FR 2019, D: Frank Beauvais, 75’, Orig. with Eng. subs, DCP

During a period of solitude, a man tries to help himself with films. From April to October 2016, director Frank Beauvais watches 400 films, out of which the never ending flow of images of JUST DON’T THINK I’LL SCREAM is put together. Via voiceover, we are told about his personal circumstances: after having separated from his partner, with whom he had moved from Paris to a remote place in Alsace, he lives there isolated, without a car, without purpose. Combined with his obsessive, cinephile self-medication, his intimate confessions develop into a poetic moving-image diary, a haunting study situated between neurosis and excess.

Hey folks! The GEGENkino cooks are standing at the stove again, that is: are still standing at the stove, stirring and stirring. Everything has been bubbling and seething for over a year – the final meal has been postponed, prohibited, adjourned. Meanwhile, the pot’s content has been simmering away – so, this could turn into a really good bolognese. There’s enough to go round, so please give everyone a shout – friends & lovers welcome!

For late summer, we are planning a variant of the festival that is modified to actual circumstances, that is taking place inside – real cinema feeling! – that additionally presents selected, analogue open air screenings on the last warm days of the year.

GEGENkino takes place from August 26 to September 05 – at UT Connewitz, Luru-Kino at the Spinnerei, Schaubühne Lindenfels, 2cl Sommerkino on Conne Island and Plagwitzer Markthalle – more information concerning the programme soon here, at facebook or at instagram. Keep us in good memory – we’re already full of pleasant anticipation to finally see you again, to have a drink with you, being able to chat and discuss with you – caramba!

Dear GEGENkino folks,
we will cancel the festival in April.
Hopefully we’ll be able to do our edition no. 7 in the near future!
Warmest regards from the GEGENkino crew

We’re back! From April 16th to 26th the GEGENkino engines will be running hot again: at Luru Kino at the Spinnerei, at Schaubühne Lindenfels, at Institut fuer Zukunft and at UT Connewitz.
One of this year’s highlights is the German premiere of the live scoring of the film THE GOLEM, HOW HE CAME INTO THE WORLD by Berlin based artist Lucrecia Dalt:
On Friday, April 17th, 2020 at 9 pm at Connewitz UT.

T I C K E T S for 10 Euro are available at culton at Peterssteinweg 9 and online at tixforgigs.

paradoks brings together video installations of local and international artists who work on the intersections of film, art and activism and whose approach and aesthetics operate at the edges of documentary filmmaking. In their work, facts are modified by fictionalised, journalistic and investigative techniques like image processing methods and re-enactments. The exhibition consists of a selection of multichannel video installations which are grouped into two thematic areas. While ‘Arrival’ deals with the different realities of migration and (non)arrival in German society, ‘Precarious Bodies’ explores the working conditions of contemporary artistic production. There will also be a panel discussion on the 27th of October, inviting artists and curators to discuss the activist potential inherent in these constantly shifting boundaries. Which approaches and methods can provide adequate counter images in view of political conditions in the age of fake news and increasing right-wing populism?