Pop Goes Avantgardefilm Goes Pop

The prelude is formed by three cinematic portraits, in which the film-artistic signature of the portraying artist:s friends is explicitly inscribed. InTagning Öyvind Fahlström(1961), the German-Swedish writer, painter and experimental filmmaker Peter Weiss accompanies the artist as he works on his paintings, in which he uses language from comics to criticize global capitalism. Andy Warhol'sScreentestof Marie Menken (1964) as well as Menken's Portrait ofAndy Warhol(1965), which shows him working on his Brillo Boxes, Jackie as well as Flower paintings, form a juxtaposition that reveals diametrical conceptions of Pop Art. The other films in this block use procedures of appropriation of advertising images to celebrate as well as problematize the commodity fetish, as well as to critically reflect on the consequences of media conditioning, for example, with regard to notions of gender, but also of world events. The films contextualize Fahlström's own filmU-Barn(1968), which deals in a highly complex way with norming procedures through school education and advertising. Unfortunately, this cannot be shown for legal reasons.

Tagning Öyvind Fahlström

Sweden 1961, 11 min. bw. DCP. Without dialogue

Director: Peter Weiss

Screen Tests

USA 1964, 3 min. bw. Digital HD. Without dialogue

Director: Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

USA 1965, 18 min. color. 16 mm. Without dialogue

Directed by Marie Menken

Kustom Kar Commands

USA 1965, 3 min. color. 16 mm. Without dialogue

Director: Kenneth Anger

Achoo, Mr. Karoochev

USA 1959, 2 min. bw. Digital HD. Without dialogue

Director: Stan Van der Beek

Cosmic Ray

USA 1962, 4 min. bw. Digital HD. Without dialogue

Director: Bruce Conner

Schmeerguntz

USA 1965, 15 min. bw. DCP. Without dialogue

Directed by Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley

Up against the Wall, Miss America

USA 1968, 6 min. bw. Digital HD. E

Directed by Newsreel Group

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