As a closing event for exhibition Definite Events by Aldo Kroese, a film programme will be presented along with a last chance to see the exhibition on the second floor. Join us on Friday 27th of February at 20.00 – 23.30 hrs. Free entrance.
The films to be screaned are:
1. Der Lauf der Dinge (1987) The way things go A film by Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Inside a warehouse, a precarious 70-100 feet long structure has been constructed using various items. When this is set in motion, a chain reaction ensues. Fire, water, law of gravity as well as chemistry determine the life-cycle of objects - of things. It brings about a story concerning cause and effect, mechanism and art, improbability and precision.
duration: 30 min . language: sound only
2. Rivers and Tides (2001) working with time A film by Thomas Riedelsheimer
A documentary about British artist Andy Goldsworthy, who creates ephemeral sculptures from natural materials such as rocks, leaves, flowers, and icicles. Director Thomas Riedelsheimer worked with Andy Goldsworthy for over a year to shoot this film. What he found was a profound sense of breathless discovery and uncertainty in Goldsworthy’s work, in contrast to the stability of conventional sculpture. There is risk in everything that Goldsworthy does. He takes his fragile work - and it can be as fragile in stone as in ice or twigs - right to the edge of its collapse, a very beautiful balance and a very dramatic edge within the film. The film captures the essential unpredictability of working with rivers and with tides, feels into a sense of liquidity in stone, travels with Goldsworthy underneath the skin of the earth and reveals colour and energy flowing through all things.
Duration: 90 min . Language: English
3. Signers Suitcase (Unterwegs mit Roman Signer, 1995) On the road with Roman Signer A film by Peter Liechti
Signer’s Suitcase is a kind of road movie that takes us right across Europe - from the Swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland, always following the magically charged ‘groove’ of the landscape. A wide-ranging attempt to find the ideal travelling speed. Roman Signer uses his very personal bag of tricks to mark the stations along the way: strikingly simple operations brimming with subtle humour. But the film is also a journey through mental states. A tightrope walk between whimsy and melancholy. Danger - both physical and psychological - becomes a stimulus to the senses. Sudden plunges, abrupt mood changes shape the rhythm and atmosphere of this cinematic journey.
Duration: 84 min . Language: Swiss German Subtitles: English
