Lest you forget about this very important date in April, we put up some more reminders out there on the streets…
Three more days to go!
Festival tickets for GEGENkino 2017 are still available at the usual places: Filmgalerie WestEnd (Industriestraße 18), the bookstore “W. Otto Nachf.” (Wolfgang-Heinze-Straße 12a) and Riso Club Leipzig (Hermann-Liebmann-Str. 88)—for the price of 38 euros or 32 euros (reduced).
See you all very very soon,
your GEGENkino crew
4 days left… time to get properly prepared!
We updated our section about the TRUE POLITICS video art exhibition a bit and you’ll now find more information on all the featured works—just click the links here:
- #blacktivist (Mario Pfeifer, 2015, 2-Kanal, 5’)
- Empire of Evil (Harald Hund, 2016, 11’)
- Europa, Mon Amour (2016 Brexit Edition) (Lawrence Lek, 2016, 14’)
- It was a day just like any other in spring or summer. (Selma Doborac, 2012, 17’)
- In The Future They Ate from the Finest Pocelain (Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind, 2015, 29’)
- Lumapit Sa Akin, Paraiso (Come to Me, Paradise) (Stephanie Comilang, 2016, 26’),
- The Search Drive (Warren Neidich, 2015, 17’)
- When Things Occur (Oraib Toukan, 2016, 28’)
The TRUE POLITICS video art exhibition will be held from 07 to 09 April, starting at 6 pm respectively at the ballroom of Schaubühne Lindenfels –with exhibition tours on 07 and 09 April at 6:30 pm.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a discussion forum taking place at 08 April on 7:30 pm in which Selma Doborac, Mario Pfeifer, Lars Koch and Angelika Bartl will debate about about the possibilities of documentary film and art and about the responsibilities of artists with regards to information
production.
Find more information about all that in TRUE POLITICS section.
Only five more days to go! GEGENkino 2017′s drawing closer… and we’re very happy to be able to announce a further bunch of guests: Lion Bischof, Jonas Heldt & Felicitas Sonvilla of MOTEL Regiekollektiv will come to the screening of Sonvilla’s short film TARA on 12 April at Luru Kino in order to talk to us and you about the practice of collective filmmaking and other such things.
TARA
GER 2016, D: Felicitas Sonvilla, A: Sasha Davydova, Leo van Kann, Lena Lauzemis, Russian OV/German subtitles, 30’, DCP
+ FLUIDØ
GER 2017, D: Shu Lea Cheang, A: Candy Flip, Bishop Black, Kristina Marlen, William Morris, OV/ English subtitles, 80’, DCP
TARA (GER, 2016, Felicitas Sonvilla / FLUIDØ (GER, 2017, Shu Lea Cheang)
Now, for some more “science” fiction: On April 12 at Luru Kino we’ll have a gamy double screening featuring TARA, the new short film by young filmmaker Felicitas Sonvilla off of MOTEL director’s collective and the most recent work by Taiwanese new media artist Shu Lea Cheng: FLUIDØ—both of which you might’ve see at this year’s Berlinale… […]
Here’s the trailer to this little sci-fi gem TARA, which premiered at this year’s Berlinale:
Wed, 12 April 2017 – 10pm, Luru-Kino at the Spinnerei
€ 8 (6 red.) for a double ticket incl. Fluidø
There are new and hot tickets for GEGENkino 2017. They will be available from tomorrow onwards at the following places: Filmgalerie WestEnd (Industriestraße 18), the bookstore “W. Otto Nachf.” (Wolfgang-Heinze-Straße 12a) and at Riso Club Leipzig (Hermann-Liebmann-Str. 88).
The ticket’s for the whole festival (valid for all GEGENkino events) and it sells for the price of 38 euros or 32 euros (reduced)—same as last year.
More information and answers to your questions at the “Tickets+FAQ” section.
Grab’em!
Yessss! We have some more guests coming to GEGENkino 2017! Julian Radlmaier, the director of SELBSTKRITIK EINES BÜRGERLICHEN HUNDES (SELF-CRITICISM OF A BOURGEOIS DOG)—the most self-doubtful proletarian film you’re likely to see—and his producer Kirill Krasovski will come to the screening of the film and will be available for Qs and As afterwards. Be there or be the class enemy!
Selbstkritik eines Bürgerlichen Hundes
GER 2017, Regisseur: Julian Radlmaier, Darsteller: Julian Radlmaier, Deragh Campbell, Kyung-Taek Lie, Beniamin Forti, 99’, OV/English subtitles, DCP
Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes (D, 2017, Julian Radlmaier)
Isn’t it oh so hard to make a true communist movie?! Sure, it is. Julian Radlmaier (”Ein proletarisches Wintermärchen”) knows about these things and will show us—in an honest and self-questioning way—his struggles with trying and trying and trying to be a political filmmaker in his newest film with the beautiful and telling title “Self-Criticism […]
12 April, 8pm – Luru Kino at the Spinnerei
