We hope you enjoyed the night at Institut fuer Zukunft yesterday. We were really happy to see so many faces there. Thanks a lot for coming!
Also thanks to those that came to the screening at GRASSI Museum yesterday. We hope to’ve gotten you all interested in postcolonial cinema yesterday with »Concerning Violence«. Well, if so, let’s develop our interests further a bit. Tonight we’ll screen the second part of our AFRICAN OUTLINES section—this time at UT Connewitz. Starting at 9pm we will show the films »Twaaga« by Cedric Ido and »Crumbs« by Miguel Llansó.Two films dealing with colonial history and fictions of an African future—but two quite different ones at that: one situated in a concrete historical time and place, the other one in an abstract apocalyptic landscape. You’ll see, there’s more to African cinema and Afrofuturism than you might have thought…
Read more about the films below. For the sake of clarity, there’s the whole programme of our AFRICAN OUTLINES section again below.
See you in the dark places!
Your GEGENkino
Twaaga
BF/FR 2013, D: Cedric Ido, A: Sabourou Bamogo, Harouna Ouedraogo, 30’, OV with English subtitles, DCP
1987. Burkina Faso in the year of the assassination of the anti-imperialist president Thomas Sankara. The two brothers Albert and Manu struggle along, each of them in his own way. The older Albert is part of a gang that is commissioned to bully a Lebanese dealer. Whereas Manu is still a child, loves comics and, in his recently tailored superhero costume, lives in magical world in which emancipation movements matter only if they help him to understand the mythologies of his mighty role models. That way he frolics through the dusty streets of his home town until he has to realize that with an own personal suit, you also have to claim your own destiny.
Crumbs
ET/ES 2015, D: Miguel Llansó, A: Daniel Tadesse, Selam Tesfaye, 68’, OV with English subtitles, DCP
The genre: post-apocalypse-science-fiction. A word as long as the hero’s journey undertaken to find Santa Claus. He is walking through different landscapes, sometimes sparse and desolate, sometimes green and lush. The hero is armed with western pop culture goods that become charged and turned into sacred artefacts. At home in the bowling alley, his girlfriend follows a mysterious voice from deep below while an extraterrestrial flying object reigns over everything. A lot of things come apart. Solely the altar for Michael Jordan – as always – seems to provide religious refuge. Spaniard Miguel Llansó, who has been living in Ethiopia for many years and whose passion belongs to experimental and punk attitudes in film and music, makes use of marvellous peculiarities of the imagination, the beauty of the countryside and the strong presence of his actors. Out of that, he creates a surreal, cinematic bastard full of humour and self-irony.
23 April, 9 pm – UT Connewitz – € 6,5/5,5 (red.)
GEGENkino presents
AFRICAN OUTLINES
| Fri 22 April GRASSI Museum of Ethnography | AFRICAN OUTLINES #1 |
| 7 PM | Concerning Violence. Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense Doc SE/FI/US/DK 2014, D: Göran Hugo Olsson, 85’, OV with German subtitles, BluRay Introduction by Diana Ayeh & Natascha Bing (AG Postkolonial Leipzig) |
| Sat 23 April Luru Kino | AFRICAN OUTLINES #2 | DOUBLE FEATURE |
| 9 pm | Twaaga BF/FR 2013, D: Cedric Ido, A: Sabourou Bamogo, Harouna Ouedraogo, 30’, OV with English subtitles, DCP Crumbs ET/ES 2015, D: Miguel Llansó, A: Daniel Tadesse, Selam Tesfaye 68’, OV with English subtitles, DCP |
| Tue 26 April Luru Kino | Crumbs ET/ES 2015, D: Miguel Llansó, A: Daniel Tadesse, Selam Tesfaye 68’, OV with English subtitles, DCP |
| 9 PM | Run CIV/F 2014, D: Philippe Lacôte, A: Abdoul Karim Konaté, Isaach de Bankolé, Djinda Kane, OV with English subtitles, 102’, DCP Introduction by Diana Ayeh & Natascha Bing (AG Postkolonial Leipzig) |
| Sat 30 April Schaubühne Lindenfels | AFRICAN OUTLINES #3 | AFRICAN SHORTS |
| 8 PM | Young Africans – short film programme and lecture by Claudia Böhme Chop My Money (CD 2014, D: Theo Anthony, OV with English subtitles, 13’) Yellow Fever (UK/KE 2012, D: Ng’endo Mukii, OV with English subtitles, 7’) Walk With Me (DK/UG 2015, D: Johan Oettinger, Peter Tukei Muhumuza, no dialogue, 12’) The Goat (SA 2014, D: John Trengove, OV with English subtitles, 13’) |
| 10 PM | Necktie Youth ZA/NL 2015, D: Sibs Shongwe-La Mer, A: Sibs Shongwe-La Mer, Bonko Khoza, Colleen Balchin, 86’, OV with English subtitles, BluRay |
Concerning Violence – Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defence
Let’s not forget about our screening today at 7pm today, too! We will present the film »Concerning Violence« in cooperation with GRASSI Museum for Ethnography and AG Postkolonial Leipzig. A few words about the AG Postkolonial (in case you haven’t heard of them yet):
As part of the Engagierte Wissenschaft e.V., that is trying to transfer scientific discourses and debates into political practice, AG Postkolonial wants to bring out the connection between colonial history and recent debates on racism, global inequality and the contemporary dealing with »Others«. Furthermore, AG Postkolonial concerns itself with the politics of colonial memory and also tries to unveil traces of colonialism in the city of Leipzig. We couldn’t wish for a better to partner to introduce the film »Concerning Violence« than the AG Postkolonial.
Fri, 22 April 2016, 7pm – GRASSI Museum of Ethnography
»Concerning Violence – Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense«
(Doc SE/FI/US/DK 2014, D: Göran Hugo Olsson, 85’, OV with German subtitles, BluRay)
With an introduction by Diana Ayeh & Natascha Bing (AG Postkolonial Leipzig)
If you’re quick on your bikes, you might be able to make it to both screenings today:
7pm, GRASSI Musem – AFRICAN OUTLINES: CONCERNING VIOLENCE
9pm, IfZ – GEGENkino & Cry Baby present DESIRE WILL SET YOU FREE
Buntes Kino gegen graue Konvention: Desire Will Set You Free | Tracks ARTE
Hey, we’re on TV! Well, almost. ARTE Tracks wrote some nice words about our festival and about our screening and party tonight at Institut für Zukunft.
Big honour!
Word’s gotten around already who our special guest is going to be? If not, you’re in for a fruity surprise tonight:
9pm, Institut fuer Zukunft
GEGENkino & Cry Baby present DESIRE WILL SET YOU FREE
Film screening: Desire Will Set You Free
(DE 2015, D: Yony Leyser, A: Yony Leyser, Tim Fabian Hoffmann, Chloe Griffin, 92’, OV with German subtitles, BluRay) Director Yony Leyser will be present.
11 pm – After-screening Party with:
~ Special Guest DJ-Set ~
Abyss X (S H A M E) – live
Ziúr (Boo Hoo)
Zacker (No No No!)
Claire
CAST +BBE (Cry Baby)
XVII (IfZ)
Tomorrow will be the grand opening of this year’s GEGENkino—with Sean Baker’s magnificent L.A. hunting trip movie »Tangerine«!
Meanwhile, let’s get pumped for the festival with our new and hot trailer—conceived and edited by Stefania Smolkina.
See you all soon, we hope, at one of this year’s GEGENkino places: UT Connewitz, Luru Kino at the Spinnerei, Schaubühne Lindenfels, Institut fuer Zukunft, GRASSI Museum for Ethnography, or Paul Gerhardt Church.
21 Apr – 1 May, 2016
Looking forward quite a lot,
Your GEGENkino crew
And we’re still getting surprising news coming in:
Filmmaker Johann Lurf announced that he will come to the Vertical Cinema event on Apr 28 at Paul Gerhardt Church, where he will talk about and introduce us to the Vertical Cinema project
and will also be available for a Q&A.
»Johann Lurf (AT) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and the Slade School of Art in London, graduating from Harun Farocki’s film class. His films Vertigo Rush (2007), 12 Explosionen (2008), Kreis Wr.Neustadt/A to A (2011), to name but a few, have been screened and won awards at numerous international film festivals.« (source: verticalcinema.org)
Johann Lurf‘s experimental short film »Pyramid Flare« is part of the Vertical Cinema programme.
Thu, 28 April – 9 pm, Paul-Gerhardt-Church Connewitz
Vertical Cinema [German Premiere]
