Anne Linke
Anne Linke

PIGEONS AND ARCHITECTURE, 2019

16:9, 10'52", DCP, color, sound

As feathered architects, pigeons navigate the city as well as the architecture that is built against them. Meanwhile, a woman is their accomplice.

A pigeon sits on a roof and looks directly into the camera, filmstill from Filmstill from PIGEONS AND ARCHITECTURE by Anne Linke, Hamburg, 2019
Anne Linke
Anne Linke
Installations view of PIGEONS AND ARCHITECTURE by Anne Linke during Videonale.18, Fluid States. Solid Matter, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn

Installation view  from Videonale.18, Fluid States. Solid Matter, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2021

Festivals

Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Cinemateket, 7. June 2023

Short Film Collection 61, Filmbüro Bremen, City46 Kino, 14. October 2022

'Identity not proven'. New Acquisitions for the Federal Art Collection, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, 7. May-3. October 2022

Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, 27. April-11. July 2021

Videonale.18, Fluid States. Solid Matter, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 4. March-18. April 2021

In Out Festival: Architecture/Moving Image, ŁAŹNIA Centre for Contemporary Art Gdańsk, 12.-13. December 2020

blicke Filmfestival des Ruhrgebiets, Bochum, 18.-22. November 2020

European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, with an honourable mention by the Association of German Film Critics, 22.-26. April 2020

Antimatter [media art], Victoria BC, CA, 16.-26. October 2019

SHIFT — beyond the binary, Frappant Galerie Hamburg, 4.-13. October 2019

35th Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg, 4.-10. June 2019


Jury statement by the Association of German Film Critics (VDFK), EMAF Osnabrück 2020

»The question of how and with whom we want to live forms the basis of many societal concerns. This is inevitably followed by questions of participation - for both human and non-human actors. With a consistent visual language and a personally tinged voice-over, PIGEONS AND ARCHITECTURE opens up a cinematic reflection on participation and marginalisation. With her observation of pigeons, director Anne Linke outlines a precise but often overlooked urban space that manifests itself primarily in the corners and crevices of concrete. Pigeons undermine every architectural measure to restrict their movement, and thus these (mostly unloved) urban dwellers in the film become a model of subversion of architecture often criticised as 'inhuman'.«
(Annette Brauerhoch, Esther Buss, Hannes Wesselkämper)