Describing myself in a few characters reminds me of how little I like tinder. Just like I don’t like crunchy-looking, mealy apples, accepting unnecessary cookies because the agree button was green, the fact that tea is always either too hot or too cold, that my keys and mobile phone take turns hiding so that I’m always running late and Kai Wegner. OK, Kai Wegner I like even less than tinder. In actuality though I’m a pretty positive person: I almost never get upset and I love many people and things. But there’s not enough space here to describe that. And also it’s just a lot of fun to get upset together about unnecessary things!
Hello, my name is Paula and I study East European Studies in Munich. When I was younger, I wanted to become an opera singer and make music with and for other people. Then I started to get interested in movies and pretty quickly realized: film is like music, just different. There are basic techniques and methods which you have to learn and which can be explained – after that you just need to have a feel for it. It can be used or misused for political purposes. It can connect people and overcome borders and boundaries, it can introduce new worlds and explain them. In Connecting Futures I can learn exactly that – how to overcome boundaries with movies.
À Vendredi, Robinson Mitra Farahani FR/CH/IR/LB 2022| 96 min | Farsi, French, Engl. OV Engl. ST With Jean-Luc Godard, Ebrahim Golestan Humorous competition of giants. In Sussex, Iranian writer and filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan receives a message from Jean-Luc Godard on Lake Geneva. For 29 Fridays, the two 90-year-old Robinsons outdo each other in a multi-media correspondence. friday 07 oct18:00 filmmuseum | Guest: Fabrice Aragno
Aftersun Lluís Galter ES 2022 | 70 min | Catalan, German OV Engl. ST | German Premiere Summer by the sea. Three teenagers spy on a seasonal worker dressed as a bear, and a kidnapping story fuels their imagination. Amalgam of documentary exploration, detective story and fairy tale. monday 10 oct 18:00 theatiner
Answering the Sun Rainer Kohlberger AT 2022 | 60 min | No dialogues | German Premiere Seduction, overstimulation and deception of the senses. Monochrome pumping color surfaces. Drone sounds: staged here is nothing less than the sun itself. The abstract long film brings us in a psychedelic screen trip to maximum visual, auditory and ultimately physical experiences. saturday 8 oct 21:00 filmmuseum | Guest: Rainer Kohlberger
Berlin JWD Bernhard Sallmann DE 2022 | 74 min | German OV Engl. ST | German Premiere “Janz weit draußen”, outside Berlin: There’s the Spree-Teltow Pyramid, the Arkenberge, the Dichtervillen. Everything is as spectacular as it is banal. A true eye opener. monday 10 oct 17:30 werkstattkino | Zu Gast: Bernhard Sallmannlm
Il Buco Michelangelo Frammartino IT/FR/DE 2021 | 93 min | Ital. OV Engl. ST Documentary and extremely accurate reenactment of the expedition to one of the deepest caves in the world, discovered in 1961 in Pollino, southern Italy. Deep down it goes into the “buco” the maw of the earth. sunday 9 oct 11:00 theatiner
Burial Emilija Škarnulytė LT / NO 2022 | 60 min | Litauisch, engl. OmeU | German Premiere Emilija Škarnulytė LT / NO 2022 | 60 min | Lithuanian OV Engl. ST The dismantling of the Lithuanian nuclear power plant Ignalina, the most powerful nuclear reactor in the world during the Soviet era, turns into a symbolic funeral. Imaginary images conquer the technoid world. A snake lashes along the control panels, a vague metaphor for the fall from grace that mankind is committing against nature. A plea against the peaceful use of nuclear power that begins to float poetically and is at the same time politically explosive. thursday 6 oct 19:00 | opening night
Camuflaje (Camouflage) Jonathan Perel AR 2022 | 93 min | Span. OV Engl. ST Topography of the horror of the Argentine military dictatorship. The Campos de Mayo army compound was once a concentration camp, and the author Félix Bruzzone’s parents “disappeared” here. Jogging, he measures the formerly forbidden zone like a Tarkovskyan stalker running through and away from history. sunday 9 oct 19:30 werkstattkino
Coma Bertrand Bonello FR 2022 | 80 min | French OV Engl. ST With Julia Faure, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Lacoste, Louis Garrel Lockdown because of too much heat: What Bonello continues to spin as a phantasm of the Corona experience came dangerously close to reality this summer. Hypnotic mixture of essay, diary and horror vision about a young woman who meets the perfect net appearances of the influencer Patricia Coma. tuesday 11 oct 18:00 theatiner
Detours (Obkhodniye puti) Ekaterina Selenkina RU/NL 2021 | 73 min | Russ. OV Engl. ST The streets, buildings and terrains vagues of Moscow show much prefabricated construction, little glamor. A young man walks the desolate places and hides packages. A dangerous job, because drug possession alone is severely punished in Russia. Thoughtful topography of a city that has become abstract. saturday 8 oct 19:30 werkstattkino | Guest: Ekaterina Selenkinaino
El Gran Movimiento Kiro Russo BO/QA/FR/CH 2021 | 85 min | Span. OV Engl. ST Elder, a miner, travels to La Paz, Bolivia, terminally ill, to demonstrate against the loss of his job. Like him, the city is on its last legs. A shaman and a fortune teller are called in to help. An almost fantastic tale that comes directly from the documentary abysses of a mystically conceived world. wednesday 12 oct 18:00 theatiner
Love Is A Dog from Hell Khavn DE / PH 2021 | 90 min | Tagalog, Engl. OV Engl. ST With Lilith Stangenberg Hunger, poverty, violence and drugs strike a chord in this visually stunning cacophony of the big city, while Lilith Stangenberg fights her way to the cemetery as the furious Orphea. She wants to bring her beloved Eurydiko, who has just perished from food poisoning, back to the living. friday 07 oct 21:30 werkstattkino
Magdala Damien Manivel FR 2022 | 78 min | no dialogues | German Premiere With Elsa Wolliaston Physical cinema and masterpiece of sensual mysticism. Dancer Elsa Wolliaston (“Isadora’s Children”) heaves her powerful body through a European jungle. By now arduously aged, she embodies the aged Mary Magdalene, a figure of art history lost in love, here once again reanimated in an impressive physical presence. wednesday 12 oct 19:30 werkstattkino
A Night of Knowing Nothing Best Dokumentary, Cannes Payal Kapadia FR/IN 2021 | 96 min | Hindi, Bengal. OV Engl. ST A box of love letters is found on the campus of the Film and Television Institute of India. They bear witness to the incursion of the Hindu nationalist BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in office since May 2014, into the left-liberal environment of the film school. Dreamlike 16mm images, taken from a fictional archive, show a society that has become wistful and can no longer afford sentimentality. saturday 8 oct 21:30 werkstattkino
Rampart Marko Grba Singh RS 2021 | 61 min | Serb. OV Engl. ST An abandoned apartment in Belgrade. Dark corners, nooks and outlines of furniture long since cleared away awaken memories of the filmmaker’s childhood. Old video recordings of his grandfather are the vehicle for a journey through time: Back to childhood in Yugoslavia in the late nineties. With family, garden house, hamster and dog – and artillery on the horizon. tuesday 11 oct 19:30 werkstattkino
Tara Volker Sattel, Francesca Bertin DE/IT 2022 | 86 min | Ital. OV Engl. ST | German Premiere In Taranto, Apulia, the steel factory dominated life for decades. Air pollution and fractures in the social fabric of the more than 3,000-year-old city are the result. Now the traditions and myths collide with the ominous belief in progress. Attentively, Volker Sattel’s camera captures the contrasts and subtle nuances of a betrayed place that won’t give up. friday 07 oct21:00 filmmuseum | Guests: Volker Sattel, Francesca Bertin
Way Out Ahead of Us Rob Rice USA 2022 | 87 min | engl. OF In Daggett, a town of 200 people in the middle of the California desert, a man keeps his incurable illness a secret from his daughter, who wants to move to Los Angeles. A social drama with documentary underpinnings that aims right at the heart of the American dream. wednesday 12 oct 21:30 werkstattkino
“Where the skill follows the will.” Dante’s famous bon mot is the motto of the Vienna School of Independent Film, which focuses on the passion for a subject and its realization on analog film material. A showcase of works on the possibilities of analog. monday 10 oct 21:30 werkstattkino Guests: Gudrun Fürlinger (Alumna), Philipp Fleischmann (school director)
Aralkum German Premiere | Best Short Documentary, Nyon Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko UZ / DE 2022 | 13 min | Kazakh OV Engl. ST „First the water disappeared, then the fish and later even the foxes. In the end, only man remained. Aral,” the narrator finally addresses the lake, “when my children ask me about you, what can I tell them?“ thursday 6 oct 19:00 filmmuseum opening night | Zu Gast: Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
Ballet anémic Siegfried A. Fruhauf AT 2022 | 6 min | no dialogues | German Premiere Movements of industrial meat processing machines cast in cinematic structures. Bloodless cinema. Heartbeat of the apparatus. tuesday 11 oct 21:00 werkstattkino | dok & exp long night short
Camera Test Siegfried A. Fruhauf AT 2022 | 4 min | no dialogues | German Premiere While the green start tape of the 16mm film is still running, the rattling sound already swears us to a forward movement. And indeed: it goes forward, but it also goes back again, past hills, fir trees and apple trees. tuesday 11 oct 21:00 werkstattkino | dok & exp long night short
Deus ex Machina Anssi Kasitonni FI 2021 | 4 min | fin. OmeU The illusion breaks when the viewer can see the threads. tuesday 11 oct 21:00 werkstattkino | dok & exp long night short
First Time Nicolaas Schmidt DE 2021 | 50 min | no dialogues A Common Sensations Music Movie. On the road, listening to music. The world is changing. Two boys meet each other. montag 10 okt 19:30 werkstattkino | dok & exp short encounters Zu Gast: Marian Freistühler, Frédéric Jaeger, Nicolaas Schmidt
Die geheimnisvollen Inseln Marian Freistühler DE 2021 | 23 min | dt. OmeU Cruise ships are anchored in the port of Hamburg. A young man, stranded on the banks of the Elbe, watches couples in the sunset. He buys some snacks and imagines life on the other side of the river. montag 10 okt 19:30 werkstattkino | dok & exp short encounters Zu Gast: Marian Freistühler, Frédéric Jaeger, Nicolaas Schmidt
Me and Ma and Everything and Nothing Sasha Pirker AT 2022 | 12 min | engl. OV | German Premiere Full moon night, long shot. Indulge in the lunar affliction now, without becoming lunatic. tuesday 11 oct 21:00 werkstattkino | dok & exp long night short
the mystery Rainer Knepperges DE 2021 | 3 min | no dialogues The Parque de la Alameda in Malaga, Spain, is home to the famous “lone wobbling leaf,” a fascinating phenomenon with no scientific explanation. tuesday 11 oct 21:00 werkstattkino | dok & exp long night short
Sehr gepflegt und gut gelegen Lukas Marxt, Jakub Vrba AT/DE 2021 | 9 min | dt. OF Villa, meadow, ornamental trees: 9 minutes frontal and rigid. “Dad! You can come out on the balcony now!” tuesday 11 oct 21:00 werkstattkino | dok & exp long night short
El sembrador de estrellas (The Sower of the Stars) Lois Patiño | ES 2022 | 25 min | Japan. OV Engl. ST With Yumiko Teramoto, Tetsuro Mareda In the deep night, the silhouette of Tokyo shines in the distance. Ships come across the water, people sleeping on board. The night liquefies. The film is pure aesthetics of the ephemeral, is ethereal and fantastic. thursday 6 oct 19:00 filmmuseum opening night
Le Saboteur Anssi Kasitonni FI 2022 | 12 min | fin. OmeU | German Premiere An ex-saboteur wants to get active again, his plans are thwarted because his tricks are uncovered. An action film about the adventure of analog filmmaking – with all the special effects. tuesday 11 oct 21:00 werkstattkino | dok & exp long night short
Der Sendlinger Tor Okin Cznupolowsky DE 2022 | 15 min | dt. OF | World Premiere Snapshots from the story of a Munich city walker which they call Der Sendlinger Tor. tuesday 11 oct 21:00 werkstattkino | dok & exp long night short
Social Skills Henry Hills AT/BE 2021 | 12 min | no dialogues | German Premiere Scenes from the 60 Days workshop conducted by choreographer David Zambrano at his Brussels art center TIC TAC, captured on 16mm film. tuesday 11 oct 21:00 werkstattkino | dok & exp long night short
under the microscope Michaela Grill AT/CA 2021 | 7 min | no dialogues The furious remounting of science films from the 1920s succumbs instantly to fascination: their value as educational material could never be detached from their aesthetic appeal as pure cinematic spectacle. tuesday 11 oct 21:00 werkstattkino | dok & exp long night short
Unterwegs im Namen der Kaiserin – Prequel Jovana Reisinger DE 2022 | 17 min | dt. OmeU Karlheinz, Magda Gustav and Romy are in search of the fountain of youth. Will they stay young forever? tuesday 11 oct 21:00 werkstattkino | dok & exp long night short
Ununterbrochen reden Frédéric Jaeger DE 2021 | 13 min | dt. OmeU Martin and his little daughter are supposed to meet the mother now, but she prefers to have fun with friends on the jetty as if there were no tomorrow. montag 10 okt 19:30 werkstattkino | dok & exp short encounters Zu Gast: Marian Freistühler, Frédéric Jaeger, Nicolaas Schmidt tuesday 11 oct21:00 werkstattkino | dok & exp long night sh
*WOMEN (Nico) Karin Fisslthaler AT 2021 | 3 min | no dialogues Homage to the icon who disassembles her image and reassembles it in audiovisual body collages. An exciting remix, a portrait in constant transformation. tuesday 11 oct21:00 werkstattkino | dok & exp long night short
*WOMEN (Valie) Karin Fisslthaler AT 2021 | 7 min | no dialogues Long-term tribute to Valie Export, pioneer of feminist action art and icon in 20th century art history. tuesday 11 oct21:00 werkstattkino | dok & exp long night short
El sembrador de estrellas (The Sower of the Stars) Lois Patiño | ES 2022 | 25 min | Japan. OV Engl. ST With Yumiko Teramoto, Tetsuro Mareda In the deep night, the silhouette of Tokyo shines in the distance. Ships come across the water, people sleeping on board. The night liquefies. The film is pure aesthetics of the ephemeral, is ethereal and fantastic.
Burial | German Premiere Emilija Škarnulytė LT / NO 2022 | 60 min | Lithuanian OV Engl. ST The dismantling of the Lithuanian nuclear power plant Ignalina, the most powerful nuclear reactor in the world during the Soviet era, turns into a symbolic funeral. Imaginary images conquer the technoid world. A snake lashes along the control panels, a vague metaphor for the fall from grace that mankind is committing against nature. A plea against the peaceful use of nuclear power that begins to float poetically and is at the same time politically explosive.
Aralkum | German Premiere Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko UZ / DE 2022 | 13 min | Kazakh OV Engl. ST „First the water disappeared, then the fish and later even the foxes. In the end, only man remained. Aral,” the narrator finally addresses the lake, “when my children ask me about you, what can I tell them?“ Guests: Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
Followed by pop-up reception at St.-Jakobs-Platz
friday 07 oct
5.30 p.m. werkstattkino munich vibrations 01
World Premiere
Ciné Maudit Séance Groupe Maudit DE 2022 | 102 min | German OV Show of works by the underground artist group Groupe Maudit, active in Munich. “Maudit,” is “hateful and despicable, hideous, appalling, obnoxious and disgusting, gruesome, diabolical, pathetic, damned, stormy, forbidden, crashed, mangy and driven.” But also “untouchable and seductive.” But above all, unpredictable! Guest: Groupe Maudit
À Vendredi, Robinson Mitra Farahani FR/CH/IR/LB 2022| 96 min | Farsi, French, Engl. OV Engl. ST With Jean-Luc Godard, Ebrahim Golestan Humorous competition of giants. In Sussex, Iranian writer and filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan receives a message from Jean-Luc Godard on Lake Geneva. For 29 Fridays, the two 90-year-old Robinsons outdo each other in a multi-media correspondence. Guest: Fabrice Aragno
7.30 p.m. werkstattkino
Länderfokus
Ukraine – Babylon‘13 Admission 10€ | Entrance fee go to Babylon’13 Ukrainian OV Engl. ST Since the “Revolution of Dignity” on Maidan Square, the Ukrainian documentary film collective Babylon’13 has been making activist and essayistic films for the civil struggle for democracy. As a mosaic of “film splinters”, the short film program bears multi-perspectival witness to a broken world. Guest: Mila Zhluktenko
Tara Volker Sattel, Francesca Bertin DE/IT 2022 | 86 min | Ital. OV Engl. ST | German Premiere In Taranto, Apulia, the steel factory dominated life for decades. Air pollution and fractures in the social fabric of the more than 3,000-year-old city are the result. Now the traditions and myths collide with the ominous belief in progress. Attentively, Volker Sattel’s camera captures the contrasts and subtle nuances of a betrayed place that won’t give up. Guests: Volker Sattel, Francesca Bertin
Love Is A Dog from Hell Khavn DE / PH 2021 | 90 min | Tagalog, Engl. OV Engl. ST With Lilith Stangenberg Hunger, poverty, violence and drugs strike a chord in this visually stunning cacophony of the big city, while Lilith Stangenberg fights her way to the cemetery as the furious Orphea. She wants to bring her beloved Eurydiko, who has just perished from food poisoning, back to the living.
Harald Vogl „New York Trilogy“, Prolog & Part I Dear Jimmy USA 1978 | 63 min | Engl. OV | digital from Super-8 Film project in the New York post-punk scene, in which Mudd Club founder Anya Phillips refuses to appear as Anna Karina in another Godard remake. Classic of the No Wave! Only You USA 1981 | 69 Min | Engl. OV | digital from Super-8 With Jim Jarmusch, Gary Indiana, Earl Garett Jr., Raoul Mignuchi u.a. Murder mystery in which the genre elements are merely pretexts for a series of haunting, latently homo-erotic encounters. Guest: Harald Vogl
Detours (Obkhodniye puti) Ekaterina Selenkina RU/NL 2021 | 73 min | Russ. OV Engl. ST The streets, buildings and terrains vagues of Moscow show much prefabricated construction, little glamor. A young man walks the desolate places and hides packages. A dangerous job, because drug possession alone is severely punished in Russia. Thoughtful topography of a city that has become abstract. Guest: Ekaterina Selenkina
Answering the Sun | German Premiere Rainer Kohlberger AT 2022 | 60 min | no dialogues Seduction, overstimulation and deception of the senses. Monochrome pumping color surfaces. Drone sounds: staged here is nothing less than the sun itself. The abstract long film brings us in a psychedelic screen trip to maximum visual, auditory and ultimately physical experiences. Guest: Rainer Kohlberger
A Night of Knowing Nothing Best Dokumentary, Cannes Payal Kapadia FR/IN 2021 | 96 min | Hindi, Bengal. OV Engl. ST A box of love letters is found on the campus of the Film and Television Institute of India. They bear witness to the incursion of the Hindu nationalist BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in office since May 2014, into the left-liberal environment of the film school. Dreamlike 16mm images, taken from a fictional archive, show a society that has become wistful and can no longer afford sentimentality.
Il Buco Michelangelo Frammartino IT/FR/DE 2021 | 93 min | Ital. OV Engl. ST Documentary and extremely accurate reenactment of the expedition to one of the deepest caves in the world, discovered in 1961 in Pollino, southern Italy. Deep down it goes into the “buco” the maw of the earth.
OK Today Tomorrow USA 1983 | 90 Min | engl. OV | digital from Super-8 A series of encounters among four sophisticated New Yorkers stages tense moments of youthful angst.
Measure Taken USA 1984 | 81 min | Engl., Chin. OV Engl. ST | digital from Super-8 Anti-war protests, union parades, marching bands, street dance, and residents of Manhattan’s Chinatown kaleidoscope into a poetic political study of bodies, violence, and the longing for utopia. Guest: Harald Vogl
Camuflaje (Camouflage) Jonathan Perel AR 2022 | 93 min | Span. OV Engl. ST Topography of the horror of the Argentine military dictatorship. The Campos de Mayo army compound was once a concentration camp, and the author Félix Bruzzone’s parents “disappeared” here. Jogging, he measures the formerly forbidden zone like a Tarkovskyan stalker running through and away from history.
9.30 p.m. werkstattkino
Artist in Focus
Harald Vogl Candide in the Americas USA 1986 | 60 min | engl. OV Candid’s adventures in America, as a happening and period picture, including a balloon ride. On the steamer it’s going back to Europe. Freely adapted from Voltaire. Güle Güle AT 1985 | 20 min | Engl., German OV The sketch for “Candide” in the style of cinéma vérité. Guest: Harald Vogl
Berlin JWD | German Premiere Bernhard Sallmann DE 2022 | 74 min | German OV Engl. ST “Janz weit draußen”, outside Berlin: There’s the Spree-Teltow Pyramid, the Arkenberge, the Dichtervillen. Everything is as spectacular as it is banal. A true eye opener. Guest: Bernhard Sallmann
Aftersun | German Premiere Lluís Galter ES 2022 | 70 min | Catalan, German OV Engl. ST Summer by the sea. Three teenagers spy on a seasonal worker dressed as a bear, and a kidnapping story fuels their imagination. Amalgam of documentary exploration, detective story and fairy tale.
First Time Nicolaas Schmidt DE 2021 | 50 min | No dialogues A Common Sensations Music Movie. On the road, listening to music. The world changes. Two boys meet.
Islands in the City Marian Freistühler DE 2021 | 23 min | German OV Engl. ST Cruise ships are anchored in the port of Hamburg. A young man, stranded on the banks of the Elbe, watches couples in the sunset. He buys some snacks and imagines life on the other side of the river.
The Deluge Frédéric Jaeger DE 2021 | 13 min | German OV Engl. ST Martin and his little daughter are supposed to meet the mother now, but she prefers to have fun with friends on the jetty as if there were no tomorrow.
Guests: Marian Freistühler, Frédéric Jaeger, Nicolaas Schmidt
9.30 p.m. werkstattkino
Labor of Love
Film School Friedl Kubelka “Where the skill follows the will.” Dante’s famous bon mot is the motto of the Vienna School of Independent Film, which focuses on the passion for a subject and its realization on analog film material. A showcase of works on the possibilities of analog. Guests: Gudrun Fürlinger (Alumna), Philipp Fleischmann (school director)
Coma Bertrand Bonello FR 2022 | 80 min | French OV Engl. ST With Julia Faure, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Lacoste, Louis Garrel Lockdown because of too much heat: What Bonello continues to spin as a phantasm of the Corona experience came dangerously close to reality this summer. Hypnotic mixture of essay, diary and horror vision about a young woman who meets the perfect net appearances of the influencer Patricia Coma.
Rampart Marko Grba Singh RS 2021 | 61 min | Serb. OV Engl. ST An abandoned apartment in Belgrade. Dark corners, nooks and outlines of furniture long since cleared away awaken memories of the filmmaker’s childhood. Old video recordings of his grandfather are the vehicle for a journey through time: Back to childhood in Yugoslavia in the late nineties. With family, garden house, hamster and dog – and artillery on the horizon.
9 p.m. werkstattkino
Long Night Short
UNDERDOX Short Film Reel Admission: 10€ incl. drink | approx. 120 min The ultimate short film night shows itself to be experimental, surprisingly entertaining and definitely perfect in form. Selected “dox & exp” by Karin Fisslthaler, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Michaela Grill, Henry Hill, Anssi Kastonni, Rainer Knepperges, Lukas Marxt, Sasha Pirker, Jovana Reisinger, Jakub Vrba and many others. WithGuests
wednesdy 12 oct
5 p.m. werkstattkino
Munich Vibrations 02
Uraufführungen
Height Limit Aiki Shin Maudit & Marcel Ralle DE/JP 2022 | 40 min | No dialogues Hypnotic mobility trip through Japan.
A Palace Built from Dirt and Crystals Luzi Huber DE 2022 | 30 min | German OV Autoreferential journey into the interior of felt spaces and constructed identities. Guests: Luzi Huber, Aiki Shin Maudit & Marcel Ralle
El Gran Movimiento Kiro Russo BO/QA/FR/CH 2021 | 85 min | Span. OV Engl. ST Elder, a miner, travels to La Paz, Bolivia, terminally ill, to demonstrate against the loss of his job. Like him, the city is on its last legs. A shaman and a fortune teller are called in to help. An almost fantastic tale that comes directly from the documentary abysses of a mystically conceived world.
Magdala | German Premiere Damien Manivel FR 2022 | 78 min | no dialogues With Elsa Wolliaston Physical cinema and masterpiece of sensual mysticism. Dancer Elsa Wolliaston (“Isadora’s Children”) heaves her powerful body through a European jungle. By now arduously aged, she embodies the aged Mary Magdalene, a figure of art history lost in love, here once again reanimated in an impressive physical presence.
Way Out Ahead of Us Rob Rice USA 2022 | 87 min | engl. OF In Daggett, a town of 200 people in the middle of the California desert, a man keeps his incurable illness a secret from his daughter, who wants to move to Los Angeles. A social drama with documentary underpinnings that aims right at the heart of the American dream.
Dore O., born in 1946 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, is an eminent representative of West German avant-garde film, whose work has the status of a classic today, on a par with that of the American avant-gardist Maya Deren. For a long time, Dore O. was known artistically primarily alongside her husband Werner Nekes, with whom she received the silver film ribbon. However, her hybrid film worlds, dissolving in the montage between enigmatic interiority and documentary exterior, soon brought her great international attention, including at the “documenta”. The restorer Maria Matzke describes her films as a “state of in-between, an antechamber of language, even of consciousness. In a dream-like density and a strange suspension of time, O.’s films create a heightened perception between hypnosis and clarity.” In February 2022, Dore O. was awarded the Honorary Prize of the German Film Critics. Just one month later, she died unexpectedly in her hometown.
Film restorer Maria Matzke (Deutsche Kinemathek) and film critic Peter Kremski will guide through the program.
Guest: Maria Matzke (Deutsche Kinemathek), Peter Kremski (Film critic, VDFK)
Possible cutting sequences and the image within the image; all in all painted body and freedom.
“First there was Dore O. She brought into the film something personal, a part of herself: a picture she had made. A girl on a swing, in a meadow, against the background of a large painted surface on which an abstracted phallus can be seen – a popanz, in front of which the girl glides rhythmically back and forth. Differentiated feelings emerge: they result from the young-girl-ness of a swing and the bombastic-cultic of an oversized poster-painted sexual symbol.” – Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, 1969
Alaska | BRD 1968 | 18 min
An emigration film: dream of myself, consequence of the act with society.
„A beautiful film, this makes it suspicious to us. But beauty has a catch. It is only surface; behind it hide horror and fear. For Dore O. beauty is a part of reality. There is a beauty of fear for her, just as there is a beauty of murder for Genet.“ — Klaus Bädekerl, 1969
Lawale | BRD 1969 | 29 min
Memory is a cruel hope without awakening.
„The austere images say more about the very individual process of emancipation of a young woman than many thick-bodied novels. And the fact that a woman knows how to film this process with such certainty of form already testifies to an emancipation that is no less relevant for our society than general socio-critical agitation.“ — Peter Steinhart, 1969
Kaskara | Grand Prix „Exprmntl“, Knokke 1974 BRD 1974 | 21 min M: Anthony Moore | Mit Werner Nekes
Balance of being trapped in the broken space.
„KASKARA is a pendulum film. Windows and doors open onto a landscape in the center of the image. The center, the axis, is a rupture, dissolving, heterogeneous. A permanent imbalance, a thrust of yin, a thrust of yang, a balance or even a harmony, whose precondition is instability, movement. Men’s reviews always say that Dore O.’s films are beautiful.“ — Frieda Grafe, 1974
„Documentary is a tool that is able to change people’s perception of reality.“ (Babylon’13)
„You have to understand: this is not just about conveying information, it’s about survival. To survive a situation, to overcome it, you need to be able to grasp it intellectually. We want to show not just what is happening, but what it means. During the Maidan, there was a huge leap in consciousness in Ukraine. Now there is a similar leap, and we want to be a part of that consciousness-shifting process.“ (Volodymyr Tykhyy, founding member of BABYLON’13)
Solidarity Film Screening: BABYLON’13 friday 7 oct 7.30 p.m. werkstattkino | admission: 10 Euro guest: Mila Zhluktenko
Babylon’13 – Cinema of Civil Society. Since the “Revolution of Dignity” on Maidan Square, the Ukrainian documentary collective has been creating activist and essayistic films for the civil struggle for democracy.
Splinters of Filming. Short snapshots and news on Instagram, longer videos on the Youtube-Channel show documentary splinters of the movement of civil resistance. In addition to activist and agit-prop videos, the multi-perspective film collective Babylon’13 also creates reflective essays. A feature length documentary is currently in post-production.
Mosaic. Portraits of train drivers or artists, conversations with Roma refugees or the staff of the Kiev Zoo who stay to take care of the animals. Accounts of volunteers preparing cities for bombings or invasions, and documentation of the destruction in places like Borodyanka, Bucha, and Irpin. The short film program compiled for UNDERDOX bears witness to a broken world as a mosaic of film splinters in multiple perspectives.
Solidarity. Since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression on February 24, 2022, Mila Zhluktenko (HFF Munich), a documentary filmmaker from Ukraine, has been engaged in an unprecedented fundraising campaign to raise funds for film equipment for the activist filmmakers in Ukraine and. She curated the short film program for UNDERDOX. The entrance fee is entirely donated to Babylon’13
Statement by Mila Zhluktenko, curator and editor at Babylon’13.
“‘Ukrainian culture must be visible, Ukrainian voice must be heard now. Because if we don’t have culture, we don’t know what we are fighting for.’ This was recently said by the Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan at a concert in Munich. For a long time the other countries have looked past us, the Ukrainians. Now is the time to be loud. And now is the time to support and promote Ukrainian culture. As a filmmaker, I admire Babylon’13’s democratic approach to making their films available to everybody. The selection made can be only a splinter of the wide range of Babylon’13 filmmaking. With the selection I want to provide the broadest possible insight into the work of the collective during the war, in order to come into exchange with the audience about it.” – Mila Zhluktenko
Film splinters (total length appr. 75 min)
Manifesto (1 min) 2014, a cinematic manifesto on the Maidan.
This is our monuments (3:45 min) 2022, In Kyiv, the city residents cover the monuments to protect them from destruction.
Kyiv. The day of railway station (3 min)
Shporik (8 min) Ukrainian artists do their bit for the war, making small, portable stoves.
Drohobych volunteers (11 min) – How many people volunteer in Drohobych?
– Everyone.
We accompany the mayor of Drohobych as he visits the city’s myriad volunteer projects.
Фортеця Маріуполь. Останній день на Азовсталі (4:40 min) The last day of the Azov Battalion at the Azovstal Steelworks.
Ірпінь, 05.03.2022. Евакуація мирних жителів (2:45 min) Irpin. Evacuation of the civilian population.
Who is Putin? A train from Sloviansk to Uzhhorod (22:15 min) A whole evacuation train ride from east to west through the whole Ukraine.
“We’ve stolen the tank; we will steal Putin as well!” (10 min) The Ukrainian Roma tell about their experiences in the war.
Foreigners flee Ukraine (5 min) We hear the impressions of foreigners leaving at the beginning of the war.
Freedom is in our hands. Peaceful Ukrainians resist Russian occupants (3 min)
saturday 8 oct 6 pm & sunday 9 oct 5 pm | filmmuseum
No Wave: Harald Vogl’s “New York Trilogie”
Born in Vienna in 1953, Harald Vogl became known as Harald V Uccello as a visual artist, among other things for his drawn “Cats of Atalante,” a tribute to Jean Vigo, brought to the screen in Karl Heil’s film of the same name. 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 dawned intensive film work, which lasted until 1988. “The white paintings were for me an attempt to paint zero originality. The only thing that still bothered me was that the result was constantly visible hanging on the wall. The film met me there. The individual images were only visible for so and so many moments; no one could have them for themselves, they belonged to everyone.” (From an interview with Tom Wimmer in the magazine “24,” No. 1, Fall 1991) Between 1975 and 1987, he created more than 20 unique films as immaterial paintings captured in this way, mostly in Super-8. “These films were no-budget films. An S-8 camera was easy to have, film stock was cheap, friends were on fire. You could get going without having to deliver explanations. You could make a finished feature film and show it at the cinema. Just like you paint a series of pictures and exhibit them. There were no scripts and long speeches. It was model building of freedom.”
Vogl / Uccello soon went to New York. There 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 he created a New York trilogy with “Only You” (1981), “OK Today Tomorrow” (1983) and “Measure Taken” (1984), preceded by “Dear Jimmy” (1978), a No Wave classic. His friends participated as performers, including underground icon Patti Astor, Jim Jarmusch, himself of the same vintage as Vogl, who was just starting out in filmmaking, filmmaker and No Wave actor Diego Cortez, actor Gary Indiana (who later worked with Christoph Schlingensief and Udo Kier), and artist Bibiena Houwer, who later worked with Werner Schroeter. They all played the fictional film characters, at the same time playing themselves, and thus achieved a “peculiar presence” that is to be taken literally: “They are really there in their way, the peculiarity of their person. The fictional is completely absorbed in the documentary – or rather: one is completely absorbed in the other.” (Johannes Beringer, “New Filmkritik”)
Underdox shows the “New York Trilogy” in the copies restored by the Museum of Modern Art as a German premiere.
saturday, 8. oct 2022, 6 pm | Guest: Harald Vogl
Dear Jimmy, Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Dear Jimmy | USA 1978 | D: Harald Vogl | Sc: Harald Vogl | DOP: Harald Vogl, Seth Tillett | S: John Lurie | C: Anya Phillips, Peter Wiese, James Chance, David McDermott, Becky Johnston, Eric Mitchell, Patti Astor, Pat Place, Laura Kennedy, Kathy Acker, Duncan Smith, Trixie Salke, James Nares | 63 min | engl. OV | digital from Super-8 A filmmaker from Europe develops a film project in New York’s post-punk scene, in which Mudd Club founder Anya Phillips refuses to appear as Anna Karina in another Godard remake. Actor Eric Mitchell speaks a manifesto for no-budget films, and interviews for the film-within-a-film feature the cumulative scene of the no-wave era.
Only You | USA 1981 | D: Harald Vogl | Sc: Harald Vogl, Bibiena Houwer | DOP: Harald Vogl | S: Bibiena Houwer | C: Patti Astor, Eric Mitchell, Diego Cortez, Jim Jarmusch, Gary Indiana, Earl Garett Jr., Raoul Mignuchi, Massimo Audiello, Susan Enslin, Diego Cortez, Chris Parker, Jim Jarmusch | 69 min | engl. OV | digital from Super-8 In this murder mystery, the genre elements are merely pretexts for a series of haunting, latently homo-erotic encounters. Here, film noir turns into the opposite: instead of casting shadows in nocturnal alleys, Vogl shows the blank sunny streets of Brooklyn, Manhattan and City Island in documentary style. With Jim Jarmusch and Diego Cortez as dispassionate police detectives.
sunday, 9. oct 2022, 5 pm | guest: Harald Vogl
OK Today Tomorrow, Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York
OK Today Tomorrow | USA 1983 | D: Harald Vogl | Sc: Harald Vogl, Seth Tillett, Bibiena Houwer | DOP: Seth Tillett | C: Joan Waltemath, Terence Sellers, Arto Lindsay, Jef Bretschneider, Tom Wright | 90 min | engl. OV | digital from Super-8 A series of encounters among four sophisticated New Yorkers stages tense moments of youthful angst. The loosely spun narrative eventually gives way to the staging of the urban landscape, which becomes a performer in its own right.
Measure Taken | USA 1984 | R: Harald Vogl | B+K: Harald Vogl, Andrew Bergen, Joan Waltemath, Seth Tillett | D: Jessica Nares, Earl Garett Jr., Tom Wright, Jan Reds, die Einwohner von Mukden (Shenyang/ New Prosperity) | 81 Min | engl., chin. OF (engl. UT) | digital von Super-8 Vogl’s last feature film completes the turn to essay film in the style of Cinéma Vérité. Anti-war protests, visitors to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC, union parades, marching bands, street dance, and residents of Manhattan’s Chinatown kaleidoscope into a poetic-political study of bodies, violence, and the longing for utopia.
DE 2020
29 min | HD | German
DOP+S: Johannes Klais, Hannes Lang | E: Mareike Wegener | P+Sales: PETROLIO | With Dieter Becker, Eckhard Wegener
friday 8 oct 5.00 pm werkstattkino | long shorts 1: mavericks | guest: Mareike Wegener
X is a cinematic ritual aimed at appeasing the ancestral spirits of the industrial workforce. The film is a reimagination of the crossroad myth and inspired by the lives of the filmmaker’s father and grandfather, who also play the lead roles.
Mareike Wegener born 1983 in Borken, North Rhine-Westphalia. The writer, director and producer has been making films since 2005; in 2012 she founded the Cologne production cooperative PETROLIO together with Hannes Lang and Carmen Losmann. She is co-author of all films by Hannes Lang and producer of OECONOMIA.
petroliofilm.de
AT 2021
20 min | 35mm | no dialogues
M: Dirk Schaefer | Sales: Sixpackfilm
monday 11 oct 6.00 pm theatiner filmkunst
18 years after Kurt Kren produced his third film 3/60 Trees in Autumn, he shot his masterpiece 37/78 Tree Again. 18 years after I created my third darkroom film L’Arrivée (an homage to the Lumière brothers and their 1895 L’Arrivée d’un train), I embarked on Train Again. This third film in my “Rushes Series” is an homage to Kurt Kren that simultaneously taps into a classic motif in film history. (Peter Tscherkassky)
Peter Tscherkassky born 1958 in Vienna. Studied philosophy in Vienna and Berlin. In 2020 he was UNDERDOX Artist in Focus.
tscherkassky.at
Films (selection) L’Arrrivée 1998 | Dream Work 2001 | Instructions for a Light and Sound System 2005 | Coming Attractions 2010 | The Exquisite Corpus 2015 (alle 15. UX)
PT 2020 | Prize of the Ministry of Culture and Science, NRW, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2021
20 min | HD | no dialogues
DOP: Paulo Abreu | E: Patrick Mendes | S: Vasco Pimentel, Tomé Palmeirim | M: For the Glory | P: Patrick Mendes, Luis Urbano, Sandro Aguilar | Sales: Agencia Curtas | Mit Isabel Abreu, Ana Teresa Santos, Paula Garcia
montag 11 okt 19.30 werkstattkino
What if this world is another planet’s hell? This world would be the earth of no return.
Patrick Mendes born in France, raised in Portugal. Collaborated with Pedro Costa, Miguel Gomes and Eugène Green, among others.
Films (selection)A herdade dos defuntos 2013 | Os sonâmbulos 2014 | A terra so não retorno 2021