// Capturing reality on film is commonly misperceived to be a surreptitious act. Like a
rare animal you have to pursue cautiously from the shadows. But the truth is rather than a
passive observation, capturing reality necessitates an active engagement with it. Making the
often-opaque visible demands for you to alter reality, to stage it, to give it a graspable form.
The following films openly intercept with reality without sacrificing its authenticity.
Bobbie Mueller’s BOYS DON’T CRY is a venture into the mind of ‘the other’, a scientific excursus researching the species ‘Man’. She approaches her subjects wherever people interact with each other or themselves – the bedroom, the bar, the mirror. Mueller never loses empathy as the young men in conversation about love, sex, their body-images, are former partners, affairs, lovers. Her imagery is consciously constructed, jarring, and referential, creating a setting so obviously artificial that it permits vast spaces for intersubjective sincerity.… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
Nominated:
Goldener Key
The filmmaker’s friend and Berliner-by-choice Voin grew up in communist Bulgaria. In a journey between the trivialities and traumas of life, Voin retraces places and localities of a childhood that is as past as the system it was engulfed in. It emerges a dialogue between political systems, self-ideals, and locations in which the camera never only observes but documents what is staged and stages whatever reality has to offer.… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
BARBÈS is a project that questions through, or thanks to, the decentering of archetypal representations that we produce around a culture. Young Women - «intruders» - occupy the public space for the time of the mise en scène. They take on the same gestures, the same postures, as those of the men in such places: they play cards or watch a football match without minding the passage of time. They occupy terraces and expose themselves in the strangeness of a public space of exclusion – that of gender.… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
Junkanoo - a carnival-like form of celebration in the Bahamas - is a culture with innovative costume designs. Aesthetic and political intertwine as we follow the Shell Saxon Superstars in the year-long production of costumes. Here is Black radical imagination, a resistance, a uniquely Bahamian identity. So who is archiving Junkanoo for future generations?… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
