sunday 10 oct 7.30 pm werkstattkino | guest: Daniela Zahlner
the body of the world
which is also yours and
which keeps insisting
you recognise it.
(Kim Addonizio, ”Quantum”)
Daniela Zahlner born 1986 in Neun-kirchen / Lower Austria, lives in Vienna. She is actress and screenwriter at OUTSIDE NOISE (16. UX). danielazahlner.com
Filme Sexy 8 2012 | Take Me to Pemberley 2015 | for the soft glow ahead 2020
IT / BE 2020 | German Premiere 9 min | 16mm | no dialogues
Sc+E: Eva Giolo | DOP: Eva Giolo, Eva Claus | SD: Simonluca Laitempergher
P: Leonardo Bigazzi | Sales: Eva Giolo
saturday 9 oct 5.00 pm werkstattkino | long shorts 3: analogue paradises
Filmed after the lockdown caused by Covid-19, the film is an intimate, poetic portrait of the fragile balances that govern everyday life in a domestic setting. The artist films a group of her friends in their own homes, performing various small actions in accordance with her instructions. (IFFR)
Eva Giolo geb. 1991 in Brüssel arbeitet in den Bereichen Film, Video und Installation.
elephy.org
Filme Elisabeth 2017 | A Tongue Called Mother 2019 | The Taste of Tangerines 2020 | Study of Gestures_01 2020
Flowers Blooming in Our Throats 2020
GB 2021 26 min | 16mm | English DOP+E+S: Katie Davies | M: Wojciech Rusin | P+Sales: Katie Davies, Emma Agusita dividedbylaw.org
tuesday 12 oct 7.30 pm werkstattkino | long shorts 4: brex it!
The film bears witness to binational families and couples trying to cope with the UK’s hostile immigration environment. From multiple locations across the world, we hear personal accounts of how the interviewees navigate their way through the UK family immigration regulations, encountering prolonged periods of separation from their partners and families with distressing consequences.
Katie Davies Media artist, filmmaker and lecturer in media, culture and practice at UWE Bristol.
katiedavies.com
Emma Agusita Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, Culture and Communication at UWE Bristol.
Films (Katie Davies) The Separate System 2017 | Sleeping in Public 2017
DE 2020 20 min | HD | no dialogues DOP: David Schittek | S: Danila Lipatov | Sales: Lightcone
friday 8 oct 9.30 pm werkstattkino | long shorts 2: dark matters
A trace of regularly ordered mounds of earth. In the twilight a dump truck is being loaded. Dark earth is excavated, loaded and transported off the scenery.
Without the mineral resources from the numerous diamond and gold mines in the so-called Russian Federation subject Yakutia, the Soviet Union would never have been able to exist until the 1990s.
Viktor Brim born 1987 in Uzbekistan. Studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Film University Potsdam Babelsberg, KHM Cologne. He lives and works in Cologne.
viktorbrim.com
Films Objects and Artifacts 2019 | Dark Matter 2020 | Imperial Objects 2020 | Imperial Machine 2020 | Becoming Unreal 2021
GB 2020 22 min | HD | English Sc+P: John Smith | Sales: LUX | With Boris Johnson
tuesday 12 oct 7.30 pm werkstattkino | long shorts 4: brex it!
Covid Messages is a video in six parts, based around broadcasts of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s COVID-19 press conferences. The work focusses on the British government’s attempts to eliminate the virus through the use of magic spells and rituals. While the pandemic spreads and the death toll rises, the Prime Minister makes repeated errors of judgement. Exasperated by his many mistakes, the spirits of the dead rise up and intervene.
John Smith is one of the illustrious representatives of British Avant-garde Cinema, who combines humor with political contemplation, document with fiction in his experimental short films. In 2015 he was Artist in Focus of the 10th UX. johnsmithfilms.com
Films (selection) Hotel Diaries 2001
2007 | Worst Case Scenario 2003 | Unusual Red cardigan 2011 (all 10. UX) | Covid Messages 2020
AT 2020 16 min | 35mm | no dialogues Sc+E+P: Josef Dabernig | DOP: Christian Giesser | SD: Michael Palm | Sales: Sixpackfilm | With Ingeburg Wurzer, Gregor Schmoll, Zsolt Szalai, Wolfgang Dabernig
A dominating woman directs several men who are renovating a villa in a small Hungarian town. It is by means of the precisely sequential movements enacted by this leading actress in the film’s local unit that unfolds a possible narrative rooted in its formal nature.
Josef Dabernig born 1956 in Kötschach-Mauthen (AT). Studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Films since 1994.
Films (selection) Zlaté Piesky Rocket Launch 2015 | Stabat Mater 2017 Heavy Metal Detox 2019 | All the Stops 2020
Taking cinematic re-contextualization to the extreme without changing the original context, the film interweaves hundreds of frames and scenes from the late Soviet “women’s equality” propaganda – to create an elliptical, sensuous, quietly subversive world that does not map easily onto the contemporary notions and stakes of western feminism.
Anya Tsyrlina born in Novosibirsk. Artist and filmmaker. She lives and works in Basel since 2002.
Films I Don’t Believe In Anarchy 2016 Phenomenon 2019 | Horizōn 2019 (14. UX) | All Other Things Equal 2020
John Gianvito, Jon Jost, Yoo Soon-mi, Minda Martin, Travis Wilkerson
USA / AF 2012 129 min | HD | English, Paschtu, Dari E: John Gianvito, Pacho Velez, Rob Todd | S: Travis Wilkerson, John Gianvito, Jon Jost, Minda Martin, Yoo Soon-mi, Afghan Voices | P+Sales: Traveling Light Productions
wednesday 13 oct 5.00 pm werkstattkino | Entrance fee: 10 Euro Revenues go to the International Rescue Committee (IRC) | de.rescue.org guest: Ali Khorosh Fazli Bayat (KINO ASYL)
An inventory of the psycho-physical damage left by the war in Afghanistan. It’s 2012, as we now know today about halfway through the military campaign. Critically, the effects of the war on people are being reappraised: Adults and children, Afghans and U.S. military personnel. A statement of solidarity with the Afghan people and the victims of the war.
John Gianvito | My Heart Swims in Blood A mosaical journey through a dark night of the soul. Jon Jost | Empire’s Cross A poetic evocation of the circumstances instigating America’s attack on Afghanistan Minda Martin | The Long Distance Operator About a drone pilot in Palmdale, California, who learns about the impact of his role in the war in Afghanistan. Travis Wilkerson | Fragments of Dissolution A poetic, anguished cry from the heart of a rotting empire. Yoo Soon-mi | Afghanistan: The Next Generation Archival footage from different historical moments.
Memories of Afghanistan
On August 13, Sahraa Karimi, director of the Afghan Film Organization, launched a call for help: “Do not let Afghan cinema die. Even if you are in exile.” Filmmaking in Afghanistan, she said, is in danger; much of its cinematic heritage was already destroyed in 1996 when the Taliban invaded Kabul. This upsetting news reminded us of the film FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN which was part of the 8th UNDERDOX Festival programme. It was made directly from inside the war machine, as a collective project of American independent directors John Gianvito, Jon Jost, Minda Martin, Travis Wilkerson and Yoo Soon-mi. They deliberately followed up on the legendary LOIN DU VIETNAM (1967), directed by Joris Ivens, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker and Agnès Varda, among others. John Gianvito writes us today: ”In my view our film has, sadly, lost little of its relevance. I’ve been regularly in touch the past weeks with one of the members of AFGHAN VOICES who filmed many of the sequences in the film and sadly he and his family were unable to leave the country despite repeated efforts to get through the crowds at the Kabul airport. Just one of the thousands of stories out there, though we are continuing to pursue alternative solutions”.
UNDERDOX shows FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN (2012) in a solidarity screening. Entrance fee: 10 €. Revenues go to the International Rescue Committee (IRC). de.rescue.org
Call of Help by Sahraa Karimi, Director of the Afghan Film Institute
My full statement at @UNHumanRights in Geneva that happened yesterday.
To All the Film Communities in The World and Who Loves Film and Cinema!
My name is Sahraa Karimi, a film director and the current general director of Afghan Film, the only stated-owned film company established in 1968.
I write to you with a broken heart and a deep hope that you can join me in protecting my beautiful people, especially filmmakers from the Taliban. In the last few weeks, the Taliban have gained control of so many provinces. They have massacred our people, they kidnapped many children, they sold girls as child brides to their men, they murdered a woman for her attire, they gauged the eyes of a woman, they tortured and murdered one of our beloved comedians, they murdered one of our historian poets, they murdered the head of culture and media for the government, they have been assassinating people affiliated with the government, they hung some of our men publicly, they have displaced hundreds ofthousands of families.
The families are in camps in Kabul after fleeing these provinces, and they are in unsanitary condition. There islooting in the camps and babies dying because they don’t have milk. It is a humanitarian crisis, and yet the world is silent. We have grown accustomed to this silence, yet we know it is not fair. We know that this decision to abandon our people is wrong, that this hasty troop withdrawal is a betrayal of our people and all that we did when Afghans won the Cold War for the west. Our people were forgotten then, leading up to the Taliban’s dark rule, and now, after twenty years of immense gains for our country and especially our younger generations, all could be lost again in this abandonment.
We need your voice. The media, governments, and the world humanitarian organizations are conveniently silent as if this “Peace deal” with the Taliban was ever legitimate. It was never legitimate. Recognizing them gave them the confidence to come back to power. The Taliban have been brutalizing our people throughout the entire process of the talks. Everything that I have worked so hard to build as a filmmaker in my country is at risk of falling. If the Taliban take over they will ban all art. I and other filmmakers could be next on their hit list. They will strip women’s rights, we will be pushed into the shadows of our homes and our voices, our expression will be stifled into silence.
When the Taliban were in power, zero girls were in school. Since then there are over 9 million Afghan girls in school. This is incredible Herat, the third-largest city which just fell to the Taliban had nearly 50% women in its university. These are incredible gains that the world hardly knows about. Just in these few weeks, the Taliban have destroyed many schools and 2 million girls are forced now out of school again.
I do not understand this world. I do not understand this silence. I will stay and fight for my country, but I cannot do it alone. I need allies like you. Please help us get this world to care about what is happening to us. Please help us by informing your countries’ most important media what is going on here in Afghanistan. Be our voices outside Afghanistan. If the Taliban take over Kabul, we may not have access to the internet or any communication tool at all.
Please engage your filmmakers, artists to support us to be our voice.This war is not a civil war, this is a proxy war, this is an imposed war and it is the result of the US deal with the Taliban. Please as much as you can share this fact with your media and write about us on your social media. The world should not turn its back on us. We need your support and your voice on behalf of Afghan women, children, artists, and filmmakers. This support would be the greatest help we need right now. Please help us get this world to not abandon Afghanistan. Please help us before the Taliban take over Kabul. We have such little time, maybe days. Thank you so much. I appreciate your pure true heart so dearly.
I promise you I will hold your hands again. I promise you we will meet forever. We will survive, no matter that the Taliban is here.
I promise you we will breathe the fresh air again. We will walk along the beach with big smiles on our faces. And drink coffee in the café where we used to drink coffee before. Go outside without fear and without Chadari We will wear colorful clothes. Laugh out loud on the street again.
I promise you we will sit together again, gossiping about colleagues. And visit each other secretly, staying awake till late in the night. We will shop for each other. And imagine our future together once again.
I promise you we will argue about choosing our kids’ names. We’ll eat milky cake in the restaurant. Talk on the phone over my balcony till midnight. And even chitchat all night.
I promise you we will fight about stupid things. And make up after each dispute. I promise you we will do silly things on the street. And I’ll make you jealous again in the workplace. But you will make me feel special with surprises.
I promise you we will meet again. And we will live again. No matter how hard the time or how long it takes. This I know, the time will come. And I will fulfill all my promises.
DE / GE 2021 | FIPRESCI Award, Berlinale Int. Competition 2021
150 min | HD | Georgian
Sc+E: Alexandre Koberidze | DOP: Faraz Fesharaki | S+SD+M: Giorgi Koberidze |
P: Ketevan Kipiani, Anna Dziapshipa, Luise Hauschild | Distribution (DE): Grandfilm | With Ani Karseladze, Giorgi Bochorishvili, Oliko Barbakadze, Giorgi Ambroladze, Vakhtang Panchulidze, Sofio Tchanishvili, Irina Chelidze, David Koberidze, Sofio Sharashidze
sunday 9 oct 7.00 pm filmmuseum münchen | guest: Alexandre Koberidze
It is the poetry of aimlessness that enables Alexandre Koberidze to make visible and narratable in cinema everything that we rarely perceive in the reality of our everyday lives. Get your lighters out because, as Gianna Nannini is allowed to sing so fervently in this gem of a film, the nights are indeed magical. (Berlinale 2021)
Alexandre Koberidze Born 1984 in Tbilisi. Studied at the University of Film and Theater in Tbilisi, then at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb).
Filme Der Fall 2014 | Colophon 2015
Der perfekte Zuschauer 2017 | Lass den Sommer nie wieder kommen 2017 (12. UX) | Was sehen wir, wenn wir zum Himmel schauen? 2021
JP 2021 | Asian Perspective Award, DMZ Docs Film Festival, South Korea 2021
87 min | HD | Japanese, English
DEP+E+P+Sales: Thomas Ash
monday 11 oct 17.00 werkstattkino
The Ushiku deportation prison near Tokyo mainly holds people seeking refuge in Japan. Using a hidden camera, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Ash interviewed inmates there from late 2019. His film publicly accuses Japan’s uncompromising refugee policy through one of the country’s biggest human rights scandals. Ushiku has been making international headlines for years. (Nippon Connection)
Thomas Ash b. 1975, USA. MA in Film and Television Production at the University of Bristol, UK. He has been living in Japan for 20 years.
Films (selection) In the Grey Zone 2012 | A2-B-C 2013 | Dying at Home 2016 | Suturing Cultures 2017 | Boys for Sale 2017 | Sending Off 2019 | Ushiku 2021