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  • Fragility (1): Filmmuseum Munich, Theatiner Filmkunst

    Filmmuseum Munich

    © Marta Popivoda, Landscapes of Resistance

    Insecurity, revolt and possibilities of political resistance are shown in the UNDERDOX opening film LANDSCAPES OF RESISTANCE by Marta Popivoda along a biography from the time of National Socialism until today. Frederick Wiseman, the American veteran of direct cinema, documents in CITY HALL how a city government persistently resists democratic and social erosion. On the occasion of the world premiere of Alexandre Koberidze’s WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT HEAVEN, Berlinale director Carlo Chatrian writes: “It is the poetry of aimlessness that enables Koberidze to make visible and tellable in cinema all that we rarely perceive.”

    Theatiner Filmkunst

    © Denis Côté, HYGIÈNE SOCIALE

    Aesthetically, fragility also means fragility and tenderness, hints at beauty, allows silence and poetry. In ÜBER DEUTSCHLAND, the German-Austrian director Bernhard Sallmann has texts by the young Russian Marina Zwetajewa recited high above Dresden in the style of Jean-Marie Straub – it is the year 1919, the result a subtle essay of tender topicality. With HYGIÈNE SOCIALE, the French-Canadian Denis Côté has staged a relationship drama in which the microcosm of the dialogue takes over the play and the protagonists stand rooted to the spot in the landscape. P. S. Vinothraj’s morality tale PEBBLES is about everyday violence against women in India, in which a son questions his father’s patriarchal certainties – almost without words. A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES is a poetic meditation on the megalopolis of Wuhan on the Yangtze River, initially made under the impact of China’s brutal Corona Shutdown. Filmmaker Zhu Shengze represents the poeticizing documentary that focuses on an empathetic view of the world.

    Festival

    10. September 2021
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    Fragility, Line-up
  • Theme: FRAGILITY

    © Alexandre Koberidze, Was sehen wir, wenn wir zum Himmel schauen?

    The international film festival UNDERDOX has always been concerned with border crossers that position themselves between documentary, experimental film, feature film or art film. Since the films are hardly suitable for “exploitation” on the market and production often takes place under difficult conditions, their status is fragile in many respects. This has been exacerbated in part by Corona.

    In year two of Corona, UNDERDOX raises FRAGILITY to the central theme. Vulnerability is now followed by fragility. Certainties have become uncertain, cohesion is at stake. Society – the private sphere, culture, the economy and public life as a whole – is groping for new forms and contents of togetherness. Change – farewell, departure and new start – also means fragility.

    FRAGILITY aesthetically means fragility and delicacy, allows beauty to be heard, allows silence and poetry. Fragility manifests itself in groping and questioning works, which are far from the gesture of assertion. The films of UNDERDOX celebrate open forms, many perspectives and aesthetic diversity, break with habits of seeing and reception and contribute to shifting the parameters. The spectator, the viewer is also put into a state of FRAGILITY.

    Alexandre Koberidze’s feature WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT HEAVEN? is one of the films that enchanted us this year. “It is the poetry of aimlessness that allows Koberidze to make visible and tellable in cinema all that we rarely perceive,” writes Carlo Chatrian. Koberidze was already a guest at UNDERDOX in 2017 with his experimental feature-length film LASS DEN SOMMER NIE WIEDER KOMMEN.

    Festival

    20. August 2021
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  • Upcoming: UNDERDOX 16

    The festival summer begins! Unfortunately, the UNDERDOX half-time is cancelled again this year. Instead, it’s good to sit in the sun coming out of the cinemas of Crossing Europe in Linz. We found a few films there: Norbert Pfaffenbichler’s insane horror-gore-grotesque 2551.01, Bernhard Sallmann’s concentrated literary film Über Deutschland, based on the diaries of Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva. Artist in Focus will be Siegfried A. Fruhauf, who will give a lecture about his impressive experimental work.

    In Rotterdam we have also already collected many films: Marta Popivoda, Tim Leyendekker, numerous short films. Likewise in Berlin: at the Berlinale and at the Week of Critics.

    We’ve been online a lot, it’s time to see each other again.

    Festival

    23. June 2021
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