cinéma copains – Arne Hector / Minze Tummescheit
Film-maker Arne Hector, born in Hessen in 1970, lives in Berlin. Minze Tummescheit, born in Lima in 1967, lives in Berlin, where she studied experimental film-making at the Academy of Arts. They have worked together since 2000 as cinéma copains. Their long-term projects, which consider social and economic questions, are based on several years’ research. Their main concern is to find a form appropriate to the subject, focusing on both production conditions and camera presence. Their working method is that of “militant investigation”, attempting to understand their subject from the inside.
In the film essay Jarmark Europa, Tummescheit and Hector describe the economic transformation of Eastern Europe, taking the example of the bazaar of that name in a converted sports stadium in Warsaw. in arbeit is a documentary series, a filmic investigation into conditions, possibilities and limits of collective action. The series, which creates direct links between collectives in various countries, will become an experiment in authorship and co-operative practice. Jarmark Europa and in arbeit were first shown at the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival, and have been shown at many international festivals.
Most recently, for Bergen Assembly they created the installation Fictions and Futures #1, a study of the colonisation of the future through complex financial instruments.
Tummescheit and Hector are founder-members of LaborBerlin, a collective film workshop for experimenting and working with analogue film.
Exhibitions and festivals: 2014 Fictions and Futures #1 (Premiere), Sektion Forum Expanded, 64. International Film Festival, Berlin. 2013 Monday begins on Saturday, Bergen Assembly (NO). 2012 in arbeit/in the works (première), Forum section, 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Gran Lux – Lange Nacht des analogen Films, Vienna Festival. Ambiguous Being, Taipei Biennial (TW). Without Permission, Zeughaus, Berlin. 2011 Labour of Love, Revisited, ARCO Art Center, Seoul (KR). 2009 Il Giardino come Istanza Inaspettata, Villa Romana, Florence (IT).