Fürstenplatz is a short film made together with the residents and shop owners of a park square in Düsseldorf, Germany. The characters that appear in the film, together with their dialogue and narrative content, were conceived in collaboration with the inhabitants themselves. Each scene in the film was designed to have a duration of precisely one minute. A succession of thirty scenes give an impression of the activities that occur at the park square within half an hour, as if it were in real time. Fürstenplatz is a case study of how people from the same place inhabit filmmaking to express themselves and how the camera is implicated in that process.

The film will be playing on a continuous loop at the Gallery from December 21 – 24

Fürstenplatz
Dir: Harkeerat Mangat
28 mins
2021

Organized in collaboration with Unit 17
Curated by Tobin Gibson

About Harkeerat Mangat
Harkeerat Mangat (*1990, Mississauga, Canada) is a master student from Prof. Christopher Williams’ photography class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, Germany, an Indian classical vocalist under the tutelage of Pt. Uday Bhawalkar, and he holds a degree in film directing from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada. Mangat is the 2020 recipient of the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Förderpreis and the 2021 recipient of the Vordemberge-Gildewart art prize. His works have been shown at the Raketenstation Hombroich Neuss, Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada, and the Kunstsammlung NRW in Düsseldorf.

Fürstenplatz Trailer from filmwerkstatt duesseldorf on Vimeo.