Christoph Krauss

Artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt creates elaborately staged films that investigate the power of language and the conventions of cinema as an allegory for societal and individual behaviors. With the multi-channel film installation Euphoria he continues this examination by exploring capitalism, colonialism, and the influential effects of unlimited economic growth in society.

Longtime friends Noah and Hakim fall in love with the same woman. Charlotte is a photographer from Bavaria, blonde, blue-eyed, German and Catholic. Noah is Jewish and Hakim is Muslim. The tension between the two friends, the religions and the previously friendly families is thus established.

Documentation about Christoph Schlingensief's legendary election campaign. With his theater and art actions, as a filmmaker and opera director, Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010) shaped cultural and political discourse in Germany over two decades. The party “Chance 2000” was Schlingensief's biggest, most public project up to that point. For the 1998 general election Schlingensief organized an “election campaign circus“ in Berlin and founded the party Chance2000. This is an ecstatic piece of political education and a tale of a party’s life and survival.

Manifesto recurre a las escrituras de futuristas, dadaístas, artistas de Fluxus, suprematistas, situacionistas, Dogma 95 y otros grupos de artistas, y las reflexiones de artistas individuales, arquitectos, bailarines y cineastas, editándolas y volviéndolas a ensamblar como un collage de manifiestos de artistas, finalmente cuestionando el papel del artista en la sociedad de hoy. Al realizar estos "nuevos manifiestos" mientras habitan trece personas diferentes, entre ellos un maestro de escuela, un titiritero, un lector de noticias, un trabajador de una fábrica y un vagabundo, Cate Blanchett imbuye nueva vida dramática en estas famosas palabras en contextos inesperados. Una versión cinematográfica de esta instalación de arte se estrenará en el Festival de Cine de Sundance 2017.

Stunned Man (2004) is the second part of Rosefeldt’s Trilogy of Failure (2004/2005) in which three different settings draw a picture of our vain entanglement with everyday rituals. In each case the protagonist is caught up in a microcosm that suggests mental and spatial claustrophobia. As a reaction to the hopeless situation, he plunges into permanent Sisyphean activity – going nowhere and producing nothing. The motifs of perpetual attempt and constant failure find their equivalent in the repetitive structure of the loop. The scenes are allegories of our frantic and ultimately futile attempts to escape the surrounding norms, constraints, structures and rituals by which we are determined.