07/07/2012 18/00
UNDERGROUND TRAM STATION LÍŠEŇ—JÍROVA /// TRAM LINE NR. 8 /// 49.2090319N, 16.6865067E /// JÍROVA, BRNO—LÍŠEŇ
Mini film EXCHANGE is mapping forms of the cities in 60s, 70s and 80s. A phenomenon that inspires artists, film makers and others. A selection of documentary and short films.
Programm:
Most // Petr Zikmund ### Lekerekítés/Rounding Off // L. Polyák/ Z. Keserue / Á. D. Dénes ### Petržalka Identity // Juraj Chlpik ### Rahova / D. Možný ### Metropolitan Archelogy // Gruppo Tökmag / Kárpáti György Mór ### Za Zelazna Brama (Behind the Iron Gate) // Heidrun Holzfeind ### The Slovakian National Gallery // Barbara Zavarská / Aleš Šedivec ### The Slovakian Broadcasting Building // Barbara Zavarská / Aleš Šedivec ### Entry // Márk Péter Vargha
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Most
Petr Zikmund (CZ)
The city Most was destroyed for coal. Poetic movie – remake of the old socialistic propaganda. The new better life was planned in the new modern houses. The only one building was saved. In the 1975, the church of Nanebevzetí Panny Marie was moved to 841 meters.
Lekerekítés/Rounding Off
L. Polyák, Z. Keserue, Á. D. Dénes
(HU) 2006-2007
A video (made in different phases with Zsolt Keserue and Ágnes Dénes) about the transformation of the interiors of prefabricated housing estates. Through interviews and research, the video documents attempts and practices to domesticate and alter radically planned spaces. The video has been shown in Budapest (Budapest Filmfestival), Berlin (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein), New York (Hungarian Cultural Institute), Pécs (Európa-ház), Bangalore (Shumuka Gallery) and New Delhi (Lalit Kala Academy) and Rotterdam Documentary Film Festival.
Petržalka Identity
Juraj Chlpik (SK)
2010
The short documentary Petržalka Identity is a follow-up to an exhibition of the same name, presented by Juraj Chlpík on Bratislava’s New Bridge in 2006. With its 130,000 inhabitants, Petržalka is the biggest neighborhood in Bratislava. Three generations have grown up here since it was built. People are dying and being born, a new chapter of history is being written, one that is not perceptible from the outside, but only from the inside, from the point of view of our memories and our intimate personal stories. The movie portrays several people living in this featureless world of concrete, trying to find a place for themselves in this jungle of blocks of flats where they could put down roots. The photography exhibition that preceded the movie was installed in such a way that portraits were lined up on the left side of the bridge, while the photos from the respective flats of these people were put on the right side. In Petržalka Identity Juraj Chlpík opted for a similar method: the impressions expressed by the locals are accompanied with pictures from their flats.
Rahova
David Možný
(CZ) 2008
Video is based on records taken in Rahova housing estate in Bucharest, Romania. It was chosen as the place at the end of utopia. The video recycles and deconstructs the familiar scenery turning it into the distraction. The pre-cast 70s architecture – fighting with its own decay – is facing the digital desintagration. Camera slowly flows through the blocks of houses, the place is empty, just the surface of the concrete housing machine.Through the digitalasing the place, which so deeply roots in its own heavyweight rational reality, it turns into the fragile dreamy construction.
Metropolitan Archelogy
Gruppo Tökmag és Kárpáti György Mór
(HU) 2011
Metropolitan Archeology’, by Gruppo Tökmag, zooms in on everyday urban places and objects that have been damaged, weathered or changed functions through the years. The many layers of posters on a disused billboard, an artistic pattern of chewing gum on the sidewalk, a makeshift wooden fence around a growing tree. The scientific, dry explanation gives the film a comical aspect. Besides the European architecture film festivals in Rotterdam, Antwerp, Brisbane and London, BAFD has meanwhile made a name as well
Za Zelazna Brama (Behind the Iron Gate)
Heidrun Holzfeind
(PL) 2009
The film portrays everyday life in the communist era housing estate Za Zelazna Brama (‘Behind the Iron Gate’). The housing estate was built by a team of architects Jerzy Czyż, Jan Furman, Andrzej Skopiński between 1965-1972 in the center of Warsaw on the ruins of the so-called Small Ghetto. The 19 blocks, each 16 floors high, are based on modern rational principles. They were occupied by workers, functionaries, academics and the Warsaw intelligentsia. In the 1970ies the housing estate was considered a symbol of Polish socialist prosperity and technological progress.
The Slovakian National Gallery
Barbara Zavarská / Aleš Šedivec
(SK) 2010
Present the first video from a serie on young Slovak architecture heritage – The Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava.
The Slovakian Broadcasting Building
Barbara Zavarská / Aleš Šedivec
(SK) 2010
Present the next video from a serie on young Slovak architecture heritage – The Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava.
No Entry
Márk Péter Vargha
(HU) 2011
The photograph have been taken in an abandoned soviet military hospital. There is no electricity, so I had to use my own battery-operated flashgun. I have only one flash, so every light is on a different photo. I made three exposures of all the lights with R-G-B colour filters. I put together them during the post process. This method also has the advantage to freely combine the lights, and to make an animation from the combinations.
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Partners of project Central European Architecture Film Exchange
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle / Warsaw ### Bec Zmiana / Warsaw ### Malopolski Instytut Kultury / Cracow ### Punkt / Bratislava ### 4AM Forum for Architecture and New Media / Brno ### Praguewatch / Prague
http://kek.org.hu/filmnapok/en/ce-architecture-film-exchange/
