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| Ellen Bornkessel |
| Länger bleiben – staying
longer Duration: 6 min. Production year : 2005 Media: mini-DV |
| Statement A Man is standing at a table. He drinks and smokes. In four static settings, men appear in similar situations. Nothing much is happening, apart from a speaker describing the course of a party. In these fixed pictures, static and motion, brightness and darkness, loneliness and sociability and a sad mood coexist. The mixture allows an amused smile. The film describes a moment of standstill in the middle of moving city-life. The pictures are full of contrast. The inner emptiness is also reflected in the rooms; the stillness of the persons mirrored in the fixed camera position. The possibility of breaking through this situation is always there, either in the picture or in the text. It is obvious, though, that the person could not see it and that is what makes the video slightly tragicomic. |
| Biography Ellen Bornkessel was born in 1969 in Hammelburg (Germany). Between 1995 and 1997, she studied Visual Communication at the Fachhochschule, Bielefeld. She then studied at the Academy for Visual Arts of Leipzig, where she graduated, between 1997 and 2001. |
| Videography länger bleiben - staying longer, mini-DV 6 min. – 2002 2004 Augenstaubfestival, Quito (Ecuador) It’s possible, mini-DV 7:15 min. – 2002 Festival International de Filmes de Femmes, Creteil (France) Architektur- und Filmfestival, Brotfrabrik, Berlin (Germany) d>Art.04, Sidney Film Festival (Australia) Exhibition of the Aichach Art Prize, Kunstverein Aichach (Germany) 2003 Musterwelt, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg (Germany) Lindenpark e.V., Potsdam (Germany) Video II, Galerie januar e.V., Bochum (Germany) radiator 02, Nottingham (UK) ENGPASS, Galerie Barakk, Berlin (Germany) Internationale Münchner Filmwoche, München (Germany) Media 21, Umweltfilmtage, Hannover (Germany) KunstFilmBiennale Köln, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (Germany) 19. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Kassel (Germany) Arsenal, Wandelhalle, Cologne (Germany) Praterfernsehen, im Prater der Völksbühne, Berlin (Germany) 19. Video. Und Filmtage Gera, Gera (Germany) wahrscheinlich stimmt es – ein liebesfilm, mini-DV 12 min. – 2001 2001 VideoEvento, International Academy of Arts and Media, Turin (Italy) 2002 Attention, Messehof Leipzig (Germany) lächeln, computer animation 2:30 min. – 2000 2000 ArtKino, Messe Art Frankfurt Screenings 03, Altes Hauptzollamt Austellungsraum des Museums für moderne Kunst Frankfurt (Germany) Keiner hat niemals Angst, mini-DV 7:17 min. – 1998 1998 9. Internationales Videofestival Bochum, Bochum (Germany) Die Heiterkeit am Boden der Schwermut, VHS 3:45 min. – 1998 1998 Focus 98, Austellungsprojekt der FH Dortmund und des Museums für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund |