Film Show in Vilnius, Lithuania

October 21, 2009 by dstrktr

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Gustavo Jahn & Melissa Dullius  were invited to the “3rd 8 mm Film Festival” in Vilnius.

They were invited to present a program with their films, wich was shown on the afternoon of october 3rd, at the “Antanas Venclova Memorial Room”.

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The festival was coorganized by the Super 8 Klubas “Picnic in a Hand”, whose members also organized the Workshop on developing film material that had brought Gustavo to Lithuania in August.  Jaap Pieters, super 8 filmmaker and photographer was also a guest from the Festival, bringing the joy of his films and presence.

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Gustavo and Melissas presented films on super 8 and 16mm, and slide projections. A highlight was the premiere of “Puppenhaus”, their first film  shot in Berlin around January 2007.  Puppenhaus is a 16mm triple projection, consisting on 3 projectors that  screen simultaneously: 1) the sky crossed by airplanes; 2) Sybille, and 3) Myrna,  female neighbours that interact by their windows and through their walls.

The program was composed by

Puppenhaus (16mm, triple screen installation, color, 30sec)

preview of the unreleased Don´t Look Back (16mm, fiction, color, sound, 7min) with sketched soundtrack

We Can Go Now (super 8mm, fiction, color, 2min)

Travessia + Postcards (16mm, mini-fiction-series, color, aprox. 15min)

Kill Kill Kill (16mm, animation, color, 3 min)

Abril (super 8mm, fiction, B&W, sound, 17min)

footage of Bonaparte´s concert at Admiralspalast (16mm, color, 3min)

Egyboy (super 8mm, film portrait, B&W/color, 1 min)

Train Trip (super 8mm, film portrait, B&W, sound, 3 min)

and also the double slide projection performance Towers Open Fire.

After the show, Melissa & Gustavo and Jaap were invited by Audrius Mickevicius (also a guest of the festival who held a lecture on the theme  “Unconsciousness”) to show films to his students of the Academy of Fine Arts (DAILES AKADEMIJA). This second screening took place on tuesday 6th,  the films Kill Kill Kill, Train Trip, and the still unfinished Don´t Look Back were projected by the couple.

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happening

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egyboy

September 29, 2009 by dstrktr

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(born in 1982) – a graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vilnius, speciality in design. As he himself claims he did not make a mental note in his biography of any relations to KGB, however, in his case no one can be sure of anything due to his indeed Dadaist attitude. On every day basis he has a creative work place in an advertisement agency and in his art he gets his fantasy and willingness off his chest to get away from the widely- held stereotypes. In his works he moves fluently between media, using objects, video, graphic, painting and performance. The combinations he achieves are surprising, sometimes funny or irritating, however, through his works, he always tries to make an analysis of the present reality.

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Nasrudin, Nasreddin, Nasr ud-Din, Nasredin, Naseeruddin Nasruddin, Nasr Eddin, Nastradhin, Nasreddine, Nastratin, Nusrettin

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What to make of the hyperventilating ceremony around Hans-Martin Schleyer’s funeral. Death in RAF captivity transformed him from SS officer to national hero, with state funeral and a 3 minute silence (time enough to drown) in the Daimler factory. To the German state, fear-fantasies of ubiquitous terrorist conspiracy tranformed Baader’s followers into “Hitler’s children”. But to Rote Armee Fraktion, the reception to Schleyer’s death proved (again) that the Generation of Auschwitz still controlled the wirschaftwunder. Hysteria is contagious, as Franz-Josef Strauss demands that a terrorist hostage is shot for every RAF kidnapping, and Gudrun Ensslin writes from her prison cell, “Those of us in there, to put it bluntly, can only be surprised they don’t spray the gas in.” She was not only a RAF founder, but also a descendant of Hegel.

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