cinéma copains – Arne Hector / Minze Tummescheit
Film-maker Arne Hector, born in Hessen (DE) 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 deal with social and economic questions, are based on several years' research. Their working method, "militant investigation", attempts to understand their subject from the inside.
Tummescheit and Hector are founder-members of LaborBerlin, a collective film workshop for experimenting and working with analogue film.
In the film-essay Jarmark Europa Tummescheit and Hector describe the economic transformation of Eastern Europe, taking as an example the bazaar of that name in a converted sports stadium in Warsaw. in arbeit is a documentary series, a filmic examination of conditions, possibilities and boundaries of collective activity. The series creates direct links between collectives in various countries, thus becoming an experiment in authorship and co-operative practice. Jarmark Europa and in arbeit were premièred in the Forum of the Berlin Film Festival and shown at many international festivals.
For the Triennale Bergen Assembly, the duo created the installation Fictions and Futures #1, a study of the colonisation of the future by means of complex financial instruments. cinéma copains is currently working on a documentary film on the same topic.
Exhibitions and festivals
2015 Life's Finest Values, Exnergasse, Vienna. 2014 Fictions and Futures #1 (première), Section Forum Expanded, 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Cine Esquema Novo, Porto Alegre (BR). 2013 Monday begins on Saturday, Bergen Assembly (NO). 2012 in arbeit / in the works (première), Section Forum, 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Gran Lux – Lange Nacht des analogen Films, Festwochen, Vienna. Ambiguous Being, Taipei Biennial (TW). Without Permission, Zeughaus, Berlin. 2011 Labour of Love, Revisited, ARCO Art Center, Seoul (KR).