[Frameworks] °*-*° This Thursday : Directors Lounge Screening - Clara Bausch - Momentum °*-*°

[Klaus W. Eisenlohr]

Directors Lounge Screening
Clara Bausch
Momentum

Thursday, 25 January 2018
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Observations through the camera combined in 
different ways create new realities. Clara 
Bausch, who is born in Berlin and lives here as 
artist, strictly works with analogue images in 
her films, installations and photography. She 
studied Fine Arts at UdK Berlin and is co-founder 
of Labor Berlin. It is the ordinary, simple 
things in life that capture her attention. And it 
is the combinations of impressions, occurrences 
and images that create reality. The new realities 
that Clara Bausch creates in her art work are by 
no means out of this world. On the contrary, they 
are different, sometimes very personal views onto 
our reality. Cinema, or the images of newsletters 
are as much part of this reality as is ordinary 
life. Rhythm, the space between, or unexpected 
combinations of images, all create an 
intermission, an interval between images, which 
makes it possible to receive a new meaning - the 
opposite of information overflow in broadcast and 
so called social media.

In a number of films, Clara Bausch uses white 
space between the images, created by clear film. 
Fully overexposed film, which for example happens 
if you open the camera; becomes clear during 
development. In "Blitzen #1", this is what Bausch 
does recurrently with her super-8 camera in 
between taking pictures. She takes a day for 
herself on the streets of Athens for the 3-minute 
film, edited in the camera. Glimpses of 
reflections of buildings and street life on 
glass, shopping windows, car lights and mirrors 
are thus being combined as associations of images.

Another series of films work with the overlay of 
images that happen if you illuminate a newsletter 
page from the back. "And the smile is red on red" 
takes this simple technique of image production 
onto the roofs of Kairo in order to communicate 
with people from Kairo. The film shows people who 
gather on the flat roof top of a house in the 
evening, and at night with flashlights 
illuminating the newsletter cutouts Clara Bausch 
had brought from Germany. While editing, Clara 
creates a rhythm of montage and of spaces between 
the images, giving the viewer the opportunity to 
create the story by "reading between the lines".

"Wald" shows the camera travel-panning over 
pieces of shrubbery on the edge of the woods. The 
sound is very present and seems to be original 
atmosphere sound. Over time, the viewer realizes 
that the pan travels through different seasons 
and different weather conditions, and what 
started as a meditation on nature on a winter day 
becomes more a more complex story about the city 
and nature as the time unfolds.

The artist will be present and available for Q&A. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Artist Link:
http://www.clarabausch.de/

Links:
Directors Lounge  http://www.directorslounge.net
Richfilm  http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
Z-Bar  http://www.z-bar.de


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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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