HAARTEILE AT KHM
MOOZ showcase during Museum Night
For Museum Night on November 2, MOOZ will present a short film program in the new spaces of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. MOOZ is essentially a virtual space for artistic works featuring moving images from the Academy and, as an anagram of ZOOM, it focuses on experimental audiovisual formats. The program includes Mareike Wegener's first short film "Haarteile" (2005, 7min, 16mm, b/w).
Under the title talk talk, MOOZ will showcase artistic works for Museum Night that vary in approach—documentary, experimental, performative, or installation-based. Each piece communicates in a distinct, intense, and personal language, drawing attention to diverse forms of communication.
"Haarteile" was created in the seminar "Documentary Miniatures" under Dietrich Leder, with the assignment of documenting a repetitive action. During the seminar, Mareike Wegener watched "Oskar Langenfeld. 12 Mal" (1966) by Holger Meins, which had a profound impact on her both thematically and formally, influencing the fragmentary structure of "Haarteile". The film is an intergenerational study of hair rituals among women, where biographical patterns seem to repeat themselves. By observing three women of different ages engaging in their hair rituals, one discovers more commonalities than differences: young-middle-aged-elderly, morning-noon-evening, styling-dyeing-hairpieces.