Judith Hopf, Madeleine Bernstorff, Julian Göthe

The films by the artist Judith Hopf are full of tricks and slapstick, sculptural movements and performative excess. Their approach is related to the early cinema. In this program they combine with the stencil-tinted fairy tales and attractions of actress and film colorist Julienne Mathieu, who often played the role of a moderator implicated in the story in early pre-1910 movies. Artist Julian Göthe selected the accompanying 1960s and 1970s instrumental pop music. A program by Madeleine Bernstorff with 35mm copies from three archives (EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Museo Nazionale del Cinema – Fondazione Maria Adriana Prolo, Turin, and Austrian Filmmuseum, Vienna).

Program

Segundo de Chomón, Sculpteur moderne, 1908, 6 min
Judith Hopf, Hey Produktion, 2001, 7 min
Segundo de Chomón, Ferdinand Zecca, Le Spectre rouge, 1907, 10 min
Judith Hopf, Deborah Schamoni, Hospital Bone Dance, 2006, 7 min
Judith Hopf, Henrik Olesen, The Evil Faerie, 2007, 1 min
Segundo de Chomón, En avant la Musique, 1907, 4 min
Judith Hopf, Some End of Things. The Conception of Youth, 2011, 4 min
Judith Hopf, Lily’s Laptop, 2013, 5 min
Le Bateau de Léontine, 1911, 5 min
Judith Hopf, Out, 2018, 3 min

Presented by Judith Hopf, Madeleine Bernstorff, and Julian Göthe

Judith Hopf lives in Berlin and Frankfurt/Main. She is a professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main. Exhibitions (selection): OUT, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (2018); Kalte Gesellschaft #2, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz (2016); Testing Time, Studio Voltaire, London (2013).

Madeleine Bernstorff lives in Berlin. She is an author, scholar, and film curator, and teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Research-based and often collaborative projects including on (feminist) cinema of the avant-gardes and resistance movements.

Julian Göthe lives in Berlin and Vienna. He is professor for object sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Exhibitions (selection): Quodlibet III – Alphabets and Instruments, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin; the shadows took shape, kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (2011); Flesh at War with Enigma, Kunsthalle Basel (2004).

The program SCULPTURE MODERNE. An Animated Screening was first shown in April 2018 in the context of Judith Hopf’s exhibition Stepping Stairs at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.