[Frameworks] °*--*° This Thurs. 28 March - Anna Okrasko - Directors Lounge Screening °*--*°

[Klaus W. Eisenlohr]

Directors Lounge Screening:

Anna Okrasko
video works and selected films

Thursday, 28 March 2013
21:00 Uhr
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Anna Okrasko confronts modern Dutch urban 
environments with ephemeral everyday stories. In 
Sobota/Saturday/Zaterdag, the artist worked with 
a group of young Polish immigrants in Rotterdam, 
making them act for the camera instead of 
interviewing them. Interviewing them, according 
to Okrasko, would just have made them respond to 
the bad public image Polish workers have in the 
eyes of Dutch people. Rather, she wanted to show 
the way they live and the urban environment they 
live in. Using Polish documentary films from the 
late 50's as an inspiration, she has them explore 
the city, playing games, just killing time and 
finally gathering at their home. As these early 
post-war documentaries are the artist's favorite 
films, some scenes of Sobota/Saturday/Zaterdag 
are even quotes from those films, making it even 
more interesting to present them together. 
Another part of the program will be a glimpse 
into Untitled (Ik kijk naar de film) a 
work-in-progress about a quarter in Utrecht, 
"Kanaleneiland". This quarter was part of a 
massive urban expansion plan of the city of 
Utrecht in the 60's but soon after became almost 
exclusively occupied by emigrants, it used to be 
seen as a no-go area for people of Dutch origin, 
however nowadays it is under rapid change, 
hosting many students, artists and an artist 
residency program. Though not finished, Anna 
Okrasko shows stunning images from that area and 
the beginning of a story of "a tramp" looking for 
a place to stay.

Anna Okrasko, polish artist who lives in 
Rotterdam, Netherlands currently works as an 
artist in residence at Programme ABA (Air Berlin 
Alexanderplatz) with Mondriaan Fonds grant. Since 
she came to Holland, she became more and more 
interested in the issue of contemporary Polish 
immigration in the Netherlands.

Especially with the combination of some films 
from the past, Anna Okrasko not only addresses 
the issue of contemporary labor migration inside 
the EU, but the question how the contemporary 
society on one hand sells the dream of freedom 
via consumer products, and on the other seems to 
limit growth by xenophobia and the costs for 
education. It may be interesting to take 
Okrasko's ideas further and compare the limits, 
chances and goals for young Europeans in the 
societies of the 50's and today.
Anna Okrasko will be available for Q&A.
Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr.

Artist Links:
http://www.okrasko.blogspot.de
http://airberlinalexanderplatz.de/
http://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/

Links:
http://www.directorslounge.net
http://www.richfilm.de
http://www.z-bar.de

Detailled Program Infos:
http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesOkrasko.html

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Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Osnabrücker Str. 25, D-10589 Berlin, Germany



email:			klaus at richfilm.de
and film production:		http://www.richfilm.de


phone:			int.- 49 - 30 - 3409 5343 (BERLIN)
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