F 1980, D: Marie-Claude Treilhou, A: Ingrid Bourgoin, Martine Simonet, Michel Delahaye, 77′, OV with English subtitles, DCP
Simone Barbès works the evening shift with her colleague at a porn cinema in Montparnasse. In the hall, there are continuous activities, rhythmically consisting of guests criss-crossing the room, opening and closing doors and the disco funk sound of the cinema halls. Everything here shines in an artificial yellow, red and blue. The cinematic world of the film has the qualities of a big stage. Various worlds are presented to us, having in common that all are secure spaces reigned by the pleasure principle. Like in VARIETY, SIMONE BARBÈS OR VIRTUE soon leaves the cinematic context and plunges into the big city, for instance into a lesbian cabaret bar, where Simone assumes to find a friend.
| Fri 9 Sept | Luru Kino in der Spinnerei |
| 10 pm | CINEMA SPACE & DESIRE regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€ |
US/BRD/GB 1983, D: Bette Gordon, A: Sandy McLeod, Will Patton, Luis Guzman, Nan Goldin, Richard Davidson, 97′, English OV, 35mm
Christine has financial problems and tries out a box office job in one of the numerous porn cinemas in New York City. There, she sits around screened in her pay booth, picks up impressions of the audience and smokes inside the lobby, while groans are echoing from the halls. Just when her life seems stable for once, her friend increasingly grows apart from her, all the more when she begins to admit her initially subliminal curiosity, immersing more and more into the porn world.
VARIETY is a film about solitude and desire, which inverts the perspective of classic US narrative cinema – the male gaze and women being looked at – at the same time.
| Fri 9.09. | Luru Kino in der Spinnerei |
| 8 pm | CINEMA SPACE & DESIRE Feminist film double with introduction regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€ |
FR 2021, D: Bertrand Mandico, A: Elina Löwensohn, Christophe Bier, Ekaterina Ozhiganova, 37′, OV with English subtitles, 35mm, German premiere
Added to that comes DEAD FLASH, a crepuscular, surreal and sensitive trip. We see a succession of glam images: beat-up figures are wandering through dreamlike landscapes, until an (apelike) apparition of a model plays martyr and demiurge together with her photographer at a photo shooting. In a world of moving surfaces, they attempt to achieve something like grace.
| Thu 8 Sept | Luru Kino in der Spinnerei |
| 8 pm | Subsequent to Neptune Frost regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€ |
RW/US 2021, D: Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman, A: Cheryl Isheja, Bertrand Ninteretse, Eliane Umuhire, Dorcy Rugamba, 105′, OV with English subtitles, languages: Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, French, English, DCP
In this afro-futurist vision, a mixture of sci-fi parable, punky costume musical and an offbeat romance with a queer twist, the directing duo Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman leads us in the mountainous jungle of Rwanda, where a collective of hackers tries to overthrow an authoritarian regime.
The labyrinthine narration is kept together by structures of dreams and political statements, in addition to that repeatedly songs by Williams that are like manifestos and with their portentous drums and mourning chants form the powerful, emotional heartbeat of the film. The exuberant costumes intertwine local myths and high-tech. NEPTUNE FROST wants a lot and is a lot, among other things an exuberant, anti-colonial call to arms.
| Thu 8 Sept | Luru Kino in der Spinnerei |
| 8 pm | With Dead Flash following regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€ |
