Open Air Art Cinema ist ein Format, das von Studierenden des Studiengangs Time Based Media an der Muthesius Kunsthochschule im Rahmen des Projekts Nukleus Kiel kuratiert ist. Eigene filmische Arbeiten treten in Dialog mit Werken etablierter Künstler*innen sowie mit Filmen von Studierenden anderer Kunsthochschulen
Open Air Art Cinema is a format curated by students of the Time Based Media Program at Muthesius in the frame of Nukleus Kiel. Their own film works enter into dialogue with works by established artists as well as with films by students from other art schools.
Curated by
Lilly Altmann, Şeyda Okumuş, Sophia Lindner, Maxim Lewandowski, Jane Han
Ort: Kieler Schloss (Hof)
Programm
Muthesius Kunsthochschule:
* Şeyda Okumuş, seesaw, 2025
* Johanna Borelli, Stillleben
* Jieon Sun, beyond the door, 2023
* Sophia Carolina Lindner, lingering, 2025
Artist Film:
* Ligia Lewis, A Plot, A Scandal (2023) (20min)
A Plot A Scandal (2023) was filmed within the medieval town of Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy, a site Ligia Lewis sees as upholding „Eurocentric ideals of (white) Man’s dominion over the land.“ One recurring aspect of the landscape, the towering cypress trees ordered in rows, stands as an example. The film opens with the sonic resonance of the church bell revealed later as a towering monument, pointing to the Christian ideals that served as both a precursor to the Enlightenment and bedfellow in maintaining its hierarchical order. Weaving together multiple historical epics and political and mythical narratives, the work uses ideas of spectacle and scandal to point toward the continued dispossession of „Europe’s Others“, as Lewis describes them. „Utopian or mundane, how might scandal reveal what lies unwittingly close to our fantasies? Is it the demand for repair? Or the otherwise brutish desire for revenge?“ Lewis explores these questions via a narrative that brings together philosopher and beneficiary of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people John Locke and his interest in the relationship between life, liberty, and property, the Cuban artist and revolutionary José Aponte, as well as her great-grandmother Lolón Zapata.



