THURSDAY, 28th OF JUNE
14:00

THREE DOCUMENTARY APPROACHES

Andreas BOLM : Jaba
Documentary, fiction | 16mm | colour | 0:37:00
Germany / Hungary | 2006 [•]

Wojciech KASPERSKI : Nasiona
Documentary | dv | colour | 0:27:09
Poland | 2005 [•]

Claire ANGELINI : Es geht eine dunkle Wolk'herein
Experimental documentary | dv | colour and b&w | 0:20:00
France / Germany | 2005 [•]

This session showcases three works that develop a singular work at the boundary between documentary and fiction.
Andreas Bolm films a family of Romany gypsies, settled in Hungary. Their family structure and work highlight the harshness of their destiny. This film addresses survival in one of the poorest regions of Europe and marginality. The actors play their own roles. Wojciech Kasperski accompanies a deprived family through the Polish countryside. Little by little, the film immerses us in a family mystery, revealing its story to us. There is no fiction, only life and the world, as surrealistic as it can be. Claire Angelini films three places in Bavaria, burdened with the past from the World War II; tangible fragments of history, in the form of archive documents, return to haunt present day images. The interpretation of very slow shots facilitates a re-emergence of history and allows the breathing and changing light of natural spaces to surface .

THURSDAY, 28th OF JUNE
15:30

NEW FICTION

Cesar PESQUERA MURO : Passer/8
Experimental fiction | dv | colour | 0:15:00
Spain |2006 [•]

Nicolas PROVOST : Induction
Experimental fiction | dv | colour | 0:12:00
Belgium | 2005 [•]

Gregg SMITH : Should we never meet again
Experimental fiction | betaSP, HDV | colour | 0:25:00
South Africa / France | 2005 [•]

Philipp DOERING : Kalypso
Experimental fiction | dv | colour | 0:15:20
Germany | 2006 [•]

ZAPRUDER filmmakersgroup : Morning Smile
Experimental fiction | 16mm | b&w | 0:30:00
Italy | 2005 [•]

This screening considers filmmaking that experiments with the narrative form. Cesar Pesquera Muro recreates movement
between two parallel destinations: a young woman at a toll booth and a showman in his marry-go-round. These two trajectories become emblematic of the relationship between
image and sound. Nicolas Provost shows the unexpected meeting between a shaman, a single woman and a child. He works on the cinematic material and sensorial shock that it generates, as well as on its illusory, ephemeral nature. Gregg Smith films the quest of a man in the city: the search for a place to sleep. He unfolds the question of intimacy within a public place. The man is therefore placed into another dimension where there are no limits or formalities, and where, very briefly, he comes into contact with strangers. Philipp Doering’s short film separates and recaptures a contemporary Ulysses character, dismantling fiction right from the start. The Zapruder group transposes Georges Bastille’s novel «Le bleu du ciel- the blue sky», and a quote from Decameron. The film takes place at the moment when Dirty and Troppmann meet each other in a room at the Savoy hotel, hanging in which are four paintings by Botticelli that evoke damnation.

THURSDAY, 28th OF JUNE
17:30

POLITICS OF IMAGES

Robert Aliaj DRAGOT : Spring and Staline
Experimental documentary | dv | colour | 0:08:30
Albania | 2006 [•]

Dora GARCIA : Zimmer, Gespräche
Experimental fiction | dv | colour | 0:28:00
Spain / Germany, Belgium | 2006 [•]

Rainer KIRBERG : Überfahrt
Experimental documentary | dv | colour | 0:14:00
Germany | 1995 [•]

Jonathan CUMMINS : Letter Home
Experimental documentary | dv | colour | 0:08:03
Ireland |2006 [•]

Wei LIU : Wang Que De Yi Tian
Documentary | dv | colour | 0:13:30
China | 2005 [•]

Horst BAUR : Heroes
Experimental video | dv | colour | 0:04:45 |
Germany / China | 2006 [•]

Eleonore DE MONTESQUIOU : Sillamäe
Experimental documentary | dv | colour | 0:18:00
France | 2006 [•]


The films and videos of this session debate the consequences of 20th Century political ideologies. In «Spring & Stalin», Robert Aliaj Dragot reconstructs 27,000 photographs extracted from the archives of the Albanian national television. A poem by the writer Ismail Kadaré is read in a monotonous and neutral tone; it expresses a feeling of oppression and false propaganda that nobody believes or understands. Dora Garcia provokes an encounter between a Stasi officer, an informer and a civilian in a Leipzig apartment. «Rooms, conversations» is neither documentary nor fiction, but uses the parameters of a given historical situation to transmit abstract notions such as fear, dependence and obsession. Rainer Kirberg places in the picture three terrorists from the Red Army Fraction, who prepare, under the aegis of the East German State Security (STASI) fictitious biographies
through which they are able to lead a secret life in Socialist Germany. Jonathan Cummins films political prisoners in an Irish prison and explores questions of identity and memory in the prison surroundings. On the 4th June, anniversary of the 1989 student revolt, Liu Wei interviews passers-by at the Tien An Men place, which encloses them in silence. Horst Baur, thirty years after the end of the great proletarian Cultural Revolution in China, asks the Chinese to pause for a photograph with the Maoist bible. In certain Red Books, Mao’s photo is replaced by Western artists, ranging from Andy Warhol to Gerhard Richter. Eléonore de Montesquiou returns to a nuclear town in the former USSR, banned during the cold war, which has today become a Russophile cultural enclave.

THURSDAY, 28th OF JUNE
19:30

SETTING THE SCENE

Teboho EDKINS : My gangsta project
Experimental fiction | dv | colour | 0:09:00
Afrique du sud | 2006 [•]

Jan DE BRUIN : Calling 911
Documentary | dv | colour | 0:06:21
Pays-Bas |2004 [•]

Sandra SCHÄFER : The Making of a Demonstration
Documentary | dv | colour | 0:10:00
Germany | 2004 [•]

Clemens VON WEDEMEYER, Maya Schweizer : Rien du tout
Fiction | 35mm, hdv | colour | 0:30:00
Germany / France | 2006 [•]

Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL : Worldly desires
dv | colour | 0:42:00
Thailand | 2005 [•]


The films and videos of this session explore the question of setting the scene as a possible field for social critique. Teboho Edkins spent two months in a Cap ghetto, in South Africa, with the desire to make a gangster film. «My gangsta project», without being a documentary, underlines the processes of violence in the context of poverty. Jan de Bruin a shot «Calling 911» at Los Angeles. A young woman cries in a phone booth. While the emergency services arrive, an exponential piece of fiction is established. Sandra Schäfer films in Afghanistan the reconstruction of a demonstration of women protesting against the work ban introduced by the Taliban. This demonstration is actually a sequence from the film «Osama» by Siddiq Barmak shot in 2002 on the streets of Kabul. The shooting hierarchy then imprisons the characters in their own role. Clemens von Wedemeyer and Maya Schweizer place on the scene a producer who has just shot a medieval film in the outskirts of Paris. The outside of the theatre becomes the new scene. While inside, the alienation
between the producer and her assistant suffers its crisis, the dance of the “superfluous” begins outside. Apichatpong Weerasethakul shoots an real false musical comedy. It is a fake real making of and worldly desires set the daily scene of
filming in the depths of the Asian jungle. Here, we find themes of the Thai producer’s partiality, his taste for amorous encounters and his deep-rooted attraction for the disturbing strangeness of the tropical forest.

THURSDAY, 28th OF JUNE
21:30

GENDER IS MY GENRE

Isabell SPENGLER : Permanent Residents
Experimental film | 16mm | colour | 0:09:32
Germany / USA | 2005 [•]

Jan WANDRAG : David+Jonathan
Fiction | dv | colour | 0:15:00
South Africa / USA | 2006 [•]

Alexandra DEMENTIEVA : Mad Professor
Experimental fiction | dv | colour | 0:04:42
Belgium | 2005 [•]

Delphine KREUTER : XXXy
Experimental fiction | dv | colour | 0:17:00
France | 2006 [•]

Nicolás BRANCA : Las Nuevas Aventuras de Tom y Jerry
Experimental fiction | dv | colour | 0:17:50
Uruguay | 2005 [•]

Marie LOSIER : The Onthological Cowboy
Experimental documentary | 16mm | colour | 0:16:00
France | 2005 [•]


The films and videos in this session dramatising questions on genre, identity and the concept of normality. Isabell Spengler films extravagant characters in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the everyday situations of a standardised lifestyle. Jan Wandrag produces a contemporary gay photo novel from street images and transposes a bible story on modern day New York. Alexandra Dementieva places a mad professor on the scene and plays with genre and sexual identities. Delphine Kreuter films four transvestite characters and a young girl in the apartment of a woman who has just died. Nicolás Branca shows us two characters with ambiguous relationships. Friends, enemies or a couple, Marie Losier documents the delirious avant-garde theatre of Richard Foreman, the father of «Ontological Hysterical Theater».