Hey there, all you lovely GEGENkino friends,
it’s about time to lift the veil, finally, and reveal the programme of this year’s GEGENkino festival. So, let’s start with the opening film:
For the 3rd edition of GEGENkino we are happy to be able to screen the L.A. Sunset Strip trip movie Tangerine by Sean Baker as the opener for the festival. A Christmas film in the sun, completely shot on an iPhone and with hyper-fast dialogues like coming from amphetaminized brains and tongues.
Don’t miss it, and stay tuned for more announcements!
Looking forward to see you all (again).
Oh, and merry Easter, merry Pessach and a merry GEGENkino!
Tangerine
US 2015, D: Sean Baker, A: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, 88’, OV with German subtitles, DCP
“Out here, it’s all about our hustle. And THAT’S IT”, Alexandra tells her best friend Sin-Dee Rella. Both are struggling along as transsexual sex workers and are deeply connected to their neighbourhood in Los Angeles—the area around the intersection of Santa Monica and Highland, notorious for its drug scene and prostitution milieu. Sin-Dee is just back from prison and at a meeting in the donut shop she’s being told by Alexandra that her pimp and lover Chester cheated on her during her absence—with a white cis woman. Henceforth, “No drama!” becomes the motto of the both. But: humming dub step basslines and Sin-Dee’s furious vendetta tell another story. Filmed entirely on an iPhone the luscious, Californian sun-drenched pictures evolve into a composition of a realist subculture study and uninhibited post-modification. There’s a lot of solitude on the streets of L.A.. Tangerine puts up resistance though, and with an enchanting attitude tells of everyday hopes and dreams, of allies and solidarity.
21 April, 9pm – Luru-Kino at the Spinnerei
Tired of Berlinale? Tired of cinema? Tired of darkness? Tired of light? Tired of people? Ti…
Wait wait wait! Hang in there, dear people!
GEGENkino is coming again soon! Be prepared!
We are working on our programme for GEGENkino 2016 right now.(Wow!)
All we can say as of now is: it’s not gonna be too dull and tiring for sure.
Before we hit you up with more news:
check out our nice eyedentity for 2016.
Done by Ricaletto, our post-cold war graphic artist.
So, mark your calenders, friends and haters:
April 21st – May 1st 2016
The End Is Always Revoultion.
Tomorrow’s live set by Alec Empire will be in the style of his mid-90′s stuff. Finest analog material straight from the pre-digital age – just like the video for his 1995 track »Low On Ice«. Play it!
Plus, don’t forget:
GEGENkino presents »My Talk with Florence« w/ live score by Alec Empire (AUT 2015, 129 min, German w/ English subtitles directed by: Paul Poet)
14th January 2016, 8pm – UT Connewitz
(the director will be present)
Here’s the trailer for »My Talk with Florence«:
GEGENkino präsentiert
»My Talk with Florence« vertont von Alec Empire
AUT 2015, 129 min, OmeU Regie: Paul Poet
14. Januar 2016, 20 Uhr – UT Connewitz
(in Anwesenheit des Regisseurs)
Der Interviewfilm als Live-Konzert. Alec Empire (Atari Teenage Riot, Producer für Björk, Nine Inch Nails et. al), Berlins Gottvater der intelligenten Electronica, Beat-Aktivist und Punkfloor-Pionier, untermalt im Stil seiner frühen Solo-Klassiker für das Mille Plateaux-Label die brandneue Kinoarbeit von Paul Poet (Ausländer raus! Schlingensiefs Container, EMPIRE ME), einem der führenden österreichischen Regisseure für provokanten Polit-Film. Herz-Zerreißen in der Echokammer garantiert!
Roh, direkt, schockierend. In dem Interviewfilm »My Talk with Florence« erzählt Florence Burnier-Bauer, bei ihrer Kindheit beginnend, aus ihrem dramatischen Leben, das sie Anfang der 1980er Jahre in Otto Mühls Kommune Friedrichshof ins Burgenland führte. Dort erwarten sie anstatt geistiger und körperlicher Befreiung, autoritäre faschistoide Strukturen, Missbrauch, Demütigung und Gewalt. Regisseur Paul Poet lässt Florences Schilderungen freien Lauf, wenn sie die Geister ihrer Vergangenheit, auf der Suche nach Katharsis, heraufbeschwört. Filmisch ganz in der Tradition des Cinéma Verité stellt der Film mit schonungslosem Blick und auf puristische Weise die Geschichte einer Emanzipation und Florences hart erkämpften Weg, Nein zu sagen, dar.
T I C K E T S gibt es bei Culton (Peterssteinweg 9) und online bei TixforGigs.
love goes out to ricaletto again for the poster design
