KAOS film and video team
The KAOS film and video team has always been closely associated with the political video scene in Cologne . In 1977, the Cologne film and video group founded by Peter Kleinert († February 6, 2016), Reinhold Böhm, Wolfram Seeger, Wilfried Kaute and Yoash Tatari became the KAOS film and video team . In 1985 the KAOS gallery was founded, which until 1998 provided a forum for artists and the production of art videos and video films about artists.
Peter Kleinert worked as a writer and director , cameraman , editor and producer in personal union. He was the only one of the founders to stay with KAOS for more than 25 years. During this time, the team made more than 600 films - multiple award-winning documentaries, portraits of people, reports on current events , television programs and experimental art videos. The team regularly produced articles for the "open channel" Kanal 4 . 200 of them are about Cologne - and these films offer a political chronicle of recent city history in pictures.
The earlier productions range from the long-term observation of a works council in a Cologne metalworking company from 1978 to 1980 on behalf of the WDR ( The Representatives of Interest , 3 parts) to documentations on environmental problems such as the dumping of dilute acid into the Rhine by the Bayer Group and the secret and illegal sale of poison gas patents by Bayer to the United States Department of Defense . In 1989 KAOS was present with their cameras when an attempt was made to occupy the Gereonshof and in 1992 when the Autonomous Center in Liebigstrasse was cleared . KAOS films were shown at countless political events in the city and their makers were soon as well known among Cologne's police forces as - as unwanted witnesses - unpopular. Because they took sides with picture and sound. In Stadtreinigung , for example, they documented how police officers mistreated the homeless wheelchair user "Jupp" on Wallrafplatz in Cologne in front of the WDR radio station in 1994 and also had drug addicts who meet in Cologne's Mäck up girl's cafe at the main train station report on their problems in front of the camera .
KAOS was one of the few in Cologne's film scene who tried to keep memories of the fascist past alive. Films such as Banished and Burned Art, Wilhelm Unger about the book burning in Cologne (1983) and No Nazis in Elsassstrasse (1993) stand for this . The political stance, which was always bluntly expressed at KAOS, made it, as Kleinert says, not exactly easy to find clients and buyers for it in the public broadcasters.
The KAOS Art and Video Archive eV was founded in 2002 to preserve the artist videos of the KAOS gallery and the productions of KAOS Film- und Video-Team GmbH and to make them accessible to the public as well as to private interested parties and educational institutions in various contexts.
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- ↑ info@nrhz.de: The day of freedom is imminent - On the death of the NRhZ editor Peter Kleinert. In: www.nrhz.de. Retrieved February 13, 2016 .