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FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER
Videonale 18.

On what basis do we live, think and act nowadays? And how are we shaping this basis for the future? The works of the exhibition FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER open a discourse on these questions. How does our thinking of the relationship of human beings to their environment change when we no longer see the body as solid and autonomous - as it has been the case until now - but as fluid. As fluid bodies - or "Bodies of Water", as gender researcher Astrida Neimanis puts it -
we as human beings no longer stand above nature, but in interaction with it, with the living being, with the systems that surround us.
Image: © Ida Kammerloch, Resusci Anne, 2019/2020

Alexandra Meijer-Werner

Between 1993 and 2002 Alexandra Meijer-Werner's artistic work focused on creating video installations with multiple projectors, and combining sound, texture and interaction with the public. She also produced a number of documentaries which evidence her profound interest in personal transformation and the awakening of human consciousness.

Please have a look to an introduction of her work on blinkvideo.
Image: © Eugenia Meijer-Werner

Moving Images / Moving Bodies
Online screening programme in cooperation
with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria

Curated by Ludwig Seyfarth

Research into the human body and interpersonal relationships remain central themes in video and moving image art. Artists from Bulgaria and Germany, whose work is related in content, will be shown in pairs over the next weeks. The exhibition planned for November 2020 in Sofia has been postponed until 2021. Instead, a consecutive presentation of selected films by artists from Moving Bodies/Moving Images is presented on blinkvideo.
image: © Elitsa Dimitrova

Shooting Ghosts
Online screening programme in cooperation
with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria

Curators: Kalin Serapionov, Krassimir Terziev

What we propose in this programme is a highly subjective and fragmented view on current practices in moving image in the Bulgarian art scene. We focused on practices that show affinity with speculative narratives - narratives that not just record what is in front of the cinematic eye, but also capture all the ghosts that are unreachable by the apparatus, thus projecting speculative views that intend not merely to describe, but to transform the world.
image: © Veneta Androva

Featured videos

Alexandra Meijer-Werner
Kreislauf / cycle … revolution … circulation, 1997

Kreislauf is an oneiric trip about the continuous cycle of human rebirth. Our dreams create the fabric in which the threads or individual tendencies appear and disappear, only to become visible once again. The dynamic of this video is a weave of repetitions and juxtapositions of the experiences that create the dance of life. Everything is cyclic, nothing disappears; everything is perpetually mutating in landscapes of anguish and joy, violence and calm, solitude and union. The traveler is the active force of his own fate when he realizes that what is most significant in life is the act of living itself.

Björn Braun
without title (excerpt), 2012

Sandra Boeschenstein
Besuchte Linie auf Granit, 2014

I encountered the roundworm in the Alps when I attempted to repair the water catchment of the cabin after a storm. I wished for this animal found at the spring to be a visited line, then searched for potential visitors and found, just nearby, a nest of firebugs in a dried chestnut leaf, which I placed just outside of the image field. The granite slab, roundworm, bugs’ nest and a fly lived their lives within a radius of 100 meters. My part in this was to bring them into direct proximity for the duration of an hour, to focus my camera and to breathe onto the upper part of the lens, in order to increase the atmospheric depth of the picture. Finally, to come to the allegation I’ve made via the title that something was a line that actually is an animal (when normally, in a contrary approach, characteristically formed lines represent animals or the like). The combination of the simplicity in the foundation / bedrock with a simultaneous insecurity in view of scale and nature of this white line, holds my fascination.

Isabella Fürnkäs
In Ekklesia, 2015

The title, ‘In Ekklesia,’ comes from the Greek word ‘ecclesia,’ which refers to the democratic parliament that served Athens in its halcyon days by being open to male citizens every other year. Solon, an Athenian legislator and a sage, allowed all citizens to serve the parliament regardless of their social class in BC 594. The Ecclesia made decisions about war, military strategies, and all judicial and administrative issues. This work satirizes various facets of humans and machines in the 21st century, unconsciously within a dystopian environment. Isabella Fürnkäs introduces a method of combining and overlaying countless images in her work, providing the new experience of sensations that act in ambiguous flows, movements, interference, and interjection. The piece is about the new metaphysical and material connections appearing through digital conversations that are divorced from the general notion of time and space, as well as isolation and alienation. Text by Hyun Jeung Kim (Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul)

Ryan Gander
Man on a bridge - (A study of David Lange) , 2008

A digital video transferred from 16 mm film shows a number of slightly differing takes of the same short sequence: A man walks over a bridge and seems to notice something over the railing to his left hand side. As he moves in for a closer inspection, the film cuts, which is then followed by another take of the same shot.

Wim Catrysse
MSR, 2014

On the Kuwait roads the journey goes in a western direction, past military bases and a line of oil transporters. Dreary sound sequences are pumped out by the radio. In the middle of rubbish heaps by the roadside a pack of wild dogs is trying to find shelter from the wind. Wim Catrysse presents the Kuwait desert both as a post-apocalyptic setting and as protagonist. During the journey, the car window is an obstacle, made even more so by the screen. The viewer, dumped in the desert, does not manage to reach it through the window. MSR, the Main Supply Route, is the main highway used to coordinate military operations in the Gulf War in 1990/91 and the War in Iraq in 2003. Filming is forbidden here, so the pack of wild dogs carries the story at first. But their behaviour keeps on bringing the desert into focus as the principal actor. Underlined by the sound track, its seeming hostility to life awakens the impression of a dystopian timelessness reminiscent of the apocalyptic scenarios in films and makes the viewer feel ill at ease. Catrysse examines conventions, both in a political-dogmatic and in a filmic sense.Nathalie Ladermann

Johanna Reich
CRAWLER, 2020

A crawler is a searchbot in the internet which Johanna Reich uses to collect special comments or phrases about the most discussed topics during the last years like A.I., climate change, digital revolution, gender and the turn of democratic systems. Johanna Reich selects several of the collected phrases composing a robot performance: self-driving projectors move across the exhibition space and project comments about a.i., gender or climate change onto the audience and architecture.

Annika Kahrs
solid surface, with hills, valleys, craters and other topographic...., 2014

solid surface,with hills,valleys,craters and other topographic features,primarily made of ice„solid surface, with hills, valleys, craters and other topographic features, primarily made of ice“ is set in a planetarium with a projected starry sky, in the center of which is situated a light spot, that explores the space. The Film deals with the moment, shortly before the actual visualization of pluto’s surface properties, whereas the entire cupola hall of the planetarium serves as a metaphorical projection surface of Pluto. The round light spot formally points to the shape of the celestial object and functions as placeholder for its soon arising image.

Ann Oren
The World Is Mine, 2017

In cosplay of the Japanese cyber diva Hatsune Miku, the artist moved to Tokyo, seeking an identity in the world of Miku fanatics, where she was drawn into a love affair with one of the fans. Miku is a Vocaloid, a vocal synthesizer software personified by a cute animated character. Her entire persona: lyrics, music and animation – is fan created, and that's her charm. She even performs sold out concerts as a hologram. By transforming herself into a Miku character through cosplay, Oren enters a world of real hardcore fans where fantasy is more real than reality and the differentiation between the two becomes obsolete. The film examines the performative nature of cosplaying – dressing up and playing the role of fictional characters – as a hybrid space where reality blurs into fetishistic fantasies and pop culture clichés. Combining fan-made lyrics and songs, Oren's trials and tribulations in the fictional Miku world unfolds through vague erotic episodes and encounters with characters whose ontological status remains mysterious, bringing to mind the adventures of a modern Alice in a virtual Wonderland.

Jonathan Monaghan
Den of Wolves, 2020

Den of Wolves is a seamlessly-looping video installation drawing on a range of references to weave a new multi-layered mythology. The work follows three bizarre wolves through a series of increasingly surreal retail stores as they search for the regalia of a monarch. Composed of one continuous camera shot, the work is an immersive, dreamlike journey drawing connections between popular culture, institutional authority and technological over-dependence.

Stefan Panhans
HOSTEL Sequel #1: Please Be Careful Out There, Lisa Marie – H.V.Installation Mix, 2018

At transmediale, Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler show their work HOSTEL Sequel #1: Please Be Careful Out There, Lisa Marie – Hybrid Version, a new project that combines film, installation, and staccato stage reading (on blinkvideo we are showing a trailer of the integrated film). With everyday racism, celebrity worship, stereotypes, and the dominating power of the economic all on the rise, precariously and flexibly traveling cultural workers of different origin deliver a sort of spoken word battle about their experiences and dreams. They constantly switch roles and, at the same time, form a choir that clashes with the rapped reports of everyday life. As in a collaborative gymnastic exercise—surrounded by scenery made up of set pieces from outfits of airports, hostels, and courier services, from self-optimization tools and game show displays—they fight for a voice and to be heard, building new alliances along the way. for more information: opening of transmediale

Mariola Brillowska
Children Of The Devil, 2011

Mariola Brillowska’s animation film relates the total collapse of the family system in the 21st century. Six cartoon episodes present an unsparing account of how children become murderers of their parents.

Julia Charlotte Richter
Point Blank, 2019

“Point Blank” refers to a film scene from "The Misfits" (1961) that is now re-enacted and further contextualized. In the original scene, the recently divorced main character Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe) rises up against three worn-out cowboys and, in the middle of the desert, confronts the men with all their lacks and lost dreams. In “Point Blank”, we see a young woman wandering around in surreal desert landscapes, a journey into the remoteness of the world and her own inner life. With every step out into the desert, the girl descends into her own depths searching for a place that seems to be suitable for her emotions and words. Unlike Roslyn, the young woman now refers to absent addressees: "Liars", "Murderers" and "Dead Men" she screams and turns around wildly. The words, which spread like bullets in the air, fall back on her. Except for a faint echo, there is no resonance at this place that depicts the obsessions of a distorted, patriarchal society and has become a dramatic backdrop of yearnings within the collective history of cinema. Where Roslyn was able to elicit a terrified astonishment from the three men, the character in Julia Charlotte Richter's video remains to herself and unheard, the desert as the only witness of her manifesto, her anger and her strength.

Ulrich Polster
Frost, 2003 / 2004

The night city. Industrial ruins filmed in contrejour. Memories from childhood. Different places and times combined at the mountain. It is a hollow portrait of Eastern Europe that carries the traces of its history.

Ene-Liis Semper
FF REW, 1998

Dimitri Venkov
The Hymns of Muscovy, 2018

The film is a trip to the planet Muscovy, which is an upside down space twin of the city of Moscow. As the title of the work suggests, the journey also takes us back in time. Gliding along the surface of the planet, we look down to the sky and see historic architectural styles fly by - the exuberant Socialist Classicism aka Stalinist Empire, the laconic and brutish Soviet Modernism, and the hodgepodge of contemporary knock-offs and revivals of the styles of the past. An essential companion to this journey through time and space are Hymnic Variations on the Soviet anthem by the composer Alexander Manotskov. The anthem was written in 1943 and has undergone three editions of lyrics yet musically remained unchanged to now serve as the official anthem of the Russian Federation. Manotskov used an early recording of the anthem as source material to create three electronic variations each corresponding to an architectural style. As if in a twist of Goethe’s phrase, architecture plays its frozen music. Look closely, can you hear it?

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E-Mail: langenbach@videonale.org




Statement

about the cinéaste:
Charles Fairbanks is a wrestler, filmmaker, and professor. His recent work focused on Lucha Libre in Mexico, where the artist fights as the One-Eyed Cat (El Gato Tuerto) with a camera built into his mask. Chuck grew up in rural Nebraska and wrestled at Stanford, where he studied Art and the History of Science. While in graduate school at the University of Michigan, he worked as the wrestling coach / choreographer for the University Productions staging of Claire Luckham’s Trafford Tanzi – a feminist play written for the pub, directed by Malcolm Tulip. In 2010 Fairbanks was chosen by Werner Herzog for the first Rogue Film School, and in 2011 Anthology Film Archives hosted the retrospective screening Tender Muscles: Five Films by Charles Fairbanks. He has worked as translator (Festival Filmer à Tout Prix), as programmer and producer (Courtisane Festival), and as visiting professor of VideoArte (at Tuxtla’s UNICACH, in Chiapas, Mexico). Presently a Guggenheim Fellow and Assistant Professor of Media Arts at Antioch College, his new work is emerging through collaboration with an indigenous Zoque community in rural Chiapas.

With only a few small films under his belt, Charles Fairbanks has managed to make a big impact at festivals around the world. His entertaining and heartfelt short films are extremely easy to enjoy and very hard to forget. – Anthology Film Archive


Biography

Education

2010 Master of Fine Arts, School of Art & Design, University of Michigan.
Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School.
2008-2009 Sound Image Culture (SIC) Master Class, Brussels.
2003 Bachelor of Arts in Art and STS (Science, Technology, and Society), Stanford.

Solo screenings and exhibitions

2012
Artists’ Television Access (ATA) (San Francisco, California) Tender Muscles.
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center (Kansas City, Missouri) The Space Between Our Selves.
Cinéma Galeries (Brussels, Belgium) Tender Muscles: five films by Charles Fairbanks.
The Ross (Lincoln, Nebraska) Tender Muscles: five films by Charles Fairbanks.
CONCORD (Los Angeles, California) Tender Muscles: five films by Charles Fairbanks.

2011
Anthology Film Archives (New York, New York) Tender Muscles: five films by Charles Fairbanks.
Deluge (Victoria, Canada) Wrestling with my Father
SOMA (Mexico City, Mexico) Luchando sobre los roles de género.

2010
2739 Edwin (Detroit, Michigan) Flexing Muscles.

2008
The Arena Sports Bar (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Wrestling with Representation.

2005
San Angel Folk Art (San Antonio, Texas) As part of FotoSeptiembre.
Irene Carlsen Photography Gallery (LaVerne College, California) Wrestling with Representation.

2004
Artists’ Television Access (ATA) (San Francisco, California) ¡Que Viva la Lucha!
Galería Municipal de Cintalapa (Cintalapa, Mexico) El Nacimiento del Gato Tuerto.

Festivals and screenings

2013
MUFF: Montreal Underground Film Festival (Montreal, Canada)
Filmmuseum Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, Germany) Nacht Der Museen.
EFF Portland (Portland, Oregon)
Atlanta Film Festival (Atlanta, Georgia)
Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Québec (Montreal, Canada)
Videonale (Bonn, Germany)
Stuttgart Filmwinter (Stuttgart, Germany)
AMDOCS (Palm Springs, California)
Kuala Lumpur Triennial (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) BARRICADE.
Big Sky Documentary Festival (Missoula, Montana)
Strange Beauty (Durham, North Carolina)

2012
Indie Memphis (Memphis, Tennessee)
Contemporary Art Ruhr (Ruhr, Germany)
Pantalla Latina (St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Traces de Vies (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
KLEX (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
FilmStreams Local Filmmakers’ Showcase (Omaha, Nebraska)
OAKUFF (Oakland, California)
Cincinnati Film Festival (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
L’Isola de Cinema (Rome, Italy) Berlin Directors Lounge Traveling Program.
Open City Docs Fest (London, England)
Georgetown Festival (Penang, Malaysia)
Substation Singapore (Singapore) FLEX traveling program, curated by Roger Beebe.
El Luchador (Zurich, Switzerland)
MUFF: Montreal Underground Film Festival (Montreal, Canada)
CUFF: Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, Illinois)
Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland)
Athens International Film & Video Festival (Athens, Ohio)
Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ETHNOCINECA (Vienna, Austria)
EFF Portland (Portland, Oregon)
VLADY (Mexico City, Mexico) Ciclo de Cine de Lucha Libre.
Berlinale Directors Lounge (Berlin, Germany)
ICdocs (Iowa City, Iowa)
MECAL (Barcelona, Spain)
Bradford International Film Festival (Bradford, England)
CINEMAROSA at the Queens Museum (Queens, New York)
Strange Beauty (Durham, North Carolina)
Thin Line Film Festival (Denton, Texas)
Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, Mississippi)
Macon Film Festival (Macon, Georgia)
The Effort presents Mucha Lucha (London, England)
Festival Les Inattendus (Lyon, France)

2011
VIDEOMEDEJA (Novi Sad, Serbia)
CUFF: Chicago Undergound Film Festival (Chicago, Illinois) Salonathon at Beauty Bar.
SF Doc Fest (San Francisco, California)
Indie Memphis (Memphis, Tennessee)
Interfilm (Berlin, Germany)
Filmer à tout prix (Brussels, Belgium)
KLEX (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Lone Star Film Festival (Fort Worth, Texas)
FIDÉ (Paris, France)
Lightbox (London, England) Lightbox Presents: Supershorts,
LACLA: the Latin American Cinema of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California) Cine Sin Fronteras,
Camden International Film Festival (Camden, Maine)
Dallas Video Fest (Dallas, Texas)
Antimatter (Victoria, Canada)
Video Dumbo (Brooklyn, New York)
New Orleans Film Festival (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Basement Media Fest (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
São Paulo International Short Film Festival (São Paulo, Brazil)
WNDX (Winnepeg, Canada)
Olympia Film Festival (Olympia, Washington)
Chicago Filmmakers’ New Documentary Showcase (Chicago, Illinois)
Host Gallery (London, England) Irma.
Syracuse International Film Festival (Syracuse, New York)
New York International Latino Film Festival (New York, New York)
Dokufest Kosovo (Prizren, Kosovo)
Edindocs (Edinburgh, Scotland)
NET: Nebraska Educational Television (statewide broadcast)
Filmstreams Local Filmmakers Showcase (Omaha, Nebraska)
New Filmmakers (New York, New York)
Rooftop Films (New York, New York)
SilverDocs (Washington, D.C.)
Cut and Run Tour (various locations)
CUFF: Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, Illinois)
Festival de Cinema de Huesca (Huesca, Spain)
National Gallery of Armenia (Yerevan, Armenia)
London International Documentary Festival (London, England)
IndieLisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
Frameline Film Festival (San Francisco, California)
Independent Film Festival Boston (Boston, Massachusetts)
BUFF: the Boston Underground Film Festival (Boston, Massachusetts)
Athens International Film Festival (Athens, Ohio)
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (Durham, North Carolina)
ICdocs (Iowa City, Iowa)
Australian International Experimental Film Festival (Melbourne, Australia)
Film Fest Dresden (Dresden, Germany)
Black Maria Film Festival (Jersey City, New Jersey)
DOXA (Vancouver, Canada)
Arizona International Film Festival (Tucson, Arizona)
Indie Spirit Film Festival (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Santa Cruz Film Festival (Santa Cruz, California)
Play-Doc (Tui, Spain)
Strange Beauty (Durham, North Carolina)
Carolina Film + Video Fest (Greensboro, North Carolina)
Florida Film Festival (Orlando, Florida)
Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, Illinois)
Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah)
FLEX: the Florida Experimental Film Festival (Gainesville, Florida)
Stuttgart Filmwinter (Stuttgart, Germany)
Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Québec (Montreal, Canada)
Omaha Film Festival (Omaha, Nebraska)
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (Missoula, Montana)
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival (Sebastopol, California)
Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, Mississippi)

2010
Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (Paris, France)
Aarhus Film Festival (Aarhus, Denmark)
Image + Nation (Montreal, Canada)
Festival de Cine Cero Latitud (Quito, Ecuador)
Virginia Film Festival (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Festival dei Popoli (Florence, Italy)
CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Morelia International Film Festival (Morélia, Mexico)
DocsDF (Mexico City, Mexico)
ExGround Film Festival (Wiesbaden, Germany)
ATA Film & Video Festival (San Francisco, CA)
Tucson Film & Music Festival (Tucson, AZ)
Gangrene Comedy Film Festival (Layton, Utah)
Scrummage Moving Pictures (Detroit, MI)
Flagstaff Film Festival (Flagstaff, AZ)
Nevada City Film Festival (Nevada City, California)
Media City Film Festival (Windsor, Canada)
Hamburg International Short Film Festival (Hamburg, Germany)
MUFF: Montreal Underground Film Festival (Montreal, Canada)
Videopolis (Baltimore, Maryland)
Athens International Film & Video Festival (Athens, Ohio)
Hott Lava (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Sans Canal Fixe (Tours, France) Filmer Sa Famille.

2009
KranFilm (Brussels, Belgium) Mom and Dad: three documentary films.
B-Docs cinéclub (Liège, Belgium) Filmer Ses Parents.
Botanique (Brussels, Belgium) Regards Croisés.
Les Brigittines (Brussels, Belgium) SIC screenings.
Netwerk (Aalst, Belgium) SIC screenings.

Group exhibitions

2013
Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn, Germany) Videonale.
C. Emerson Fine Arts (St. Petersburg, Florida) FLEXfest curated program.

2012
Rackham Graduate School (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Rackham Centennial Exhibit.

2011
Netwerk: Aalst (Aalst, Belgium) SoundImageCulture: Poetics of Observation.
Transformer Gallery (Washington, DC) Storefront Video.
Cobalt Studio (Chicago, Illinois) ¡Action Figures!
Gallery Project (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Extremes.
EDELO (San Cristobal, Mexico) Atemporal e Individual.

2009
The Natatorium (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Ann Arbor Exile.
Hot Dog (Omaha, Nebraska) Yesterday.
Sheppard Gallery (Reno, Nevada) I Like Winners: Sports and Selfhood.

2008
Gallery Project (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Gender Agenda.
SH\aüt\ (Ann Arbor, Michigan) wrestling burlesque performance with Malcolm Tulip.
Work (Detroit, Michigan) Consistency and Change.

2007
Temporary Gallery (Grand Rapids, Michigan) The Bad Show.
Robbins Gallery (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Waiting for Translation.
ACT Station (Hikone, Japan) Do you live here?
Eyedrum (Atlanta, Georgia) Fingers + Codes: the contemporary portrait.
Torrance Art Museum (Los Angeles, California) Command + Z.

2006
ebayaday (curated online exhibition: ebayaday.com) December.
Guggenheim Gallery (Los Angeles, California) HI RES / LO RES.
Work (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Remnants from Passage.
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) (Los Angeles, California) New Math.
Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

2005
Bemis Art Center (Omaha, Nebraska) Lucky Sevens.
Regis Art Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota) FreshWorks.
Pingyao International Photo Festival (Pingyao, China)

2004
The Luggage Store Gallery (San Francisco, California) Frenzy II.
Millard Sheets Gallery (Los Angeles, California) L.A. County Fair: New Photography Competition.

2003
Cummings Art Building (Stanford, California) Undergraduate Fine Arts Exhibition.

2002
Stanford Art Gallery (Stanford, California) Undergraduate Grant Winners Exhibition.

Filmography

2012
Flexing Muscles, 21 minutes, Mexico / USA
2010
Irma, 12 minutes, Mexico / USA
Wrestling with my Father, 5 minutes, USA
The Men, 3 minutes, USA
2009
Pioneers, 33 minutes, USA / Belgium

Awards

2013 Short Film Special Jury Prize, Atlanta Film Festival
Director’s Citation, 32nd Annual Black Maria Film + Video Festival
2012 Second Prize, ICDocs.
The Eileen Maitland Award (best movie concerning women’s experience), Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Best Movie in three categories, Official Best of Fest Awards, for WRESTLING WITH MY FATHER.
Best Movie in one category, Official Best of Fest Awards, for IRMA.
2011 Special Mention of the Jury, VIDEOMEDEJA.
Best Documentary – Honorable Mention, Carolina Film Festival.
Best Experimental Film – Honorable Mention, Oxford Film Festival.
Best of Festival – Honorable Mention, Stuttgart Filmwinter.
Director’s Choice - 3rd Prize, 30th Annual Black Maria Film + Video Festival.
2010 SHORT:DOX Prize, CPH:DOX.
Best of Festival, Gangrene Comedy Film Festival.
First Place, Michigan Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championship.
2005 Winner, LACDA (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art) Juried Show.
2004 First Place, Los Angeles County Fair: New Photography Competition.
2003 Humanities Award in Studio Art, Stanford University.
Year’s Best Photography, PDN Photo-Annual.
PAC-10 Academic All-Conference Wrestlin.

Charles Fairbanks
Education 2010 Master of Fine Arts, School of Art & Design, University of Michigan. Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School. 2008-2009 Sound Image Culture (SIC) Master Class, Brussels. 2003 Bachelor of Arts in Art and STS (Science, Technology, and Society), Stanford. Solo screenings and exhibitions 2012 Artists’ Television Access (ATA) (San Francisco, California) Tender Muscles. Leedy-Voulkos Art Center (Kansas City, Missouri) The Space Between Our Selves. Cinéma Galeries (Brussels, Belgium) Tender Muscles: five films by Charles Fairbanks. The Ross (Lincoln, Nebraska) Tender Muscles: five films by Charles Fairbanks. CONCORD (Los Angeles, California) Tender Muscles: five films by Charles Fairbanks. 2011 Anthology Film Archives (New York, New York) Tender Muscles: five films by Charles Fairbanks. Deluge (Victoria, Canada) Wrestling with my Father SOMA (Mexico City, Mexico) Luchando sobre los roles de género. 2010 2739 Edwin (Detroit, Michigan) Flexing Muscles. 2008 The Arena Sports Bar (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Wrestling with Representation. 2005 San Angel Folk Art (San Antonio, Texas) As part of FotoSeptiembre. Irene Carlsen Photography Gallery (LaVerne College, California) Wrestling with Representation. 2004 Artists’ Television Access (ATA) (San Francisco, California) ¡Que Viva la Lucha! Galería Municipal de Cintalapa (Cintalapa, Mexico) El Nacimiento del Gato Tuerto. Festivals and screenings 2013 MUFF: Montreal Underground Film Festival (Montreal, Canada) Filmmuseum Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, Germany) Nacht Der Museen. EFF Portland (Portland, Oregon) Atlanta Film Festival (Atlanta, Georgia) Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Québec (Montreal, Canada) Videonale (Bonn, Germany) Stuttgart Filmwinter (Stuttgart, Germany) AMDOCS (Palm Springs, California) Kuala Lumpur Triennial (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) BARRICADE. Big Sky Documentary Festival (Missoula, Montana) Strange Beauty (Durham, North Carolina) 2012 Indie Memphis (Memphis, Tennessee) Contemporary Art Ruhr (Ruhr, Germany) Pantalla Latina (St. Gallen, Switzerland) Traces de Vies (Clermont-Ferrand, France) KLEX (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) FilmStreams Local Filmmakers’ Showcase (Omaha, Nebraska) OAKUFF (Oakland, California) Cincinnati Film Festival (Cincinnati, Ohio) Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil) L’Isola de Cinema (Rome, Italy) Berlin Directors Lounge Traveling Program. Open City Docs Fest (London, England) Georgetown Festival (Penang, Malaysia) Substation Singapore (Singapore) FLEX traveling program, curated by Roger Beebe. El Luchador (Zurich, Switzerland) MUFF: Montreal Underground Film Festival (Montreal, Canada) CUFF: Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, Illinois) Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland) Athens International Film & Video Festival (Athens, Ohio) Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan) ETHNOCINECA (Vienna, Austria) EFF Portland (Portland, Oregon) VLADY (Mexico City, Mexico) Ciclo de Cine de Lucha Libre. Berlinale Directors Lounge (Berlin, Germany) ICdocs (Iowa City, Iowa) MECAL (Barcelona, Spain) Bradford International Film Festival (Bradford, England) CINEMAROSA at the Queens Museum (Queens, New York) Strange Beauty (Durham, North Carolina) Thin Line Film Festival (Denton, Texas) Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, Mississippi) Macon Film Festival (Macon, Georgia) The Effort presents Mucha Lucha (London, England) Festival Les Inattendus (Lyon, France) 2011 VIDEOMEDEJA (Novi Sad, Serbia) CUFF: Chicago Undergound Film Festival (Chicago, Illinois) Salonathon at Beauty Bar. SF Doc Fest (San Francisco, California) Indie Memphis (Memphis, Tennessee) Interfilm (Berlin, Germany) Filmer à tout prix (Brussels, Belgium) KLEX (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Lone Star Film Festival (Fort Worth, Texas) FIDÉ (Paris, France) Lightbox (London, England) Lightbox Presents: Supershorts, LACLA: the Latin American Cinema of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California) Cine Sin Fronteras, Camden International Film Festival (Camden, Maine) Dallas Video Fest (Dallas, Texas) Antimatter (Victoria, Canada) Video Dumbo (Brooklyn, New York) New Orleans Film Festival (New Orleans, Louisiana) Basement Media Fest (Cambridge, Massachusetts) São Paulo International Short Film Festival (São Paulo, Brazil) WNDX (Winnepeg, Canada) Olympia Film Festival (Olympia, Washington) Chicago Filmmakers’ New Documentary Showcase (Chicago, Illinois) Host Gallery (London, England) Irma. Syracuse International Film Festival (Syracuse, New York) New York International Latino Film Festival (New York, New York) Dokufest Kosovo (Prizren, Kosovo) Edindocs (Edinburgh, Scotland) NET: Nebraska Educational Television (statewide broadcast) Filmstreams Local Filmmakers Showcase (Omaha, Nebraska) New Filmmakers (New York, New York) Rooftop Films (New York, New York) SilverDocs (Washington, D.C.) Cut and Run Tour (various locations) CUFF: Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, Illinois) Festival de Cinema de Huesca (Huesca, Spain) National Gallery of Armenia (Yerevan, Armenia) London International Documentary Festival (London, England) IndieLisboa (Lisbon, Portugal) Frameline Film Festival (San Francisco, California) Independent Film Festival Boston (Boston, Massachusetts) BUFF: the Boston Underground Film Festival (Boston, Massachusetts) Athens International Film Festival (Athens, Ohio) Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (Durham, North Carolina) ICdocs (Iowa City, Iowa) Australian International Experimental Film Festival (Melbourne, Australia) Film Fest Dresden (Dresden, Germany) Black Maria Film Festival (Jersey City, New Jersey) DOXA (Vancouver, Canada) Arizona International Film Festival (Tucson, Arizona) Indie Spirit Film Festival (Colorado Springs, Colorado) Santa Cruz Film Festival (Santa Cruz, California) Play-Doc (Tui, Spain) Strange Beauty (Durham, North Carolina) Carolina Film + Video Fest (Greensboro, North Carolina) Florida Film Festival (Orlando, Florida) Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, Illinois) Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah) FLEX: the Florida Experimental Film Festival (Gainesville, Florida) Stuttgart Filmwinter (Stuttgart, Germany) Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Québec (Montreal, Canada) Omaha Film Festival (Omaha, Nebraska) Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (Missoula, Montana) Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival (Sebastopol, California) Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, Mississippi) 2010 Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (Paris, France) Aarhus Film Festival (Aarhus, Denmark) Image + Nation (Montreal, Canada) Festival de Cine Cero Latitud (Quito, Ecuador) Virginia Film Festival (Charlottesville, Virginia) Festival dei Popoli (Florence, Italy) CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, Denmark) Morelia International Film Festival (Morélia, Mexico) DocsDF (Mexico City, Mexico) ExGround Film Festival (Wiesbaden, Germany) ATA Film & Video Festival (San Francisco, CA) Tucson Film & Music Festival (Tucson, AZ) Gangrene Comedy Film Festival (Layton, Utah) Scrummage Moving Pictures (Detroit, MI) Flagstaff Film Festival (Flagstaff, AZ) Nevada City Film Festival (Nevada City, California) Media City Film Festival (Windsor, Canada) Hamburg International Short Film Festival (Hamburg, Germany) MUFF: Montreal Underground Film Festival (Montreal, Canada) Videopolis (Baltimore, Maryland) Athens International Film & Video Festival (Athens, Ohio) Hott Lava (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Sans Canal Fixe (Tours, France) Filmer Sa Famille. 2009 KranFilm (Brussels, Belgium) Mom and Dad: three documentary films. B-Docs cinéclub (Liège, Belgium) Filmer Ses Parents. Botanique (Brussels, Belgium) Regards Croisés. Les Brigittines (Brussels, Belgium) SIC screenings. Netwerk (Aalst, Belgium) SIC screenings. Group exhibitions 2013 Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn, Germany) Videonale. C. Emerson Fine Arts (St. Petersburg, Florida) FLEXfest curated program. 2012 Rackham Graduate School (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Rackham Centennial Exhibit. 2011 Netwerk: Aalst (Aalst, Belgium) SoundImageCulture: Poetics of Observation. Transformer Gallery (Washington, DC) Storefront Video. Cobalt Studio (Chicago, Illinois) ¡Action Figures! Gallery Project (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Extremes. EDELO (San Cristobal, Mexico) Atemporal e Individual. 2009 The Natatorium (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Ann Arbor Exile. Hot Dog (Omaha, Nebraska) Yesterday. Sheppard Gallery (Reno, Nevada) I Like Winners: Sports and Selfhood. 2008 Gallery Project (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Gender Agenda. SH\aüt\ (Ann Arbor, Michigan) wrestling burlesque performance with Malcolm Tulip. Work (Detroit, Michigan) Consistency and Change. 2007 Temporary Gallery (Grand Rapids, Michigan) The Bad Show. Robbins Gallery (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Waiting for Translation. ACT Station (Hikone, Japan) Do you live here? Eyedrum (Atlanta, Georgia) Fingers + Codes: the contemporary portrait. Torrance Art Museum (Los Angeles, California) Command + Z. 2006 ebayaday (curated online exhibition: ebayaday.com) December. Guggenheim Gallery (Los Angeles, California) HI RES / LO RES. Work (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Remnants from Passage. Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) (Los Angeles, California) New Math. Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art (Minneapolis, Minnesota) 2005 Bemis Art Center (Omaha, Nebraska) Lucky Sevens. Regis Art Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota) FreshWorks. Pingyao International Photo Festival (Pingyao, China) 2004 The Luggage Store Gallery (San Francisco, California) Frenzy II. Millard Sheets Gallery (Los Angeles, California) L.A. County Fair: New Photography Competition. 2003 Cummings Art Building (Stanford, California) Undergraduate Fine Arts Exhibition. 2002 Stanford Art Gallery (Stanford, California) Undergraduate Grant Winners Exhibition. Filmography 2012 Flexing Muscles, 21 minutes, Mexico / USA 2010 Irma, 12 minutes, Mexico / USA Wrestling with my Father, 5 minutes, USA The Men, 3 minutes, USA 2009 Pioneers, 33 minutes, USA / Belgium Awards 2013 Short Film Special Jury Prize, Atlanta Film Festival Director’s Citation, 32nd Annual Black Maria Film + Video Festival 2012 Second Prize, ICDocs. The Eileen Maitland Award (best movie concerning women’s experience), Ann Arbor Film Festival. Best Movie in three categories, Official Best of Fest Awards, for WRESTLING WITH MY FATHER. Best Movie in one category, Official Best of Fest Awards, for IRMA. 2011 Special Mention of the Jury, VIDEOMEDEJA. Best Documentary – Honorable Mention, Carolina Film Festival. Best Experimental Film – Honorable Mention, Oxford Film Festival. Best of Festival – Honorable Mention, Stuttgart Filmwinter. Director’s Choice - 3rd Prize, 30th Annual Black Maria Film + Video Festival. 2010 SHORT:DOX Prize, CPH:DOX. Best of Festival, Gangrene Comedy Film Festival. First Place, Michigan Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championship. 2005 Winner, LACDA (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art) Juried Show. 2004 First Place, Los Angeles County Fair: New Photography Competition. 2003 Humanities Award in Studio Art, Stanford University. Year’s Best Photography, PDN Photo-Annual. PAC-10 Academic All-Conference Wrestlin.

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