Hey there, all you lovely GEGENkino friends,
it’s about time to lift the veil, finally, and reveal the programme of this year’s GEGENkino festival. So, let’s start with the opening film:
For the 3rd edition of GEGENkino we are happy to be able to screen the L.A. Sunset Strip trip movie Tangerine by Sean Baker as
the opener for the festival. A Christmas film in the sun, completely
shot on an iPhone and with hyper-fast dialogues like coming from
amphetaminized brains and tongues.
Don’t miss it, and stay tuned for more announcements!
Looking forward to see you all (again).
Oh, and merry Easter, merry
Pessach and a merry GEGENkino!
Tangerine
(US 2015, D: Sean Baker, A: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, 88’, OV with German subtitles, DCP)
“Out here, it’s all about our hustle. And THAT’S IT”, Alexandra tells her best friend Sin-Dee Rella. Both are struggling along as transsexual sex workers and are deeply connected to their neighbourhood in Los Angeles—the area around the intersection of Santa Monica and Highland, notorious for its drug scene and prostitution milieu. Sin-Dee is just back from prison and at a meeting in the donut shop she’s being told by Alexandra that her pimp and lover Chester cheated on her during her absence—with a white cis woman. Henceforth, “No drama!” becomes the motto of the both. But: humming dub step basslines and Sin-Dee’s furious vendetta tell another story. Filmed entirely on an iPhone the luscious, Californian sun-drenched pictures evolve into a composition of a realist subculture study and uninhibited post-modification. There’s a lot of solitude on the streets of L.A.. Tangerine puts up resistance though, and with an enchanting attitude tells of everyday hopes and dreams, of allies and solidarity.
21 April, 9pm – Luru-Kino at the Spinnerei – € 6,5/5,5(red.)
Tired of Berlinale? Tired of cinema? Tired of darkness? Tired of light? Tired of people? Ti…
Wait wait wait! Hang in there, dear people!
GEGENkino is coming again soon! Be prepared!
We are working on our programme for GEGENkino 2016 right now.(Wow!)
All we can say as of now is: it’s not gonna be too dull and tiring for sure.
Before we hit you up with more news:
check out our nice eyedentity for 2016.
Done by Ricaletto, our post-cold war graphic artist.
So, mark your calenders, friends and haters:
April 21st – May 1st 2016
The End Is Always Revoultion.
Tomorrow’s live set by Alec Empire will be in the style of his mid-90′s stuff. Finest analog material straight from the pre-digital age – just like the video for his 1995 track »Low On Ice«. Play it!
Plus, don’t forget:
GEGENkino presents »My Talk with Florence« w/ live score by Alec Empire (AUT 2015, 129 min, German w/ English subtitles directed by: Paul Poet)
14th January 2016, 8pm – UT Connewitz
(the director will be present)
Here’s the trailer for »My Talk with Florence«:
GEGENkino presents
»My Talk with Florence« w/ live score by Alec Empire
AUT 2015, 129 min, German w/ English subtitles, directed by: Paul Poet
14th January 2016, 8pm – UT Connewitz
(the director will be present)
An interview film as a live concert. Alec Empire (Atari Teenage Riot, Producer for Björk, Nine Inch Nails et al.), Berlin’s godfather of intelligent electronica music, beat activist and punk-floor pioneer, will peform a live score for the brand new cinematic work by Paul Poet (Ausländer raus! Schlingensief’s Container, EMPIRE ME)—one of the leading Austrian directors for provocative political films—in the style of Empire’s early solo works for Mille Plateaux label. Heart-rending in the echo chamber!
Raw, direct, shocking. In the interview film »My Talk with Florence« Florence Burnier-Bauer talks, starting with her childhood, about the dramatic life she led in the beginning of the 80s in Otto Mühl’s commune in Friedrichshof/Burgenland. What she found there, instead of physical and mental relief, were authoritarian, fascist hierarchies, abuse, harrassment and violence. Director Paul Poet allows Florence full bent on her memories, when she re-invokes the ghosts of her past in search for catharsis. Cinematically, truly in the tradition of cinéma verité the film offers an unrelenting insight and tells the story of Florence’s emancipation and her hard and strugglesome path to »saying no« in a purist way
T I C K E T S are available at Culton (Peterssteinweg 9) and online at TixforGigs.
As already announced, on 2 Dec 2015 GEGENkino and UT Connewitz will
bring you two of Anja Kirschner’s collaboration works that she did with
David Panos.
The films will be shown in original English version. For further information about the two films check:
http://www.kirschner-panos.info/index.php?%2Fprojects%2F-ultimate-substance
http://www.kirschner-panos.info/index.php?%2Fprojects%2F-an-exchange-for-fire
