GEGENkino #5 is proudly announcing our cooperation with music plattform RASTER and visual artist Pedro Maia! Robert Lippok is exclusively adding a live score to the 16mm film WASTELAND, Grischa Lichtenberger and Mieko Suzuki will follow up with their audio peformances and all night long you can watch Raster video works on screens installed in the venue.
[Thanks a ton to PAUL NILLING for the poster (design, typeface, visual noise and all) for the event by the way!]
ROBERT LIPPOK adds live score to WASTELAND (2015, Pedro Maia, 30’, no dialogue, 3x16mm)
Subsequently: ROBERT LIPPOK (live set), GRISCHA LICHTENBERGER (live a/v set), MIEKO SUZUKI (dj set)
Plus: INSTALLATION of Raster video works
Pedro Maia: http://www.pedromaia.net/
Robert Lippok: https://soundcloud.com/robert-lippok
Grischa Lichtenberger: https://soundcloud.com/grischenka
Mieko Suzuki: https://soundcloud.com/mieko
Raster: https://www.youtube.com/user/rasternoton
For more than 20 years, Raster (formerly known as: Raster Noton) has established a label that not only stands for a specifically distinct techno and experimental sound, but also for a collective platform that frequently serves as basis for collaborations with artists from various disciplines. The evening will be opened by an encounter of digital and analogue: as a premiere and exclusively for GEGENkino, Robert Lippok adds a live score to WASTELAND, a 16mm-film performance of Portuguese artist Pedro Maia.
The title literally refers to the origin of the filmstrips shown: they are seemingly useless waste, faulty exposures, they are discarded material from an analogue film lab. The colours of WASTELAND are less reminiscent of barren or bleak landscapes but rather remind of Stan Brakhage’s chemical experiments. That means that after being exposed to toxic processes, the images turn into pure colour fields. Maia’s three projectors animate them, let fissures and stains flicker, let veinlets, scratches and debris whirl. After an additional live set by Robert Lippok, Grischa Lichtenberger will present his audiovisual live performance. Raster resident Mieko Suzuki will then end the showcase. Besides, various Raster video works are installed and displayed all night long. They are representative for the close involvement with computers and their audiovisual capabilities – a constant topic that steadily forms the objectives of the label.
Doors: 9 pm
Screening WASTELAND: 9.30 pm
Tickets: 12,00€ + fee • available at Culton Ticket (Peterssteinweg 9) and online via TixforGigs.
Out of the void! GEGENkino’s returning this year with its 5th edition!
This year (April 05 – 15, 2018), our central focus are the topics of protest and resistance. How can film behave and positiion itself considering the reality happening all around it? What logics and formats succeed in reaching for the empathetic sensors of the audience—how does a movement on screen get into the brains of the people?
Find a few answers maybe or some more questions emanating from these questions at GEGENkino 2018.
The logo design was done – as you may’ve recognized already – by beloved Raging Eyeball Ricaletto, as always responsible for GEGENgraphics. Check this out: http://ricaletto.blogsport.de
Hello dear GEGENkino friends,
if you’re clueless what movies to watch right now, here’s a couple of hints for you.
You may remember the hommage to Finnish filmmaker MIKA TAANILA with which we concluded this year’s GEGENkino festival. In case you’ve missed his latest feature length documentary RETURN OF THE ATOM (Atomin Paluu) he did in cooperation with JUSI EEROLA, you’ve got the chance to see it again now in cinemas, for example in CINEDING LEIPZIG.
Check www.cineding-leipzig.de for more information about the film and the screening dates.
Our hommage to Taanila somewhat became an hommage to his long-time collaborator MIKA VAINIO, because of his sudden death in April. Vainio worked together with Taanila on the soundtrack of RETURN OF THE ATOM among other projects. See the very beautiful documentary SÄHKO THE MOVIE about Mika Vainio, shot by Finnish musician JIMI TENOR, over at boilerrom.tv, and see below for some more information on Vainio and the film.
“Mika Vainio’s death in April 2017 sent shock waves rippling through the electronic music community. The late Finnish musician left an indelible mark on noise thanks to his roles in the ‘90s group Pan Sonic and record label Sähkö Recordings. Over the years, Vainio collaborated with Björk, Suicide’s Alan Vega, drone icon Stephen O’Malley and more.
Now, just months following his passing, Boiler Room has unearthed a mythic film about the Sähkö label. Artfully shot on 16mm by Jimi Tenor in 1995, SÄHKO THE MOVIE – a title fans have given the film in the absence of any official one – is a suitably abstract portrayal of the singular label in its prime. Finnish artists featured include Sähkö co-founder Tommi Grönlund, Mono Junk, Hertsi, IFÖ, and, of course, Mika Vainio himself.
The film tracks the Finnish unit at work in the studio making tracks on their trademark custom-built analogue equipment, hand-pressing limited edition vinyl releases and their eardrum rupturing yet delicate live performances.Outside of a few select festival screenings and those who own a rare VHS edition released by Blast First Petite, hardly anyone has seen the 44-minute film but this hasn’t stopped it attaining legendary status.“
© Omsk Social Club feat. PUNK IS DADA
GEGENkino Leipzig – Vaginale plus X – FAR OFF
Hey y’all! Lovely thing happening in Cologne this week:
FAR OFF – Cologne Contemporary Art Fair
2017. Part of the fair’s programme was done in collaboration with our small festival. Originating from the ALL EYEZ ON V video art exhibition, which Stephan Langer curated together with Clara Wieck and Katharina Wittmann for the 2015 edition of GEGENkino back then, we provided some positions to the FAR OFF that deals with facets of female desire and political potentials of pornography. Thanks a lot to Alisa Berger for the invitation! So if you happen to be around from April 27 to 30 – make sure you’ll check it out!
GEGENkino 2017 came to a close yesterday. We hope you enjoyed those eleven days and broadened your cinematographic horizon a bit maybe. We’ll have some days of rest now and the one thing left to say is a huge “thank you!” again to all of you who’ve came to the festival and supported us, to our guests and partners, the filmmakers and to all those who helped us out in whatever way. Thanks thanks thanks! We hope to see you all again in the future…
Cheers and enjoy yourselves!
Your GEGENkino crew
