There’s only a few unreserved seats left for the 10:30pm performance of COLOR FIELD IMMERSION. If you need some more reasons to come over tonight, check that RadioBlau teaser—thanks again to Melanie Albrecht for this one!— or, alternatively, Doron Sadja’s bandcamp page.
See you soon!
COLOR FIELD IMMERSION
Light and sound performance by Doron Sadja
The attempt to make the cinematic experience more direct, immersive and intense for the audience had to its last grand manifestation in the revival of 3D cinema. Whether it really succeeded in heaving cinematic experience and perception to a new level can be doubted, especially in cases where technology remains merely gimmick rather than becoming an artistic instrument. In his very diverse works, US media artist and ambient musician Doron Sadja is consistently looking for new ways of sounding out the audience’s experiences on auditive and visual levels and thus, making hidden realms of sensual perception accessible to them. At it, experiments of perception and technological set ups from the history of science are often his starting points. For COLOR FIELD IMMERSION, Sadja has addressed the so-called “Ganzfeld experiments” of the 1970s. In these tests, the eyes of the participants were blindfolded with translucent materials and coloured light projected onto them. By this continuous sensual deprivation on the part of the participants, some people were hoping to activate clairvoyant and telepathic capabilities. Without adhering to these parascientific ambitions, Sadja took the test situation and developed his COLOR FIELD IMMERSION performance from it. Along with a matching electronic multi-channel soundtrack in the style of Sadjas “Breath Heart Skin” album the cinema screen will be moved to only a few centimeters before the retina, so that Sadja’s visual compositions will hit every single spectator differently depending on spacial position and current frame of mind. A parakinematographic situation, in which there run just as many films as there are pairs of eyes.
People with photosensitive epilepsy be adverted that there will be intensive light stimuli during this event.
13 April, 9pm & 10:30pm – UT Connewitz – € 12 (10 red.)
Since we all want you to get a sufficient dose of light and sound tomorrow, DORON SADJA will offer a second run of his COLOR FIELD IMMERSION performance at 10:30pm.
The first run is already booked out, so all your further reservations will have to be for the second one.
13 April, 9pm & 10:30pm – UT Connewitz – € 12 (10 red.)
Hope you’ll all have a good trip!
Your GEGENkino crew
Wooh, Luru was packed yesterday! Thanks a lot for coming in such quantity!
IMPORTANT!
Seems like today won’t be much different. So, those of you who want to come and see Julian Radlmaier’s SELBSTKRITIK EINES BÜRGERLICHEN HUNDES today, please make a reservation by writing a mail to info[at]luru-kino.de. Those of you who have a festival ticket should be at Luru-Kino 20min before the beginning of the film (i.e. 7:40pm), so you’ll be guaranteed to get a seat. (If you can’t make it early enough, please make a reservation as well to be safe.)
SELBSTKRITIK EINES BÜRGERLICHEN HUNDES / SELF-CRITICISM OF A BOURGEOIS DOG
(GER 2017, D: Julian Radlmaier, A: Julian Radlmaier, Deragh Campbell, Kyung-Taek Lie, Beniamin Forti, 99’, OV/English subtitles, DCP)
12 April, 8pm – Luru Kino at the Spinnerei
Director Julian Radlmaier and producer Kirill Krasovski will be present.
And, as you know, afterwards we will have the double screening of TARA and FLUIDØ, which will start a little later though—at 10:15pm. Try to be there early or make reservations, too, nonethless. Read more about the two films here.
Unfortunately, the MOTEL Regiekollektiv had to cancel their visit and won’t come to the screening of TARA tonight.
Let’s hope for a good screening anyway. See you later on in the dark!
Hey, dear GEGENkino friends! Here’s for something quite unexpected—namely a teaser for tonight’s film O ORNITÒLOGO that is completely auditive only!
Thanks to RadioBlau for supporting our festival and to Melanie albrecht in particular for these nice audio teasers! On the weekend we also did an interview at RadioBlau; so in case you want to hear that one, too, check freie-radios.net.
11 April, 8pm – Luru Kino at the Spinnerei
O ORNITÓLOGO / THE ORNITHOLOGIST
PT/F/BRA 2016, D: João Pedro Rodrigues, A: Paul Hamy, Xelo Cagiao, Han Wen, Chan Suan, OV/English subtitles, 118’, DCP
THE ORNITHOLOGIST (PT/F/BRA, 2016, João Pedro Rodrigues)
Maybe you’ve seen some films by the likes of Pedro Costa or Miguel Gomes already, then it should be no big news for you anymore that contemporary Portuguese cinema is definitely something to keep on radar. Not unlike those two directors, João Pedro Rodrigues’ cinematic language is also quite unique and inventive and his way […]
See you tonight!
Interview: Wang Bing – Film Comment
Thanks a ton, all of you, for coming to our exhibition, discussion and screenings on the weekend at Schaubühne Lindenfels. We feel really honoured to have such a wonderful audience… seriously!
So, tonight we’ll hopefully see each other again at UT Connewitz for Wang bing’s recent film TA’ANG.
TA’ANG
(HK/F 2016, Doc, D: Wang Bing, OV/English subtitles, 142’)
10 April, 8pm – UT Connewitz
Here’s a small interview with Wang Bing to get yourselves an idea of his way of working.
“[T]he documentary form is the most viable way for me to make movies in China. By following people’s everyday life, I don’t have to look for actors and direct them, I don’t have to ask a lot of people to work together for me, and I don’t have to ask permission to anybody. The ways in which the Chinese film industry limits filmmakers become invalid for me, if I shoot inexpensive movies about the real life of the people with a small crew. That’s why I keep on making documentaries: I like genuine stories, and I like to feel free.” (Wang Bing)
