FIXTURES #1 - Sérgio Taborda / Sequence 22 on January 27th, 2025

Admission: from 6.30pm / Start: 7pm
Address: Mariannenplatz 2 | Entry at the side entrance: Marielle-Franco-Platz, 10997 Berlin
The event will be held in English.

With the start of the new year 2025, we are glad to launch the FIXTURES event series in the Media Lab of the Medienwerkstatt. For the first event on January 27, we have invited the Portuguese artist and researcher Sérgio Taborda.

Sérgio Taborda will present his 30-minute video work Sequence 22 (Production in 2021-2022), which was edited at the Media Workshop together with Marta Leite and Francisca Villela. After the screening, we would like to talk and discuss with him and the audience about his understanding of film editing and his working process.

Tabordas Sequences are a serial work in progress. It started in 2010, when he moved to Berlin, within a research scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology as a resident artist/researcher at the Arsenal - Institut for Film and Video Art between 2010-2016.
For Taborda, a Sequence cannot be separated from the experience of its singular physical events and need to be seen from beginning to end so that one can understand the exact duration of an event and question how this is shaped by the film editing: duration, interval and cut. 
He uses the term time-pressure to describe the consistency of the time and intensity that runs through the shot. Editing then can be seen as the assembly of the pieces on the basis of the time-pressure within them. 
In this way editing is somehow anticipated during shooting, in the character or nature of what is filmed. How does time make itself felt in a shot?