Finally the time has come! The GEGENKino opens its doors again to provide you with new cinematic experiences.
We start the evening at 8pm at UT Connewitz with GULYABANi and LA CASA LOBO. Then we move on to the East of Leipzig to the PRACHT. There we will experience the STORIES FROM THE DUMPSTER KID.
| Thu 11.4 UT Connewitz | |
| 8 PM | OPENING FILM Gulyabani NL/TR 2018 • D: Gürcan Keltek • Doc 35’ • Original with english subtitles • DCP La Casa Lobo CL 2018, R: Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña, 75’, Original with german subtitles, DCP In presence of Cristóbal León € 6,5 (5,5 red.) |
| Pracht 10 PM | Stories of the Dumpster Kid BRD 1971 • R: Ula Stöckl, Edgar Reitz • D: Kristine de Loup, Bruno Bendel, Alf Brustellin • 22 Episoden • Gesamtlänge: 220’ • OmeU, digital free entry |
La Casa Lobo – Trailer
Here you can get a small insight into what you can expect this year at the GEGENkino.
Already seen these fancy chicken posters in town? That was us. And please: consider them as an invitation — to go to the cinema, to challenge yourself, to remember, to question your opinions — GEGENkino is back and and is awaiting you in the dark! From 11 to 22 April at UT Connewitz, Luru Kino, at Schaubühne Lindenfels, Pracht and GfZK.
Our marvellous programme will soon be available in marvellous booklets, till then check the download.
See you!
Turn off the lights, open the eyes – The GEGENKino goes into the next round. We present our selection for this year’s festival!
This year we show twelve full days of program. Anyone who has had enough of egg hunting should go to the cinema anyway. Here are a few valid arguments:
Angela Schanelec I WAS HOME, BUT… | I T O E, Andrea Belfi and Flying Moon in Space live set MATERIALFILME by Birgit and Wilhelm Hein | GEGENkinder with MOOMINS AND THE COMET CHASE | Work on the image – Hartmut Bitomsky | Ted Fendt Double – SHORT STAY and CLASSICAL PERIOD – presented by Ted Fendt | BIG BANG BACKWARDS – a Lecture Performance with Nadia Tsulukidze | the the topic of the exhibition are archived memories: Memory as a Flicker u.a. with works by Filipa César, Gabriele Stötzer, Clarissa Thieme, Ludwig Harig and Susann Maria Hempel | re.act.feminism – a performing archive and a lecture by Beatrice Ellen Stammer | “I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS” by Radu Jude | LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Bi Gan | LA CASA LOBO by Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña | BÊTES BLONDES by Maxime Matray and Alexia Walther | THE MELANCHOLIC GIRL by Susanne Heinrich | Selected films by Portuguese director Salomé Lamas and on Easter Monday HEIMAT IS A SPACE OF TIME in the presence of Thomas Heise in conversation with Claus Löser
and much more…
Trailer
GER/SRB 2019, D: Angela Schanelec, A: Maren Eggert, Jakob Lassalle, Clara Möller, Franz Rogowski, Lilith Stangenberg, Alan Williams, Jirka Zett, Dane Komljen, 105’, german OV with engl. Subtitles
Is it possible for a feature film to authentically deal with death? What does it mean when an actor pretends to be mortally ill – is this ethically and aesthetically acceptable or is it merely a lie? Can images convey a truth that is not personal but universal? In her new film, Angela Schanelec has her protagonist Astrid express these problems directly. Astrid has lost her husband and the father of two mutual children. A friend of her treating this very subject in his artistic work, gets accused by her of having overstepped the boundary of presentability. Schanelec takes a different approach: like Yasujirō Ozu’s silent film “I was born, but”, which the title of Schanelec’s film follows, her film narrates via absent things, omissions, the before and after of dramatic happenings. What can be seen is the condition of the characters. Impressions can be found in their physical presence – dirt, wounds, illness, posture and gestures. The actors’ surface turns their personality concrete. Bodies isolate themselves. Interactions provoke eruptions. Fears turn outward. Touch soothes. The actors embrace their role physically instead of performing it in a naturalistic and realistic way. Schanelec does not care about any enactment of fate. She shows a snapshot of everyday melancholy. Her images’ strict concept uncovers truth and enables the viewer to feel sympathy by understanding.
12 April, 8 pm – Luru Kino at the Spinnerei – € 6,5 (5,5 red.)
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