Thu, 06-May-21 07:00 PM
Sabah Jalloul
Opening Program
This split-screen work begins with total views as if from Mars, approaching the ground simultaneously or alternately from different perspectives. Many people are building a country road with painstaking manual labor. We are in Myanmar. Women knock stones small, carry them to the current construction section, a forewoman scatters them evenly. Men boil tar in rusty barrels and spread it on the stone pavement with watering cans. Late in the evening, the workers cast long shadows again, and from a bird’s eye view, an abstract painting in rusty earth tones emerges. One day, a short stretch of road for a road that once will connect different territories in the civil war-torn country.
Max Kerkhoff, born in Austria to an American mother and a German father. He first studied Ethnology, Political Science and Media&Communication Studies (MA), then continued with Film editing at Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (Diplom). Since 2010 he has been making films and been selected for numerous programs, festivals and grants. Also he works as freelance editor and gives workshops. Based in Berlin, he is a member of Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, a non-profit and self-administered art space. In 2008 his mid-length documentary WO LANG? BERLIN,
MÄRKISCHES VIERTEL, about desillusioned teenagers in Berlin’s outskirts, has screened at festivals worldwide.
Director, editing: Max Kerkhoff
Cinematography: Till Girke
Additional drone photography: Paul Glodek
Composer: Franziska May, Isacco Chiaf
Contact: post@maxkerkhoff.at