Urban Research on Film

Urban Research on Film is an ongoing film and video screening project selected by Klaus W. Eisenlohr for Directors Lounge in Berlin. Urban Research presents artists and filmmakers who address the progress of urbanity and who are concerned with urban space and public space in their work.

The increased dynamic of urban development - either as Shrinking Cities or exploding Megacities - urges for new concepts and a rethinking of urban space. Contemporary architectural and social impacts on urban developments and public space have become a theme for many artists. The collection of short films comprises documentary, experimental and intermediate forms.

Urban space is under rapid change. The city has long played a predominant role in the work of artists, the city as image, as ideal, as Moloch, as source of joy and social destruction, and not least as icon of Modernity. With the increased dynamic of city development however - either as Shrinking Cities or exploding Megacities - more and more artists take up the issue of urban development and adopt urban space and public space as their theme.



• Sari Carel FI One Eye Open 4 min 30s, DV, 2006

Urban Research on Film will present unique, refreshing, challenging and entertaining works addressing the contemporary live and the development of the urban landscape. Further screenings and an online presentation are planned.


• Karola Schlegelmilch DE Blunmenthal 7 min 30s, DV, 2006

• Urban research program A fri 09.02. 8pm
• Urban research program B sun 11.02. 6:30 pm
• Urban research program C fri 16.02. 6:30 pm
• Urban research program D sat 17.02. 6:30 pm