8th Berlin International Director’s Lounge: Anna Scime and Marjorie Hernandez-Tejada

The program Urban Research, curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr for Directors Lounge 2012, reaches beyond the genre “city films”. Contemporary artists are engaged in local politics, they are concerned with specific urban problems and developments, and they are directly interacting with the public with performances and public interventions. Due to rapid changes of urban environment, place is no more a reliable urban structure connected with consistency and collective memory. Place must be reinvented and newly defined over and over, and this does not only apply for spaces of temporary use. Public space in the sense of social interchange and interaction — as well as just a space free to use — is not a given opportunity any more, which can be taken for granted. International artists address these themes and issues with a variety of forms, experimental, documentary, abstract, and narrative; they intervene directly or they show there visions of public space, and a new urban landscape.

Anna Scime (Master of Fine Arts Candidate) and exchange student Marjorie Hernandez-Tejada (Diploma in Architecture / Masters of Science Candidate, Media Architecture, Bauhaus University Weimar) have each been selected to screen work in the 8th Berlin International Director’s Lounge Festival (February 9-19, 2012).

Anna Scime will screen an excerpt of both sunvein and everybody lives downstream.

image from: everybody lives downstream 2010 (28 min)
urban research special screen program: Monday, February 13 @ 8 pm