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€ |
| 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 |
| 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 |
The last day again offers a big variety of impressions. We start at 2 p.m. in the UT Connewitz with this year’s contribution to GEGENkinderkino: The King and the Bird. At 7 p.m. the UT we will screen Ladoni. Both films flicker on wonderful analog 35mm copies.
At the same time we are showing the double feature Imperial Valley / Ralf’s Colors in the Luru Kino in der Spinnerei. Michael Petri, the cutter from Ralf’s Colors, will accompany the event as our guest. At 9 p.m. Just don’t think I’ll Scream puts an effective end to this years GEGENkino Festival.
| Sun 05 Sept | Luru Kino |
| UT Connewitz 2 pm 7 pm Luru Kino | regular: 2€ regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€ regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€ double feature: 11€ / reduced 9€ |
| 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 |
Today at 7 pm at the UT Connewitz is this years score by Lucrecia Dalt of Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam.
There are still some TICKETS (€ 12) available via TixforGigs and in the evening after 8 pm at the box office
Live scoring THE GOLEM by Paul Wegener and Carl Boese from 1920, the expressionist classic of Weimar cinema, appears fairly hidden. The story of Rabbi Löw who creates the clay figure Golem to avert the imminent expulsion of inhabitants of the Jewish ghetto of Prague in the 16th century. Out of a linkage of unfortunate circumstances, the figure subsequently opposes its creator. The film’s buildings, designed by Hans Poelzig, were leading the way for further set designs to come – until today, THE GOLEM is considered as a prototype for the horror genre. Everywhere, there are thronging phantasmagorias, nightmares of a world whose human faces have become grimaces, whose streets have got steep mountain paths, whose dwellings are warped and in danger of collapsing.
Similar to the magic the clay is being vitalised with turning it into a golem, Colombian sound artist and former geotechnical engineer Lucrecia Dalt will energise new abysses inside the images with her deep bass frequencies. Dalt is an internationally booked and acclaimed musician and performer. She moves freely between academic or museum settings and club contexts. In her subtle soundscapes, she subverts overly rigid ideas of form, experiments with South American rhythms, looped drone sounds and unique spoken word passages. She has transferred a geological framework to her musical approach: she compares her songwriting to ground and rock layers, which have deposited on earth’s surface as one large mass and yet are composited of single elements with individual characteristics. What emerges tonally is an unprecedented, surrealistically accumulated terrain.
| 4 September | UT Connewitz |
| € 12 [Tickets available via: TixforGigs] |
