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Giving birth is very genre
(Jennifer Reeder)
NEED SOME FILMTIPS? HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS!
ALLENSWORTH
James Benning | USA 2022 | 65 min | OV
Friday, October 26: 1.00 pm - Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus
There is a strange and beautiful quality to historic buildings. Frozen in time on the one hand, they still convey so much about those that used to live in them on the other. James Benning dedicates several of the twelve shots that make up his latest film to such preserved buildings in Allensworth, a town founded in 1908 as the first municipality in California to be self-governed by African Americans. He films former libraries, the First Baptist Church and the school. Each of the static shots last around five minutes and stands for a month of the year. As there are only slight changes to the weather, a feeling of stasis emerges. Once again, Benning confronts us with the diferent layers of duration distinctive to cinema, as we become able to grasp time moving forwards and backwards within the same shot. When he frames a gravestone, we understand that these buildings function like wooden epitaphs to the struggles of African American identity in the USA. His decision to include songs like “Blackbird” by Nina Simone or “In the Pines” sung by Huddie Ledbetter as well as a shot of a student reading poems by Lucille Clifton makes clear that this is not a film about historic buildings but rather places to live and to grow as a people. (Patrick Holzapfel)
In the presence of James Benning.
EL VIENTO SABE QUE VUELVO A CASA
José Luis Torres Leiva | Chile 2016 | 104 min | OV w/ EN subtitles
Friday, October 27: 3.30 pm - Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus
EL VIENTO SABE QUE VUELVO A CASA is presented as a documentary about the process of determining the basis for another film. Filmmaker Ignacio Agüero—playing himself—is preparing his first fiction feature. He travels to Meulín, in the Chiloé archipelago, to look for clues about the origins of a story he once heard about the island. In the early 1980s, he learns that a young couple disappeared without a trace in the Meulín forests and a whole myth was created around this mysterious story of tragic love. Agüero arrives at the scene in search of locations and non-professional actors in order to work out, little by little, the film he wants to make. Just as the young couple disappears physically from the territory and metaphorically from the town’s memory, the pretext of fiction disappears into the reality that is thrust upon the filmmakers. The afnities and approaches of two essential directors working in Chilean cinema today converge in this film of conversations, a document of life and things in transit; José Luis Torres Leiva has always moved between documentary and fiction, but here he sets up camp within the space in between. (Dominga Sotomayor)
PERPETRATOR
Jennifer Reeder | France, USA 2023 | 100 min | OV
Friday, October 27: 11.15 pm - Gartenbaukino
Once upon a time in the late 1990s, there was a TV show called Sabrina the Teenage Witch, the story of a regular white American teenager who lived with her aunts and awoke on her sixteen birthday to learn she was a witch. Jennifer Reeder’s PERPETRATOR is like the bastard cousin of this tale, transmuted into a gore and body-horror-informed feminist slasher. Jonny is a teenage girl living with a father who can’t deal with her, so she is sent to her aunt (Alicia Silverstone, another 1990s relic), who reveals her niece’s powers to her through a cake with sixteen candles. In Jonny’s new life, people seem even stranger than she is: all the adults are violent, and girls go missing by the week. But Jonny and her classmates are no damsels in distress; rather smarter and more powerful than everyone around them, they are more than capable of taking matters into their own hands. As things get ever more dangerous, the film indulges its own twisted fantasies of detail: the ways in which bodies mutate, the grisly specifics of the attacks on young women, and the special qualities of blood, all of which open up new dimensions. (Lucía Salas)
In the presence of Jennifer Reeder.
KURZFILMPROGRAMM: MONOGRAFIE NICOLAS KLOTZ UND ELISABETH PERCEVAL
Friday, October 27: 10.45 am - Urania
COSMOCIDE 2022, CHANT POUR LA VILLE ENFOUIE and MATA ATLANTICA.
In the presence Elisabeth Perceval and Nicolas Klotz.
SOME OF GUESTS TODAY
Helena Girón Vázquez and Samuel M. Delgado
Directors of BLOOM
Bani Khoshnoudi
Director of EL CHINERO, UN CERRO FANTASMA
Martha Mechow
Director of DIE ÄNGSTLICHE VERKEHRSTEILNEHMERIN
Adrian Goiginger
Director of RICKERL
WHAT IS HAPPENING AT VIENNALE CAMPARI LOUNGE?
Party: JJ WHITEFIELD
Guitarist and producer JJ Whitefield (Poets of Rhythm) is a legend for connoisseurs of funk, hip-hop and afro, mixing up several subgenres at the same time. With releases on Ninja Tune Mo'Wax and Daptone, he is one of the most recognized underground musicians from Germany.
From 8 pm - Free Entry!
UND IM ANSCHLUSS IN DER VIENNALE ZENTRALE
Party: KAMPIRE / ROZALY / DALIA AHMED
DJ Kampire is one of East Africa's most exciting musical protagonists. She is a core member of the queer Ugandan Nyege Nyege collective and tours clubs and festivals worldwide with her vibrant, bass-heavy sets. Also on the bill is DJ Rozaly from Curacao, who is dedicated to exploring the music of the former Dutch Caribbean colonies, placing it in a cultural context while deconstructing it.
From 10 pm - Free Entry!
PRESSE
Viennale-Gala erinnert zum 100. Geburtstag an Eric Pleskow
Viennale 2023 - Halbzeit