[Frameworks] *°-°* Directors Lounge Screening - Roger Deutsch - Five Stories *°-°*

[Klaus W. Eisenlohr]

Directors Lounge Screening
Five Stories
by Roger Deutsch

Thursday, 26 September 2019
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte



Roger Deutsch has created a feature from 5 of his 
short films. He is an American who lives in 
Hungary. Five stories is a collection of very 
intimate stories, told to the camera: about 
people he met and about himself. The artist's 
films are a way of story-telling about the daily 
life of simple people. About the personal 
encounter between filmmaker and protagonists. A 
mixture between documentary and story telling 
similar to the way blues songs tell stories about 
daily life. His stories, shot with 16mm film and 
often narrated with his own voice, have a musical 
flow, which is connecting the films of very 
different times of his life. His interest lies in 
the dignity of simple people. Making them 
special, make the story of their life a special 
story.

In one of the shorts, he tells a story about 
working as a teacher for mentally disabled 
adults. He started the film just before he left 
his job. But he continued working with one group 
for several years on this film, meeting them. One 
man of the group starts to interact more directly 
with his filmmaking: "The testimony of Mario 
Caniero Sr." was the result of this interaction. 
From time to time, he hands over the film camera 
to Mario, and then in the film, he tells the 
story of their interaction with an off screen 
voice, and sometimes with written overlaid text. 
The value of their relation, initiated by the 
filming, becomes apparent, and the prospective 
loss through the forthcoming end of the project.

In is newest film from 2019, Roger talks to 
"himself" as an alter ego, trying to reason about 
art and life. He starts fighting and arguing with 
himself, not able to separate from the other self.

"Š.films of Roger Deutsch, works that hover over 
the issues of memory and disappearance and that 
cannily keep nostalgia at a distance while 
seeming to be drowning in it. Deutsch's 
illuminating picturings push close to film's 
ability to reactivate the feel of that which has 
disappeared; but rather than lolling in the 
shelter of the simulative, these films subtly 
questions their characters' relation to history 
and to their own deaths. They are portraits that 
remind us these characters are done, through 
with, no more: yet at the same time they bring 
them 'to life.' They question cinema's ability to 
formalize, to resuscitate and to re-represent the 
past." (Barbara Kruger: ARTFORUM)

The artist will be present for Q&A.

Artist Link:
http://www.ottofilms.org

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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