Telemach Wiesinger
10 September 2012
German photographer and experimental filmmaker Telemach Wiesinger will be Visiting Lecturer/Artist in Residence in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University from Monday 29thOctober to Saturday 3 November.
Wiesinger currently teaches film and photography at the Academy of Communication in Freiburg, Germany. His films have screened in numerous festivals and solo programmes throughout the world, including the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona; Tampere Film Festival Finland; Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul; Image Festival Toronto; Directors Lounge Berlin; TIE The International of Experimental Exhibition Denver; Milwaukee Underground Film Festival and many others.
Shooting exclusively in black and white 16mm film, Wiesinger’s works are mediations on everyday, often banal urban spaces, where human life is either absent or transitory. Bridges, ports, railways tracks, and other sites of ‘passing through’ feature heavily in both his films and photographs. Referencing early film aesthetics, his short ‘film poems’ are largely composed of sequences, or ‘chapters’ consisting of a single camera set ups and continuous takes, creating a strange tension between movement and stasis, permanence and transience. Wiesinger’s subtle humour is also a crucial part of his oeuvre, and his latest film EUROPA, shot in France, Ireland, Germany, Greece and Switzerland, demonstrates his own idiosyncratic image of Europe, bringing together disparate, unremarkable actions and spaces through a fascination with details that we rarely take the time to notice.
Wiesinger will be presenting a selection of 16mm film works at the Drwm, National Library of Wales at 5.30pm on Monday 29th October. The screening will be followed by a Q&A hosted by Kim Knowles, Lecturer in Film Studies in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies.
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