Metropolis: Report from China, 2004-2006

Video and series of 4 photographs

The film essay documents a journey to Shanghai and Beijing which was made in 2004 with the aim to gather research material for a remake of Fritz Lang‘s cinema classic „Metropolis“. Construction workers talk about their experience on urban building sites; architects are asked about the future of Chinese cities. The film continues to show references to „Metropolis“ and questions the currency of urban utopias and their social reality.

Video/35mm/DVD, 4:3, stereo, 42 min

Camera, editing: Clemens von Wedemeyer, Maya Schweizer
Sound design: Thomas Wallmann
Interviews: Zeb Raft

Supported by Centre Georges Pompidou Paris

© 2006 France / Germany

Clemens von Wedemeyer, Metropolis: Report from China, 2004, Video/ 35mm/ DVD, 4:3, stereo (film still)

Clemens von Wedemeyer, Metropolis: Report from China, 2004, Video/ 35mm/ DVD, 4:3, stereo, exhibition view "Films in Common", Argos, Brussels, 2007

Video/35mm/DVD, 4:3, stereo, 42 min

Camera, editing: Clemens von Wedemeyer, Maya Schweizer
Sound design: Thomas Wallmann
Interviews: Zeb Raft
Supported by Centre Georges Pompidou Paris

Clemens von Wedemeyer, Metropolis: Report from China, 2004, C-Prints (series of 4 production photographs, 2 night and 2 days), 20 x 40 cm

Exhibition History (Selection)

LUDWIG FORUM FÜR INTERNATIONALE KUNST, AACHEN (Group), 2012
FRANKFURTER KUNSTVEREIN, 2011
CA'ASI ARCHITECTURE STUDIO, VENICE, 2011
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, OSLO (Group), 2010
CGAC, SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELLA, 2008
LA STROZZINA, FLORENCE (Group), 2008
MASS MOCA, NORTH ADAMS (Group), 2008
NETWERK / CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, AALST (Group), 2008
ÉCOLE DES BEAUX ARTS, VALENCE, 2008
KUNSTRAUM FORDE, GENEVE, 2008
CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS (Group), 2007
ARGOS CENTRE FOR ART AND MEDIA, BRUSSELS (Group), 2007
KUNSTMUSEUM LIECHTENSTEIN, VADUZ (Group), 2007
GALERIE JOCELYN WOLFF, PARIS (Group), 2007

Film Festival Participations / Screenings (Selection)

STEIRISCHER HERBST, GRAZ, 2011
LUDLOW38, NEW YORK, 2011
HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT, BERLIN, 2009
CONTEMPORARAY ART CENTER, VILNIUS, 2009
HOCHSCHULE FÜR BILDENDE KÜNSTE, BRAUNSCHWEIG, 2009
THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL, 2009
WEXNER CENTER FOR ARTS, 2009
CINETECA DO BOLOGNA, 2009
ART BOOM FESTIVAL, KRACOW, 2009
VILLA ROMANA, FLORENCE, 2008
NATIONAL GALLERY, PRAGUE, 2008
HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT, BERLIN, 2008
VANCITY THEATRE, TORONTO, 2008
NETWERK CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, AALST, 2008
INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, LISBON, 2008
ATA, MICROCINEMA, SAN FRANCISCO, 2008
L'INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE FÈS, 2008
THE 5TH BANGKOK EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL, BANGKOK, 2008
CINEMATHEQUE FRANCAIS, PARIS, 2008
LES RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES, PARIS, 2007
MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA, MADRID, 2007
ESPACE JEAN VILAR, ARCUEIL, 2007
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, PARIS, 2007

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Clemens von Wedemeyer

**Cast Behind You The Bones of Your Mother, 2015**

**Metropolis: Report from China, 2004-2006**

**Otjesd (Leaving) and the Making of Otjesd, 2005**

**Silberhöhe and die Siedlung (The New Estate), 2003-2004**

**Big Business and the making of Big Business, 2002**

**Occupation and the making of Occupation, 2002**

Biography

Clemens von Wedemeyer, born in 1974 in Göttingen, Germany, currently lives and works in Berlin and holds a professorship for media art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. The artist and filmmaker studied photography and media at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld and the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and graduated as Meisterschüler of Astrid Klein in 2005. Clemens von Wedemeyer participated in group shows such as the 1st Moscow Biennale (2005), the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006), Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2007, the 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008) and dOCUMENTA (13) (2012). He had solo shows among others at MoMA PS1, New York, ARGOS Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, the Barbican Art Centre, London, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Hamburger Kunsthalle. “ESIOD 2015” premiered at the 66. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Berlinale) in 2016.

Most recently Wendemeyer´s work has been displayed in solo exhibitions such as Im Kontext der Sammlung: Clemens von Wendemeyer (Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz 2023) and BAKHMUT (Albertinum Dresden 2023).

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