Filmmakers' Choice on April 16

From unexposed film to a medially reflected self-reflection: Nam June Paik's ZEN FOR FILM (1964), a visual analogy of John Cage's silence, marked the start of a search for possibilities of self-perception in film and video art. In WAITING (1979) Nan Hoover examines the subjective feeling of time; Annika Larsson films blind football players in BLIND (2010) and Florian Zeyfang examines the possibilities of visual reproduction in INTRODUCTION TO A SHORT HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY (2008). In Kenneth Anger's KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (1965) the "I" is reflected in fetishistic polished chrome, and Ming Wong imitates fictional identities in LERNE DEUTSCH MIT PETRA VON KANT (2007). In Keren Cytter's DER SPIEGEL (2007) the mirror becomes a destroyer of self-perception, and at the end Stefan Zeyen tries to prevent a FAREWELL (2009) until the image dissolves. Presented by Niklas Goldbach.