We made a film together two years ago in which we interviewed a seven-year-old boy about death. The collaboration with Ingo Niermann is my second. Most of my other collaborations or jobs last for a certain amount of time. My collaboration with Eckhaus Latta is unique in that we’ve made many videos and are actively working on more. It is different depending on who I work with and what it is for. Still from 69 AW 14, DP or Cinematographer Ryan CarmodyįC: Will you talk more about process in collaborating as a filmmaker outside of your unique relationship with Eckhaus Latta? Is it different with each experience?ĪK: Yes. I’m thinking about the different ways people watch videos and films and how I can expand my work within that. Also, making the video for the Berlin Biennale was so much fun and I would like to explore video in an art context more. I always come back to the same questions of identity and am interested in certain parts of German culture, which is why I am finally making this film. Since my last film, Oma & Bella, I’ve delved into short form video-making in fashion, music, and art. I am getting ready to leave for the summer to make it. It’s a personal essay film that is going to explore German identity through growing up in Berlin as a German Jew. We’ll see.įC: What else have you got going on in your studio?ĪK: Well, I’m about to head to Berlin to film my second feature documentary. It will take on other forms of artistic expression. It’s a collaboration that Ingo and I will surely continue, and The Army of Love project will continue too. The responses varied, though what has become clear is that when it comes to love, we humans have very similar needs. We asked people the same questions: for instance what they find attractive in others or what they think others find attractive in them and also, what they could give the Army of Love or what the Army of love could give them. The actual video is a fiction/doc hybrid in which we used real interviews with people about attractiveness and love and we composed images with them in a spa in Berlin. That way, throughout our lives we would be givers and receivers in the Army of Love.
An Army of Love is for the ones who need love and intimacy. It’s based on the premise that in our society young and attractive people have the highest chances to receive love and intimacy.
Can you tell me a bit more about this project?ĪK: The video is a collaboration with the artist/writer Ingo Niermann and is about the “Army of Love,” a fictionalized army that gives love and intimacy to people who need it. My life and work have changed.įC: You mentioned you are currently working on a film for the Berlin Biennale curated by DIS. Taking care of myself and being a bit healthier is more important than it used to be. Still from Tocotronic Prolog, DP or Cinematographer: Keaton Ventura, 2015įrancesca Capone: How has it been to work in LA as opposed to NY or Berlin? Do you get a sense for how your environment affects the work that you do?Īlexa Karolinski: It’s very different, both in that the city gives you different things, as well as that I am a bit older in LA than I was in in NY. I had the pleasure of catching up with her about some recent projects, her collaboration with Eckhaus Latta, and her experience working commercially as well as in the art world. Let's say I take ‘my time’.” Alexa Karolinski certainly takes her time as well. In the words of Chantal Akerman, “I am not interested in real time and also not in the dramatic and codified time of cinema that manipulated duration. In her films, awareness of one’s senses is heightened and time is an experience, a malleable thing. Her work is characteristically sensual and often empathetic-qualities that rely on her highly articulate ability to express feeling. Karolinski creates films and videos for both art and commercial projects, as well as somewhere in between: much of her work that might be considered commercial is also subversive, meriting a more conceptual and artistic appeal. She is currently living between Los Angeles and Berlin, where she is in dialogue with many artists and designers. Alexa Karolinski is a German artist and filmmaker.
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