It is the documentary that inquiries into the means of image-producing practices. For the first time, an international meeting highlights documentary practices across disciplines. Berlin Documentary Forum demonstrates the increasingly significant role of the documentary in the visual arts, performance, literature and cinema. The first edition of the new biannual encounter at Haus der Kulturen der Welt features five days of thematic programmes, conceived by a group of international filmmakers, curators, artists and theoreticians. A key component of the encounter is the critical re-evaluation of historical processes in the light of the contemporary moment. Also at stake is the role that images and strategies of representation, subsumed under the term ‘documentary’, have acquired in present-day politics.?As the distinctions between reality and fiction, artifact and document are challenged today more than ever, the Forum engages with the documentary not as the picturing of reality but as a way to come to terms with reality by means of working with and through images and narrative. The Berlin Documentary Forum thus seeks to explore new modes of reflection and media education in a world in which reality is never a static given, but a complex set of relations.
New Practices across disciplines – Berlin Documentary Forum 1
June 2 – 6, 2010 – see full program here.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin
With film screenings, live performances, talks, readings, installations
Opening tonight, Wednesday, June 2, 2010 6.30 pm, free admission
6.30 pm: Opening
7 pm: The Inhabitants of Images – Performance by Rabih Mroué
8.30 pm: Rules of Evidence – Reading and Talk between Okwui Enwezor, Ecke Bonk, Tony Cokes, Walid Sadek, Juan Maidagan, and Dolores Zinny
10 pm: Missing Image | Screening – ‘Djibouti oder Die Gewehre sind nicht geladen – nur nachts’, D: M. Mrakitsch, GER 1975, 53 min, SEN / ‘Djibouti, Wiederbegegnung mit einer Erfindung 1973/1991′, D: M. Mrakitsch, GER 1991, 60 min, SEN – Introduction by Florian Schneider
