To accompany the female artists' program in our cinema, on
arsenal 3 we will be showing previous works by this year's grantholders, which have found their way into our archive over the years. Deborah Phillips’ analogue films
MOSAIC (Germany 2001) and
71 (Germany 2005) create a picturesque and abstract lyrical rush of images by means of a collage technique of overlapping ornaments and details, multiple exposures and superimpositions. Realized on Super 8, Sabine Schöbel's films
LUPINEN LÖSCHEN (Germany 2006) and
EZB 2011–2012 (Germany 2014) shed an unconventional perspective of the world:
LUPINEN LÖSCHEN is about the beauty and horror of a not-so-common misfortune and the circumstances of its disappearance.
EZB 2011–2012 documents the building of the new premises of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt during the financial crisis. In Juliane Henrich's
SCHLEIFEN (Germany 2014) a detailed examination of the architecture in a small German village an uncanny feeling of displacement and obliteration develops slowly.
AUS WESTLICHEN RICHTUNGEN (Juliane Henrich, Germany 2016) is a cinematic reflection on the fuzzy concept of "West Germany" and the images associated with it. Justin Time's female-to-female performance
TOSS IT BABY! (Germany 2007) analyzes the media-driven compulsion for beauty and “happyness”. The experimental documentary road movie
CHASING HOUSES (Justin Time, Germany 2017) follows mobile homes as they make their way across the US by highway and links the spectacular expanse of the west with the fragile lives of their inhabitants. In their animated documentaries
DARSTELLUNGEN VON FLUCHT (Germany 2016) and
LANAS GESCHICHTE (Germany 2017), Anna Faroqhi and Haim Peretz shed poignant and haunting light on the lived reality of refugees. The invisible spectrum of light - that which is felt but never seen - becomes a means of approaching trauma-induced memory loss in the essay film
UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS (Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany 2020), which is composed of short vignettes of varying techniques and materiality.