19 December 2009 - 8:00pm

Peter Friedl is an artist who lives and works in situ. His artistic practice highlights political awareness, permanent displacement, narratology, and the reinvention of genres left over from the history of modernism. He has participated in documenta X (1997) and documenta 12 (2007). Solo exhibitions include the retrospective survey “Work 1964–2006,” Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Miami Art Central, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille (2006–07), and “Working,” Kunsthalle Basel (200.  » read more

4 December 2009 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

How could "Death of Empedokles", a film from 1986 based on the drama by German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, be envisioned in the year 2009? Filmmaker Robert Bramkamp will talk about formats and will question forms of mediation and a possible rediscovery of the unique quality which is present in the "kinematographic material". The digital presence of a new copy made from the first reel of the Hamburger version is a starting point but will not only lead to questions of distribution but also black holes.  » read more

5 December 2009 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

An archive presents what is behind the creation of a film. How to translate such a structure into an environment that is online?

28 November 2009 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Filmmaker Chantal Akerman will be a special guest invited in the context of "Time Circles", organized by Time Festival. The conversation with Chantal Akerman after a screening of "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" is hosted by Anselm Franke, artistic director of Extra City.

12 December 2009 - 8:00pm

Guest: Eyal Sivan and Manon de Boer

11 December 2009 - 9:00pm - 10:00pm

Guest: Ines Schaber

28 November 2009 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 1975, 201 min DVD screening

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is Chantal Akerman's 1975 experiment in film form, an astonishing work of subtextual feminism which has to count as one of the seminal films of the 1970s. As esteemed critic Manny Farber noted, Akerman's portrait of the daily household routines and self-imposed patterns of a Belgian single mother successfully merged such diverse generic movements as the matriarchal passion play, the architectural ethnography, and the non-narrative examinations of filmed space pioneered by Michael Snow and Andy Warhol into one cohesive precis.  » read more