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2017 | 06:42 min | HD | 16:9 | col | stereo | ger/enThe Cluster

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Deborah Uhde | 2017 | 06:42 min | HD | 16:9 | col | stereo | ger/en
2018
(S) EMAF, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück
(G) OFF, OVER & OUT, Montagehalle Berlin Wedding
2017
(E) SYNDROME, Schwartzsche Villa Berlin
(G) ORTEN, Galerie im Höhmannhaus Augsburg

 

Deborah Uhde‘s work raises the question of how the world works and to what extent science can actually explain the functioning of life. Systematically, she works out a blind spot by letting fiction and reality melt together. […]Constantly the subject matter of the film is about cosmic structures and organic meshes. The viewer is tempted to want to understand everything and spending the same amount of awareness to every single view. […]The philosopher Karl Popper says that the truth of one theory can never be definitively proven, but only its similarity to the truth.We may not know anything about the clusters of this world.The reality in which we walk dreamlike can be declared wrong again at any time. It is the science that strives for a supposed objectivity, and it is the art that dares to sneer at this objectivity in the face.

Stefan Ewald
extract of the catalogue text SYNDROME

 

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State of the Art of the State – a Dysfunctional Machine

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Deborah Uhde | 2016 | 11:52 min | HD | 16:9 | col | stereo | en
2020
(S) Alles auf Anfang, Ost-Passage Theater, Leipzig
2019
(S) Screening im Pögehaus Leipzig
2018
(S) Ace House Collective, Yogyakarta
2017
(S) Medienwerkstatt Hannover
2016
(S) Lampentotalverdampfung Wien
(S) Directors Lounge Z-Bar Berlin
(S) Screening @ International Film School Saigon, Ho-Chi-Minh-City
(G) Meisterschüler-Ausstellung, Raumlabor, Braunschweig

 

Deborah Uhde‘s piece „State of the Art of the State – a Dysfunctional Machine“ seems to be made of pieces of information about a space in a very different way. Views of a science campus, the „physikalisch-technische Bundesanstalt Braunschweig“, are being combined on a double screen and edited in associative ways. The rhythm of the pictures is slow and seems to follow the pace of a documented research, the cataloguing and search for art on the campus as the subtitles state. However, we rarely get to see art, at least no paintings or sculptures but strange constellations of buildings, containers, rulers, marks and construction signs, any of which could be part of some art project but very unlikely is so. The one object that looks very much like a modernist sculpture, a steel object that combines spheres and poles, apparently is an object for measurement as the viewer is informed by subtitles. Deborah‘s film thus combines spatial views in a poetical and rhythmical way, but then it seems, she rather asks the viewer to critically engage and make their own distinctions between aesthetic and utilitarian spatial use.

Klaus Eisenlohr
Director´s Lounge

 

 

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Kalbe

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Within the exhibition Home-Street-Home Deborah Uhde offers insight into her film with a video-installation in which she shows a sequence of her current documentary project. Since her summer residency of 2014 in the artist village of Kalbe she has been working on this particular documentary series. On the basis of an interview with a contemporary witness on escaping Germans from the former Eastern Prussia at the end of World-War II, Deborah Uhde is reflecting on the practice of memory. The interviewed woman experienced the political turns of the war as a child. Uhde entangles the biographical story perceived as a voice-over with current static recordings of the woman‘s various life stages in the town of Kalbe. In this way, the viewer is vividly caught up by the past.
History and current events overlay and complement one another. […]
Stefanie Matjeka
about the installation Home-Street-Home | Kalbe
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Deborah Uhde | 2015 | 29:18 min | HD | 16:9 | stereo | colour
2017 (S) Medienwerkstatt Hannover
2016 (S) Berliner Liste
2015 (S) Int. filmfest braunschweig
2014 (G) (installative version) Home Street Home, div. places, Braunschweig

 

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cockpit

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Cockpit is a control psychosis on 6 monitors. The journey leads from the interior of the earth into cosmic orbit. Starting point is the nuclear waste storage Asse, a former salt mine. The documentary recordings of places and events (of storage, public mediation and protest) are interwoven with an auditory network of Sci-Fi material from the age of nuclear euphoria.
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Deborah Uhde | 2014 | 12:11 min | HD | 16:9 | colour | stereo | ger/en
2019
(S) Mitte Media Festival, Galerie Fata Morgana Berlin
2016
(S) Berliner Liste
(S) Directors Lounge ZBar, Berlin
2015
(S) Open Screening, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
(S) Jahresscreening der Medienwerkstatt Berlin
2014
(S) Int. filmfest braunschweig

 

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Back ande Vor


A meeting point. A missing point.
A conversation at the border of languages.
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collaborative work John D´Arcy & Deborah Uhde
5:33 min | HD | 16:9 | colour | stereo | ger/en
2020
(S) moving abstractions, Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten
(S) moving abstractions, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Zollverein, Essen
2017
(S) Medienwerkstatt Hannover
(S) Poesie-Nacht, Screening im Literaturhaus Salzburg
(S) Mitte Media Festival, Fata Morgana Galerie Berlin
2016
(S) Teatro Villa Torlonia Rom
(S) Director´s Lounge, Z-Bar, Berlin
(S) Mini DocLab, Art House Saigon, Ho-Chi-Minh-City
2015
(S) Art Visuals&Poetry Film Festival, Wien
(S) Lawrence St Workshops, Belfast
(S) hanoidoclab, Hanoi Center For The Moving Image, Hanoi
(S) Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart
2014
(S) Video Screening @ High Performance, Schützenbahn, Essen
(S) up-and-coming, Kino im Künstlerhaus Hannover

 

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Ene Mene Mu

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Deborah Uhde not only talks about her father’s illness and the difficulties she had as a child and adult in dealing with it and somehow in maintaining the relationship, but also reflects on the mode of memory and narrative. About the sense and nonsense of the search for meaning in pictures. About the helplessness with which one uses such auxiliary constructs to make something incomprehensible tangible.
 Anna Bauer (full text/German)
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Deborah Uhde | 2013 | 19:40 min | HD | 16:9 | stereo | deutsch
2016
(S) Director´s Lounge, Z-Bar, Berlin
(S) Pocket Embassy Geneva Edition, EofA, Genf
2014
(S) Die Filmklasse im Medienhaus Hannover
(G) Primat des Privaten, Peiner Kunstpfad, Malerhof Voigtholz
(S) Bremer Kunstfrühling Bremen
(S) selected show on blinkvideo
(S) Internationaler Sommercampus Kalbe
2013
(S) extra experimental trails, Cineding, Leipzig
(S) filmfest, Universum Filmtheater, Braunschweig