Director: Judith Hopf
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Biography: Judith Hopf, born 1969 in Karlsruhe.
From 1990 - 92 studies in sculpture and painting at the HfBK Bremen
1993 - 1997 studies in fine arts at the UdK Berlin, where she graduated with honours in 1997.
From 1996 to 1998 she organized the event series "supersalons" at bbooks in Berlin. She has participated in numerous international solo and group exhibitions. Judith Hopf works in the media of video/film, drawing, performance and installation. In her work, she investigates seemingly obvious communication forms and analyses the methods of political and artistic mediation in her work as well as in art theoretical texts.
Since 1997 she has continually taken part in collective video projects. From 1997 to 2003 several video clips were created for A-Clip – a project whose basic idea consists in using the attention of the spectator in a darkened movie theater for the placement of subjective political and artistic statements which take on, satirize, or interrupt the advertising aesthetic. From 2003 to 2005 she was a part of the video group Team Ping Pong.
From 2001 to 2005 Judith Hopf was guest lecturer at the Merz Academy Stuttgart, from 2003 to 2005 guest professor of sculpture and video art at the Kunsthochschule, Berlin, Weissensee. Currently she is professor for Fine Arts at the Städelschule Frankfurt.
The artist lives and works in Berlin.
Director: Katrin Pesch
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Biography: Katrin Pesch is an artist, filmmaker and writer. She holds a PhD in Art History, Theory, and Criticism with a Concentration in Art Practice from the University of California San Diego. An alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program, she has exhibited internationally in film festivals, art spaces and museums. Her writing has been published in Studies in French Cinema and Anthropology and Humanism, and several edited collections. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor for Film Studies at University of Southern Mississippi.
Country: Germany
Year: 2005
Synopsis: The video THE UNINVITED (The Uninvited – a documentary film) portrays in quasi-documentary form the daily life of a young family, strolling through Berlin's "Neue Mitte" ("New Center") and shows the societal change that can be seen in the gestures of the figures as well as the surrounding architecture.
THE UNINVITED uses the genre of ghost story to narrate the fictional history of a ghostly apparition: ghostly figures who can be seen as the personification of a certain social uneasiness cross and re-cross the family's path in real spots in Berlin. They appear to them.
The ghostly figures are meant to contrast with social consensus, which the family tries to follow. But something uncanny seems to be inherent even in this consensus.
Language: German
