NOWs: History Sugar Dream – Expedition by Brändli&Holliger

19 May 2016 / Nows

Basel based artist Gregor Brändli and Jeremias Holliger call their experimental film “History Sugar Dream – Expedition” a poetic counter proposition if compared to popular music videos. The film is produced in conjunction with the new album by Post-Jazz-Trio RUSCONI. Thurday, May 19, 2016 the film “History Sugar Dream – Expedition” by Gregor Brändli & Jeremias Holliger is presented at Alpinen Museum Bern. Find a short introduction trailer on art-tv.ch.

Excerpt: History Sugar Dream – Expedition, 2014, experimental film, 56 min., Gregor Brändli & Jeremias Holliger, Stadtkino Basel, CH (2014)

TWISTED (RUSCONI) by Brändli&Holliger (official. right!)

The song TWISTED as an extract of the poetic “Expedition History Sugar Dream” – a playful journey through Switzerland, in which scenes and situations are filled with the sound of RUSCONI’s latest record ‘History Sugar Dream’ – counterdraft to the well-known music-clip, an episodic film, that puts music-recordings and images into a scenic dialog – with a spatially and timely uncertain ending. It is going to be examined how RUSCONI’s music sounds and echos in different surroundings. The Expedition History Sugar Dream leads you through Switzerland in eight days. Starting at Swissminiatur via Porta Alpina and inside the NEAT, into the backmost “Glarner Land”, to lions and tigers, into a henhouse and an indoor-skifacility.
The filmmaker and fotografer Gregor Brändli, being asked by the band RUSCONI in autumn 2013, developed the concept together with the artist Jeremias Holliger. With a seven-headed crew the expedition started on March 10th 2014.

NOWs: Ajeeb Aashiq // Strange Love by Natasha Mendonca

19 May 2016 / Nows ⟶

NOWs: Ajeeb Aashiq // Strange Love, HD, Color, 75 min, o.v. Hindi/English A docu–fiction hybrid film Ajeeb Aashiq // Strange Love by filmmaker Natasha Mendonca features a stylish working class transgender rickshaw driver Khush/Amal who chauffeurs a singer named Suman on her nightly performances and Bollywood trysts; their lives intersect in a contemporary portrait of Mumbai. Unrequited love, betrayal, and a complex friendship change the course of their lives and builds a larger narrative of city hustle in a thriving megalopolis, known as the maximum city. Ajeeb is an Urdu word for strange or unexplainable, and Aashiq translates as lover. This film is primarily a story of desire – a desire to live and love beyond ones reality in a world hell bent on making one face that longing for escape. The film plays out issues of class and gender in a thriving over populated Metropolis by night and investigates how attitudes to love, sex and relationship are informed by the entertainment industry. The intimate gaze paints the portrait of a city hanging in the balance, skewed by poverty and class divide on the one hand, united on the other hand by the characters’ longing and pursuit of a utopia. Through process-based filmmaking the film explores the lives of working class gender outlaws, sex-work, HIV, desire, and friendship. The film invests less in narrative progression. It allows the story to unfurl by exploring the physical and psychological landscape of all three main characters: Sunam, Khush/Amal and Bombay city. The film is also a document about the creation of a fiction, which overtakes the proceedings at points only to recede again. It is as much about the making of this fiction, about finding the right characters to play the parts, incorporating their real lives into the film, as much as it is about the story itself. The cast of the film includes Mumbai-based Khush Mishra and singer-songwriter Suman Sridhar in a lead role with her original music alongside theatre actor Jim Sarbh. The film will be presented at the XPOSED International Queer Film Festival in Berlin on May 19, 21:00 at Moviemento: Ajeeb Aashiq // Strange Love by Natasha Mendonca / India / 2016 / 75 mins. The film has received the Hubert Bals Fund, 2011 for production and was selected to be part of Open Doors at the Locarno Film Festival 2011. The world premiere was at the 45th International Film Festival, Rotterdam, February 2016. The film has been nominated for the Bright Future Award. – NOWs: Ajeeb Aashiq // Strange Love, HD, Color, 75 min, o.v. Hindi/English A docu–fiction hybrid film Ajeeb Aashiq // Strange Love by filmmaker Natasha Mendonca features a stylish working class transgender rickshaw driver Khush/Amal who chauffeurs a singer named Suman on her nightly performances and Bollywood trysts; their lives intersect in a contemporary portrait of Mumbai. Unrequited love, betrayal, and a complex friendship change the course of their lives and builds a larger narrative of city hustle in a thriving megalopolis, known as the maximum city. Ajeeb is an Urdu word for strange or unexplainable, and Aashiq translates as lover. This film is primarily a story of desire – a desire to live and love beyond ones reality in a world hell bent on making one face that longing for escape. The film plays out issues of class and gender in a thriving over populated Metropolis by night and investigates how attitudes to love, sex and relationship are informed by the entertainment industry. The intimate gaze paints the portrait of a city hanging in the balance, skewed by poverty and class divide on the one hand, united on the other hand by the characters’ longing and pursuit of a utopia. Through process-based filmmaking the film explores the lives of working class gender outlaws, sex-work, HIV, desire, and friendship. The film invests less in narrative progression. It allows the story to unfurl by exploring the physical and psychological landscape of all three main characters: Sunam, Khush/Amal and Bombay city. The film is also a document about the creation of a fiction, which overtakes the proceedings at points only to recede again. It is as much about the making of this fiction, about finding the right characters to play the parts, incorporating their real lives into the film, as much as it is about the story itself. The cast of the film includes Mumbai-based Khush Mishra and singer-songwriter Suman Sridhar in a lead role with her original music alongside theatre actor Jim Sarbh. The film will be presented at the XPOSED International Queer Film Festival in Berlin on May 19, 21:00 at Moviemento: Ajeeb Aashiq // Strange Love by Natasha Mendonca / India / 2016 / 75 mins. The film has received the Hubert Bals Fund, 2011 for production and was selected to be part of Open Doors at the Locarno Film Festival 2011. The world premiere was at the 45th International Film Festival, Rotterdam, February 2016. The film has been nominated for the Bright Future Award. –

NOWs: Time Lost by Timea Anita Oravecz

14 May - 21 August 2016 / Nows ⟶

NOWs: Timea Anita Oravecz, Installationview: Windless, Variations for the Eu Flag Nr.2., 2016 and Welcome to EU, 2016 Timea Anita Oravecz, Detail: Windless, Variations for the Eu Flag Nr.2., 2016 Timea Anita Oravecz, Installationview: Windless, Variations for the Eu Flag Nr.1., 2016 Timea Anita Oravecz relates contemporary narratives of social and professional mobility from the periphery to the center(s). Her work and stories embedded in those unfold in the various cities of the allegedly borderless European Union. Her most recent works Welcome to EU, 2016 and Variations for the EU Flag Nr.2., 2016 reflecting the ambivilance of EU’s representation and symbols are on view at OKK – Organ kritischer Kunst from 29 April to 1 May 2016. Works from her Time Lost (Series), 2015-2017, present a personal approach looking at the experience of travel and crossing borders from the artists perspective and background: “In the pieces, the artist foregrounds some salient aspects of her personal and artistic identity: her Central European origin is exposed in some works – like in the Time Lost (Series) –, while several other projects explicitly narrate her history of itinerancy from the perspective of her working-class background. (…) Taking the shape of embroideries, Time Lost (Series), 2015-2017, presents the administrative documents for which the artist had to apply during the nine years she spent travelling in a presumably borderless and united Europe as an art student and scholarship holder from Central Europe. Oravecz tried to meet the bureaucratic requirements as best as she could. Accordingly, she embroidered every letter, code, stamp and signature on the „forms“, even though the task proved time-consuming, senseless and, due to the countless details, simply impossible – not to mention that she occasionally hurt herself with the needle,” writes Beata Hock. Timea Anita Oravecz presents a selection of works from the Time Lost (Series) in the context of the exhibition The Travellers at Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw from 14 May to 21 August 2016. By looking at the experience of voyage and migration in the art of Central and Eastern Europe, the exhibition sheds light on the contemporary identity of the region. Timea Anita Oravecz: Time Lost Nr III (Series), 2008, hand embroidery on fabric Timea Anita Oravecz: Time Lost Nr II (Series), 2008, hand embroidery on fabric Timea Anita Oravecz: Time Lost Nr IV (Series), 2015, hand embroidery on fabric NOWs: Timea Anita Oravecz, Installationview: Windless, Variations for the Eu Flag Nr.2., 2016 and Welcome to EU, 2016 Timea Anita Oravecz, Detail: Windless, Variations for the Eu Flag Nr.2., 2016 Timea Anita Oravecz, Installationview: Windless, Variations for the Eu Flag Nr.1., 2016 Timea Anita Oravecz relates contemporary narratives of social and professional mobility from the periphery to the center(s). Her work and stories embedded in those unfold in the various cities of the allegedly borderless European Union. Her most recent works Welcome to EU, 2016 and Variations for the EU Flag Nr.2., 2016 reflecting the ambivilance of EU’s representation and symbols are on view at OKK – Organ kritischer Kunst from 29 April to 1 May 2016. Works from her Time Lost (Series), 2015-2017, present a personal approach looking at the experience of travel and crossing borders from the artists perspective and background: “In the pieces, the artist foregrounds some salient aspects of her personal and artistic identity: her Central European origin is exposed in some works – like in the Time Lost (Series) –, while several other projects explicitly narrate her history of itinerancy from the perspective of her working-class background. (…) Taking the shape of embroideries, Time Lost (Series), 2015-2017, presents the administrative documents for which the artist had to apply during the nine years she spent travelling in a presumably borderless and united Europe as an art student and scholarship holder from Central Europe. Oravecz tried to meet the bureaucratic requirements as best as she could. Accordingly, she embroidered every letter, code, stamp and signature on the „forms“, even though the task proved time-consuming, senseless and, due to the countless details, simply impossible – not to mention that she occasionally hurt herself with the needle,” writes Beata Hock. Timea Anita Oravecz presents a selection of works from the Time Lost (Series) in the context of the exhibition The Travellers at Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw from 14 May to 21 August 2016. By looking at the experience of voyage and migration in the art of Central and Eastern Europe, the exhibition sheds light on the contemporary identity of the region. Timea Anita Oravecz: Time Lost Nr III (Series), 2008, hand embroidery on fabric Timea Anita Oravecz: Time Lost Nr II (Series), 2008, hand embroidery on fabric Timea Anita Oravecz: Time Lost Nr IV (Series), 2015, hand embroidery on fabric

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