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!
May we present—the trailer of GEGENkino 2017! Made by Katharina Wittmann.
Thank you!! Let the GEGENgames begin. Become a part of the cinematic GEGENworm for eleven days and detect unexpected interrelations in subterranean compounds.
Dig with us!
Lest you forget about this very important date in April, we put up some more reminders out there on the streets…
Three more days to go!
Festival tickets for GEGENkino 2017 are still available at the usual places: Filmgalerie WestEnd (Industriestraße 18), the bookstore “W. Otto Nachf.” (Wolfgang-Heinze-Straße 12a) and Riso Club Leipzig (Hermann-Liebmann-Str. 88)—for the price of 38 euros or 32 euros (reduced).
See you all very very soon,
your GEGENkino crew
4 days left… time to get properly prepared!
We updated our section about the TRUE POLITICS video art exhibition a bit and you’ll now find more information on all the featured works—just click the links here:
- #blacktivist (Mario Pfeifer, 2015, 2-Kanal, 5’)
- Empire of Evil (Harald Hund, 2016, 11’)
- Europa, Mon Amour (2016 Brexit Edition) (Lawrence Lek, 2016, 14’)
- It was a day just like any other in spring or summer. (Selma Doborac, 2012, 17’)
- In The Future They Ate from the Finest Pocelain (Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind, 2015, 29’)
- Lumapit Sa Akin, Paraiso (Come to Me, Paradise) (Stephanie Comilang, 2016, 26’),
- The Search Drive (Warren Neidich, 2015, 17’)
- When Things Occur (Oraib Toukan, 2016, 28’)
The TRUE POLITICS video art exhibition will be held from 07 to 09 April, starting at 6 pm respectively at the ballroom of Schaubühne Lindenfels –with exhibition tours on 07 and 09 April at 6:30 pm.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a discussion forum taking place at 08 April on 7:30 pm in which Selma Doborac, Mario Pfeifer, Lars Koch and Angelika Bartl will debate about about the possibilities of documentary film and art and about the responsibilities of artists with regards to information
production.
Find more information about all that in TRUE POLITICS section.
Only five more days to go! GEGENkino 2017′s drawing closer… and we’re very happy to be able to announce a further bunch of guests: Lion Bischof, Jonas Heldt & Felicitas Sonvilla of MOTEL Regiekollektiv will come to the screening of Sonvilla’s short film TARA on 12 April at Luru Kino in order to talk to us and you about the practice of collective filmmaking and other such things.
TARA
GER 2016, D: Felicitas Sonvilla, A: Sasha Davydova, Leo van Kann, Lena Lauzemis, Russian OV/German subtitles, 30’, DCP
+ FLUIDØ
GER 2017, D: Shu Lea Cheang, A: Candy Flip, Bishop Black, Kristina Marlen, William Morris, OV/ English subtitles, 80’, DCP
TARA (GER, 2016, Felicitas Sonvilla / FLUIDØ (GER, 2017, Shu Lea Cheang)
Now, for some more “science” fiction: On April 12 at Luru Kino we’ll have a gamy double screening featuring TARA, the new short film by young filmmaker Felicitas Sonvilla off of MOTEL director’s collective and the most recent work by Taiwanese new media artist Shu Lea Cheng: FLUIDØ—both of which you might’ve see at this year’s Berlinale… […]
Here’s the trailer to this little sci-fi gem TARA, which premiered at this year’s Berlinale:
Wed, 12 April 2017 – 10pm, Luru-Kino at the Spinnerei
€ 8 (6 red.) for a double ticket incl. Fluidø
