Restitucija, ili, San i java stare garde (Eighty Plus)
Filmmaking in post socialist times, rethinking coming of age.
Director Želimir Žilnik, producer Sarita Matijević Žilnik and Paula Ruppert (moderation)
Munich, Filmmuseum, 10 Oct 2025
© Fotos & Video: Dunja Bialas
UNDERDOX country focus & artists in focus: LONDON ORBITAL
Walking & poetry, filmmaking as performance art
Director Andrew Kötting and Sven Koch, translator of the works of Iain Sinclair – film talk about BY OUR SELVES. Munich, Filmmuseum, 10 Oct 2025.
© Foto & Video: Dunja Bialas
DIE SCHÖNE REISE III and GERHARD
EVERYONE DESERVES A SLICE OF PIE
© Fotos: Florian Geisterstanger
Text: Iain Sinclair, “A Walk By Waiting”
Music: Adam Scovell
Here is the entire short film by Adam Scovell, which we used as the basis for our trailer, as an atmospheric introduction to our Country Focus LONDON ORBITAL.
More information about Adam Scovell’s cinematic approach, who stages a walk to Harold Pinter’s house here, can be found at celluloidwickerman.com.
15 positions of contemporary video art from Bavaria – the 6th VIDEODOX exhibition at the Galerie der Künstler*innen was officially opened last Tuesday!
Opening hours: Daily except Mon/Tues. Until 12 October!
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We’re swapping two films!
Želimir Žilnik, one of the leading directors of the Yugoslav Black Wave of the 1960s and 70s, will be guest at the Filmmuseum Munich on Friday, 10 October at 9 p.m. His film Eighty Plus (Restitucija, ili, San i java stare garde) was awarded the Fipresci Prize at the GoEast Festival.
The most recent film from veteran Želimir Žilnik reflects on his own artistic journey by following the story of a man who moves back to his country to reclaim the home that had previously been owned by the government for decades, and now finally can be released to the remaining heirs. It takes the protagonist on a voyage into both the past and present, allowing him to cross paths with a range of characters, each one adding something new and compelling to his journey back home. A film that takes its time and invites us to take a memorable trip with a few fascinating characters, Eighty Plus is a solid, well-made work from a master who has rarely been more honest about many of the inevitabilities that we all have to face at one point or another. – International Cinephile Society
What Does That Nature Say to You by South Korean veteran director Hong Sang-soo will instead be shown on Tuesday, 14 October at 9 p.m. at the Filmmuseum.
The theme for our anniversary year: something to do with art. We have been involved with this since we founded UNDERDOX in 2006. We don’t want films to pass us by. We want to see them, we want to hear them, consciously, with our eyes and ears wide open. We celebrate film as art. And not as succinctly as our wording might suggest.
The painter Albert Oehlen, with Udo Kier’s piercing gaze, stands in front of a white canvas. He applies a thick brushstroke. ‘A fleck is already a painting,’ he triumphs. With Udo Kier, Charlotte Taschen, Grace Zabriskie, Kim Gordon. German premiere!
London filmmakers Andrew Kötting, Chris Petit, Emma Matthews and writer Iain Sinclair explore their surroundings through film and writing. They open up poetic perspectives on reality – on urbanity, marginality, the madness of the world.
A panel in cooperation with the NS Documentation Centre and the Goetz Collection on the representation of history in art is another highlight of this year’s programme.
On the panel: Ute Adamczewski, Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko, Susanne Touw (Goetz Collection)
Exhibition, performance and award ceremony in the artists’ gallery.
The list of nominees for the VIDEODOX Award 2025.
Our selection jury, consisting of Dunja Bialas, Florian Geierstanger, Nora Moschüring, Anna Schellkopf and Matthias von Tesmar, nominated the following works from around 60 submissions for the VIDEODOX Award 2025:
| Ulu Braun | Pacific Vein | 2024 |
| Tobias Friedauer | A series of (moving) images following one from the other | 2025 |
| Theresa Gavin | Logik/Logica | 2024 |
| Kim Gündel | Bug Box | 2025 |
| Emilia Haar | Kami no Aika | 2025 |
| Stefan Hayn | »2024 (2023)« | 2024/25 |
| Seungyeon Jo | Token of One Hour | 2025 |
| Kunstkollektiv Hybris (Felizitas & Theresa Hoffmann, Natalia Jobe) | Ich lag noch nie so gut (I’ve never been so comfortable) | 2025 |
| Chaeeun Lee | We Don’t Know How To Cry | 2025 |
| Johnny Linder | Soft noise in darkness | 2024 |
| Ivan Paskalev | Sagabona Kunjani Weena | 2024 |
| Eva Schmeckenbecher | Drei Hauben (Three toques) | 2024 |
| Alexander Steig | finis horizontis (24/7) | 2024 |
| Franziska Unger, Marie Jaksch, Lotti Oeken | Leidende Frau (Woman suffering) | 2025 |
| Franz Wanner | Berlin-Lichtenberg | 2024 |
Elfi Mikesch, camerawoman and director, who has received several awards for her visual visions, is an early pioneer of feminist-queer film.
Born on May 31, 1940 in Judenburg, Styria, she started out as a photographer and painter.
painter. In the early 1960s, she met Rosa von Praunheim in Frankfurt am Main and went with him to West Berlin. and went to West Berlin with him. She worked closely with Praunheim, and soon after with Werner Schroeter (camera for MALINA) and Monika Treut, with whom she founded Hyäne-Filmproduktion in 1984. Her first own works were photo films, which she continues to this day as a chronicler of the hidden.
To mark the 85th birthday of this exceptional camerawoman, UNDERDOX is showing an excerpt from her work.
Elfi Mikesch is our guest.
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Starring: Bernd Brehmer und Tim Leyendekker
Shot on location: FIDMarseille, 2023
Music: Kiko El Crazy & Angel Dior with “Pa’Ti Ya”
Camera & editing: Dunja Bialas
© UNDERDOX 2024