20. UNDER|DOX 09-15 OKT | halbzeit elfi mikesch 05 juni – Page 2 – Filmfestival für Dokument und Experiment München

Birthday presents for our 18th birthday

Dear UNDERDOX visitors, perhaps you have noticed: we have a completely renewed website! Our big thanks go to Florian Geierstanger, artist and curator, who has also worked for UNDERDOX for many years. He has been working behind the scenes for a year to make UNDERDOX responsive.

We ourselves are thrilled with the result: as heavy festival visitors, we know how annoying it can be to have to click through the complexities before you get to the information you’re looking for. We hope to provide clarity with our menu and not to hide important information behind clicks!

We are also enthusiastic about Michi Kohl. He wrote an article about UNDERDOX in the “Münchner Feuilleton” that UNDERDOX understood to 100%! After the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” banned us from the feuilleton (too little star power), we are all the more happy about this (almost) whole page!

Anyone who feels the urge to also give us something for our anniversary is welcome to bring a gift to the opening on Thursday, 5.10, at 7pm at the Film Museum! Baked goods, crisps, wine, sparkling wine, donations and more will be greatly appreciated!

Festival

2. October 2023

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Underdox 2023
UNDERDOX: first movies

New works by Daniel Kötter, Jonás Trueba and Selma Doborac practice cinematic border crossings – Werner Herzog comes to UNDERDOX

The festival will be opened at the Filmmuseum München on Thursday 5 October with the German premiere of Landshaft by German director Daniel Kötter. In the border region of eastern Armenia, along the new dividing lines between Azerbaijan and Armenia that have emerged since the Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020, he traces the geopolitical fault lines, following a flock of sheep.

Im the Stadtmuseumsall at the first floor of the Filmmuseum, the festival is showing Daniel Kötter‘s VR feature-length documentary Water & Coltan. The 50-minute 360° film transports the viewer directly to the sites of women’s struggle in coltan mining in South Kivu in Congo and shows the extractivist practice with its consequences. The VR film is screened like a cinema film with fixed starting times.

Even dwarfs started small. This famous title from Werner Herzog‘s early work can also be taken as the motto for the 18th edition of the UNDERDOX international film festival. Werner Herzog will personally present his film, shot on Lanzarote, where he also holds workshops for young filmmakers, at the Filmmuseum Munich on Saturday 7 October.

Spanish director Jonás Trueba‘s You Have to Come and See It recalls the playful experimental set-ups of Hong Sang-soo. Two thirtysomething couples who are friends re-sort their lives, or not. Peter Sloterdijk’s essay “You have to change your life”, Bill Callahan’s “Let’s Move to the Country” and Chano Domínguez’s jazzy flamenco accompany them in their escape from the real. The film will be shown as a German premiere on Saturday, 7.10. at the Theatiner.

In her film De Facto (Caligari Prize at the Berlinale), Selma Doborac deliberately places the concepts of testimony and authenticity on uncertain terrain. Texts whose origin is as unclear as their truth content challenge the limits of the imaginable. Selma Doborac will present her film in person at the Theatiner on Sunday, 8 October.

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31. August 2023

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Underdox 2023
UNDERDOX halftime: Michael Snow – In memoriam

thursday 8 june | 7 p.m. | filmmuseum munich

Michael Snow (10.12.1928–05.01.2023) became one of the most influential avant-garde artists of the 20th century and a central figure in the Canadian-American art scene with “Wavelength” (1967). While creating groundbreaking works as a painter, photographer, video and film artist, he worked part-time as a jazz pianist. In 1961, he moved to New York with his wife, the artist Joyce Wieland. At the Film-Makers’ Cinematheque (later Anthology Film Archives) he met Jonas Mekas, Peter Kubelka, Stan Brakhage, composer Steve Reich and others.

During his visit to UNDERDOX halftime 2014, Snow personally presented his work during four intense days, including the groundbreaking “La Région Centrale” (1971).
In memory of his visit and an avant-garde film master who brought comedy to experimental film, UNDERDOX presents “Seated Figures” (1988), another of Snow’s central cinematography films, and “Sshtoorrty” (2005), a testament to his lucid and sparkling humour. And, of course, “Wavelength” is not to be missed.
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Festival

31. May 2023

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Michael Snow, Underdox 2023, Underdox halftime
Connecting Futures | Phase 1: BELDOCS, Beograd

Political Reflections: War, Militarization, and the Rise of Totalitarian Regimes.

What does the future of young people in Europe look like? And which questions can we consider with film, whether documentary or experimental, as a discursive medium? In three project phases, CONNECTING FUTURES traces the questions about the future in a Europe in permanent crisis mode. Three film festivals each invite ten young people from three European cities to an intercultural exchange. The focus is on political issues and raising awareness of democracy and human rights, as well as on the first steps toward professionalization and opportunities for collective cooperation.

Already on May 10, 2023, we will go to BELDOCS, the international documentary film festival in Belgrade.

Here we introduce the young participants of CONNECTING FUTURES – UNDERDOX. In the next five months they will report from BELDOCS (phase 1), FID Marseille (phase 2) and UNDERDOX (phase 3) in an (audiovisual) blog.

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8. May 2023

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Beldocs, Connecting Futures, FID Marseille, Underdox 2023
CONNECTING FUTURES | Apply now!

Trilateral youth exchange project in Europe
BELDOCS Belgrade – FID Marseille – UNDERDOX Munich

In three project phases CONNECTING FUTURES wants to trace the questions about the future in a Europe in permanent crisis mode. Three film festivals invite ten young people each from three European cities to an intercultural exchange. Political questions and the sensitization for democracy and human rights are in the focus as well as first steps of professionalization and possibilities of collective cooperation.

Target group and conditions of participation

CONNECTING FUTURES is aimed at young adults (18-22 years old) from all educational backgrounds. Prerequisites for participation are a keen interest in the audiovisual medium and a willingness to reflect on political issues.
The language of communication between the project participants is English. The three project phases will take place on location. Participation in the workshops is free of charge for the young people. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the project.

Please send your application with your personal profile and a short letter of motivation explaining why you are interested in participating to info@underdox-festival.de.
Application deadline: March 31, 2023

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Festival

18. January 2023

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The trailer of 17th UNDERDOX

The theme of “volatility” is driving us this year. Nothing lasts. Peace. Health. Elements. Films. Jean-Luc Godard has passed on. And even the last excursion of UNDERDOX is history. In the summer of 2021, we went to Palić, Serbia, to present a short film program at the local festival. We left the EU and got to know a secluded, mysterious world near the Hungarian border. The trailer reminds us of our trip. It shows a shot of the dead lake of Palić, which is completely tilted. That doesn’t stop us from reveling in idyll: Slowly, the barge draws a circle over the greenish-yellow water, folk tunes wistfully reminiscent of old, better times. Suddenly, the sound of a film projector mingles. – This was just a new prank by JLG. Marguerite Duras sits across from him, praising his film. The latter smirks: he can only ever say bad things, he admires her praise. Then they say: Shall we begin? Yes, we begin.

I+DOP+S+E: Dunja Bialas
Found Footage: Walt de Mirabeau
Starring Bernd Brehmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Marguerite Duras and the Palić’ tourists.

Festival

30. September 2022

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The UNDERDOX catalog has arrived!

Here you can already browse around online!

Festival

22. September 2022

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UNDERDOX 2022
Das full program!

Now online! Here you can find the complete UNDERDOX program of the 17th edition!
There are 16 feature films and countless shorts, from 15 countries from almost all continents: Argentina, Bolivia, Germany, France, Italy, India, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Ukraine, USA, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Austria, Philippines. With 7 German premieres!

Festival

10. September 2022

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Artist in Focus 2022: Harald Vogl

^{Dear Jimmy,}^{Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York}

“No Wave”: Under this slogan UNDERDOX presents its ARTIST IN FOCUS this year Harald Vogl and his “New York Trilogy”. Vogl came to the Munich Academy of Arts in the seventies, where he studied painting with Günter Fruhtrunk. At the end of his studies he showed white canvases, “empty pictures”, hinge works to his already started intensive film work, which lasted until 1988. In New York he came into contact with the “No Wave” scene around the legendary Club 57 in East Village and became part of the post-punk period and the “Cinema of Transgression”. In 1975 he showed his films for the first time in Jonas Mekas’ “Anthology Film Archives”, even before creating a New York trilogy with “Only You” (1981), “OK Today Tomorrow” (1983) and “Measure Taken” (1984), preceded by “Dear Jimmy” (1978), a classic of No Wave.

Underdox shows the “New York Trilogy” in the copies restored by the Museum of Modern Art as a German premiere. Harald Vogl is a guest!
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14. August 2022

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VIDEODOX Special Events

Saturday 16.10.2021 11 am: Performance “100 ways to be inside a rectangle [VIDEODOX version]” by Sara Mayoral Jimenez

Künstlerinnengespräch: Elena Alvarez Lutz und Sara Mayoral Jimenez

Saturday 16.10.2021 3 pm: Reading by Jovana Reisinger from her novel “Spitzenreiterinnen”.

Jovana Reisinger, “Spitzenreiterinnen”, Verbrecher Verlag, 22 €

Sunday 17.10. 2 p.m. Talk with “REVÜ – Flugblatt für Cinephilie”: Art between Cinema and Gallery – Possibilities and Perspectives of Cinematic Expressions

Mehr Gesprächskreis als Panel, mit nahtlosem Übergang zu den Zuhörenden

Es diskutierten (v.l.): Franziska Unger, Camille Tricaud, Stephan Vorbrugg, Nicole Leykauf, Dominik Bais (Filmkollektiv)

Es moderierten: Emil Klattenhoff, Carlotta Wachotsch (REVÜ), Dunja Bialas (VIDEODOX)

Sunday 17.10.21 4 p.m. Awarding of the VIDEODOX Promotional Prize 2021.
The prize goes to Melina Hennicker, Michael Schmidt, Andreas Woller for “kirchmoarhof-d”.

Die Zeremonie ist im Gang (v.l.): Peider Defilla (Preisstifter, B.O.A. Videofilmkunst), Andreas Woller, Michael Schmidt, Felix Burger (Jury), Melina Hennicker

v.l.: VIDEODOX-Förderpreis-Stifter Peider Defilla, Andreas Woller, Michale Schmidt, Melina Hennicker

Die Gewinner-Arbeit: kirchmoarhof-d von Melina Hennicker, Michael Schmidt, Andreas Woller

Impressions

Baby Ice in Jovana Reisinger: “Die klaffende Wunde”

Baby Ice in Camille Tricaud/ Franziska Unger: “Apocalypse Baby”

Festival

20. October 2021

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