Programme

The Film All-Nighter

When beauty operations were not a viable option, devilish procedures were the order of the day. In Rapsodia Satanica, the Italian diva Lyda Borelli plays an aging lady who, pining for her lost youth, seals a pact with the Devil himself: Mephisto gives her eternal youth if in return she renounces love. This Italian silent movie from 1917 will be accompanied by von Joachim Bärenz on the piano and serves as the opener to an exciting film night with many guests (see film: p. 100). Expect a celebration of the short film in all its witty, biting and excessive nuances. The music videos, animated film and experimentals to be screened are also highly varied in terms of style and technics – with the spectrum ranging from lion tamer »Tilly Bébé« through big game hunters in Buck Fever to labioplasty operations in Centrefold. Plus, suitable artistic contributions to the sexism and feminism debates of 2013.

Beauty-Kit

Pleix

FR
2001
Music video
2’

A Beauty-Kit for breast augmentation, liposuction, nose reshaping and jaw correction – a kit specifically aimed at young girls. The […]

Buck Fever

NEOZOON

DE / FR
2012
Documentary
6’

The video film Buck Fever is a YouTube collage of recordings originally made by amateur hunters. It documents the hunters’ […]

Cave of Rotten Dreams

Dorit Kiesewetter, Carsten Knoop

DE
2012
Short film
3’

We are locked in history; prehistoric humans were not.

Centrefold

Ellie Land

UK
2012
Animation film
10’

Over the last ten years, the incidence of female genital cosmetic surgery has grown by no less than 500%. Ellie […]

Commodity Fetishism

Catrine Val

DE
2012
Experimental
5’

Commodity Fetishism moves seamlessly between the realms of fashion and performance and criticism and comedy. Throughout this video, Catrine Val […]

Escape

Rosa Hannah Ziegler

DE
2011
Spielfilm
21’

Jamie and Leo have run away from the home. On their way through field and forest, the two teenagers have […]

Fjögur Píanó

Alma Har’el

US
2012
Music video
10’

Sigur Rós, a post-rock-band from Iceland, gave a dozen film-makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever […]

Golem

Joy und Noelle Vaccese

US
2010
Music video
4’

Golem’s Asylum is a place where idealistic dreams of musical success are twisted and distorted into prepackaged fodder for ranks […]

Home

Lisa Domin

DE
2011
Experimental
2’

Home is a film about homeland, homelessness and deer.

Mademoiselle

Emilie Jouvet

FR
2004
Experimental
4’

A young woman has found a way of getting out of her system the verbal  harassment to which men subject […]

Persian Pickles

Jodie Mack

US
2012
Experimental
3’

During the 1960s, paisley patterns became hugely popular. In Persian Pickles, Jodie Mack goes one better by using high-frequency cut […]

Ruski Make Up

Mariola Brillowska

DE
2008
Animation film
9’

If the Russians were to join the EU, their post-communist trauma of anarchy would spread across globalised Europe. And Ruski […]