21. UNDER|DOX 08 – 14 OKT 2026

Michal Kosakowskis HOLOFICTION at UNDERDOX
Saturday 10.10. 6 pm Filmmuseum: Film & Talk with the director

In his compilation film HOLOFICTION, Michal Kosakowski explores how cinema has shaped our perception of the Holocaust. He assembles thousands of fictional film clips into a montage that reveals recurring motifs, gestures and staging. The images step out of their original narratives and become the subject of a cinematic exploration of our collective memory. Without dialogue, and carried by the music, a harrowing essay on the power of images emerges.

HOLOFICTION also explores the role cinema plays in the culture of remembrance: how do cinematic representations become accessible images of the past?

Kosakowski describes the different ways in which images are interpreted in his essay ‘Three Talks on HOLOFICTION’, which has just been published by artechock.

We are delighted that Michal Kosakowski is coming to Munich for the audience discussion!

LIMINAL LIGHT: Expanded Cinema – 16mm Projector Performance
Sunday 11 October at 4.00 pm, Villa Stuck
German premiere!

Light becomes visible, film opens up into space: Rotterdam-based artist Lichun Tseng and sound artist Robert Kroos present their multi-sensory performance, LIMINAL LIGHT.

It’s sound & vision. It’s scent & emotion.

Here’s what you can expect: visuals by Lichun Tseng are choreographed live using several 16-mm projectors, accompanied by an overhead projector synchronised to the precise moment. Incense and a fog machine combine with a live soundscape by Robert Kroos. An interplay that opens up all the senses – to the fleeting, the sensually perceptible, and the space between our perceptions.

LIMINAL LIGHT
Performance by Lichun Tseng & Robert Kroos
NL 2025 · 35 min · German Premiere
Sonday, 11 October 2026, 4 pm
Museum Villa Stuck · Prinzregentenstraße 60, München
Admission: 5 € / ermäßigt 2,50 €

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Shot on location at Lake Ammersee in August 2026.

Idea, camera, editing, sound: Dunja Bialas

Thanks to RTBF & Jean-Luc Godard

John Frankenheimer’s GRAND PRIX kicks off our pre-opening on 3 October

We’re moving into pole position: on 3 October, we present John Frankenheimer’s GRAND PRIX (1966) as the UNDERDOX pre-opening.
Sat 3 Oct, 19:00, Werkstattkino

Just over a week later, we pick up speed again with the second instalment. On 11 October, we present the German premiere of Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Norbert Pfaffenbichler’s re-edit of the classic. Taken apart and put back together! ADGIN PRRX (2026) – 60 years later.
Sun 11 Oct, 17:00, Filmmuseum | Guest: Norbert Pfaffenbichler

One film, one race – and two radically different cinematic experiences!
Combined ticket for both screenings: €14.

At breathtaking speed, four Formula One drivers compete to come out on top in GRAND PRIX (1966), a story of speed thrills, high revs, spectacular images and personal destinies. John Frankenheimer made spectacular use of split-screen techniques in his masterpiece, which won three Oscars. The cameras take us right into the heart of the action. Shot during actual races on the circuits of Monte Carlo, Brands Hatch and Monza. Filmed in Cinerama and Metrocolor.

Discover GRAND PRIX

60 years later, the classic enters the workshop of Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Norbert Pfaffenbichler: for ADGIN PRRX (2026), he breaks GRAND PRIX down into individual shots and reassembles them according to their length. After a blistering start with a staccato burst of ultra-short images, the original is made to hit the brakes. An impressive essay on time and memory.

Discover ADGIN PRRX

Gedenkinitiative für NS-„Euthanasie”-Opfer
films & talks

sonntag 11 okt 16:30 werkstattkino | zu gast: die angehörigen der opfer

In collaboration with the Gedenkinitiative, UNDERDOX invites you to an afternoon of films and discussions with the relatives of victims of Nazi ‘euthanasia’. Our thanks go to Sibylle von Tiedemann of the Gedenkinitiative.

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Breaking the Silence (D: Robert Domes)

Around 300,000 people fell victim to the ‘euthanasia’ murders during the Nazi era. One in eight Germans has a relative who was murdered amongst their ancestors. Yet they rarely feature in our culture of remembrance and commemoration.
At the same time, these crimes continue to influence our society to this day in the debate on inclusion and how we treat people with disabilities and marginalised groups. The killings of the sick have left a legacy of trauma in the families in which their fate was kept secret.
Many descendants are setting out to search for clues. They are breaking the silence and telling the stories of their murdered relatives, naming them publicly. ‘Breaking the Silence’ traces the Nazi system of killings of the sick and gives a voice to the relatives who have set out in search of the truth.

Film discussion with the victims’ families:
Welcome: Gedenkinitiative (Sibylle von Tiedemann)
Film talk with: Barbara Baum, Margarete Flygt and Josef Held

followed by:

Eigentlich wollte ich nicht so lange bleiben (Actually, I Didn´t Want to Stay Long)
(D: Andreas Grützner, Preis der deutschen Filmkritik)

We are presenting the short films that have impressed us in two programmes.
Selected by the Young Curators Benedikt Guntentaler and Timur Özkan.

Shorts 1: The B-Side of the Landscape

documents & experiments that are attracting international attention!

monday 12 oct 8 pm werkstattkino
guests: Philipp Hartmann & Rainer Knepperges | hosts: Benedikt Guntentaler & Timur Özkan (young curators)

Shorts 2: Munich Orbital

Documents & experiments from the Munich independent film scene!

tuesday 13 oct 8 pm werkstattkino
guests: the filmmakers

Our Artist in Focus Bernardo Zanotta is also linked to our country focus From Brazil with Love. We have taken the title from a film by the American avant-garde legend Vivian Ostrovsky, who lived in Brazil for many years. Both are united by their queer filmmaking and their use of the medium of film as an archive and a form of remembrance; both are cosmopolitans of cinema. Bernardo Zanotta grew up in Brazil and went to Amsterdam to study film. Vivian Ostrovsky, born in New York, also grew up in Brazil and studied in Paris. Both express themselves through experimental forms of cinema and, through them, arrive at a deeper form of visual truth – one that lies hidden in the vague interstices of montage and the blurriness of overlapping or out-of-focus images.

Bernardo Zanotta and Vivian Ostrovsky are our guests!

Go to from brazil with love – artist in focus Bernardo Zanotta