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  • Films 2022

    PROGRAMM-Flyer [PDF] (German)
    CATALOG [PDF] (German, English)

    • Feature films A-Z
    • Country focus: UKRAINE – BABYLON’13
    • Artist in Focus: HARALD VOGL
    • Labor of Love: Film School Friedl Kubelka
    • documents & experiments (shorts) A-Z

    Feature films A-Z

    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 oct 18:00 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 oct 21:00 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
    © Khavn | Lilith Stangenberg in: LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL

    Labor of Love: Filmschule 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.
    monday 10 oct 21:30 werkstattkino
    Guests: Gudrun Fürlinger (Alumna), Philipp Fleischmann (school director)

    © Philipp Fleischmann

    dokumente & experimente (shorts)

    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 oct 21:00 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 oct 21:00 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 oct 21:00 werkstattkino | dok & exp long night short
    © Marian Freistühler, Die geheimnisvollen Inseln

    Festival

    11. September 2022
  • Program 2022

    CATALOG [PDF]

    thursday 06 oct

    7 p.m.
    filmmuseum
    munich
    opening night

    © Lois Patiño
    © Emilija Škarnulytė
    © Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko

    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

    6 p.m.
    filmmuseum
    munich

    © Mitra Farahani 

    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

    9 p.m.
    filmmuseum
    munich

    German Premiere

    © Volker Sattel, Francesca Bertin

    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

    9.30 p.m.
    werkstattkino

    © Khavn

    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.

    saturday 08 okt

    6 p.m.
    filmmuseum
    munich

    Artist in Focus

    © Dear Jimmy, Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York

    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

    7.30 p.m.
    werkstattkino

    © Ekaterina Selenkina

    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

    9 p.m.
    filmmuseum
    munich

    German Premiere

    © Rainer Kohlberger

    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

    9.30 p.m.
    werkstattkino

    © Payal Kapadia


    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.

    sunday 09 oct

    11 a.m.
    theatiner

    © Michelangelo Frammartino

    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.

    5 p.m.
    filmmuseum
    munich

    Artist in Focus

    © Measure Taken, Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York

    Harald Vogl
    „New York Trilogy“, Part II & III

    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

    7.30 p.m.
    werkstattkino

    © Jonathan Perel

    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

    monday 10 oct

    5.30 p.m.
    werkstattkino

    German Premiere

    © Bernhard Sallmann

    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

    6 p.m.
    theatiner

    German Premiere

    © Lluís Galter

    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.

    7.30 p.m.
    werkstattkino

    Short Encounters

    © Nicolaas Schmidt
    © Marian Freistühler

    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)

    tuesday 11 oct

    6 p.m.
    theatiner

    © Bertrand Bonello

    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.

    7.30 p.m.
    werkstattkino

    © Marko Grba Singh

    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.
    With Guests

    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

    6 p.m.
    theatiner

    © Kiro Russo

    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.

    7.30 p.m.
    werkstattkino

    German Premiere

    © Damien Manivel

    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.

    9.30 p.m.
    werkstattkino
    closing night

    © Rob Rice

    Concluding: final absacker

    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.

    Festival

    10. September 2022
  • Artist in Focu: DORE O.

    Thursday 2 june | 7:00 p.m. | filmmuseum

    Alaska © Dore O. / Deutsche Kinemathek

    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)

    Kaskara, Preis der deutschen Filmkritik 1974 © Deutsche Kinemathek / Dore O.

    Das Programm der Lecture:

    JÜM-JÜM | German Film Award 1970
    BRD 1967 | 9 min
    D: Werner Nekes, Dore O.

    Jüm-Jüm, Deutscher Filmpreis 1970 © Deutsche Kinemathek / Dore O.

    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

    Festival

    10. September 2022
  • Country Focus: UKRAINE – BABYLON’13

    • Solidarity film screening: BABYLON’13 (7.10.7:30 p.m., Werkstattkino Munich)
    • Statement by Mila Zhluktenko
    • Film list (total length appr. 75 min)

    „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

    Background information on Babylon’13. “Ukraine’s Babylon’13 Collective: An Interview with Volodymyr Tykhyy”, published in Film Quaterly, Mai 2022

    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)


    In cooperation with Filmmakers for Ukraine

    Festival

    30. August 2022
  • Artist in Focus: Harald Vogl

    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.

    Festival

    14. August 2022
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