Tomorrow will be the grand opening of this year’s GEGENkino—with Sean Baker’s magnificent L.A. hunting trip movie »Tangerine«!
Meanwhile, let’s get pumped for the festival with our new and hot trailer—conceived and edited by Stefania Smolkina.
See you all soon, we hope, at one of this year’s GEGENkino places: UT Connewitz, Luru Kino at the Spinnerei, Schaubühne Lindenfels, Institut fuer Zukunft, GRASSI Museum for Ethnography, or Paul Gerhardt Church.
21 Apr – 1 May, 2016
Looking forward quite a lot,
Your GEGENkino crew
And we’re still getting surprising news coming in:
Filmmaker Johann Lurf announced that he will come to the Vertical Cinema event on Apr 28 at Paul Gerhardt Church, where he will talk about and introduce us to the Vertical Cinema project
and will also be available for a Q&A.
»Johann Lurf (AT) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and the Slade School of Art in London, graduating from Harun Farocki’s film class. His films Vertigo Rush (2007), 12 Explosionen (2008), Kreis Wr.Neustadt/A to A (2011), to name but a few, have been screened and won awards at numerous international film festivals.« (source: verticalcinema.org)
Johann Lurf‘s experimental short film »Pyramid Flare« is part of the Vertical Cinema programme.
Thu, 28 April – 9 pm, Paul-Gerhardt-Church Connewitz
Vertical Cinema [German Premiere]
Good news, everyone! We’ve got one further guest coming to our festival:
For the screening of »Der Nachtmahr« on April 29 Amir Hamz—producer of film—will come to Schaubühne Lindenfels and talk about important stuff with us; namely: financing (among other things)! How can you manage to shoot a film like »Der Nachtmahr«, when you’ve got no state funding for your project? Is crowdfunding really the new golden path?
Come to the screening in order to hear more about it.
Der Nachtmahr
DE 2015, R: AKIZ, D: Carolyn Genzkow, Arnd Klawitter, Julia Jenkins, 88’, OmeU, DCP
+ anschließendes Q&A mit Produzent Amir Hamz
29. April, 21Uhr -Schaubühne Lindenfels
What could be better after a long, hard Day of Labour than watching a film, where all dialogue’s comprised of quotes from US American TV shows and soap operas?! Exactly…!
So, on May 1 we will screen the magnificient queer film gem »Fort Buchanan« at Schaubühne Lindenfels. After this one, there will also be a re-screening of »Desire will Set You Free« at 9:30pm (same place), especially for those who can’t make it to the first screening of »Desire will Set You Free« since it might overlap with our screening at GRASSI Museum the same day.
So, that’s it! That’s the whole programme of the festival!
You can download the complete programme guide for GEGENkino 2016 here (.pdf, 4 MB), if you didn’t get a physical one yet.
We hope you’re curious and that we’ll see you all at the festival.
The excited folks of GEGENkino.
Fort Buchanan
(FR/TN 2014, D: Benjamin Crotty, A: Andy Gillet, Iliana Zabeth, David Baiot, Mati Diop, 65’, OV with English subtitles, DCP)
In Benjamin Crotty’s debut feature, the eponymous »Fort Buchanan« is located in the French countryside and actually, it’s more a queer rural commune than a military base. Although, most of the inhabitants have husbands still in the active service. Like Roger, whose significant other Frank is in Africa and whose mutual daughter Roxy likewise is dreaming of a future in the army. Apropos of nothing, her juvenile sexuality awakens, a fact that the polyamorous fort notices with joy. Father No. 1 is tormented by solitude and fidelity, which is why the community summarily decides to fly to Djibouti to visit father No. 2. But after 18 years of marriage, passion and desire refuse to really arise, even hot pants and a new haircut cannot help that. What a virtuoso film! So full of sensuality: the colours, the bodies, the light, the coarseness of the 16mm material. Along with it, a mixture of country tunes, classical music and electro party sounds. A hybrid full of artificiality, confusing cuts, and dialogues that are all taken from US soap operas and which in French appear as completely bizarre! Down with expectations! A cheer for fine humour! Here’s Queer Cinema at its best!
1 May, 8pm – Schaubühne Lindenfels
6,5/5,5 (red.) euros or 9/8 (red.) euros as a combined ticket with »Desire will Set You Free«
Desire Will Set You Free (Re-screening)
(GER 2015, D: Yony Leyser, A: Yony Leyser, Tim Fabian Hoffmann, Chloe Griffin, 92’, OV with German subtitles, BluRay)
1 May, 9.30 pm – Schaubühne Lindenfels
6,5/5,5 (red.) euros or 9/8 (red.) euros as a combined ticket with »Fort Buchanan«
Eine Woche noch bis GEGENkino #3!
So here’s the second last item in our programme: After our homage to Harun Farocki in 2014 and the one to Hito Steyerl last year, we will pay tribute to another director that we greatly admire. In this year, it will be the Austrian experimental filmmaker and analog film artisan Peter Tscherkassky, out of whose œuvre we will present a selection of short films. Of course, GEGENkino wouldn’t be the festival it is, if we weren’t trying to also pay tribute to the cinema itself. Therefore, we will screen Tscherkassky’s films in glorious 35mm! A rare thing to behold!
Peter Tscherkassky: Rohstoff und Feier eines absoluten Kinos
Peter Tscherkasskys Filme traktieren die Zuschauer mit rohen Wechseln von Licht und Dunkel, Ton und Stille. Als vollendeter, analoger Handwerker kopiert und recycelt der österreichische Experimentalfilmer found footage, zum Beispiel kleine Szenen aus einem Horrorfilm, zu neuen, faszinierend unheimlichen Kompositionen. Dabei testen seine international hoch anerkannten Arbeiten nicht nur rein formalistisch die Materialgrenzen des Rohstoffs Film durch Tonbearbeitung und Mehrfachbelichtung aus, sondern sie erproben, beschreiten und verlagern tradierte Sehgewohnheiten und Hörfähigkeiten überhaupt. Der Kern seiner Arbeiten berührt das zentrale Verständnis von Kino: es geht um den Film selbst, seine Materialität wie jene Codes, die seine kulturelle Gegenwart ausmachen. Tscherkassky entlockt obsoletem, analogem Filmmaterial die in ihm schlummernden Gespenster der Zukunft. Die Resultate tasten sich frenetisch an etwas heran, das einer Beschreibung trotzt und gesehen werden muss – im Kinosaal, begleitet von dichtester Dunkelheit und massivem Sound.
Happy-End (AT 1996, 11’, 35mm)
Cinemascope Trilogie (AT 1997-2001) [L’Arrivée (1997, 3’, 35mm) / Outer Space (1999, 10’, 35mm) / Dream Work (2001, 11’, 35mm)]
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (AT 2005, 17’, 35mm)
The Exquisite Corpus (AT 2015, 19’, 35mm)
25.April, 21Uhr – Luru-Kino in der Spinnerei
Director Peter Tscherkassky is requested for a talk.
