Reading, Slideshow & Film | Jörg Buttgereit

NICHT JUGENDFREI! TAGEBUCH AUS WEST-BERLIN

With NEKROMANTIK (1988), DER TODESKING (1989), SCHRAMM (1993), and other titles, Jörg Buttgereit has strained the nerves and good taste of German bourgeois culture and beyond and at the same time, has delivered significant impulses for the horror genre. In his book “NICHT JUGENDFREI” published in June, he now, at the age of almost 60, looks back on his work – not only as a filmmaker and special effects supervisor, but also as a comic author, theatre and radio play director.

In this, the book provides a highly entertaining and opulently illustrated insight into the making of the films, which was contingent on low budgets and a DIY-spirit that did not stop short of a detailed staging of wounds and complexly construed fountains of body fluids. Looking back on his youth years, Buttgereit also turns out to be a proficient connoisseur of miscellaneous phenomena of the music and film world – starting with martial arts flicks and monster films right up to punk culture. Thereby, he not only conveys answers to the question which subcultural influences have shaped him, but en passant, he also draws a portrait of the Berlin underground during the years of change. 

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NEKROMANTIK

DE 1988, D: Jörg Buttgereit, A: Beatrice Manowski, Daktari Lorenz, Harald Lundt, 75’, german OV, 35mm

Being labelled a scandalous film disguises the sensual gaze that is inherent in Jörg Buttgereit’s feature debut: when already in the beginning of the film, the camera examines the scene of a car accident to a hypnotic soundtrack, presenting deformed bodies to us for the first time, one senses that here, we have to do it with something more than calculated shocking.

NEKROMANTIK is the psychogram of a man, whose coping with trauma lets him descend into zones no one is willing to follow him into. And yet, it seems to work well inside his four walls. Betty shares Rob’s preference for corpses. When she leaves him, his already fragile world breaks apart. A Passion narrative in extreme pictures. 

Sun 10 Sept	UT Connewitz
7 PM	Reading and presentation in German € 11 VVK / 12 AK

Special | MILIEU-CINEMA

SHORT FILM PROGRAMME AT THE TRAVELLING CINEMA

The heyday of European travelling cinemas stretched from the years 1896 until 1914. Having no fixed cinema buildings at that time, film was a transitory issue and appeared seldom as a feature-length cultural offer, but often in other entertainment contexts: for example on fairs as short film programmes of fairytale animations, funny skits and topicalities in the style of newsreels. Following the idea of travelling cinemas, on September 10 – the day of open monuments – Milieu-Kino will stand at Fortuna, the former Cinema of Youth. There, we present rarities from the rich history of these short films: hand-coloured animation films, erotic piquancies, anarchist slapstick interludes, x-ray films and predator pursuits. Access to and exit of the programme is possible at any time. Moreover, the team of Fortuna offers guided tours through the building and informs on their efforts around preserving the building and establishing a constant cultural programme. 

Sun 10 Sept	MILIEU-CINEMA Furtuna (Kino der Jugend)
2 – 6 PM	€ Admission for donation

GEGENkinder cinema

UNTEN AM FLUSS

GB 1978, D: Martin Rosen, 92’, german version, digital, released for 6 years and older

After little Fever has had visions of an impending disaster, a group of wild rabbits sets off to find a safe place for themselves. On their hike, they meet new friends: the seagull Kehaar and a group of domestic rabbits which they free from imprisonment. Together, they establish a new burrow close to a river called Watership Down. However, the rabbits of the burrow Efrafa are living in the region. They suffer under the cruel rule of General Woundwort. To not also being forced to live under the dictatorship of Efrafa, the rabbits decide to fight. WATERSHIP DOWN impresses with a fantastical mythology and the atmospheric story around freedom and solidarity in the face of injustice and oppression.

Sun 10. Sept	UT Connewitz
2 PM	freigegeben ab 6 Jahren  € 2

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DU-BEAT-E-O

US 1984, D: Alan Sacks, A: Joan Jett, Ray Sharkey, El Duce, Texacala Jones, Derf Scratch, 84’, English OV, 35mm

At Wagenplatz Karl Helga on September 9, we will show the forgotten DU-BEAT-E-O by Alan Sacks. This is a confused and lunatic document of the L.A. punk scene of the early 1980ies, in which Sacks attends to the foreign material of a never finished film and arranges a meta-story about a filmmaker close to madness around it, who obsessively finishes cutting the opus. Doing so, the threatening demeanour of a mafioso as well as the splatter stunts of the shock rockers The Mentors do not let him get away easily.

Sat 9 Sept	MILIEU-CINEMA Wagenplatz Karl Helga
8 PM	€ Admission for donation

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2551.02 — THE ORGY OF THE DAMNED

AT 2023, D: Norbert Pfaffenbichler, A: Stefan Erber, Veronika Harb, Jurij Föger, 82’, without dialogue, DCP

The Damned invoked in the title are animal-human-hybrids and deformed cannibal-freaks, who do not catch sight of daylight and live in a post-apocalypse free from morals. While they are celebrating unleashed orgies in brothels and fight clubs, protagonist ape-man is looking for a beloved child.

Norbert Pfaffenbichler presents a road trip of atrocities, which was produced with poor financial means but all the more with passion for an inherently consistent aesthetics. Anyone who believes that excessive violence and slapstick, perverted lust and uninhibited humour do not exclude one another is cordially welcome in the circle of hell with its mutated vomit. Yes exactly: The vomit that, after leaving your face, winks at you with its half a dozen eyes. 

Sat 9. Sept 10 PM	GERMAN PREMIERE UT Connewitz € 6,5 (5,5 red.)
10 PM	MILIEU-CINEMA Karl-Helga Wagenplatz