#17 Rave


(BALi, KulturBahnhof Kassel)

CN: Films in this program work with light effects that can trigger photosensitive people.
Not only at the club, but also in the cinema we can rave. Like a roller coaster ride through a time tunnel – fragments dissolve and reassemble themselves. Whether it’s a film diary, a session in the recording studio, hanging out in cars with teenagers, a “Spaced-Out” odyssey, or an invocation of the fire of the ancestors; five works invite us to dive in and emerge refreshed at the end. Let go, listen, vibe. Can our consciousness be expanded or even dissolved? Audiovisual time games lure us into hypnotic spheres; the glow of color, driving sound. And silence. (Jessica Manstetten und Matti Ullrich)

Against Time

A hypnotic, experimental film diary shot in various locations between 2019 and 2022, fragmentarily mirrored by Ben Russell. A screen study about the perception of time in interpersonal existence.… >>>

  • Duration: 23 Min.
  • Premiere: German Premiere
    • Director: Ben Russell

    If You Don't Watch The Way You Move

    IF YOU DON'T WATCH THE WAY YOU MOVE features Derek "Dripp" Whitfield Jr. and Taymond "choSkii" Hughes of the music group BmE composing and recording their latest composition "Shiesty" in the Columbus, Mississippi studio of Jermaine "Country Blakk" Brown only to be interrupted by a John Cage score. 

    Picture: © Kevin Jerome Everson; courtesy the artist; trilobite-arts DAC; Picture Palace Pictures

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    • Duration: 12 Min.
    • Director: Kevin Jerome Everson

    Nothing Runs Like a Deere

    Gonzo-anthropological field study in Swedish “raggar” culture / “Raggare”, where teenagers in remote rural provinces meet in parking lots and hang out in their souped-up Volvos.… >>>

    • Duration: 17 Min.
  • Premiere: German Premiere
    • Director: Max Göran

    Happy Doom

    2022: A Spaced-Out Odyssey. A trip experience that enables exactly those levels of consciousness, or rather their dissolution, that the consumption of certain intoxicants also makes possible.… >>>

    • Duration: 3 Min.
    • Director: Billy Roisz

    Xiuhtecuhtli

    A rhythmic invocation of the ancestral fire, in which dazzling flames reanimate bones and natural elements. This is the shining of color.… >>>

    • Duration: 16 Min.
    • Director: Colectivo Los Ingrávidos