Screenings in dialogue with Estudiotik at exhibition.
Screenings in dialogue with Estudiotik at exhibition.
April 4th, Sunday, 19:00
Americium, Lisa Rave and Erik Blinderman, 2017, 45’
Erik Blinderman and Lisa Rave created Whole Wall Films in 2013, a production company which works with photography and film between Los Angeles and Berlin.
During their residency in Tabakalera, they worked in the movie Americium. The title refers to a radioactive element in the periodic table. Americium addresses the contamination of sacred lands and the spiritual abandonment of an American landscape. The film is about the controversial long-term nuclear storage facility at Yucca Mountain. It uses portraits of local people and communities to explore the conflicting ideologies and fantasies of the American West. It is a search for what is invisible but also is embedded in the landscape, a meditation on what is simultaneously real and imagined. The project is the result of several years of research on the subject.
*In collaboration with Akademie Schloss Solitude, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM).
April 9th, Sunday, 19:00
Darse Cuenta, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Great Britain, 2008, 3’
Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Great Britain, 2019, 67'
With an elephant's ivory tusk as the protagonist, Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another meditates upon the endless tactility of museological and ecological conservation, inviting reflection upon forms of representation, replicas, and embodiments of various materials, disciplines, and institutions. Sculpture of ceramic tusk replica housed at Natural History Museum, London.
*Jessica Sarah Rinland was one of the 2020 Ikusmira Berriak residents and one of the guests in the Tabakalera Internacional Film Seminar in 2019.