About us
With the non-profit society Film Feld Forschung, founded in 2016 by Jörg Heitmann and Bettina Ellerkamp, silent green is dedicated to the various fields of application of the audiovisual. The focus of this work is the former underground mortuary – the "Betonhalle" on the grounds of the silent green - as a centre for audiovisual research. Here, under laboratory conditions, the audiovisual can be broken down into its individual building blocks of image, sound and language, viewed analytically and reassembled with the means of free artistic experimentation. This creates a space for theoretical and practical research with and in the language of the medium of film. Where not only the finished product counts, but also the confrontation in the process of creating an artistic work.
Since its founding, Film Feld Forschung has put together numerous exhibitions, film screenings and discourse formats, including The Garden. Cinematics of The Soil, The Third Life of Agnès Varda, and Now Wave: Beth B – Glowing, taking an interdisciplinary approach to art interaction that addresses acute questions faced by society as a whole on ecology, collective work, and support for female perspectives in art and culture.
Thanks to the friendly support of the Goethe-Institut, Film Feld Forschung has also been able to welcome four grant recipients to silent green: the Cairo-based media artist Maha Maamoun (2016/17), experimental film icon Shelly Silver (2017), artist and filmmaker Oliver Husain (2021), and the artist duo XiuXiu in 2022.
Film Feld Forschung aims to appeal to generate audiences interested in art and culture, as well as to neighbors, artists and cultural agents in all industries. One goal in particular is to create synergies and informal networks between audiences, artists and institutions. The revitalisation of the formerly empty Wedding crematorium by silent green helps to create a sustainable creative infrastructure that is both, firmly rooted in it's neighbourhood as well as a cultural magnet for greater Berlin and beyond.
Film Feld Forschung is a project by silent green under the direction of Bettina Ellerkamp, Jörg Heitmann and Linda Winkler.
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Projekte
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UnNatural Encounters
In cooperation with the European Media Art Platform (EMAP) and transmediale
What can artistic perspectives reveal that data and facts cannot? How does art succeed in making this tangible? Can art and technology work together for the development of new forms of communication, empathy, solidarity, and responsibility for our environment?
These questions will be the focus of silent green‘s major group exhibition UnNatural Encounters in January 2025.
Now Wave: Beth B - Glowing
With Now Wave: Beth B - Glowing, silent green dedicates an extensive exhibition to the artist and filmmaker Beth B. Installations, performances and film programmes present excerpts from her more than 45 years of work in experimental, feature and documentary film and in interdisciplinary media art.
The Fifth Wall
The exhibition project The Fifth Wall examines the archive of public broadcasters in Germany and the possibilities of making it accessible to a diverse public. The exhibition and framework programme take an artistic look at German migration and media history.
Was anderes machen (The Home and the Movie)
silent green presents: A festival celebrating 60 years of Kleines Fernsehspiel. With a film series at the Arsenal cinema (June-December) and a festival in November (16-26) with a symposium, exhibition, performance, cinema on demand and research stations.
Kiss the Moment
With this first solo exhibition, silent green presents in an installative form the most important Super 8 films and pinhole camera photographs of the exceptional artist Dagie Brundert, who has always pursued a radically analogue, ecological and local aesthetic in her work.
The Third Life of Agnès Varda
silent green presented the most comprehensive solo exhibition in Germany to date on the last creative period of the French filmmaker, photographer and visual artist Agnès Varda, who died in 2019 and is considered one of the most influential creative personalities of our time.
The Garden. Cinematics of the soil
The exhibition was dedicated to the life and work of the British filmmaker, artist and activist Derek Jarman. His film The Garden and his legendary garden Prospect Cottage became the starting point for an artistic exploration of essential questions of our society.
Future Soundscapes Festival
While the narratives and images of the sci-fi genre are already ubiquitous and firmly anchored in the collective memory, Future Soundscapes makes sound tangible as an essential element in the design of future worlds - be it as noise, sound or music.
Female To Empower
Female composers, DJs and producers have always been part of the musical present. In the male-dominated narratives of music history, however, they are still hardly mentioned today. The concert and film series therefore wants to tell little-heard small and big stories about music from a female perspective.
M_Dokumente
The project M_Dokumente focuses on the explicitly female perspective of the all-female bands Mania D., Malaria! and Matador on the West Berlin music and art scene of the late 1970s and 1980s.
Edit Film Culture!
Over twenty years since the legendary film magazine Film Culture, founded by Adolfas and Jonas Mekas in 1954, ceased publication, this project returned to the magazine's history and explored what it means to edit film culture today through a festival of exhibition, film series, talks and performances.
Stoffwechsel
A series of events, workshops and exhibitions dealt with the materiality of the memory medium film and earth as archive. How does cinema relate to its carrier material to the materiality of what is depicted? What is the physical relationship of body and landscape to the image and thus to the viewers and their surroundings?
