“all the lonely people” (Documentary Short Film)

The past year was marked by the 25th anniversary of Villa Aurora as an artist’s residence. In the fall and winter, VATMH presented the exhibition “all the lonely people” in Berlin and Los Angeles. With this exhibition we took up the millennia-old tradition of hermitage and presented artistic representations of loneliness, melancholy, and longing, as well as physical and mental withdrawal, based on 12 positions of former Villa Aurora fellows and artists living in Los Angeles.
The documentary short film, directed by Berlin-based filmmakers Peter Goeltenboth and Florian Giefer (pet&flo directors), captures atmospheric impressions of the exhibition in Berlin and Los Angeles and sensitively explores the experiences of human and artistic isolation and withdrawal in interviews with the curator Nana Bahlmann, the artists Susan Philipsz (Berlin), April Street (L.A.), Annika Kahrs (Hamburg/Berlin), Louisa Clement (Bonn) and Andrea Zittel (Joshua Tree). Mark Lee (Johnston Marklee L.A.) describes the concept of the exhibition architecture and Hamza Walker, director of LAXART, tells of the history of his exhibition venue as a recording studio for music legends such as Billy Holliday and Elvis Presley.
all the lonely people, diretected by Florian Giefer und Peter Göltenboth, a pet&flo directors production, commissioned by Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V.

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Thank you for this wholistic, creative and sensitive view of the range and varieties of loneliness--and the power of arts, nature, and kinds of human interaction that are our tools for healing. Terri Laxton Brooks, author, On Loneliness: How To Feel Less Alone In An Isolating World. On Amazon Jan., 2023