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Over half a million euros in MBB funding for experimental films from the art metropolis of Berlin
Berlin / Potsdam - In its annual session for artistic experimental films, MBB is funding 24 works for museums, galleries, film and art festivals. This funding is an important building block for the art metropolis of Berlin’s internationally renowned experimental film scene and makes possible new projects by well-known film artists such as Shelly Silver, Filipa César, Cyprien Gaillard and Eric Baudelaire in the capital region.
PRODUCTION FUNDING
Projection of an Odd Rectangle
Manderley Films
Funding amount: 40.000 euros
Direction & screenplay: Shelly Silver
For this project, renowned New York video and photo artist Shelly Silver weaves together stories from four Potsdam locations. She is familiar with the capital region from her time as a lecturer at the DFFB. Silver’s works can be seen at the MOMA and the Centre Pompidou and are screened at film festivals from Singapore to Berlin.
Desacta
Filipa César
Funding amount: 40.000 euros
Direction: Filipa César
Portuguese artist and filmmaker Filipa César lives and works in Berlin. After graduating from the UdK, her works were exhibited at the Tate Modern and the Jeu de Paume in Paris as well as at the Berlinale. César is Professor of Film and Video at the Merz Akademie Stuttgart.
Re-Verb
Volte Films
Funding amount: 40.000 euros
Direction & screenplay: Cyprien Gaillard
Frenchman Cyprien Gaillard lives and works in Berlin. He uses a variety of media for his art such as film, photography, sculpture and performance and exhibits his works throughout the world from London and Paris to Basel and Berlin – and here mainly at KunstWerke and Sprüth Magers.
Le Cours des Choses
Flaneur Films
Funding amount: 30.000 euros
Direction & screenplay: Éric Baudelaire
Eric Baudelaire is a French-American media artist whose feature-length films are presented in wide-ranging installations. He has already had exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, in St. Gallen, at the Fridericianum and at the Taipei Biennale, and received the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2019.
Die Notwendigkeit wilden Gärtnerns
Florian Zeyfang
Funding amount: 30.000 euros
Direction & screenplay: Judith Hopf, Florian Zeyfang
Artists Judith Hopf and Florian Zeyfang live in Berlin, and in their work repeatedly address current political developments and technology. This project about wild gardening responds to the climate crisis and its consequences; feminism and queerness also play a role.
Containers Love Company
Robert Schlicht/Romana Schmalisch GbR
Funding amount: 25.000 euros
Direction & screenplay: Robert Schlicht, Romana Schmalisch
The Berlin-based duo of Robert Schlicht and Romana Schmalisch have repeatedly collaborated on projects situated at the interface of film, theory and art. Their first joint film “Labour Power Plant” was screened in 2019 at Berlin’s Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art.