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Three hours are 180 minutes. Think about it…that is why PANDT from IfZ will also arrive on the scene and help to generate some dizziness during the opening projection of Michael Snow’s „La Region Centrale“.
Eröffnung GEGENkino /// opening GEGENkino
Felix Kubin & PANDT vertonen /// add sound to „La Region Centrale“
03. April, 20 Uhr
UT Connewitz
Check: https://soundcloud.com/pandt
Felix Kubin and PANDT add sound to “La Région Centrale” (CAN 1971, D: Michael Snow, 180’, no dialogue, 16mm)
As electronic anarchist and founder of the “Syndikat für Gegenlärm” (counternoise syndicate), Felix Kubin has been meandering through all musical forms and genres conceivable for 25 years. In Kubinism, all of these merge miraculously: dadaist computer music in the tradition of “Der Plan”, radio play sequences, dented jazz-memories, dystopian sounds playing in a contaminated civilization, and the tone of of beautiful, old acoustic instruments craving for attention once in a while.
Exclusively for GEGENkino, Kubin accompanies Michael Snow’s “La Region Centrale” combining aimlessly wandering synthesizer sounds, vigorous catatonic dance music with his own operetta-like voice. This classic experimental required five days of shooting on a lonely mountaintop in northern Quebec. The camera was mechanically preset and firmly established on a tripod – equipped with 360° rotation, it panned upwards to the sky, circled in all directions without ever repeating a single movement.
An experimental spatial setting is part of the performance.
Tonight we add a healthy amount of DADA to our programme:
On the second last day of GEGENkino Jaap Blonk from the Netherlands will pay a visit to LuRu cinema and serve the audience some of his poetic (or whatever the hell you want to call it) pieces. You can get a slight impression of what it will sound like here, though Jaap is going to put himself into the role of Dr Voxoid who will bring his electronic toys and add all kinds of weird sounds to his dadaist vocal performance.
Furthermore, we are going to screen Helmut Herbst’s essential DADA documentary “Deutschland DADA” from 1969 in order get all the DADA history into your brains.
Jaap Blonk is Dr Voxoid & “Deutschland Dada” (GER 1969, D: Helmut Herbst, 61’, German version, 35mm)
Dada is chaos, spontaneity and ridicule, is infantilism par excellence and yet charming. Dada is severity with greatest playfulness, nihilistic protest, radical attack against and on the arts, on any sense in any art. Dada is a representative of a nonsense that by no means wants to be rubbish. In the 1910s and 20s, Dadaists like Hans Richter, Man Ray or Viking Eggeling were riveted by the technical opportunities of making films. Technics and aesthetic experiment merged to small films, visual interferences that served as inspiration for later generations of film makers. Helmut Herbst’s classic “Deutschland Dada” documents the impacts of the worldwide dadaist explosion in a Dadaist alphabet. Among others, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck and Hans Richter talk about the rare moments in which radical social protest and radical art joined forces for a short time.
Dada has always been a phenomenon spreading across different material. Therefore, after the screening, a performance of Dutch vocal poet Jaap Blonk will add to the movie wonderfully. Being one of the most distinctive exponents in his field worldwide, Blonk’s very physical performances pursue a cinema of the ear that articulates a Dadaist poetry regarding language as sound. Written text does not make any narrative sense but is material for composed articulations of sound, which you most certainly have not experienced in this way ever before.
12 April, 9pm – LuRu-Cinema at the Spinnerei – € 8/6 (red.)
Yes, we did the screen printing last Thursday! Thanx 2 OffenSiWe, DIY screen print place in Lindenau. From now on, we will remember this day as “The day we stopped having great respect for the wipe technique-paintings of Gerhard Richter” – yeah whatever…the important part, i.e. what you will get: gorgeous screen prints – two-coloured, more than two-coloured – in a limited edition of 50, numbered and each with a scrawly signature of Ricaletto. For sale during the festival – preorders via EMail. Each of them is one of a kind – get yours!
Price is 10€ per print – now if that’s not cheap, people…bloody cheap!
Der Ärger mit den Bildern (1973) 
Aufschub (2007) 
Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik (1995) 
Nicht löschbares Feuer (1969)
It’s time to announce the complete list of films for our “Bilder hinter den Bildern” programme! No easily digestable stuff.
Tuesday, 8th April, 9pm at Luru-Kino in der Spinnerei // 6/5 (red.) Euro
Harun Farocki | Pictures behind the pictures
Der Ärger mit den Bildern
GER 1973, R: Harun Farocki, 48’, OV, mpeg
Aufschub
GER 2007, R: Harun Farocki, 38’, OV, mpeg
Nicht löschbares Feuer
GER 1969, R: Harun Farocki, 25’, OV, mpeg
Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik
GER 1995, R: Harun Farocki, 36’, OV, mpeg
“The philosopher asks: What is mankind? I ask: What is a picture?” These sentences are uttered by one of the main characters of Harun Farocki – at the same time, they describe the work area that he himself revolved around as director, author and theorist for decades. Farocki picks up on pictures, creates montages and comments them, makes them talk. Pictures from film history interest him because of their ability to provide information about contemporary social conditions as well as operative pictures – industrial photography, aerial shots of Auschwitz – alongside seemingly banal stuff – Playboy-magazine pin ups, the front covers of tabloids.
“Nicht löschbares Feuer” is a tractate about the production of napalm and with it one of the most important agitprop films of the anti-Vietnam movement. In “Der Ärger mit den Bildern”, Farocki dissects and polemicises against the often mindless production of pictures on television. Documentary takes made for the SS by a Jewish prisoner in the concentration camp at Westerbork are counter-checked in “Aufschub”.
At home in our newly built kitchen – hiphop musik, wine, a sleeping dog & skinny Ricaletto preparin’ the two-coloured screenprint action tomorrow..the black you see is gonna be red then…“you have to look at it with your eyes, not with your nose”, that’s what Ricaletto says…well then…then what? Be prepared for a limited edition of screen print posters, numbered & signed!
