Ferdinand Khittl, Die Parallelstraße, 1961
35 mm on Digi Beta, bw, German, 86 min.
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Sealed off from the outside world, five men are discussing a series of documents,
whereas a sixth man writes the protocol of this discussion, which from the very beginning is doomed to failure.

Jean-Pierre Gorin, Poto and Cabengo, 1979
16mm, English, 73 min.
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The film follows the story of two twin sisters, who developed their own language in the 1970s and refused to communicate with the outside world.

Trinh T. Minh-ha, Reassemblage, 1982
16 mm on Digi-Beta, English, 40 min.
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“I do not intend to speak about. Just speak nearby,” says Trinh T. Minh-ha at the beginning of her film, which questions the ethnological gaze and its supposed neutrality.

Juan Downey, The Laughing Alligator, 1979
Video, USA/Venezuela, English, 26:30 min.
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The Laughing Alligator is based on recordings Juan Downey shot in Venezuela when he was living with his family among the Yanomamies.

Ken Feingold, Un chien délicieux, 1986–1991
Video, English subtitles, 18:45 min.
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A Burmese tells how he convinced André Breton to serve dog in Paris.

Sarah Vanagt, Little Figures, 2003
35mm on DVD, English subtitles, 15:47 min.
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Children of different migrant backgrounds lend their voice to three sculptures from Belgian history.

Neïl Beloufa, Kempinski, 2007
Video, French with English subtitles, 15 min.
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Amateur actors from Mali are talking at night in the periphery of Bamako about their conception of the future.

Nástio Mosquito, Frozen War, 2010
Video, Englisch, 7:06 min.

Astrid S. Klein, Rue Gutenberg, 2010
Video, French with English subtitles, 45 min.
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Conversation with the Ivorian journalist and radio producer Souleymane Coulibaly, aka Soro Solo, about oral traditions of knowledge production and memory.

Damir Ocko, Spring, 2012
Video, English, ca. 20 min.
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In this film Damir Ocko densely interweaves four poems recited from the off with shots of extremely corporal strains and balancing acts, and with pictures of an active volcano.

Wu Tsang, For How we Perceived a Life (Take 3), 2012
16 mm on DVD, English, 9:34 min.
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For how we perceived a life (Take 3) appropriates interviews from Paris is Burning as a jumping-off point for further inquiry into issues of identity, agency, representation, and exploitation. Paris is Burning is Jennie Livingston’s influential 1990 documentary about New York City’s underground ball culture, which introduced ideas of voguing, serving, and “realness” to mainstream audiences. Tsang’s project re-embodies the interviews of ball artists featured in Paris is Burning, framing self-representation and context as a performance in and of itself, one  that is subsequently edited by filmmakers who, like Tsang, have their own agendas. By appropriating and re-making the “reality” of Livingston’s documentary in deadpan quotes, Tsang calls into question his own agency as a filmmaker struggling to represent voices that are similar to, but not his own.

Anders Kreuger, Subtitles, 2008
Video, English, 25 min.
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“Little Daddy Cardboard! Little Daddy Cardboard! That’s me! Actually, you’re not allowed to stand on tables if you’re a human being, or a dog, or a table, or in the ceiling. Well, only if you’re a fly!” (from Subtitles)
Subtitles consists of Kreuger’s own subtitles to an episode of the children’s television series Det Bara Händer (an untranslatable pun combining two meanings: “just happening” and “bare hands”) by Staffan Westerberg, produced for Swedish Television in 1972. “I have collapsed a whole archive of the Self into this one episode, which I found a few years ago when I spent several months studying audiovisuals from the 1970s. I remembered it, frame by frame, from when I was seven. I also remember being offended by the over-aestheticized pedagogy. But that might as well be someone else’s memory.” (Anders Kreuger)

Ciprian Muresan, Dog Luv, 2009
Video, Language: Romanina with English subtitles, 30:56 min.
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In this puppet film a group of dogs discusses the violence in the history of mankind.
 
Raphael Montañez Ortiz, What is this?, 1985     
Video, 9:15 min.
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In a radical way this film dissolves the order of a found Hollywood movie.

Miranda Pennell, Tattoo, 2001
Video, bw, 9 min.
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Tattoo is based on black-and-white recordings of a military parade, mounted such that the marches turn into absurd dances.

Ventura Pons, Ocaña. Retrato Intermitente, 1978
Video, Spanish with English subtitles, 79 Min..
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Portrait of the Spanish artist José Pérez Ocaña who counts among the protagonists of Barcelona’s queer underground in the 1980s.

Romuald Karmakar, Das Himmler Projekt (The Himmle Project), 2000
Digi-Beta, German with English subtitles, 182 min.
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Das Himmler-Projekt is the reenactment of a three-hour speech by Heinrich Himmler performed by the actor Manfred Zapatka. The original speech was held in 1943 during a clandestine meeting in Poznan in front of ninety-two SS-generals.

Asta Gröting, Arbeiter Lehrer Unternehmer, 2000
Video, German, 2:03 min.
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An open slugfest about identity and status symbols.

Harun Farocki, Die Schulung, 1987
Video, German with English subtitles, 44 min.
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This film documents a five-day seminar for managers, the aim of which was to learn linguistic and corporeal sales strategies.

Harun Farocki, Die Umschulung, 1994
Video, German, 44 min.
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The same teacher as in Die Schulung coaches a group of East German employees to improve their sales skills.

Asta Gröting, Oldtimer, 2000
Video, German, 5:07 min.
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A capitalist-critical dispute about old and new values.

Zanny Begg & Oliver Ressler, The Bull Laid Bear, 2012
Video, English with German subtitles, 24 min.
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Based on interviews with economists, activists, a criminologist, and a blogger, The Bull Laid Bear circles around the financial crisis after 2008.

Pierre-André Boutang, Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze (Gilles Deleuze’s ABC), 1988
French with German subtitles
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Claire Parnet asks the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze about his relationship to a series of terms, ordered in an alphabetical way from A like animal to K like Kant and Z like zigzag.
 
Monday, November 5, 2012, 7 p.m.
Part 1: A–F [Animal, Boisson (Drink), Culture, Désir (Desire), Enfance (Childhood),
Fidélité (Fidelity)], 145 min.
 
Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 7 p.m.
Part 2: G–M [Gauche (The Left), Histoire de la philosophie (History of Philosophy), Idee (Idea), Joie (Enjoyment), Kant, Littérature (Literature), 162 min.
 
Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 7 p.m.
Part 3: N–Z [Neurologie (Neurology), Oper (Opera), Professor,
Question, Résistance (Resistance), Style, Tennis, Un (The One), Voyages (Journeys), Wittgenstein, XY Unbekannt, Zigzag (Zickzack)], 146 min.

Antoni Muntadas + Marshall Reese, Political Advertisement VIII 1952–2012
Video, 1984-2012, English, ca. 90 min.
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This work in progress is a montage made out of TV clips from US presidential election campaigns since 1952. With each new election the video work is expanded.