Prison System 4614 & The Incomplete
(GER 2015 & 2013, Doc, D: Jan Soldat, 60’ & 48’, OV w/ english subtitles, bluray)
Director Jan Soldat and actor Klaus Johannes »The Incomplete« Wolf will be present.
The eponymous prison here is not a place where sentences are executed but rather a private disciplinary institution, in which people are playing out bondage phantasies and fetishes of submission. Thus, the man fixed on the floor is a sacrifice of his own accord and a paying customer at the same time. His agonies are pieces of service, planned in preliminary talks and genuinely arranged with the help of original prison armatures and Guantanamo-like overalls.
By means of a deliberate narrative structure and trenchant questions skilfully placed, Jan Soldat works out unexpectedly much space for affection, empathy and confidence inside of this setting. At the latest when inmates and guards answer these questions and start to relate stories of themselves, describing their stay behind bars as “unwinding” and “leaving daily life behind”, normality invades the visually depicted deviation.
The Incomplete also proves to be clear of any sentimentalities and attempts to mediate a sexually marginalized man – it is a documentary short profile about the 60-year-old Klaus Johannes Wolf and his life as a slave. Chained to his bed, he talks about his experiences, his parents and what is means to be naked.
22 April, 9 pm – UT Connewitz – € 6/5 (red.)
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Another thing: There’s still three weeks left to submit your works to our “Vaginale” Call for Entries. Remember!
1) DEADLINE for VIDEOKILLS submissions prolonged!
2) Closing day for applications for internship at GEGENkino
Our partners from •• Videokills •• have prolonged the deadline for your submissions to »The Explorer Series: Invisible City Symphonies«
by two weeks. Meaning, you will have time until the 15th of February to submit your films and videos as well as music material to the programme.
All further information you might need, can be found here:
https://videokills4lyfe.wordpress.com/call-leipzig-2015
Videokills | »The Explorer Series: Invisible City Symphonies«
Dear friends of GEGENkino, we are glad to announce that for the upcoming GEGENkino festival we will team up with the artists’ collective VIDEOKILLS and booking agency [fwd: like waves] in order to curate an evening of collaboratively compiled works of silent movies and specially composed scores. VIDEOKILLS offers filmmakers, media artists and musicians a […]
As for the internship at our festival that we were offering: we’ve received quite enough interesting applications and can’t accept any further applications from now. Thanks a lot for your interest!
To all the applicants: You will hear from us sometime this week (if you haven’t already). Ideally, so you can start to help us out and became part of our festival by the second last week of February.
Dear friends of GEGENkino,
we are glad to announce that for the upcoming GEGENkino festival we will team up with the artists’ collective VIDEOKILLS and booking agency [fwd: like waves] in order to curate an evening of collaboratively compiled works of silent movies and specially composed scores. VIDEOKILLS offers filmmakers, media artists and musicians a platform to compile collaborative works. In the recent programme »The Explorer Series: Invisible City Symphonies« VIDEOKILLS is looking for silent movies which deal with urban sentiments. The closing date is the 1st of February 2015. Afterwards, the films will be given to composers, DJ*ans, music producers and musicians in order to compose a score. The closing date to submit musical work samples is the 1st of February 2015, too.
The results of this collaboration will be screened as part of the second GEGENkino festival on 17th of April 2015 at UT Connewitz.
You will find the Open Call and further information, if you follow these links:
VIDEOKILLS Leipzig Facebook event page
The GEGENkino crew and VIDEOKILLS are looking forward to your submissions!
Thanks a lot for all the submissions and for your interest in our festival. We will contact all those who submitted again after we are done with curating the programme. (Expected date: End of March)
OPEN CALL – Vaginale – GEGENkino 2015
Dear filmmakers at art schools and wherever beyond,
in April 2015 we are hosting GEGENkino for the second time. After having curated a video exhibition together with filmmaker Clemens von Wedemeyer [Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Expanded Media Class] as part of GEGENkino 2014, we would like to continue working on this strand next year.
Therefore, we need your films, Clips, loops! The context: within Vaginale, one of our sections of the programme, we inquire after the social effects of a subversive, (post-)feminist film, its aesthetic qualities and the interdependency of medial content and social reality.
Within the contemporary art world an within a broadly operating porn-affirmative movement in the realm of film, the casual dealing with obscenities triggers off the discussion about the depiction of female desire anew and offers a colourful range of different stances.
Current productions about female sexuality suggest they succeed in depicting feminine desire adequately or establishing a feminine pornography as an appropriate subversive practice. Critical thoughts are levelled by a general euphoria, which enables to get away unquestioned concerning the suitability of the make of the movies and their ideological function. Content-related, we are interested in two different things: (1) Female narration, the authorship of women. Women assume the definatory power over “the feminine” and take a stance. Thereby, the female body receives a new presence. We want to bring together and bundle forms that articulate this new presence – be it film art, video art, or experimental flicks. (2) Pornography as radical action. In general: can pornography produce political significance, that is influence social conventions and thereby transcend its primary function to generate sexual arousal?
Concerning form, we are looking for works that are of cinematic nature in the broadest sense, the lowest common denominator is the moving image. There are no guidelines regarding length. Concerning content, your contributions should decidedly look for forms and images that trace feminine desire, feminine passion and/or feminine sexuality. Depictions can be explicit, but they do not necessarily have to be. The following criteria should be met: (a) A woman has to be involved as director, producer or performer. (b) The work should discuss female passion authentically. © It is supposed to broaden boundaries of female sexuality’s stereotypical depiction.
The chosen works will be part of GEGENkino 2015 and will be exhibited inside the historical ballroom of Schaubühne Lindenfels at Leipzig. You can find information regarding the festival here: www.gegenkino.de
Curator and project coordinator Stephan Langer willingly answers further requests concerning contributions, formalities and everything else: opencall@gegenkino.de
CLOSING DATE is the 15th of MARCH 2015.
We are delighted and are curious about your contributions!
