HYBRID FORMS. NEW TRENDS IN GERMAN DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING Curated by the Goethe-Institut. Screenings at Filmhouse Edinburgh on 5, 12, 19, 26 June @ 6 p.m.
Wed 5 June: BUENOS AIRES, MY HISTORY (1999, 89 mins, subtitles. Dir.: German Kral) Having left Buenos Aires to study at the Munich Film School, Kral returned to Argentina in search of the reasons for the failure of his parents' marriage. The openness and radicalism with which he pursued this search lends a persuasive and moving power to this intimate portrait of a broken family.(1st Prize, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival) plus: VACANCY (1998, 15 mins., subtiles. Dir.: Matthias Mller) A collage of found footage and Mller's own material, VACANCY is a portrait of Brasilia, a metropolis created as an urban utopia in the heartland of Brazil's interior. The sense of forlorness is heightened by an avantgarde soundtrack and text fragments that recall the poetic elegies in Derek Jarman's films.(1st Prize, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival). Wed 12 June: THE LAST DOCUMENTARY (1998, 65 mins, subtitles. Dir.: Daniel Sponsel & Jan Sebening) Using split screen, image layers, webcam shots and the internet, this is a playful and ironic attempt to suggest the direction which this genre could follow. plus: VAGABONDING IMAGES (1998, 48 mins, subtitles. Dir.: Nicolas Humbert & Simone Frbringer) In a collage of Super-8 footage shot over five years, this cinepoem places images in an open context through associative montage. Wed 19 June: THE HOUSEWIFE'S FLOWER (1998, 92 mins, subtitles. Dir.: Dominik Wessely) Shot in the style of a TV docu-soap, this affectionately ironic film follows a team of German-Italian vacuum cleaner salesmen on their tours through Swabia. plus: DIVINA OBSESSIN (1999, 27 mins, subtitles. Dir.: Volko Kamensky) An exploration of roundabouts in France's traffic system. Accompanied by trance-like music, slow and meditative tracking shots literally revolve around one example of roundabout traffic after another, ironically broken by telephone interviews with traffic experts. Wed 26 June: MASTER GAME (1998, 105 mins, subtitles. Dir.: Lutz Dammbeck) achieved international fame by painting over his own and other artists' work. In 1994 the studio of Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer was broken into and 27 of his paintings were painted over. In an anonymous letter, a radical right-winger claimed responsibility, accusing Rainer of being part of a "destructive modernism". Was it an attack on modern art - or a publicity-seeking stunt by the artist himself? ---------------------------------- Marlies Pfeifer Programme Co-ordinator Goethe-Institut Glasgow 3 Park Circus, Glasgow G3 6AX T: 0141 332 2555, F: 0141 333 1630 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goethe.de/glasgow -------------------------------------------------------- Chris Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------- New Media Scotland tel: +44 131 477 3774 P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ fax: +44 131 477 3775 Scotland, UK http://www.mediascot.org -------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
