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DUNCAN CAMPBELL
"Bernadette", 2008,
Video for projection
37 minutes 10 seconds
16mm transferred to DVD.

"Bernadette" presents an unravelling, open-ended story of the female Irish dissident and political activist, Bernadette Devlin. Duncan Campbell is interested in fusing documentary and fiction in order to assess both the subject matter and the mode of communicating it.Documentary is a peculiar form of fiction. It has the appearance of verity grounded in many of the same formal conventions of fiction––narrative drive, linear plot, and closure. More...

MEGAN FRASER 
Arkhé (2007)  
35 mm, 15 minutes




JUDITH HOPF / DEBORAH SCHAMONI
"Elevator Curator" 2005
video 20 min.



SASCHA HAHN
"Obviously" 2008
video 6 min.

NILS NORMAN / STEPHAN DILLEMUTH
"I'm short your house", 2007 24 mins.

‘As the video I'm Short, Your House, 2007, closes, a voice tells us that today, "Not only do works of art end up as commodities, but there is also an overwhelming sense in which works of art start off as commodities." The quote is from the Australian conceptual artist Ian Burn, but on-screen, the source of the voice seems to be a shadow in the shape of an animal head, made by a hand. Stephan Dillemuth and Nils Norman use simple means to create a caricatured realm akin to Karl Marx's "inverted world where Mr. Capital and Madame Real Estate dance their macabre dance.' More…

Melanie Gilligan Artforum December 2007

BERNADETTE CORPORATION
Hell Frozen Over
2000, 19:22 min, color, sound

Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for the 2000 Walker Art Center exhibition Let's Entertain, this short film employs a range of strategies to approach the idea of nothingness, emptiness, and vacuity, with an eye to how these notions relate to contemporary mass-cultural entertainment. Juxtaposing "documentary" takes on a fashion shoot with footage of semiologist Sylvère Lotringer giving an impromptu lecture on Mallarmé on a frozen lake, Hell Frozen Over maintains an ambiguous stance from which to both critique and celebrate the power of surface.

With: Sylvere Lotringer, Bianca (New York Models), Arielle (Next). Voice-overs: Liz Bougatsos, Colin DeLand. Hair: Rick Radone. Make-up: Yuko Mizuno. Clothes: Vikor & Rolf, Andre Walker, Seth Shapiro. Music: Ben Williams, The Beatles, Kippenberger, Mozart, Cat Stevens, Schubert. Video Editing Equipment/Software: The Bohen Foundation.

LUKE FOWLER in collaboration with KOSTIN KOPPER, 
" The Way Out - A Portrait of Xentos Jones" (in collaboration with Kostan Koper), 2003; DVD, 32:52mins

Luke Fowler/Kosten Koper's film, THE WAY OUT, A Portrait of Xentos profiles one of the founding members of The Homosexuals, a band that lapsed into obscurity after self-releasing a number of groundbreaking records in the post-punk period. More...

The launch event, readings and screenings will be staged at Anna-Catharina Gebbers | Bibliothekswohnung, library and project space for art exhibition, performance art, literary andphilosophical readings. A former GDR apartment off Berlin-Mitte's Friedrichstrasse, the apartment will be the loci for reading, furnished with artworks and related films that augment the fictioning of a scenario. This scenario will be the summation of multiple experiences and anxieties that demands new forms of critical fiction. These new strategies require an active protagonist, a polymath who can amalgamate them with fluency. Fiction is not made up, it is based on everything we can learn or use; a zone in which all sources of knowledge are valid.


Anna-Catharina Gebbers Bibliothekswohnung Space for international contemporary art, performance, philosophy and literature 

Ziegelstr. 2, Apt. #06.03, 10117 Berlin-Mitte www.acgebbers.com

Donlon Books
210-3 Cambridge Heath Road London E2
www.donlonbooks.com