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Mario Pfeifer

Cell 5 – A Reconstruction

Documentaire | 4k | noir et blanc | 43:0 | Allemagne, Royaume-Uni | 2023

On January 7th 2005 an asylum seeker, shackled at his hands and feet, dies in a fire in cell number five of a police station in Dessau, Germany. With “Cell 5” Mario Pfeifer reconstructs the case of Oury Jalloh’s death using legal documents, testimonies, audio-visual archives, and collaborates with the forensic expert Iain Peck to reproduce an accurate fire experiment. All in an attempt to answer: how could Oury Jalloh burn to death?

Mario Pfeifer ist a PRIX EUROPA nominated producer, director and visual artist whose interests intersect between political, social and anthropological issues. Mario works closely with communities, establishing intimate relationships from which he conceives his projects in collaboration with his protagonists. He graduated from the art academy Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, studied with Stan Douglas at the University of the Arts in Berlin and was a Fulbright scholar in 2008 at the California Institute of the Arts, Mario is a recipient of DAAD fellowships in 2010 and 2012. Mario is an alumni of the European Creator’s Lab (2021), the Documentary Campus Masterschool (2019), the Feature Expanded Masterclass (2017), and a Berlinale Talent Campus alumni (2009). Mario Pfeifer’s installations were presented at the Power Plant Toronto; Museum of Modern Art, Berlin; Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA], Los Angeles; MMK Museum fu?r Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main; Bundeskunsthalle Bonn; Neues Museum Nu?rnberg; Kunsthalle Winterthur; N.B.K. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Fotomuseum Winterthur; KOW, Berlin; Beursschouwburg, Brussels; MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon; KW Kunst-Werke, Berlin; CCA,Lagos; and his film presented at international Film Festivals in Amsterdam, Auckland, Berlin, Cologne, London, Madrid, Paris, Oberhausen, New York, Seoul and Toronto. He participated in the 3rd Montevideo Biennal (2016), the 11th Bienal do Mercosul (2018), the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018) as well as the 4th Mediterranean Biennale (2020). His works are hold in public and private museum collections at the Getty Center Los Angeles, Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, MMK Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main, Fotomuseum Winterthur et.al. Mario has lectured and directed Masterclasses in Brazil, Chile, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Mexico, Poland, the U.K. and in the US. www.blackboardfilms.net/people