photo by elopunk
Alright, we’ve been silent for half a year, but there is no reason to withhold the news any longer: we are planning a second edition of GEGENkino! We have written and sent off applications for subsidy, we are negotiating with potential cooperation partners and industriously tinkering with the programme.
We can already disclose this much: GEGENkino in 2015 will take place at the end of April. Once more, venues will be UT Connewitz, Luru-cinema at the Spinnerei and Schaubühne Lindenfels. Beyond that, we will carry our ideas out of our cinema halls into a different environment, outsourcing the idea of GEGENkino to another location: through cooperation with the club scene of Leipzig, we will try to associate club culture with film culture. We are quite excited and full of pleasant anticipation for the result!
In any respect, our film programme and fringe events are highly charged with passion and devotion and will brim over with recent aesthetics and unconventional thoughts. Next year, we want to watch unusual and unconventional movies with you again, collectively indulge in various imageries, critically and constructively discuss movies and the world they relate to without getting one thing off our minds: to dance with you!
That’s all. More to come soon.
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Your GEGENkino crew
GEGENkino is history. We stuffed our red GEGENkino-tights (everyone of us was wearing as a secret uniform underneath all of the time during the festival) into the trash. Stinky as they were.
A BIG THANX again to the three cinemas hosting, to the artists and scholars visiting, to all of the guests visiting, to everyone else for their massive support!
We are looking forward to GEGENkino #2 in 2015.
Wearing freshly washed tights again.
See you all somewhere around – have a nice summer.
GEGENkino
It’s the last day of GEGENkino. Thanks already to everyone that came to our festival or supported us in whatever way.
Here’s a short reminder what will happen on GEGENkino’s finale. (For the sake of continuity this reminder will also be in English, even though our non-German speaking friends might be a bit disadvantaged tonight.)
Marcus Stiglegger (professor at the university of Siegen, an expert in exploitative movies and author of books like “Sadiconazista” or “Nazi Chic & Nazi Trash”) will give a lecture on the topic “Fascism and sexuality in film and popular culture”.
Following the lecture there will be a screening of Tinto Brass’ exploitation classic “Salon Kitty” (IT 1976, R: Tinto Brass, D: Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, Teresa Ann Savoy, 102’) – with German dubs though, but from 35mm!
GEGENkino is drawing near. We can’t even fall asleep anymore out of excitement (and last-minute organizational stuff). If you are also insomniac why not spend your nights with reading knowledgeable, lengthy essays on obscure film makers and genres? You can find them over there on Marcus Stiglegger’s blog. He will come to GEGENkino on the […]
Lecture & film: Fascism and sexuality in film and pop culture
13 April, 8pm – UT Connewitz – € 8/6 (red.) Euro
Jaap Blonk just arrived in Leipzig in order to grace us with his fine poetry. Here’s a few examples to get a slight taste of what Jaap is gonna do later tonight:
Jaap Blonk’s “Der Minister I” (1993)
And here’s a list of what we might expect tonight in concreto:
What will be the Dr Voxoid’s next move? Those who know him might expect a knight’s jump…but then they know he won’t do the expected. How about a king’s stately step this time? Or the bishop’s stealthy sneak-through?
Next time it might be:
- sound poetry (his own works and probably an occasional ‘classic’ from this tradition)
- songs in invented languages, for instance in “Onderlands” (the language of the Underlands, a synonym for Netherlands), in “GeenKrimpian” or in his personal English, “IngleTwist”
- phonetic processes, acoustic as well as electronic snippets of lecturing about odd topics, for instance “The User Manual”
- some Solos for Voice by John Cage
- soundscapes
- quotations from Final Letters
- improvisations and more…
- in the right mood & circumstances, he may even project some visuals.
DadaBILD & DadaSPRECH: Jaap Blonk is Dr Voxoid & “Deutschland Dada” (GER 1969, D: Helmut Herbst, 61’, German version, 35mm)
12 April, 9pm – Luru-Kino in der Spinnerei – € 8/6 (red.)
Yupp, he’s coming for real! Jozef van Wissem will do a live score for Luis Buñuel’s surrealist classic “L’Âge d’Or” tonight at Luru-Kino.Thanks to Bundeskunsthalle we can even screen “L’Âge d’Or” from 35mm film roll.
Jozef van Wissem live score to „L’Âge d’Or“
At the same time, van Wissem’s instrument is antique as well as extraordinary: a 24-string lute. His minmalist style of playing the baroque gadget is based on repetitive composition techniques and cyclical melodies, overlays and coloration. The result seems as if it has dropped out of time peculiarly, oscillating between genres: not baroque or industrial […]
But why all this promo stuff. You’re all gonna come anyway tonight, right?
Jozef van Wissem vertont//adds sound to “L’Âge d’Or” (F 1930, D: Luis Buñuel, 63’, french OV, 35mm)
11 April, 9pm – LuRu-Kino in der Spinnerei
Make sure to be there early in order to secure your ticket!
