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Milena Gierke, born 1968 in Frankfurt am Main. 1989 – 94 Studies at the Frankfurt Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, in Peter Kubelka’s class “Film + Kochen” (film + cooking). In 1994 she studied sculpture at the Cooper Union in New York City with Hans Haacke and film history with James Hoberman. Other teachers have been representatives of the US film avant-garde such as Ken Jacobs or Robert Breer. Jonas Mekas has greatly inspired Milena Gierke in her diary films. In 1995 he screened a three-hour retrospective of her work at Anthology Film Archive. Since 2001 she has been a member of the curatorial group “Filmsamstag” at the Filmkunsthaus Babylon, Berlin. Milena Gierke projects her films inside the screening room itself. The sound of the running projector becomes its own rhythm, becomes the musical accompaniment. Each of the programs that she puts together takes into account the architectonic occurrences of the place, which are created by the space and the audience. She shows her work not only in cinemas, but also in galleries and other places of interest to her, for example: 2001 “Vorgestellt” Earport (young composers were presented to and put in relation to visual artists), “Mittagspause”, the closing event in the old Staatsbank, in which Roland Ketschmer gave a reading of Robert Musil’s Buch “The Man without Qualities” and showed Milena Gierke’s film ZEIT in connection with it, “Filme ohne Ton” (“Films without Sound”) in the Berlin Center for the Deaf, including a discussion with an interpreter. The artist has been living in Berlin since 1998.
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01 January 1998
"Goldfish swimming in a fountain at Sans Souci in Potsdam." —Milena Gierke
01 January 1992
"Depending on the light and the angle, one can see a variety of reflections in double-paned glass. I used this phenomenon to film a defracted self-portrait.
01 January 1990
"This film was shot from a parked car. One observes and is observed…" —Milena Gierke
01 March 2000
The view from a balcony window in Berlin: one sees elements of Summertime, such as shadows and the movement of plastic wrapping material in the wind, which alternately hides and reveals the view of an intersection teeming with life.
01 January 1996
"The window of a flat in New York: curtains dance in the wind. One of them casts a shadow on the velvet sofa, which, in close-up, takes on an entirely new dynamic.
01 January 1992
Second journey with the art school through North-West India.
01 January 1990
I travelled in China for 3 ½ weeks on an excursion organised by the art academy. First, we took the Trans-Siberian railway from Moscow to Datong.
17 July 2008
Farmers at work in their fields during the August harvest in Bad Zweesten.
01 March 2000
While in the Cevenne region of France, I filmed a large green grainfield, which came to life as the summer wind blew.
05 March 2004
A film sketch featuring glasses on a red and white checked tablecloth.
01 January 1992
Operabloom Japanese Cherrytrees in bloom on the Place of the opera in Frankfurt. Everyone is inchanted.
03 March 1995
"One can visit a military ship in New York harbour. A diverse mass of people stream on to the ship and patiently queue for admittance to the gargantuan structure.
01 January 1999
The view out the window of a train toilet is reflected in the mirror, and vice versa.
08 July 2005
One of my earliest memories is the view of the mountain opposite, where my mother was born in during the war while the family was in hiding.
01 January 2009
For a short while, the sunlight hits an unspectacular corner in the garden, transforming it into a realm of magic impressions.
01 January 1998
"In a small bar on New York‘s West Broadway, World Cup Football is on the telly. As opposed to the Americans, who aren‘t interested in international-style football, the bar is filled with people from France and Brazil who live in the city, and a few tourists.
07 April 2001
I booked a holiday in Tunisia: one week in a 3-star hotel, and spent the entire time there. The film subjects everything to my own point of view: the architecture, the beach with its umbrellas, tourists who are both present and absent, the sort of biding that such hotels tend to be, and the sea.
01 January 1990
An older man walks slowly down the pavement. He doesn‘t notice that he’s being filmed. He appears to be from another world, completely in his own thoughts.
07 April 2001
"I spent some time in hospital, laying in bed and looking out at the view of the hospital's garden."e
30 June 2009
Super 8 short by Milena Gierke.
01 January 2012
"Over a period of five months, I had my super 8 camera with me at all times. Once every hour I made a shot of myself, wherever I happened to be, interrupting any activity whatsoever.
01 January 1991
"One week captured in time-lapse. Approximately every 8 seconds, I shot a frame. One sees a table with a vase full of gladiolas.
01 January 1996
"1st Part: the tree‘s bark, leaves, branches and shadow on the ground and on wooden houses. 2nd Part: An abstract composition of alternating images.
01 January 1991
"My legs and feet appear different in the light of the setting sun. The effect of shadows; using a macro-lens, I explore my skin‘s surface until my heartbeat becomes visible.
01 January 1990
"My sister was obsessed with the 1950s and the music of the period. It was her 16th birthday, and we celebrated together, in the bathtub.
01 January 1997
"The thrill of a sudden summer rainstorm inspires me to jump, naked, into my friend Maria‘s pool .e
20 July 2008
A film by Milena Gierke
03 October 1995
"During the 13 months, I spent in New York, I always had my camera with me. This film concentrates on direct visual impressions of my daily life in New York.
01 July 1993
Close-up shots of a bouquet of poppies, some of which are in full bloom while others have already wilted.
20 July 1994
A film by Milena Gierke
01 January 2008
"Afternoon shift in Marseilles coupled with the stormy mistral. I love Bauhaus and filmed a big complex by Le Corbusier 'Unité d'habitation' in which, besides apartments, there were originally shops, a hotel, a kindergarten and everything necessary.
01 January 1993
"Apples are prepared for making juice by washing and squeezing them. Close-ups create the impression that the apples are moving on their own accord.
03 March 2011
Shadows of leafless trees projected on to buildings in Berlin-Pankow. The shadows cast their pattern on three-dimensional objects as their own sort of drawings.
20 July 2008
A film by Milena Gierke
01 March 1991
Hour by Hour I, February 1, 1991: Every hour, I film my portrait in its environment. During sleeping hours, the film is black.
01 March 1997
A stream in the south of France. Due to the movement of the water's surface, the appearance of the toads is distorted to the point of making them unrecognizable.
20 July 2012
A film by Milena Gierke
01 March 2001
A snapshot of a month in Provence. The ants are feasting on the bread and cheese, changes in the weather, a clothesline.
20 January 1994
A film by Milena Gierke
03 March 1995
When the crowd finishes applauding the participants of the AIDS Walk in Central Park, NYC, the crowd disperses across the lawns.
04 March 1994
A storm approaches: The wind blows across the lake, rain streams down the windshield, while we admire the landscape from inside the car.
01 March 2003
My grandmother was forced to leave her birthplace at the age of three. She never had the opportunity to return.
01 February 1992
Film about the Portikus.
03 April 1997
"Reflections abound on the surface of the canals in Amsterdam. The buildings are less important than the way the sun blinks on to the water‘s surface, which, after a while, results in abstract images in motion.
30 June 1992
"A rubbish dump in the mountains of southern France. Camera-editing results in a suggested but untold story.
01 January 1990
"Shot from my grandmother‘s flat in Frankfurt’s (am Main) Westend district. The view includes buildings, the sky, trees,and a dressing gown in a light, summer breeze, sometimes shot in time-lapse.
01 January 1997
"Playing With Water Part II consists of reflections in a pool, shot using an automatic fade out. Playing With Water III: Algae in Maine, U.
