Oliver Ressler '17 :: Szczecin Film Festival 2020

Oliver Ressler '17

About the artist

Born in 1970. He produces installations, projects in public space, and films on issues such as economics, democracy, global warming, forms of resistance, and social alternatives. Since 2000 he has made 27 films that were screened at such places as Centre Pompidou, Paris; ICA, London or New Museum, New York. He won the International Media Art Award of the ZKM in 2002 as well as the Prix Thun for Art and Ethics Award in 2016.There are no Syrian refugees in Turkey (2016)

Emergency Turned Upside-Down (2016)
Occupy, Resist, Produce (2015)
The Visible and the Invisible (2014)
In the Red (2014)
Leave It in the Ground (2013)

photo Lineematiche, Luca Guadagnini

Gallery

Films

"Emergency Turned Upside-Down" D, ED: Oliver Ressler, AN: Studio Orlinder Krinkel, AT 2016, 16’13”

“Emergency Turned Upside-Down” was shaped by the “summer of migration” of 2015, when the Schengen system was suspended for several weeks and wealthy European states temporarily opened their borders to refugees. The film is a bold animation where the viewer's focus is rewarded with a spectacle of graphic possibilities, a chain of surprising connotations, and a universal message. Reflections upon a potentially imagined borderless world raises an incredibly important question about the possibility of pulling away from the reality we know, where the rhythm is established by boundaries.