{"id":7501,"date":"2025-11-16T15:43:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edi-typ-24154.stage.sites.vh3-schrittweiter.de\/veranstaltungen\/in-face-of-nature-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T15:43:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:43:56","slug":"in-face-of-nature-2","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/edi-typ-24154.stage.sites.vh3-schrittweiter.de\/en\/events\/in-face-of-nature-2\/","title":{"rendered":"In Face of Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Andrea<\/div>\n

Video still from Andrea Polli: Ground Truth<\/i>, USA 2008<\/h4>\n

This program of historical and contemporary
\nshort films examines the relativity of the perception of nature and
\nlandscape. The fundamental instability of (medial)<\/x>seeing and hearing is attributed on the one hand to the subjectivity of the human<\/x>senses, while on the other hand the limits of scientific<\/x>recording are reflected upon: no matter what technical means are used to create<\/x>our image of nature and landscape never moves outside<\/x>the imagination and culturally shaped ideas. Against this
\nthematic background, the films and videos in <\/p>\n

In Face of Nature between strictly structural
\nprocedures, surreal descriptions of places and the
\ndocumentary-experimental examination of a world threatened by
\nnuclear disasters and climate change.\n<\/p>\n

The films in detail:\n<\/p>\n

I. E. [site 01 – isole eolie]<\/b>
Lotte Schreiber, A 2004, Video, 8′\n<\/p>\n

“Stromboli appears briefly, as if lifted out of the darkness by a flash of lightning
\n, into which it disappears again. Then
\nwe approach the Aeolian Islands, in whose cinematic image movement and
\nstillness, the materiality of Super-8 and video collide.
\nIn the space created by this survey with the camera,
\nthe landscape is examined as a subjective sensual experience, but also as
\nan aesthetic object of representation.” (Barbara Pichler)\n<\/p>\n

7\/78 Tree again<\/b>
Kurt Kren, A 1978, 16mm, 4′\n<\/p>\n

Kurt Kren’s first film in the USA, shot over a period of 50 days on dated, very sensitive
\ninfrared footage in
\nsingle-frame mode. In the<\/x>center of constant shots: a tree in a meadow in<\/x>Vermont. Kren left some unexposed between the exposed frames;<\/x>he cranked the film back again and again and gradually exposed<\/x>the previously skipped areas, each time under different light and<\/x>weather conditions. The result was a fascinating storm of images in
\nwhich different times and states of nature intertwine
\nand seem to dissolve.\n<\/p>\n

Printer Light Play<\/b>
Arthur & Corinne Cantrill, AUS 1978, 16mm, 6′\n<\/p>\n

A young man holds a color scale, behind him a framed landscape picture on
\nthe white wall. The experimental arrangement<\/x>, which alludes to the<\/x>photographic depiction of works of art, serves as an exercise in visual perception: the filtering of the film image<\/x>is changed according to the numerical<\/x>information of a female voice, giving the scene a sometimes more, sometimes less strong<\/x>color cast. After a short time, it seems almost impossible
\nto assess which of the many color scales of the faithful
\nimage actually corresponds to reality.\n<\/p>\n

Lantouy<\/b>
Isabell Spengler & Daniel Adams, D 2006, Video, 7′\n<\/p>\n

Images like soap bubbles: ephemeral, transparent and
\nshimmering with color at the same time. The footage for Isabell Spengler and
\nDaniel Adam’s video was shot in the legendary Lantouy in
\nsouthern France. “While we were still busy adjusting the fifty
\nlayers of our misty petticoats and sorting the
\nfiligree strings of our modest musical apparatuses,
\nwe were clumsily crawling through the rough and sugar-coated
\nmountain tunnels on our way to Lantouy, when suddenly fairy dust
\npampered our eyes and ears to such an extent that we were beamed directly into the center
\nof our unknown destination.” (Lantouy, 11.
\nAugust 2005).\n<\/p>\n

Sky Light<\/b>
Chris Welsby, UK 1988, 16mm, 26′\n<\/p>\n

\"Chris
Film still from Chris Welsby: Sky Light<\/i>, UK 1988<\/small><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

Sky Light is Chris Welsby’s haunting response to the
\nreactor catastrophe in Chernobyl in 1986. The elegiac images<\/x>of a stream are replaced by jagged rocks in a snow-covered<\/x>landscape and cloud formations against a blue sky. As
\nthe film’s duration increases, the montage and soundtrack condense into
\nan alarming mood, permeated time and again by the crackling
\nof a violin counter. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Ground Truth<\/b>
Andrea Polli, USA 2008, Video, 8′\n<\/p>\n

Andrea Polli accompanies atmospheric researchers,
\nmeteorologists and weather observers in their work at the South Pole. Short
\nstatements and interview passages are supplemented by documentary footage
\nof the barren landscape and the adverse weather conditions.
\nGround Truth explores the question of what truths are hidden behind the
\nempirical interpretation of climate change and to what extent
\nthe collected data guarantee that the complex system of processes
\ncan really be understood.\n<\/p>\n

bellevue<\/b>
Michaela Schwentner, A 2007, Video, 9′\n<\/p>\n

\"Michaela
Video still from Michaela Schwentner: bellevue<\/i>, A 2007<\/small>
<\/span><\/div>\n

“Snow, fog, clouds – and in the middle a barely recognizable
\nmountain massif. Or rather: white noise, from which
\ncontours gradually emerge and disappear again, like will-o’-the-wisps in a digital
\npicture fog. […] The source material for Michaela Schwentner’s bellevue
\nis webcam footage of the Gro\u00dfglockner, collected over months.
\nAccompanied by an ambient-like whispering, which Schwentner obtained from the
\ndirect conversion of the image files into sound files, the vision clarifies and
\nobscures itself in a continuous process. As if the mountain, seen a million times
\nand reproduced photographically, did not want to simply reveal its identity so
\neasily; indeed, as if the seemingly banal
\nweather panorama shot held a kind of key to the disappearance of the
\nsupposedly most unchangeable, natural things.” (Christian
\nH\u00f6ller)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"event-format":[97],"class_list":["post-7501","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","event-format-film-presentation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edi-typ-24154.stage.sites.vh3-schrittweiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edi-typ-24154.stage.sites.vh3-schrittweiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edi-typ-24154.stage.sites.vh3-schrittweiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edi-typ-24154.stage.sites.vh3-schrittweiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edi-typ-24154.stage.sites.vh3-schrittweiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-format?post=7501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}