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

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.)