In everyday life and at work, we are constantly conforming to new demands and old systems. The filmmakers of this multifaceted program – from animation to feature film to documentary hybrid forms – observe and process dysfunctional hierarchies, question structures and explore possible solutions. Protagonists look for the right way to deal with colleagues, superiors or subordinates. Others are concerned with everyday perceptions. Can we slip out of our roles and free ourselves from routines? (Joey Arand)
MINDBLIND deals with the absence of mental images and takes Tuki Gruner's perspective for this. The cinematic I is confronted with questions about her own imagination. The viewers are episodically guided through attempts to explain and answer, animated in different styles. The answers are taken from private voice memos from 2019-2020.… >>>
After a young engineer from Brazil moves to Germany for work, she struggles with memories of home and an ever growing sense of loneliness and isolation.… >>>
Post-#MeToo. A woman writes an e-mail to her superior. She finds words for what she wants to say, but loses them again. How do we formulate something that we can hardly grasp ourselves?… >>>
Barely two minutes, a water vessel, an experiment. The artist Sydney Mantei follows traces from existential performances to border areas of the body.… >>>
What do fish, men and Tinder have to do with each other? Sonja Wassermann once again combines whimsical images with entertaining observations.… >>>
In documentary-like images, FUZZY accompanies a woman who sets up live traps in the city. She searches for runaway cats that can no longer find their way home on their own. The scientist conducts research on domesticated animals suffering from Alzheimer's disease.… >>>
The rhythm of boiling water, the preparation of food - actions that are repeated several times a day on a routine basis. "On Routine" deals with reproductive work in the repetitive circularity of everyday structure. It captures everyday movements in a small communal kitchen and asks for moments of pause and encounter in our mundane routine. Thereby the limitations of a communal kitchen are rhythmicized and gradually removed from their place and objects of their origin. Where does everyday repetition become a mechanical routine? And where does the routine of reproductive work becomes a part of capitalist logic?… >>>
Somalia. A policewoman sits in her parked car. After a while, she gets out, puts on her service cap, and enters the prison. There, decisive hours have dawned for young Farah. Organizational machinery starts up around him. Farah is examined by a doctor, instructed by the bailiff, and looked after by an imam. Farah is waiting for his parents to visit. “How are you?” is the question everyone asks him that day. Each time, “Good” is his concise answer. Only when the policewoman takes Farah out of town the next morning does the unspeakable become a painful reality.… >>>