Today is the finale of GEGENkino. Big thanks already to everyone who came to the festival and supported us!
Tonight we will watch Abel Ferrara’s rape&revenge cult classic Ms. 45 from 35mm film roll! 8pm at UT Connewitz
Ms. 45
(USA 1981, D: Abel Ferrara, A: Zoe Tamerlis Lund, Jack Thibeau, Peter Yellen, 81’, German version, 35mm)
Since Julia Reifenberger isn’t able to give the lecture before the screening, entrance will only cost 6 and 5 (red.) Euros.
Die Rächerinnen in Rape&Revenge-Filmen wie Ms. 45 »werden nicht nur für die Morde zur Verantwortung gezogen die sie an Figuren begangen haben, die an der Vergewaltigung keinerlei Schuld tragen. Bestraft wird hier zugleich ein feminines Aufbegehren gegen Sexismus und sexualisierte Gewalt, ein Selbstermächtigung der Frau zur Wehrhaftigkeit und der Ausbruch aus der Geschlechternorm einer passiven Weiblichkeit durch die Gewaltausübung. Eine solche Reaktion, das implizieren diese Rape-Revenge-Plots, führt direkt dazu, dass Frauen Amok laufen und deshalb – notfalls durch eine Vergewaltigung – in ihre Schranken gewiesen werden müssen.« (Julia Reifenberger)
Full frontal female discourse tonight:
At 6:30pm the ballroom of Schaubühne Lindenfels opens up for our »all eyez on v« video exhibition, in which various works dealing with female narrationship and the possibilites of (post-)porn filmmaking.
Similar topics will be discussed after at the »PussyPop« panel which starts at 7:30pm. With: Laura Méritt (Sexaktivistin, Mitbegründerin PorYes – Feminist Porn Award), Sven Lewandowski (Soziologe; Autor von »Die Pornographie der Gesellschaft«) und Tatjana Turanskyj (Filmemacherin, u.a. »Eine flexible Frau« & »Top Girl«).
Afterwards, at 10pm, Tatjana Turanskyj will precent her most recent film »Top Girl, oder: la déformation professionnelle« and have a Q&A with the audience after the screening.
Free entrance to the exhibition and the panel. The exhibition will be open until Saturday, 25 April. Some of the exhibiting artists will be present and available for discussion.
Tonight at GEGENkino we will put our focus on young, fresh and interesting German language cinema. See how it’s done!
We’ve got a handful of guests coming to our two screenings tonight, by the way:
»SOLDATE JEANNETTE« main actress Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg,
»A PROLETARIAN WINTER’S TALE« director Julian Radlmaier, and
film critic Dennis Vetter will be there to give introductions to the two films and hold a discussion with the audience.
Tickets are 6 or 5 (red.) euros for each screening. A combi ticket for both screenings is 8 and 6 (red.) euros. Unbeatably low prices at the Luru-Kino! See you tonight!
8pm, LuRu-cinema at the Spinnerei
Soldate Jeannette
(AUT 2013, D: Daniel Hoesl, A: Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg, Christina Reichstaler, 73’, bluray)
10pm, LuRu-cinema at the Spinnerei
Ein proletarisches Wintermärchen
(GER 2014, D: Julian Radlmaier, A: Natia Bakhtadze, Lars Rudolph, 63’, OV english subbed, bluray)
Big thanks to all the people that came to our festival the last two days! Thanks to Luru Kino in der Spinnerei and UT Connewitz and to •• Videokills •• for their great choice of films and musicians!
GEGENkino continues tonite at Institut fuer Zukunft.
We will start at 10:30pm with some 16mm screenings of short films by Maria Lassnig, Valie Export and Mara Mattuschka, and a talk with filmmaker Julia Ostertag who will show her film »Sexjunkie«. So, be early! The music and performances will start afterwards. Check the timetable!
There’s also going to be some more films looping at various places all over the IfZ. Be surprised!
TRAKT 1
11:15pm—12am: SEXUS 3 Performance by Quimera Rosa
12am—1am: Bonnie Li
1am—2am: WE WILL FAIL
2am—4am: Kaltès
4am—END: nyt
Lecture by Julia Reifenberger
Girls with Guns. Radical feminist fantasies of empowerment?
In no other subgenre than in the rape&revenge film from the 70’s has the often conjured battle of the sexes been staged more varied and has been depicted more uncoded and violently. The rape of a woman provides the narrative core. It is certain that the committed act drops back to the perpetrator in form of revenge executed in cold blood. Based on this compression of sexualized violence, counter-violence and female revolt, cultural scientist and film scholar Julia Reifenberger will build on current productions and cast a glance on historical lines of development. It will become clear that rape&revenge films are not necessarily exploitative or aim at sensational curiosity and cheap thrills. Just as in Bergman’s The Virgin Spring (1960), rape&revenge-elements are also to be found in Virginie Despentes’ Rape Me (2000) and Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible (2003).
By reference to examples from films, Reifenberger will enquire about the feminist potential of the genre, and talk about implications of gender politics and the transition of revenge campaigns. While in the early days, vengeance resided within the male family members of the victim, it later evolves from the individual empowerment of the victim. Brutally but sensually, it executes revenge itself. For several years, this revenge is told compulsory as counter-rape that takes away the male and privileged identity from the tormentor.
Following the lecture:
Ms. 45
(USA 1981, D: Abel Ferrara, A: Zoe Tamerlis Lund, Jack Thibeau, Peter Yellen, 81’, German version, 35mm)
On one and the same day, the mute woman Thana is raped twice. Her second tormentor does not survive his infamous action. Chopped up to small pieces, he initially ends up in the fridge, and after that in New York City’s garbage cans. The finding of his .45 colt is the start of tidying up rigorously. Thana gets even with male monstrosity. Early deceased Zoe Tamerlis Lund strikes up furiously.
26 April, 8 pm – UT Connewitz
Lecture and film: 8/6 (red.) euros
