Only seven days to go until GEGENkino starts. Time to announce the final item in our programme scope [out of frame] – a video exhibition featuring the following works:
- Cindy Cordt – Die Trächtige Bache eifert den gurgelnden Bach nach (2012)
- Kiron Guidi – Deer (2013)
- Stefanie Schroeder – Ein Bild abgeben (2014)
- Clara Wieck & Ginan Seidl – Rotation (2014)
- Christoph Bartsch & Thomas Taube – Hans und das Glück
- PUNK IS DADA – 2013/14
- Clemens von Wedemeyer – Untitled (Rekonstruktion) (2005)
- Juanzi Cheng – Pending Crisis / Collapse (2012)
- Katharina Wittmann – Still (2013)
In scope [out of frame], the entire ballroom of Schaubühne Lindenfels turns into the space behind the screen. Cinema has gone to pieces, been scattered around and recomposed with the help of a strange magnet – to a scenery of screens, projectors and sound relocating bodies in the sphere of film.
05 April, 6 pm – 11 pm
06 and 07 April, 7 pm – 11 pm
fee: € 5/4 (red.) (plus “Baufuffziger”)
free entrance at the opening on 05 April
By the way, some of you might have already gotten their hands on one of our programme guides. Those who didn’t, can download it right here.
Yes yes, we know it’s quite a lot to ask of you to go to the movies ten days in a row. But hey, it might be your only chance to see Kim Ki-Duk’s most recent flick “Moebius” (in Germany for whatever reason also known as “Moebius, die Lust, das Messer”) on the big screen, because almost no cinema wanted to show it. So it’s on us to bring it to you:
Moebius
(KR 2013, D: Kim Ki-duk, A: Cho Jae-hyun, Seo Young-ju, Lee Eun-woo, 90’, no dialogue, BluRay)
Kim Ki-duk’s films have always been controversial. His latest – “Moebius” – was being shown in Venice last year, whereas according to regulations in South Korea, it is allowed to be screened in “special” cinemas only – cinemas that indeed do not exist. Without a doubt, the film is a dark challenge reminiscent of ancient tragedies: a father destroys his family – beset with feelings of guilt because of his son’s castration, he terminates an affair and makes a major sacrifice for him. Masterfully staged as pure showing without dialogue, a montage with rough sound editing, the images unfold to a painful, Freudian grotesque all about passion, guilt and violence.
10 April, 9pm – LuRu-Cinema at the Spinnerei – € 6/5 (red.)
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Three hours are 180 minutes. Think about it…that is why PANDT from IfZ will also arrive on the scene and help to generate some dizziness during the opening projection of Michael Snow’s „La Region Centrale“.
Eröffnung GEGENkino /// opening GEGENkino
Felix Kubin & PANDT vertonen /// add sound to „La Region Centrale“
03. April, 20 Uhr
UT Connewitz
Check: https://soundcloud.com/pandt
Felix Kubin and PANDT add sound to “La Région Centrale” (CAN 1971, D: Michael Snow, 180’, no dialogue, 16mm)
As electronic anarchist and founder of the “Syndikat für Gegenlärm” (counternoise syndicate), Felix Kubin has been meandering through all musical forms and genres conceivable for 25 years. In Kubinism, all of these merge miraculously: dadaist computer music in the tradition of “Der Plan”, radio play sequences, dented jazz-memories, dystopian sounds playing in a contaminated civilization, and the tone of of beautiful, old acoustic instruments craving for attention once in a while.
Exclusively for GEGENkino, Kubin accompanies Michael Snow’s “La Region Centrale” combining aimlessly wandering synthesizer sounds, vigorous catatonic dance music with his own operetta-like voice. This classic experimental required five days of shooting on a lonely mountaintop in northern Quebec. The camera was mechanically preset and firmly established on a tripod – equipped with 360° rotation, it panned upwards to the sky, circled in all directions without ever repeating a single movement.
An experimental spatial setting is part of the performance.
Tonight we add a healthy amount of DADA to our programme:
On the second last day of GEGENkino Jaap Blonk from the Netherlands will pay a visit to LuRu cinema and serve the audience some of his poetic (or whatever the hell you want to call it) pieces. You can get a slight impression of what it will sound like here, though Jaap is going to put himself into the role of Dr Voxoid who will bring his electronic toys and add all kinds of weird sounds to his dadaist vocal performance.
Furthermore, we are going to screen Helmut Herbst’s essential DADA documentary “Deutschland DADA” from 1969 in order get all the DADA history into your brains.
Jaap Blonk is Dr Voxoid & “Deutschland Dada” (GER 1969, D: Helmut Herbst, 61’, German version, 35mm)
Dada is chaos, spontaneity and ridicule, is infantilism par excellence and yet charming. Dada is severity with greatest playfulness, nihilistic protest, radical attack against and on the arts, on any sense in any art. Dada is a representative of a nonsense that by no means wants to be rubbish. In the 1910s and 20s, Dadaists like Hans Richter, Man Ray or Viking Eggeling were riveted by the technical opportunities of making films. Technics and aesthetic experiment merged to small films, visual interferences that served as inspiration for later generations of film makers. Helmut Herbst’s classic “Deutschland Dada” documents the impacts of the worldwide dadaist explosion in a Dadaist alphabet. Among others, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck and Hans Richter talk about the rare moments in which radical social protest and radical art joined forces for a short time.
Dada has always been a phenomenon spreading across different material. Therefore, after the screening, a performance of Dutch vocal poet Jaap Blonk will add to the movie wonderfully. Being one of the most distinctive exponents in his field worldwide, Blonk’s very physical performances pursue a cinema of the ear that articulates a Dadaist poetry regarding language as sound. Written text does not make any narrative sense but is material for composed articulations of sound, which you most certainly have not experienced in this way ever before.
12 April, 9pm – LuRu-Cinema at the Spinnerei – € 8/6 (red.)
Yes, we did the screen printing last Thursday! Thanx 2 OffenSiWe, DIY screen print place in Lindenau. From now on, we will remember this day as “The day we stopped having great respect for the wipe technique-paintings of Gerhard Richter” – yeah whatever…the important part, i.e. what you will get: gorgeous screen prints – two-coloured, more than two-coloured – in a limited edition of 50, numbered and each with a scrawly signature of Ricaletto. For sale during the festival – preorders via EMail. Each of them is one of a kind – get yours!
Price is 10€ per print – now if that’s not cheap, people…bloody cheap!
