Memories can be traumatic as well as deceptive, between phantasm and empty space, between stumbling and staggering. The program combines (auto-)biographical narration as a creative process that challenges one’s own memories. Using artistic strategies such as green screen, reenactment, alienation, collage and voice over, the films draw cross-connections, playful as well as humorous, against conventional thought patterns – between past and present, truth and fiction, individual and collective memory, tragedy and comedy. “Nobody dies as beautifully as Udo Kier.” (Jessica Manstetten)
In Jan Soldat’s STAGING DEATH, via lively montage Kier’s multifarious passing away in several dozen roles becomes a frantic gallop through five decades of film and television history and a comprehensive tribute to this fearless actor, who has surfed between (ostensibly) noble art and the most sacred trash. (Markus Keuschnigg)… >>>
How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbor and filmmaker Douwe. Through playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, Abdi and Douwe embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throughout.… >>>
The film follows 2 rules:
1. never rely on your childhood memories
2. never judge anyone by their Biofilmography
Two men appear ghostly on the screen while a mysterious sign shows up repeatedly in the background…… >>>
TURTLENECK PHANTASIES is dedicated to the murmuring, the illegible, the unspeakable, the sketches and doodles, fragments of childhood memories, the stumbling that looks like a dance, the absurd moments.… >>>
A day by the sea, a misty view into the open, feet in the surf, groynes and seagulls, two shadowy figures in the distance. And from the off, a cheerful song sings: "i'm alone here because it's foggy and rains. But I don't give a shit, and the waves come back [...] I am a photographer, in motion and in still." Dagie Brundert has been working with Super 8 films for more than three decades, often taking the personal, the mundane, and creating a cinematic mythology all her own from it. Her latest film, developed in algae, vitamin C and washing soda, takes a look at the horizon, at the ground where one's own body meets the world. And casually asks profound questions. What do you see, when you look upon yourself?… >>>