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An Evening with Nina Könnemann
MoMA Presents German Auteur
Nina Könnemann, Animation (2008)
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Nina Könnemann is a prime example of a modern German cinema trend. The filmmaker takes the everyday circumstances of reality, and explores the subversive and unwinding aftereffects of choices, situations, and people. Her films—often unsettling in their refusal to look away—examine what happens after a moment has had its moment of absolution, its happy ending with a tied-up bow. The trend represents an antithesis to major American productions, pre-packaged and predictable in their focus upon the archetypal linear story. Nina Könnemann will be present for “An Evening with Nina Könnemann”, in which the artist will present her short single-channel moving image works for the first time in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art, January 11, 2010 at 7 pm.
The screening at MoMA is part of the “Modern Mondays” series, intended to bring cutting-edge experimental cinema (both new and old) to the forefront. Cutting-edge and experimental are two things that Könnemann does not shy away from. Her work incorporates animation and documentary video installation and doesn’t shy away from dark subjects—the unrequited search for companionship, connection and passion and the disillusionment that comes along with it. As German critic Jan Verwoert wrote, Könnemann’s pieces “gently unhinge [viewers’] sense of time and space. No special effects are used, and all the actions shown are real events, none of them what you might call spectacular.”
“An Evening with Nina Könneman” will take place Monday, January 11, 2010 at 7 pm in Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2). The program is organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film. Tickets are available for purchase by visiting www.moma.org.