The filmmaker Jürgen Heiter and the interdisciplinary artist Cony Theis present a living archive of film, installation, painting and objects.
The filmmaker Jürgen Heiter and the interdisciplinary artist Cony Theis present a living archive of film, installation, painting and objects.
What is film/cinema? The exhibition O. T. (THROUGH THE EYES OF JULIA) poses this question, which André Bazin already asked himself in the 1950s.
Film is art of and from the present and the future, it is different from all other arts. Perhaps music comes closest to it in its now. As a contemporary art, film cannot stop moving. It is a motion picture, spatiotemporal, committed to expressing processes in time and space. Film is thus perception, understanding, reason, spirit in motion - the future of itself.
Film is a conclusion and always asks for the next moment. The disappointment that a movie ends, the strangeness that strikes you when you leave the cinema (as if reality were like film), arises from the absence of this next moment. Because real life does not know it in this form. It eludes the experience of people consciously - i.e. freely - making their story.
At the center of this exhibition is the work of award-winning filmmaker Jürgen Heiter, whose work combines film, visual art and literature. O. T. (THROUGH THE EYES OF JULIA) presents itself as a living archive and is created in collaboration with and also with works by the interdisciplinary artist and curator Cony Theis, supplemented by an open index of Jürgen Heiter's films by Werner Fleischer. An edition by Jürgen Heiter will be published to accompany the exhibition.
"Going to the archive when you need tools to investigate reality is like going to the tool shed to get a shovel. To dig, dig around, bury, excavate.The archive/history is therefore not a place of storage, but a place of production. Just as history is to be understood backwards and forwards, a movement that produces the present, that wafer-thin slice in front of/in the eye..." - Jürgen Heiter -
Special program for the Ahrenshooper Film Nights November 12-15, 2025.
The exhibition was generously sponsored by Dr. Ursula Schäfer-Preuss and Dr. Wolf Preuss. Further sponsors are the Ministry of Science, Culture, Federal and European Affairs of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the municipality and spa administration of Ahrenshoop, the district of Vorpommern-Rügen, the Sparkasse Vorpommern and the Freundeskreis NEUE KUNST HAT FREUNDE.
