A two-part program of the 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art presents works by George Kuchar and Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) at Cinema Arsenal in Berlin. George Kuchar is a pioneer of underground cinema. Many of his idiosyncratic melodramas have become avant-garde classics, while his video diaries have gone largely unnoticed. Their documentary perspective opens up a level of self-perception that lends depth to Kuchar’s melodramatic exuberance. Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) is a photographer, psychoanalyst and filmmaker. Since the 1960s she has shot filmic portraits that are reminiscent of Warhol’s Screen Tests (1964-66). Yet in contrast to Warhol, she is occasionally also in front of the camera.
Until August 8, 2010, the 6th Berlin Biennale shows the film Passage Briare (2009) by Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) at Oranienplatz 17 and video works by George Kuchar, selected by Marc Siegel, at Mehringdamm 28.
6th Berlin Biennale: Film Program at Cinema Arsenal
August 1, 2010, 8 pm (Cinema 1)
Program 1: George Kuchar – Discussion with Marc Siegel and Ulrich Ziemons
Program 2: Friedl vom Gröller (Friedl Kubelka) – with Introduction
Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
Potsdamer Straße 2
10785 Berlin
Photography: Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka), Passage Briare, 2009, 16mm film, b/w, without sound, 2′ 30″, Courtesy / Copyright the artist; sixpackfilm, Vienna
