\nWhat You Imagined It To Be<\/strong><\/span>
\nOrganized by Caspar Stracke<\/span><\/p>\n
w\/ works by:\u00a0Jaimi Aleksos,\u00a0Belgavox, Gerd Conradt, Cinema Contraimagen, Brian Doyle, Felix Gmelin, Jill Godmillow, Birgit and Wilhelm Hein, Isidore Isou, Christian Jankowski, Daniel K\u00f6tter and Constanze Fischbeck, Kini Matini,\u00a0Simon Payne, Caspar Stracke, Billy Talen and Youandfilms, Terre Thaemlitz, Sisters Uncut,\u00a0Claudia von Alemann, Florian Zeyfang<\/span> Microscope is pleased to welcome artist and curator Caspar Stracke to the gallery for a special program he assembled on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the May ’68 revolts\u00a0in France and Europe,\u00a0loosely centered around protest culture in cinema theaters and tracing the ways\u00a0in which\u00a0rebellion in the cinema reflected the political climate.<\/span><\/p>\n Projected onto a large canvas resembling a protest sign, the video program is inspired by the New Year\u2019s Eve 1968 occupation of a movie theater at\u00a0the legendary Exprmntl festival of Knokke-le-Zoute in Belgium. Among the students who interfered with and\u00a0introduced performative elements into the usual screening routine were Harun Farocki, Holger Meins, Gerd Conradt, and Oimel Mai.<\/span><\/p>\n The program includes three videos by Stracke made between 2001 and 2018 – one in collaboration with Terre Thaemlitz – that respond\u00a0to the event and related subjects. In his latest work\u00a0\u201cFour Re-enactments\u201d the artist re-enacts 4 scenes of the Belgium protest.\u00a0Other recent works in the\u00a0program by\u00a0Jaimi Aleksos,\u00a0Kini Matini,\u00a0Sisters Uncut,\u00a0Brian Doyle,\u00a0Billy Talen and Youandfilms, among others, continue the themes of protest, cinematic intervention, and re-enactment. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Stracke also includes excerpts from film documentations of the Knokke-le-Zoute festival in addition to works by Birgit and Wilhelm Hein, Jill Godmillow, Gerd\u00a0Conradt, and others.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n From Caspar Stracke:<\/span><\/p>\n “Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the \u201968 movement, it [the program] is a focused on the collision between the notions of cinema and protest culture, taking a historically significant event of 1968 as a starting point. The latter could be described as the Underground Filmmakers\u2019 own \u201968 ignition, but at the same time also solidifying a schism between politically motivated filmmaking and Avant Garde Cinema. <\/span><\/p>\n During the height of the Vietnam War and at the formation of the international student movement, the event took place in a casino in Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium, the venue of the Exprmntl 4 Film Festival. A cinema hall got occupied by some of its own audience, including participating filmmakers. Some screenings were disrupted (or, inevitably, \u201cexpanded\u201d) by means of performative actions, banners and vocal interventions. <\/span><\/p>\n Four scenes of this event I decided to re-enact, inspired by the prevalent question of how such political actions would come into place today and if one can effectively negotiate between the duality of physical and virtual social spaces.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n I curated a series of works (dominantly work excerpts) that align with this inquiry and included my own responses to these works\u00a0[\u2026] \u00a0The re-enactment theme wriggles throughout the program, I included other artists\u2019 re-enactments and ultimately my own\u00a0remake of a scene describing the remake of a 1968 protest film. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The result can be seen as a hybrid between curatorial work, found footage cinema and appropriation art.” <\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong> General admission $8<\/span><\/em>
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\nStill from “Four Reenactments” (2018) by Caspar Stracke – Image courtesy of the artist<\/span>
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\n“We can\u2019t stay sitting down at a film festival. We have to do something, here too”.
\n– Harun Farocki<\/em><\/span>
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