12-5 pm: I Am the Others and the Others Are Me

Featuring the work of Juliane Ebner, Maria Marshall, Mariana Vassileva, Gary Hill and Olga Kisseleva.

Curated by Boris Kostadinov.

I Am the Others and the Others Are Me collects video works that seek to find answers to personal, emotional and intellectual mythologies. Paradoxically or not, the process of seeking the emotional or artistic "Self" is determined by the plurality of the "Others."Presented by DNA Galerie and Leo Kuelbs Collection

4-6 pm: Xiaoer Liu, China, Multimedia, 30 minutes from 4.30 pm

A glimpse of an ongoing, open-ended cycle of imprisonment and liberation.
6-7.45 pm: Carsten Becker with Ina Filla: "Trauma through Time“
Artist Carsten Becker in conversation with neuroscientist Ina Filla about transgenerational trauma and his photographic series “Agfacolor.”
8.00-9.05 pm: ZKM-related. Work by Sina Seiler, Michael Saup, Matthias Fritsch, and robotlab.  Curated by Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel. 32 mn plus introduction.
9.15-11.15 pm: Directors Lounge at Mitte Media Festival: Radically Subjective Including: Maria Korporal, Dust Thou Art, 2017 DE 3:32 min; Angela Christlieb, In an Alien Land, 2017 DE 7:41; Björn Speidel, Wanderlust #1, stereo3D, bw/anaglyphic, sound, DE 9min, 2018; Dagie Brundert, Pep Ventura, 2:30, 2018; Melissa Faivre, Underneath it all, 4:41, 2017
Gabriele Stellbaum, Heretofore, 2017, 05:10min; Deborah Uhde, cockpit, 2014, DE, 12:11min; Marissa Rae Niederhauser, Patience, 2017, DE, 9:22; Simon Tyszko, abacadraba (Haunting David Ellis), 3:57; Johnny Welch, Discharge Working II (16mm, 5Min, 2018); Jos Diegel, Unendlicher Spannteppich (Des VIP-Empfangsraums) 2018 35mm Experimentalfilm DV; Petra Lottje, Kollision, 50sec; Deborah Phillips, Nach Osten Schauen, DE 2019 2:23 min; Margarita Novikova, while deriving a nightmare formula, 2017, 3:00

4-6 pm: Selections from the Leo Kuelbs Collection
Work by Vadim Schaeffler+Pablo Paolo Kilian, Nina Sobell+Laura Ortman, MarieVicMarieVic+Theo Crocker, Rani Messias+Anna Leevia, Eike Berg+Jarboe and others.
6-8 pm: Meaning Making Machines, videos by Zhiwan Cheung, Liesel Burisch, Jonah King.  Curated by Yolande Gouws.
8-10 pm: Moving Silence Presents «BERLIN IMPRESSIONEN» a selection of Berlin based artists created between 2005 and 2011. "Little Big Berlin" by Pilpop, 9min, 2010; "Stadtplan" by Reynold Reynolds, 8min, 2005; "5 Berlin Views" by Ted Sonnenschein, 11min, 2010; "In A Berlin Minute" by Luci Westphal, 10min, 2011. Curated by Matthias Fritsch.  38 mn; looping
10 pm-12 am: GIF and Ultra Shorts One, An array of GIFs and Ultra Shorts created by artists from over the world. Including Maria Naidyonova, Juliane Pieper, Jörg Dommel, Min Liu, Christina Sarli.

2-8 pm: ONE DAY | BERLIN by Adrian Sierra Garcia

An exhibition about the México-US border wall

12-5 pm: I Am the Others and the Others Are Me

Featuring the work of Juliane Ebner, Maria Marshall, Mariana Vassileva, Gary Hill and Olga Kisseleva.

Curated by Boris Kostadinov.

I Am the Others and the Others Are Me collects video works that seek to find answers to personal, emotional and intellectual mythologies. Paradoxically or not, the process of seeking the emotional or artistic "Self" is determined by the plurality of the "Others."Presented by DNA Galerie and Leo Kuelbs Collection

6-7 pm: Erika Eichenseer
Oberpfalz cultural curator Erika Eichenseer reads to children and adults, stories from the newly published collection of von Schoenwerth fairy stories “Der Klappermichel.” An amazing cultural experience. In German.
7-8:00 pm: Sandra Ratkovic presents a panel discussion on “BREXIT,” with Minnie Weisz, Maria Marshall, Terence Egbelo, Dawn Lintern.  Plus Ratkovic introduces her new collection of photos chronicling the vote for British Independence from the EU.
8:15-9 pm: COLLECTORS CLUB Berlin Cocktail Hour, featuring Artist/Collector Olaf Schirm
9-10 pm: Columbia University Professor Richard Jochum discusses New Media Trends in Academia+Introduction of DIGITAL FAIRY TALES: Vengeance is Mine.
10 pm-12 am: DIGITAL FAIRY TALES: Vengeance is Mine
Curated by Richard Jochum and Leo Kuelbs. What is the cost of vengeance? A selection of short new videos explores this idea and others related to revenge. Artists include: Thomas D. Rotenberg, Maria Naidyonova, Richard Jochum, Sarah Oh-Mock, Josh Graham, Nina Schoenefeld, Zoe Duchesne, Nicole Antebi, Matthias Fritsch, Radka Salcmannova

4-6 pm: “Staying Online Amid Clutter and Keepsake, Analogue and Digital”  As the analogue, rooted past recedes further into memory, its tangible debris heaped upon today's digital clutter, a selection of young video artists probes questions of connectedness - to previous eras, to ever more scattered families and to likewise constantly mobile friends - and charts a path to truly staying online today.

Artists: Austin Prey, US, 04:35; Arefeh Sanaei, Iran, 05:10; Xiaoer Liu, China, 10:35; Carlos Serrano, Colombia, 05:59, Alice Dalgarrondo, BR, 03:07. Curated by Terence Egbelo
6-8 pm: Ira Schneider videos presented by Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel

Mr. Ira Schneider started 16mm filming in 1962 and converted to video in 1969. He began recording half inch b/w Sony videos and continued recording videos which included color and digital invention until the present days. This selection was gathered to reflect a number of directions in his body of work.

01 Austerity Breeds Contempt, 2011; The idea came for this in the late 1960s but he only had the opportunity to gather the people and record the video in 2011 on Potsdamer Straße in Berlin.

02 Everybody Rides the Subway - Trump, 2012, updated 2016; This was an idea from the 70s in NYC but the lighting is much better in the Berlin subway. The original edit contained Obama but unfortunately had to replace him with Trump.

03 Nam-June Paik is Eating Sushi, edited in 1998; Nam June Paik recorded in Miami Beach Florida. We went to a Japanese restaurant and images there reflected from his works and of which he ate in the video.

04 The Woodstock Festival of 1969, Edit from 2003; The material was recorded at the Woodstock festival in 1969 and since then many edited versions were made over the years. This one is including videos from a view other people who were travelling with Schneider.

05 Beyond The Frantic, Pedantic, Semantic, Antic, 2015; In 1964 Schneider recorded a series of spontaneous performances on 16 mm film. These were edited a number of times. At first on film and than on analogue video and later on digital video. 

06 American Flag, 2014; The Smithonian Institute in Washington D.C. commissioned several artists to do a video on the 200 year anniversary of the return of the American flag in 1814 after the British had captured it and the city of Washington D.C. in 1812. After seeing the video the institute decided not to present it as one of the art works.

07 Schneider Marries his SONYa, 1998; Schneider started watching TV in 1947. There were only three black & white TV channels in NYC. He continued to watch TV through the years when TV was in color and when 13 channels were presented on NYC stations. Then in 1998 he decided to marry his TV set.

08 H2O #23, 2017; Since 2007 Schneider has recorded abstract images of water mostly in Venice, Italy. He has edited 42 (one more than Mozart's symphonies) of these with either classical music, new music, or sound compositions.

09 Breaking News, 2016; Now Schneider is addicted to watching "Breaking News" and has composed his impressions of the meaning of it all.

10 H2O #3.5, 2008; One of the earliest of Schneider's H2Os was accompanied by Beethoven's 3rd movement of the Quartet No.13. In the series of his 42 H2Os there are personal favorites from classical music.
8-10 pm: AVALANCHE! Silent Video Program. Moving Silence, the Berlin-based network for contemporary silent film, joins forces with Curator Leo Kuelbs, along with Hungarian media artist Eszter Szabó to present “Avalanche!” Originally presented in NYC on the Manhattan Bridge as part of the internationally renowned LIGHT YEAR series, the original concept for “Avalanche!” revolved around the fear of retaliation for using one’s voice. But through the call and submission process, a more nuanced message revealed itself: the fear of being voiceless in an out of control environment. 

10 pm-12 am: GIF and Ultra Shorts 2: An array of GIFs and Ultra Shorts created by artists from over the world. Including Nina Sobell, Beeple, Belen Resinkowski, Marte Kiessling, Goce Ilievski

7-9 pm: Directors Lounge Presents: – Bizarre, Hypnotic, Wonderful – Selected Gems from the DL Archives.
9-11 pm: Directors Lounge Presents: Peter Sempel – "Jonas in the  Jungle", 2013  | In Memory of Jonas Mekas. An essayistic exploration of Jonas Mekas (Dec. 24, 1922 – Jan. 23, 2019), the doyen of American Avant-Garde cinema. In attendance of filmmaker Peter Sempel (Hamburg).  Seats are limited!