A small selection of texts written by the outstanding film critic and translator Frieda Grafe, complemented by the speech that Harun Farocki gave when Grafe and Enno Patalas were given the “01 award” in 2000.

Michaela Meise (geboren 1976) arbeitet in den Formaten Video, Zeichnung, Performance und Skulptur. Sie untersucht Prinzipien skulpturaler und architektonischer Anordnung sowohl unter dem Aspekt ihrer gestalterischen Ausführung als auch in Bezug auf ihre politischen und sozialen Kontexte.

Das Arsenal hat in seiner 50-jährigen Praxis mehr als 8.000 Filme gesammelt. 41 Künstler, Filmschaffende, Performer, Musiker, Kuratoren und Wissenschaftler haben zwei Jahre lang ein Ziel verfolgt:

Lachende Körper describes the variety of preposterous body-language and shows how anarchistic body-politics and rebellious strategies of Gender in Early Cinema can be decoded for today.

The films compiled in this publication are related to the social and economic context of 1970’s socialist Poland, and especially the Edward Gierek-era policy of luring and bribing the public with the vision of ‘socialistic consumerism.’ (Engl./Pol.)

A CCTV sci-fi fairy-tale In a society under the reformed 'Real-Time' Calendar, without history nor future, everybody is faceless. A woman panics when she wakes up one day with a face. With the help of the Spectral Children she slowly finds out more about the lost power and history of the human face and begins the search for its future.

Beiträge von: Christa Benzer, Martine Beugnet, Martin Frey, Lars Henrik Gass, Brent Klinkum, Friederike Pezold, Bert Rebhandl, Dietmar Schwärzler, Sylvia Szely, Viktoria Tremmel Interviews mit: Helmut Herbst, Luke Morris, Franz Novotny, Agnès Varda

This first English-language volume on Apichatpong Weerasethakul looks at his works from a variety of angles and is extensively illustrated (245 colour photographs). (Engl.)