24 July, 4:30 pm, Kabinett 1



LTTR (New York) is a feminist genderqueer artist collective with a flexible project oriented practice founded in 2001. LTTR produces an annual independent art journal, performance series, events, screenings and collaborations. For documenta 12 magazines LTTR presents a screening of short films and videos as a recognition of all things un-see-able: "Is it in your mind, in your blood? Is it your dream or deep evil? Is it your grandma or your hero's unfinished last work? You pan wide with your camera and think big. The point is that it doesn't have to be new. Does it make sense? Or state the absence of it?"

The screening is followed by a conversation with Ulrike Müller and Ginger Brooks Takahashi (LTTR, New York).

The following movies will be shown at the screening:

Marble Mouth Au Revoir
Curtis Carman
2006 1:38 USA
It's a marble bust of everything i wanted to say to you my love, before you were gone.

Dead In The Desert
Marriage (Math Bass and James Pei-Mun Tsang)
2006 03:33 USA
History collapses in this operatic fantasy of failed utopias and the new queer dawn.  

To Pee In Public Places
Itziar Okariz
2001-2006, rt 8’ 31”, Spain- USA
Ongoing project, Action. Peeing standing up, performed in public and private spaces.

The Last Day of November
directed by Bill Basquin.
2001 16mm 4 minutes b/w. USA
Synopsis: ....a gestural study of a family of deer hunters as they move from the field to the barn.

21 YEARS
Moyra Davey
2005 1 min USA
21 Years: a miniscule totem to scribbling, shot on the last remaining roll of outdated Kodachrome in the door of the fridge.

Requiem For A Friend
Susanne Winterling
2006  1 minute Germany
Is there an anticipation of loosing a friend??? does shooting try to keep it alive ??? or postpone the death? passion and pathos are black......

East River Park
Zoe Leonard/ Nancy Brooks Brody
1991 6 min 53 sec USA
(no description)

Social Movement
Emily Roysdon
2005 7 min 24 sec. USA
The project attempts to simultaneously create and perform the stage. to frame performance and memory through slow repetitious gestures. Constantly preparing the document of our presence, and the monument of our persistence.

Me
Chris Spinelli
2005-2006, 11:30, USA
Part video confessional, part satire, part docu-bio, Me (2005-2006) is loosely based on the the life of vanguard interior decorator and businesswoman, Elsie de Wolfe (1865-1950).

Munchausen
Susanne Oberbeck
2006, 2:59", UK
In the music video for No Bra's "Munchausen" two compulsive men i mean liars
are trying to outdo each other in a sexually charged pissing contest.
 
Lez Side Story
Directed by Hedia Maron and Faye Driscoll
2006, rt 11 minutes, USA
Female gangs battle for turf when a forbidden love gets in the way. Taking self-love, hate and fate to a new level, Lez Side Story is a queer take on a legendary tale.

Spektro De’l Tempo
Ilona Berger
2005 2 minutes USA
In 1974 the filmaker's mother left Moscow for sunny California where she died soon afterwards, leaving scant primary documents. A tape of her interview with a Soviet director, the conjurings  of a grandmother, and the Esparantist cousin from Odessa at his most spectral,  are fragments from this  story. The neutral intermediaries of monuments and other statuary, ex lovers and other people’s grandparents gallantly fill the gaps. Spektro De’l Tempo is cartography rendered in  flypaper, memory held in the sweet  glue of revisionist history, and a nod to families real and invented.

Who Do You Think You Are
Lovett/Codagnone
1997, rt 4 min. and 20 sec., USA
In "Who Do You Think You Are" 1997 Lovett/Codagnone present gender and sexual orientation as a form of drag, proposing the possibility of a collapse of gender distinctions and of sexual assumptions.

LOVE/TORTURE
Ulrike Mueller
1995, 6 Min, MiniDV, USA
LOVE/TORTURE performs a text about pain and pleasure proposing for viewers to identify with the role of the perpetrator rather than the victim.
 
fat/soft/normal/skinny
Dafne Boggeri
2005, rt  2'14'', Italy
Body is shaking, mixing contents and codes of communication to invent new linguistic solutions...
Sound produced by two metal spheres in an almost empty 400ml spray paint can

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