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Otjesd (Leaving) and the Making of Otjesd, 2005

Video and series of 6 photographs

GermanEnglish

In Otjesd/Leaving von Wedemeyer investigates the immigration of Russians to Germany, which increased after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In a single fifteen minute shot, which recalls the camera work of the great Russian masters such as Andrei Tarkovsy or Aleksandr Sokurov, the film captures an imaginary scene of people waiting for visas in front of the German consulate in Moscow. The camera slowly follows a young woman trying to fight her way into the building. The different dialogues in Russian are not dubbed or subtitled, creating for the viewer an atmosphere of confusion and disorientation. This is further enhanced by the incessantly moving camera, and the fact that the scene was shot neither at a consulate nor in Moscow, but in a forest near Berlin.

In Otjesd/Leaving von Wedemeyer investigates the immigration of Russians to Germany, which increased after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In a single fifteen minute shot, which recalls the camera work of the great Russian masters such as Andrei Tarkovsy or Aleksandr Sokurov, the film captures an imaginary scene of people waiting for visas in front of the German consulate in Moscow. The camera slowly follows a young woman trying to fight her way into the building. The different dialogues in Russian are not dubbed or subtitled, creating for the viewer an atmosphere of confusion and disorientation. This is further enhanced by the incessantly moving camera, and the fact that the scene was shot neither at a consulate nor in Moscow, but in a forest near Berlin.

16mm/DVD, 2:3, stereo,15 min, loop

Main cast: Rita Breitkreiz, Ekaterina Choulman, Victor Choulman
Camera: Frank Meyer
Production design: Mascha Deneke
Costume design: Sabin Fleck
Sound recording: Hans Brammer, Immo Trümpelmann
Sound editing: Thomas Wallmann
Assistant director: Leis Bagdach, Norman Richter, Dietrich Limpert
Production management: Sylvia Loinjak
Produced by: *.* with Christina Schachtschabel und Joachim von Vietinghoff

Supported by Goethe Institut Moskau, 1st Moscow Biennial

© 2005 Germany

Clemens von Wedemeyer, Otjesd (Leaving) and the Making of Otjesd, 2005, 16mm/ DVD, 2:3, stereo, loop (Otjesd); Video/ DVD, stereo (The Making of Otjesd), film still
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Otjesd (Leaving) and the Making of Otjesd, 2005, 16mm/ DVD, 2:3, stereo, loop (Otjesd); Video/ DVD, stereo (The Making of Otjesd), film still
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Otjesd (Leaving) and the Making of Otjesd, 2005, 16mm/ DVD, 2:3, stereo, loop (Otjesd); Video/ DVD, stereo (The Making of Otjesd), film still
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Otjesd (Leaving) and the Making of Otjesd, 2005, 16mm/ DVD, 2:3, stereo, loop (Otjesd); Video/ DVD, stereo (The Making of Otjesd), film still
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Otjesd (Leaving) and the Making of Otjesd, 2005, 16mm/ DVD, 2:3, stereo, loop (Otjesd); Video/ DVD, stereo (The Making of Otjesd), film still
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Otjesd (Leaving) and the Making of Otjesd, 2005, 16mm/ DVD, 2:3, stereo, loop (Otjesd); Video/ DVD, stereo (The Making of Otjesd), film still
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Otjesd (Leaving) and the Making of Otjesd, 2005, 16mm/ DVD, 2:3, stereo, loop (Otjesd); Video/ DVD, stereo (The Making of Otjesd), film still
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Otjesd (Leaving) and the Making of Otjesd, 2005, 16mm/ DVD, 2:3, stereo, loop (Otjesd); Video/ DVD, stereo (The Making of Otjesd), film still


16mm/DVD, 2:3, stereo,15 min, loop

Main cast: Rita Breitkreiz, Ekaterina Choulman, Victor Choulman
Camera: Frank Meyer
Production design: Mascha Deneke
Costume design: Sabin Fleck
Sound recording: Hans Brammer, Immo Trümpelmann
Sound editing: Thomas Wallmann
Assistant director: Leis Bagdach, Norman Richter, Dietrich Limpert
Production management: Sylvia Loinjak
Produced by: *.* with Christina Schachtschabel und Joachim von Vietinghoff

Supported by Goethe Institut Moskau, 1st Moscow Biennial

Clemens von Wedemeyer, Otjesd (Production Photos I-VI), 2005, C-Prints (series of 6 production photographs), 50 x 54 cm
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Otjesd (Production Photos I-VI), 2005, C-Prints (series of 6 production photographs), 50 x 54 cm
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Otjesd (Production Photos I-VI), 2005, C-Prints (series of 6 production photographs), 50 x 54 cm
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Otjesd (Production Photos I-VI), 2005, C-Prints (series of 6 production photographs), 50 x 54 cm
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Otjesd (Production Photos I-VI), 2005, C-Prints (series of 6 production photographs), 50 x 54 cm
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Otjesd (Production Photos I-VI), 2005, C-Prints (series of 6 production photographs), 50 x 54 cm

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FONDAZIONE GALLERIA CIVICA, TRENTO (Group) 2011
KUNSTHAL CHARLOTTENBORG, COPENHAGEN (Group), 2011
BUNDESKUNSTHALLE BONN (Group), 2011
PROJECT ARTS CENTRE, DUBLIN (Group), 2010
SENATSRESERVESPEICHER, BERLIN, 2010
AFOUNDATION, LONDON (Group), 2010
KUNSTMUSEUM STUTTGART (Group), 2010
CITY GALLERY PRAGUE (Group), 2009
LILLE 3000, LILLE (Group), 2009
7TH SHANGHAI BIENNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART (Group)2009
7TH BULGARIAN BIENNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART (Group), 2009
MART, ROVERTO (Group), 2009
VIDEOSPACE, BUDAPEST, 2008
INSA ART SPACE, SEOUL (Group), 2008
7TH SHANGHAI BIENNALE (Group), 2008
16TH BIENNALE OF SYDNEY (Group), 2008
MUSEM ON THE SEAM, JERUSALEM (Group), 2007
ARGOS CENTRE FOR ART AND MEDIA, BRUSSELS, 2007
KUNSTMUSEUM LIECHTENSTEIN (Group), 2007
KUNSTRAUM NIEDERÖSTERREICH (Group), 2007
NEUE KUNST HALLE ST. GALLEN (Group), 2007
VITAKUBEN, NORLANDSOPERAN, UMEA, 2007
4TH BERLIN BIENNIAL FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (Group), 2006
KÖLNISCHER KUNSTVEREIN, 2006
CAC, BRETIGNY-SUR-ORGE, 2006
PS1 MOMA, NEW YORK, 2006
MOSCOW BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART (Group), 2005
KÖLNISCHER KUNSTVEREIN (Group), 2005
THOMAS DANE GALLERY, LONDON (Group), 2005
KUNSTHALLE BIELEFELD (Group), 2005
KUNSTHALLE BREMEN (Group), 2004

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CINEMATEQUE, LEIPZIG, 2011
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MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF LA SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY, 2010
NEON>CAMPOBASE, BOLOGNA, 2010
ART BOOM FESTIVAL, KRACOW, 2009
CINEMATEQUE TEL AVIV, 2009
INSA ART SPACE, SEOUL, 2009
VILLA ROMANA, FLORENCE, 2009
CINEMA SPRING SCHOOL, PARIS, 2009
3SAT TV, 2009
ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL, 2008
WÜRTTEMBERGISCHER KUNSTVEREIN, STUTTGART, 2007
MOBILE AKADEMIE, WARSAW, 2007
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Clemens von Wedemeyer

Clemens von Wedemeyer, born in 1974 in Göttingen, Germany, currently lives and works in Berlin and holds a professorship for media art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. The artist and filmmaker studied photography and media at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld and the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and graduated as Meisterschüler of Astrid Klein in 2005. Clemens von Wedemeyer participated in group shows such as the 1st Moscow Biennale (2005), the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006), Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2007, the 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008) and dOCUMENTA (13) (2012). He had solo shows among others at MoMA PS1, New York, ARGOS Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, the Barbican Art Centre, London, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Hamburger Kunsthalle. “ESIOD 2015” premiered at the 66. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Berlinale) in 2016.

Most recently Wendemeyer´s work has been displayed in solo exhibitions such as Im Kontext der Sammlung: Clemens von Wendemeyer (Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz 2023) and BAKHMUT (Albertinum Dresden 2023).



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