FILM 5230 W

Saturday April 12 • 10am-4pm

York Film Norman Jewison Speaker Series
And Goethe-Institut Toronto present

An intimate day-long ‘immersion’ with the legendary artist/theorist/activist Hito Steyerl (Berlin). Her essay films, documentaries and installations have been exhibited internationally in museums, festivals and at Documenta 12 (2007). These include: Lovely Andrea, (a playful investigation of Japan’s bondage porn industry); November, (about the interrelationships between territorial power politics -as practiced by Turkey in Kurdistan with the support of Germany- and individual forms of resistance), Film Journal No 1 – An Artist’s Impression, (about the impossibility of reconstructing the lost materials of the Sarajevo film archives), and The Centre (a close analysis of the processes of urban restructuring and transition that took place in the center of Berlin for eight years after re-unification).  Normality 1-10, (a series of short video essays –set in Austria of the year 2000-, registering everyday neo-fascist violence as being something that is declared normal by some and accepted as such by the majority). Rigourous, militant, hilarious, defiant…

This Immersion is limited to 15 participants — it will include screenings, discussions, two lectures by Hito (one addressing the politics of the archive) and lunch together at Schulich. This workshop is designed particularly for studies and production grads engaged with the essay film form — pre-registration is required: hayashi@yorku.ca