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) |
Homage | RAINER KOMERS
Three portraits of the Ruhr region and at the same time proof of the versatility of Rainer Komers’ documentary film work: ZIGEUENER IN DUISBURG is a sober but always sympathetic portrait of the lives of Sinti and Roma people who have been forcibly resettled on a site that is too small, reporting on the everyday hostility and harassment to which they are subjected. In contrast, EIN SCHLOSS FÜR ALLE is downright cheerful. The lives of a number of senior citizens in the working-class neighbourhood of Styrum in Mülheim are captured in a verbose, heartfelt way with a direct camera view. The narrative style of B 224 is completely different, compiling precisely framed, often static scenes of everyday life and work along the motorway that gives the film its title; a Ruhr “symphony” originates.
B 224
DE 1999, D: Rainer Komers, 23‘, Doc, no dialogue, 35mm
ZIGEUNER IN DUISBURG
DE 1980, D: Rainer Komers, 37‘, Doc, OV with English subtitles, DCP
EIN SCHLOSS FÜR ALLE
DE 1997, D: Rainer Komers, 44‘, Doc, German version, File
| Wed 11. Sept | Luru Kino in der Spinnerei |
| 7 pm | In the presence of Rainer Komers € 7 (6 reduced) |
