The art education department of the Edith Russ House for Media Art invites school classes to themed guided tours and workshops of the current exhibition. From November 28 to February 14, 2010, the Edith Russ House for Media Art is showing the exhibition “Flying Lessons” by Guy Ben-Ner.
His films tell fictional stories based on literary models. Guy Ben-Ner appears in various roles and functions in all his video works; he appears as author, protagonist and director.
The themed tours can be extended to include a practical part with a video workshop. It is also possible to book the practical part alone. Strategies and means of filmic staging and re-enactment can be tried out in and around the exhibition. In the video works shown, the artist himself plays different roles and thus thematizes role assignments. The cinematic production is also revealed in his works and sometimes the making-of becomes part of the film.
Film quotes from the slapstick and silent film era provide an opportunity to try out the various techniques in front of and behind the camera for yourself. Based on short text passages (Ben-Ner refers to Lafontaine’s fable “The Raven and the Fox”, Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”, Lewis Carroll’s “Alice Behind the Mirrors” and de Saint-Exupéry’s “The Little Prince”, among others), spontaneous cinematic reinterpretations will be created in the workshop, which we will record on video. Participants can thus re-stage source texts from the exhibition from their own perspective. (Guided tour and workshop or workshop alone can be booked from 2 hours)
Subject reference for both offers: Art, German, English, politics, social and media studies, literature/theater classes, etc.