Video stream from May 20 – June 10, 2020

An Empirical Queer Theory

by Padraig Robinson

Christina Myers Hepburn, a Los Angeles-based practitioner of touch therapy is in the limelight of Padraig Robinson’s film An Empirical Queer Theory (2019). The work discusses touch and physical tenderness as basic human needs, and at the same time challenges normative rules of society.

Video stream from April 27 – May 06, 2020

Freeze Frame

by Soetkin Verstegen

In the animation Freeze Frame by Soetkin Verstegen, identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice. The repetitive movements reanimate the animals captured inside. The work was mainly realized during her residency at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2018. Read the introductory interview with the artist.

Studio Visit / Video

I Wanted to Photograph You

Conversation with Aykan Safoğlu

Aykan Safoğlu reveals an intimate view on his work ziyaret/visit, an encounter with personalities buried at a West Berlin cemetery, in an attempt to sensitively deal with loss and transgression.

Essay

Was That Really You

by Nadia Mounier

An image research project by photographer Nadia Mounier, which explores representation of women in photographic images produced or circulated in the Arab-Islamic sphere.

Podcast

Occasional Criticism

by Mike Sperlinger and Madeleine Bernstorff

A one-off podcast discussion between Mike Sperlinger and Madeleine Bernstorff – about his publication, her recordings and the strange contemporary fate of cinephilia.

Sketch

Elliptical Inscriptions

by Katharina Jabs

»Have a good cry but also put it into words, please.«

Film Appendix

Off-White Tulips

by Cana Bilir-Meier and Madeleine Bernstorff

An atlas of figures taken from the essay film Off-White Tulips by Aykan Safoğlu that retains the associative narrative the film offers, but also presents an independent reading.

Essay

Rule 403 / Indefinite Postponement

by Tom Rosenberg

What happens when the judicial reconciliation of a homicide gets tangled up within its own intention of letting justice prevail? A filmmaker’s perspective.

Close Reading and Conversation

Sincerely,

James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Andrew Norman Wilson

Does a multiplicity of perspectives imply multiple realities? In an intimate conversation, two filmmakers discuss subjectivity, sincerity and quantum physics.

Time-based Media

The Wardrobe Is Filled with Linen

by Ivana Meštrov with Ana Hušman

Curator and art historian Ivana Meštrov on the notion of the »subject-object« in the work of filmmaker Ana Hušman.

Performing Arts

Kafkamachine

by Ana Fradique

The artist Ana Fradique assembled »KAFKAMACHINE Device 1.0,« is an audiovisual interface that presents the unworking of what would be the direction, production and showcase of a film made by Kafka.

Publication

Bytom. An Interzone. A Trip.

with Anna Okrasko & Stanisław Ruksza

Since 2010 Anna Okrasko has been dealing with the life and working conditions of immigrant Polish workers in the Netherlands. Read an essay by the Polish curator, art historian, and author Stanisław Ruksza about her work.

Interview

In the Absence of a Common Language

with Philip Widmann & Shai Heredia

A conversation between the Berlin filmmaker Philip Widmann and the Indian filmmaker and curator Shai Heredia on Widmanns film »Fictitious Force.«

Studio Solitude

Animal Trials

with Bambitchell

A conversation with the Toronto-based collaboration Bambitchell about their relation to history, non-human characters, and the potential of working together.

VR Swarm East #3

Virtually Visiting Film Sets

Studio Berlin

The Last Traces – Studio Visit

with Astrid Schult

We visited the documentary filmmaker Astrid Schult in her studio in Berlin. Her first fictional movie is currently in the making, dealing with the Third Reich and the question of culpability.

Video Poetry

Zagreb Diaries

by Dan Boel & Maja Markovic

What happens when poetry meets video? Former Solitude fellow Dan Boehl created poetic YouTube experiences in collaboration with old and new friends during a residency in Zagreb.

Film

Boat

by Xinjun Zhang

In the short film »Boat,« Beijing-based artist Xinjun Zhang documented his experiment to make the social disparities in the population of Beijing visible.

Cross Media

Only Analog is Safe

by Stephanie Choi

From the divine truth of the crystal to the surveillance of the prism, transparency affords revelations. A cross media project by architect Stephanie Choi in collaboration with Doretta Lau

Photography

Eurotopians

by Johanna Diehl & Niklas Maak (text)

For their joint project »Eurotopians,« photographer J. Diehl and journalist N. Maak revisited visionary European architecture from the ’60s and ’70s and the people still living there.

Solitude Stories

East To West To East To West

with Ana Hušman & Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga

Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga and Ana Hušmann combined excerpts from mails, chats and images shot around Solitude and merged them into a poetic narration.

Dialogue

Multidimensional Pleasures

with Philip Widmann & Philip Cartelli

Film maker P. Widmann & critic P. Cartelli in a talk on the film »Szenario,« which develops around a briefcase with personal documents of an affair in 1970s West Germany.

Poetry

Mimicry and Mythology

by Márió Z. Nemes

A kiss of death for a poem: the »Pope of Horror,« Hungarian writer Mário Z. Nemes, with a poetic text on Louis-Philippe Scoufaras’ work »Trilogy of Terror«

Social Media Art

An Exhibition on Social Media Art

by Alessandro Mininno & Stefano Mirti

Wouldn’t it be nice to organize an exhibition on social media art? A call for action by Alessandro Mininno & Stefano Mirti

Film

Fictitious Force

by Philip Widmann

»Fictitious Force,« a film by artist Philip Widmann, investigates the visible and invisible borders of sharing the same moment.