Reproduktion | Hatebur.

Feuer, Wasser, Luft und Erde

Warum lacht Herr W.?

Ditch Plains

FICTION

2011 | HDV | color | 30 min

Shot in the East New York section of Brooklyn around the time of Hurricane Sandy, Ditch Plains (HDV, 30 mins) is a dystopian sci-fi street dance film featuring members of Ringmasters Crew.
Like avatars running the levels of an apocalyptic video game, Ringmasters Corey, Jay Donn and Marty McFly hallucinate the city and its networks as a space of terror, mutation and magic. “Flexing,” “bone breaking,” “pauzing” and “connecting” in nighttime streets, hotel hallways and a posh Park Avenue apartment, the dancers improvise dream-like scenes suggesting digital death matches, stop-and-frisk situations and catastrophic man-machine interfaces. Meanwhile, documentary shots of Far Rockaway show the city’s attempt to manage disaster in real life: police patrol the shattered flood zone as citizens line up with jerry cans. Scenes on iPhone screens play like Vine transmissions in a blacked-out world where no survivors or friends can receive them.
Referencing contemporary pop spectacles such as Step Up Revolution, as well as Jean Rouch’s The Mad Masters, Ditch Plains imagines a sort of End of Days street party while free-styling an abstract narrative about the fatal coupling of subjects and systems under conditions of permanent crisis.

Founded in 2007, Ringmasters Crew is a competitive street dance crew based in New York. Ringmasters Crew has appeared on MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew, Entertainment Tonight and America’s Got Talent, as well as in music videos by Nicki Minaj and Black Eyed Peas.

DIRECTOR Loretta Fahrenholz
CINEMATOGRAPHER Till Megerle

ADDITIONAL CAMERA Loretta Fahrenholz, Connor Owens

EDITING Lena Hatebur, Steffen Martin
SOUND DESIGN Steffen Martin

MUSIC Dan Aran, Timo Ellis, Steffen Martin, Pharmakon

PRODUCTION COORDINATION Inka Meissner

TEXT John Kelsey

VOICE OVER Corey Batts

COLOR GRADING Ben Brix

TITLE ANIMATION Elisabeth Schulze

INTERLUDE-ANIMATION Steffen Martin

TITLES & GRAPHIC DESIGN Lina Grumm, HIT

VERLEIH Arsenal

CAST

Ringmasters Corey, Jay Donn, Marty McFly, Jim Fletcher, Vibez, Asha Flasha, Damian «Gucci-ino» Buchanan, Lil Buck, Spyda Da HatMan, Modesto Flako Jimenez, Princess Lockeroo, 8 Ball, Ace, Dez, DVS, Flizzo, Maze, Optimus, Problemz, Scorp, Lakela Brown, Marie Karlberg, Jackie Klempay, Michael Stynes, Vanessa Cintron, Prynce Ptah, Michael Sanchez

EXHIBITIONS solo & group

MoMa, Manhattan

Kunsthalle Zürich

Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam

The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm

Museum Moderner Kunst / Stiftung Ludwig, Wien

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Milano Film Festival, Italy

Artists Space at Frieze New York 2014

Kadist, San Francisco
Project Native Informant, London

Private Artmuseum, Warschau
KW Institute for Contemorary Art, Berlin

Galerie Buchholz at Art Cologne 2017

D21 Kunstraum Leipzig

Ditch Plains

Ditch Plains

COMMERCIAL

2018 | HD | color | Dolby SR*D EX | 4 min

SCRIPT & EDITING Lena Hatebur

CINEMATOGRAPHER Moritz Bauer, Lena Hatebur

COMPOSER Christopher Dierks,

SOUND MIX Jana Irmert

COLOUR CORRECTION Freeda Peeple

PRODUCTION Lena Hatebur

CLIENT Berliner Gartenarbeitsschulen

COMMERCIAL

2018 | HD | color | Dolby SR*D EX | 4 min

SCRIPT & EDITING Lena Hatebur

CINEMATOGRAPHER Moritz Bauer, Lena Hatebur

COMPOSER Christopher Dierks,

SOUND MIX Jana Irmert

COLOUR CORRECTION Freeda Peeple

PRODUCTION Lena Hatebur

CLIENT Berliner Gartenarbeitsschulen

COMMERCIAL

2018 | HD | color | Dolby SR*D EX | 4 min

SCRIPT & EDITING Lena Hatebur

CINEMATOGRAPHER Moritz Bauer, Lena Hatebur

COMPOSER Christopher Dierks,

SOUND MIX Jana Irmert

COLOUR CORRECTION Freeda Peeple

PRODUCTION Lena Hatebur

CLIENT Berliner Gartenarbeitsschulen

Reproduktion

DOCUMENTARY

2008 | 16mm | b/w | Germany | english Subt. | 10 min

Society passes fear-fuelled values and conventions from one generation to the next and the most essential question seems to be: boy or girl?

Based on field recordings and interviews with couples awaiting their first baby, a sound collage mingles associative imagery shot at places that all have something to do with birth.

”reproduktion” is a subtle, sensitive analysis of gender reproduction and the influence of economical circumstances on the features considered favourable to create a perfectly adapted human being.

DIRECTOR Vika Kirchenbauer

SCREENPLAY Vika Kirchenbauer
CINEMATOGRAPHER Lukas Majka
EDITOR Lena Hatebur
SOUND Paula Sell

PRODUCER Anne-Sophie Müller

PRODUCTION LINE OPERATOR Anya Grünewald

PRODUCTION Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen 'Konrad Wolf'

DISTRIBUTION HFF "Konrad Wolf" Potsdam

AWARDS

Best Documentary – 2nd Dukafest Students Film Festival – Banja Luka, Bosnia – November 2009

FESTIVALS

28th Uppsala International Short Film Festuval, Sweden / 2nd Dukafest Students Film Festival – Banja Luka, Bosnia / 2nd Anadoma Exp. Film Festival – Braunschweig, Germany / 3rd Wiz-Art Visual Arts Festival – Lviv, Ukraine / XPOSED International Queer Short Film Festival, Berlin