organized by: transmediale

Location: CHB – Collegium Hungaricum Berlin

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TDB celebrates the launch of the digital video archive, making it accessible to the public and contextualising the work with a programme of complementary discussions, performances and screenings taking place over the course of three days. Highlighting the ongoing work of ‘New Europe’, TDB premieres the 6 commissioned video works of the Transitland project and the Transitland publication.

Discussions from Transitland Destination Berlin will be broadcast on Herbstradio 99.1 FM Berlin.

Transitland Destination Berlin curators: Diana McCarty (Programm) Kathy Rae Huffmann (Screenings)

Friday, 6. November 2009

17:00 Opening

18:00 The Aesthetics of 1989: Mauerfall and Romanian Revolution
Harun Farocki, Gustav Hamos and Hito Steyerl
Moderation: Doreen Mende

20:30 Eastern Contemporaries: The Young Artists
Hajnal Nemeth, Sophia Tabatadze and Anri Sala
Moderation: Diana McCarty

22:00 Late Screening – The Young Artists (in Berlin): 44 min
Hajnal Nemeth – Striptease or not?, Hungary , 2002, 3 min
Khinkali Juice (Sophia Tabatadze, Nadia Tsulukidze) – Georgian National Anthem, Georgia, 2006, 1.34 min
Anri Sala – Intervista,Albania, 1998, 26 mins
Sophia Tabatadze -Self Interview as E and W Europe Georgia , Georgia, 2004, 11 Min

Drink Break

Late Night Screening – Performing the Transition: 60 minutes
Kai Kaljo – Loser,Estonia ,1997, 1.24 min
Natalija Vujosevic – Pink Confession,Montenegro, 2001, 4.20 min
Dan Acostioaiei (with Ann Wodinski) – Essential Current Affairs,Romania,2002, 3.57 min
Martin Zet – Red Daddy, Czech Republic, 2003, 5.14 min
Adrian Paci – Turn on, Albania, 2004, 3.30 min
Vladimir Nikolic – Serbia, Rhythm, 2001, 10.45 min
Elena Kovyllina – Waltz, Russia, 2001, 10 min
Nebojsa Seric Shoba – Shovel,Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1997, 4.34 min
Sona Abgaryan – Untitled ,Armenia, 2001 4.44 min
Szabolcs KissPal – Anthem (Rever),Romania/Hungary, 2001, 5.10 min
Gordana Andjelic-Galic – Mantra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2006, 5’12”

Saturday, 7. November 2009

15:00 Transitland Publication Presentation – Ludwig Museum, Budapest
16:00 Transitland Commission Presentations – introduction, Stephen Kovats
18:00 Reunification and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: Images from the Wars.
Dunja Blazevic, Boris Buden
21:00 Integration Impossible: Performative – Video Talk by Tanja Ostojic
22:00 Living in Your Time – Party with Tigrics (HU)

Sunday, 8. November 2009

12:00 Kanal X transitland Brunch with Norbert Meissner – DIY television and the utopic visions of media
14:00–19:00 Transitland Screening Program
PART 1: In the Streets: 83 mins
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REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT – The City of Cool / Renaming the Streets of Leipzig,GDR, 2005, 9.57 min
Radek Group + Dmitry Gutov – Demonstratrion, Russia, 2000, 8 min
subREAL – Draculaland 3, Romania, 1993, 13 min
Ivan Moudov – Traffic Control, Bulgaria, 2001, 5.59 min
Mare Tralla – Feltboots, Estonia, 2000, 3.10 min
Jozef Robakowski -From my window, Poland, 1978-1999 20 min
Rudina Xhaferi – So Good to be a Albanian, Kosovo, 2004, 5.10 min
Mariana Vassileva – Journal, Bulgaria, 1990-2005, 12 min
Aleksandar Spasoski – Voyeur, Macedonia, 2008, 5.20 min
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PART TWO: Conflicts and Contradictions: 87 mins
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Egon Bunne – Alles wandelt sich (everything changes), Germany, 1990, 7.45 min
Marina Grzinic & Aina Smid – Bilocation, Slovenia, 1990, 12.06 min
Eva Filova – Pro Choice, Slovakia, 2003, 2.03 min
Gentian Shkurti – Alice in Wonderland, Albania, 1998, 3.33 min
János Sugár – Typewriter of the Illiterate, Hungary, 2001, 7.30 min
Vadim Yuryevich Koshkin – Fucking Electricity / Currents of Death, Russia, 1993, 4.25 min
Krassimir Terziev – A Place (Playground), Bulgaria, 2004, 12.06 min
Istvan Kantor -(The Never Ending) OPERETTA, Hungary (lives Canada),2008, 35 min
Aliaksei Tserakhau – Lyapis Trubetskoy ‘Capital’, Belarus (lives Canada), 2007, 3.17 min
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PART 3: Journeys: 88 min
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Pavel Braila – Eurolines Catering or Homesick Cuisine, Moldova, 2006, 17 min
Joanne Richardson – In Transit, Romania, 2008, 30 min
Ivan Ladislav Galeta – Letter (Dear Zoltan), Croatia, 1992, 4 min
Gintaras Sequtis – Black – White, Lithuania, 1992, 4.18 min
Kuda.org – Safe Distance, Serbia, 1999 21 mins
Yael Bartana – Mary Koszmary, Israel/Poland, 2007, 10.50