Totentanz

Sie sei eine „antisemitische Gans“, zürnte einst Nietzsche, als er von den Plänen seiner Schwester erfuhr, in Paraguay eine arische Kolonie zu begründen. Die letzten Nachfahren dieses chauvinistischen Experiments im tropischen Regenwald, die greisen Gebrüder Schweikhart, geistern in zerlumpten Gewändern auch post mortem noch als wortlose menschliche Skulpturen wie ein biblisches Paar seit Jahren durch die Filme von Sigg. Morgendliche Fußwaschungen, Kröten an der Leine und ein gemeinsamer Danse macabre vor vergilbten Ahnenporträts, während die Geräuschkulisse des Dschungels erahnen lässt, was bleiben wird, wenn das alte Kofferradio für immer verstummt. (Stephan Settele)

In Anwesenheit von Pablo Sigg.
Weltpremiere am 28. Oktober!

TOTENTANZ continues, or perhaps we should say, returns to the moment where LAMALAND (TEIL 1) ended. We witnessed the mutual violence that resulted in the death of the two last descendents of a utopian colony in the Paraguayan jungle, Friedrich and Max Josef Schweikhart. Founded by Nietzsche’s stubborn, racist sister Elisabeth and her husband, the colony thus ended in smoke and suffocation.
What follows is a passage to a jungle underworld. The brothers reconcile in silence and go about their business in this enchanted universe now presented in black and white on 35mm, which captures the dust and decay of their dwellings with a rich variety of greys and nuanced shadow. Like the famous medieval illustrations of danses macabres, TOTENTANZ becomes a universal memento mori, a reminder that all things come to end but never stop.
Sigg’s efforts to shoot a feature in situ without a crew and with a cast of two aging brothers little more than skin and bone are astonishing, not least because if we are to believe what we see, they are connected to modernity only by means of an old transistor radio that plays distorted Beethoven and Schubert as if beamed from some lost Heimat far away. Nevertheless, the true power of the film lies elsewhere—beyond good and evil.
(Gerwin Tamsma)

In the presence of Pablo Sigg.
World premiere on October 28!

Pablo Sigg: 134 EXHIBITS (2009, K), WHAT AN EXCELLENT DAY FOR AN EXORCISM (2010), DER WILLE ZUR MACHT (2013), I, OF WHOM I KNOW NOTHING (2014), LAMALAND (TEIL 1) (2018)