20. UNDER|DOX 09-15 OKT | halbzeit elfi mikesch 05 juni

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

GB 2021 | German Premiere
18 min | HD | English
Sc+DOP+E+SD+P: Morgan Quaintance | Sales: LUX

tuesday 12 oct 7.30 pm werkstattkino | long shorts 4: brex it!

A voice-over by American psychologist Timothy Leary professes that psychedelic drugs trigger the expansion of consciousness. Meanwhile, the subtitles tell us about a teenager from 1990s South London who spends acid-infused weekends with a friend.

Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer. His moving image works have been shown and exhibited at numerous festivals and institutions.
morganquaintance.com

Films Letter from Tokyo 2018 | An-other Decade 2018 | Early Years 2019 | Letter from Dakar 2019 | Missing Time 2019 | South 2020 | Surviving You, Always 2021

DE 2020 | FIDMarseille, 2020 Special Mention Prix Cnap
23 min | HD | no dialogues
DOP+E: Ivan Marković | S: Ansgar Frerich, Jonathan Ritzel | P+Sales: Isabell Heimerdinger | With Deuladeu Luis Martins, José Manuel Spencer

friday 8 oct 9.30 pm werkstattkino | long shorts 2: dark matters | guest: Isabell Heimerdinger

Life on the island follows the changing pace of day and night. Where the only road seeps into the forest, the air gets warmer, more humid. Here, in the shade of tall trees, a man is at work in the dense under-growth. The sounds he produces, metal against wood, footsteps on dry leaves, blend in with the sounds of the all-embracing nature. His daily routine is directed by light and shadow until the sun sets. At night, at the other end of the road, his loneliness is softened by the voices of the others, next to the warming fire, until the first light. (FID Marseille)

Isabell Heimerdinger born 1963 in Stuttgart, explores in her photographs and installations the boundaries between authenticity and simulation, fiction and reality, artificiality and authenticity.

Films Detour 2007 | Good Friends 2011 | Blind Date 2011 | Mr. Xu 2012 | Giorgio 2014 | Soon It Will Be Dark 2020

DE 2021
7 min | Super-8, HD | no dialogue
Photo+collage+E: Nicola Müller |Sound Editing: Bear Boy

saturday 9 oct 5.00 pm werkstattkino | long shorts 3: analogue paradises | guest: Nicola Müller

Brazil, the forests of the Amazon. Exotic ethnography filmed by the parents in 1972.

Nicola Müller born 1971, works with cut-outs, drawing, photography and trick on natural science themes.
nicolamueller.com

Films Theory of everything, big cheese 2018 | bilateralsymmetrie Science is Fiction 2019 | Revue Automatique (die besucher) 2021

DE 2020
44 min | HD | German
DOP+E: Christoph Philipp Gehl | S: Vincent Öz | M: Lukas Meinardus, Alexander Binderer | P: Unterholz Filmkollektiv | Sales: Mo Rhozyel

friday 8 oct 5.00 pm werkstattkino | long shorts 1: mavericks | guests: Mo Rhozyel, Christoph Philipp Gehl, Sven Bratschke

Horst Baitz is 55 years old, a smoker and single. He lives a lonely life on the outskirts of the city of Brandenburg. Horst appreciates the little things in life and goes about his daily routine with lots of heart, discipline and boundless optimism. And he never gives up hope of realizing his big dream: finding a partner.

Mo Rhozyel got to know Horst in the context of a social project in Brandenburg an der Havel. He has been working on various film projects with the Unterholz Filmkollektiv for many years. MENSCH HORST is his directorial debut.

Christoph Philipp Gehl Studied film and sound at the HfG Dortmund and camera at the Konrad Wolf University Babelsberg. He is cinematographer on numerous film projects.
christophgehl.com

FR / MX 2021 | German Premiere
30 min | 16mm | Spanish
DOP+E+SD+P: Félix Blume | Sales: Lightcone

friday 8 oct 9.30 pm werkstattkino | long shorts 2: dark matters

Strange lights appear at night in the Mexican desert – it seems to be full of life. The residents tell us what they’ve seen: a fireball, lights flying, lightning falling from the sky, a flash. This suspenseful film invites us to open our eyes wide in the twilight, and listen to the sounds hidden in the darkness.

Félix Blume born 1984 in France, sound artist. He lives and works between Mexico, Brazil and France.

Films (selection) Curupira, creature of the woods 2018 | Luces del desierto 2021

DE 2021 | World Premiere
15 min | Super-8 | German Konzept+K+S: LUZI | Costumes: Anna & Luzi | M: EGGPLANT SKY And The Atomic Kids Orchestra Experience | With Anna, Jezus

A Jesus baptism in the river, carried out by Holy Maria Magdalena, escalating in a psychedelic enlightment. A lot of waiting for things to happen that definitely won’t happen. A love declaration to Jack Smith.

LUZI born 1997 in Munich, photographs and experiments in the Munich underground.

AT 2021 | German Premiere
14 min | HD | German
Sc+P+Sales: Ludwig Wüst | With Anna Franziska Srna

The hotel as the setting for inner life. In the urban retreat, a liberation strike is set in motion.

Ludwig Wüst born 1965 in Vilseck, Bavaria. Studied acting and singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He is a theater director, author, actor and filmmaker.
ludwigwuest.works

Films (selection) Ägyptische Finsternis 2002 (14. UX) | KOMA 2009 | Das Haus meines Vaters 2013 | Abschied 2014 | Familienalbum 2015 (10. UX) | Aufbruch 2018 (13. UX) | 3.30 PM 2020 (16. UX)