Concerning Violence – Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defence
Let’s not forget about our screening today at 7pm today, too! We will present the film »Concerning Violence« in cooperation with GRASSI Museum for Ethnography and AG Postkolonial Leipzig. A few words about the AG Postkolonial (in case you haven’t heard of them yet):
As part of the Engagierte Wissenschaft e.V., that is trying to transfer scientific discourses and debates into political practice, AG Postkolonial wants to bring out the connection between colonial history and recent debates on racism, global inequality and the contemporary dealing with »Others«. Furthermore, AG Postkolonial concerns itself with the politics of colonial memory and also tries to unveil traces of colonialism in the city of Leipzig. We couldn’t wish for a better to partner to introduce the film »Concerning Violence« than the AG Postkolonial.
Fri, 22 April 2016, 7pm – GRASSI Museum of Ethnography
»Concerning Violence – Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense«
(Doc SE/FI/US/DK 2014, D: Göran Hugo Olsson, 85’, OV with German subtitles, BluRay)
With an introduction by Diana Ayeh & Natascha Bing (AG Postkolonial Leipzig)
If you’re quick on your bikes, you might be able to make it to both screenings today:
7pm, GRASSI Musem – AFRICAN OUTLINES: CONCERNING VIOLENCE
9pm, IfZ – GEGENkino & Cry Baby present DESIRE WILL SET YOU FREE
Buntes Kino gegen graue Konvention: Desire Will Set You Free | Tracks ARTE
Hey, we’re on TV! Well, almost. ARTE Tracks wrote some nice words about our festival and about our screening and party tonight at Institut für Zukunft.
Big honour!
Word’s gotten around already who our special guest is going to be? If not, you’re in for a fruity surprise tonight:
9pm, Institut fuer Zukunft
GEGENkino & Cry Baby present DESIRE WILL SET YOU FREE
Film screening: Desire Will Set You Free
(DE 2015, D: Yony Leyser, A: Yony Leyser, Tim Fabian Hoffmann, Chloe Griffin, 92’, OV with German subtitles, BluRay) Director Yony Leyser will be present.
11 pm – After-screening Party with:
~ Special Guest DJ-Set ~
Abyss X (S H A M E) – live
Ziúr (Boo Hoo)
Zacker (No No No!)
Claire
CAST +BBE (Cry Baby)
XVII (IfZ)
You might have heard otherwise, but the opening screening tonight at Luru-Kino starts at 9pm, not earlier!
There’ll be some surprises, though, for those of you that come early enough. So, come on over, whenever you feel like.
Tangerine
(US 2015, D: Sean Baker, A: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, 88’, OV with German subtitles, DCP)
21 April,8pm – Luru-Kino at the Spinnerei – € 6,5/5,5(red.)
Tomorrow will be the grand opening of this year’s GEGENkino—with Sean Baker’s magnificent L.A. hunting trip movie »Tangerine«!
Meanwhile, let’s get pumped for the festival with our new and hot trailer—conceived and edited by Stefania Smolkina.
See you all soon, we hope, at one of this year’s GEGENkino places: UT Connewitz, Luru Kino at the Spinnerei, Schaubühne Lindenfels, Institut fuer Zukunft, GRASSI Museum for Ethnography, or Paul Gerhardt Church.
21 Apr – 1 May, 2016
Looking forward quite a lot,
Your GEGENkino crew
And we’re still getting surprising news coming in:
Filmmaker Johann Lurf announced that he will come to the Vertical Cinema event on Apr 28 at Paul Gerhardt Church, where he will talk about and introduce us to the Vertical Cinema project
and will also be available for a Q&A.
»Johann Lurf (AT) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and the Slade School of Art in London, graduating from Harun Farocki’s film class. His films Vertigo Rush (2007), 12 Explosionen (2008), Kreis Wr.Neustadt/A to A (2011), to name but a few, have been screened and won awards at numerous international film festivals.« (source: verticalcinema.org)
Johann Lurf‘s experimental short film »Pyramid Flare« is part of the Vertical Cinema programme.
Thu, 28 April – 9 pm, Paul-Gerhardt-Church Connewitz
Vertical Cinema [German Premiere]
