Urban Space Videowalk 2015
No-Go Areas
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1st Urban Space Video Walk - A cinematic night walk through the city.
Curated by Janine Blöß, project assistance: Viktoria Hellfeier
Technical implementation: Yannick Böhm, Norman Schlupp
Short films with artistic aspirations and urban space are to merge at the 1st Urban Space Video Walk. This year's motto "No-Go Areas" refers in the broadest sense to places, subjects or situations that are difficult to walk through or grasp for a variety of reasons. Not only in the geographical sense, but also in the social, political, social or intellectual sense, there are zones that often seem impassable. Let us overcome the outer and inner barriers!
"Often equated with places that are ugly, an UN-place is incomparably more. Which place is called an un-place depends on a subjective feeling and a subjective interpretation. It can be both a counterweight to a normal concept of beauty and perception of beauty, as well as a space of possibility that provides room for differentiation and questioning, and that calls for a new perception of familiar places. (Kulturetage)
In the sense of various heterotopias, unusual (un)places are to be opened up as projection surfaces for the filmic material in public space. These can be the rough walls of abandoned freight stations, a screen spontaneously set up in a park or uninhabited industrial sites within walking distance of the Weltkunstzimmer. The film locations are installed spontaneously in the sense of a pop-up cinema with a mobile cinema trailer. There will be no local interventions or changes. A brief flash of the film clip directly on the urban structures invites even random passers-by to linger, to exchange ideas and to rediscover and describe the location together. Â
The event will take place in the evening at dusk at various locations in Düsseldorf. The best work will be awarded the "Urban Space Film Prize" worth 1,000 euros, selected by the jury consisting of Alain Bieber (NRW Forum), Robin Curtis (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Mischa Kuball (Academy of Media Arts Cologne) and the audience.The starting point and centre is the Weltkunstzimmer, from where the film tours will extend into the city in the evening. The film screenings are free of charge and open to all (even casual) visitors.
The award ceremony for the "Urban Space Film Prize" will take place at the end in the Weltkunstzimmer, where the winning film will be shown again in the courtyard of the former baking factory and a barbecue with music will cater for the guests.
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Many thanks to all the filmmakers, short film makers and video artists who sent us their work for a screening in the urban space!
Urban Space Videowalk 2015
© Ansgar Maria van Treeck
With the kind support of
Urban Space Videowalk 2015
No-Go Areas
Â
1st Urban Space Video Walk - A cinematic night walk through the city.
Curated by Janine Blöß, project assistance: Viktoria Hellfeier
Technical implementation: Yannick Böhm, Norman Schlupp
Short films with artistic aspirations and urban space are to merge at the 1st Urban Space Video Walk. This year's motto "No-Go Areas" refers in the broadest sense to places, subjects or situations that are difficult to walk through or grasp for a variety of reasons. Not only in the geographical sense, but also in the social, political, social or intellectual sense, there are zones that often seem impassable. Let us overcome the outer and inner barriers!
"Often equated with places that are ugly, an UN-place is incomparably more. Which place is called an un-place depends on a subjective feeling and a subjective interpretation. It can be both a counterweight to a normal concept of beauty and perception of beauty, as well as a space of possibility that provides room for differentiation and questioning, and that calls for a new perception of familiar places. (Kulturetage)
In the sense of various heterotopias, unusual (un)places are to be opened up as projection surfaces for the filmic material in public space. These can be the rough walls of abandoned freight stations, a screen spontaneously set up in a park or uninhabited industrial sites within walking distance of the Weltkunstzimmer. The film locations are installed spontaneously in the sense of a pop-up cinema with a mobile cinema trailer. There will be no local interventions or changes. A brief flash of the film clip directly on the urban structures invites even random passers-by to linger, to exchange ideas and to rediscover and describe the location together. Â
The event will take place in the evening at dusk at various locations in Düsseldorf. The best work will be awarded the "Urban Space Film Prize" worth 1,000 euros, selected by the jury consisting of Alain Bieber (NRW Forum), Robin Curtis (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Mischa Kuball (Academy of Media Arts Cologne) and the audience.The starting point and centre is the Weltkunstzimmer, from where the film tours will extend into the city in the evening. The film screenings are free of charge and open to all (even casual) visitors.
The award ceremony for the "Urban Space Film Prize" will take place at the end in the Weltkunstzimmer, where the winning film will be shown again in the courtyard of the former baking factory and a barbecue with music will cater for the guests.
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Many thanks to all the filmmakers, short film makers and video artists who sent us their work for a screening in the urban space!
Urban Space Videowalk 2015
© Ansgar Maria van Treeck
With the kind support of