04 November 2015 | 20:00

LIGHT MOVEMENT 9: Karl Kels

Doors: 19:00
Start time: 20:00

This month we are extremely delighted to host Karl Kels, who will be presenting in person a selection of 16mm films from 1981-94 plus a very special 35mm screening of SIDEWALK from 2008.

Screening night curated by James Edmonds as part of the Light Movement series

"Kels is interested in the unstaged world, in the 'real' if you like, yet studies the reality he finds in a way which questions both its authenticity and the fictional character of our perception of that same reality. He creates fiction himself, yet unmistakably draws from a situation he has no control over apart from the way he decides to film and edit it. Whereas more traditional filmmakers use all possible means to create a cinematic reality that, in its synthetic unity, eventually masks the separate elements it consists of, Kels is fascinated by the independent quality of those elements and in his hands they take on a new meaning. He sets himself limits in order to be able to bring this about." (Miryam Van Lier - The Films of Karl Kels (Milenium Film Journal)

Karl Kels (born October 22, 1960) is a German experimental filmmaker working in the areas of photography, film and installation. He was a student of Peter Kubelka`s film and cooking class at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. He has taught filmmaking at the Gesamthochschule Kassel, at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt, at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and at SUNY Binghamton. His films include Rhinoceroses (1987), Hippopotamuses (1993), Starlings (1991) and his most recent Sidewalk (2008).