DISTRUKTUR / Melissa Dullius + Gustavo Jahn

Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn have formed Distruktur since 2007, when they moved together from southern Brazil to Berlin. They started making films together in 1999, first on Super 8 and later on 16mm, their medium until the present day. After joining the collective LaborBerlin in 2007 they started applying hand-made techniques to the making of their films. Beyond conceiving and producing moving images, they appear as actors and musicians and act as lab technicians, doing a great part of the post-production work of their films. Distruktur’s body of work takes form as films, installations, film performances, photographs, text and graphic. It crosses the borders between art and film, experimental and narrative, photography and moving image.

Solo exhibitions

2016 12x12, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. 2012 Distruktur: Filmesperformance, Paço das Artes, São Paulo (BR). 2005 Ficcionismo, Museu do Trabalho, Porto Alegre (BR).

Group exhibitions / festivals

2016 40th São Paulo International Film Festival, New Directors Competition, São Paulo (BR). 66th Berlinale, Forum Expanded, Berlin. 2015 19th Videobrasil, São Paulo. (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, A Coruña (ES). 2014 Transduction, Berghain, Berlin. 2013 Ritual Room, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius. 31st Torino Film Festival, Waves section, Torino (IT). 2012 Perspective Matters, Berghain, Berlin. 2011 BAFICI – Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente. 2010 Constructing views: Experimental film and video from Brazil, New Museum, New York, NY (US).

Publications

Translocações, in: Michelle Sommer (ed.), Práticas Contemporâneas da Teoria do Mover-se (ou 10 Diálogos sobre Situações de Errância), Rumos Itaú Cultural, Porto Alegre 2016.
“Gustavo Jahn and Melissa Dullius talk to Teresa Villaverde”, in: Asta Vaičiulytė (ed.), CAC Interviu issue 20-21, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius 2013, pp 17–23.
“Melissa Dullius & Gustavo Jahn: Triangulum”, in: Adam Pugh (ed.), Common Ground, Aurora, Norwich 2009, pp 166–171.

• Web:
  www.distruktur.com