fsk Kino:
 Forum & Friends VI: Keren Cytter – Films & Videos

“The Man Who Climbed Up the Stairs of Life and Found Out They Were Cinema Seats” is the title of Keren Cytter's first novel, which is told in seven chapters and written in seven different styles. The “stairs of life” are depicted as an intricate intertwining: friends, actors and actresses, into whose mouths Cytter puts oscillating monologues that collide with each other. Characters who are loosely yet existentially connected to each other, trying to understand themselves and each other. In ever-changing constellations, they become entwined and lapse into magnificent dialogues.

Keren Cytter's films are carried by a deliberately artificial and artistic style, narration with deconstruction, linearity with fragmentarity, figuration with the absurd, rebellion with fragility, coolness with trips, punk with romance. The highly original plots are complemented by an associative game with form and medium, foils and generic codes, from genre to cultural history to individual auteur signatures—a whirlwind of film, into the present moment as a virtual state of being. Even into trance.

When the above-mentioned book was published in 2005, Cytter had already made around 20 films. Cytter is a true multimedia artist, working in the fields of dance and performance, video and film, poetry, and the visual arts, particularly drawing. From 1997 to 1999, she studied at the Avni Institute for Art and Design in Tel Aviv, she then worked in Berlin (2005–2012) and New York, founding the dance company D.I.E NOW in 2012, and writing five novels and three children's books. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and major museums, including mumok, Stedelijk, and the Tate. In 2021, she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship; since 2022, she has been a professor of Expanded Photography at the University of Fine Arts Münster. (Barbara Wurm, Christiane Büchner)

Keren Cytter will be a guest at all the programs curated and moderated by Irina Bondas, Christiane Büchner, and Barbara Wurm.

At fsk Kino, Segitzdamm 2, Berlin-Kreuzberg