(Untitled)

Monday 11 | 2:00pm | Segal Theatre

Lagos | 2010 | 24 minutes | Tehran | 2010 | 24 minutes | Beirut | 2014 | 30 minutes
directed by Daniel Kötter & Constanze Fischbeck
Various Languages with English subtitles

state-theatre is a series of six experimental documentaries that explore urban conditions
for performance based on six case studies in Lagos, Tehran, Berlin, Detroit, Beirut and
Mönchengladbach. state-theatre departs from places that have shed their apparent
societal functions: deserted areas, construction sites, unused or reinterpreted buildings
– empty spaces in the urban fabric, places that were originally meant as allegoric
gathering places: theaters.

Daniel Kötter,
photo courtesy of the artist

Daniel Kötter is a director and video artist whose work oscillates
deliberately between different media and institutional contexts,
combining techniques of structuralist lm with documentary elements
and experimental music theater. His film Hashti Tehran (2017, 60’)
won the special award of Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2017.

Constanze Fischbeck,
photo by Abraham Oghobase

Constanze Fischbeck works as stage designer, filmmaker, curator
and professor of scenography in the context of theatre and art. Her
artwork is based on specific locations. In her films she investigates
the interference of documentary and staged moments in the
urban context. She is currently working on the topic of landscape
transformations through mining. (Landscape Leeway, 2018 and
Modellfall, 2019).