PORI SCREENINGS – Oliver Ressler
Pori Art Museum is screening Austrian artist Oliver Ressler’s films during the autumn. Oliver Ressler (b. 1970) is taking part in the Pori Art Museum’s exhibition Why do you resist? –resistance in contemporary art. He has visited Finland once before in the spring of 2010. This is the first time that Oliver Ressler’s films will be screened in Finland. In his works, Oliver Ressler has been concerned with themes like globalisation and counter movements to globalisation, questions on democracy, social and ecnomic alternatives, racism and migration. Many of Ressler’s films are realized as collaborations with different groups and political activists. Oliver Ressler lives and works in Vienna.
27.10.2010 at 6.30 pm
ARTIST TALK
OLIVER RESSLER: WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?
29.10.2010 at 3 pm
A film by OLIVER RESSLER: WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? (118 min., English subtitles, 2009)
06.11.2010 at 3 pm
A film by ZANNY BEGG & OLIVER RESSLER: WHAT WOULD IT MEAN TO WIN?(40 min., English version, 2008)
13.11.2010 at 3 pm
A film by DARIO AZZELLINI & OLIVER RESSLER: COMUNA UNDER CONSTRUCTION (94 min., original version in Spanish, English subtitles, 2010)