20. UNDER|DOX 09-15 OKT 2025

AT 2021 | German Premiere
65 min | HD | English
DOP: Martin Putz | M: Johann Sebastian Bach, Simon Spitzer, Wolfgang Frisch | Set design: Sara Lisa Bals | Mask: Laethizia Werth, Jutta Harather, Mimi Klein | With Stefan Erber, David Ionescu | P: Norbert Pfaffenbichler | Sales: Sixpackfilm

saturday 9 oct 9.30 pm werkstattkino

Baroque silent film apocalypse that takes on Charlie Chaplin’s “The Kid” and goes where Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” looks the other way: to the lumpenproletariat, in the truest sense. The characters in 2551.01 (the numerical title is a quirk typical of Pfaffenbichler’s work) are creatures, apocalyptic overtakes of Tod Browning’s “Freaks.” They have fled from a violent despot into a convoluted sewer system. Everything is dirty, bare, cold, stripped, the people are wrapped in rags, their bodies are just falling to shreds. 2551.01 is flawless gore that relies on repulsion and puts the human mind on a wild ghost train ride, while the showmanship of the ugly and disgusting is nothing short of phenomenal. We are already dreading with anticipation Episode 02: “Orgy of the Damned”. (Dunja Bialas)

Norbert Pfaffenbichler Born 1967 in Steyr. 1994-2001 University of Applied Arts, MK for Media. Artist and curator, various participations in festivals and exhibitions, founding member of VIDOK and lanolin.

Films notes on film 01 else 2002 (1. UX) | Notes on Film 02 2006 (1. UX) | Mosaik mécanique 2007 (3. UX) | Conference Notes on film 05 2011 | Git Cut Noise 2011 | Intermezzo (Notes on Film 04) 2012 (7. UX) | A Messenger From The Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01) 2013 (9. UX) | Invest in Failure (Notes on Film 06 C/ Monologue 03) (13. UX)

20:00
filmmuseum

Anschließend
Pop-up-Empfang auf dem St.-Jakobs-Platz

Über Deutschland

Bernhard Sallmann BE 2020 | 60 min | stumm, mit engl.
Zwischentiteln
Lost in Translation. „N · P” ist der Titel einer unübersetzbaren fiktiven japanischen Kurzgeschichte der realen Autorin Banana Yashimoto. Alle, die sich an der Übersetzung versuchen, werden aus unerklärbaren Gründen in den Suizid getrieben. Vier Protagonisten, darunter die Ex-Freundin des verstorbenen Übersetzers und die mysteriöse Liebhaberin des ebenfalls verstorbenen fiktiven Autors treffen sich in dieser sommerleicht- melancholischen Stummfilm-Komödie. Es geht um Original und Übersetzung, Fiktion und Realität, die Übersetzbarkeit von Medialität. Und: Ist das alles nicht auch irgendwie inzestuös? Spielfilmdebüt der flämischen Fotografin, die in Japan und Belgien aufwuchs.
Zu Gast: Lisa Spilliaert, Vincent Stroep (Produzent)

Analogue Eye Opener
Eve Heller & Peter Tscherkassky Artist in Focus
Her Glacial Speed (Eve Heller) USA 2001 | 4 min | 16mm
L’Arrivée (P. Tscherkassky) AT 1997/98 | 2 min | 35mm
Cinemascope
Analoge Experimente im Großformat. Eve Hellers didaktikfreie Found-Footage-Lehrfilmkompilation und der erste Teil von Peter Tscherkasskys Cinemascope-Trilogie geben einen Vorgeschmack auf die Lectures der experimentellen Filmemacher aus Wien und New York.
Zu Gast: Eve Heller, Peter Tscherkassky

Short Eye Opener
Distance Film | UNDERDOX-Trailer
Siegfried A. Fruhauf AT 2020 | 100 Frames | stumm | 35mm
auf HD
Die nur 100 analogen 35mm-Einzelbilder ergeben genau 191 Zentimeter: dies ist eine der empfohlenen Distanzen, zu der wir durch die Corona-Abstandsregeln angehalten werden.

22:00
filmmuseum

Anschließend
Pop-up-Empfang auf dem St.-Jakobs-Platz

Abendprogramm

Anderer Regisseur BE 2020 | 60 min | stumm, mit engl.
Zwischentiteln
Lost in Translation. „N · P” ist der Titel einer unübersetzbaren fiktiven japanischen Kurzgeschichte der realen Autorin Banana Yashimoto. Alle, die sich an der Übersetzung versuchen, werden aus unerklärbaren Gründen in den Suizid getrieben. Vier Protagonisten, darunter die Ex-Freundin des verstorbenen Übersetzers und die mysteriöse Liebhaberin des ebenfalls verstorbenen fiktiven Autors treffen sich in dieser sommerleicht- melancholischen Stummfilm-Komödie. Es geht um Original und Übersetzung, Fiktion und Realität, die Übersetzbarkeit von Medialität. Und: Ist das alles nicht auch irgendwie inzestuös? Spielfilmdebüt der flämischen Fotografin, die in Japan und Belgien aufwuchs.
Zu Gast: Lisa Spilliaert, Vincent Stroep (Produzent)

20:00
filmmuseum

N • P | Deutsche Premiere

Lisa Spilliaert BE 2020 | 60 min | stumm, mit engl.
Zwischentiteln
Lost in Translation. „N · P” ist der Titel einer unübersetzbaren fiktiven japanischen Kurzgeschichte der realen Autorin Banana Yashimoto. Alle, die sich an der Übersetzung versuchen, werden aus unerklärbaren Gründen in den Suizid getrieben. Vier Protagonisten, darunter die Ex-Freundin des verstorbenen Übersetzers und die mysteriöse Liebhaberin des ebenfalls verstorbenen fiktiven Autors treffen sich in dieser sommerleicht- melancholischen Stummfilm-Komödie. Es geht um Original und Übersetzung, Fiktion und Realität, die Übersetzbarkeit von Medialität. Und: Ist das alles nicht auch irgendwie inzestuös? Spielfilmdebüt der flämischen Fotografin, die in Japan und Belgien aufwuchs.
Zu Gast: Lisa Spilliaert, Vincent Stroep (Produzent)

Analogue Eye Opener
Eve Heller & Peter Tscherkassky Artist in Focus
Her Glacial Speed (Eve Heller) USA 2001 | 4 min | 16mm
L’Arrivée (P. Tscherkassky) AT 1997/98 | 2 min | 35mm
Cinemascope
Analoge Experimente im Großformat. Eve Hellers didaktikfreie Found-Footage-Lehrfilmkompilation und der erste Teil von Peter Tscherkasskys Cinemascope-Trilogie geben einen Vorgeschmack auf die Lectures der experimentellen Filmemacher aus Wien und New York.
Zu Gast: Eve Heller, Peter Tscherkassky

Short Eye Opener
Distance Film | UNDERDOX-Trailer
Siegfried A. Fruhauf AT 2020 | 100 Frames | stumm | 35mm
auf HD
Die nur 100 analogen 35mm-Einzelbilder ergeben genau 191 Zentimeter: dies ist eine der empfohlenen Distanzen, zu der wir durch die Corona-Abstandsregeln angehalten werden.

Wk=mMv2/2 (1997 – 2006) 4 min

Wk=mMv2/2 is the physical formula for the kinetic energy of a molecule. Randomly photographed people on picture postcards are strongly abstracted by the extreme magnification, and the grid of the card printing becomes clearly visible.

Blow-up (2000) 2 min | 35mm

In the blow-up, a narrow film strip is “blown up” onto a 35mm film strip via an optical system. A man demonstrates mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a female mannequin. The filmic body, i.e. the film material as a body-in-itself, becomes one with the depicted human body.

Exposed (2001) 9 min | 16mm

A man observes a dancing woman through a keyhole – this is the source material that is only fragmentarily revealed to the viewer’s gaze. As the perforation of a film strip moves in front of the projector, the scene is re-exposed, exposed.

Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution 1 (2003) 4 min

Scraps from the darkroom are superimposed and re-exposed in such a way that the edges of the frame become visible, the splices, scratches, image lines, perforation holes. Homage to the avant-garde film art of Kurt Kren and Peter Tscherkassky.

Mirror Mechanics (2005) 5 min | 35mm

The film as a mirror and, by extension, the phenomenon of identification, which is inherent above all in the feature film. The essence of what a film can be.

bled (2007) 3 min

A mantra from Attwenger’s “BLED” forms the textual framework for the desirous triangle of gaze of camera, viewer, and the recorded character.

Palmes d’Or (2009) 6 min | 35mm

Cannes. A concentrate of over 800 photographs, until only schemata remain, which appear in a flash and just as abruptly withdraw from the eye again.

Tranquility (2010) 7 min | 35mm

Vacation daydream, which occurs in a state of complete relaxation, as if you were lying on the beach itself.

HEAVY EYES (Schwere Augen) (2011) 10 min | 35mm

The material has gone through many recopying and different moving image formats. From 16mm found footage to DV cam to VHS, from VHS to files of different codecs, to an exposure to the final 35mm format.

Etude (2011) 2 min

The utopia of absolute film: hearing images, seeing music.

FUDDY DUDDY (2016) 6 min

A volatile and frenetically-changing painting of a grid of squares that fill the image space at different angles and in varying sizes and quantities. Drawing on the tradition of structural film, this experiment sees the director working with the materiality and space of the movie, for which the solid contours of the lines cease to be sufficient. The result is a fundamentally compelling, almost physical experience. (Hubert Poul)

THORAX (2019) 8 min

Deep inside an immaterial torso beats the heart of a cinema machine reminiscent of Cern’s tunnel vault. Accelerated light particles collide to fathom the structures of space and time.

Dissolution Prologue (Extended Version) (2020) 6 min

An absolute film, almost “film without film” that works only with the pure means of cinema, a cinematic admission about boundaries and dissociations that stages opening and closing – two essential characteristics of analog film exposure.

Attwenger – REAL (2021) 3 min

Pulsating to the driving Attwenger beat are the traces of light from Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, those remnants of digitized exploding.

Distance Film (2020) 18 sec

100 analog 35mm frames of a transparent ruler measuring the frames vertically. As a film strip, these 100 frames would be exactly 191 centimeters long – the distance to be maintained in Corona times. | The UNDERDOX Trailer 2020 & 2021!

7 p.m.
filmmuseum
münchen
opening night

Landscapes of Resistance (Pejzaži otpora)
Marta Popivoda | RS 2021 | DOP: Ivan Marković | 95 min | Serbian
Multi-award winning cinematic memorial to one of the last Holocaust survivors.
guests: Marta Popivoda, Ivan Marković

Siegfried A. Fruhauf | artist in focus
Distance Film | AT 2020 | 18 sec | no dialogues
A trailer that celebrates the fragile sensuality of the cinematic medium as much as it is precisely appropriate to the present.
guest: Siegfried A. Fruhauf

5 p.m.
werkstattkino
long shorts 1: mavericks

Mensch Horst
Mo Rhozyel, Christoph Philipp Gehl | DE 2020 | 44 min | German | Horst Baitz lives in a slab in Brandenburg. He appreciates the little things in life and goes about his daily life with a lot of heart, discipline and boundless optimism.
guests: Mo Rhozyel, Christoph Philipp Gehl, Sven Bratschke

X
Mareike Wegener | DE 2020 | 29 min | German | A cinematic ancestral ritual in honor of the spirits of the Ruhr region, in which Crossroad motifs play a crucial role.
guest: Mareike Wegener

7 p.m.
filmmuseum
münchen

SIEGFRIED A. FRUHAUF | artist in focus
AT 1997-2021 | 16mm, 35mm, HD | ca. 90 min | “The bodies of the viewers are the only real organisms in cinema. For me as a filmmaker, they become the object of influence through intense visual sensory overload. ̋ (Siegfried A. Fruhauf)
guest: Siegfried A. Fruhauf

7:30 p.m.
werkstattkino

Fauna
Nicolás Pereda | MX/CA 2020 | 70 min | Spanish | A cast member of the series “Narcos” meets a literature obsessive with a yellow Reclam book when he wants to buy cigarettes in a village in Mexico.

9.30 p.m.
werkstattkino

Soon It Will Be Dark
Isabell Heimerdinger | DE 2020 | K: Ivan Marković | 23 min | no dialogues | Life on a tropical island in the rhythm of day and night.
guest: Isabell Heimerdinger

Luces del desierto (Desert Lights)
Félix Blume | FR/MX 2021 | 30 min | Spanish | German premiere | Strange lights appear in the Mexican desert at night.

Dark Matter
Viktor Brim | DE 2020 | 20 min | no dialogues | The contours of the circular Kimberlit Pipe, a diamond mine in Siberia, get lost in the deep black of the abyss.

5 p.m.
werkstattkino
long shorts 3: analogue paradises

Flowers Blooming in Our Throats
Eva Giolo | IT 2020 | 9 min | no dialogues | 16mm | German Premiere | About the meaning of gestures and touches after the lockdown.

Casting into the lost form
Josef Graßl | DE 2021 | 14 min | German | 16mm | German premiere | A visit to the Bavarian Forest. Grandma Rita, the Bolex, asparagus, the stone rain barrel, hollow glasses and cast glass sculptures by Grandpa Bernhard – cast into the “lost mold”.
guest: Josef Grassl

Revue Automatique (the visitors)
Nicola Müller | DE 2021 | 7 min | no dialogues | S-8 / HD | World premiere | Brazil, the forests of the Amazon. Exotic ethnography, filmed by parents in 1972.
guest: Nicola Müller

All the Stops
Josef Dabernig | AT 2020 | 16 min | no dialogue | 16mm | A dominating woman directs several men who are renovating a villa in a small Hungarian town.

All Other Things Equal
Anya Tsyrlina | RS 2020 | 20 min | no dialogues | 35mm / HD | Dt. Premiere | Hundreds of images and scenes from the late Soviet propaganda for women’s equality.

7 p.m.
filmmuseum
münchen

What do we see when we look to the sky? (Ras vkhedavt, rodesac cas vukurebt?)
Alexandre Koberidze | DE/GE 2020 | D: Giorgi Bochorishvili, Ani Karseladze | 150 min | Georgian | It is love at first sight when Lisa and Giorgi meet for a brief moment in Kutaisi. Love catches them so suddenly that they even forget to tell each other their names. Will they succeed in seeing each other again? A film that is able to enchant unconditionally.
guest: Alexandre Koberidze

7:30 p.m.
werkstattkino
german premieres

The Lobby
Heinz Emigholz | DE/AR 2020 | 75 min | English | Topography as Autobiography. An “Old White Male” inhabits the hotel lobbies in Buenos Aires.

Supporting Film: Hotel | Ludwig Wüst | AT 2021 | 14 min | engl. OF | The hotel as a setting for the inner life.
guest: Ludwig Wüst

9:30 p.m.
werkstattkino
german premiere

2551.01: The Kid
Norbert Pfaffenbichler | AT 2021 | 65 min | English | The Apocalyptic Exceeds Tod Browning’s Freaks have found refuge from the grasp of a despotic power in a convoluted sewer system. Flawless gore!

11 a.m.
theatiner

Über Deutschland (On Germany)
Bernhard Sallmann | DE 2021 | 82 min | German | The Russian writer Marina Zwetajewa came to Dresden in 1919. On sublime sites of the city on the Elbe, her texts come to life.
guest: Bernhard Sallmann

Supporting film: France Against Robots | Jean-Marie Straub | CH 2021 | Diptych after Georges Bernanos.

5 p.m.
werkstattkino

Her Socialist Smile
John Gianvito | USA 2020 | 93 min | English | Helen Keller (1880-1968), born deaf-blind, was one of the great anti-capitalist intellectuals of the United States. A dense portrait made of historical material.

6 p.m.
filmmuseum
münchen

City Hall
Frederick Wiseman | USA 2020 | 272 min | English| Boston’s mayor Marty Walsh is the key figure for the cohesion of Massachusetts’ largest city. A film that watches city government at work – from the 91-year-old legend of Direct Cinema.

7:30 p.m.
werkstattkino
german premieres

Outside Noise
Ted Fendt | DE/AT 2021 | 61 min | 35mm | English, German | Daniela, just returned from a trip abroad, drifts through Vienna with two friends.

supporting film: For the soft glow ahead | Daniela Zahlner | AT 2020 | 3 min | no dialogues | 16mm
guest: Daniela Zahlner

9:30 p.m.
werkstattkino

3.30 PM
Ludwig Wüst | AT 2020 | 74 min | English
Two friends, Martin and Anthony, come across a traumatic childhood experience after 15 years.
guest: Ludwig Wüst

5 p.m.
werkstattkino

Ushiku
Thomas Ash | JP 2021 | 87 min | Japanese, English | The detainees of the Ushiku deportation prison near Tokyo hoped in vain for refuge in Japan. A ruthless examination of a rigorous refugee policy.

6:00 p.m.
theatiner

Hygiène Sociale (Social Hygiene)
Denis Côté | CA 2021 | 75 min | French | Best Director, Berlinale 2021 | The eloquent dandy Antonin engages in a brilliant battle of words with five women in a meadow in his attempt to escape social constraints.

Supporting film: Train Again | Peter Tscherkassky | AT 2021 | 20 min | without dialogues | 35mm | The arrival of a train, again and again.

7:30 p.m.
werkstattkino

FREIZEIT or: the opposite of doing nothing
Caroline Pitzen | DE 2021 | K: Markus Koob | 70 min | German | Upheaval and change are in the air in Berlin. Cranes grow into the sky, brutalism spreads. It is still better to occupy houses than foreign countries.
guest: Caroline Pitzen

Supporting Film: A terra de não retorno (The Earth of No Return)
Patrick Mendes | PT 2020 | 20 min | no dialogues
You are invited to join the order of cinema.

9:30 p.m.
werkstattkino
german premiere

Feast
Tim Leyendekker | NL 2021 | 84 min | Dutch | Deconstruction of the sensational Groningen HIV case, in which infected blood was injected into gay men at sex parties.
guest: Tim Leyendekker

5 p.m.
werkstattkino
german premiere

Le temps des autres (The Time of Others)
Claire Angelini | FR 2020 | 123 min | french. OmeU | Archaeologists at Mont Beuvray in Burgundy search for traces of early mankind.
guest: Claire Angelini

6:00 p.m.
theatiner

Pebbles (Koozhangal)
P.S. Vinothraj | IN 2021 | 74 min | Tamil | The everyday violence against women in India is the subject of this image-rich morality tale set in the desert-like landscape of the southern Indian village of Arittapatti and its surroundings.

7:30 p.m.
werkstattkino
long shorts 4:
brex it!

Divided by Law
Katie Davies, Emma Agusita | GB 2021 | 26 min | English |
The bureaucratic challenges of binational families in the face of Britain’s tough migration laws.

Covid Messages
John Smith | GB 2020 | 22 min | English
The British government’s attempts to banish the Corona virus through spells and rituals.

Surviving You, Always
Morgan Quaintance | GB 2021 | 18 min | English | German Premiere
Psychologist Timothy Leary on the expansion of consciousness through psychedelic drugs and teenage life in 1990s London.

9:30 p.m.
werkstattkino
german premiere

Los inocentes (The Blameless)
Guillermo Benet | ES 2020 | 100 min | span. OmeU | When a concert in a squat is interrupted by police intervention, some of the young people get into a violent confrontation.
guest: Guillermo Benet

5:00 p.m.
werkstattkino

Entrance fee 10 €
Proceeds go to the aid organization de.rescue.org

Far From Afghanistan
John Gianvito, Jon Jost, Soon-Mi Yoo, Minda Martin, Travis Wilkerson USA/AF 2012 | 129 min | English | Following the example of the collective film “Loin du Vietnam” (1967), the film sees itself as a protest against the US presence. Critically, the effects of the war on the soul and the visible mutilations of the bodies, of children and adults are dealt with – ten years later, the film has new horrific relevance.

6 p.m.
theatiner

A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces
Zhu Shengze | USA 2021 | 87 min | English | Poetic meditation on the metropolis of Wuhan on the Yangtze, which was initially created under the impression of the brutal Chinese Corona Shutdown.

Supporting Film: Happy Valley | Simon Liu | HK 2021 | 12 min | no dialogues | Fond memories and personal joys in the face of the end of the former crown colony.

7:30 p.m.
werkstattkino
closing film

Bloodsucker
Julian Radlmaier | DE 2021 | 125 min | German | In this Marxist vampire comedy, a summer romance is brewing on uncertain terrain: Vampires test the physical and spiritual limits at the time of Eisenstein and Trotsky.

10:00 p.m.
werkstattkino
closing night

Anus Solaire
Bear Boy | DE 2021 | 97 min | German | world premiere | Bear Boy feat. Groupe Maudit torch a radical-eruptive firework between splatter-punk and art criticism. | Garnished with the Super 8 extravaganza JESUS BOY ILLUMINATED | Pieuvre Prod. | DE 2021 | 15 min
guest: Bear Boy & Groupe Maudit