Press release KINO DER KUNST and the future of storytelling

Press release
Munich, April 15, 2015
KINO DER KUNST and the future of storytelling
Munich's festival KINO DER KUNST starts Wednesday, April 22
News on the dialog between art and cinema taking place April 22–26, 2015
The motto of the second edition of KINO DER KUNST is "Science & Fiction". The festival again
emphasizes the latest narrative techniques in films by visual artists, this year exposing the extent to which
technological inventions and concepts of contemporary art dominate the commercial media industry. The
museum exhibition "Creating Realities" spotlights important key works of the last twenty years. Its four
chapters are shown in the Pinakothek der Moderne and the Museum Brandhorst. The treatment of
tomorrow's narrative forms can be seen in the second exhibition in the Museum of Egyptian Art, which
presents artistically relevant examples of what will certainly become the most important entertainment
medium in coming years: video games.
The International Competition, endowed with €25,000, features over 50 full-length and short films this year
and is fully dedicated to the crossing of boundaries. The American photographer Larry Clark alternates
between document and staging when – a quarter of a century after his groundbreaking film "Kids" – he
describes Parisian skateboarders and their sexual habits in "The Smell of Us". In "Tomorrow is Always Too
Long", British filmmaker Phil Collins initially uses innocent documentary aesthetics in the Scottish city of
Glasgow and then surprises us with a screwball musical featuring amateurs as singers. Alexandre Singh,
who lives in the States and confines himself to no single category, will also show the filmed version of his
three-hour-long play "The Humans" (not part of the competition), a dramatic journey that takes us from the
Greek classics to Shakespeare up to Joseph Beuys and Co. – also accompanied by much music.
Greek artist Evangelia Kranioti traveled for months as the only woman on merchant vessels and tells of
longing, desire and the dreariness of the abandoned women in port brothels around the world in her film
"Exotica, Erotica, Etc.". Omer Fast tells of money and love in "Everything That Rises Must Converge",
which uses split screen techniques to show the staged everyday life of California porn stars. With fine irony,
Turner prizewinner Laure Prouvost teaches us how one learns to love money in her film "How To Make
Money Religiously". These are just a few examples of films that do not simply mirror reality, but illustrate
how the fine arts view reality through the magnifying glass of fictional narration.
In the State Museum of Egyptian Art, the exhibition "Archeology of the Future. Art and Games" presents
video games by Bill Viola or Thierry Fournier that suggest the future of narrative forms. The Bavarian
Academy of Fine Arts is celebrating the German premiere of one of the last installations created by Harun
Farocki, who passed away in 2014, "Parallele I – IV". A solo presentation of works by the 2015 recipient of
the Award for the Filmic Œuvre, Cory Arcangel, is being held in the Espace Louis Vuitton München and
rounds out this year's KINO DER KUNST program. At only 36, American-born Arcangel has long been one
of the pioneers of artistic exploration with new as well as the newest media.
Because of the great diversity of this year’s program, we have placed great value on interconnectedness:
Ed Atkins, Pierre Huyghe, Sven Johne and Bjørn Melhus, all of whom are represented with
groundbreaking key works in "Creating Realities", also poke fun at the future in the International
Competition. In "Freedom & Independence", German-Norwegian Bjørn Melhus shows zombies dancing
the "capitalistic revue" in a morgue; in "Untitled (Human Mask)", Frenchman Pierre Huyghe presents a
monkey trained as a waitress; in "Even Pricks", Briton Ed Atkins mixes human and avatar, reality and
simulation, machine and individual; in "Illusions & Mirrors", Shirin Neshat of New York shows a young
woman, played by Natalie Portman, looking into her own future.
Jochen Kuhn, who Munich audiences are very familiar with, will show his new film "IMMER MÜDER" in
the International Competition as well as another film in the Haus der Kunst, where the exhibition "Broken",
about media art on the theme of slapstick, comedy and black humor from the Goetz Collection, is running.
The Museum of the Goetz Collection, in turn, includes a large installation by Swedish artist Nathalie
Djurberg, which is also being exhibited in Haus der Kunst. Further presentations in the Kunstverein
München or in the Lothringer13 Halle, and just as last year, in numerous Munich galleries will enrich the
program.
KINO DER KUNST will hold discussions with artists in the Museum Brandhorst at 6:30 p.m. on the
following days:
April 23
April 24
April 25
April 26
Yang Fudong, Mod.: Franziska Stöhr
Larry Clark, Mod.: Heinz Peter Schwerfel
Jesper Just, Mod.: Bernhart Schwenk
Cory Arcangel, Mod.: Hans Ulrich Obrist
Further information on the festival can be found under http://www.kinoderkunst.de
Photo downloads can be found under http://www.kinoderkunst.de/web/en/press/press-images.html
Press contact: Ursula Teich, [email protected], Tel +49 (0) 221 574311
KINO DER KUNST is a project of EIKON Süd GmbH, partnered with the Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Science and the Arts, the
BMW AG, the Ingrid Werndl-Laue Foundation, the Biehler von Dorrer Foundation, the HypoVereinsbank, the Kirch-Foundation, the
Kunststiftung Ingvild und Stephan Goetz, ARRI Film & TV Services GmbH, Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Federal Foreign Office and
SCHWARZ-Außenwerbung GmbH, in cooperation with the University of Television and Film Munich, the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, the
Goetz Collection, the Pinakothek der Moderne, the Museum Brandhorst, the Espace Louis Vuitton München, the State Museum of Egyptian
Art, the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and Haus der Kunst. We would like to thank the hotel Bayerischer Hof Munich, Limelight
Veranstaltungstechnik GmbH and the Bavarian State Brewery Weihenstephan for the friendly support.