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Wednesday, November 25, 2020 - 19:00
Written by:
Vika Kirchenbauer
Cinematography:
Vika Kirchenbauer, Rita Macedo
Editing:
Vika Kirchenbauer
Sound:
Vika Kirchenbauer
Music:
COOL FOR YOU
Producer:
Vika Kirchenbauer
In a collage of radically different images, which combines everything from found footage to thermographic images and figurative color compositions, UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS tries to answer a series of questions starting from the concept of visibility and its paradigmatic twin, invisibility. Ranging from scientific and physical observations about the limits of the optic spectrum and about electromagnetic waves, which are used to derive meanings about memory, self-perception, and social perception, the film ponders on the fact of seeing and of being seen, and their intersections. (Flavia Dima, BIEFF 2020)
Director:
VIKA KIRCHENBAUER (b. 1983) is an artist, writer and music producer based in Berlin. In her work, she focuses on topics such as affective subject formation, violence, forms of visibility and invisibility, and institutional power structures. Her works have been shown in galleries and film festivals across the world and she has given lectures at institutions such as NYU and UdK Berlin.
Contact:
VIKA KIRCHENBAUER
Festivals, awards:
Berlinale 2020 / New York Film Festival 2020 / Oberhausen 2020 / CPH:DOX 2020 / Doclisboa International Film Festival / Hamburg ISFF 2020 / EMAF Award and VDFK Media Art Prize – European Media Art Festival 2020
“Melding her leitmotifs together as a whole, which manages to stay faithful to the zig-zagging nature behind the process of self-reflection, VIKA KIRCHENBAUER constructs an essay-film in which light is both central subject and central metaphor. Avoiding the mythological, the filmmaker does reconstruct the process through which an observable natural phenomenon becomes sign and significance - which she appropriates in a subjective discourse. Memories about childhood and adolescence are faced with the post-factum revelations of maturity, which structures naturalized concepts such as gender, violence, work, and laziness. If the sky is an image from the past, and a ghost is the only image that can reverse the process of invisibilization, what is in fact invisibility, once we admit the limits of sight?”(Flavia Dima, BIEFF 2020)