Art Hub Film Club invites you to the third edition of the program Into the Dark We Enter, which presents a wide variety of film-based works engaging with a present that is embedded in horror: the horror of war, the horror of climate change, the horror of economic power, and the horror of political persecution.
Curated by Berlin based artist Klara Hobza, the third edition is entitled Against all odds leaps into the dark, plow through its horrors, and return bruised—yet triumphant—with four artists, each presenting a dazzling expression of freedom.
In Machine Monologues (2024) by Eli Cortiñas humanoid robots, chatbots and avatars are engaging in monologues, banging their heads against seemingly surmountable horror of power and its constant occupation of our bodies and minds and yet – and even more so – inciting us to break free from collective amnesia.
For Tell me you love me (2023) Tracey Snelling took participants to themed rooms in love hotels in Japan, where she interviewed them in various disguises of their choice for anonymity. The interviews were about love, relationships, fantasies and connection. Her film explores love and belonging without limits, as told by these fascinating characters in colorful, wild settings.
On Slaughter (2023) by Klara Hobza is perhaps the most optimistic film of the program, documenting a Swedish farmer slaughtering two sheep and sharing his lived vision and experience of living life with and as part of this land.
Finally, in Rita Macedo’s Farewell Recording (2023) an unknown planet's landscape itself becomes invasive, folds upon itself, breaks into fragments, occupies carvings out of asteroids and leaves us with a recording in the hope to connect with other unknown farewell messages.
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Art Hub Film Club part III
Featuring Klara Hobza
Thursday, 27 February 2025
at 7.00PM – 9.00PM
Location:
Vester Vov Vov
Absalonsgade 5
1658 Copenhagen V
Tickets are free, but reservation is necessary. Find your tickets here.
Read more about this season’s film programme here.
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ABOUT KLARA HOBZA
Klara Hobza's work spans from miniature drawing, various forms of storytelling to creating experiences through performative and sculptural encounters and large scale endeavors. Her themes are reflections on being in the world as an artist, the scientific process, migration, transportation, disappearance-reappearance and breathing.
ABOUT ELI CORTINAS
Eli Cortiñas studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and at the European Film College Ebeltoft, DK. She was a guest professor at the Art Academy Kassel and the Art Academy Mainz and shared a professorship for Spatial Concepts with Candice Breitz at the University of Art Braunschweig from 2019 till 2022. Cortiñas has recently been appointed professor for Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. She has received numerous grants and residencies, including Fundación Botín, Kunstfonds, Villa Massimo, Berlin Senate, Villa Sträuli, Goethe Institute, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Rupert and Karl Schmidt Rottluff among others. aa
ABOUT TRACEY SNELLING
Tracey Snelling is a visual artist based in Berlin. Through the use of sculpture, installation, photography, and video, Tracey Snelling, born in Oakland, USA, and based in Berlin, gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Snelling’s work derives from sociological issues, voyeurism and urban architecture. Her works capture places and people at specific moments in history.
Snelling has exhibited in international institutions, including the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels; Palazzo Reale, Milan; and the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, among others. Snelling showed in the Venice Biennale (2019) with Swatch and at the Havana Biennale (2019). Most recently, she had a solo exhibition at Haus am Luetzowplatz, Berlin. She presently has a year-long solo exhibition at the Human Safety Net with Generali at Procuratie Vecchie, Venice; and works in exhibitions at the Museum der Dinge, Berlin and at Museo di Arte Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Verona. She has had screenings at the Berlin Independent Film Festival (2024), Ann Arbor Film Festival (2022), San Francisco Film Festival (2012) and Sundance Film Festival (2010).
ABOUT RITA MACEDO
Rita Macedo is a filmmaker, video artist and film programmer based in Berlin. Rita’s works often operate within the realm of documentary and speculative fiction, with a focus on meaning, memory and history. Her work has been shown at numerous exhibitions and festivals, including, European Media Art Festival, Berwick Film and Media Art Festival, Hamburg Short Film Festival, IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Kasseler Dokfest, São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, New Horizons International Film Festival, Curtas Vila do Conde, Encounters South Africa Documentary Film Festival, amongst others. Rita has been an artistic associate at the Braunschweig University of Art since 2018.
