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Cinema Muzeul Țăranului -
Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 21:00
Instituto Cervantes -
Sunday, November 10, 2019 - 16:00
Written by:
Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner
Cast:
Jacob Banigan
Cinematography:
Leonhard Müllner
Editing:
Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner
Sound:
Robin Klengel
Producer:
Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner
Production:
aug&ohr medien
OPERATION JANE WALK is based on the dystopian multiplayer shooter Tom Clancy’s: The Division (Ubisoft Entertainment 2016). In this work, the game’s digital war zone is appropriated with the help of an artistic operation. Within the rules of the game’s software, the militaristic environment is being re-used for a pacifistic city tour. The urban flâneurs avoid combat whenever possible and become peaceful tourists of a digital world, which is a detailed replica of Midtown Manhattan. While walking through the post-apocalyptic city, issues such as architecture history, urbanism and the game developer’s interventions into the urban fabric are being discussed. This project is part of “Total Refusal-Digital Disarmament Movement”. (ROBIN KLENGEL, LEONHARD MÜLLNER)
Director:
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ROBIN KLENGEL (b. 1988, Graz, Austria) is an artist, illustrator and cultural anthropologist. KLENGEL situates his work between art, science and social-political involvement, and participated in various projects and publications in this field. He is vice chairman of the interdisciplinary art and culture space Forum Stadtpark.LEONHARD MÜLLNER (b. 1987, Graz, Austria) is a visual artist and media researcher. He intervenes into the public as well as into the digital space. MÜLLNER has international exhibition, screening and residency experience. He recently won the prize for the Best Austrian Film in the Vienna Short Film Festival (VIS).
Contact:
robin.klengel@mur.at, leonhard.muellner@ufg.at
Festivals, awards:
Best Experimental Award - Bolton International Film Festival, Bolton, UK, 2019 / Jena Lichtstadt Award - Cellu L’art Kurzfilmfestival Jena, Germany 2019 / Best Austrian Film - VIS - Vienna Shorts, Vienna, Austria 2018 / Special Mention - International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany 2019 / Honorary Mention - Doxs! - Documentaries For Children And Youth, Duisburg, Germany 2018 / Honorary Mention - 30th ASIFA Austria - Best Austrian Animation, Vienna, Austria 2018 Documenta Madrid, Spain 2019 / Diagonale - Festival Of Austrian Film, Graz, Austria 2018 / IDFA Amsterdam 2018
'Total Refusal – Digital Disarmament Movement' is an art collective founded in Graz in 2018, consisting mainly of LEONHARD MÜLLNER, ROBIN KLENGEL and Michael Stumpf. In their practice, they critically analyze and appropriate digital game spaces and put them to new use. Moving within games but ignoring the intended gameplay, Total Refusal allocates these resources to new activities and narratives, in order to create “public” spaces imbued with critical, even subversive potential. (http://www.leonhardmuellner.at/total-refusal)