Video Screenings
CDMX & LA artists
Oct 30
Berlin artists
Oct 28
Berlin Program
Tonalá 43, Cuauhtémoc, Roma Nte., Cuauhtémoc, 06700 Ciudad de México
Thadeusz Tischbein, Kingdom of the Animals (Reich der Tiere), 2024
Tuesday, Oct 28
61 min
David Krippendorff, Giorgio Cappozzo & Robert Gschwantner, Yuki Jungesblut, Katie Vida, Martina Morger & Lukas Zerbst, Nathalie Grenzhaeuser, Thadeusz Tischbein.
Presented by Berlin project spaces: HilbertRaum, Frontviews, Axel Obiger, Scotty, Zuostant.
Selected by Clemens Wilhelm.
David Krippendorff
From the trilogy Lament: KALI, 2017
9 min
davidkrippendorff.com
@davidkrippendorff
In "Kali", the lyrics of Nina Simone’s rendition of Pirate Jenny, the song from the Brecht/Weill "Three Penny Opera", are rewritten and transformed into a monologue performed in Arabic by actress Hiam Abbass. The film tackles issues of oppression, exploitation, and injustice; its title refers to the Hindu goddess associated with empowerment, time, and change. Although presented as dark and violent, the goddess Kali also stands for the annihilation of evil forces, which perfectly reflects the spirit of the text: an angry plea for vengeance over injustice and oppression.
Giorgio Cappozzo & Robert Gschwantner
The Perfect Circle, 2007
9 min
The video "The Perfect Circle" starts showing the picture of a circular lake in the centre of the drawing-board designed city of Lingang New City in China. It is the latest example of modern spatial design referring back to the Park of Versailles created by André Le Nôtre in the 17th century. The video thus only appears to have been shot in an utopian landscape, yet this space is real: The topography of Versailles is an artificial nature anticipating the later dominant European urban planning with its main transverse and diagonal axes connected by circular, semicircular, and star shaped spaces.
Yuki Jungesblut
Heikegani, 2022
5 min
A lonely crab moves to the incessant beat of abstracted classical dance music (Ravel‘s "Bolero").The crab becomes a performer, fighting with and courting its own mirror image. It laments its eternal anger. The Heikegani (Heikeopsis japonica) is a species of crab native to Japan, with a shell that bears a pattern resembling a human face which some believed to be the face of an angry samurai. It is a local legend that these crabs are reincarnations of the Heike warriors defeated at the Battle of Dan-no-ura as told in The Tale of the Heike.
Katie Vida
Chaosmosis, 2025
8 min
A Snapchat montage considering the theme of chaos and readymade technological detritus, including unlikely textures and narrative sequences.
Martina Morger & Lukas Zerbst
Cleaning Sappho, 2018
8 min
Being specifically interested in women’s history and domestic labour, the series "Cleaning Her" centres around sculptures created by women artists. Many public sculptures are in poor condition and in need of care. The artist Martina Morger traces the surfaces of each object in both a caring and cleansing act. Playing with the tropes of the archetypal maintenance worker’s role, which mostly occurs unnoticed by urban society, her action draws attention to undervalued labour and forgotten objects. In this case cleaning Sappho, a sculpture by Adelaide Pandiani Maraini in order to shine a light on the utterly neglected sculpture.
Nathalie Grenzhaeuser
Sketches, 2016
8 min
"Sketches" explores the Arctic landscape between nature and scientific research. The video is part of the "Arctic Series", a body of work that reflects on the relationship between nature and technology in the form of climate research facilities. The footage was shot in March 2015 at the AWIPEV Research Base in Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen.
Thadeusz Tischbein
Kingdom of the Animals (Reich der Tiere), 2024
16 min
A grand tour of Germany's National monuments: Thadeusz Tischbein has been on a journey to Germany’s largest National monuments, some of the heaviest chunks in the nation's digestive tract, so to speak. And there he came across all sorts of animals, which do not accidentally come into conversation with mythical creatures and animals from legends and myths. After all, the Brothers Grimm were also involved in the fairy tale of the ancient nation called Germany.
LA & CDMX Program
Av. P.º de la Reforma 51, Polanco, Bosque de Chapultepec I Secc, Miguel Hidalgo, 11580 Ciudad de México
Los Angeles Program
Osceola Refetoff, Sea of Change, 2024
Thursday, Oct 30
45 min
How do people deal with sea level rise, gun violence, loneliness, Ketchup, cultural generation, and the LA river, among other things?
Mike Saijo, Wazeem Marzouki, May Sun/Juri Koll, Ulysses Jenkins, Jason Jenn, Cosimo Cavallaro, Kadri Koop, Osceola Refetoff
Presented by Venice Institute of Contemporary Art (VICA)
Selected by Juri Koll.
Marzouki
Phobia
2020
(7 min)
@waseemmarzouki
Being free grants you the grace of sharp vision: to be able to capture a broken edge within a distant window from a vast space. On the other hand, the opposite could verily not, even if that edge was nipping at your nose.
May Sun/Juri Koll
Meltdown: Weapons of Mass Construction
2018
(9 mins)
maysunstudio.com
veniceica.org
The death toll from gun violence in the U.S. per capita is catastrophic. How do guns affect our society and what is being done - how do we turn swords into plowshares?
Ulysses Jenkins
Emergency
2025
(5:10 mins)
hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2022/ulysses-jenkins-without-your-interpretation
This acclaimed artist poses the question of our present circumstances in the tyranny era.
Ulysses Jenkins
Vulnerable
2000
(4:24 min)
hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2022/ulysses-jenkins-without-your-interpretation
An art film by this acclaimed “artist’s Artist” about the potential for solitude, violence, and loneliness in the City of Angels.
Cosimo Cavallaro
I am here
2017
(4:30 mins)
This is an archival film of one of Cavallaro’s earliest “Rooms”, made in Canada before he moved to New York and then LA, where he resides now.
Kadri Koop
I’m Expecting
2024
(6:28 min)
A film about a woman who is living in the anticipation of her dreams coming true.
Osceola Refetoff
Sea of Change
2024
(8 min)
Sea of Change is envisioned as a perpetual work in progress. Using footage shot by Osceola Refetoff, and collected from places like NASA, it challenges us to look at sea level rise. The film will evolve with each new set of images and data. In the spirit of film director Kenneth Anger and the immortal words of Marcel Duchamp, the project will ever remain “definitively unfinished.”
CDMX Program
Elena Pardo, Inside we are color, 16mm
Thursday, Oct 30
90 min
This program will explore narratives that challenge conventional formats, using analog and digital techniques to reflect on themes such as territory, memory, and ancestral knowledge.
Curated by Regina de Con Cossío and Andrea Paasch, the selection will feature works by prominent filmmakers and audiovisual artists Elena Pardo and Bruno Varela, offering an immersionin analog and expanded cinema.
Bruno Varela
The Light Is Heavy
35mm
(7 min)
With live music by Steven Brown
@bruno_varelar
Bruno Varela
Neon Spores
16mm and Super 8, transferred to video
(12 min)
@bruno_varelar
A 28-minute piece described as "excavation cinema," which uses S8 and 16mm to connect ancestral times with speculative fictions, imaginary archaeologies, and the incomplete histories buried in the landscape.
Elena Pardo
Underground Pulses
16mm
transferred to video
20 min
elenapardo.com
Bruno Varela
Black Pollen,
35mm
expanded version
(13 min)
With live soundtrack by Steven Brown
@bruno_varelar
Elena Pardo
Inside we are color
16mm
expanded version
(30 min)
With live soundtrack by Valeria Jonard and Abderrahman Anzaldua
A 16mm film exploration of the ancestral knowledge of native plants from the state of Oaxaca, used for both curing and dyeing.