// L A G E R H A L L E

// WEDNESDAY May 10th, 2006

The 50/50 Experience

// Wed May 10th, 2006 / 22:00 h / Total 84:00

100 years of experimental film from the futurists to post-media-art! A programme of two curators suffering the same fate. Radically shortend, it represents 50 years of commom experience and their inside views on the being - and the mischief - of media art. Short revue of a quarter of a century of avantgarde cinema in Osnabrück!

›No Sunshine‹ / Bjørn Melhus/ D / 1997 / 6:15
›Scorpio Rising‹ / Kenneth Anger / USA / 1963 / 29:00
›Rainbow Dance‹ / Len Lye / GB / 1936 / 4:00
›Lapis‹ / James Whitney / USA / 1966 / 9:00
›10 3/4 Zoll‹ / Georg Maas / D / 1984 / 4:00
›WVLNT‹ / Michael Snow / CDN / 2006 / 15:00
›Pièce Touchée‹ / Martin Arnold / A / 1989 / 16:00
›Lapis‹ courtesy of  

// THURSDAY May 11th, 2006

FASCINATION by Mike Hoolboom



Fascination

// Thu May 11th, 2006 / 12:00 h
/ Repetition: Cinema Arthouse Kino 5 / Sat May 13th, 2006 / 22:30

Meta-Bio-Pic on the Canadian forerunner of the video scene and icon of the drag scene. Colin Campbell's death in 2001 left a large gap in Toronto's artist community. He was magnanimous, productive and attractive, a pioneer in the germinating field of video art, creating the most hilarious figures in his 31-year career: Art Star, Robin, the wife of Malibu and Colleena. He melted the world of performance with that of the video world, producing an endless amount of reels that are witty and cunning at the same time – shrill snapshots on the reflective function of video in an age of surplus media production.
›Fascination‹ / Mike Hoolboom / CDN / 2006 / 85:00

CAST AND AWAY



Exoticore

// Thu May 11th, 2006 / 13:30 h / Total 63:00

Banished and forgotten: society has its own unwritten laws. Even if we appear to treat the handicapped, coloured and other minorities on an equal basis in public, we soon lose sight of them in private (›Film for Tom‹, ›Fountain‹). But if they really do want to be themselves, we react with incomprehension and resistance because they then violate our good customs (›Exoticore‹). Only others who recognise their being different, reflect upon it and are aware of it can exist in our society (›The Wallraff Method‹).
›Film For Tom‹ / S. Connolly / GB / 12:00
›Fountain‹ / D. Cumming / CDN / 21:55
›Exoticore‹ / N. Provost / B / 25:00
›The Wallraff Method‹ / T. Geoffroy / DK / 3:53

TRAVEL DIARY



Antipodes

// Thu May 11th, 2006 / 15:00 h / Total 66:00

An antipodal trip around the world in 66 minutes. Shanghai, Rotterdam, Marrakech, Lofoten, Taipei, Copenhagen, Eastern Europe, Damascus. In these three films the camera becomes a diary, visualising in very different ways the impressions and observations that flow into one another and the atmospherically compressed emotional states of the trip between loss of orientation and curiosity, the visual-haptic discovery of a strange place, its people and symbols.
›Antipodes‹ / K. Doing / NL / 19:15
›71‹ / D. Phillips / D / 7:30
›To Damascus‹ / J. Baandrup / M. Kjems Juhl / M. Madsen / DK / 40:00

RETRO BRUCE BAILLIE


// Thu May 11th, 2006 / 16:30 h

Bruce Baillie is one of the most important US avant-garde film-makers of the 1960s and 1970s whose works have had a lasting influence on structuralist film. more...
›Here I Am‹ / 1962 / 16mm / 11:00
›Roy Eldrige‹ / 1986 / Video / 2:00
›Roslyn Romance‹ / 1974 / 16mm / 17:00
›Commute‹ / 1995/97 / Video / 60:00
›Castro Street‹ / 1966, 16mm / 10:00

FAMILY AFFAIRES



The Arsonist



Swelan

// Thu May 11th, 2006 / 18:30 h / Total 65:30

From the singing son to the pubescent girl singer: each family has not only child prodigies but also worries. We have the overmotivated fathers (›Into Pieces‹), rampaging husbands (›Come to Daddy‹), stressed mothers (›Das Mißgeschick‹) and arsonist offspring (›The Arsionist‹). The perfect world of childhood is now only a faded memory (›Swelan‹).
›Burning Love II‹ / J. M. Syversen / N / 3:00
›Into Pieces‹ / G. Marcondes / BR / 1:15
›The Genius Maker‹ / J. Gibbons / E. Breer / USA / 12:00
›Hope / M. Etches‹ / CDN / 1:00
›The Arsonist‹ / S. Pye / CDN / 14:00
›Come To Daddy‹ / R. Minervini / USA / 3:03
›Das Missgeschick‹ / A. Loux / D / 16:00
›Swelan‹ / C. von Greve / D / 5:10
›The Staring Girl‹ / S. Lewis / AUS / 10:00

COMMUNICATION NETWORK



Echolaliabye: Scene 1



Waiting for Felipe

// Thu May 11th, 2006 / 20:00 h / Total 59:00

They all talk to each other, constantly, everywhere and jumbled up. The dilemma of personal communication is limitless. Men and women simply don't mean the same thing (›Making Pancakes‹, ›Heinrich und Mary Jane‹), the whore and the john don't understand each other either (›Jetzt: Das geistesverwirrte Callgirl‹). Even the body language is unclear and a feast for the spontaneous voyeur (›Traffic‹, ›Waiting for Felipe‹). Only the digitally generated, rhythmic sound of communication between machines is faultless (›Optical Sound‹).
›To And No Fro‹ / A. Child / USA / 4:30
›Echolaliabye: Scene 1‹ / Z. Marr / AUS / 8:08
›Making Pancakes‹ / C. Lund / S / 4:58
›Heinrich + Mary Jane‹ / S. Zlamal / A / 12:00
›Jetzt: Das geistesverwirrte Callgirl... ‹ / M. T. Winterhagen / D / 5:30
›Traffic‹ / Mirko / Martin / D / 7:00
›Optinen ääni‹ / M. Taanila / SF / 6:00
›Afraid So‹ / J. Rosenblatt / USA / 2:36
›Waiting for Felipe‹ / J. de Bruin / NL / 8:00

KAFFEEKRÄNZCHEN MIT WERWÖLFEN (STUFO 1)



Apropos



Nebengeräusche

// Thu May 11th, 2006 / 22:00 h / Total 75:00

Friendly, evil, unapproachable, shady creatures of the night, of the day and of the mind accompany us through this programme – ever searching for a good catch and their own identity.
›Zoo-Spot‹ / A. Freiberg / M. Liedtke / 0:46
›Straight Flush‹ / S. Boeckelt & S. Dunkhase / 8:56
›Promenade d'après-midi‹ / C. Walka / 2:30
›Zabolika‹ / D. Bobichon / 4:20
›Type O Negative‹ / J. Reck / 3:36
›Wenn ich Dich jetzt...‹ / C. Dworschak & M. Geyer-Grois / 3:40
›Pasatiempos Domesticos v. Softcore‹ / S. Casares / 5:26
›A Werewolf / Trash / Lovestory‹ / J. Fleischmann / 11:40
›Erdbeeren aus Argentinien‹ / S. Simon / 2:00
›Wake Me Up‹ / C. Schnall / 11:00
›Der Kauboy‹ / C. Seller / 2:53
›Nebengeräusche‹ / J. Hetzel / 2:30
›Apropos‹ / L. Meyer / I. Fritzsche / 6:22
›Lichtspiel‹ / J. Epple / 6:00
›Kuchen für uns‹ / Grundklasse / 2:00
›Photorealismus‹ / A. Michaltsis / 1:42
more...

GAY IN MAY



Permanent Residents



Pleasure Zone

// Thu May 11th, 2006 / 23:30 h / Total 66:00

As a homage to the blissful month and the series of gay events in May, we present a programme of the 'other' kind. It tells of secret meetings on park benches (›Still‹), extravagant residents in the mega cities (›Permanent Residents‹), of working as naked cleaners (›Filth‹, ›Job Interview‹) and of a girl's coming out, when she unexpectedly finds the love of her life on holiday. And when the lesbian Pussypackers meet the Masturbaturs, the evening of sport is saved (›Pleasure Zone‹).
›Still‹ / T. Leyendekker / NL / 5:00
›Job Interview‹ / L. Pasolini / GB / 8:17
›A Girl Named Kai‹ / K. L. Xue / CDN / 8:30
›A Horse / A Filipino / Two Women...‹ / N. Tan / USA / 7:20
›filth‹ / W. Mead / CDN / 4:07
›Bad Boy‹ / V. Krisp / CDN / 4:43
›Permanent Residents‹ / I. Spengler / D / 9:30
›Pleasure Zone‹ / D. McLeod / CDN / 18:00

// FRIDAY May 12th, 2006

ARCHITECTURE OF THE FUTURE



My Barrio



All people is plastic

// Fri May 12th, 2006 / 12:00 h / Total 65:30

The city of the future as a filmic utopia. It is eerie, dismissive, ravaged by concrete and standardised. Structurally planned down to the very last detail, covered by grid lines and fully surveillable. Each individual relation to one's own district or to nature is regulated by the kit of the modern age (›Domino‹, ›My Barriov‹, ›All people is plastic‹) and every human movement is controlled by the rhythm of the traffic (›Kwalitetstrafik‹, ›Train Tower‹). Dizzying.
›My Barrio‹ / N. Goldbach / D / 19:14
›Train Tower‹ / D. Crompton & A. Herfst / CDN / 3:10
›Kvalitetstrafik‹ / K. Wiesel / D / 13:00
›Domino‹ / L. Schreiber / A / 12:00
›Null X‹ / J. Frederik-Groot & G. Frenken / NL / 6:00
›All people is plastic‹ / H. Hund / A / 12:00

PHOTOALBUM



Oh my Darling



Géographie Imaginaire

// Fri May 12th, 2006 / 13:30 h / Total 72:30

Similar to a diary, the photo album unites the visual impressions and memories of special experiences, journeys, places and phenomena. But unspectacular and everyday occurrences or uniformly flowing events are entered into the image memory: ›10 Years in River‹ shows the course of a Lithuanian river in ten sections spanning ten years or ›Gedreven door Wind‹, which documents the everyday life of one of Holland's last windmillers with a smooth camera. ›Géographie Imaginaire‹ also touches on the exotic in everyday life in a similar manner, depicting an Arabic wedding ceremony from the personal perspective of a German/Tunisian artist.
›Mirror Mechanics‹ / S. Fruhauf / A / 7:30
›Oh my Darling‹ / M. Moumblow / CDN / 4:00
›The Hong Kong Showcase‹ / M. Brynntrup / D / 3:30
›Uyuni‹ / A. Denegri / RA / 8:00
›10 Years in River‹ / A. Kasperavicius / LT / 1:00
›The 40 Feet Trilogy‹ / K. Behkalam / D / 8:30
›Gedreven door Wind‹ / J. Dekker / NL / 13:00
›Associated‹ / J. Perlin / USA / 12:10
›Géographie Imaginaire‹ / P. M'barek / D/TN / 15:00

FLOWER POWER



Halbmond für Margaret



Knospen wollen explodieren

// Fri May 12th, 2006 / 15:00 h / Total 60:00

This is about flowers in general, as well as in a special sense. What is important to some: garden, landscape, nature, growth; blooming or dying flowers (›Bouquets‹, ›Halbmond für Margaret‹), is a thorn in another's side (›A Time to Die‹). The third kind have never escaped from the flower power age and its body of thought (›Whispering Pines‹) or have long since arrived in the paradise of love (›Knospen wollen explodieren‹).
›Careless Reef: Preface‹ / G. Holthuis / NL / 3:50
›Bouquets 28-30‹ / R. Lowder / F / 4:00
›Halbmond für Margaret‹ / U. Aurand / D / 17:00
›A Time to Die‹ / J. Gibbons / USA / 9:00
›Whispering Pines‹ / S. Moulton / USA / 6:13
›Knospen wollen explodieren‹ / P. Schröder / D / 20:00

RETRO BRUCE BAILLIE

// Fri May 12th, 2006 / 16:30 h

Bruce Baillie is one of the most important US avant-garde film-makers of the 1960s and 1970s whose works have had a lasting influence on structuralist film. more...

OLD SCHOOL



Dr. Garibaldi



Abendmahl

// Fri May 12th, 2006 / 18:30 h / Total 67:00 

Besides the colourful, digitised, new visual worlds
there is another antique form of image processing 
and treatment that is based on mechanical and optic 
techniques and structures. The films of the 
Lumières and the avant-garde live on in this form 
of work. This does not just restrict us to material
films à la Brakhage (›Endless‹, ›Interlude‹, 
›Harrachov‹, ›Abendmahl‹), aspects of surreal, 
dadaist cinema can also be sensed (›The influence of... ‹,
›Dr. Garibaldi‹). What is interesting in any case is
that especially young generation film-makers are occupying
themselves with the material of film and the aspects
of how to process it.

›Asleep at the Wheel‹ / M. Maryniuk / CDN / 2:00
›Endless / Wenhua Shi‹ / USA / 10:00
›Interlude‹ / J. van Veen / NL / 3:00
›The influence...‹ / T. Draschan & S. Friedrichs / A/D / 6:00
›Dr. Garibaldi‹ / C. von Dobben-Seyn / D / 14:00
›Untitled3 (stone killer)‹ / S. Nagler / CDN / 5:30
›Harrachov‹ / M. Hulse &  Joost van Veen / GB / 9:00
›L'eclat du mal‹ / L. Bourque / CDN / 8:00
›Abendmahl‹ / J. Hammel / A / 9:30

MOCUMENTARIES AND DOPPELGANGERS



Murder and UFOs



The Sexorcist: Revirginize

// Fri May 12th, 2006 / 22:00 h / Total 69:00

Alfred Hitchcock sends his regards, in many respects. It's not only that he seems to appear on several occasions (›Looking for Alfred‹), also his films are taken as a foundation (›Where I Go‹) or at least his plots are adapted (›Satisfied Mind‹). Conspiracy theories and obscure connections are revealed (›Murder and UFOs‹, ›desi're‹, ›Sexorzist‹), making us ask whether it all amounts to brainwashing and exchangeable bodies or shells (›Cosmetic Energy‹, ›Zwirn‹).
›Looking for Alfred‹ / J. Grimonprez / B / 10:03
›Whereto I Go‹ / J. T. Anderson / S / 4:46
›Zwirn‹ / D. Burkhardt / D / 3:47
›A Satiesfied Mind‹ / A. Patton / D / 4:32
›Murder and UFOs‹ / B. McDonald / CDN / 20:00
›[desi're:]‹ / R. Grünfelder / D / 4:00
›The Sexorcist: Revirginize‹ / D. Nerwen / USA / 13:00
›Cosmetic Emergency‹ / M. Colburn / NL / 9:00

SIEBEN HIMMEL


// Fri May 12th 2006 / 23:30 h / Total 92:00

›Sieben Himmel‹ is a fantastic cinematic work of art. A drama that
consummately plumbs the limitations of the medium and demands
unconditional participation from the audience. A film such as ›Sieben
Himmel‹ must seem to be outmoded, even though it has so much to do
with the misfortune of its age, because only then can a distance be
produced that guarantees a new way of looking at the world, which is
even suspicious of the idea of transcendence. ›Sieben Himmel‹ does not
offer any solutions but represents a hope: a short, tempting sparkle
in the roaring ocean of the media world. It's worth looking out for
it. (Marcus Stiglegger)
›Sieben Himmel‹ / Michael Busch / D

// SATURDAY May 13th, 2006

OST-WEST DIWAN



Est-Quest

// Sat May 13th, 2006 / 12:00 h / Total 69:00

When a journey is taken, it can be taken cinematically. Five different
ways to represent the places visited, five different points of view.
Impressions of an English coast whose environmental problems are not
reflected in the images but on the sound level (›All the time in
world‹). We see the stations of upheaval behind the former Iron
Curtain and Red China (›Ex Hungaria Lux‹, ›Notes & Sketches‹), and
accompany tracks and the paths that define themselves as the
destination (›Face à ce qui se dèrobe‹, ›Est-Quest‹).
›Face à ce qui se dérobe‹ / V. Pinckaers / B / 30:00
›Notes and Sketches‹ / A. von Chamier / D / 9:17
›All the Time in the World‹ / Semiconductor / GB / 5:00
›Ex Hungaria Lux‹ / A. Lux / D / 5:24
›Est-Quest‹ / V. Pavia / F / 20:00

ÜBERHOLEN AUF DER STANDSPUR (STUFO 2)



Die Geschichte vom Nichts



For Fuck Sakes

// Sat May 13th, 2006 / 13:30 h / Total 74:00

Surrounded by breaks, obedient matches, coat hangers, rain, firs, rubble. Lonely? Pleasant? Silence? Shrill? Should I stay or should I go now?
›Ticketweavles‹ / C. Huff / 2:15
›Solo‹ / T. Rickert / 5:28
›Die Geschichte vom Nichts‹ / E. Münnich / 5:00
›Mares‹ / Kang-Ning Chen / 9:28
›Kunstpausen‹ / D. Wesser / 2:10
›Die unerträgliche Seichtigkeit‹ / E. Becker / 5:18
›After the Rain‹ / D. Gligorov / 14:00
›I didn't really want ....‹ / T. Hauer & T. Pieterson / 0:40
›For Fuck Sakes‹ / V. Aab & M. Kijas / 4:35
›Fest der Liebe‹ / R.T. Weller & R. Malchow / 7:58
›with no name: Lohwald‹ / S. Richter / 12:00
›Kopflastig‹ / M. Busker / 4:45
more...

ADVANCED PHILOSOPHY



Paul and the Badger

// Sat May 13th, 2006 / 15:00 h / Total 70:00
Follow the philosophical reflections on technical advances and their drawbacks (›Push Button‹, ›Tatsachenbericht eines Mac‹), their social implications (›Future Garden‹, ›Paul and the Badger‹) or general theoretical thoughts on socialisation (›Social Construction of Reality‹) and higher mathematics (›16 Stones‹).
›16 Stones‹ / R. Labuda / CZ / 1:00
›Future Garden Structure‹ / H. Koob-Sassen / GB / 14:00
›Push Button‹ / G. Chapman / USA / 16:00
›Paul and the Badger‹ / P. Tarragó / GB / 11:30
›Der Tatsachenbericht eines Macs‹ / M. Pohlenz / D / 4:18
›The Social Construction of Reality‹ / E. Nissinen / SF / 17:00
›Story Without End‹ / People Like Us / GB / 6:00

RETRO BRUCE BAILLIE

// Sat May 13th, 2006 / 16:30 h

Bruce Baillie is one of the most important US avant-garde film-makers of the 1960s and 1970s whose works have had a lasting influence on structuralist film. more...

HOME OF THE BRAVE



Collision

// Sat May 13th, 2006 / 18:30 h / Total 70:00

What has football got to do with war? What has the media got to do with total surveillance by camera? Conflict prevention or control in everyday life presents itself as a distinguished task of the state. Since conflicts often begin on a small scale it appears advisable to have total surveillance. But what if the surveillance machinery itself starts to attack? To what extent can people be manipulated and to what extent can repression mechanisms work, this is what is asked in ›Wir sind Dir Treu‹, ›A Day to Remember‹ and ›Echo‹. The fact that everything is justifiable and theoretically derivable can be experienced in ›The Form of the Good‹. How we have learned to cope with this in our everyday lives is knowledge belonging to the elderly (›Because of the War‹) or we learn bit by bit at home (›Homefront‹).
›Wir sind dir treu‹ / M. Koch / CH / D / 9:00
›A Day To Remember‹ / L. Wei / CHN / 13:00
›Echo‹ / V. Tomic / DK / 17:00
›Because Of the War‹ / J. Thomas / GB / 13:30
›America punish criminals‹ / P.E. Bengtsson / S / 4:04
›The Form of the Good‹ / J.T. Hong / USA / 3:30
›Collision‹ / M. Hattler / GB / 2:30
›Homefront‹ / J. Crandall / USA / 9:00

SOUND/STRUCTURE/IMAGE



vs-process

// Sat May 13th, 2006 / 20:00 h / Total 67:00

›coming + going‹ / L. Fan / CDN / 3:00
›Elsewhere‹ / L. Sieczek / USA / 6:00
›aussicht von... ‹ / K. Goldt / A/D/NZ / 8:00
›WS. 2‹ / S. Cho / USA / 8:55
›Crosslinx‹ / NL / 8:45
›Nuvolari‹ / A. Poce / I / 4:45
›Red Flag‹ / B. van Koolwijk / NL / 2:59
›Opacity‹ / F. Kalantary / N / 5:30
›vs-process‹ / lia / A / 5:00
›Ersatztitel‹ / J. Rudolph / D / 7:03
›Bloco‹ / S. Dean / F / 7:00

THE SURREAL ODER DER TAG ALS DIE VOGELGRIPPE KAM



Nummer vier

// Sat May 13th, 2006 / 22:00 h / Total 63:00

This programme promises a metamorphic roller coaster journey through colours, shapes, spaces and times. Guaranteed loss of reality. From the bath straight into the universe, from the digital mixed forest to the tough motor sport: watch out! A deer on the racetrack (›Oh Dear...!‹).
›Mapa‹ / A. Duta / IND / 9:00
›Sweet Salt‹ / K. Athanasopoulou / GB / 6:45
›im Grün‹ / M. Aschenbrenner / A / 5:00
›Nummer vier‹ / G. van der Werve / NL / 11:45
›Ministry Messiah‹ / G. Apsits / LV / 3:07
›Orbit‹ / P. Caster / USA / 7:14
›Dreamlike‹ / Zhou Hongxiang / CHN / 9:20
›Driver‹ / M. Brand / D / 6:20
›Mischwald‹ / M. Einhoff / D / 3:10
›Oh Dear...!‹ / N. Provost / B / 1:00

PSYCHOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE



Logro



Come into my world

// Sat May 13th, 2006 / 23:30 h / Total 67:00

A distorted look into a pram, blood-red stains on a white girl's dress, male fantasies and suicidal cravings. Welcome to the world of traumatic experiences and the ritual of processing them in film. The managing strategies range from the detailed retelling of a murder case (›Young Lions‹) to a constantly recurring lethal fall out of a window (›Maybe Not‹). But also men aren't (›Alice‹) or haven't always got the solution (›Ich bin ein Mann, Baby‹).
›Guardian Creatures‹ / K. Yli-Annala / SF / 2:51
›Logro‹ / R. Figueiredo / P / 12:30
›Roses and Fall‹ / B. de Visser / NL / 7:00
›die spieluhr‹ / J. Reich / D / 3:03
›Young Lions‹ / E. Drangsholt / N / 6:37
›Maybe Not‹ / O. Pietsch / D / 4:45
›Come into my world‹ / S. Christoffel / D / 7:36
›Alice‹ / C. Jansen / NL / 13:35
›Ich bin ein Mann, Baby‹ / D. Borovych / D / 9:25

// SUNDAY May 14th, 2006

STELLA POLARE


// Sun May 14th, 2006 / 12:00 h

A contemplative video essay in which the narrator plays the crucial role. The original voice reflects upon the nature of remembering, identity and human relationships. In the midst of this, we find ourselves on the visual plane in a harbour, somewhere in Old Europe, observing the scenery.
›Stella Polare‹ / Anthea Kennedy & Ian Wiblin / GB / 2006 / 76:00

WELTWUNDER



Tales from the Arctic Circle - 1

// Sun May 14th, 2006 / 13:30 h / Total 62:30

Different countries, different customs: a look at the landscapes and circumstances of foreign people's preferred methods of how to spend their leisure time. It may not sound particularly unusual to learn that there are competitions for building igloos, but it does sound rather strange to hear about golf being played on ice (›Tales from the Arctic Circle‹). An enormous amount of archive material tells us about the effects the melting of the Arctic ice has on the rest of the world (›Ice/Sea‹). ›The Black Ring‹ clearly shows us how survival in some of today's so-called transformation countries will nevertheless still be possible.
›(rock / hard place)‹ / R. Beebe / USA / 6:15
›Tales from the Arctic Circle - 1‹ / R. Mortimer / GB / 3:00
›Tales .... 2‹ / R. Mortimer / GB / 3:00
›Ice / Sea‹ / Vivian Ostrovsky / F / 32:00
›Tales.... 3‹ / R. Mortimer / GB / 3:00
›Tales.... 4‹ / R. Mortimer / GB / 3:00
›The Black Ring‹ / F.B. Karami / IR / 12:00

LOST IN PERCEPTION



Fossilization

// Sun May 14th, 2006 / 15:00 h

What can the eyes process or to what extent can we believe our eyes? We are quick to recognise film tricks, even if what we see continues to baffle the brain (›Vertigo‹, Fossilization‹). But when a conventional film (strip) is processed, cut up and put back together again, turning something familiar into a new visual dimension (›The Fence‹, ›Instructions for...‹, ›Pan‹), this borders on filmic alchemy; and when a short tube journey is transformed into a visual dream voyage through the visual universe (›Yamanote Lightblast‹, ›Gate Vision‹), that is classed as magic.
›The Fence‹ / T. Schmücking / D / 6:40
›Vertigo‹ / R. Kelaita / NL / 1:35
›Fossilization‹ / K. d'Haeseleer / B / 9:30
›Instructions...‹ / P. Tscherkassky / A / 0:17:00
›Grundlos‹ / D. Burkhardt / D / 2:40
›Mississippi‹ / A.T. Riahi / A / 6:00
›Yamanote Lightblast‹ / J. Reble / D / 0:19:00
›pan‹ / J. Lurf / A / 1:20
›Gate vision‹ / K. Kobayashi / JPN / 5:24

GENDER TROUBLE



Daumenlutscherin

// Sun May 14th, 2006 / 16:30 h / Total 71:00

If Freud had been a woman, and lesbian at that, the battle of the sexes may never had taken place. Films such as Marine Lover, based on feminist theory, would never have been made. There would be no uneasiness (›In girum, nocte imus‹), no weirdness, no hidden lust and unfulfilled desires (›Die Daumenlutscherin‹). Just harmless eroticism (›Beieinander‹). How tedious... luckily, things turned out differently.
›Marine Lover‹ / S. Boero-Imwinkelried / F / 10:02
›Protection‹ / D. Esterhazy / CDN / 2:00
›changing room, changing time‹ / M. Kølbæk-Iversen / DK / 5:06
›Beieinander‹ / M. Vedder / D / 4:54
›Antaral (Endnote)‹ / A. Avikunthak / IND / 18:25
›Somewhere in Between‹ / T. Gonsalves / AUS / 3:00
›Daumenlutscherin‹ / U. Ströer / D / 12:30
›In girum imus nocte...‹ / J. Cosmen / F / 15:00

The Day After



Soman

// Sun May 14th, 2006 / 18:00 h / Total 65:00

A popular scenario – what happens on the renowned day after. There have always been days following catastrophes, wars, etc., as well as days leading up to them! This is demonstrated by, for instance, ›Blow Up‹, which explores the region following the assassinations on the London tube; also ›Sarin‹ and ›Soman‹ refer to people's attempts to decimate humanity with the assistance of poison. ›Sea Change‹ gives us an idea of what a landscape could look like on the day after.
›blow up‹ / L. Vinebaum / GB / 3:45
›Sea Change‹ / J. King & R. Pedlow / GB / 5:28
›Sarin‹ / M. Grecu / F / 7:20
›Instructions for Performing....‹ / N. Herbst / USA / 41:00
›Soman‹ / M. Grecu / F / 7:40

Award Ceremony

// Sun May 14th, 2006 / 20;00 h

Three prizes are given away this year: the € 2500.- EMAF-Award for a pioneering work in media art, the German Film Critique Award for Best German Experimental Film of the Year, and the prize of the foreign office for intercultural dialogue.

BEST OF EMAF

// Sun May 14th, 2006 / 22:30 h



The traditional festival selection with the best, most interesting, most  beautiful, most important and SMARTEST films and videos of the year! A Must see!