cinema
22 .02.2011 – 26.03.2011
vernissage: Saturday, 19.02.2011, 6 p.m.
Pallazo Donà, Venice
Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wednesday and Saturday 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
photos from the opening
"La linea generale" 16' HD, 2010 (The General Line)
... A certain fantasy occurs to a noble Venetian during his voyage to Aleppo: he delineates a bare pen that lets him move the Earth. It is based on Galileo Galilei's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.
"La proiezione è cominciata" 7', 35mm/HD, 2007 (The Projection Has Begun)
Sancho Panza enters the cinema of a provincial town...
Oleg Tcherny was born in 1971 in Minsk, (now Belarus.) He studied visual arts by Nan Hoover at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany and film by the Straubs at the National Fresnoy Studio of contemporary art in France.
Films by Oleg Tcherny
"La Linea Generale", 2010, 16'
2010 La Biennale di Venezia - Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica, Venezia; Human rights film festival, Zagreb; FestScope, Paris
"La Proiezione è cominciata", 2006, 7'
2009 Video, vidi, visum, Galerie "Objet de Production"
2008 25FPS, Zagreb (Grand Prix); Pagine Nascoste, Mantova; IFFR, Rotterdam, Shadow, Amsterdam; Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal; TäT Gallery, Berlin
2007 Dans la nuit, des images, Grand Palais, Paris, Cinémathèque française, Paris; Red Shift, New York
2006 Panorama7, Fresnoy Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing;
"Ephèbes et Courtisanes", 2004, 26'
2009 Babel, Belinzona, Locarno, EuropeXXL, Lille
2008 TäT Gallery, Berlin; Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal; ArtCentre "Marc Chagall", Vitebsk
2006 Anthology Film Archive, New York; ArteEast, New York; PhotoCairo,Townhouse Gallery, Cairo;
2005 IFFR, Rotterdam; Hollywoodn't, New York; Kosmopolis, Barcelona
2004 Panorama5, Fresnoy Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing; Festival del film Locarno, Locarno
"Traumgewalten", 2005, 32'
2009 Aargau/Belarus, Aarau, Solothurn, Bern
2007 Anthology Film Archive, New York
2005 La Biennale di Venezia, Biennale Teatro, Venezia;
DOCH, 2007, 79'
Avec E.Michelberger
2010 Nonfiktionale, Bad Aibling
2009 BAFICI, Buenos Aires; FICCO, Mexico city; Fondazione March, Padova
2008 TäT Gallery, Berlin; Viennale, Vienna; IndieLisboa, Lisbon; Shadow, Amsterdam (film d'ouverture)
2007 Duisburger Filmewoche, Duisburg
"N", 2007
avec E.Michelberger
2007, 2008 Arte, tv (France/Allemagne)
"Mot à mort / Schlittenschenken", 2002, 82'
avec E.Michelberger
2002 Prix Arte du meilleur documentaire allemand 2002
"Blumen Lieben Oben", 2000, 91'
...
In 1632, Galileo Galilei publishes his "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems", which compares the new Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system. Some pages of this "Dialogue" are dedicated to a curious discussion of a ship that leaves Venice for Aleppo. One of the speakers, Sagrado, imagines a pen that would leave a visible mark of the entire voyage from Italy towards Syria. What mark, what sign, what line would it leave? Noble Venetians ponder how it could be that everything on board would remain immobile, while at the same time leaving a thousand-yard-long trace. They discover that a true and real motion can be seen from different perspectives, including those from which this very movement would be as if not existing. A year later, the dialogue is banned, remaining until 1835 on the list of forbidden books.In 1926, Sergei Eisenstein begins work on his film, "The General Line", which focuses on collectivization in soviet Russia. He seeks to show the collision between two worlds: the old world of the helpless slave, who is submitted to unknown forces, and the new world, that of the milk separator, collective motion and the borderless earth. Eisenstein famously names this film "an experiment comprehensible to millions." Interrupted by another project and, later, by Stalin's intervention in 1929, the film is reedited and shown under the different title, "Old and New". The milk cooperative is still a dream, but the general line has already changed.
According to Giorgio Agamben, most of European cities today have become either museums or are animated by a false life – except, perhaps, Venice. "The most interesting condition for a city is to have survived its own death, to have become a specter. Perhaps the only way for a city to survive today is this spectral condition."
Once the above occurrences have been recalled, it remains to say that the show consists of two short films projected in a black room. Both are shot in Venice. These motion pictures share a terrible procedure of image collectivization that discloses the depth of present, its tense, allowing the spectator to experience a change in his space-time standpoint. The first film, "La proiezione è cominciata," is a portrait of the philosopher Giorgio Agamben. In the second, "La linea generale," a landscape is shown.
Oleg Tcherny