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HK / USA 2020
12 min | 16mm | no dialogue
DOP+E: Simon Liu | SC+M: LiuSeeLiu P: Rachael Lawe | Sales: Simon Liu

wednesday 13 oct 6.00 pm theatiner filmkunst

Through processing a year of bewildering news and images from my home in Hong Kong, I’ve come to question the significance of dear memories and personal joy in the face of things falling apart. As the days teeter toward an uncertain future, Happy Valley cinematically probes the role of the so-called “little things”. A rendering of the perseverance of spirit in Hong Kong − an attempt at irony that can’t help but be emotional. (Simon Liu)

Simon Liu born 1987 in Hong Kong. Lives and works in Brooklyn. His work has been shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and at film festivals, including in Europe, Brazil and the USA.
liufilmsliu.com

Films (selection) Sneyd Green 2016 Cluster Click City Sundays 2017 | Star Ferry 2018 (13. UX) | E-Ticket 2019 (14. UX) | Signal 8 2019 | Happy Valley 2020

DE 2021 | German Premiere
14 min | 16mm | German
DOP+E+S+Sales: Josef Graßl | Supported by the Alexander Tutsek Foundation

saturday 9 oct 5.00 pm werkstattkino | long shorts 3: analogue paradises | guest: Josef Graßl

Using the methods of filmmaking, I tried to trace my grandfather, the artist and glassmaker Bernhard Schagemann (* 1933, † 2016). The viscous state of hot glass, in which it is malleable, illustrates the temporal limitation imposed by the material, which also exists in (analog) film. In the titular sand casting technique, which Bernhard Schagemann preferred to use for sculptures, the negative form is lost when the casting is exposed. (Josef Graßl)

Josef Graßl b.1998 in Zwiesel, completed a bachelor’s degree at the Berlin Technical University of the Arts. In 2019 he participated in the restoration of G. J. Markopoulos’ “Eniaios”. During this time, he created his first 16mm works. He is currently studying restoration at the HTW Berlin with a focus on audiovisual media.

AT / GR 2020
3 min | Super-8 | no dialogue

sunday 10 oct 11.00 am werkstattkino

“The word ‘revolution’ to us Frenchmen is not a vague term. We know that revolution is a rupture, that revolution is an absolute. There is no such thing as a moderate revolution, there is no such thing as a planned revolution—as one speaks of a planned economy. The revolution we are announcing will overturn the entire existing order or it will not take place at all.” (Jean-Marie Straub mit Georges Bernanos)

Jean-Marie Straub Born 1933 in Metz. In the 1950s film club in Metz. From 1954 collaboration with Danièle Huillet. Assistant to Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson, Alexandre Astruc, Abel Gance, Jacques Rivette. The biographical rest is also legendary.

Films (selection) Nicht versöhnt 1965 | Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach 1967 | Othon 1969 | Klassenverhältnisse 1983 | Antigone 1992 | Sicilia! 1999 | Une visite au Louvre 2004

AT / GR 2020
3 min | Super-8 | no dialogue

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

saturday 9 okt 5.00 pm werkstattkino | long shorts 3: analogue paradises

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

RU 2020 | German Premiere
20 min | 16mm | no dialogues
E: Anya Tsyrlina, Sid Iandovka
SD: Sid Iandovka | P+Sales: Sid Iandovka

saturday 9 okt 5.00 pm werkstattkino | long shorts 3: analogue paradises

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