Once again, there’s no summer vacation for us, because the GEGENkino filmfest will again take place in the Autumn. More precisely: from September 8th – 18th. So instead of collecting skin cancer points at the Adriatic Sea, we have retreated to our darkened computer desks and are gawking our eyes out to make it an exciting festival for you. Therefore: Before you throw your suntan lotion into your backpack, quickly pull out the permanent marker and note the date in BOLD in your calendars. See you in the dark! Your GEGENkino
GEGENkino & FILZ present the video art exhibition
paradoks – at the edges of documentary.
The complete programme is available HERE for browsing & downloading!
More information at para-doks.de
Opening:
Saturday 23 October
18.00 – HGB Gallery & GfZK
20.30 – Werkschauhalle 12 (Spinnerei)
Performance CONJURING by Ben Russell
Running time:
23 October – 14 November
Opening hours:
HGB
Mon – Fri: 14.00 – 20.00
Sat – Sun: 10.00- 16.00
GfZK
Tue – Fri: 14.00 – 19.00
Sat – Sun: 12.00 – 18.00
Werkschauhalle
Mon – Fri: 14.00 – 20.00
Sat – Sun: 12.00 – 20.00
paradoks operates at the intersection of art and the moving image and is dedicated to documentary formats beyond the confines of conventional cinema. Today’s range of documentarisms is becoming a field no longer explored by filmmakers alone. Journalistic research and re-enactments, an incorporation of scientific findings or analyses of found material are essential aesthetic strategies employed in the visual arts and beyond. Increasingly, interdisciplinary projects which operate at the intersections of activism, science and art are looking to find new forms of visualising the state of the world, as they take a peek behind the curtain of of public news reporting and the torrent of images we are exposed to in social media. paradoks is a platform for precisely such multifaceted perspectives, whereby they are depicted but also questioned in terms of their socio-political preconditions. The exhibition will be divided into two thematic fields
From a historical perspective, the works of EMPOWERMENT address colonial structures and their consequences for the present-day. These include racism, the formation of diaspora and poverty in marginalised communities. Here, camera angles, the hierarchy of frames and the question of who is talking about whom play just as much a role as the interplay between social realities and their representation.
PSYCHEDELIC ANTHROPOLOGY, operates along the boundaries of visual anthropology and explores altered states of consciousness and bodily sensations, deliberately induced through cultural techniques such as research, dance, music and hiking – all of which are methodological ways of re-exploring the human condition. In these works, the lines separating documentation and fiction become blurred in a sensual, immersive way.
The crew of GEGENkino would like to thank everyone for making this festival possible and all of you for coming and supporting film and culture in these difficult times. It has been fun after a year of stop due to the pandemic to come back. Thank you and see you next year!
GEGENkino rules. Just have a look!
The pdf version of the catalogue is at the end of this post
| Thu 26 Aug UT Connewitz | |
| 7 pm | OPENING FILM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CA 2019 • D: Matthew Rankin, C: Dan Beirne, Mikhaïl Ahooja, Catherine Saint-Laurent • 90′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP |
| 2cl Sommerkino auf Conne Island 9.30 pm | OPEN AIR HAM ON RYE US 2019 • D: Tyler Taormina, C: Haley Bodell, Audrey Boos, Gabriella Herrera • 85′ • OV • DCP |
| Fri 27 Aug HGB | |
| 10 am | MASTERCLASS Masterclass with ELOY ENCISO Participation is only possible with prior registration. The number of participants is limited. Language: English |
| Fri 27 Aug Luru Kino | |
| 7 pm | BRUCHSTELLEN RODINA MEANS HOME DE 1992 • D: Helga Reidemeister • Doc • 114′ • ger. • 16mm With an introduction by Elina Reitere |
| 10 pm | OPEN AIR IS IT EASY TO BE YOUNG? SU/Lettische SSR 1986 • D: Juris Podnieks • Doc • 83′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP With an introduction by Elina Reitere |
| Sat 28 Aug Schaubühne Lindenfels | |
| 7 pm | A CONTRALUZ FIRE WILL COME ES/FR/LU 2019 • D: Oliver Laxe, C: Amador Arias, Benedicta Sánchez • 85′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP With an introduction by Ricardo Apilánez |
| 9 pm | ON THE NAMES OF THE GOATS ES 2019 • D: Silvia Navarro, Miguel G. Morales • Doc • 63′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP In the presence of Miguel G. Morales |
| Sun 29 Aug Schaubühne Lindenfels | |
| 7 pm | A CONTRALUZ MY MEXICAN BRETZEL ES/FR/LU 2019 • D: Oliver Laxe, C: Ilse Ringier, Frank Lorang • 72′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP With an introduction by Ricardo Apilánez |
| 9 pm | ENDLESS NIGHT ES 2019 • D: Silvia Navarro, C: Misha Bies Golas, Nuria Lestegás, Celsa Araújo • 63′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP In the presence of Eloy Enciso |
| Mon 30 Aug Schaubühne Lindenfels | |
| 7 pm | FOKUS COMA SY/LB 2015 • D: Sara Fattahi • Doc • 98′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP Discussion between director Sara Fattahi and film critic Dennis Vetter |
| 9 pm | CHAOS AT/SY/LB 2018 • D: Sara Fattahi • Doc • 95′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP In the presence of Sara Fattahi |
| Tue 31 Aug UT Connewitz | |
| 7 pm | KRABI, 2562 UK/TH 2019 • D: Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong, C: Siraphun Wattanajinda, Arak Amornsupasiri, Primrin Puarat • 93′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP |
| 9 pm | THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS PT 2020 • D: Catarina Vasconcelos, C: Manuel Rosa, João Móra, Ana Vasconcelos, Henrique Vasconcelos • Dok • 101′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP |
| Wed 01 Sept UT Connewitz | |
| 8 pm | THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT’S A RESURRECTION LS/ZA/IT 2019 • D: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, C: Mary Twala Mlongo, Jerry Mofokeng Wa • 119′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP |
| Wed 01 Sept Plagwitzer Markthalle | |
| 9.30 pm | SHORT FILM REEL THE BODY IS A MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPE RAPOSA PT 2019 • D: Leonor Noivo, C: Patricia Guerreiro • 40′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP THE BITE PT/BR 2019 • D: Pedro Neves Marques, C: Ana Flávia Cavalcanti, Alina Dorzbacher, Kelner Macedo • 26′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP DEAD PRINCESS OF JACUI BR 2019 • D: Marcela Ilha Bordin, C: Gabriel Palma, Maíra Flores • 15′ • OmeU • DCP |
| Thu 02 Sept Luru Kino | |
| 7 pm | MADE IN HONG KONG MADE IN HONG KONG HK 1997 • D: Fruit Chan, C: Sam Lee, Neiky Yim Hui Chi, Wenders Li • 104′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP With an introduction by Clemens von Haselberg |
| 10 pm | OPEN AIR DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS: 1ST KIND HK 1980 • D: Tsui Hark, C: Lo Lieh, Lin Chen-Chi, Albert Au • 95′ • ger. • 35mm |
| Fri 03 Sept Luru Kino | |
| 7 pm | MADE IN HONG KONG THE MIDNIGHT AFTER HK 2014 • D: Fruit Chan • 124′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP With an introduction by Clemens von Haselberg |
| 10 pm | OPEN AIR THE MISSION HK 1999 • D: Johnnie To, C: Anthony Wong, Francis Ng, Jackie Lui Chung-Yin • 81′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • 35mm |
| Sat 04 Sept UT Connewitz | |
| 9 pm | LIVE SCORE // GERMAN PREMIERE Lucrecia Dalt scores THE GOLEM DE 1920 • R: Carl Boese, D: Paul Wegener, Albert Stenrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch • 76′ • viragiert • DCP 4K |
| Sun 05 Sept UT Connewitz | |
| 2 pm | GEGENkinderkino LE ROI ET L’OISEAU FR 1979 • D: Paul Grimault • 81′ • german version • 35mm • age 6+ |
| 7 pm | BRUCHSTELLEN LADONI SU/Moldauische SSR 1993 • D: Artur Aristakisyan • Doc • 140′ • Orig. with ger. subs • 35mm With an introduction by Elina Reitere |
| Sun 05 Sept Luru Kino | |
| 7 pm | IMPERIAL VALLEY AT/DE 2018 • D: Lukas Marxt • Doc • 14′ • without dialogue • DCP RALFS FARBEN AT/DE 2019 • D: Lukas Marxt • Doc • 74′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP In the presence of Lukas Marxt and cameraman Michael Petri |
| JUST DON’T THINK I’LL SCREAM FR 2019 • D: Frank Beauvais • 75′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP |
| 10.09-12.09 tba | |
| Jugendaktivistischer Filmworkshop zu klimapolitischen Fragen CHANGE THE SHOW! |
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CA 2019, D: Matthew Rankin, C: Dan Beirne, Mikhaïl Ahooja, Catherine Saint-Laurent, 90′, Orig. with Eng. subs, DCP
Canada, 1899. 22-year-old Lyon King is in diplomatic training, aiming for the office of prime minister, which is assigned in a competition. Victories in disciplines such as calligraphic peeing of one’s own name in the snow and the ceremonial cutting of red ribbons are supposed to prove leadership qualities. In addition to a neurotic, bedr idden mother, with whom King maintains an oedipal relationship, an obsessive shoe fetish and his rival Bert Harper prevent him from succeeding in the role of a statesman. A satirical and queerly perverted dismantling of national pride and the cult of leadership.
| Thu 26 Aug | UT Connewitz |
| 7 pm | regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€ |
