Friday, June 25th, 2010, 24:00 | 12 p.m.
BABYLON, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, big cinema hall
(Eintritt frei | admission free)
BABYLON, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, big cinema hall
(Eintritt frei | admission free)
Film Screening of Recent Works & Current Projects in Progress by Mario Pfeifer
The first part of the screening resembles recent film and video works
+ UNTITLED [»TWO GUYS«] 8’’, HD, Colour, (2008)
+ YET UNTITLED [»Pieces of Nature«] 12’’, S16mm to Beta SP,(2008)
+ »Reconsidering THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE
CALIFORNIA by Lewis Baltz, 1974« 13’’, 16mm to HD,B/W(2009)
Intermission: »to Hari« - a short video from South India (2010)
During the second part of the screening Mario Pfeifer will introduce current projects in development and post-production from Germany, the US and India.
"Pfeifer’s particular synthesis of the real and the symbolic, the representative and the sensuous ultimately manifest the philosophical depth of the piece without straightening out the paradoxical discomfort of his very medium." – Julia Moritz on YET UNTITLED [»Pieces of Nature«]
"Mario Pfeifer in this work creates an exceptional visibility of the protagonists, the viewers, the author and the medium that is the global circuit of lifestyle culture. They all appear as actors; the video is the site of their conflict-ridden entanglement, in which no one ultimately exercises control or follows their interests. The all-embracing mediality manifests itself in random set-offs of immanent violence – a power that functions without being owned. »Untitled [Two Guys]« captures and deconstructs the functioning of (sub)cultural codes in a "globalized society" and the mechanisms of image-production and reproduction." – Jakob Schillinger on UNTITLED [»TWO GUYS«]
Mario Pfeifer (b. 1981, Dresden/Germany) is a filmmaking artist based in Berlin. He studied Visual Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig with Astrid Klein, at University of the Arts Berlin with Stan Douglas and graduated 2008 from Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main/ Germany in the class of Willem de Rooij. In 2008/9 He was a Fulbright scholar at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. In 2010 Mario Pfeifer was awarded with VideoKunstPreis Bremen and received a DAAD fellowship for the US.
Mario Pfeifer's films are shown in the art and film context. Exhibitions include Mulhouse Biennale 010 (2010), New Topographics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (2010), ANTIREPRESENTATIONALSIM I-III,KOCH OBERHUBER WOLFF, Berlin (2009/10), Back to the Future, Center of Opinion in Music and Art, Berlin (2009), Ende, Städelmuseum Frankfurt am Main (2008), I AM A MAN, Portikus e.V., Frankfurt am Main(2008), Thisiscurating1-40, First Draft Gallery, Sydney (2008) amongst others. His films were screened at international film festivals in Bangkok, Frankfurt, Cologne, Paris, Madrid, Osnabrück and Berlin and in institutions such as Art Basel Film 2010, Redcat Los Angeles, Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Centre Pompidou, Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid, Museum Folkwang Essen or Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. His first institutional solo exhibition will take place at Weserburg Bremen - Museum fur Moderne Kunst in december 2010. A first monography will be published later on this year by Sternberg Press presenting contextual material to his film »Reconsidering The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974«.
Mario Pfeifer recently collaborated with Shumona Goel a Shai Heredia in Bombay / India and before wiht Arto Lindsay, Amy Patton as well as Christian Naujoks on several film related projects.
He is co-founder of [blackboardfilms], an artist-run production platform supporting artists’ and filmmakers’ projects, also organizing symposia and screenings.
www.mariopfeifer.com
www.blackboardfilms.com
www.kow-berlin.com
