updated their website address.

Filminstitut UdK updated their website address.

11/12/2019

New acquisitions for the Filminstitute library and video lounge 🎻✨

04/12/2019

Special screening today: our guest @theresekoppe introducing her film "Im stillen laut" in the framework of the seminar "Banned movies" led by @constantinhartenstein

!Thanks for coming over!

#udkfilminstitut #screening #imstillenlaut @ UDK Medienhaus

27/11/2019

Thank you @wolfkinogang for hosting our screening of Fabian Püschels very touching film "Die Nutzlosen". And thanks to everyone who came out tonight!

#screening #udkfilminstitut #fabianpüschel

@ Wolf

21/11/2019

New acquisitions for the Filminstitute library and video lounge, and the library of Klasse Narrativer Film:

1-Flux Film Anthology
2-Jonas Mekas: Sleepless Night Stories, Guns of the Trees, The Sixties Quartett
3-Roland Klick: Bübchen
4-Marcel Hanoun: L'été, L'autonomie
5-Patrick Deval: acéphale
6-Klaus Wyborny: short and long films
7-Maya Deren: dance films
8-Philippe Garrel: l'enfant secret

20/11/2019

Am kommenden Mittwoch, den 27.11.19 um 19 Uhr im WOLF-Kino, präsentiert das FILMINSTITUT der UdK
anlässlich der neuen DVD-Veröffentlichung „Die Nutzlosen“ von Fabian Püschel.

"DIE NUTZLOSEN ist ein im besten Sinne eigenwilliger Film. Ein kleines Einfamilienhaus am Stadtrand. Der Filmemacher lebt hier mit seiner Freundin und ihrem gemeinsamen Kind, vermutlich zur Miete. Fabian Püschel hat einen Film über seinen Alltag gemacht. Nicht als dokumentarisches Home-Movie, sondern als Spielfilm. Die Personen spielen sich selbst. Fabian ist ein arbeits- und mittelloser Filmemacher. Seine Tätigkeit betrachtet er als „potentielle“ Arbeit. Seine Freundin Sina verdient das Geld, das kaum zum Leben reicht. Fabian Püschel hat DIE NUTZLOSEN in einem Zeitraum gedreht, als er gerade auf dem Weg war von einer schweren Krankheit zu genesen. Der Film ist jedoch keine triste Introspektion, sondern als Komödie angelegt. Fabian bekommt Besuch von einem Freund. Während seine Freundin abwesend ist und arbeitet, verbringen die Männer den Tag im verwilderten Garten. Das Kind, ein kleiner Junge, ist eher dabei, als dass sie sich wirklich um ihn kümmern. Sie schwadronieren über Kampfkunst, Outdoor-Survival, und die bevorstehende Zombie-Apokalypse. Der Freund improvisiert Songs auf der Ukulele. Sie vertreiben sich die Zeit am Lagerfeuer und in einem alten stillgelegten Auto. Existenzen kurz vor dem Ernstfall. Fabian Püschel ist hierbei gnadenlos selbstironisch mit sich selbst und seiner Rolle als Filmemacher. Gezielt wird hier nichts klassisch „auf den Punkt“ hin konstruiert: weder die Dialoge, noch die Cadragen oder die Montage. Der Film ist radikal albern, sehr komisch und traurig zugleich. Fabian Püschel wurde kurz nach Fertigstellung des Films von seiner Krankheit eingeholt. DIE NUTZLOSEN ist sein filmisches Vermächtnis."

Thomas Arslan