Please Relax Now! Film All-Nighter

Please Relax Now! Film All-Nighter

Film still from My Kingdom.

COMFORT. Makes you think of new seating furniture or first-class railway travel, doesn’t it? Well, in German at least, the term »comfort« seems to reside entirely in the advertising realm. We feel comfortable in it, even when we are turned into merely passive buyers. But what exactly is there still to choose in the brave new world of commodities? A Choice, Maybe Not! Is COMFORT possibly something more than consumption? And do we really want to carry on being carried on?
The feel-good industry makes us offers all over the place. As early as 1939, a visit to the Finnish sauna promised to unveil the Secret of Beauty and Youth. A bit confusing, then, that the health and efficiency discourse has picked up speed again in this decade of ours.
Luckily, we’ve still got the the Cure Pusher and the Galactic Pot Healer who – with biting irony – raise us above the slick of oily PR language and possibly save ourselves from ourselves.
The music videos in the All-nighter also gauge the comfort zone. Anyone expecting a glamorous life as a pop star in a cool setting is out of luck. Using a range of different techniques, the videos tell of social craze and craziness, of retreat, religion and rebellion and, not least, of happiness. Or to put it in the words of EMA: »This one’s for all the weirdos out there. Cherish your friends, fuck the haters and let your freak flag fly.«
We will be showing works by artists who convincingly demonstrate that it pays to be uncomfortable. Please relax now!

_Jessica Manstetten / Betty Schiell

Please Relax Now

Vika Kirchenbauer

DE
2014
Short film
12’

»This is going to be a memorable event, orchestrated by me for you. Believe me, you will never forget this. […]

A Choice, Maybe Not

Jenny Man Wu

CN
2014
Short film
7’

Because she cannot decide on a particular shampoo among the thousand look-alikes on the supermarket shelves, the young woman leaves […]

Catalogue

Daba Berman Duff

US
2014
Feature Film
6’

Catalogue shows pictures of furniture and objects in a catalogue, namely, designer items that would be the pride of any […]

Secret of Beauty and Youth

Clarissa Patrix

DE
1939
Video
9’

»Sport, sauna bath, massage and gymnastics are good for the health, beauty and youth […] boost performance and mobilise all […]

Livepan

Sasha Pirker

AT
2013
Documentary
2’

»The work is not really funny work […] but more a reflection on humour.« – Sasha Pirker A woman ironing. […]

Life Is Beautiful

Sasha Pirker

AT
2007
Video
-1’

A brief scene from a Super-8 home video, an archetypal snapshot: two little girls riding on coin-operated rocking horses. As […]

Mitläufer

Vlada Majic

DE
1970
Short film
9’

A rural winter landscape and – beautifully photographed in slow motion – dynamic performances in the snow by various animals: […]

MY BBY 8L3W

NEOZOON

FR / DE
2014
Short film
2’

Independent of one another, thirty women present themselves and their beloved pets in selfie poses on the internet. They declare […]

My Kingdom

Debra Solomon

US
2014
Animation film
4’

»All my choices are about how to make feelings come alive for the audience through colour,  humour, and music.« – […]

Razzle Dazzle

Jodie Mack

US
2014
Short film
3’

Razzle Dazzle is an iridescent animated flicker film about textiles which lend a new and dizzying dimension to the illusion […]

Saturn Return

Ale Bachlechner

DE
2014
Short film
15’

»What did I do so far? Any remarkable achievements or prospects? What can I expect from life? From myself? And […]

The Galactic Pot Healer

Shana Moulton

US
2010
Short film
9’

Lost in her beauty routine, Cynthia accidentally breaks a pot. To get it repaired, she seeks out the mysterious character […]

Kurpusher

Dorit Kiesewetter und Carsten Knoop

DE
2014
Short film
3’
OmeU

From Rasul baths with hot stone massage, Physiotherm infrared cabins, soft pack and hard pack to inhalation rooms, brine dispensers […]

Just My Kind

Carmine Covelli, Kathleen Hanna, Adam Horovitz, Brendan Kennedy

US
2014
Music video
4’

Terror of the District

Claudia Narrisch

DE
2014
Music video
6’

Giddy

Pussycrew, Ewelina Aleksandrowicz (Tikul) and Andrzej Wojtas (mi$ Gogo)

UK
2013
Music video
4’

Colony Collapse Disorder

Martha Colburn

US
2013
Music video
4’

Well, Well, Well

Elisabeth Subrin

US
2002
Music video
3’

Scheinwerfer und Lautsprecher

Timo Schierhorn, Katharina Duve, Schorsch Kamerun

DE
2013
Music video
4’
US
2012
Music video
3’

Take One Two

Erika M. Anderson

US
2012
Music video
3’
UK
2014
Music video
4’

No Cities to Love

Carrie Brownstein

US
2015
Music video
4’