Good news, everyone! We’ve got one further guest coming to our festival:
For the screening of »Der Nachtmahr« on April 29 Amir Hamz—producer of film—will come to Schaubühne Lindenfels and talk about important stuff with us; namely: financing (among other things)! How can you manage to shoot a film like »Der Nachtmahr«, when you’ve got no state funding for your project? Is crowdfunding really the new golden path?
Come to the screening in order to hear more about it.
Der Nachtmahr
(GER 2015, D: AKIZ, A: Carolyn Genzkow, Arnd Klawitter, Julia Jenkins, 88’, OV w/ Eng. subs, DCP)
Q&A with producer Amir Hamz after the screening.
29 April, 9 pm – SchaubühneLindenfels – € 6,5/5,5(red.)
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?! Exactly…!
So, on May 1 we will screen the magnificient queer film gem »Fort Buchanan« at Schaubühne Lindenfels. After this one, there will also be a re-screening of »Desire will Set You Free« at 9:30pm (same place), especially for those who can’t make it to the first screening of »Desire will Set You Free« since it might overlap with our screening at GRASSI Museum the same day.
So, that’s it! That’s the whole programme of the festival!
You can download the complete programme guide for GEGENkino 2016 here (.pdf, 4 MB), if you didn’t get a physical one yet.
We hope you’re curious and that we’ll see you all at the festival.
The excited folks of GEGENkino.
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, 8pm – Schaubühne Lindenfels
6,5/5,5 (red.) euros or 9/8 (red.) euros as a combined ticket with »Desire will Set You Free«
Desire Will Set You Free (Re-screening)
(GER 2015, D: Yony Leyser, A: Yony Leyser, Tim Fabian Hoffmann, Chloe Griffin, 92’, OV with German subtitles, BluRay)
1 May, 9.30 pm – Schaubühne Lindenfels
6,5/5,5 (red.) euros or 9/8 (red.) euros as a combined ticket with »Fort Buchanan«
Only one week left until GEGENkino #3! So here’s the second last item in our programme: After our homage to Harun Farocki in 2014 and the one to Hito Steyerl last year, we will pay tribute to another director that we greatly admire.In this year, it will be the Austrian experimental filmmaker and analog film artisan Peter Tscherkassky, out of whose œuvre we will present a selection of short films. Of course, GEGENkino wouldn’t be the festival it is, if we weren’t trying to also pay tribute to the cinema itself. Therefore, we will screen Tscherkassky’s films in glorious 35mm! A rare thing to behold!
Peter Tscherkassky: raw material and the celebrating of an absolute cinema
Peter Tscherkassky’s films provoke the viewers with the rough changes of light and dark, sound and silence. Being an achieved analogous craftsman, the Austrian experimental filmmaker copies and recycles found footage, for example minor scenes from horror films, into new intriguingly uncanny compositions. In doing so, his internationally highly acclaimed works not only test the limits of film’s raw materiality through audio processing and multiple exposure, but rather attempt, pursue and shift traditional viewing habits and auditory abilities generally. The heart of his works touches on the pivotal understanding of cinema: it’s about the film itself, its materiality plus the codes that determine its cultural present. Tscherkassky draws inherently slumbering ghosts of the future from obsolete, analogue film material. The results frenetically approach something that defies a description and has to be seen—in the cinema hall, accompanied by thickest darkness and fierce sound.
Happy-End (AT 1996, 11’, 35mm)
Cinemascope Trilogie(AT 1997-2001) [L’Arrivée (1997, 3’, 35mm) / Outer Space (1999, 10’, 35mm) / DreamWork (2001, 11’, 35mm)]
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (AT 2005, 17’, 35mm)
The Exquisite Corpus (AT 2015, 19’, 35mm)
25April, 9pm – Luru-Kino at the Spinnerei – 6,5/5,5(red.)euros
Director Peter Tscherkassky is requested for a talk.
C’est Les Trucs!
The dada synth-punk duo from the Knertz Collective will come to GEGENkino festival and present their most recent project—a live score for F. W. Murnau’s classic
TheLastLaugh—on 27April
at UT Connewitz.
If you know the band’s music you can
guess that this performance will be quite different from your usual
pianist-adds-live-score-to-Metropolis-or-whatever events.
Prepare yourselves!
And if you want to spoil the surprise for you, have a look here:
Les Trucs add live score to The Last Laugh
(GER 1924, D: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, A: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, 90’, silent, BluRay)
“Today you are first and best, respected by everyone, a minister, a general, maybe even a prince— do you know what you will be tomorrow?”—with these words Murnau’s Weimar classic TheLastLaughopens up and then goes to tell a story of social decline. The main character, played by Emil Jannings, climbs down the career ladder and, formerly a concierge of good standing, he becomes a lavatory attendant. Not only regarding the narrative and acting the film is committed to the expressionist film language prevalent in the 1920s, but also from a technical point of view. For the first time in film history, cinematographer Karl Freund turns loose the “unleashed camera”: from now on, in cinema, not only images and characters are moving, but also the view now wanders through space.
Aided by synthesisers, sequencers and various sounding devices, Charlotte Simon and Zink Tonsur alias LesTrucs will enrich Murnau’s silent film with live sound in the hall of UT Connewitz. Music and performance of this duo are full of a Dadaist spirit. Everyone present will have to accept the fact that what is happening before one’s own eyes and inside one’s own ears cannot even roughly be described. Wonderful it is at least. If Murnau will show his magnificence on screen, it is rather unlikely that LesTrucs will withdraw themselves in their performance in front of the screen.
27April, 9 pm – UT Connewitz – € 12/10 (red.)
Here’s Ricaletto’s designs for this year’s GEGENkino poster as well as for our flyers – in new and shiny colours!
Keep your eyes open while walking through the city and see the life-size versions of them!
Flashy!
