A.I. is the Answer   | World Premiere
Christian von Borries   DE 2020 | 77 min | engl. OV
The picture composer Borries calls his new film "A social science fiction mini-series". He has compiled fragments of discourse, net finds, advertising messages and scenes with two fictional characters in a world in which even amazement can only be virtual. A powerful and humorous antithesis to this year's UNDERDOX analog theme. 
wednesday 14 oct  6:30 p.m. | werkstattkino
attending: Christian von Borries

El año del descubrimiento   (The Year of the Discovery)
Luis López Carrasco   ES, CH 2020 | 200 min | span. OmeU

Los Conductos  | Labor of Love | 16mm auf HD
Camilo Restrepo    FR, CO, BR 2020 | 70 min | span. OmeU
First Feature Award, Berlinale

Pinky is on the run. He has freed himself from the sect of the "Padre". Colombia is burning. Nightmare and hallucination are celebrated, greedily reality is absorbed while the celluloid material pulsates. Parable about the liberation of a whole country, maybe even continent.

sonntag 11 oct  9:00 p.m. | werkstattkino

Ivana cea Groaznică   (Ivana the Terrible)
Ivana Mladenović   RO, RS 2019 | 86 min | rumänisch, serb. OmeU

"Some sort of Balkan family gone wild" is what the director, who grew up in Serbia and lives in Romania, calls her psychotherapeutic comedy. Autobiographical starting point: a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Actors: the artist's semi-national family and friends.
monday 12 oct  6:00 p.m. | theatiner filmkunst 

The Magic Mountain   | Deutsche Premiere
Eitan Efrat, Daniel Mann   BE 2020 | 68 min | dt., poln., engl. OmeU
Hidden, underground worlds in the magic mountain. Whether radon gas, magnetic force fields or rock beads: tunnels, quarries and caves at three locations in Austria, Switzerland and Poland bear witness to the insatiable desire to wrest the earth's natural resources from the earth and to recognize, experience and feel the world.
freitag 9 oct  8:00 p.m. | werkstattkino 

N • P   | Deutsche Premiere | Eröffnungsfilm
Lisa Spilliaert   BE 2020 | 60 min | stumm, mit engl. Zwischentiteln
Lost in Translation. "N - P" is the title of an untranslatable fictional Japanese short story by the real author Banana Yashimoto. All those who attempt translation are driven to suicide for inexplicable reasons. Four protagonists, including the late translator's ex-girlfriend and the mysterious lover of the also deceased fictional author, meet in this summery, melancholy silent comedy. It is about original and translation, fiction and reality, the translatability of mediality. And: Isn't all this somehow incestuous? Feature film debut of the Flemish photographer who grew up in Japan and Belgium.
thursday 8 oct  8:00 p.m. | filmmuseum 
attending: Lisa Spilliaert, Vincent Stroep (producer)

Pain, Vengeance?   Brot, Rache?       
Stefan Hayn   DE 2019 | 76 min | franz. OmdtU  
Filmed reading, conjured up past. A historical-political essay on dealing with German guilt, based on texts by the French resistance fighter Robert Antelme. In 1944 Antelme was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he experienced the full extent of dehumanization. The result was the book "Das Menschengeschlecht" (1947), one of the earliest testimonies of
Nazi crimes.
saturday 10 oct  6:00 p.m. | werkstattkino   
attending: Stefan Hayn

Piqueuses   
Kate Tessa Lee & Tom Schön   DE, MU 2019 | 84 min | kreol. OmeU
On Rodrigues in the middle of the Indian Ocean today globalization and climate change are clearly noticeable. Socio-cultural habits are changing, local lifestyles are becoming obsolete. This is also experienced by the octopus fishermen, the "Piqueuses ourite". Marie Louise Édouard is one of them. Now the mid-fifties are facing an uncertain future.
saturday 10 oct  9:30 p.m. | werkstattkino
attending: Kate Tessa Lee & Tom Schön

VHYES   | Deutsche Premiere
Jack Henry Robbins   USA 2019 | 72 min | engl. OV | VHS auf HD
Bizarre retro-comedy, shot on VHS. The 12-year-old Ralph puts together a mixed videotape from 1980s TV shows. In doing so, he accidentally overwrites the wedding video of his parents. Home shopping clips, soft porn and other devastating programs of TV history form a nostalgic wave of loneliness that mercilessly resists what is actually intended to be a wholesome family project.
friday 9 oct  9:30 p.m. | werkstattkino

Zumiriki
Oskar Alegria   ES 2019 | 122 min | baskisch, span. OmeU
"Zumiriki", Basque for "island in the middle of a river". In the essay film, the filmmaker returns to a central place of his childhood in the Pyrenees and stages a series of intimate homages to the spirit of the place. "Zumiriki" is a gentle critique of civilization and a radical self-experiment with an uncertain outcome.
tuesday 13 oct  6:00 p.m. | theatiner filmkunst
attending: Oskar Alegria

Zustand und Gelände
Ute Adamczewski   DE 2019 | 118 min | dt. OF
Goldene Taube, Leipzig & Prix Premier, Marseille
In eastern Germany, so-called wild concentration camps were set up immediately after the National Socialist seizure of power from March 1933 to eliminate political opponents. Today they have largely been forgotten. "Zustand und Gelände" is a search for traces of the former places of horror and uncovers different political cultures of remembrance.
sunday 11 oct  11:00 a.m. | theatiner filmkunst
attending: Ute Adamczewski

EVE HELLER – Lecture

PETER TSCHERKASSKY – Lecture

PHIL SALOMON – Lecture with Eve Heller

Das Filmlabor L’Abominable im Norden von Paris bietet seit 1996 Filmemachern die Möglichkeit, in dem autonomen Kollektivbetrieb ihr Filmmaterial selbst zu entwickeln und zu bearbeiten. In dieser kreativen Post-Production- Atmosphäre entstanden seither die Filme von Nicolas Rey, Nathalie Nambot, Camilo Restrepo, Stefano Canapa, Martine Rousset, Emmanuel Lefrant und vielen anderen, von denen wir eine Auswahl herausragender professioneller DIY-Arbeiten vorstellen.
monday 12 oct  8:30 p.m.  | werkstattkino

book: Gerhard Friedl – Ein Arbeitsbuch
Volker Pantenburg (Hg.)
Eine Textsammlung von und über einen einzigartigen Filmemacher.

film: Knittelfeld – Stadt ohne Geschichte 
Gerhard Friedl   AT, DE 1997 | 35 min | dt. OF |16mm
To the pictures of a faceless small town, a narrator presents an abysmal family tragedy in a calm narrative tone.  There is no question: it is about the province as a secret place of horror.
sonntag 11 okt  17:00 | werkstattkino
lesung: Matthias Hirth

On August 4, 2020, 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate detonated in the port of Beirut and the entire city was concerned by the disaster, protests afterwards  suppressed. A military state of emergency was declared and threatens the freedom to stand against a regime that literally blew up the people. In a solidarity screening Nour Ouayda (Beirut) and Philip Widmann (Berlin) show short films by Hassan Julien Chehouri, Danielle Arbid, Mohamed Soueid & Ghassan Salhab, Jocelyne Saab
wednesday 15 oct 6:30 p.m. werkstattkino
donations via paypal: underdox@gmx.de | subject: beirut

193 Octillion
Anya Tsyrlina 
RU, CH 2020 | Deutsche Premiere | 1 min | 16mm auf HD | Russisch
tuesday 13 oct 8:30 p.m. werkstattkino | short film night

Remembrance of an excursion with 15 UNDERDOX artists to Paris, on the eve of Corona.
28 feb – 15 mars 2020 film | screening & exhibiton | on invitation of Goethe-Institut Paris