An exploration of contemporary anthropological cinema and landscape film.

Tracing the acute relationship between humans and landscapes, the three-day event FIELD RECORDINGS explores the tenor of contemporary landscape films and anthropological cinema – including works by Laida Lertxundi, Chick Strand, Deborah Stratman, Nina de Vroome, Salomé Lamas, Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez. Starting point is the work by multidisciplinary artist Joshua Bonnetta, who will present a new installation and several of his films and audio pieces in person.

Landscapes undergo our gaze, as much as they look back. In the works featured in this multimedia event, this affective relationship between humans and landscapes draws closer and draws away. Specifically, FIELD RECORDINGS probes and unpacks the sonic interventions and cinematic silences present in these films and art works.

The program outlines how human bodies are inscribed upon landscapes, and vice versa: from the earthly exchange between history and presence in Stratman’s Optimism (2018) to an unparalleled reading of the desert in Bonnetta and Sniadecki’s El Mar La Mar (2018). What these works have in common is that they embrace the complexities of the world we inhabit by reconfiguring anthropological methods: Lamas’s Eldorado XXI uses duration as a means to identify with the protagonists on a physical level, whereas Lertxundi’s 025 Sunset Red adopts auto-biographical modes of working to approximate The Basque Country and California.

FIELD RECORDINGS includes conversations and Q&A’s with Joshua Bonnetta, Hannah Paveck, Kaya Erdinç and Nina De Vroome. The program is curated and organized by Tim Leyendekker and Sander Hölsgens.

8 November

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Film program 1
20:00︎21:15 hrs

• Vever (for Barbara)
  Deborah Stratman
• Mains Propres (Washed Hands) Louise Botkay
• Fainting Spells
  Sky Hopinka
• Llora Cuando Te Pase (Cry When it Happens)
  Laida Lertxundi 

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Film program 2
21:30︎23:30 hrs

• The Drift
  Maeve Brennan
  
  Conversation
  Maeve Brennan and Hannah Paveck


• Listening in the Dark
  Maeve Brennan 

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Continuous Installations

• L.COHEN
  James Benning
• Palma 11
  Louise Botkay

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9 November

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Film program 3
12:30︎14:30 hrs

• Vikingland
  Xurxo Chirro

• Launch Event Magazine Film Place Collective
  

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Film program 4
15:00︎16:30 hrs

Films by Louise Botkay

• Mammah
• Estou Aqui (I’m Here)
• Vivo e Morro dos Prazeres (Live and Die of Pleasure)
• Sève (Sap)
• Vai e Vem (comes and goes)
• Nômades
  

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Film program 5
17.00︎18:30 hrs

• Forest of Bliss
  Robert Gardner
  

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Break/Dinner
18:30︎20:00 hrs

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Film program 6
20:00︎21:30 hrs

Films by Laida Lertxundi

• Footnotes to a House of Love
• The Room Called Heaven
• 025 Sunset Red
• Words, Planets
  
  Conversation Laida Lertxundi, Kaya Erdinç, Hannah Paveck
  
  Presentation monographic book Landscape Plus
  

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Performance
22:00︎23:30 hrs

• the Bridge
  Jarra
  

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Continuous Installations

• L.COHEN
  James Benning
• Palma 11
  Louise Botkay

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10 November

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Filmwerkplaats Masterclass
10:30︎12:00 hrs

• deep listening Laida Lertxundi and Ren Ebel

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Film program 7
15:00︎16:30 hrs

• Zombies
  Baloji
• From Tomorrow On, I Will
  Ivan Marković, Wu Linfeng