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. ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]