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A-clip III: "On Urban Geography: Utopia and Control" A-clip Berlin invites you to create a part of a film network between Los Angeles, New York City and Berlin. We are here in the US to collect and to produce new urban-political shorts and bring them to main-stream cinema houses in Europe and vice versa. The dead-line for new clips is June 6. There will be several meetings in April and May and a screening in LA of all new clips at June 15.
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A-micro-intervention
A-clip is an open collective that creates non-institutional films that deal
with issues of urban control and utopia. The project started in 1997 in
Berlin, Germany. It is a short time intervention in movie theaters in the
form of the production of short clips which are unofficially slipped
in-between the commercials and film-trailers in mainstream cinemas, in
direct arrangement with the projectionist. A-clip-Berlin/Munich has already
produced and distributed two series including 22 different clips.
(In Europe, there is always a 10-20 minutes commercial-block before the
main-film starts.)
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From the catalogue of the Filmfest Oberhausen, Germany:
A-clip produces and distributes political short films.
Made on videotape and blown up to 35 mm, they are mostly addressed to a
cinema audience. During the commercials and film-trailers, single A-clips
appear as short political statements (40- 120 sec.) on urban geography,
power and consumption. A-clip visits the capitalist city that is about to
modernize its
inclusions and exclusions once again. A-clip intends to be a part of a
movement which crosses out these and other ideological effects. The
spiral of identities, life-style images, production according to desire,
and product placement as predetermined in advertising corresponds to the
operation which also needs to be confronted on a creative level.
'Like many other people, we hate to miss the commercials and are
therefore sorry when we arrive late at the cinema. That's exactly why we
chose this semi dark room, where products talk and where we can observe
capitalism employing a permanent image transfer to produce the filler
made of purchase and categorical happiness'.
A-clip is situated somewhere between artistic statement, collective
practice, subjective perspective and political editing. The spots of
A-clip are generally UNOFFICIALLY spliced in between the commercials of
mainstream cinemas, in direct arrangement with the projectionist.
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For all who are interested to join the group in LA or NY or want to sent a video-clip, please contact: mail@k-weber.com for further information
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Klaus Weber
1.4.-24.6.02
Villa Aurora
520 Paseo Miramar
Pacific Palisades
CA 90272
e-mail: mail@k-weber.com
tel: 310.454.1906
mobile: 310.749.2082
fax: 310.573.3603
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Auguststr. 92
D-10117 Berlin
e-mail: mail@k-weber.com
home: +49 - (0)30 - 280.997.16
cell: +49 - (0)160.800.8657
Original: A-CLIP Collaborative Movie Project