Special | MILIEU-CINEMA
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 |
Special | MILIEU-CINEMA
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 |
Multimedia Presentation | Jens Balzer
ETHICS OF APPROPRIATION
Popular culture steadily cherishes diverse societal as well as cultural influences, it is an ongoing process of variation and recombination. However, does the reproduction show a respectful interaction with its aesthetic models? Was the usage figured in an artistic or a commercial way? In the latter case: would a film production then have a bitter aftertaste of cultural appropriation? This happens when appreciation changes into exploitation to one’s own benefit without showing due respect to the creators of the original concept. Journalist and author Jens Balzer will present his book in a multi-media talk and illustrate his statements with music and film inserts.
| Sat 9. Sept | UT Connewitz |
| 8 PM | Talk in German € 6,5 (5,5 reduced) |
Retrospective | ANIMAL REALITIES
NOHOI ORON / STATE OF DOGS
BE/MN 1998, R: Peter Brosens, Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh, Dok, 91’, OV with English subtitles, 35mm
Being a desolate stray dog, Basaar is killed by a dog hunter in the dusty streets of Ulaanbaatar. Actually, his destiny would be to be born again as a human, but he denies his fate and leads us in reminiscences to the steppes of Mongolia, in which he was living with the herds being part of a nomadic community until he ended up in the big city. In their dog-documentary-fiction STATE OF DOGS, Belgian filmmaker Peter Brosens and his Mongolian colleague Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh combine post-socialist realities with folklore and mysticism with ethnography in an impressive manner.
VREMENA GODA / SEASONS OF THE YEAR
SU 1975, D: Artavazd Peleshian, Doc, 29’, without dialog, DCP
Armenian Socialist Soviet Republic, in the middle of the 70ies: a shepherd has jumped after one of his animals into the floods. Giant hay bales are run down steep meadows. A wedding is celebrated. Seasons change. In the snow, the last animals slide down the slope together with the shepherds. Mundane scenes in black and white, sometime solemnly enraptured – bathed in a Vivaldi score – sometime immediate and close, almost rough. Unfolding with a virtuoso montage and visual strength, this impressive portrait SEASONS OF THE YEAR is full of poetry and pathos.
| Fri 8. Sept | ANIMAL REALITIES Luru Kino in der Spinnerei |
| 10 PM | € 6,5 (5,5 red.) |
Retrospective | ANIMAL REALITIES
NEOZOOM SHORT FILM PROGRAMME
2010-2022, DE, D: Neozoon, 80′, OV
The artist duo NEOZOON presents a selection of works that reflect the relationship human-animal and the role of image production in it. Usually, the two of them draw on found material from the internet that they rearrange. At it, posing (and getting turned on) after successful hunting play a role as well as the consumption of animal bodies and the multi-billion clip archive of cute, small animals. NEOZOON get to the bottom of ideological structures and address capitalist exploitation, religious mania and standardised bodies in neoliberalism. Or they intervene in public space, for instance with fictional tunicates they placed in the Zoo of Münster to film the reactions of the visitors.
Program:
DAS MANTELTIER (2010, 3 min
GOOD BOY – BAD BOY (2011, 3 min)
BUCK FEVER (2012, 6 min)
UNBOXING EDEN (2013, 5 min)
MY BBY 8L3W (2014, 3 min)
SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE (2016, 4 min)
CALL OF THE WILD (2017, 4 min)
LOVE GOES THROUGH THE STOMACH (2017, 15 min)
LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS (2019, 13 min)
BITING THE DUST (2021, 13 min)
LAKE OF FIRE (2022, 11 min)
| Fri 8. Sept | Luru Kino in der Spinnerei |
| 8 PM | In the presence of NEOZOON Q&A after the screening € 6,5 (5,5 red.) |
