From: Klaus W. Eisenlohr (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Aug 17 2009 - 16:08:39 PDT
Directors Lounge Screenings at Z-Bar
Alice and the Possible Cities
conceptual film tales
by Lemeh42
Short video works by the Italian artist group Lemeh42, aka Michele
Santini & Lorenza Paolini.
Thursday, 20 August 2009
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraþe 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte
Doors: § 5/ conc. § 4
http://directorsloungeblog.tumblr.com/post/163457923/lemeh42
Lemeh42, a couple and art group from Senigallia, Italy, are
presenting their work on video at Directors Lounge at Z-Bar. The
program consists of charming, witty and divers short films. From
"Alice in Wonderland" to "Study on Human Form and Humanity #01", the
range of touched genres in video and film history is amazingly wide.
Such forms as animation of photo motion and drawing, dance film,
abstraction, studio cinematography and documentary vision all are
included in Lemeh42¼s work. What makes the work specifically fresh
and enjoyable, yet, is the tension between straight, conceptual
thinking and a fairy-tale-like romanticism that relates to childhood
experiences and fantasies. "Our childhood is like the fundamental
years in our lives in which we have prepared everything and now we
are using all that material to create our stories." The work seems to
fluctuate between the two concepts, which - as Michele admits -
reflect their different characters, Michele being the rational
conceptual part and Lorenza the romantic-melancholic one. Still, the
two concepts always mix, as all their work is collaborative in
different ways, in sometimes surprising ways, thus giving all of the
video work both a dreamlike atmosphere and a stringent structure,
plus, and in addition, a spicy taste of fine humour or irony.
Michele Santini/ Lemeh42 will be present at the screening, he will
tell us about the collaboration with Lorenza Paolini, and of course,
be available for Q&A.
(Klaus W. Eisenlohr/ Team Directors Lounge)
Mehr infos and reading:
http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesLemeh42.html
Artist Link:
http://lemeh42.indivia.net
Links:
http://www.directorslounge.net
http://www.z-bar.de
-- Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Osnabrücker Str. 25, D-10589 Berlin, Germany email: email suppressed and film production: http://www.richfilm.de phone: int.- 49 - 30 - 3409 5343 (BERLIN) __________________________________________________________________ For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.