Julian Rosefeldt Knihy

The thirteen part film installation Manifesto, produced by film and video artist Julian Rosefeldt is an homage to the explosive poetic power of key artist manifestos from the last 100 years. Australian actor Cate Blanchett plays 13 different characters who navigate everyday situations. In taking on these personas, Blanchett lends a voice to a variety of manifestos written by visual artists, poets, architects, performers and filmmakers. The rebellious texts by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara, Kazimir Malevich, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenburg, George Maciunas, Lebbeus Woods, Yvonne Rainer, Guy Debord, Jim Jarmusch and many others are arranged in new text collages, forming unexpected dialogues with each other. Rosefeldt’s installation poses the question of the extent to which these manifestos, written in a spirit of dissent in the societies of their time, are still relevant today. In Manifesto, Julian Rosefeldt’s complex visual worlds, Cate Blanchett’s versatility as an actor and the expressive force of the texts themselves merget to create multi-layered work of art.

"The black-and-white film "Deep Gold" pays homage to a scene in Luis Buñuel' s Surrealist classic "L'Âge d'Or" (1930). Julian Rosefeldt (b. Munich, 1965; lives and works in Berlin) has transplanted the action to a nightclub in 1920s Berlin, a metropolitan setting in which different parallel worlds interact. In that sense, his film elaborates on what the Spanish filmmaker's unsparing social critique already adumbrated: the challenge to repressive sexual morals, the disintegration of the prevailing order of the sexes, and the appeal to an emancipation that never represses the power of female sexuality. Rosefeldt highlights parallels between the economic climate of the 1920s and the current situation and scrutinizes the cultural repercussions of the sexual revolution. Cutting back and forth between different times and spaces, his film always also reveals something about basic human sentiments. People's longings are a staple of Hollywood movies; Rosefeldt translates them into the categories of the beholder's engagement with visual art. The book, which documents the film with numerous still photographs, is rounded out by essays by Dorothée Brill and Angela Stief."--Site web de l'éditeur

Julian Rosefeldt (geb. 1965) zählt zu den international bekanntesten Video- und Filmkünstlern der Gegenwart. Seine monumentale Installation Midwest bildet den Mittelpunkt der Ausstellung Wolfsburg Unlimited, in der Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft Wolfsburgs künstlerisch beleuchtet werden. Ein düsteres Containerterminal, Autoreifen, zerknüllte Zigarettenpäckchen und das Matratzenlager eines Obdachlosen markieren das Setting, bevor der Besucher ein heruntergekommenes Autokino erreicht. Hier wird Rosefeldts jüngster Film The Swap gezeigt: eine Actionfilmpersiflage über harte Jungs, Autos, Geld- und Warenströme sowie organisiertes Verbrechen. Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert dieses Meisterstück der Installations- und Filmkunst und vertieft dessen hochpolitische Inhalte mit Essays und einem Künstlerinterview. Julian Rosefeldt (b. 1965) is one of the most famous contemporary film artists. His installation Midwest shows a dismal container terminal. Car tyres, crushed cigarette packets and the mattresses of a homeless man mark the setting before visitors reach a run-down drive-in cinema, where Rosefeldt’s film The Swap is presented: an action film parody about tough men, cars, the flow of money and goods and organised crime. The present volume documents the installation and delves deeper into its highly political contents.

Indian flower sellers, Turkish trash collectors, Chinese cooks, and Thai prostitutes--Munich-born artist Julian Rosefeldt confronts the viewers of his video project, Asylum , with stereotypical European views of foreigners and ethnic minorities. In his seductively opulent tableaux vivants, he exaggerates and parodies popular conceptions about roles and professions, while embedding his protagonists in strangely surreal scenes and ritual contexts. This publication features photographs taken during the shooting of the video, film stills from Rosefeldt's nine Asylum films, probing essays, and an interview with the artist.