Flugversuche

The art education department of the Edith Russ House for Media Art invites school classes to thematic tours and workshops in the current exhibition. From November 28 to February 14, 2010, the Edith Russ House for Media Art is showing the exhibition "Flying Lessons" by Guy Ben-Ner.
His films tell fictional stories based on literary models. Guy Ben-Ner appears in all his video works in different roles and functions; he appears as author, protagonist and director.

The thematic tours can be extended by a practical part with a video workshop. It is also possible to book the practical offer alone. In and around the exhibition, strategies and means of cinematic staging and reenactment can be tried out. In the video works shown, the artist himself plays different roles and thus thematizes role assignments. The filmic production is also revealed in his works and sometimes the making of becomes part of the film.
Cinematic quotations from the slapstick and silent film era provide approaches to try out the various techniques in front of and behind the camera for oneself. Based on short text passages (Ben-Ner refers to Lafontaine's fable "The Raven and the Fox", Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", Lewis Carroll's "Alice Behind the Mirrors" and de Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince", among others), spontaneous cinematic reinterpretations are created in the workshop, which we record on video. In this way, participants can restage source texts from the exhibition from their own perspective. (Guided tour and workshop or workshop alone are bookable from 2 hours)

Subject reference for both offers: Art, German, English, Politics, Social and Media Studies, Literature/Theater-Ags, etc.