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Efemérides en

The term Efemérides refers to anniversary celebrations of historical events with patriotic significance. Three people read a text in front of the camera at the same time, rendering the words meaningless. The histrionics are emphasized by the frontal presentation and by the soldier who opens and closes the event by playing a trumpet. The few words we are able to grasp reveal that the text, written in an informal, vulgar language, is a public protest against the abuse of power by certain citizens.

Matamoros en

Matamoros is the story of an old drug runner. The lead, Pedro Vázquez Reyes, gives a detailed account of encounters, exchanges and armed confrontations, giving each character their own voice with warmth and hilarity. Edgardo Aragón decides to re-enact on film the events as told, but the images don’t match the words exactly, creating between the story and us viewers a space capable of transposing the truculent, terrible anecdotes into a distant, absurd world.

Reality 2.0

It was Autumn as I came to Germany. At this for me exotic place I thought I could distance myself a little from Mexico, but I was wrong. The narcos caught up with me in a brutal way.

A doc-animation about the endless spiral of drug-related violence in Mexico.

 

 

Große Steinstraße 58/59, Starcasino en

Starcasino opened in November, 2011 in the ground floor of a Art Nouveau apartment house whose original facade relief has been largely flattened on account of various renovations. The residential portion of the building is almost fully occupied. The shop spaces at street level are however empty, as is typical of the area. The casino is one of the newest businesses in Große Steinstraße. The space had been used as an amusement arcade since 1990. After being unoccupied for a period, the current owner undertook complicated renovation work before opening the Starcasino.

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Stadtbad – Municiple Baths

Public baths were established in many cities in the late 19th century. They were intended to improve hygiene in the city and to provide the population the opportunity of taking a hot bath. The Halle city bath, built by Wilhelm Jost in 1913–16, is from this period. The Stadtbad was equipped with halls for men and women as well as with a Roman/Irish style steam bath, public showers and bathtubs. The baths enjoyed an excellent reputation. The renovations in the 1970’s were however relatively insensitive towards the architecture.

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Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) (UK)

The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) is the UK’s leading media arts centre, based in Liverpool. The award-winning FACT building houses three galleries (showing four exhibitions per year), a café, bar and four cinema screens, run by Picturehouse and showing the best in independent and mainstream film. FACT also runs its own film programmes, focusing on classic and art house.

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EMAN-NETWORK

The European Media Art Network (EMAN) is a network of European media art laboratories. EMAN offers possibilities to research, produce, present and distribute media art in Europe and is the continuation of the European Media Artists in Residence Exchange Programme (EMARE) which has been initiated by Werkleitz in 1995. Over the past 18 years more than 150 artists have been commissioned through EMAN/EMARE. 


EMAN at the moment consists of four partners:

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