Retrospective | ANIMAL REALITIES
NOHOI ORON / STATE OF DOGS
BE/MN 1998, R: Peter Brosens, Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh, Dok, 91’, OV with English subtitles, 35mm
Being a desolate stray dog, Basaar is killed by a dog hunter in the dusty streets of Ulaanbaatar. Actually, his destiny would be to be born again as a human, but he denies his fate and leads us in reminiscences to the steppes of Mongolia, in which he was living with the herds being part of a nomadic community until he ended up in the big city. In their dog-documentary-fiction STATE OF DOGS, Belgian filmmaker Peter Brosens and his Mongolian colleague Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh combine post-socialist realities with folklore and mysticism with ethnography in an impressive manner.
VREMENA GODA / SEASONS OF THE YEAR
SU 1975, D: Artavazd Peleshian, Doc, 29’, without dialog, DCP
Armenian Socialist Soviet Republic, in the middle of the 70ies: a shepherd has jumped after one of his animals into the floods. Giant hay bales are run down steep meadows. A wedding is celebrated. Seasons change. In the snow, the last animals slide down the slope together with the shepherds. Mundane scenes in black and white, sometime solemnly enraptured – bathed in a Vivaldi score – sometime immediate and close, almost rough. Unfolding with a virtuoso montage and visual strength, this impressive portrait SEASONS OF THE YEAR is full of poetry and pathos.
| Fri 8. Sept | ANIMAL REALITIES Luru Kino in der Spinnerei |
| 10 PM | € 6,5 (5,5 red.) |
Retrospective | ANIMAL REALITIES
NEOZOOM SHORT FILM PROGRAMME
2010-2022, DE, D: Neozoon, 80′, OV
The artist duo NEOZOON presents a selection of works that reflect the relationship human-animal and the role of image production in it. Usually, the two of them draw on found material from the internet that they rearrange. At it, posing (and getting turned on) after successful hunting play a role as well as the consumption of animal bodies and the multi-billion clip archive of cute, small animals. NEOZOON get to the bottom of ideological structures and address capitalist exploitation, religious mania and standardised bodies in neoliberalism. Or they intervene in public space, for instance with fictional tunicates they placed in the Zoo of Münster to film the reactions of the visitors.
Program:
DAS MANTELTIER (2010, 3 min
GOOD BOY – BAD BOY (2011, 3 min)
BUCK FEVER (2012, 6 min)
UNBOXING EDEN (2013, 5 min)
MY BBY 8L3W (2014, 3 min)
SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE (2016, 4 min)
CALL OF THE WILD (2017, 4 min)
LOVE GOES THROUGH THE STOMACH (2017, 15 min)
LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS (2019, 13 min)
BITING THE DUST (2021, 13 min)
LAKE OF FIRE (2022, 11 min)
| Fri 8. Sept | Luru Kino in der Spinnerei |
| 8 PM | In the presence of NEOZOON Q&A after the screening € 6,5 (5,5 red.) |
Retrospective | ANIMAL REALITIES
UN ANIMAL, DES ANIMAUX
FR 1995, D: Nicolas Philibert, 59′, Doc, original with English subtitles, DCP
From 1991 to 1994, renowned documentary filmmaker Nicloas Philibert accompanied the renovation and reopening of the Zoology Gallery of the National Natural History Museum in Paris. The portrait is led by the commitment of people who have devoted themselves to museum exhibitions of primed nature. The camera unobtrusively attends their love of detail and their precisions.
NO ANIMAL
DE 2022, D: Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller, 21‘, without dialog, DCP
Resulting from excerpts of fictional works, NO ANIMAL is a stylishly composed experiment about cinematic space, movement, atmosphere, colours, rhythm, and emotions. Until at the end, death comes into play.
GELIEBT
DE 2010, D: Jan Soldat, 15‘, Doc, OV with English subtitles, DCP
Jan Soldat meets men and talks with them in front of the camera. Part of it in LOVED: two dogs. How to tell of a love relationship to the animals? What space is there for intimacy? What does it mean as a portrait subject to show oneself?
Fr 8 Sept | ANIMAL REALITIES Luru Kino in der Spinnerei |
| 18:00 Uhr | € 6,5 (5,5 erm./red.) |
Retrospective | ANIMAL REALITIES
ANIMAL REALITIES
We celebrate the animal kingdom, everything that crawls and flies, and head out on no easy trail into the animal realms of documentary film. How are our companions on land, in water and in the air discussed in documentary film, how are they displayed? What is our connection as humans, but also as viewers in cinema, to a reality of life that surrounds us everyday, with which we coexist? On the one hand, we resemble animals, reflect ourselves in them or feel close to them, then again they remain unknown and mysterious – entirely taken for granted, we keep drawing our benefit from them. They are livestock, creature, beast, attraction or friend. Animal documentary film offers a wide range of tension in which filmmakers have always moved, reflecting on and exploring our relationship to animals. Let us take the time to look at the animals, to look closer and to spend some quality time with them – with the beings we share our planet with.
Our selection assembles international short and long documentary films from the 1940ies to contemporary positions. With a particular stylistic and aesthetic precision, they provide unknown or unusual insights into the world of animals, which go far beyond of being purely informative, as we know it from classical, explanatory animal documentaries. We dive into the ecological and political entanglements of animal and human habitats, espy the subtle imbalances in power and brutal exploitation machineries of humans towards the animal world, detect the coexistence with and fascination and care for the diversity of other species, chase after activist-political struggles and crawl into mythological chargings and secrets. Sometimes poetic and sensual, sometimes violent and brutal, or both at the same time, the films are always oriented towards the truthfulness of two worlds that – if we do not consider them separated so much – feature an immense dynamic and create a rescuing bond.
| Fr 08.09.23 Luru Kino 6 PM | ANIMALS AND MORE ANIMALS BE/NL/CD 2023, D: Baloji, A: Marc Zinga, Lucie Debay, Eliane Umuhire, Yves-Marina Gnahoua, 91’, original with English subtitles, DCP NO ANIMAL DE 2022, D: Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller, 21‘, without dialogue, DCP BELOVED (GELIEBT) DE 2010, D: Jan Soldat, 15‘, Doc, original with English subtitles, DCP |
| 10 PM | STATE OF DOGS BE/MN 1998, D: Peter Brosens, Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh, Doc, 91‘, English version with English subtitles, 35mm SEASONS OF THE YEAR SU 1975, D: Artavazd Peleshian, Doc, 29’, without dialogue, DCP |
| Tue 12.09.23 Luru Kino 9 PM | PRIMATE US 1974, D: Frederick Wiseman, Doc, 105‘, English OV, 16mm |
| Sat 16.09.23 Schaubühne Lindenfels 6 PM | LE SANG DES BÊTES FR 1949, R: Georges Franju, Dok, 23’, original with English subtitles, DCP LEVIATHAN FR/UK/US 2012, R: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paraval, Doc, 87’, English OV with german subtitles, DCP |
| Sun 17.09.23 Luru Kino 17 Uhr | ALL THAT BREATHES UK/IN/US 2022, D: Shaunak Sen, Doc, 97’, original with English subtitles, DCP |
| 19 Uhr | IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA BR/FR/IT 2022, R: Ana Vaz, Dok, 66‘, original with English subtitles, DCP {IF YOUR BAIT CAN SING, THE WILD ONE WILL COME LIKE SHADOWS THROUGH LEAVE} SG/FI 2021, D: The Migrant Ecologies Project (Konzept: Lucy Davis), Doc, 28‘, original with English subtitles, DCP |
Special | MILIEU-CINEMA
BABYLON
UK 1980, D: Franco Rosso, A: Brinsley Forde, Trevor Laird, Karl Howman, 95’, English OV, 35mm
At neighbourhood park Rabet on September 8, we present BABYLON by Franco Rosso. Protagonist is a boy called Blue with his ravenous desire to build up a reputation as a dancehall-deejay in London’s reggae culture. With his Ital Lion Crew, he fiercely fights against the racism and xenophobia of employers, neighbours, the police and the National Front. In the London of the late 70ies, these mobile discotheques with their massive speakers were vibrant ambassadors of reggae music in the streets, in clubs and public events. The scene was a mouthpiece for social concerns and political messages. Sound systems were “key institutions” for spreading Afro-Caribbean music, which was denied from getting public airtime until well into the 80ies.
Fri 8. Sept | MILIEU-CINEMA Stadtteilpark Rabet |
| 3 PM 5 PM | € Admission for donation 2nd Screening |
