Special | MILIEU-KINO
US 1976, D: Carter Stevens, A: Susan McBain, Alan Marlow, Terri Hall, 84′, English OV, 35mm
Finally, on 13 September, we will be showing ROLLERBABIES, a thoroughly obscure find from grindhouse cinema. ROLLERBABIES is one of the earliest sci-fi erotica parodies of the 70s. In a dystopian future, sexual intercourse is forbidden due to overpopulation. People must take anti-aphrodisiac pills to suppress their sexual urges. Only licensed performers are allowed to perform sexual acts in live television broadcasts as an aid to masturbation.
To save his career, the imaginative TV manager Sherman Frobish comes up with a daring idea: he organises a live TV competition in which the participants perform sexual acts on roller skates.
| Fri 13 Sept | Milieu Kino at Rabet Park |
| 16:00 Uhr | € Free admission |
Homage | RAINER KOMERS
KOBE
DE/JP 2006, D: Rainer Komers, 45‘, Doc, no dialogue, 35mm
MA’RIB
DE/YE 2007, D: Rainer Komers, 30‘, Doc, no dialogue, 35mm
RAINER KOMERS READS A SELECTION OF HIS POETRY
Film and poetry, image and sound, standstill and rhythm, nature and people: in KOBE, Komers provides insights into the Japanese port metropolis of the same name in delicate moods of light and colour. Often based on recurring sounds, a carpet full of small vignettes from everyday life in the city spreads out before us. Similarly, MA’RIB, the other analogue short film in the programme: a portrait of people and landscape in and around the ancient Yemeni city that gives the film its title, which leaves it entirely up to us to decide what we want to think and feel while watching its associative montages. The film programme will be framed by Komer’s poems, which he will read himself.
| Wed 12. Sept | Luru Kino in der Spinnerei |
| 9 pm | In presence of Rainer Komers € 7 (6 reduced) |
Homage | RAINER KOMERS
BARSTOW, CALIFORNIA
DE/US 2018, D: Rainer Komers, 76’, Doc, OV with German subtitles, DCP
NOME ROAD SYSTEM
DE/US 2004, D: Rainer Komers, 26’, Doc, no dialogue, 35mm
Two films dedicated to US-American vastness with the cinematic gaze of a stranger: In BARSTOW, CALIFORNIA, Komers portrays the small town that gives the film its title, hometown of the Black poet Spoon Jackson. His voice can be heard from off-screen, recorded in the state prison where he is serving a life sentence. He circles around the past: his childhood, which contained brief moments of happiness, but above all violence. His present day-to-day life is the prison cell that brought him to (film-like, sculptural) poetry. While language is omnipresent in BARSTOW, CALIFORNIA, it is completely absent in the short film NOME ROAD SYSTEM. Without categorisation, a collage of impressions that Komers gained in rural Alaska sweeps across the screen.
| Wed 12. Sept | Luru Kino in der Spinnerei |
| 7 pm | In the presence of Rainer Komers € 7 (6 reduced) |
Special | MILIEU-KINO
US 1978, D: George Gage, A: Allen Garfield, Kathleen Lloyd, Leif Garrett, 97’, English OV, 35mm
Of skateboards and roller skates
Then SKATEBOARD on 12 September: a film that defies gravity and captures the burgeoning skateboarding culture of the 70s. Sun-drenched and dynamically filmed images from Southern California and Arizona show rollers on all kinds of surfaces, from empty swimming pools to sewage pipes. The comedy SKATEBOARD is the first major studio film dedicated to the subject: Manny Bloom, a financially strapped manager, puts together a skateboard team to take part in a major competition. He recruits talented youngsters such as the charismatic Jason, the ambitious Chrissie and the unpredictable Johnny. The film tells of individual struggles and growing together as a team. With breathtaking skateboarding stunts and a portrayal of the rebellious spirit of the era, SKATEBOARD offers a glimpse into the origins of this likeable sport.
| Thu 12 Sept | Milieu Kino at Rabet Park |
| 4 pm | € Free admission |
IR/DE 2023, D: Ali Ahmadzadeh, A: Amir Pousti, Shirin Abedinirad, Maryam Sadeghiyan, 99′, OV with English subtitles, DCP
Amir is a courier. His cargo could earn him the death penalty. He shares his flat with a dog, whose mouth he covers after eating so that it swallows its medicine. In the end, Amir will do the same with a young addict. The people in the critical zone, which Iran has degenerated into under the mullahs’ captivity, have to swallow bitter pills every day. CRITICAL ZONE tells of the precarious conditions and the small moments of rebellion: hash brownies in an old people’s home or undisguised outbursts of rage. The Locarno winner of 2023 is a gesture of resistance par excellence, realised with great creativity and a sense of formal sophistication despite the director’s activity ban.
| Wed 11. Sept | Luru Kino in der Spinnerei |
| 9:30 pm | € 7 (6 reduced) |
