Once again, there’s no summer vacation for us, because the GEGENkino filmfest will again take place in the Autumn. More precisely: from September 8th – 18th. So instead of collecting skin cancer points at the Adriatic Sea, we have retreated to our darkened computer desks and are gawking our eyes out to make it an exciting festival for you. Therefore: Before you throw your suntan lotion into your backpack, quickly pull out the permanent marker and note the date in BOLD in your calendars. See you in the dark! Your GEGENkino
GEGENkino & FILZ present the video art exhibition
paradoks – at the edges of documentary.
The complete programme is available HERE for browsing & downloading!
More information at para-doks.de
Opening:
Saturday 23 October
18.00 – HGB Gallery & GfZK
20.30 – Werkschauhalle 12 (Spinnerei)
Performance CONJURING by Ben Russell
Running time:
23 October – 14 November
Opening hours:
HGB
Mon – Fri: 14.00 – 20.00
Sat – Sun: 10.00- 16.00
GfZK
Tue – Fri: 14.00 – 19.00
Sat – Sun: 12.00 – 18.00
Werkschauhalle
Mon – Fri: 14.00 – 20.00
Sat – Sun: 12.00 – 20.00
paradoks operates at the intersection of art and the moving image and is dedicated to documentary formats beyond the confines of conventional cinema. Today’s range of documentarisms is becoming a field no longer explored by filmmakers alone. Journalistic research and re-enactments, an incorporation of scientific findings or analyses of found material are essential aesthetic strategies employed in the visual arts and beyond. Increasingly, interdisciplinary projects which operate at the intersections of activism, science and art are looking to find new forms of visualising the state of the world, as they take a peek behind the curtain of of public news reporting and the torrent of images we are exposed to in social media. paradoks is a platform for precisely such multifaceted perspectives, whereby they are depicted but also questioned in terms of their socio-political preconditions. The exhibition will be divided into two thematic fields
From a historical perspective, the works of EMPOWERMENT address colonial structures and their consequences for the present-day. These include racism, the formation of diaspora and poverty in marginalised communities. Here, camera angles, the hierarchy of frames and the question of who is talking about whom play just as much a role as the interplay between social realities and their representation.
PSYCHEDELIC ANTHROPOLOGY, operates along the boundaries of visual anthropology and explores altered states of consciousness and bodily sensations, deliberately induced through cultural techniques such as research, dance, music and hiking – all of which are methodological ways of re-exploring the human condition. In these works, the lines separating documentation and fiction become blurred in a sensual, immersive way.
The crew of GEGENkino would like to thank everyone for making this festival possible and all of you for coming and supporting film and culture in these difficult times. It has been fun after a year of stop due to the pandemic to come back. Thank you and see you next year!
| Sun 05 Sept UT Connewitz | |
| 2 pm | GEGENkinderkino LE ROI ET L’OISEAU FR 1979 • D: Paul Grimault • 81′ • german version • 35mm • age 6+ |
| 7 pm | BRUCHSTELLEN LADONI SU/Moldauische SSR 1993 • D: Artur Aristakisyan • Doc • 140′ • Orig. with ger. subs • 35mm With an introduction by Elina Reitere |
| Luru Kino | |
| 7 pm | IMPERIAL VALLEY AT/DE 2018 • D: Lukas Marxt • Doc • 14′ • without dialogue • DCP RALFS FARBEN AT/DE 2019 • D: Lukas Marxt • Doc • 74′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP In the presence of Lukas Marxt and cameraman Michael Petri |
| JUST DON’T THINK I’LL SCREAM FR 2019 • D: Frank Beauvais • 75′ • Orig. with Eng. subs • DCP |
The last day again offers a big variety of impressions. We start at 2 p.m. in the UT Connewitz with this year’s contribution to GEGENkinderkino: The King and the Bird. At 7 p.m. the UT we will screen Ladoni. Both films flicker on wonderful analog 35mm copies.
At the same time we are showing the double feature Imperial Valley / Ralf’s Colors in the Luru Kino in der Spinnerei. Michael Petri, the cutter from Ralf’s Colors, will accompany the event as our guest. At 9 p.m. Just don’t think I’ll Scream puts an effective end to this years GEGENkino Festival.
| Sun 05 Sept | Luru Kino |
| UT Connewitz 2 pm 7 pm Luru Kino | regular: 2€ regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€ regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€ double feature: 11€ / reduced 9€ |
