In this matinée Thibaut de Ruyter, one of the two curators of INDUSTRIAL (Research), presents films, sounds and books which did not make it into the final selection, but which do add new perspectives to the topic of INDUSTRIAL (Research) nonetheless and deserve to be seen, heard and discussed.
The only feature film by John Cage, One11 and 103 is based on the effects of light in an empty room. Directed by Henning Lohner, it was completed shortly before the composer’s death in 1992. Dir. Henning Lohner, Germany 1992, 94 min.
Is heavy manual labor disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? Where can we still find it in the 21st century? Workingman's Death follows the trail of the HEROES in the illegal mines of the Ukraine, sniffs out GHOST among the sulfur workers in Indonesia, finds itself face to face with LIONS at a slaughterhouse in Nigeria, mingles with BROTHERS as they cut a huge oil tanker into pieces in Pakistan, and joins Chinese steel workers in hoping for a glorious FUTURE.
Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, margin Call is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment film during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.
Excerpts from Alexander Kluge's Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike: Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital (2008) and Früchte des Vertrauens (2009), commented by Fabian Saavedra-Lara (HMKV) – This is an event in German language only. For detailed information please refer to the German section of this page –
Most of us don’t know where their money is. However, one thing is for certain, it’s is not in the bank to which we entrusted it. The bank and our money is already a part of the cycle of the global money market.
The streets of Dortmund’s Unionviertel become the site of a participatory encounter as seven inhabitants of Dortmund with a special relationship to money, debt and guilt take participants to places which have played an important role in their personal history.
Our guest at this INDUSTRIAL Matinée is the musician and landscape architect Hellmut Neidhardt. He owns a comprehensive record collection to which we owe large parts of the music exhibits presented in INDUSTRIAL (Research). The Matinée offers an occasion to learn more about these exhibition pieces.
