In parallel to the art film festival artist films at kino international, we present complementary artworks at  FAHRBEREITSCHAFT. Works were selected that either have a direct relationship to film as props or that deal with the technical conditions of filming. Examples include the object from Markus Schinwald’s film for the Biennale di Venezia (untitled (legs #8), 2009), a mirror in a cinema-screen format by Morgan Fisher (The aspect ratio pieces–European standard widescreen 1.66:1, 2004), and the cut-up Dracula film by Daragh Reeves (Dracula – Tod Browning, 2003).

Isabell Heimerdinger’s works are also closely related to the topic of film, including the video piece in which Udo Kier is observed while watching Paul Morrissey’s film Andy Warhol’s Dracula (1974), in which he also played the main character (I was Andy Warhol’s Dracula, 2000).

Karthik Pandian and Mathias Poledna cut up a 35 mm film and handled the individual pictures (frames) like slides: slowed down to an extreme, only one picture could be seen each day and one second of film occupied twenty-four exhibition days (1991, 2010).

The show also presents works that tell stories and chronologically document sequences of actions. An example is Rodney Graham’s Interiors, the Berlin studies of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1992), in which the artist rearranged the furniture in the rooms of the Grimm brothers. Another is Telemistica (2000), where Christian Jankowski consults a fortune-teller on Italian television about the success of his most recent work of art, which deals precisely with this consultation.

It is, however, not only possible to see closed sequences of actions. Many works also pose questions with answers that elude explanation: What story stands behind Danh Vō’s puzzling photos from Vietnam of the 1970s (Archive of Dr. Joseph M. Carrier 1962–1973, 2010)? In what collections have Christopher Williams’s photos of reservoirs in Switzerland landed (Simon Starling, by night the Swiss (…) (after Christopher Williams / after Jean-Luc Godard), 2005)? Where do the books that Carol Bove stacked up come from (Tower of the prophet, 2002)? What are the stamps by Donald Evans about (Tropides islands (A series of three stamps), 1977, and Sabot – Poisonous mushrooms (A series of eight stamps), 1973)? What has happened to the chair frame that Wade Guyton processed (Untitled action sculpture (Breuer), 2003)?

Stories are concealed behind all these questions, which, to be answered, films must “play in people’s minds.” in order to “see” these films, one requires not only facts, but also fantasy – however, not necessarily the support of hallucinogens, as in the case of Johannes Wohnseifer’s assembly of the Rietveld chair (Psilocybin experience, 2000).

Axel Haubrok

List of works

Edgar Arceneaux
Morgan Fisher’s Peugeot, 2006

Cezary Bodzianowski
UFO days, 1999

Carol Bove
Tower of the prophet, 2002

Donald Evans
Tropides islands (A series of three stamps), 1977

Donald Evans
Sabot – poisonous mushrooms (A series of eight stamps), 1973

Morgan Fisher
The aspect ratio pieces – European Standard Widescreen 1.66:1, 2004

Douglas Gordon
Bootleg (Empire), 1998

Rodney Graham
Interiors, the Berlin studies of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, 1992

Wade Guyton
Untitled action sculpture (Breuer), 2003

Isabell Heimerdinger
I was Andy Warhol’s Dracula, 2000

Isabell Heimerdinger
Interior #15, 2000

Isabell Heimerdinger
Admit one, 1999
courtesy Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin

Christian Jankowski
Telemistica, 2000

Oliver Laric
Something old, something new, 2014

Jonathan Monk
What remains (A ten-year project), 2013-2022

Jonathan Monk
Tonight before tonight, 2014/2016

Karthik Pandian & Mathias Poledna
1991, 2010

Stephen Prina
Haubrok 1 (Push painting), 2008

Stephen Prina
untitled (Vinyl II), 2000

Daragh Reeves
Dracula – Tod Browning, 2003

Christopher Roth
41°03’59.4”n 8°57’27.9”e (right), 2016
Courtesy Esther Schipper, Berlin

Markus Schinwald
untitled (legs #8), 2009

Simon Starling
By night the Swiss buy cheap-rate electricity from their neighbors which they use to pump water into holding reservoirs. By day they use the stored water to generate hydroelectric power which they then sell back to their neighbors at peak-rate prices (after Christopher Williams / after Jean-Luc Godard), 2005

Danh Vō
20.1.1861 last letter of Saint Théophane Venard to his father before he was decapitated copied by Phung Vo, 2014

Danh Vō
Archive of Dr. Joseph M. Carrier 1962-73, 2010

Christopher Williams
332 min 17 sec, 2003

Johannes Wohnseifer
Psilocybin experience, 2000

David Zink Yi
untitled (deine Hände), 1999