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THE ARTIST IN PUBLIC/THE PUBLIC ARTIST
 
Through a series of films produced over the past 16 years, Ingo Kratisch
and Jutta Sartory have described the complex relationship between urban
artist and city space, from documenting the incremental and revolutionary
changes in their native city, Berlin, to exploring the social and moral
aspects of artistic producion in the public sphere, In poetic and
conceptual ways, the filmmakers provide a working model for the integration
of challenging formal and aesthetic issues with socially engaging content.
 
 
Kratisch and Sartory will be artists-in-residence in the Filmmaking
Department of the School of the Art Institute on April 9 - 12. Call (312)
345-3588 for a detailed schedule of events.
 
A public screening of Kratisch and Sartory's film "Wanting to be the Same,
Wanting to be Different" will be held at Chicago Filmmakers, 1543 West
Divison, Chicago, on Friday, April 12, 1996 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $6. For
more information call (312) 384-5533. E-mail: chifilm @ tezcat.com
 
 
CHICAGO FILMMAKERS PRESENTS
 
WANTING TO BE THE SAME, WANTING TO BE DIFFERENT
German Artists Ingo Kratisch and Jutta Sartory in Person!
 
Friday, April 12, 1996 - 8 p.m.
 
For more than 15 years, Berlin filmmakers Ingo Kratisch and Jutta Sartory
have collaborated on narrative feature films and experimental
documentaries. One of their latest works, DAS GLEICHE WOLLEN UND DAS
GLEICHE NICHT WOLLEN (Wanting to Be the Same, Wanting to Be Different,
1990, 98 min.) could be described as a city portrait of sorts: a portrait
of Berlin as a political/historical/ emotional site that is mapped out
through a tapestry of individual voices, lives, everyday observations.
Shying away from any preconceived rhetoric, history - and specifically
Jewish history - in Berlin is not represented as an abstract term but in
its reflection on the present and the personal. Among the characters the
film follows are architect Myra Warhaftig, who searches Berlin for
buildings that were designed by Jewish architects, and writer Jeannette
Lander, who is first seen preparing tortellini in her kitchen. As
unspectacular as this act of cooking might seem, these "snippets from daily
life do not seem unrelated to her attempts to reconstruct the past. She is
also shown looking at old photos of her father's grocery store. And the
care and skill she demonstrates in the kitchen suggests the precision which
she must use when she models her works on the Torah page, in which a
central text is surrounded by commentary." (Karen Rosenberg). This
dialectical shuttle between the personal and the political, the seemingly
mundane and the revealing detail, lets Sartory and Kratisch's film resonate
deeply, allowing for the viewer's discovery and self-discovery.
 
Presented in conjunction with the Goethe-Institut Chicago and the
Filmmaking Department of the School of the Art Institute.
 
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