As part of the Auckland Festival of Photography - Online Programme view NOSTALGIA by Monika K. Adler, on now through to 12 June 2022 as part of the Disruption [raruraru] theme. 

www.monikakadler.com/project/nostalgia-2022/

NOSTALGIA tells the story of an immigrant’s remembrance of a life disrupted by war. Cold earth and blackened gun-metal. Taking with you only the most precious and essential. Cast alone amongst thousands; forced, overnight, to leave their home, their family, their animals, and the places they love; fractious, precarious, putting their lives in the hands of strangers. You still feel it, every moment. It’s hard to forget who you used to be, and what was once yours. The new identity is painful, one described by your nationality, an absence, and the place where your heart still lies.

Image: Monika K. Adler - Nostalgia

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Nostalgia

My work will be exhibited as part of the Lusted Men exhibition at the PhotoSaintGermain Festival which takes place from January 7th to 21st 2021! Opening: Vernissage 7 January 2021 16h-20h The Lusted Men Project Space that will host our Lusted Men exhibition is located at 8 rue Perronnet 75007 Paris. 

http://www.photosaintgermain.com/ 

http://photography-now.com/exhibition/146967 

My photo collection + short interview: 

https://www.monikakadler.com/lusted-men-collection-2020/

PHOTO SAINT GERMAIN 2021

Monika K. Adler - Portarits 2000-2018
http://www.monikakadler.com/project/portraits/

Monika K. Adler - PORTRAITS

Monika K. Adler's Selected Films Posters.

Director’s Statement: Sick Bacchus (2018)

“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.”

Set in London’s Mayfair, Monika K. Adler’s upcoming movie, ‘Sick Bacchus,’ tells a story of modern slavery.

The movie’s main character, the rich and beautiful Violetta Memling, represents a privileged group in society for whom material abundance breeds pathology.

Every thing and everyone can be bought, reduced to the role of objects, made shallow and laid
waste to.

For Violetta though, her pleasant, materialistic life leads her to an existential hell. A hell filled with unbearable boredom, emptiness and loneliness which manifests itself in illness.

She is admitted to the exclusive clinic of Dr. Gunter Berezovsky, who provides an innovative yet controversial treatment for his wealthy clients. Here biology, consumerism and exploitation
take on a new meaning.

Violetta Memling is confronted with the uncomfortable truth about herself and the society she inhabits.

Does she react?

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SICK BACCHUS: Feature film, currently in pre-production: location scouts – castings.

Feature film with legendary ICONS of European Art House Cinema.

TITLE: SICK BACCHUS

LOGLINE: Violetta, the beautiful wife of a famous artist undergoes therapy at a controversial doctor’s clinic where she discovers a dark secret behind the wealthy society she inhabits.

TAGLINE: The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.

GENRE: DRAMA, PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR, EUROPEAN ART HOUSE CINEMA

TIME: 99 MIN

YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2018/19

SOUND MIX: DOLBY DIGITAL

ASPECT RATIO: 1.33 :1

CAMERA: ARRI ALEXA PLUS 4:3, ZEISS ULTRA PRIME LENSES

NEGATIVE FORMAT: CODEX

COUNTRY: UK

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

COLOR: COLOR

PRODUCTION COMPANY: ONTOLOGY FILMS LTD.

SCREENPLAY: MONIKA K. ADLER, AEON ROSE

DIRECTED BY: MONIKA K. ADLER

PRODUCTION DESIGN: AEON ROSE

Sick Bacchus

''Monika K. Adler still photography pays uncanny homage to possible cross cultural facets of the concept of Thanatos described in terms of 'The Death Instinct' by Freud and by no small number of early psychoanalysts. 

So too, her art speaks clearly and loudly with the resonance of both the universality and individuality of our human psyche involving the phenomenological existential issues of Birth, Love, Dread, Hate, Life, Sex and Death with a powerful depth, not to mention an individual's demand albeit unconscious or conscious, for authentic meaning.''
 
From: Review of Monika K. Adler Photographic Work: A Psychological Perspective, Drs. Kevin Zdaniecki (c) 2013

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