[Frameworks] °*°- Directors Lounge Screening - Maria Manasterny - Eyeless Dreams and Ruined Carpet Foames -°*°-

[Klaus W. Eisenlohr]

Directors Lounge Screening
Maria Manasterny
Augenlose Träume und ruinierte Teppichschäume

Thursday, 25 July 2019
21:00 | Z-Bar | Bergstraße 2 | 10115 Berlin-Mitte

Eyeless Dreams and Ruined Carpet Foames
Experimental shorts and animations

The film work of Maria Manasterny combines a broad variety of
different genres, such as animation, docufiction 
and experimental film by her joining artistic 
attitude. The narrative substructure, the open 
experimental design and her love for film are 
common to all of her films. Her love for films 
becomes evident in many subtle quotations and 
film references. The artist concluded her studies 
with a Meisterschüler degree at HBK Braunschweig 
and lives and works in Berlin, since.

Argos Augen (Argo's Eyes, 2014) is an 
experimental fiction, set between dream and 
reality, which is a recurrent motive in 
Manastreny's films. A voice-over reflects in a 
dream-like and poetic way about whales and whale 
catchers in her own family. The text is being 
linked with images of the domestic life of an 
older generation during night and daytime. Time 
seems to be floating. A young protagonist appears 
to be a visitor, a passer-by not belonging to 
this place but interacting in intimate ways. A 
feeling of memory and farewell to a once familiar 
surrounding emerges between stages of waking and 
dreaming.

Fully realized with found footage, Better Safe than Sorry (2018) is a
story told by a female narrator  from the perspective of an
investigative reporter. She only appears as voice, and tells about
secret bunkers at Niagara Falls and a private organization committed
to help the affluent to construct a possible survival scenario in the
worst case of atomic apocalypse and a future after. The images are
mostly connected with the collective end-of-the-world phantasies from
the eighties and thus bear a melancholic touch. At the same time,
they win a new, current actuality by the expressed urgency in the
film.

Das Leben vom Diwan aus (Live, as seen from the divan 2017) first
seems to be a surreal story between traumatic experiences, dream and
hallucinations. More so, as the young protagonist's experiences are
being confronted with a medical and professional surrounding that do
not take her for too serious, as it appears. In fact, the story told
in the film is connected with an autobiographic experience of the
artist, who once suffered from a tar-like poisoning of the breathing
organ. The film starts again with a voice-over from first
perspective, but then passes the voice to visual dialogs with single
protagonists who seem to stand or sit opposite to the narrator. Thus,
a specific subjective perspective evolves, connected with the first
person narration from the beginning. The traumatic and surreal
appearing story becomes even more condensed by this unique first
person perspective consisting throughout the film, even if we follow
the protagonist through other dream-like sequences.

We are proud to feature the dense and poetic film work of Maria
Manasterny. The artist will be present for Q&A.

Links:
http://www.maria-manasterny.de
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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