James Harrar, experimental filmmaker, video artist and musician from Atlanta, Georgia comes to Berlin for this screening. The artist, who mostly collaborates with Musicians for live shows under the name Cinema Soloriens, is currently on tour in Europe. His films - and music – take on a lucid form of audio-visual communications with the audience.

Christa Biedermann, Austrian artist who lives in Berlin and Vienna shows animations and performance films. The artist who eludes any kind of categorization, paints, draws, photographs and makes films and videos, where she mostly appears herself in front of the camera. In her videos, she critically and ironically questions the society and the demands on the artists by the society, especially on female artists. She thus markedly disappoints expectations on her work as image-artifacts as well as the expected image of her as woman and artist.

Helga Fanderl will be here in person to present one of her unique screening programs from both Super-8 and 16mm projections.

For Fanderl the film is born out of the act of recording, with a certain immediacy, with the hand-held super 8 camera (some being later blown up to 16mm) and all are edited in the act of filming -the so called "in camera" technique. This limitation, particularly with super 8, provides a certain formal palette from which the decisions of the filmmaker can evolve within, whilst simultaneously reacting very intuitively to the outside.

The filmmakers Robert Beavers (b. 1949) and Ute Aurand (b. 1957) are internationally known for their evocative portraits of people and places: Beavers has been making films since 1966 and retrospectives of his work have been organized for the Whitney Museum and the Tate Modern, among others. Aurand’s work explores space and human relations through astute, small gestures and purposeful sound. Her films, sometimes likened to the film diaries of Marie Menken and Jonas Mekas, have recently been featured at Tate Modern and the Harvard Film Archive.