Auto-Kino!
05 Feb - 14 Mar 2010
AUTO-KINO!
02/05/2010 - 03/14/2010
Opening: Feb. 4, 2010
presented by Phil Collins
February 4, 2010, 9 pm until February 5, 9 pm | Opening
24 Hour Psycho, Douglas Gordon, 1993, 24 hrs
Opening program without prior reservation.
In February, when the film world comes to Berlin, British artist Phil Collins turns the Temporäre Kunsthalle into an indoor stationary drive-in cinema. In a cluster of secondhand cars installed in the space individual vehicles serve as booths or box-seats, offering the audience an intimate situation in which to enjoy a rotating program of artists’ videos and film classics. In a playful way, this questions the conditions in which video art is usually encountered, and reflects on perceptions of the public and the private.
The selection of over 100 works focuses on the sensory experience and emotional impact of the moving image, positioning the viewer as a desiring subject. The program includes a wide range of cinematic styles and artistic positions, from experimental films and artists’ videos to documentaries and dramas. A special section of Auto-Kino! is dedicated to showing film classics in all their original 35mm glory. Over ten days each evening will bring a new feature presentation from Germany’s rich and complicated history of genre cinema, including the Third Reich melodramas, West German thrillers and East German rubble films. Depicting the various ambivalent faces of the nation, these films encourage a consideration of the identity-forming effect of film on the idea of place and community.
02/05/2010 - 03/14/2010
Opening: Feb. 4, 2010
presented by Phil Collins
February 4, 2010, 9 pm until February 5, 9 pm | Opening
24 Hour Psycho, Douglas Gordon, 1993, 24 hrs
Opening program without prior reservation.
In February, when the film world comes to Berlin, British artist Phil Collins turns the Temporäre Kunsthalle into an indoor stationary drive-in cinema. In a cluster of secondhand cars installed in the space individual vehicles serve as booths or box-seats, offering the audience an intimate situation in which to enjoy a rotating program of artists’ videos and film classics. In a playful way, this questions the conditions in which video art is usually encountered, and reflects on perceptions of the public and the private.
The selection of over 100 works focuses on the sensory experience and emotional impact of the moving image, positioning the viewer as a desiring subject. The program includes a wide range of cinematic styles and artistic positions, from experimental films and artists’ videos to documentaries and dramas. A special section of Auto-Kino! is dedicated to showing film classics in all their original 35mm glory. Over ten days each evening will bring a new feature presentation from Germany’s rich and complicated history of genre cinema, including the Third Reich melodramas, West German thrillers and East German rubble films. Depicting the various ambivalent faces of the nation, these films encourage a consideration of the identity-forming effect of film on the idea of place and community.