The only feature film by John Cage, One11 and 103 is based on the effects of light in an empty room. Directed by Henning Lohner, it was completed shortly before the composer’s death in 1992. Dir. Henning Lohner, Germany 1992, 94 min.
In this matinée, the artists Cathleen Schuster and Marcel Dickhage present and discuss their films, which revolve around the question how abstract concepts like capital or globalisation can be visualised.
In this matinée Thibaut de Ruyter, one of the two curators of INDUSTRIAL (Research), presents films, sounds and books which did not make it into the final selection, but which do add new perspectives to the topic of INDUSTRIAL (Research) nonetheless and deserve to be seen, heard and discussed.
The only feature film by John Cage, One11 and 103 is based on the effects of light in an empty room. Directed by Henning Lohner, it was completed shortly before the composer’s death in 1992. Dir. Henning Lohner, Germany 1992, 94 min.
Is heavy manual labor disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? Where can we still find it in the 21st century? Workingman's Death follows the trail of the HEROES in the illegal mines of the Ukraine, sniffs out GHOST among the sulfur workers in Indonesia, finds itself face to face with LIONS at a slaughterhouse in Nigeria, mingles with BROTHERS as they cut a huge oil tanker into pieces in Pakistan, and joins Chinese steel workers in hoping for a glorious FUTURE.
Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, margin Call is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment film during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.
Excerpts from Alexander Kluge's Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike: Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital (2008) and Früchte des Vertrauens (2009), commented by Fabian Saavedra-Lara (HMKV) – This is an event in German language only. For detailed information please refer to the German section of this page –
