Art Basel's Film program just announced

‘Paris, Capital of the XXIst Century’ by Malcolm McLaren, 2010

June 10th – June 15th Art Basel Film Stadtkino Basel Klostergasse 5 4051 Basel

Five-day program showing work by and about artists
This year Art Basel’s Film program will feature over 30 films by and about artists. Highlights will include four short films by Carsten Nicolai, which are part of a large- scale film project by the artist and which have never been shown together before; ‘Paris: Capital of the XXIst Century’, the last film ever made by Malcom McLaren; as well as films by artists Kader Attia, Isa Genzken, Christian Jankowski, William E. Jones, Hassan Khan, Ho Tzu Nyen and Michael Snow. The program is presented for the sixth consecutive year by Berlin-based curator Marc Glöde. Once again, This Brunner, Swiss cinema legend, has selected the program’s feature film: ‘Cutie and the Boxer’ by Zachary Heinzerling. The touching film documents the lives of the Japanese artist couple Ushio and Noriko Shinohara and which won the prestigious Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2013.

Full Program Overview
Monday | June 10th
8.30pm | ‘future past perfect pt. 1-4′ by Carsten Nicolai, 2008-2013 | Running Time 24’ | Selected by Marc Glöde. The screening is followed by a Q&A with Carsten Nicolai and Marc Glöde.

The four films presented in this program are parts of a larger-scale film project by Carsten Nicolai that is designed as a series of conceptually independent works documenting the artist’s focus of interest in each of the respective years of origin.

10.00pm | ‘Paris, Capital of the XXIst Century’ by Malcolm McLaren, 2010 I Running Time 59′ | Malcolm McLaren Estate | Selected by Marc Glöde

Malcolm McLaren’s final film, ‘Paris: The Capital of the 21st Century’, is a collage of ideal images of Paris. Using French film clips and commercials from the past one hundred years, McLaren examines the intersections of art and commodity—the result is a beautiful visual poem.

Tuesday | June 11th 8.30pm | Short Film Program ‘Humorous Criticality’ | Running Time 33′ | Curated by Marc Glöde

This program brings together some of the most remarkable film experiences, showing that gender, race, and the art world are complex structures that need to be questioned by tackling them head on, examining them, and deconstructing them through humor and critique.

10pm | ‘Die Kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau)’ by Isa Genzken, 2010-2012 I Running Time 71’19” | Galerie Buchholz, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner | Selected by Marc Glöde

Isa Genzken, assisted by her friend, the German artist Kai Althoff, shot this work in an impromptu style and using a home video camera. The film is an absurdist comedy in which Genzken and Althoff enact a string of odd-couple scenarios.

Wednesday | June 12
6.00pm | Short Film Program ‘Michel Auder 1’ | Special screening
A short film program organized by Kunsthalle Basel in conjunction with its Michel Auder exhibition.

Thursday | June 13th 8.00pm | Short Film Program ‘Approaching Spaces’ | Running Time 75′ | Curated by Marc Glöde

Contemplating the question of space and architecture has always been a key theme in experimental filmmaking. The films assembled in this program let the audience experience the beauty of this discourse.

10.00pm | ‘Blind Ambition’ by Hassan Khan, 2012 I Running Time 46′ | Galerie Chantal Crousel | Selected by Marc Glöde The screening is followed by a Q&A with Hassan Khan and Marc Glöde.
‘Blind Ambition’ is not made like a film. It has no decoupage or preplanned cuts, per se. It is shot on a cell phone: I create the situation, put the actors in it, and shoot. I edit later. But, as I edit, something remains hidden.” (Hassan Khan, Kaleidoscope)

Friday | June 14th
5.30pm | Short Film Program ‘Michel Auder 2’ | Special screening
A short film program organized by Kunsthalle Basel in conjunction with its Michel Auder exhibition.

8.00pm | ‘Untitled (Collages)’ by Kader Attia, 2011-2012 I Running Time 67” | Galerie Krinzinger
Kader Attia’s single-channel video about the lives of transsexuals in Algiers and Bombay questions the possibility of objective testimony at the same time as it challenges the structural coherence we associate with artistic narrative.

10.00pm | Short Film Program ‘Still / Moving’ | Running Time 67′ | Curated by Marc Glöde
The screening is followed by a Q&A with Martin Arnold and Marc Glöde.
This short film program brings together works that look at already existing footage—‘still’ as well as ‘moving’ images. By re-focusing on these images, the films open up a deeper understanding and new perspectives on historic material.

Saturday | June 15
8.00pm | ‘Cutie & The Boxer’ by Zachary Heinzerling, 2013 I Running Time 82′ | Selected by This Brunner
‘Cutie and the Boxer’ is an intimate documentary chronicling the unique love story between Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, married Japanese artists living in New York. Bound by years of quiet resentment, disappointments, and missed professional opportunities, they are locked in a hard, dependent love. The film won the Directing Award at the prestigious Sundance film festival.

10.00pm | Short Film Program ‘ Resonating Bodies’ | Running Time 35′ | Curated by Marc Glöde
The screening is followed by a Q&A with Ho Tzu Nyen and Marc Glöde.
Music, the dancing body, and cinematic space—’Resonating Bodies’ shows how these three fields of experience interweave through film and create a different understanding of the connection of body and space.

Foyer Stadtkino Basel
A selection of works by Martin Arnold will be presented on monitors in the foyer of Stadtkino Basel throughout the week.