INSTALLATION FILMS
When We Were Soldiers… once and young
Image Film for a Conceptual Art Installation for a military hospital
2015, HD Video, 10min57sec
The exhibition took place from September 19 – October 24, 2015 at the Hospital at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (NY, USA).
Director: Jeff Arak
Production: Melissa Corrales Campagna
2nd Camera: Joshua Louis Simon
Editing & Sound: Jeff Arak
Death and The Maiden
The film of the exhibition
2008, HD Video, 15min05sec
More than 100 black and white and color photographs were installed by Bettina WitteVeen under the title, “Death and The Maiden” in the subterranean complex of a former Koenigstadtbrauerei in Berlin, Germany in spaces where Ukrainian and Jewish slave laborers were forced to build navigation systems for V-2 Rockets (Fragments, Gulag) and where, in the adjacent cellar, Berliners simultaneously sought refuge from air raids during WW II (Deathfuge).
The exhibition took place from May 3 – July 29, 2008.
Director: Bettina WitteVeen
Production: Henriette Schneider
Camera: Philip Reinhold
Editing: Philip Reinhold / Bettina WitteVeen
Sound: Anne Weigel
Exhibition Visitor: Mireille Staschok
Brüder, Zur Sonne, Zur Freiheit… and the beat goes on
short documentary of the exhibition
2006, SD Video, 3min14sec
The exhibition was installed in the neoclassical rooms of the Goethe-Institut New York in 2006. WitteVeen explores the causes of youthful idealism and draws parallels between the New York Beatniks and Goethe's Sturm und Drang-generation. The installation-structure is a tribute to the poetry of Allen Ginsberg and associatively examines why "the beat goes on" and the drums of war continue to beat in the crisis areas of the Middle East, in Africa, in Asia...
The exhibition took place from June 9 – July 14, 2006.
A film by Jeffrey Sturges
2nd Camera: James P. Campagna
Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori
short documentary of the exhibition
2005, SD Video, 3min14sec
Part of "The Heart of Darkness," WitteVeen's global installation project for peace, this film documents the exhibition at L'été photographique de Lectoure, sponsored by the French government, held at the Maison de Saint-Louis in Lectoure from July 23 – August 28, 2005. The first international presentation of the series, it addressed colonialism and WWI as origins of the 20th century's defining catastrophes.
Filmed by Raoul & Bettina WitteVeen