Shot In The Dark: Sneak Preview & panel discussion #252
Doors: 18:30 / Start time: 19:00
Entrance 6-10 euro (up to your offer)
Sneak Preview of the film Shot In The Dark (original version with German subtitles)
A blind person is probably the least person you’d expect to be a photographer. Shot in the Drk is an intimate portrait of three successful artists who have one thing in common: visual impairment as a starting point for their visual explorations. This film poses fundamental questions about seeing and the imagination and enriches our understanding of perception and creation. We all close our eyes in sleep, the sighted and blind alike, and in our dreams – we see.
Afterwords panel discussion The Photographic and the Mind’s Eye (in German) with blind and sighted panelists. Gerald Pirner (arts-essayist, Berlin), Andrea Gnam (photography-historian, Karlsruhe and Wien) and Frank Amann (director and cinematographer, Berlin). Moderation: Lena Hoffmann.
An audio description of the film in German is available with the app Greta.
„Never in the short history of photography as many images have been produced as after the invention of the smartphone. Quite an inflation. Could it be that of all image-creators it will be blind artists who refocus on the substantial center of photography: image as idea?“
Statement by director Frank Amann
Panelists
Gerald Pirner is an essayist based in Berlin. „Absorbing the arts with the entire body“, that’s how the blind writer Gerald Pirner describes his access to the arts, including the visual arts. From this method arise his precise, substantial and at the same time playful essays. >Berührte Zeit<, Tredition Publishers Hamburg, 2015. www.geraldpirner.com
Andrea Gnam writes reviews and theoretical essays on art-photography for newspapers and journals. (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Eikon and photonews). Lectures on theory and history of photography at the Humboldt University Berlin, Vienna University and the Arts Academy Mainz. Member of the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie (DFA) and the Deutsche Photographischen Gesellschaft (German Photographic Association). Andrea Gnam is based in Karlsruhe and Vienna. www.andrea-gnam.de
Frank Amann is a cinematographer based in Berlin. >Shot In The Dark< is his debut as a director. Films as cinematographer: >Half A Home< (Documentary, 101 min., 2016), >Rough Road Ahead< (Feature, 108 min., Golden Iris Award Brussels European Filmfestival, 2014), >Brundibar Revisited< (Documentary, 90 min., nominated for Prix Europa, 2012), >Camera Obscura< (Feature, 90 min., Karlovy Vary Festival Competition, 2010), >Night Shifts< (Documentary, 90 min., Main Documentary Award at Diagonale Graz, 2010) www.frank-amann.info
Moderation: Lena Hoffmann is a free-lance editorial journalist, project-manager and video-editor based in Berlin. She focuses on accessibilty and inclusion in media and culture. She finished her Master of Arts in film studies with a thesis on „Imaginations on Non-Seeing“.