12.09.2024 | BARSTOW, CALIFORNIA (DE/US 2018, Rainer Komers) & NOME ROAD SYSTEM (DE/US 2004, Rainer Komers)

Homage | RAINER KOMERS

BARSTOW, CALIFORNIA 

DE/US 2018, D: Rainer Komers, 76’, Doc, OV with German subtitles, DCP

NOME ROAD SYSTEM

DE/US 2004, D: Rainer Komers, 26’, Doc, no dialogue, 35mm

Two films dedicated to US-American vastness with the cinematic gaze of a stranger: In BARSTOW, CALIFORNIA, Komers portrays the small town that gives the film its title, hometown of the Black poet Spoon Jackson. His voice can be heard from off-screen, recorded in the state prison where he is serving a life sentence. He circles around the past: his childhood, which contained brief moments of happiness, but above all violence. His present day-to-day life is the prison cell that brought him to (film-like, sculptural) poetry. While language is omnipresent in BARSTOW, CALIFORNIA, it is completely absent in the short film NOME ROAD SYSTEM. Without categorisation, a collage of impressions that Komers gained in rural Alaska sweeps across the screen.

Wed 12. Sept	Luru Kino in der Spinnerei
7 pm	In the presence of Rainer Komers € 7 (6 reduced)