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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VIDEODOX is now open
Angela Stiegler from the BBK e.V. “Frog eat frog”: Ivan Paskalev “Woman suffering”: VIDEODO director Dunja Bialas with artist Franziska Unger (l.) VIDEODOX director Matthias von Tesmar with the jury members M+M The selection committee (from left): Matthias von Tesmar, Anna Schellkopf, Nora Moschüring, Florian Geierstanger, Dunja Bialas -
Attention, programme switch
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.
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Our anniversary programme
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.
Opening film: BAD PAINTER by Albert Oehlen
© Albert Oehlen, Bad Painter 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 ORBITAL | country & artists in focus
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.
ART & ARCHIVE | panel & filme & VIDEODOX
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)VIDEODOX | 30 sept (eröffnung 18-22 Uhr) bis 12 okt
Exhibition, performance and award ceremony in the artists’ gallery.
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6th VIDEODOX Award 2025 – The Nominees
© Ulu Braun, Pacific Vein 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 – Chronicler of the hidden
UNDERDOX halftime | 5 june 2025
filmmuseum münchen 7 pm | guest: Elfi Mikesch
Filmgalerie 451 | Elfi Mikesch 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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19 UNDERDOX festival trailer
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
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Closing Night with Khavn & Kluge
“not the artist in focus” Khavn and Alexander Kluge as guests at the Filmmuseum Munich
Today, Wednesday, the 19th UNDERDOX ends with the big Closing Night at the Filmmuseum München, 9 pm.
Our closing film MAKAMISA: PHANTASM OF REVENGE is the latest film by
“not the artist in focus” KHAVN. The Filipino artist, author, filmmaker, designer and musician has a long-standing collaboration with Alexander Kluge. The still active, enterprising
and innovative innovator of German film will be in conversation with
KHAVN at the Film Museum and will bring a surprise film with him.There will also be a cine-concert by KHAVN on the grand piano, accompanied by Babel Gun on the drums.
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The Program of the 19th UNDERDOX
Big titles
18 feature-length films have made it into the official UNDERDOX selection this year. Among them are major titles such as GRAND TOUR by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes (Best Director, Cannes), PEPE by Colombian Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias (Silver Bear, Berlinale) and DIRECT ACTION by Frenchman and Berliner-by-choice Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau (Berlinale Encounters Award). But also the “unspectacular” award winners THE OTHER WAY AROUND by Spaniard Jonás Trueba (Best European Film, Cannes) (German premiere), EIN SCHÖNER ORT (A GOOD PLACE) by Cologne-based Katharina Huber (Best Director, Locarno, Best Actress Locarno for Clara Schwinning) and ANIMAL by Greece’s Sofia Exarchou (Best Actress Locarno for Dimitra Vlagopoulou).
Miguel Gomes, GRAND TOUR (Pandora Film) Theme: “awareness”
This does not mean an esoteric or sensitive orientation. We are focusing our attention on what is happening on the screen. And on everything that heightens our awareness: that is the awareness we mean.
We often become conscious when something is missing. Stanley Schtinter brings the most radical version with his film SCHNEEWITTCHEN (German premiere). Based on the drama by Robert Walser, the film pays homage to the Portuguese master João César Monteiro, who accidentally hung his coat over the camera while shooting BRANCA DE NEVE. An illustrious cast investigates the attempted murder of Snow White. Hanns Zischler (the hunter), director Stanley Schtinter and Joshua Bonnetta (film editor) are present. (Saturday, 12 Okt 6pm, Filmmuseum München)
artist in focus: Oskar Alegria
Basque director Oskar Alegria is a master at detecting nuances, the unspoken and the invisible. We are also showing his films under the theme of awareness, and he is also this year’s Artist in Focus. Our opening film ZINZINDURRUNKARRATZ (German premiere) invites you on a journey full of memories, in search of an old shepherd’s path, with a Super 8 camera and a donkey as your companion. (Thursday, 10.10. 7 p.m., Filmmuseum Munich)
Also in the “Artist in Focus” program: THE SEARCH FOR EMAK BAKIA (2012), about the search for the location of Man Ray’s surrealist cine-poem EMAK BAKIA (1926).
(Friday 11.10. 9 pm, Werkstattkino) Oskar Alegria will be present at both screenings.
Oskar Alegria, Zinzindurrunkarratz – Eröffnungsfilm this is not the artist in focus: KHAVN
Filipino filmmaker KHAVN is the master of This is not. Therefore we deny that he is our second artist in focus, KHAVN is a musician as untamed as filmmaker. He unleashes Alexander Kluge and Lilith Stangenberg and scratches the picture while hammering into the piano keys. In our closing night he will give a ciné concert on the wing of the Filmmuseum accompanied by Babel Gun. Also running KLUGE’S 5TH BIRTHDAY 1937 (German premiere), and as a closing film we show MAKASIMA: PHANTASM OF REVENGE with Lilith Stangenberg. We are expecting Alexander Kluge and Lilith Stangenberg as guests (requested). Also in the program: MAKBETAMAXIMUS (2024), Monday 14.10., 9.30 pm, Werkstattkino. Khavn will be present at both screenings.
young people’s choice: Belgrade Youth
For the second time, we have invited the younger generation to curate a program of films by young filmmakers in the Young People’s Choice funding program. Vid Radičević (Belgrade) and Paula Ruppert (Munich) have also found two world premieres for their short film program Belgrade Youth, which consists of seven films. They will be present at the screening. (Tuesday, 7 p.m., Werkstattkino)
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40 years of Filmstadt Munich
Ceremony: 12 September 2024, Filmmuseum Munich
Registration: anmeldung@filmstadt-muenchen.deFilmprogramm: 13.09.-15.09.2024, Neues Maxim
NE TRAVAILLE PAS (1968-2018)
César Vayssié | FR 2018
88 min | HD | French, English
B+DOP+E: César Vayssié | M: Avia x Orly | S: César Vayssié, Pierre Avia | P: AFE (Caroline Redy) | Sales: Shellac | With Elsa Michaud, Gabriel Gauthier
www.cesarvayssie.comElsa Michaud and Gabriel Gauthier are both students at the Beaux-Arts school in Paris. They are in a relationship and conduct artistic research together. They become artists in chaotic times. The footage, without dialogue, hypnotised by the music of the duo Avia X Orly, combines gestures, symbols, world events and the everyday life of the two students from March 2017 to March 2018. The film harnesses the frenzy of the digital flow through a visual proposal. It presents the paradoxes of a society celebrating the events of May 68, fifty years on.
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UNDERDOX halftime: Gestures of the avant-garde
Tula Roy, Peider A. Defilla
thu 6 june 2024 | 7 pm | filmmuseum
Guest: Tula Roy, Peider A. Defilla, Christoph Wirsing
What do Tula Roy and Peider A. Defilla have in common, apart from a Swiss passport? The answer is Christoph Wirsing. The cameraman has worked with the Swiss filmmakers, who live in and around Munich, time and again, as a constant companion. To mark the 90th birthday of Tula Roy and the 70th birthday of Peider A. Defilla, we invite you to a Swiss double bill of two different works that each bear the signature of their time of origin.
We have given the programme the title “Gestures of the avant-garde”. Tula Roy is one of the most prominent women on the Swiss film scene, and she has made history with her milieu studies in the feminist underground. Peider A. Defilla is one of the outstanding video pioneers of the European avant-garde and composer and arranger of the “video opera”.
In an experiment, we combine both personalities, connected by the Munich cameraman Christoph Wirsing.
