7. Werkleitz Biennale Happy Believers
Festival Program
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Exhibition
Participants
Concept
Service
Picture Gallery
german version
Saturday 09.09.2006

11 a.m.
exhibition guided tour

12 a.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
Jerusalem My Love
Jeppe Rønde
DK 2003, 73 min, Danish with English subtitles


2 p.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
UTOPIA AND THE PRESENT
Introduction by Angelika Richter

Malinovy zvon / The Sound of Malines
Alina Rudnitskaya
RU/DE 2006, 30 min, Russian with English subtitles

Sanctus, Sanctus
Thomas Werner
GDR 1988, 12 min, German

The Actors of Subliminal History
Christian Pogacean
RO 2004, 2:50 min

Sovetskaja elegija / Soviet Elegy
Alexander Sokurov
USSR 1989, 37 min, Russian with German subtitles


4 p.m. Weinecksaal
Belief in Transition
lecture by Boris Buden, Berlin
Moderation: Solvej Helweg Ovensen


6 p.m.
exhibition guided tour

8 p.m. Weinecksaal
Populist Paradise
Performance by Bernadette La Hengst, Till Müller-Klug, Cal McBride, Featuring: Knarf Rellöm, Pastor Leumund, local special guests

10:30 p.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
CURIOUS ABOUT EXISTENCE
Introduction by Jan Schuijren

Low Attention Span / High Curiosity Rate (Portrait of Peter Elliot)
Tiago Carneiro da Cunha
BR/GB 2000, 7 min

The Idiot
Jeroen Eisinga
NL 1999, 7 min, Dutch with English subtitles

Walkabout
Caitlin Hulscher
NL 1994, 2:09 min, English

Die Menschen sind töricht, sie können nicht fliegen / People Are Foolish, They Don't Know How to Fly
Jeroen Eisinga
NL 1998, 5 min, German

Qingjing Jing / Purity and Tranquility Scripture
Hung Chih Peng
TW 2004, 19:38 min

Zoals het werd geopenbaard aan Jeroen Eisinga / As It Was Revealed Unto Jeroen Eisinga
Jeroen Eisinga
NL 1998, 8 min

Curious About Existence
Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
CA 2003, 11 min, English

The Wandering Mind
Caitlin Hulscher
NL 1994, 1:54 min

Towards a Common Understanding
Doug Fishbone
US/GB 2005, 12:30 min, English

One Black / One White
Hung Chih Peng
TW 2001, 2:44 min

Naïve Melody
Kerry Tribe
US 2002, 4 min, English

Essence
Ralph Jürgen Colmar
GB 2005, 1:30 min, English


10 p.m. Happy Believers Club
Sakropop „When using a beat band, the volume should be considerate to the congregation!"
commented Djing by Frank Apunkt Schneider, Bamberg (monochrom)

followed by / followed by
DJ Bigbork, Halle & DJ Beatnik, Weimar


The Actors of Subliminal History

Christian Pogacean: The Actors of Subliminal History
Who is it that makes history? Who is the main character at those moments when history seems to be felt, seen, controlled even, through the intensity to which it asserts its presence in what stops to be every day life and becomes destiny? And if the answer to this question is the masses, what exactly determines them to clarify their intentions, to agree upon them and to act together, in order to achieve them? Or, to what extent do they actually do that? Finally, what is the role of the individual in history, be it the supreme leader or a simple subject from the masses?
This work shows a mad scale celebration of the nation/dictator in Ceausescu's Romania. The platforms handled by the masses obliged to gather on the stadium, depicting glorious images of the president, show, for a prophetic second, the image of his corpse, immediately after the execution.
Cosmin Costinas

Christian Pogacean does not belive in the striking evidence of the physical forms, not in the flexible reality of history and its mythologies ... He senses danger in the encounter between fabricated forms and collective obsessions ... But this doesn't stop him from irresponsibly playing in society's dream factory, in the dark room of the engineering department where errors, malformations and monstrosities occur. Christian Pogacean does not really believe in anything but in the freedom to change one's mind.
Cosmin Costinas
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