This programme addresses the perpetual simultaneity of war and peace. The two selected works, the short film Is This a Good Way to Start a War and the feature Where Is Where? both approach the topic by mixing documentary and fictional narrative techniques.

Films are inherently imaginary journeys; the viewer is taken to times and places that have little to do with her current situation seated in the cinema. This gap between space and time is the theme of the programme. Starting from a film without images, various surreal and fantastic landscapes follow. The demolition of the People's Palace in Berlin (Letzter Tag der Republik) is recalled in an impressive time-lapse work by Reynold Reynolds and the silhouette of Las Vegas floates by like a strange space-ship just before a purely imagined science fiction about the Egyptian pyramids' future concludes this fascinating programme.

Presenting rarities from the Federal Film Archive this programme gives insights into the history of German TV culture. The films from the 1930s and 40s illustrate society's gradual progression towards going 'live' and the associated new possibilities of surveillance. A discussion with expert Joseph Hoppe will ultimately round out the evening.

The matinee programme approaches the art of found image appropriation and the relationship between image and sound from two disparate poles by juxtaposing the two films Wednesday Morning Two A.M. and A Kiss From Mary Pickford. This rarely screened gem of early Soviet cinema will be accompanied by live piano music from composer Peter Gotthardt.

What are the defining aesthetics of art in the networked era? How is mass collaboration changing notions of ownership of art? How does micro-patronage change the way artists produce and distribute artwork?

The Future of Art screening begins a conversation on these and other topics and invites discussion from the audience. The video is a rough cut of the footage created and produced at transmediale.11 as part of the on-site Immediated Autodocumentary process.