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SHORT FILM PROGRAMME AT THE TRAVELLING CINEMA

The heyday of European travelling cinemas stretched from the years 1896 until 1914. Having no fixed cinema buildings at that time, film was a transitory issue and appeared seldom as a feature-length cultural offer, but often in other entertainment contexts: for example on fairs as short film programmes of fairytale animations, funny skits and topicalities in the style of newsreels. Following the idea of travelling cinemas, on September 10 – the day of open monuments – Milieu-Kino will stand at Fortuna, the former Cinema of Youth. There, we present rarities from the rich history of these short films: hand-coloured animation films, erotic piquancies, anarchist slapstick interludes, x-ray films and predator pursuits. Access to and exit of the programme is possible at any time. Moreover, the team of Fortuna offers guided tours through the building and informs on their efforts around preserving the building and establishing a constant cultural programme. 

Sun 10 Sept	MILIEU-CINEMA Furtuna (Kino der Jugend)
2 – 6 PM	€ Admission for donation

GEGENkinder cinema

UNTEN AM FLUSS

GB 1978, D: Martin Rosen, 92’, german version, digital, released for 6 years and older

After little Fever has had visions of an impending disaster, a group of wild rabbits sets off to find a safe place for themselves. On their hike, they meet new friends: the seagull Kehaar and a group of domestic rabbits which they free from imprisonment. Together, they establish a new burrow close to a river called Watership Down. However, the rabbits of the burrow Efrafa are living in the region. They suffer under the cruel rule of General Woundwort. To not also being forced to live under the dictatorship of Efrafa, the rabbits decide to fight. WATERSHIP DOWN impresses with a fantastical mythology and the atmospheric story around freedom and solidarity in the face of injustice and oppression.

Sun 10. Sept	UT Connewitz
2 PM	freigegeben ab 6 Jahren  € 2

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DU-BEAT-E-O

US 1984, D: Alan Sacks, A: Joan Jett, Ray Sharkey, El Duce, Texacala Jones, Derf Scratch, 84’, English OV, 35mm

At Wagenplatz Karl Helga on September 9, we will show the forgotten DU-BEAT-E-O by Alan Sacks. This is a confused and lunatic document of the L.A. punk scene of the early 1980ies, in which Sacks attends to the foreign material of a never finished film and arranges a meta-story about a filmmaker close to madness around it, who obsessively finishes cutting the opus. Doing so, the threatening demeanour of a mafioso as well as the splatter stunts of the shock rockers The Mentors do not let him get away easily.

Sat 9 Sept	MILIEU-CINEMA Wagenplatz Karl Helga
8 PM	€ Admission for donation

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2551.02 — THE ORGY OF THE DAMNED

AT 2023, D: Norbert Pfaffenbichler, A: Stefan Erber, Veronika Harb, Jurij Föger, 82’, without dialogue, DCP

The Damned invoked in the title are animal-human-hybrids and deformed cannibal-freaks, who do not catch sight of daylight and live in a post-apocalypse free from morals. While they are celebrating unleashed orgies in brothels and fight clubs, protagonist ape-man is looking for a beloved child.

Norbert Pfaffenbichler presents a road trip of atrocities, which was produced with poor financial means but all the more with passion for an inherently consistent aesthetics. Anyone who believes that excessive violence and slapstick, perverted lust and uninhibited humour do not exclude one another is cordially welcome in the circle of hell with its mutated vomit. Yes exactly: The vomit that, after leaving your face, winks at you with its half a dozen eyes. 

Sat 9. Sept 10 PM	GERMAN PREMIERE UT Connewitz € 6,5 (5,5 red.)
10 PM	MILIEU-CINEMA Karl-Helga Wagenplatz

Multimedia Presentation | Jens Balzer

ETHICS OF APPROPRIATION

Popular culture steadily cherishes diverse societal as well as cultural influences, it is an ongoing process of variation and recombination. However, does the reproduction show a respectful interaction with its aesthetic models? Was the usage figured in an artistic or a commercial way? In the latter case: would a film production then have a bitter aftertaste of cultural appropriation? This happens when appreciation changes into exploitation to one’s own benefit without showing due respect to the creators of the original concept. Journalist and author Jens Balzer will present his book in a multi-media talk and illustrate his statements with music and film inserts. 

Sat 9. Sept	UT Connewitz
8 PM	Talk in German € 6,5 (5,5 reduced)