Volker Gerling
| Friends
on a Bench, Pähl 2003 (Extract) |
| News |
| Flipbooks |
| Walking |
| Theory |
| Vita |
| Stage
Show |
| Projects |
| Exhibitions |
| Press |
| Buy
Flipbooks |
| Contact |
| Newsletter
Credits Privacy Policy |
| June
2025 |
| Dear
Friends of Flipbook Cinema, "Actually, the walker is not at home in space, but in time. He is his own master of the hours, he bathes in time as if he were in his element. He is a man of opportunity par excellence, time artist who passes by, flâneur of circumstance, who supplies himself with finds along the way," writes David Le Breton in his essay In Praise of Walking. Here are the dates of my next shows. You are warmly invited. Last year I travelled to Israel to meet people who were affected
in one way or another by the massacre of 7
October and the war in Gaza that followed. The
flipbooks, photos and diary entries I created in
Israel have been turned into an evening about
grief, loss and the fragility of human
existence. I will be presenting the evening on 22 June as part of the German-Israeli Literature Days in Berlin: Portraits in Motion –
The Israel Evening (German)22 June, 7:30
p.m., Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin Admission is free, but
advance registration is requested. Click here
for
the registration link. And if you are in the Netherlands in August, or know people there who might be interested in Daumenkinographie: Portraits in Motion -
The First 20 Years (English)17 - 20
August, Groningen
It saddens me deeply that
no exhibition, no work of art, no stage
performance can prevent or alleviate the
suffering of the people in Ukraine, Israel, the
Gaza Strip and other regions of war and crisis.
Wars such as those we are (still!!!) witnessing
in Ukraine and Gaza brutally put our own actions
into perspective and show what an incredible
luxury it is to be able to follow one's inner
compass and engage with the medium of flipbooks
for many years. I wish you a wonderful
summer with enough rain. Above all, however, I
wish that people will one day lose the moral
capacity to kill one another. Nevertheless, as always, I look forward to seeing you again or meeting you for the first time. Volker Gerling |