Baustelle

Baustelle
Building site
16mm, s/w, 7min, 2009
Kamera, Montage: Iuri Maia Jost
Komposition: Damon Thomas Lee

Presse

(…) Brazil-born German Iuri Maia Jost also marked himself as a name to watch with Building Site – part of a showcase of works from students at the art-school in Karlsruhe that were shot on old 16mm stock, developed in a bucket and then hung out to dry on a washing-line. Nice to know that, in this era of digital projection and megabudget CGI, it’s still possible for aspiring filmmakers to get their hands well and truly dirty. (…)
http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews/for-this-week-s-tribune-1-2-crossing-europe-linz-film-festival-report

(…) Proving the old dictum about art thriving under limitations, each of the three resulting features was of interest—but the pick of the bunch was the short informally known as Baustelle („building-site“) by Iuri Maia Jost, showing various angles on a building under construction, in which the „degraded“ nature of the film-stock proved particularly well suited to the gritty, hazardous world of work depicted. Jost’s film was notable also for the way it developed various documentary visual ideas through the course of a short „narrative“ space, including a witty finale in which a massive concrete slab is slowly lowered into place. (…)
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/pages-from-a-cold-island-kids-issue

DVD-Edition „Maßnahme“:
https://www.hfg-karlsruhe.de/news/stummfilme-von-studierenden-der-hfg.html

Vorführungen Screenings

2015 Stadtmuseum im Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlsruhe
2011 Galerie Pony Pedro, Berlin
2010 Freies Museum Berlin
2009 „100 Jahre Filmland Baden-Württemberg“, Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe
2009 Crossing Europe, Linz/Österreich