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SP-17   Play Gallery

Introduction:

PLAY, an internationally renowned art gallery in Berlin, aims at revealing to what extent film, video and art reciprocally influence one another. Furthermore PLAY*s goal is to offer new ways of receiving images. In this very context interfilm Berlin and PLAY, respectively the affiliated production company "Fine Arts Unternehmen" are proud to present a joint program.

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Screening :

THE 8 FILMS OF THE PROGRAM:

The Prora Complex

Director(s): Nuno Cera

Germany, 2005

running time: 06´42 min

Bath Prora, a giant holiday camp once planned to accommodate 20.000 people. Today, much of this monstrous complex lies in ruins in the dunes.  more info

Unexpected Rules

Director(s): Frédéric Moser, Philippe Schwinger

Germany / Switzerland, 2004

running time: 16´06 min

The script is based on the "Clinton-Lewinsky Affair", which arose from the nexus between power, sex, and globalized media and shows how multifaceted levels of interest, along with public images, ultimately render the "true" interpretation of an event impossible.  more info

.nijnok

Director(s): Leo Wentink

Netherlands, 2004

running time: 12´00 min

Dialogue: no dialogue

A Dutch farm, 20,000 albino rabbits living in the barn, no sounds, no smells. Nijnok (rabbit in dutch, spelled backwards) distances the audience with an unusual narrative.  more info

Singer with Butterflies

Director(s): Trine Lise Nedreaas

Norway, 2004

running time: 03´56 min

A singer´s hour-length performance for camera has been edited down to the gaps between numbers - the beginnings and the ends of his absent songs. Stuttering, hesitating and nervous he readies himself to perform.  more info

beTvVeen

Director(s): David Cangardel

France, 2005

running time: 06´15 min

Dialogue: French

Life is what happens in between.  more info

It takes two to tango

Director(s): Trine Lise Nedreaas

Norway, 2002

running time: 03´40 min

Contrary to the title, Bill is dancing the tango on his own, leaving room in his arms for an imaginary partner. The film can be seen as a metaphor for life. Ultimately we must journey through our lives alone.  more info

Amer & Nasser - Iraqi Brothers

Director(s):  Al Fadhil

Iraq, 2003

running time: 04´40 min

How can one talk about death without showing the dead? A possible answer is found in this film, an excerpt from a documentary on the Iraq rebellion of 1991 which turned into a bloodbath.  more info

Ringelreihe

Director(s): GABRIELE AGRESTA

Italy, 2005

running time: 07´15 min

Dialogue: no_dialogues

The suffering of birth, of creation, and the failure of this act are represented through metaphorical images. An attempt to capture the moment in which a single phenomenon transforms itself into a sign.  more info
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