B: Max Linz, Nicolas von Passavant | DOP: Carlos
Andrés Lópe | E: Bernd Euscher, René Frölke | S: Andreas
Mücke-Niesytka | P: Maximilian
Haslberger, Amerikafilm, Cooky Ziesche, RBB | D:
Filmgalerie 451 | With Sarah Ralfs, Sophie Rois, Maryam
Zaree www.amerikafilm.de
friday | 11 oct 9.00 pm | filmmuseum
The Institute for Cybernetics and Simulation Research is threatened
with closure – the starting point for this satire about how the
university system is to be transformed into a turbo-capitalist
research machine. Max Linz crafts his film with a keen sense of
Berlin’s sensitivities, urban backdrops, office decor and academic
attire. And he exaggerates decadent university jargon with gusto, its
buzzwords functioning almost like the bait in behavioural studies. By
the end, the film has practically become a musical, with a catchy tune
that could be a post-capitalist revolutionary anthem: "Why can’t it be
nice here, why are we not happy?"
Max Linz born 1984 in Frankfurt
am Main. He studied film science and directing in Berlin and
Paris, works as a filmmaker and lecturer and publishes on film
policy and aesthetic topics.
Films Das Oberhausener Gefühl 2012 | Ich
will mich nicht künstlich aufregen 2014 (9. UX) | Weitermachen
Sanssouci 2019
