Exploring Architecture II [Grätzel:Kino]
26. April @ 19:30 - 21:30
Filmscreening und Publikumsgespräch mit Regisseur Karl-Heinz Klopf
STUDIO (2000, 8 min., Computer Animation)
„The own studio appears as a spatial skeleton, as a fragile passage living up with clips of received e-mail messages about locating one self and conditions in cities.“ (Karl-Heinz Klopf / Sigrid Kurz)
BY WAY OF DISPLAY (2003, 37 min.)
By analyzing the architectural, sociological and cultural components, BY WAY OF DISPLAY reflects on the urban tactics in Taiwan, looking into the phenomenon of one of the most visible informal businesses: the betel nut shops.
TESVIKIYE (2004, 5 min.)
In his 1969 published praise of hospitable streets „Streets for People „, Bernhard Rudofsky stated that climbing stairs had become an atavistic activity for modern industrialized men. In his polemic he stresses the advantage and the poetry of the stairs of the hilly city of Rome.
THEY (2010, 35 min.)
(Best Short Documentary Diagonale 11)
They is a film concerning a municipal area in North Liverpool, which has suffered an extreme drop in population. The area is one of the lowest socio-economic areas in England, which used to be an active, highly populated community but has mostly been demolished and replaced by an unused hilly park which extends over much of the district.
About KARL-HEINZ KLOPF
Karl-Heinz Klopf is an artist and filmmaker whose work focuses on the built environment in its various manifestations. His films, installations, drawings and photographs trace his movement through places, spaces and time.