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Slow Space

Slow Space takes the viewer on a visual trip through places of glass architecture in Chicago. Filmed entirely within the urban constructed environment that makes up this contemporary North American city, Slow Space is a visually arresting investigation into how space is described, defined and ultimately experienced. Berlin filmmaker Klaus W. Eisenlohr commutes this relationship with the outside ‘world’ via an array of constructed transparencies in the glass domes and atriums that formed so much of architecture’s modernist preoccupation for a constructed inside/outside dialectic. Descriptions and ultimately opinions on the status of public space in Chicago form part of the film’s identity via a series of interviews conducted from the participant’s private domains. Street scenes with performers complement this film essay.

With his project in Chicago, the artist Klaus W. Eisenlohr has investigated the relationship between the body and the urban architectural environment over the time period of three years.

Klaus W. Eisenlohr was born in Tuttlingen and has been living in Berlin since 1989. He studied in Berlin and Chicago. The main focus of his works, many of which have received prizes at exhibitions in Germany, France and the USA, is with photography, experimental film and media art. A selection of his films includes: Self Berlin-London (Selbst Berlin-London, 1991), A Hand on Alexanderplatz (Die Hand am Alex 1 & 2, 1993), Mother's Kitchen (Mutters Kueche, 1993), Courrour Station (1997), Hair - Non Hair (1998), Local Time plus 2 1/2 (Ortszeit plus Zweieinhalb, 1999), Center of Urban Periphery (Stadtrandzone Mitte, 2005) and Slow Space (2006), among others.
 

Genre Art
Category Documentary Cinema
Year of Production 2006
Director Klaus W. Eisenlohr
Director of Photography Klaus W. Eisenlohr
Editor Klaus W. Eisenlohr
Music by Carlos Archuela, Chris Aka, J. Frede, Matt Bonal
Producer Klaus W. Eisenlohr
Production Company Richfilm Productions/Berlin
Principal Cast Akari Miki, Gretchen Hasse, John Delk, Laura Saenz, Heather Lindahl, Hans Gullickson, Deborah Stratman, Ken Fandel, Eduardo Pradilla, Gretchen Till, Chris Harris, Tom Comerford
Special Effects Klaus W. Eisenlohr
Length 72 min, 812 m
Format 16 mm, color, b&w, 1:1.37
Original Version English
Sound Technology Mono, Stereo
Festival Screenings TIE Denver 2006, Frankfurt 2006
With backing from Airlift Memorial Fellowship of the Berlin Senate & Amerika Haus Berlin

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