About Film
Film is one of the most powerful media in regard to the experience of individual perception and social relevance. The films of this program, films about film, are testimonies of love as well as critical analysis. Films, which pay reference to other films, reflecting themselves and other works, illuminating their power, regarding them carefully. Films, which exaggerate and irritate and as a result occasionally lead to the fundamental deconstruction of themselves.
A+
A daily calendar containing hand written and detailed data about a vast number of films – titles, directors, cinemas and a subjective judgement. A+ for the highest possible grade. The careful and loving way this journal was kept is reflected in the caring cinematic adaption.
- Kanada
- 06:00 Min.
- Director: Nobu Adilman
- Languages: englisch
- Year: 2012
The Bathroom
The starting point for this film is the trailer of film classic “Psycho”. Hitchcock himself gives a detailed tour through Bates Motel. Artist Bjørn Melhus keeps the original sound of the trailer but changes the images: just enough to provoke cinematic memories and irritations alike.
- Deutschland
- 05:15 Min.
- Director: Bjørn Melhus
- Languages: deutsch
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2011
//KIDS//
//KIDS// is a short remake of the much discussed film “Kids” from 1995. Even though the remake stays very true to the original, the ironic and manipulative exaggerations function as a comment on the original – not questioning the original’s portrayal of youth but the media’s representation of it.
- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
- 13:42 Min.
- Director: Nadja Verena Marcin
- Production: NVM studio
- Photography: Violetta D'Agata
- Editing: Nikolai Metin
- Music: Michael McMenomy
- Sound: Michael McMenomy
- Languages: deutsch
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2012
Red, She Said
RED SHE SAID takes a closer look at color film and its specific relevance for perception and effect. While we hear dialogic thoughts, we see performative actions visualizing the heard. Color becomes an independent protagonist through the colored materials.
- Deutschland, Großbritannien
- 13:00 Min.
- Director: Kerstin Schroedinger, Mareike Bernien
- Languages: englisch
- Year: 2011
Blood
In a montage of film scenes accompanied by sensual music, blood becomes the main protagonist of its own aesthetic drama. It flows, squirts and drips. The red color is mixed with water, is absorbed by textiles and finally conquers the whole room.
- Deutschland
- 03:20 Min.
- Director: Oliver Pietsch
- Year: 2011
Inside Metring
A young cinema composer explains his ideas of creating a film called “Metring”: a film without projection, without even having to be filmed. His theoretic ideas lead to the realization of “Metring” and to fundamental questions about cinema.
- Spanien
- 26:00 Min.
- Director: Carmen Correa
- Languages: spanisch
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2012
Ouroboros: Music of the Sphere
Digital forms of cinematic delight and its deformation are of interest in this film of Found Footage from digitalized films, TV and Internet. The technological and aesthetic qualities of these media are transformed until dissolution of images, which can even lead to physical reactions.
Warning: This film contains stroboscopic effects which may lead to epileptic seizures or disturbances of consciousness for some people.
- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
- 17:00 Min.
- Director: Brent Coughenour
- Languages: englisch
- Year: 2011