German Angst
(GER 2015, D: Jörg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski, Andreas Marschall, A: Lola Gave, Axel Holst, Annika Strauss, Andreas Pape, Matthan Harris, Milton Welsh, Kristina Kostiv, Désirée Giorgetti, 111’, dF & eOmdU, DCP)
Director Andreas Marschall will be present.
We will add some blood, gore and phantasies of revenge to our program by bringing you the new horror film collage “German Angst” by German horror filmmaker triumvirate Jörg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski and Andreas Marschall. The later two of which will also be present at the screening.
The episodes of directors Buttgereit, Kosakowski and Marschall are devoid of “German Angst”, that is a specific German over-caution, an indeterminate anxiety paired with musing and hesitation. Their three metropolitan nightmares are courageous, nonconformist, rough and harsh—a soothing contribution to German genre cinema that might be enjoyable and instructive to non-connoisseurs as well, concerning their own fears and the capacity to withstand the stress emanating from an electrical bread knife.
Buttgereit’s “Final Girl” is the prelude: an ugly, white window curtain. Behind it, in close-up, an approximately 14-year-old sleeping girl. Is she the “Final Girl”? The flat is stiff with dirt. On the radio, there is news of a man who has chopped up his wife. It says, he thought he was Jesus and his wife was an incarnation of the devil. Besides, the girl takes poultry scissors and walks into the parental bedroom.
Michal Kosakowski’s “Make a Wish” tells how Kasia and Jacek, a deaf-mute Polish couple, get into the hand of a sadist neo-Nazi gang. Apparently, the two young people are at the mercy of the thugs. However, Kasia has a charm that has already changed the course of history during World War II and thus saved her mother. This time as well, something magical happens that surprisingly perverts the situation.
In Andreas Marschall’s last episode “Alraune”, a young man residing in Berlin night-life comes across a secret erotic club that promises the ultimate sexual borderline experience with the help of a drug made out of roots of the legendary Alraune. But the ecstatic experiences have atrocious side effects.
21 April, 8 pm – Luru-Kino – € 6/5 (red.)
Top Girl, or: La déformation professionnelle
(GER 2014, D: Tatjana Turanskyj, A: Julia Hummer, RP Kahl, Stefan Mehren, 99’, OV w/english subs, DCP)
The directress will be present.
And another great female director will be joining our festival! Tatjana Turanskyj will be there and introduce her recent film “Top Girl oder la déformation professionnelle”.
Since female authorship was an important thing for us for this year’s
GEGENkino programme, we are very happy to be able to show the film and
have Tatjana Turanskyj coming to the festival.
Snapshots from a contemporary, fragile, female working biography: Helena dressed in latex rubber, leather, mesh hoses, with long eyelashes and sex toys, is working for an escort service. Male customers have various preferences. Helena is not an Eastern European girl who has been abducted into the country, neither is she a confident whore who wants her voluntary prostitution to be taken to mean an emancipatory act. Actually, she wants to work as an actress. During a casting, the contradictions concerning her life are bunching when she has to play a needy woman. At this point, the transitions between established forms of acting, the performance in her occupation, her family life and even sex work increasingly blur. Top Girl is the second film of Tatjana Turanskyj’s Women-And-Work-Trilogy, which deals with labour conditions and economised relationships in which women move. She herself is co-founder of the initiative ProQuote-Regie that takes a stand for equal representation of genders in the councils for film subsidies and promotes the reduction of structural discrimination of female directors.
23 April, 10 pm – Schaubühne Lindenfels – € 6/5 (red.) euros
Prison System 4614 & The Incomplete
(GER 2015 & 2013, Doc, D: Jan Soldat, 60’ & 48’, OV w/ english subtitles, bluray)
Director Jan Soldat and actor Klaus Johannes »The Incomplete« Wolf will be present.
The eponymous prison here is not a place where sentences are executed but rather a private disciplinary institution, in which people are playing out bondage phantasies and fetishes of submission. Thus, the man fixed on the floor is a sacrifice of his own accord and a paying customer at the same time. His agonies are pieces of service, planned in preliminary talks and genuinely arranged with the help of original prison armatures and Guantanamo-like overalls.
By means of a deliberate narrative structure and trenchant questions skilfully placed, Jan Soldat works out unexpectedly much space for affection, empathy and confidence inside of this setting. At the latest when inmates and guards answer these questions and start to relate stories of themselves, describing their stay behind bars as “unwinding” and “leaving daily life behind”, normality invades the visually depicted deviation.
The Incomplete also proves to be clear of any sentimentalities and attempts to mediate a sexually marginalized man – it is a documentary short profile about the 60-year-old Klaus Johannes Wolf and his life as a slave. Chained to his bed, he talks about his experiences, his parents and what is means to be naked.
22 April, 9 pm – UT Connewitz – € 6/5 (red.)
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Another thing: There’s still three weeks left to submit your works to our “Vaginale” Call for Entries. Remember!
1) DEADLINE for VIDEOKILLS submissions prolonged!
2) Closing day for applications for internship at GEGENkino
Our partners from •• Videokills •• have prolonged the deadline for your submissions to »The Explorer Series: Invisible City Symphonies«
by two weeks. Meaning, you will have time until the 15th of February to submit your films and videos as well as music material to the programme.
All further information you might need, can be found here:
https://videokills4lyfe.wordpress.com/call-leipzig-2015
Videokills | »The Explorer Series: Invisible City Symphonies«
Dear friends of GEGENkino, we are glad to announce that for the upcoming GEGENkino festival we will team up with the artists’ collective VIDEOKILLS and booking agency [fwd: like waves] in order to curate an evening of collaboratively compiled works of silent movies and specially composed scores. VIDEOKILLS offers filmmakers, media artists and musicians a […]
As for the internship at our festival that we were offering: we’ve received quite enough interesting applications and can’t accept any further applications from now. Thanks a lot for your interest!
To all the applicants: You will hear from us sometime this week (if you haven’t already). Ideally, so you can start to help us out and became part of our festival by the second last week of February.
