Dani Gal: Film and Talk

Film and Talk: Dani Gal
15 November 2019, 7 to 9 pm

Films | “Night and Fog” (26 mins) 2011, “As from Afar” (26 mins) 2013, “White City” (25 mins) 2018
Introduction | Jade Niklai, Director of Blood Mountain Projects
Moderator | Prof. Noit Banai, art historian and critic
Venue | Le Studio Film und Bühne, c/o Studio Molière, Liechtensteinstraße 37, Vienna 1090, Austria
Tickets | €9 full price | €8 concession | €7 Abo 10. For reservations: kassa@lestudio.at

Closing event of Blood Mountain’s 2019 Artist-in-Residence
Artist will be present

Night and Fog (22 mins, HD), 2011
This is a filmic reenactment of the night of Adolf Eichmann’s execution by Israeli police and the scattering of his ashes in the Mediterranean Sea. Based on an interview with Michael Goldman, a Holocaust survivor and the supervising police officer of the execution. Commissioner: 54th Venice Biennale (2011), Camera: Itay Marom, Producer: Jonathan Dowek

As from Afar (26 mins, HD), 2013
The film examines the complex friendship between Simon Wiesenthal, Holocaust survivor and renown Austrian “Nazi hunter,” and Albert Speer, chief architect of the Nazi regime. It is choreographed to a short text by Ludwig Wittgenstein about memory images. The dialogue is based on real letters between Wiesenthal and Speer, exchanged post World War Two. Camera: Emre Erkmen, Producer: Caroline Kirberg

White City (25 mins, HD), 2018
Arthur Ruppin, a German zionist, sociologist and eugenicist, visits the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart: an exemplar of modernist architecture built by Mies van der Rohe (1927). A parallel encounter with the Nazi race theorist, Hans F.K. Günther interweaves to create a delirious fantasy: Arabs and camels passing through the Bauhaus estate, reminiscent at once of Tel Aviv in the 1930s and Nazi attitudes on eugenics. Camera: Itay Marom, Producer: Pong FIlm

Gal’s residency is part of Blood Mountain’s research and curatorial programme, The Nordbahnhof Project and continues the organisation’s founding mission to support the process and production of outstanding creative practices via its residency programme.

Event Partner: Le Studio Film und Bühne ℅ Studio Molière
Residency Partner: Vienna Wiesenthal Institute
Supporters: Bundeskanzleramt, Zukunftsfonds

Blood Mountain Projects is an independent research and curatorial platform based in Vienna with a mission to examine the cultural past present and potential of Central Europe. Founded in 2010 as a non-profit arts organisation in Budapest, and following many years as an international satellite, it operates since 2018 as an educational programme and curatorial practice based in Vienna. Core activities: research-based curatorial projects, artists-in-residence, public events, education and publications. For more information: www.bloodmountain.org