GER 1920, D: Paul Wegener, Carl Boese, A: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch, 76′, tinted, DCP 4K
Tickets (€ 12) available via: https://www.tixforgigs.com/Event/38121)
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 |
| 9 pm | € 12 [Tickets available via: TixforGigs] |
Hey folks! The GEGENkino cooks are standing at the stove again, that is: are still standing at the stove, stirring and stirring. Everything has been bubbling and seething for over a year – the final meal has been postponed, prohibited, adjourned. Meanwhile, the pot’s content has been simmering away – so, this could turn into a really good bolognese. There’s enough to go round, so please give everyone a shout – friends & lovers welcome!
For late summer, we are planning a variant of the festival that is modified to actual circumstances, that is taking place inside – real cinema feeling! – that additionally presents selected, analogue open air screenings on the last warm days of the year.
GEGENkino takes place from August 26 to September 05 – at UT Connewitz, Luru-Kino at the Spinnerei, Schaubühne Lindenfels, 2cl Sommerkino on Conne Island and Plagwitzer Markthalle – more information concerning the programme soon here, at facebook or at instagram. Keep us in good memory – we’re already full of pleasant anticipation to finally see you again, to have a drink with you, being able to chat and discuss with you – caramba!
paradoks brings together video installations of local and international artists who work on the intersections of film, art and activism and whose approach and aesthetics operate at the edges of documentary filmmaking. In their work, facts are modified by fictionalised, journalistic and investigative techniques like image processing methods and re-enactments. The exhibition consists of a selection of multichannel video installations which are grouped into two thematic areas. While ‘Arrival’ deals with the different realities of migration and (non)arrival in German society, ‘Precarious Bodies’ explores the working conditions of contemporary artistic production. There will also be a panel discussion on the 27th of October, inviting artists and curators to discuss the activist potential inherent in these constantly shifting boundaries. Which approaches and methods can provide adequate counter images in view of political conditions in the age of fake news and increasing right-wing populism?
After 12 days of screenings, meetings, talks, concerts, exhibitions, drinking, sun and ice cream, GEGENkino is over. And we have more eyes than before. We really hope you had a pleasant time! Alright, now the thanks parade –
A big thank you goes out to our three main venues – UT Connewitz, Luru Kino in der Spinnerei, Schaubühne Lindenfels, with one day visits to our cooperation partners this year: Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig and Pracht. Cordial thanks to you, our audience, crowd, clientele, call yourselves whatever you prefer. Also, to our guests this year, providing background knowledge, insights, and fun – Cristóbal León, Judith (from Hamburg), Ted Fendt, Wilhelm Hein, Annette Frick, Andrea Belfi, I T O E, Flying Moon In Space, Andrea Marinelli, Ramón Reichert, Frederik Lang, Nadia Tsulukidze, Beatrice Stammer, Natascha Frankenberg, Susanne Heinrich, Claus Löser, Gabriele Stötzer, Thomas Heise.
A big thanks to all the filmmakers for their films and videos and works, be it in our film programme or the exhibition, thanks to all the distributors we have been working together with all over the world. And: to people working in the venues, making it all possible, projectionists, technicians of all kinds, ticket takers, bar people! Thanks to Anne Elisabeth Witzmann for conceptualising the space of the ballroom of Schaubühne Lindenfels. Thansk to Alex Brade and Ricaletto for being our wonderful graphical wizards. And: grazie to all people supervising our exhibition MEMORY AS A FLICKER – you did a really nice job (and you were friendly). Thanks to our sponsors, giving us the money much needed. And finally, thanks to ourselves, for doing it again (and again). All for now – sorry to anyone who we have forgotten. No offense, really. Well then, see you next year in April!
Zwischendurch werden wir euch immer wieder mit kleineren Updates versorgen. Einerseits wollen wir euch Empfehlungen aussprechen. Zum Anderen gibt es vielleicht die ein oder andere kleinere GEGENkino Veranstaltung zwischendurch. Beispielsweise ist eine Verlängerung der Bitomsky Reihe in ein paar Monaten angedacht. Falls ihr auf dem Laufenden bleiben wollt, kuckt immer wieder bei uns vorbei!
Wer jetzt keine Lust auf das gute Wetter und immer noch nicht genug von Kino hat. Hier ein paar Empfehlungen für die kommenden Tage:
In the meantime, we will provide you with smaller updates. We want to make you recommendations. And perhaps there will be smaller GEGENkino events in between. For example in a few months there is an extension of the Bitomsky series is planned. If you want to stay up to date, keep on watching us pass us by!
If you are still not filled up with cinema. Here are a few recommendations for the coming days:
| 24. April Luru-Kino | Horror-Double with Donis 08 PM Das Auge des Bösen 10 PM L’Ossessa |
| 29. April Schaubühne Lindenfels | KlubKinoKlub always Monday 7 PM Updates via mailing list klubkinoklub@schaubuehne.com |
| 1. Mai Luru-Kino | ACHTERNBUSCH WERKSCHAU 07 PM Der junge Mönch 09 PM Das Gespenst |
| 2. Mai Luru-Kino | 09 PM One Cut of the Dead |
| 8. Mai Luru-Kino | Ballet Mécanique Vol. 6 (#31) Supporting Film + Lohnbuchhalter Kremke |
| 16. Mai Cinémathèque Leipzig e.V. | RosaLinde Leipzig e.V. presents 07 PM KIKI Documentary about Idahit* 2019 |
