Filmfest Exhibition

The Zentrum für Kunst was developed in a dialogical and participatory manner on the basis of the Bremen Cultural Promotion Report initiated by the Department of Culture. The Zentrum für Kunst was opened in January 2023 – with studio space for over 40 visual artists, two stage halls and rehearsal rooms for dance, theater and music, as well as multifunctional rooms for variable use by the scene and associations. The Zentrum für Kunst, which is managed as a department of the Senator for Culture, is a funding instrument for professional freelance artists in Bremen, whose active participation in the identity and mission statement of the house is a prerequisite.

As part of this year’s festival, the Zentrum für Kunst will become an exhibition space for invited artists to present their projects and video installations.

Opening hours

Thu. 20 March 6 – 10 p.m.

Fri. 21 March 4 – 7 p.m.

Sat. 22 March 4 – 10 p.m.

Sun. 23 March 4 – 6 p.m.

Admission free

Guided tour / Q&A

Sat. March 22, 5 p.m. Admission free.

Shuttle at 16.15 from NOON

after prior arrangement via peters@filmfestbremen.com

Phantom Limb

by Alex Beriault

At the Zentrum für Kunst (ZFK), Alex Beriault presents her exhibition “Phantom Limb”, which includes the video “Birth Proof” and a photo installation with Xerox prints from her performance “Young Professionals”.

A central object in “Young Professionals” is a photocopier/printer, which Beriault transforms into a performative tool. It creates surreal, distorted images as a by-product of her performance. As she moves her body through the machine’s scanning light, flowing, abstract distortions emerge – an almost otherworldly series of photocopies that blur the boundary between still and moving image.

In “Birth Proof”, Beriault uses light in a sculptural way to distort a human form in a disturbing, almost clinical manner. The light scans the body with a simultaneously gentle and uncanny quality, illuminating it and distorting its contours in an undefined, all-encompassing darkness – a space without gravity or orientation.

The video installation DAYS IN WINTER is a fictional reconstruction of a true event. Between individualization and isolation, suicide or suicide.

A work by “kollektiv soziales geräusch” (2021 – 2024).

The associative environments / images from life situations and experiences of the protagonist enable the viewer to emotionally grasp the cognitive content. The auditory level is an assemblage of the voice of thought, comments by experts and a composition for mezzo-soprano, bass-baritone, breath choir and musique concrète.

The topic of suicide has great social relevance. By presenting the psychological, social and economic factors, DAYS IN WINTER can shed light on the subject and break down prejudices. The installation can help to illustrate the complexity of the subject.

The diary entries and thoughts are fictionalized/literary. Thanks to the support of medical advice, there is a professional basis for the sociological-artistic video installation.

Days in Winter

by Carsten Fuhrmann

Reel Back and Forth:

60 Years of Super-8

With the friendly support of

Cinema screening with the film teams on 23.3. at 8.30 pm at Theater Kleines Haus. Admission free.

Super 8 came onto the market 60 years ago and made it possible and affordable for ambitious amateurs to shoot film for the first time. We are delighted that the Super 8 format enjoys cult status six decades later and that the Bremen Super 8 Evening has enjoyed unbroken popularity among filmmakers and audiences for 21 years now. This loop contains six films that were made as part of various Super 8 evenings organized by the Filmbüro. Some of them were dubbed with text, music or dialog, for others the soundtrack was recorded live in the cinema. What they all have in common is that no post-production or off-camera editing took place on the image level. An analog experiment in digital times and a tribute to the charm of Super 8.

The following films will be shown

Die Geburt der Space Anacondas   by Ubeyde Cimen and Ina Schenker

Eingang 13c   by Julian Elbers and Donka Dimova

The Cursed Cursor   by Dirk Osmers and Henning van Lil

The Bug   by Daniel Meißner

Duke   by Clara Bausch

Aufzeichnungen eines Ausflugs   by Malte Servaty, Paula Britt, Nele Haland

Length of the Loop: ca. 18 Minutes

Performance

YOUNG PROFESSIONALS

Expanded Cinema &

Sound Performance

Sound Artists:

Liesl Lindeque & Timon Gummich

Thu. 20 March 8 p.m.

Sat. 22 March 6.30 p.m.

in the Kleiner Saal, Zentrum für Kunst

Admission: 9,00 EUR

free with Festival Pass

“Young Professionals” combines live and video performance with composed electronic sound. The artist Alex Beriault positions herself as the central subject in her new expanded cinema piece, in which central objects define the spatial framework: an old photocopier/printer, a bluescreen photo background, a mounted video camera and a large flat-screen TV that transmits the image captured by the camera. The dynamic between camera and screen creates a video graphic double of Beriault, creating an uncanny tension between her physical and digital existence. Accompanied by a live soundtrack composed by Liesl Lindeque and Timon Gummich, the performance unfolds in three sections, each allowing for a provocative dialog between sound and movement. As a solo performer, Beriault leads the audience through a spectrum of psychological states. By physically moving between objects in the space, she embodies different psychological states – stoicism, sexuality, absurdity, vulnerability and exhaustion – creating a series of shifting female personae.