From the series ”Festival Films”: Films are best made and made the best where other films are shown and seen.
Rainer Knepperges DE 2022 | Premiere 3 min | German
Rainer Knepperges
Born 1965 in Korschenbroich, co-founder of the “Filmclub 813” in Cologne, part of the legendary “Kölner Gruppe”. He publishes texts on cinema in Cargo and Sigi Götz Entertainment, among others.
Films Die Quereinsteigerinnen (mit Christian Mrasek) 2005 | Die Zukunft des Körpers 2007 | Serge Rippenanker 2008 | Vielfalt erforschen (mit Katrin Leuthe) 2008 (4. UX) | the mystery 2022 (17. UX)
The King of Chicory, in the nude, offers a wild monotonous incantation of carelessness, which, quite in the opposite, seems to display his wounds openly. Maybe he lives too close to the bosom of the Lord Jesus … close to vomiting up his bare existence.
Evelyn Rüsseler aka Bear Boy DE 2023 2 min | French
Evelyn Rüsseler aka Bear Boy
She makes experimental films and videos about friends, animal transformations and dead poets, writes novels and performs the imagined animal characters. She lives in Düsseldorf and on the Baltic Sea.
Films Notre Dame des Friches (for Piero Heliczer) 2017 (12. UX) | L´après-midi d´Augustine 2018 | Breath Death (disarmed) (13. UX) | Yoga für Frauen und Bären 2018 (13. UX) | Woher das Wort Luise kommt 2019 (14. UX)
Triangle of democracy: Public square, speech, election. Somewhere in France during the presidential campaign.
Jacques Sorrentini Zibjan FR 2023 | German Premiere 9 min | no dialogue
Jacques Sorrentini Zibjan
Born in 1985 in Marseille. He first studied physics and then photography in Arles and cinema in Lussas. His current work concerns films, installations and sound creations, mainly using analogue media.
Films Le bien ne fait pas de bruit 2020 | Temps conté 2021 | Promise to love me all 2023
Credits B+T+M+P+V: Jacques Sorrentini Zibjan | S: Alix Tulipe, Jacques Sorrentini Zibjan
”Projekt” depicts the site of the International Trade Fair in Lagos as a transhistorical conglomerate of different perspectives by becoming itself a space of encounter and collaboration.
Dane Komljen DE/NG 2023 15 min | English, Nigerian languages
Dane Komljen
Born 1986 in Banja Luka, SFR Yugoslavia. He studied film and art.
Films All the Citites of the North 2016 | Afterwater 2022 | Projekt 2023
Credits B+S: Dane Komljen | K: Dane Komljen, Kendo Osakawe | T: Dane Komljen, Ema Edosio Deelen | Stimme: Ema Edosio Deelen | SD: Jakov Munižaba | P+V: Zsuzsanna Kiràly
Young people from Brussels play a well-known European memory game, in which players must repeat and then add to an ever-growing list of items that they would take with them on a trip. But there’s a bitter twist to this version of the game: all the items need to come from a packing list of 8,000 objects from a colonial expedition to the former Belgian Congo. The list includes a spear, ten beetles, an ivory horn, an elephant-hair chain, and 140 meters of film of pygmies fighting.
Sarah Vanagt BE 2022 32 min | French
Sarah Vanagt
Born in 1976, her documentaries, video installations and photographs connect the history and origins of cinema. Her work is shown equally in museums and at film festivals.
Films After Years of Walking 2003 | Begin Began Begun 2005 (2. UX) | First Elections 2006 (2. UX) | Silent Elections 2009 | The Wave 2012 | Dust Breeding 2013 (8. UX) | Girl with a fly 2013 | Waking Hours 2015 | Still Holding Still 2015 | Les porteurs 2023
Credits B: Sarah Vanagt | K: Ruben Desiere, Jonathan Wannyn | S: Effi Weiss T: Gedeon Depauw, Kwinten van Laethem | SD: Philippe Ciompi P: Sarah Vanagt, Alice Lemaire | V: CBA
It is not the first time that Jacques Tati comes to mind in a film by Josef Dabernig. Both like to appear in front of the camera in their quiet humor, both let non-sites and “nowheres” become the main actors and mistrust the spoken word; the language of the objects is eloquent enough. – Regina Schlagnitweit
Josef Dabernig AT 2022 12 min | ohne Dialoge
Josef Dabernig
Born 1956 in Kötschach-Mauthen (AT). Studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Films since 1994.
Films Zlaté Piesky Rocket Launch 2015 | Stabat Mater 2017 | Heavy Metal Detox 2019 | All the Stops 2020 (17. UX)
Credits R+B+S: Josef Dabernig | K: Christian Giesser | SD: Michael Palm | V: Sixpackfilm | Mit Jiří Valoch, Jana Písaříková, Ondřej Chrobák, u.a.
The film focuses on the often invisible world of the young poeple under 27. The artist accompanied eight young protagonists into their personal spaces at night and examined the relationship between social space, architecture and the body. The film was made as part of Public Art Munich as an intervention in public space.
Stephanie Maier DE 2023 23 min | German
Stephanie Maier
Studied directing at the University of Television and Film Munich and painting and graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts. Installations with video, photography and drawings. www.tageszielerreicht.de
Credits I+K+S+P: Stephanie Maier | M: Yunus Hutterer, Jim Backe | Mit Anne Obermeier, Charlotte Kober, David Spatz, Emma Herrschmann nightowls-munich.com
Levi is there too early. Sarah is still working. He wants to go out, she’d rather go straight to his place. The flatmates lie on the couch and laugh. Levi would so much like to throw himself into the relationship, but he doesn’t dare. Sarah enjoys shining in his eyes. If only there wasn’t this hunch that the two of them are too different. Let him make the announcements.
Frédéric Jaeger DE 2022 18 min | German
Frédéric Jaeger
Studied film and philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 2018, film studies at the Berlin University of the Arts with Thomas Arslan. He is also the founder of the film criticism magazine critic.de.
Films Nur der Fortschritt 2016 | Aufklärung für Hönow 2020 (15. UX) | Ein Raum für Männer 2021 | Ununterbrochen reden 2021 (17. UX)
Credits K: Tom Otte | S: Deniz Şimşek, Frédéric Jaeger | P: Frédéric Jaeger | Mit Lisa-Marie Janke, Jasper Engelhardt u.a.
Football stadiums have long been the designated places for the escalation of conflicts and every incident during a football match makes for a fire-starting headline. Meanwhile, the armies of six former Yugoslav republics have been getting together every year for over a decade, for a futsal tournament in the name of peace, in almost complete media silence.
Gorana Jovanović SR/SI 2022 23 min | Serbian
Gorana Jovanović
Filmmaker from Belgrade. After graduating from the University of Westminster, Gorana worked as a script consultant and writer on several feature and short film projects.
Films Armadila 2022 | Lopte 2022
Credits R+S: Gorana Jovanović | K: Lev Predan Kowarski | T+ SD: Luka Barajević | P: Gorana Jovanović, Luka Barajević | V: Gorana Jovanović | Special Mention of the Jury of the State of NRW, Short Film Festival Oberhausen