CN: films in this program work with light effects that can trigger photosensitive people negativly.
“Does anyone besides me care what’s behind that door?” This sentence of dialogue from the horror film “Cube” (1997), quoted in “Homesick”, describes the excitement of this midnight program that opens doors inwards and outwards with eerie forebodings. Is it safe inside, or does danger loom in the basement? Is the flight outside successful, or is the virus already waiting? The door opens to a haunted house notorious from many Hollywood movies. In the cellar, many odd creatures converse in movie quotes. A student commune trails a domestic knock. Out in the magic forest, two queens wage war. And a hunter brings danger back into the house with his prey. Architectural thrill, domestic horror, the fears are worse than reality, the night changes the sense of space and time. Let’s better stay inside, in the cinema.
An experimental film, combining archive and original footage. It examines how the personal trauma that architect Frank Lloyd Wright dealt with in his buildings in Los Angeles in the 1920s resurfaces in many Hollywood films and series, in which his architecture is used as a backdrop and dramaturgical device. The film explores the relationship between Wright's Mayan Revival buildings and their staging as haunted houses, Yakuza mafia mansions, or AI labs. It hypothesizes that the buildings embody Wrights emotional wounds and function as a valve for his suppressed feelings after the brutal murder of his beloved “Mamah” and their children. The key figure – the monster – is the ghost and the voice of the house. He appears both as a character in architectural settings and in the film's off-camera commentary. In the end, the film aims to emphasize in how these peculiar houses function as mediator of intense emotions.… >>>
Premiere:
World Premiere
What connects us to the person living next door? Our kitchen floor that is its bedroom ceiling, the window from which only a lowered shutter stares out onto the street, or the front door in front of which inhibited pleasantries are exchanged?… >>>
A tragic-comic psychogram of social pandemic- and lockdown experiences connected to apocalyptic cinema. In a cellar labyrinth secluded from the outside world, grotesque creatures negotiate the pandemic state using quotes from post-apocalyptic movies. In dark, nightmare-ish images they describe fears of infection, social isolation, disease, lethargy and weariness. In fever dreams, associative infection and defense scenarios appear in DIY format. What seems to be a real encounter in the beginning reveals itself to be a virtual meeting in the end, in which the individually involved parties agree on a mantra of ostensible togetherness.… >>>
The Alice in Wonderland of the fifties visits the Wild West of the fifties, but only through the persistence of the gaze do they never meet in the same image. The original Alice and the original Wild West were contemporaries as well.… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
Edena (Isabella Fumagalli) and Delora (Whitney Ajayi) are in the forest. It's Delora's birthday, however, she's the one grilling the fish while Edena is out for a swim in the lake. The situation sparks off a discussion, a battlefield around concepts of love and self-care.… >>>
Nominated:
Goldener Key
- Director: Blas Lamazares Fraile
