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13.09.22 | With Pyramids (D 1990, Renate Sami)

GER 1990, D: Renate Sami, Doc, 93′, OV with German subtitles, 16mm

With WITH PYRAMIDS, Renate Sami has shot a travelogue of a far away country that is composed of diverse voices, sounds, faces and interiors. In this, rough edges remain, nothing is harmoniously rounded. By car and together with Sami, we explore Egyptian desert and city landscapes shot on 8mm and 16mm, while the soundtrack presents different texts to us. These deal with legendary city foundings for instance, but also give an insight into stories of Egyptian women reporting on their painful experiences of marriage and generally on being a woman in a patriarchal society.

Thu 13 Sept	Luru Kino in der Spinnerei
7 pm	regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€ Double ticket with WEISSE RABEN: 11€ / 9€ reduced

12.09.22 | ELES TRANSPORTAN A MORTE / THEY CARRY DEATH (ES/CO 2021, Helena Girón & Samuel M. Delgado)

ES/CO 2021, D: Helena Girón, Samuel M. Delgado, A: Nuria Lestegás, Sara Ferro, Xoán Reices, Valentín Estévez, 75′, OV with English subtitles, DCP

They carry death. And still try to escape it. On the Canary Islands, a group of convicts eludes the fleet of Christopher Columbus and flees with a giant sail across the volcanic solitude. Meanwhile in Galicia, a woman is rescued and brought to a healer by her sister. The figures are particles of a bigger cosmos, in which the sun is torturing, the wind is biting, the earth is belching out bloody rocks, the sea is looking for bodies that have been promised to it and the ships keep on carrying death – into the “New World”. How is history told? Who carries meaning? A vigorous contemplation about the fragility of history and the role of gender in it.

Mon 12 Sept	Schaubühne Lindenfels
7 pm	regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€

12.09.22 | RE GRANCHIO / THE TALE OF KING CRAB (IT/AR/FR 2021, Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis)

IT/AR/FR 2021, D: Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis, A: Gabriele Silli, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Severino Sperandio, 106′, OV with English subtitles, DCP

Italy, today. A handful of older hunters with rugged faces gather for a meal in convivial company, telling each other stories of Luciano, a character of the local folklore. From this documentary setting, THE TALE OF KING CRAB leaps into the life of Luciano – or maybe better: a version of it. Luciano, it is said, was a man of the late 18th or early 19th century with a preference for alcohol and a woman from the village. After having committed a crime, he is exiled to Tierra del Fuego and there, sets off searching for a mythical treasure. Neo-realist charm, aesthetic resorts to a pre-industrial age, quirky western: in this, the stunning camera work playfully is on track of the fever dream that cinema has always been.

Mon 12 Sept	Schaubühne Lindenfels
9 pm	regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€

11.09.22 | In voices we rest. The films of Miriam Gossing and Lina Sieckmann

The duo Miriam Gossing and Lina Sieckmann create experimental works in the fields of film, photography and installative video art. Their works are shot on 16mm and subsequently digitized. The short films often use documentary content, frequently provided with a voice-over, the texts are based on interviews or forum entries. These texts – performed by professional narrators – enrich the static, human-emptied images with additional layers of meaning. Whether for the thematically arranged wedding altars on the highways of Nevada, the cloudy suburban idylls of Massachusetts, or the sedate cruise ships of Northern Europe: the stories and the tonalities of the narrators’ voices, accompanied by a sophisticated, not infrequently somber sound design, set a diffuse unease into the arrangements. In the process, the two artists question spaces about their relationships to human passions and obsessions.

Sun 11 Sept	UT Connewitz
7 pm	With video introduction by the filmmakers regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€

SONNTAG, BÜSCHERHÖFCHEN 2

GER 2014, 13′, without Dialogue, HD

DESERT MIRACLES

GER/US 2015, 12′, engl OV, HD

EDIFICE

GER 2018, 4′, without Dialogue, HD

OCEAN HILL DRIVE

GER 2016, 21′, engl. OV, HD

ONE HOUR REAL

GER/NL 2017, 12′, without Dialogue, HD

CHINA LIGHT

GER 2019, 4′ without Dialogue, HD

SOUVENIR

GER/NL 2019, 20′, engl. OV, HD

11.09.22 | Distruktur & LaborBerlin e.V.

Living in Berlin since 2006, Brazilian film duo Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn has been working as DISTRUKTUR on a cinematic corpus that is committed to forms of experimental language of analogue material, most notably 16mm. With a playful symbolism, their enigmatic works explore the underground scene of the German capital likewise to the winding alleys of Cairo and reflect not only the experience of diaspora but also describe film as a terrain of synthesis of diverse artistic influences like music, dance, stage design or performance art. Dullius and Jahn are founding members of independent LABOR BERLIN film collective, which has dedicated itself to ethics of autodidactic and DIY work all around analogue film material. In their working spaces, members can develop, cut and copy films. In addition, LABOR BERLIN offers workshops for interested people that deal with both chemical and physical and philosophical questions and function as a form of horizontal transfer of knowledge beyond academia.

Following six short films of DISTRUKTUR that Melissa Dullius will project herself, we will show a range of works from the Labor collective selected after an open call. At the beginning, GEDENKEN will be shown, a cinematic piece of memory work, for which the artists Katrin Eissig and Melina Pafundi have worked with titles and material remains of Nikolaus Tschechner’s KALMENHOFKINDER – ERMORDET UND VERGESSEN that they found at the Labor. Afterwards, HLBC 16 reflects on a sequence of a car drive through Rome and its suburbs in Danièle Huillet’s and Jean-Marie Straub’s film HISTORY LESSONS from 1972. For this purpose, Luisa Greenfield expresses her thoughts with a simultaneous live reading of an accompanying text. Last but not least, MOONLESS by Sophie Watzlawick opens with a prelude of voices and sounds in a total black, until other-worldly (negative) images lead us into a mysterious, moonless world.