EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL OSNABRUECK 2011 - Emaf

HOUSE IN THE NORTH COUNTRY
K. J. Everson
House in the North Country basiert auf einem Stück
von Talaya Delaney, in dem eine Schwester den Tod ihres
Bruders leugnet.
House in the North Country is based on a play by Talaya
Delaney about a sister's denial of her brother's
death.
Kevin Jerome Everson. ›I'm hanging out, coolin’, on the
frames that connect the necessity and the coincidence.
Formally, that is.‹ My films and artwork are
about responding to daily materials, conditions, tasks
and gestures of people of African descent. These materials,
systems, tasks and gestures are repositioned
through a variety of mediums such as photography,
film, sculpture, artist books and paintings. The results
usually have a formal reference to art history and resemble
objects or images seen in working class culture.
Over the past twelve years I have completed three
feature films and almost fifty short 16mm, 35mm and
digital films about the working class culture of Black
Americans. The films consist of the relentlessness of
every day life, as well as its beauty-and have a naturalistic,
almost documentary-like texture. Recently I have
been responding to the performance of peoples of
African descent in old film footage as if it were theatre.
�USA 2010, 16 mm, 9:41
�Director, camera, editing Kevin Jerome Everson
�Script Talaya Delaney
�Distribution Kevin Jerome Everson
NATASCHA
Anja Strelets
Natascha ist acht Jahre alt, hat viele Freunde und lebt
in Uniza, einem Dorf in einer der einsamsten Gegenden
Russlands. Die meisten Fenster des Hauses in
dem sie lebt sind zugenagelt, nur in einem Raum
nicht, in dem vier Eisenbetten, eine Kommode und viele
Kartons stehen. In einem dieser Kartons bewahrt
Natascha ihre Kleidung auf. Sie zieht gerade ihr
schönstes Kleid an. Offenherzig wie sie ist, plaudert
sie frei und ohne sich groß was dabei zu denken drauflos.
Aber das, was sie sagt, berührt dich auf unerwartete
Art und Weise. Ein experimenteller Dokumentarfilm,
denn der Film basiert auf einer zufälligen Begegnung
und ergibt sich aus einem Spiel mit Natascha,
einem Mikrofon, einer Super-8-Kamera und
einer Kamera.
Natascha, eight years old, has many friends and lives
in Uniza, a village in one of the most desolate parts of
Russia. Most of the windows of the house where she
lives are nailed shut, except for one room with four
iron beds, a chest of drawers and many cardboard
boxes. One of these boxes contains Natasha's clothes.
She is just puttin’ on her prettiest dress. She is openminded,
chatting away frankly and unintentionally. But
what she says affects you in an unexpected way. An
experimental documentary, since the film is based on
a coincidental encounter, and results from a game
with Natasha, a microphone, a Super 8 camera and a
camera.
Anja Strelets, *1972 in Stendal. 1993-1998 Design at
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. 2000-2008 Film
class on the Art & Media degree programme at Berlin
University of the Arts. Regular study visits to Russia
since 1996. Filmography (an exerpt) 2004 Lila, 16mm.
2010 Natascha, Super8/Photographs.
�D 2010, Video, 9:00
�Director, script, camera, editing Anja Strelets
�Distribution 5R Filmproduktion
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