As promised, here comes a first announcement for our programme at Reich&Schoen Festival 2016.
We will screen films at the festival from Thu, July 9, 6pm until Fri, July 10, 9pm. [Check out the several other workshops that will be held at the festival, too, though!] After that it’s time to dance and party. But if you don’t feel like doing so, we will still be there for you and hold some screenings in secret.
In one section of our programme we want to show films that address gender, trans* and feminist issues. We are really happy therefore to have Katja Zeitler coming to the festival on Fri, July 10, 2pm to show her documentary film »Lichtvögel«, in which she portays her way from being Armin Zeitler to becoming Katja Zeitler and especially the trouble she had to face during the process—in society, in her family and with herself. Katja Zeitler will be available after the screening for a talk with the audience.
9 July, 2pm – Reich&Schoen Festival
Hello, lovely GEGENkino followers, here’s some breaking news:
Summer, too, is a good time to spend indoors watching movies! Not only does it reduce the risk of getting a sunstroke or sunburn drastically, but also will it make you become a cooler, more clever, more critical person than you already are—at best.
Hence, we took the opportunity and will provide you with some premium cinematic (and cinematically extended) content at this year’s Reich&Schoen Festival!
The festival’s gonna take place from 9th–11th July 2016, somewhere close to the border to Czech Republic.
Get more information about the festival over at:
rus16.reichundschoen-festival.de or www.facebook.com/ruskollektiv
Our programme for the festival’s cinema section will be revealed later on.
Stay tuned!
Thanks a lot to all those who supported our festival in whatever way and a huge thank you, of course, to all of you, for attending our events! We were glad to see so many people coming to the screenings—far more people than we expected. Your interest and appreciation really fueled us to continue our small festival. Thanks thanks thanks for keeping alternative cinema alive!
Now, let’s all enjoy the summer.
Check back every once in a while here for updates about GEGENkino. Let’s see what the future will bring. We hope to see you all again!
Love,
your GEGENkino crew!
A jolly 1st of May everybody!
And also: the end is near! Today’s the last day of GEGENkino 2016.
What could be better after a long, hard Day of Labour than watching a film, where all dialogue’s comprised of quotes from US American TV shows and soap operas and seeing Peaches, Rummelsnuff, Blixa Bargeld, Nina Hagen and Wolfgang Müller in the same film afterwards?! Exactly…!
Fort Buchanan
FR/TN 2014, D: Benjamin Crotty, A: Andy Gillet, Iliana Zabeth, David Baiot, Mati Diop, 65’, OV with English subtitles, DCP
In Benjamin Crotty’s debut feature, the eponymous »Fort Buchanan« is located in the French countryside and actually, it’s more a queer rural commune than a military base. Although, most of the inhabitants have husbands still in the active service. Like Roger, whose significant other Frank is in Africa and whose mutual daughter Roxy likewise is dreaming of a future in the army. Apropos of nothing, her juvenile sexuality awakens, a fact that the polyamorous fort notices with joy. Father No. 1 is tormented by solitude and fidelity, which is why the community summarily decides to fly to Djibouti to visit father No. 2. But after 18 years of marriage, passion and desire refuse to really arise, even hot pants and a new haircut cannot help that. What a virtuoso film! So full of sensuality: the colours, the bodies, the light, the coarseness of the 16mm material. Along with it, a mixture of country tunes, classical music and electro party sounds. A hybrid full of artificiality, confusing cuts, and dialogues that are all taken from US soap operas and which in French appear as completely bizarre! Down with expectations! A cheer for fine humour! Here’s Queer Cinema at its best!
1 May, 8 pm – Schaubühne Lindenfels
€ 6,5/5,5 (red.) / € 9/8 (red.) as a combined ticket with Desire Will Set You Free
Desire Will Set You Free
GER 2015, D: Yony Leyser, A: Yony Leyser, Tim Fabian Hoffmann, Chloe Griffin, 92’, OV with German subtitles, BluRay
Ezra, an US-American writer, comes to Berlin. Because of David Bowie. He spends his days clubbing, taking drugs, having pseudo-philosophical conversations and wanting to be more punk, whilst wishing he wrote more. Most of his time is spent with his dark and witty friend Catharine, who has an unsettling fetish for Nazi paraphernalia. At a bar, he meets Sasha, a Russian immigrant working as an escort. Both of them are drifting through the queer subculture and the excessive underground of the city, doing their job or seeking for life, love, sex and ecstasy. With its many playgrounds for marginalised cultures, the city of Berlin becomes the main character of the film. Filmed on real locations, many people play themselves, featuring among others Peaches, Rummelsnuff, Blixa Bargeld, Blood Orange, Nina Hagen and Wolfgang Müller.
1 May, 9.30 pm – Schaubühne Lindenfels
€ 6,5/5,5 (red.) / € 9/8 (red.) as a combined ticket with Fort Buchanan
Sibs Shongwe-La Mer talks Necktie Youth | TRUE Africa
The end is approaching. Two more days and GEGENkino 2016 will be history. Today already is the last day of our AFRICAN OUTLINES section with two screenings tonight!
8pm at Schaubühne Lindenfels we will present a collection of short films by up-and-coming filmmakers from different African countries in our »Young Africans« programme. And there’s quite a lot to show! Short films with topics ranging from life on the streets to corporeal self-definition. Check out the whole programme here:
Dr. Claudia Böhme from the Institute of Ethnology at Universität Trier will come to screening and introduce the films by giving an overview about the contexts in which these African realities are situated.
10pm, also at Schaubühne Lindenfels we will screen the »Necktie Youth« by the only 23-year-old Sibs Shongwe-La Mer—a teenage drama in the vein of movies like »Ken Park« and a representation of youth in Johannesburg. Stylish as hell!
According to TRUEAfrica, »[Necktie Youth] feels like a revolutionary film; a political awakening that shows another side of Africa, far from the slums, the child soldiers and acacia trees; an Africa which is tapped into the same social network as the kids in a Larry Clark movie or in a Bret Easton Ellis novel«.
Oh, by the way, we will also offer combined tickets for both screenings for 9/8 (red.) euros.
Your GEGENkino crew
