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

TRAILER

STORY

Could the heart of it be non-existent as the philosopher claims, or is it concealed within a cabbage head?
This poetic, contemplative film sets out to examine this question in the words of people met in Novi Sad, Serbia, who have their own, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, idea of where the heart of it might lie.
Delicately balancing the stories of local people with powerful imagery that both belies and confirms what is said, the film is a portrait of a place and its people that goes beyond the local scene and explores answers that are as complex as human nature.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

“Novi Sad, Serbia. The portrait of an urban society, the Balkans, 21st Century. The people in the center – the people at the periphery. Post-war spirit, but only because we know what happened in Ex-Yugoslavia. The Heart of It? The work which has to be done, day after day. The fact that you have to stoop down to collect a potato, every sack of cabbages has to be tied by hand. Because it is the daily work of the hands which transcends the reality of the present and shows life in itself in its hypnotic stream between the past and the future.”

CREDITS

Producer, Director, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Writer: Goran Mimica
Music: Paolo Marzocchi
Electronic sounds: Paolo Marzocchi, Stefano Sasso
Cinematography: Michal Kosakowski, Evelyn Eberhardt
Edited: Michal Kosakowski
Sound: Evelyn Eberhardt

LINKS

Goran Mimica
Paolo Marzocchi
Evelyn Eberhardt

Social and economic changes in the social and health sectors are leading to new demands being placed on organisations in the social field. This change offers excellent career opportunities in various social employment areas for those with social work and economics qualifications.

This film portrays this important step towards the first European Degree Programme for social work in which graduates are awarded a “Joint Degree” from several European Universities.

The students’ enthusiasm and the beauty of the European Cities, East and West, occur as a kaleidoscope of traditions and modernity.

CREDITS

Director, Producer: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Massimo Valentini, Giuseppe Conte
Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski, Claudia Engl
Sound, Light: Claudia Engl

LINKS

Sowosec - Social Work and Social Economy
FH Campus Vienna
Musica Pesante Productions

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

This risk has been taken by the Munich Chamber Orchestra and its artistic director Alexander Liebreich with the Streetmusic Project: On October 12th and 13th 2007, the Chamber Orchestra performed at different locations around the city of Munich, Germany, playing works by Erhan Sanri, Gideon Klein, Alfred Schnitke, Luciano Berio, John Adams and Tom Johnson.

The emotions in the faces of both the musicians and the passers-by reflect the music and show an active participation in music, often absent in the cultural mainstream. Contemporary music as remembrance, as a witness to the 20th century, to the holocaust, to modernity.

The film grants access for a wide audience to contemporary music through the precise dramaturgy created by the compositions. The movie illustrates the relevance of cultural production in relation to society and politics.

CREDITS

Director, Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Concept: Michal Kosakowski, Uli Aigner
Producer: Michal Kosakowski
MUNICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Artistic Director: Alexander Liebreich
Chamber Orchestra: Daniel Giglberger, Max Peter Meis, Gesa Harms, Bernhard Jestl, Viktor Konjaev, Mario Korunic, Romuald Kozik, Mary Mader, Eri Nakagawa-Hawthorne, Kelvin Hawthorne, Stefan Berg, Maria Hristova, Nancy Sullivan, Peter Bachmann, Benedikt Jira, Michael Weiss, Onur Özkaya

MUSIC

Erhan Sanri (*1957)
Vier Vertonungen visueller Gedichte und eine visuelle Phantasie
für Violine und Kontrabass (1986/1991)

Tom Johnson (*1939)
Formulas für Streichquartett (1994)

Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)
Streichtrio (1985)

John Adams (*1947)
Shaker Loops – 1. Satz - Fassung für Streichorchester
(1978, revised 1982)

Tom Johnson (*1939)
Eight Patterns For Eight Instruments (1979)

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Duetti per due violini (1979-1983)

Bernhard Jestl (*1960)
Das Spiel der Wolken und des Regens für Violine und Viola (1996)
- Uraufführung -

Gideon Klein (1919-1945)
Streichtrio (1944)

Gideon Klein (1919-1945)
Partita für Streichorchester (1944, arr. 1990)

LINKS

Munich Chamber Orchestra

SCREENING

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
14 June, 2008, 7.30pm

LINK

Living Room Show

“The approach for the design of this new campus is thought from the current defining elements of the landscape. Situated between a city highway and an idyllic green area with a view towards the open landscape, the future campus is the object which relates these tension fields. Its presents on the street side is a quiescent horizontal orientated volume, which has a continuous change in perception related to the way of approaching and due to its formal presence of a mirrored S. This is creating two different orientated outer courts and is furthermore important for the different fazing in the building process. This whole volume is standing on a base overlapping the two courts and containing the main large-scale functions. This relation between base and superposed volume is also strengthened in the spatial relation from the internal functions. Orientation, sightlines and general configuration are hereby key design elements.” Delugan Meissl Associated Architects

CREDITS

Director, Producer: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Graham Stark
Cinematographer: Heli Leitner, Michal Kosakowski
Editor: Michal Kosakowski

LINKS

FH Campus Wien
Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, Vienna

PREMIERE

STRASSENMUSIK - NEUE MUSIK?
A new film by Michal Kosakowski
29 May, 2008, 7.10pm

LOCATION

Prinzregententheater
Prinzregentenplatz 12
81576 Munich, Germany

LINKS

Munich Chamber Orchestra
Prinzregententheater

CREDITS

Producer, Director, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Massimo Valentini

LINKS

Rezac - High Power Projection
Musica Pesante Productions