Rainer Komers // Kobe


D/J, 2006, colour, 35mm,
45 min., without Dialog

One of the five main ports in its country, Kobe is also of great relevance in the world of cinema: it was there that in November 1896 the first film was screened in Japan. Kobe proposes an exploration of the city’s particular habits, rhythms and gestures until it transforms immediate register into unfamiliar everyday life, in a constant zigzag between sociological observation and sudden poetry. The auction-scene at the fish market is proof of the unusual pace of a city which – as telling evidence of its vitality – regenerated itself following the unfortunate earthquake of January 17th, 1995.
(Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, catalogue)

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Antje Majewski // Erde Asphalt Wedding


D, 2007, colour, video,
9 min., without Dialog

in collaboration with Juliane Solmsdorf
Two strange creatures come out of the canal at Westhafen, near Wedding, one of Berlin’s seediest districts. Their shiny costumes twinkle in the early morning light. As the noise of the streets becomes louder, they continue to crawl on the ground: up to the street, over a bridge, across crossroads and past cars, until finally vanishing again behind a concrete ramp. In Erde Asphalt Wedding (Earth Asphalt Wedding), we appropriate the governed city space by moving through it, in extreme close up, with the entire surface of our bodies.

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