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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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Barbara Hlali, born 1979, lives in Dortmund. She studied Fine Art at the Art Academy Münster and works as an artist in various media: In addition to her short films she shows drawings and mural drawings.

In her video works Hlali combines digital and analogue techniques and her videos are made partly of manipulated images: For her animation she paints for example directly on the TV screen.

The subjects of her works move in a field of confrontation with political crises and war, as well as more generally with marginal areas of human existence. Her works examine the impact of these situations on the individual human being and ask for ways of preserving a human attitude.

Barbara Hlali received several awards, including a scholarship for artists by Cusanuswerk, an exhibition grant of German Central Bank and the Prize of the Association of German Film Critics for Best Experimental Shortfilm. At the University of Dortmund she was a lecturer in the field of animation and Art Education. Her short films are shown at festivals worldwide and in exhibitions.


Biography

born 1979 as Barbara Schmidt

1999-2007 Studies of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Münster, class of Prof. Gunther Keusen and Prof. Daniele Buetti
2003 working in Barcelona, Spain
2004 awarded “Master Student“
2006 Graduation (Dipl.), Academy of Fine Arts, Münster
2006-2008 University teaching position, University of Dortmund: experimental animation
01-07/2008 Curation of exhibitions, independet art space FAK, Münster (with Christoph Platz)
since 2008 Assistant for Art Education, Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U
2011-2012 University teaching position, Technikal University of Dortmund: Art Education

Exhibitions / filmfestivals (selection)

2015
Rebellion 3, Internationale Kurzfilmwoche, Regensburg
How, mo.ë Wien

2014
Body Politics, Filmprogramm kuratiert von Silke Schmickl, Beirut Art Fair, Libanon
Crows are following us I, FB69, Galerie Kolja Steinrötter, Münster
Frieden statt Krieg! Fantoche, 12. Internationales Festival für Animationsfilm, Baden, Schweiz
Arche Noah. Über Tier und Mensch in der Kunst. Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U

2013
Tricky Women 2013, internationales Animationsfilmfestival, Wien
Copenhagen Shortfilm Festival
Grounded, Lopez Museum, Pasig City, Manila, Philippinen
Craft Tech / Coded Media, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
Preisträgerausstellung zum DEW21 Kunstpreis, MKK Dortmund
This is not Berlin, Innovative künstlerische Positionen für Kevelaer, Niederrheinisches Museum Kevelaer

2012
Jetlag, Kunstprojekt in Kooperation mit dem Medienhaus Hannover
Stylo/Caméra, Videoprogramm kuratiert von Lowave, Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, Paris
Human Frames, Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin
Human Frames, Urban/Flux Film Festival, Bioscope Independent Cinema, Johannesburg, Südafrika
L'Alternativa, 19th Barcelona Independent Film Festival
DOK Leipzig 2012
29. Kasseler Dokfest
Auswahlausstellung DEW21 Kunstpreis, MKK Dortmund
Galerie MZ, Augsburg (E)
Kunsthalle Münster: Director’s Choice – Private Kunstsammlungen Münster

2011
Nuit Blanche, Exchange-Program L’Alternativa, La Elastica, Montreal, Kanada
24. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart
Dreaming with open Eyes, Rojo Nova, Fundação Casa França-Brasil / Escola Artes Visuais Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien
We are nowhere and it's now, Occupy Space, Limerick, Irland
Blink! Light, Sound and the Moving Image, Denver Art Museum, USA
RAPID RABBIT – Beschleunigte Bildwelten, Frise, Hamburg
Human Frames, Filmprogramm kuratiert von Lowave, Paris: The Substation, Singapur und KIT, Düsseldorf

2010
CUE: Artists’ Videos, Vancouver Artgallery, Vancouver
Culture Shock: Video Interventions at the QET, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
Berlinale Talent Campus #8, Berlin
Krieg/Individuum, Ausstellungshalle Zeitgenössische Kunst Münster
Athens International Short Film Festival Psarokokalo
Dreaming with open eyes, program of shortfilms curated by Robert Seidel, Würtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
CFC World Wide Short Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
International Shortfilm Festival Hamburg
golden village – Basis is a part of Emscher Art for Ruhr.2010, European Capital for the Culture, Recklinghausen
Dreaming with open eyes, program of shortfilms curated by Robert Seidel, MOCA Taipei, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipeh, Taiwan
ambulart – festival of visual art, Guadalajara, Mexiko
Impakt Festival, Dropstuff-Programm, Utrecht
Phenomenal: Selections from the Manuel de Santaren Collection, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, USA

2009
Cinema La Enana Marron, Madrid, Spain
Institut Jean Vigo, Perpignan, France
Beste Absichten. German Central Bank, Frankfurt
9ème festival du court métrage de Nice, France
23rd Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Japan
30. Durban International Film Festival, South Africa
Rencontres cinématographiques 2009, Cerbère-Portbou, France / Spain
Shnit international short film festival, Bern, Switzerland / Köln, Germany
European Media Art Festival 2009, Osnabrück
25. Internationales Kurzfilm Festival IKFF, Hamburg
Experimental 3, Osaka, Japan
shiny dark clouds, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt (S with Christiane Feser)

2008
arte a full, Westwerk, Leipzig
tricky women 2008, international festival of animation films, Vienna, Austria
VI. Festival International del Cine Pobre, Gibara, Cuba
bitte schön!, exhibition of the end of the scholarship Cusanuswerk, AZKM, Münster
Feme Feuer Fanatismus, Mohr-Villa Freimann, München
Tofifest, International Film Festival, Torun, Poland
Festivalito, Independent Digital Cinema Festival La Palma, Spain
AsoloArtFilmFestival, Asolo, Italy
kollateral, schade!, Studio Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (S)
VAD 2008, festival international de video i arts digitals, Girona, Spain
Magma 2008, mostra di cinema breve, Acireale, Italy
20th Festival de Cinema de Girona, Spain
Galerie MZ, Augsburg (S)
And I was like..., Förderverein aktuelle Kunst Münster in cooperation with FB69, Galerie Kolja Steinrötter, Münster
Aurora 2008, Norwich International Animation Festival, Norwich, UK
L’Alternativa, 15th Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain
12. International Short Film Festival Winterthur, Switzerland

2007
Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
tricky women 2007, international festival of animation films, Vienna, Austria
european media art festival 2007 (emaf), Osnabrück
Liebe. Freiheit. Alles. Kunsthaus Essen
no budget Video- und Filmfestival 2007, Heilbronn/Weimar
Budapest Short Film Festival 2007 (BuSho), Budapest, Hungary
second to win, first to loose, Wewerka-Pavillon, Münster
Der erste Streich, Galerie Das Weltkabarett, Düsseldorf
Jordan Short Film Festival '07, Amman, Jordan
Kansk 2007, International Video Festival, Kansk, Russia
Filmfestival Münster, Münster
Aurora 2007, Norwich International Animation Festival, Norwich, UK
Euroshorts 2007, Warsaw, Poland
Zwergwerk 2007, Oldenburg
Busayyah, Kunstverein Hattingen
L’Alternativa, 14th Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
PlatformaVideo7, Athens, Greece

2006
Presentation of films, Dortmunder Kunstverein
Diagnose Kunst – Die Medizin im Spiegel der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunstmuseum Ahlen / Kulturspeicher Würzburg
paradiesische Zustände, Galerie Kränzl, Gaienhofen (S with Claudia Berg)

2005
Graphische Sammlung, Anadolu Üniv., Eskisehir, Turkey
Videonale10, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Druckgrafik, Galerie Kränzl, Gaienhofen
Junge Kunst 75-79, Galerie Kränzl, Göppingen
Sprechzeichen, cuba-cultur, Münster (S)

2003/2004
das unterste zuoberst, Museum Burg Wissem, Troisdorf / Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
Kunstbombe – Die Kunstmesse im Revier, Flotmannhallen, Herne
Kunstsommer Oberhausen, Kunstverein Oberhausen / Galerie Tedden
mixed peoples, Kunst- und Kulturverein Drensteinfurt (S)

2002
Auswahlausstellung des Cusanus-Werks, 2yk Galerie, Berlin
Associazione Culturale Agazzi Ars, Bergamo, Italy
Die milde Verlobung - junge Kunst im Fokus, Kunstverein Bielefeld
Förderpreisausstellung, Städtische Ausstellungshallen, Münster
Kunstverein Dülmen (S)

2001
Das kleine Format, Landwirtschaftsverband Münster

Awards

2012
DEW21 Art Award, Dortmund
2009
Price of DEW21 for young artists, Dortmund
Award of the German Association of Film Review for the best experimental film (for painting paradise)
2008
Exhibition-stipend of the German Central Bank, Frankfurt
Special Mention for Best Experimental Short Film, MagmaFestival 2008, Acireale, Italy (for „for a better world“)
Best experimental short film, Girona Film Festival, Girona, Spanien (for „painting paradise“)
Premio Asolo for the best videoart and computer art film, XXVII AsoloArtFilmFestival, Asolo, Italy (for "painting paradise")
First Award for the Best Single Channel Video, VAD 2008, festival de video y arts digitals, Girona, Spain (for "painting paradise")
2007
Special Mention – Best Script, Jordan Short Film Festival '07, Amman, Jordan (for „for a better world“)
2004
Award, City of Dortmund
2002
Borsa di studio per allievi scuole d’arte, Commune di Villa d’Adda, Italy
2002-2007
Stipend, Cusanus-Werk, Bonn
2001
Award, City of Gladbeck

Shortfilms (selection)

2013
„The Disturbance“ 3.36 Min. (videostills, animation: gouache on photocopy)
2012
„Nurse Gretel #2 – Escape“ 23.15 Min. (animation: gouache/ mixed media on photocopy)
2009
„Revolution Contra Revolution“ 3.32 Min. (video, animation: wall paint)
„Desert Eagle“ 2.30 Min. (video, animation)
2008
„painting paradise“ 5.30 Min. (gouache on tv-screen, videostills, digitally edited)
2007
„Busayyah“ 4.56 Min. (overhead marker on tv-screen, videostills)
2006
„for a better world“ 9.40 Min. (chalk on chalkboard, digitally edited)
2005
„my faith“ 4.40 Min. (chalk on chalkboard, digitally edited)
2004
„upside down“ 6.30 Min. (pencil on paper)
2002
„boxing“ 1.22 Min. (pencil on paper)

Publication

2013: Barbara Hlali, Katalog zum DEW21 Kunstpreis, ISBN 978-3-86206-301-7

Barbara Hlali
born 1979 as Barbara Schmidt 1999-2007 Studies of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Münster, class of Prof. Gunther Keusen and Prof. Daniele Buetti 2003 working in Barcelona, Spain 2004 awarded “Master Student“ 2006 Graduation (Dipl.), Academy of Fine Arts, Münster 2006-2008 University teaching position, University of Dortmund: experimental animation 01-07/2008 Curation of exhibitions, independet art space FAK, Münster (with Christoph Platz) since 2008 Assistant for Art Education, Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U 2011-2012 University teaching position, Technikal University of Dortmund: Art Education Exhibitions / filmfestivals (selection) 2015 Rebellion 3, Internationale Kurzfilmwoche, Regensburg How, mo.ë Wien 2014 Body Politics, Filmprogramm kuratiert von Silke Schmickl, Beirut Art Fair, Libanon Crows are following us I, FB69, Galerie Kolja Steinrötter, Münster Frieden statt Krieg! Fantoche, 12. Internationales Festival für Animationsfilm, Baden, Schweiz Arche Noah. Über Tier und Mensch in der Kunst. Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U 2013 Tricky Women 2013, internationales Animationsfilmfestival, Wien Copenhagen Shortfilm Festival Grounded, Lopez Museum, Pasig City, Manila, Philippinen Craft Tech / Coded Media, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Preisträgerausstellung zum DEW21 Kunstpreis, MKK Dortmund This is not Berlin, Innovative künstlerische Positionen für Kevelaer, Niederrheinisches Museum Kevelaer 2012 Jetlag, Kunstprojekt in Kooperation mit dem Medienhaus Hannover Stylo/Caméra, Videoprogramm kuratiert von Lowave, Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, Paris Human Frames, Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin Human Frames, Urban/Flux Film Festival, Bioscope Independent Cinema, Johannesburg, Südafrika L'Alternativa, 19th Barcelona Independent Film Festival DOK Leipzig 2012 29. Kasseler Dokfest Auswahlausstellung DEW21 Kunstpreis, MKK Dortmund Galerie MZ, Augsburg (E) Kunsthalle Münster: Director’s Choice – Private Kunstsammlungen Münster 2011 Nuit Blanche, Exchange-Program L’Alternativa, La Elastica, Montreal, Kanada 24. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart Dreaming with open Eyes, Rojo Nova, Fundação Casa França-Brasil / Escola Artes Visuais Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien We are nowhere and it's now, Occupy Space, Limerick, Irland Blink! Light, Sound and the Moving Image, Denver Art Museum, USA RAPID RABBIT – Beschleunigte Bildwelten, Frise, Hamburg Human Frames, Filmprogramm kuratiert von Lowave, Paris: The Substation, Singapur und KIT, Düsseldorf 2010 CUE: Artists’ Videos, Vancouver Artgallery, Vancouver Culture Shock: Video Interventions at the QET, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver Berlinale Talent Campus #8, Berlin Krieg/Individuum, Ausstellungshalle Zeitgenössische Kunst Münster Athens International Short Film Festival Psarokokalo Dreaming with open eyes, program of shortfilms curated by Robert Seidel, Würtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart CFC World Wide Short Film Festival, Toronto, Canada International Shortfilm Festival Hamburg golden village – Basis is a part of Emscher Art for Ruhr.2010, European Capital for the Culture, Recklinghausen Dreaming with open eyes, program of shortfilms curated by Robert Seidel, MOCA Taipei, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipeh, Taiwan ambulart – festival of visual art, Guadalajara, Mexiko Impakt Festival, Dropstuff-Programm, Utrecht Phenomenal: Selections from the Manuel de Santaren Collection, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, USA 2009 Cinema La Enana Marron, Madrid, Spain Institut Jean Vigo, Perpignan, France Beste Absichten. German Central Bank, Frankfurt 9ème festival du court métrage de Nice, France 23rd Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Japan 30. Durban International Film Festival, South Africa Rencontres cinématographiques 2009, Cerbère-Portbou, France / Spain Shnit international short film festival, Bern, Switzerland / Köln, Germany European Media Art Festival 2009, Osnabrück 25. Internationales Kurzfilm Festival IKFF, Hamburg Experimental 3, Osaka, Japan shiny dark clouds, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt (S with Christiane Feser) 2008 arte a full, Westwerk, Leipzig tricky women 2008, international festival of animation films, Vienna, Austria VI. Festival International del Cine Pobre, Gibara, Cuba bitte schön!, exhibition of the end of the scholarship Cusanuswerk, AZKM, Münster Feme Feuer Fanatismus, Mohr-Villa Freimann, München Tofifest, International Film Festival, Torun, Poland Festivalito, Independent Digital Cinema Festival La Palma, Spain AsoloArtFilmFestival, Asolo, Italy kollateral, schade!, Studio Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (S) VAD 2008, festival international de video i arts digitals, Girona, Spain Magma 2008, mostra di cinema breve, Acireale, Italy 20th Festival de Cinema de Girona, Spain Galerie MZ, Augsburg (S) And I was like..., Förderverein aktuelle Kunst Münster in cooperation with FB69, Galerie Kolja Steinrötter, Münster Aurora 2008, Norwich International Animation Festival, Norwich, UK L’Alternativa, 15th Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain 12. International Short Film Festival Winterthur, Switzerland 2007 Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe tricky women 2007, international festival of animation films, Vienna, Austria european media art festival 2007 (emaf), Osnabrück Liebe. Freiheit. Alles. Kunsthaus Essen no budget Video- und Filmfestival 2007, Heilbronn/Weimar Budapest Short Film Festival 2007 (BuSho), Budapest, Hungary second to win, first to loose, Wewerka-Pavillon, Münster Der erste Streich, Galerie Das Weltkabarett, Düsseldorf Jordan Short Film Festival '07, Amman, Jordan Kansk 2007, International Video Festival, Kansk, Russia Filmfestival Münster, Münster Aurora 2007, Norwich International Animation Festival, Norwich, UK Euroshorts 2007, Warsaw, Poland Zwergwerk 2007, Oldenburg Busayyah, Kunstverein Hattingen L’Alternativa, 14th Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain PlatformaVideo7, Athens, Greece 2006 Presentation of films, Dortmunder Kunstverein Diagnose Kunst – Die Medizin im Spiegel der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunstmuseum Ahlen / Kulturspeicher Würzburg paradiesische Zustände, Galerie Kränzl, Gaienhofen (S with Claudia Berg) 2005 Graphische Sammlung, Anadolu Üniv., Eskisehir, Turkey Videonale10, Kunstmuseum Bonn Druckgrafik, Galerie Kränzl, Gaienhofen Junge Kunst 75-79, Galerie Kränzl, Göppingen Sprechzeichen, cuba-cultur, Münster (S) 2003/2004 das unterste zuoberst, Museum Burg Wissem, Troisdorf / Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund Kunstbombe – Die Kunstmesse im Revier, Flotmannhallen, Herne Kunstsommer Oberhausen, Kunstverein Oberhausen / Galerie Tedden mixed peoples, Kunst- und Kulturverein Drensteinfurt (S) 2002 Auswahlausstellung des Cusanus-Werks, 2yk Galerie, Berlin Associazione Culturale Agazzi Ars, Bergamo, Italy Die milde Verlobung - junge Kunst im Fokus, Kunstverein Bielefeld Förderpreisausstellung, Städtische Ausstellungshallen, Münster Kunstverein Dülmen (S) 2001 Das kleine Format, Landwirtschaftsverband Münster Awards 2012 DEW21 Art Award, Dortmund 2009 Price of DEW21 for young artists, Dortmund Award of the German Association of Film Review for the best experimental film (for painting paradise) 2008 Exhibition-stipend of the German Central Bank, Frankfurt Special Mention for Best Experimental Short Film, MagmaFestival 2008, Acireale, Italy (for „for a better world“) Best experimental short film, Girona Film Festival, Girona, Spanien (for „painting paradise“) Premio Asolo for the best videoart and computer art film, XXVII AsoloArtFilmFestival, Asolo, Italy (for painting paradise) First Award for the Best Single Channel Video, VAD 2008, festival de video y arts digitals, Girona, Spain (for painting paradise) 2007 Special Mention – Best Script, Jordan Short Film Festival '07, Amman, Jordan (for „for a better world“) 2004 Award, City of Dortmund 2002 Borsa di studio per allievi scuole d’arte, Commune di Villa d’Adda, Italy 2002-2007 Stipend, Cusanus-Werk, Bonn 2001 Award, City of Gladbeck Shortfilms (selection) 2013 „The Disturbance“ 3.36 Min. (videostills, animation: gouache on photocopy) 2012 „Nurse Gretel #2 – Escape“ 23.15 Min. (animation: gouache/ mixed media on photocopy) 2009 „Revolution Contra Revolution“ 3.32 Min. (video, animation: wall paint) „Desert Eagle“ 2.30 Min. (video, animation) 2008 „painting paradise“ 5.30 Min. (gouache on tv-screen, videostills, digitally edited) 2007 „Busayyah“ 4.56 Min. (overhead marker on tv-screen, videostills) 2006 „for a better world“ 9.40 Min. (chalk on chalkboard, digitally edited) 2005 „my faith“ 4.40 Min. (chalk on chalkboard, digitally edited) 2004 „upside down“ 6.30 Min. (pencil on paper) 2002 „boxing“ 1.22 Min. (pencil on paper) Publication 2013: Barbara Hlali, Katalog zum DEW21 Kunstpreis, ISBN 978-3-86206-301-7

Barbara Hlali
painting paradise

Artist Barbara Hlali
Year 2008
Duration 5:35 min
Technical info animation film (gouache on TV screen, video stills)
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Media reports show how the wall between the Shiite and the Sunnite quarter in Baghdad is painted with beautiful landscapes: Aesthetic creation is used to cover military measures and war effects.

In the film Barbara Hlali applies a similar technique regarding the overall situation: Pictures from conflict areas are layered with colour, changed, adorned.

A deceitful idyll develops, however, facing the real (war-) situation this cannot be sustained. By covering up the reality, the paintings actually draw attention to the truth that lies beneath them.

The film depicts the beauty within the area, in which the mythological paradise is to be located. Images like these inspired the European dream of the Orient; today though, scenes of war and terror are the harsh reality.

It asks if an aesthetic-artistic approach could meaningfully help to improve a situation. It also asks, whether military interferences can be the suitable means to achieve this goal.

Barbara Hlali - painting paradise
Media reports show how the wall between the Shiite and the Sunnite quarter in Baghdad is painted with beautiful landscapes: Aesthetic creation is used to cover military measures and war effects.In the film Barbara Hlali applies a similar technique regarding the overall situation: Pictures from conflict areas are layered with colour, changed, adorned.A deceitful idyll develops, however, facing the real (war-) situation this cannot be sustained. By covering up the reality, the paintings actually draw attention to the truth that lies beneath them.The film depicts the beauty within the area, in which the mythological paradise is to be located. Images like these inspired the European dream of the Orient; today though, scenes of war and terror are the harsh reality.It asks if an aesthetic-artistic approach could meaningfully help to improve a situation. It also asks, whether military interferences can be the suitable means to achieve this goal.

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