GER 1920, D: Paul Wegener, Carl Boese, A: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch, 76′, tinted, DCP 4K
Tickets (€ 12) available via: https://www.tixforgigs.com/Event/38121)
Live scoring THE GOLEM by Paul Wegener and Carl Boese from 1920, the expressionist classic of Weimar cinema, appears fairly hidden. The story of Rabbi Löw who creates the clay figure Golem to avert the imminent expulsion of inhabitants of the Jewish ghetto of Prague in the 16th century. Out of a linkage of unfortunate circumstances, the figure subsequently opposes its creator. The film’s buildings, designed by Hans Poelzig, were leading the way for further set designs to come – until today, THE GOLEM is considered as a prototype for the horror genre. Everywhere, there are thronging phantasmagorias, nightmares of a world whose human faces have become grimaces, whose streets have got steep mountain paths, whose dwellings are warped and in danger of collapsing.
Similar to the magic the clay is being vitalised with turning it into a golem, Colombian sound artist and former geotechnical engineer Lucrecia Dalt will energise new abysses inside the images with her deep bass frequencies. Dalt is an internationally booked and acclaimed musician and performer. She moves freely between academic or museum settings and club contexts. In her subtle soundscapes, she subverts overly rigid ideas of form, experiments with South American rhythms, looped drone sounds and unique spoken word passages. She has transferred a geological framework to her musical approach: she compares her songwriting to ground and rock layers, which have deposited on earth’s surface as one large mass and yet are composited of single elements with individual characteristics. What emerges tonally is an unprecedented, surrealistically accumulated terrain.
| 4 September | UT Connewitz |
| 9 pm | € 12 [Tickets available via: TixforGigs] |
FR 1979, D: Paul Grimault, 81’, German version, 35mm, age: 6+
In his huge castle, a tyrant king is content with praising himself and particularly with making life hard for his animal subjects. But a talking bird with a magnificent plumage and a top hat does not want to endure all of this any longer. This is the basic constellation of the fairy tale adaptation after Hans Christian Andersen, an animated film from France bursting with fantasy. Long-since a children’s film classic there, it has yet to be discovered over here by young and old alike! That is rather astonishing, as it has quite a few parallels to the most beautiful films of Studio Ghibli.
| Sun 05 Sept | UT Connewitz |
| 2 pm | 2€ |
SU/Moldavia 1993, D: Artur Aristakisyan, Doc, 140’, Orig. with German subs, 35mm
Armenian filmmaker Artur Aristakisyan shot his film essay about homeless people in Chisinau (Moldavia) already in 1990, but it premiered in 1993 as his graduation film from the Moscow All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography. In this lesser-known cinematic masterpiece, the narrator speaks to his unborn son hoping to save him from the system. Ironically, the only way out suggested by the narrator is by becoming an outcast. The images of the film, all 16 mm hand camera shots, sketch the life-stories of ten beggars. They are turned into ten poetic parables about positive and negative liberty (Isaiah Berlin) of the individual.
| Sun 05 Sept | UT Connewitz |
| 7 pm | With an introduction by Elina Reitere regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€ |
IMPERIAL VALLEY (CULTIVATED RUN-OFF)
AT/GER 2018, D: Lukas Marxt, Doc, 14’, without dialogue, DCP
RALFS FARBEN / RALF’S COLOURS
AT/GER 2019, D: Lukas Marxt, Doc, 74’, Orig. with Eng. subs, DCP
Two experimental explorations of landscape – on the one hand of the eponymous Imperial Valley, a desert valley that has become a fertile agricultural area thanks to complex irrigation systems. Drone fl ights provide impressive footage of how terrain and ecosystem have been handled up to the point where the origin of the images is increasingly obscured by a heightened cutting rate and an electronic soundtrack. In RALF’S COLOURS on the other hand, Lanzarote is a place of solitude, isolation and a space that echoes the inwardness, sensations and thoughts of schizophrenic protagonist and artist Ralf.
| Sun 05 Sept | Luru Kino |
| 7 pm | In the presence of Lukas Marxt and cameraman Michael Petri regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€ double feature: 11€ / reduced 9€ |
FR 2019, D: Frank Beauvais, 75’, Orig. with Eng. subs, DCP
During a period of solitude, a man tries to help himself with films. From April to October 2016, director Frank Beauvais watches 400 films, out of which the never ending flow of images of JUST DON’T THINK I’LL SCREAM is put together. Via voiceover, we are told about his personal circumstances: after having separated from his partner, with whom he had moved from Paris to a remote place in Alsace, he lives there isolated, without a car, without purpose. Combined with his obsessive, cinephile self-medication, his intimate confessions develop into a poetic moving-image diary, a haunting study situated between neurosis and excess.
| Sun 05 Sept | Luru Kino in der Spinnerei |
| 9 pm | regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€ double feature: 11€ / reduced 9€ |
