GEGENkino presents: “True Politics” video art exhibition + forum
Thank you all for coming to our opening and the screening yesterday! It was really quite wonderful to see so many of you.
Thanks to Stephanie Comilang for presenting her work personally and being such a lovely guest. The film programme was sold out as well, so it was a full evening with a lot of people. Also thanks to Stephanie Cumming and Daniel Hoesl for being our guests and being really nice people.
The exhibition is open today and tomorrow from 6 to 11pm—come ‘round or come ‘round again, it’s a nice place to hang out and watch videos. So take your time… and on top of that, today there’ll also be our disccussion forum about documentary aesthetics, image politics, representation, truth and so on and so on at 7:30pm.
At 9pm we will show Omer Fast’s recent work CONTINUITY. We don’t know how many of you are planning to come, but if it’s as many as yesterday, you better be there early, if you want to get a good seat.
See you tonight,
your GEGENkino crew
Here it is, real quick, before it really starts! The trailer for MIMOSAS. See you all very soon! PSYCHED!
Thu, 06 April 2017 – 9pm, UT Connewitz
MIMOSAS
MA/ ES/ FR/ QA 2016, D: Oliver Laxe, A: Ahmed Hammoud, Shakib Ben Omar, Said Aagli, 93’, OV/English subtitles, DCP
Mimosas (MA/ES/FR/QA 2016, Oliver Laxe)
Since the GEGENkino booklets are already out there, let’s not keep it a secret any longer. Here’s our opening film for GEGENkino 2017: Oliver Laxe’s MIMOSAS, which had it’s premiere at last year’s Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. A road movie, spiritual journey, moral tale and religious allegory at the same time with an […]
»Eine verstümmelte Welt besingen« — kreuzer online
Filmmaker Selma Doborac, who did »Those Shocking Shaking Days« and »It was a day just like any other in spring or summer.«, both of which were shown at GEGNkino 2017 gave an interview to kreuzer that’s well worth a read. Check!
Thanks go out to kreuzer and Selma Doborac!
Hey everyone! Sorry for the lack of news. We’re kind of busy with ultra-last minute preperations for GEGENkino 2017, naturally.
Let’s start tonight!
Thu, 06 April 2017 – 9pm, UT Connewitz
MIMOSAS
(MA/ ES/ FR/ QA 2016, D: Oliver Laxe, A: Ahmed Hammoud, Shakib Ben Omar, Said Aagli, 93’, OV/English subtitles, DCP)
By the way, there will also be festival tickets (and more fancy merch)
for sale tonight at UT Connewitz, in case you haven’t managed to grab
one yet. Now you know!
See you all tonight!
Yes yes, we know it’s quite a lot to ask of you to go to the movies ten days in a row. But hey, it might be your only chance to see Kim Ki-Duk’s most recent flick “Moebius” (in Germany for whatever reason also known as “Moebius, die Lust, das Messer”) on the big screen, because almost no cinema wanted to show it. So it’s on us to bring it to you:
Moebius
(KR 2013, D: Kim Ki-duk, A: Cho Jae-hyun, Seo Young-ju, Lee Eun-woo, 90’, no dialogue, BluRay)
Kim Ki-duk’s films have always been controversial. His latest – “Moebius” – was being shown in Venice last year, whereas according to regulations in South Korea, it is allowed to be screened in “special” cinemas only – cinemas that indeed do not exist. Without a doubt, the film is a dark challenge reminiscent of ancient tragedies: a father destroys his family – beset with feelings of guilt because of his son’s castration, he terminates an affair and makes a major sacrifice for him. Masterfully staged as pure showing without dialogue, a montage with rough sound editing, the images unfold to a painful, Freudian grotesque all about passion, guilt and violence.
10 April, 9pm – LuRu-Cinema at the Spinnerei – € 6/5 (red.)
