JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
November 28, 2009 / 8 pm - University of Bayreuth

LOCATION

University Campus, Bayreuth
GW 1 (Geisteswissenschaften 1)
Universitätsstr. 30
95440 Bayreuth, Germany

9/11 AS CATALYST - AMERICAN AND BRITISH CULTURAL RESPONSES

Michal Kosakowski is showing his award-winning film JUST LIKE THE MOVIES on occasion of the International Conference organized by the University of Bayreuth and the University of Erfurt and sponsored by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung and the Bavarian American Academy.

The conference will investigate North American and British cultural responses to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and to the social, political and cultural effects that have developed in their wake – including further attacks such as the ones in Madrid (2004), London (2005), and Mumbay (2008). While official political discourse was dominated by the notion of 9/11 as a historical rupture and by the conceptualization of a “War on Terror” that had to be fought with military force abroad and by curbing civil liberties at home, a close look at a wider spectrum of texts and discourses reveals that responses to the attacks and to the impact of terrorism in general have been much more diverse and complex. Whether the events of 9/11 mark a historical caesura or not – a contested claim that will be among the key issues at stake at the conference –, they certainly had a catalytic effect on the cultural production in various media: in literature, in the theater, in the news media, in film and television, in the realms of music and dance. This cultural production shows the first contours of a cultural memory that has symbolically negotiated experiences of shock, trauma, and commemoration as well as the various political, social and economic developments in our post-9/11 world. The papers presented will address first wave responses to the attacks as well as second wave responses of the years following; they will focus on their participation in the shaping of discourses of terror (mindedness), fear, violence, mourning, religion, nationalism, civil liberties, migration and globalization; they will explore how a diversity of ethnic, racial, and gendered perspectives have explored the diffusion of public and private sphere and how they have revisited (and revised) national narratives of identity formation; and they will discuss the aesthetic repercussions 9/11 and the “War on Terror” have had on the aesthetic and conceptual notions of postmodernism.

LINKS

9/11 as Catalyst - American and British Cultural Responses

SCREENING

September 14, 2009 / 21 pm - Spazio XYZ

LOCATION

Spazio XYZ
Via Inferiore 31
Treviso, Italy

CIMENA 2.0

We start the next film season with a special upgrade of our cinema night.
CIMENA 2.0 brings you a fresh selection of independent films and live interviews with its creators.

Monday, September 14 at 21.00 we open the season with the award winning film JUST LIKE THE MOVIES by Michal Kosakowski.

Popcorn, beer and a live interview with the film’s director.

Curated by Ries Straver

LINKS

Spazio XYZ
Ries Straver

SCREENING

June 25, 2009 / 8 pm - Lothringer 13

LOCATION

Städtische Kunsthalle München
Lothringer 13
Lothringerstr. 13
81667 Munich / Germany

On the occasion of Goran Mimica’s residency in the Villa Waldberta, two movies, “KANNIBALISMUS” and “THE HEART OF IT”, by Michal Kosakowski will be shown in the Gallery for Contemporary Art of the City of Munich.

“For centuries Balkanibal has sat on his throne, in his Peninsula, at the crossroads between East and West, proud, suspicious and stubborn. For centuries he has mutilated himself and demanded respect for these bloody rituals from travelers.
The last time I saw him, his body was a heap of riven flesh and infected wounds. He was sat on the throne, in front of the mirror. His face was covered in deep scars, and, instead of a nose, there was a dark, putrid hole gape. With the stump of one hand he supported the Polaroid camera, and in the palm of the other, fingerless, hand, he held his own balls.” Goran Mimica

LINKS

Goran Mimica
Städtische Kunsthalle München Lothringer 13

SCREENING

May 15, 2009 / 5.30 pm - Cinéma 1

LOCATION

Centre Pompidou
Large cinema hall of the Centre Pompidou

Place Georges Pompidou
75004 Paris

The award-winning film “Just Like the Movies” will be shown in the large cinema hall of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

LINKS

Centre Pompidou - Cinema
Programm “Artention” of North Rhine-Westphalia
Leaflet by the Centre Pompidou (pdf)

SCREENING

8 April 2009 / 8pm - Programa 6: Joven cine experimental alemán

LOCATION

Edificio Sabatini. Salón de Actos
Calle Santa Isabel, 52. Madrid
Entrada: gratuita. Aforo: 140 localidades

The award-winning film “Just Like the Movies” will be shown in the Auditorium of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.

LINKS

Leaflet by the Museo Reina Sofia (pdf)
Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia

OPENING

3 April 2009 / 6pm

LOCATION

Historisches Museum, Minoritenkirche / Dachauplatz 2-4 / Regensburg
Städtische Galerie “Leerer Beutel” / Bertoldstr. 9 / Regensburg

“Der katholische Faktor”

An exhibition on contemporary art from Poland and Germany, curated by Maciek Czapski and Christian Schnurer.
Michal Kosakowski is showing his early filmwork “IS GOD MODERN?” from 1997 in the beautiful space of the Minoritenkirche (church) in Regensburg.

Exhibition: 4 April - 17 May, 2009
Tuesday - Sunday: 10-16

LINKS

Der katholische Faktor - Exhibition

OPENING

Saturday, January 10, 2009, 5 – 10 pm

LOCATION

KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e.V.
KW INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Auguststr. 69, 10117 Berlin

Highlights from the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin.

Having successfully shown films from the last Cologne KunstFilmBiennale two years ago, KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin is again presenting a selection of highlights from this unique international festival of films by artists. The selection includes films by John Bock, Babette Mangolte, and Sarah Morris, and also new works by a young generation, including Keren Cytter, Nathalie Djurberg, Hans Op de Beeck, Alex McQuilkin, and Markus Schinwald.

KW is also showing a selection of entries to the last BILD-KUNST Promotional Award for experimental film competition featuring films in many genres that are pursuing new experimental form and content.

Highlights from the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin is shown at the forth floor at KW.

Participating artists:

Doug Aitken, Shoja Azari, Guy Ben-Ner, John Bock, Daniel Burkhardt, Yasmine Chatila, Keren Cytter, Nathalie Djurberg, Willie Doherty, Ay?e Erkmen, Thorsten Fleisch, Christoph Girardet / Matthias Müller, Anthony Goicolea, Christina von Greve, Florian Gwinner, Jesper Just, Timo Katz / Jan Fuchs, Idris Khan, Michal Kosakowski, Nicolette Krebitz / Jonas Weber Herrera, Clare Langan, Babette Mangolte, Michael Mazière, Sarah Morris, Laurel Nakadate, Hans Op de Beeck, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Alex McQuilkin, Johanna Reich, Pablo Reinoso, Astrid Rieger / Zeljko Vidovic, Julian Rosefeldt, Martin Sastre, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Ingo Schiller / Stephan-Flint Müller, Markus Schinwald, Robert Seidel, John Smith, Hito Steyerl, Javier Téllez, T. J. Wilcox

Presented by Gabriele Horn and Katia Reich

An event by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, supported by the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Thanks to JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Düsseldorf

KunstFilmBiennale is an initiative of the SK Stiftung Kultur, the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the City of Cologne. It takes place in cooperation with the Filmstiftung NRW and VG Bild-Kunst and is supported with funds of the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Exhibition: January 11 – 25, 2009

LINKS

Kunstwerke Berlin

OPENING

30 January 2009 / 6pm

LOCATION

Landgericht Leipzig / Harkortstr 9 / 04107 Leipzig, Germany

“Das Böse ist ein Eichhörnchen”

At the occasion of the opening of the art group exhibition of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Klasse Intermedia, Michal Kosakowski presents his movie JUST LIKE THE MOVIES embedded in the space of the Landgericht in Leipzig, Germany.

Exhibition: 1 February - 13 February 2009
Monday - Thursday: 8-17 Friday: 8-14

LINKS

Das Böse ist ein Eichhörnchen - Exhibition

COMPETITION

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES

Imaginaria Film Festival starts with the demand to partecipate in the process of cinematic language mutations that redefine the iconography of our time.

Imaginaria launches a new experience: to create an ideal connection between the international and independent cinema and the autors and movements of the digital scenarios. An eccentric and unusual journey compared with the national cinematic programme. The meeting between technological innovation and creativity represents today a new perspective where to find movie and shortmovie, film and digital, musicvideoclip, web downloading and videoart installations.

LINK

Imaginaria Film Festival

COMPETITION

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
30 June, 2008, 9.30pm

LOCATION

Cinema Estivo Giardino Pubblico
Trieste/Italy

Maremetraggio – International Short and debut works Film Festival is an annual project (first week of July) of the Maremetraggio Association at its 9th edition will take place in 2008 from June 27 to July 5.
Maremetraggio, has reached its eighth edition in 2007 and shall continue its tireless activity offering to its audience high quality works with a unique pan-European coverage (also through its CEI dedicated section) promoting countries of low capacity production, young professionals and inter-cultural dialogue.

Maremetraggio Section dedicated to shorts that, in the previous year, have won the most important European Festivals. The event’s strong emphasis on European works, will see many national and non-national European short films compete for the final prize of € 10.000,00.

LINKS

Maremetraggio - Int. Short Film Festival