The central idea that informs and directs the booklets’ montage is the interplay between the concepts of addition and subtraction. This is achieved by unveiling a missing image in the screening or an unreleased second from an artist's film, expanded to 24 pages. Additionally, each booklet contains a piece directly removed from the show.

The editing establishes a dialogue between film frames and performed writings derived from texts, scripts, storyboards, and notes. The KAMERA exhibition is consequently extended into a physical space—the book—allowing for its widespread dissemination, complementing and contrasting with its potential online occurrence.

KAMERA SERIES is a screening program of experimental films, video art works and printed matter taking place in a former GDR building in Berlin.

Each event showcases a retrospective of selected films by an artist and a small exhibition of his/her publications or works on paper over a span of 4 days.

KAMERA centers on fostering a critical dialogue between different film formats and artists’ books. Through its regular occurrence, it aspires to create a space for community exchanges about contemporary image-making.

KAMERA is a series conceived and curated by Labor Neunzehn and AVARIE.

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Fascinated by the intersection of visual art and cinema, Helga Fanderl’s short poetic films evoke intense and sensitive experiences of the real world. Using a small hand-held super 8 camera, she creates filmic responses to her perceptions, weaving together imagery and emotions in dense, rhythmic patterns solely through in-camera editing. She presents silent films in the form of ‘compositions’, crafting unique programs for site-specific personal projections and transforming spaces into temporary cinemas.

Her films are shown worldwide in film museums, museums of fine arts, cinemas, film festivals, exhibition spaces, and galleries. Some of her films are in collections such as the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Auditorium du Louvre, Paris; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kinothek Asta Nielsen, Frankfurt; and Archiv für Bundesdeutschen Experimental- und Avantgardefilm von Frauen, Paderborn.

Helga Fanderl has received a number of awards, including the Coutts Contemporary Art Award (1992), the German Film Critics’ Award (1998, for Experimental Film), and the Cultural Award of Hesse (2000). She was also granted a residency from the Cultural Foundation of Hesse in Paris and published "fragil(e)," a book and DVD, Lowave, Paris (2006).

In 2023, the artist book *Helga Fanderl, Konstellationen Super 8 (G, F, E)* was published by Hatje Cantz, Germany. In the same year, Re:Voir in Paris released the DVD *Helga Fanderl, Constellations*.

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