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

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

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

Guest: Eyal Sivan and Manon de Boer

Guest: Ines Schaber

Opening of the studios with an introduction to the project, its backgrounds and goals.  » read more

An analysis of Straub/Huillet’s "Sicilia!" in order to address questions of voice and translation according to a materialist practice informed by Walter Benjamin and a contemporary reading of Bertolt Brecht’s alienation principle in theatre performance.

During their long career Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet have developed a practice of montage of different editions of the same film which they made circulate as copies with the same title and the same order of montage. The differences are always made through different takes of the same shot. These editions are normally recognized by the public and the critique as films which are reasonable identic, or at least as films which don't present substantial variants.  » read more

The exhibition will be opened by a screening of "Moses and Aaron", a film by Straub and Huillet from 1975. The movie will be introduced by filmmaker Eyal Sivan. "With Moses und Aron, I have tried to destroy Stravinsky’s quote saying that music was powerless to express the most abstract, the most ordinary, the most concrete things." (Jean-Marie Straub).  » read more