Open to Interpretation
How does one tell a story? How does interpretation work? Why do things mean something to us and what exactly is their meaning? To make sense of the world, speculation and fabulation about connections, production of meaning: all this is human business as usual. The six films in this program investigate the production and reception of these structures of significance. They tell fairy tales, interpret dreams, explain supernatural phenomena, and search for the truth between the eye of the beholder and the mouth of the narrator.
Special Features
A man who turns out to be three different men, tells a surreal story that turns out to be a dream, in an interview that turns out to be a performance. Who is making up whose story? And what does Shaquille O'Neal have to do with all this?
- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
- 00:12:00
- Director: James N. Kienitz Wilkins
- Production: James N. Kienitz Wilkins
- Photography: Mike Crane, Mauricio Arango
- Editing: James N. Kienitz Wilkins
- Music: -
- Sound: -
- Languages: en
- Year: 2014
- Website
- German Premiere
The Hidden God
A reworking of the BBC television programme “The Hidden God: Alain Robbe-Grillet” using methods appropriated from Pasolini’s trailer for his 1969 film “Medea”.
- Großbritannien
- 00:05:31
- Director: Stephen Sutcliffe
- Production: xx
- Photography: xx
- Editing: xx
- Music: xx
- Sound: xx
- Languages: en
- Year: 2014
- German Premiere
A Space With Images of Provinces
"A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face." (Jorge Luis Borges) "Narration, editing, image, framing, shell, fairy tale, collecting, bird, hand, light, quote, repetition, stop, magnifying glass, rewind … Yağmur Şimşek, an 11-year old girl, tells made up fairy tales. These audio images become part of my chain of associations on found footage material and questions on the construction of film narrations. Excerpts from Jorge Luis Borges's „The Library of Babel“ also deal with the description of the story telling process. Just like a portrait can tell a story about the person portraying, every film gives an account on filmmaking itself." (Cana Bilir-Meier)
- 00:06:05
- Director: Cana Bilir-Meier
- Production: Cana Bilir-Meier
- Photography: Cana Bilir-Meier
- Editing: Cana Bilir-Meier
- Music: Cana Bilir-Meier
- Sound: Cana Bilir-Meier
- Languages: de,en
- Subtitles:
- Year: 2015
- World Premiere
Crazy Paving
"CRAZY PAVING is a philosophical journey into human understanding, exploring how we derive and construct meaning from objects, belief systems and the culture that surrounds us. It attempts to find meaning through connecting such diverse phenomena as Art, the Placebo effect and Spoon bending." (Torsten Lauschmann)
- England
- 00:17:10
- Director: Torsten Lauschmann
- Production: xx
- Photography: xx
- Editing: xx
- Music: xx
- Sound: xx
- Languages: en
- Year: 2014
- German Premiere
Invitation to the voyage / L'invitation au voyage
INVITATION TO THE VOYAGE / L'INVITATION AU VOYAGE is a suggestive examination of the potential of photography to tell stories (or history) and to let fact and fiction move closer together until the fuzziness of the pixels creating each photo has also taken hold of the narrative. The life story of a woman is told through selected photos. Yellow Post-Its on the images promise a clarifying designation, but the words written in pencil have been erased and the path back to the time when the notes were made is now just as obstructed as the details of the image hidden by the piece of paper.
- Belgien
- 00:12:50
- Director: Meggy Rustamova
- Production: Meggy Rustamova
- Photography: Meggy Rustamova
- Editing: Meggy Rustamova
- Music: Meggy Rustamova
- Sound: Meggy Rustamova
- Languages: en
- Year: 2014
Sitting in Darkness
Out of the darkness a sound emerges. It echoes and drones. Terrified people take to the streets in search of its source. They get their cameras out and document the sky, searching for an author. We watch on. Our muscles contract and our pupils dilate. “I hope the camera picks this up”. “Sitting in Darkness” explores the circulation and spectatorship of contemporary images.
- Großbritannien
- 00:15:26
- Director: Graeme Arnfield
- Production: Graeme Arnfield
- Photography: Graeme Arnfield
- Editing: Graeme Arnfield
- Music: Graeme Arnfield
- Sound: Graeme Arnfield
- Languages: en
- Year: 2015
- German Premiere
