Movie Descriptions
Film descriptions in aphabetical order:
Bildwechsel: Sound of… : around 10 sound movies from the last 30 years –
Film bloc by Bildwechsel Archiv from Hamburg (ca. 60 min).
Bildwechsel means Image Shift. The overtroughing and contestating of dominating images. The networking project and archive was launched 1979 and grow out of the radical german womens & lesbian and as well the new media movement, which saw video as revolutionary and believed that this alternative Media and communication tool can force social change. The program will present shortfilms, videoart and musicclips out of the archive – which deal with music or are based on music. Authors of the program will attend the screening and give comments.
programme:
My heart the rock star (Nikki Forrest, Canada 2000 ; 1:45 min)
Sing me spanish techno (Michael Palmieri, Usa/Canada 2006, 5 min)
At the river (Johnny Forever und St_eve, Warszawa 2008, 2:58 min)
Unknown gender: make me wet (Marion Kellner, Usa, 1984, 5 min)
Acne Porn (Schema Club Video)
Jesses maria – my dear be jesus (Lily Besilly, Stefanie Jordan, Germany 1993, 3:02 min)
Ich und frau berger (Heidi Kull, Germany, 1991, 4 min).
Me and mrs jones (Claudia Zoller, Germany, 1994, 5 min)
Lesbians: the music video (Laura Terruso, Usa 2006, 4 min)
Die tempodrosslerin saust (Muda Mathis, Switzerland, 1989, 15 min)
Ich hab sie gesehn – elfen zwerge und feen (Jim Ostrycharczyk, Germany 2002, 4:33 min)
Wake up! (Sabine Rollnik, Stini Sebald, Germany 2006, 3 min)
Arantxa Martinez (Jota, 2007, 4min)
Mosh Mosh, Lovely and nice (2007, 2:45)
Seb Cazes, Insult to Injury (France/ 2001/ 4:25min)
To go strange-fremdgehen (Doro Ettzler, Germany 1993, 6:02min)
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„B.I.K.E” (Anthony Howard, Jacob Septimus, USA, 2005, 89 min)
Two filmmakers infiltrate an underground bicycle club. Directors Jacob Sepitmus and Anthony Howard create a gritty, conceptually dichotomous and visually stylistic film with B.I.K.E. The film is a depiction of the Brooklyn chapter of the Black Label Bike Club (BLBC), a fringe network of tall bike jousters that combine and justify their medieval inspired competitions with environmentalist and anti-consumerist rhetoric and politically radical ideals. Taking place in the context of the 2004 Republican National Convention, Fountainhead Films’ B.I.K.E. is a riveting look into the ways in which identity is important for a collective of fiercely independent people.
Trailer: http://www.bike-films.com/home.php
“Botinada” (Gastão Moreira, Brazylia, 2006, 110 min)
Botinada narrates Punk origins in Brazil from the very beginning (1976 – 1984) and show us where are these guys nowadays.It took more than 4 years of investigation,77 characters interviewed,thousands of hours editing,200 hours video footage where you will find many rare & unreleased material. Music by Olho Seco, Ratos De Porao, Inocentes, Restos de Nada, Ulster, Cólera and more.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3pyEMGzrwo
“Delphinium – A childhood portait of Derek Jarman” (Matthew Mishory, USA/UK, 2009, 13 min.)
Delphinium is a stylized and lyrical coming-of-age portrait of Derek Jarman’s artistic, sexual, and political awakening in 1950s England. Part biographical narrative, part experimental collage, part personal meditation on the most controversial and important modern British artist and activist, the film finds in Jarman’s childhood the stirrings of creative and individual epiphany that inspired a remarkable life. Exteriors shot on location at Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, on the Hampstead Heath, and throughout Soho.
“Edge – perspectives on drugfree culture” (Marc Pierschel, Michael Kirchner, Niemcy, 2009, 82 min)
28 years after the band Minor Threat released the song ‘Straight Edge’, the counterculture known as Straight Edge has become a worldwide phenomenon that unites individuals rejecting all forms of intoxication.
The most widely associated perception of Straight Edge involves abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and promiscuous sex. Since it’s origin in the early 1980’s these beliefs have spread all over the world, connected through the Punk and Hardcore music scenes.
Through interviews with musicians that directly shaped the idea of Straight Edge from its inception until today, EDGE – perspectives on drug free culture reveals that the abstinence from drugs was established as a youth counter culture rejecting a society dominated by substance abuse and hegemony. Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi), Ray Cappo (Youth of Today, Shelter) and Karl Buechner (Earth Crisis, Freya) give witness to their perception of the history of Straight Edge, why it was so important to them and what it changed in their personal and professional careers. But they also address problems like violence, sexism and intolerance that emerged within Straight Edge, and how it changed the ’scene’ as well as its public image.
Furthermore, EDGE explores the lives of 9 individuals, that identify as Straight Edge. Their reasons range from negative experiences with drugs to maintaining a healthy lifestyle to political reasons. Through a very close and personal look into their daily lives, we see how their decision to live ‘poison free’ has changed the world for them. But how do people discover Straight Edge? How do women experience Straight Edge subculture? What social backgrounds are shared by people new to the scene and what makes someone turn Straight Edge? How does mainstream culture perceive this movement?
EDGE is looking for answers to these questions on a roadtrip behind and beyond the scenes of the Straight Edge subculture.
Music by: Minor Threat, Youth Of Today, Earth Crisis, Have Heart, Tristeza, Forever Young, Verse.
Trailer: http://www.theedgeprojectmovie.com/
„Jubilee” (Derek Jarman, UK, 1977, 100 min.)
Derek Jarman’s Jubilee is the original punk film and the one closest to the movement’s anti-establishment, ‘no-future’ attitude. The story sees Queen Elizabeth 1, transported by the angel Ariel, to a bleak England of the future where chaos now reigns. Buckingham Palace has been purchased by a megalomaniac who has transformed it into a recording studio for punk musicians. A group of punk girls pass the time with acts of mindless violence, sex and the occasional murder. Anarchy rules in the UK. Jubilee is a unique experience; the essence of punk captured on film by one of cinema’s greatest visionaries. Music by Adam and The Ants, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Brian Eno, Wayne County and The Electric Chairs, Chelsea, Amilcar, Maneaters and Suzi Pinns.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRL0c_HL2fY
“Punk in Love” ( Ody C. Harahap, Indonesia, 2009, 90 min)
Arok (Vino G. Bastian) is unlucky in love; his girlfriend Maia (Girindra Kara) will be getting married to Andra, a Jakarta guy. Feeling hard to accept this news he tries to commit suicide by jumping off a building but managed to be stopped by his three friends: Yoji (Andhika Pratama), Almira (Aulia Sarah) and Mojo (Yogi Finanda).
His friends challenge him to express his love to Maia before it is too late. And to do that they need to travel to Jakarta from their hometown, Malang. With just adequate money and punk hairstyle as their trademark, the four friends make a trip to Jakarta and their mission is to prevent Maia’s wedding to Andra from happening. They travel through different cities: Bromo, Semarang, Cirebon before reaching Jakarta.
However, their journey is not that smooth as they need to face all kind of obstacles such as flooding, personal illness and even quarrel with a sate seller on their way to Jakarta. The more obstacles they need to face suddenly they feel that their friendship is even more meaningful and precious than before. Finally they reach Jakarta after a challenging journey. Will Arok stop the marriage and get his girlfriend back?
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrCjJKL-mjI
“Travel Queeries” (reż. Elliat Graney-Saucke, USA/Germany, 2009, 68 min)
Travel Queeries is a feature-length documentary film that examines the culture, art and activism of radical queers in contemporary Europe. Through personal interviews and documentation of performances, festivals, multi-media visual arts and spaces, Travel Queeries puts an exciting international lens on queer fringe culture. With the aim of building bridges and awareness, Travel Queeries considers the word “queer” and explores the complexities, innovative values and spirit of queer within a progressive social change movement.
Music by: Chicks On Speed, Scream Club, Duldung, Jean Genet, Heidi Mortenson, Lorena & The Bobbits and more.
trailer: http://tq.alliscalm.net./node/1/edit?q=node/3
“The perfect ones” (Dir. Nao Bustamante & Matt Johnstone, USA, 2007, 8 min.)
An amnesia stricken Beverly Hills housewife wanders into an underground punk club and discovers a new way of life.
“Uwaga Warszawa” (Andrea Kuhnke, Germany, 2006/2010, 49 min)
“Uwaga Warszawa” is a 49 minutes documentary about 10th anniversary of Noc Walpurgii Festival in 2006 which took place in Warszawa. The film consists mainly of interviews with activists and visitors of the festival exploring the strategies and motives of antifacist, anticapitalist, queer and feminist political expression. The interviews are combined with festival impressions from bands, workshops, performances, spoken word, film, djing and exhibition, incl. Lynnee Breedlove (Tribe 8), Greg Bennick (Trial), Chris Regn (Bildwechsel), Henk Bobbit, Jenni (Emancypunx Records), Robert (Refuse Records) and bands Amanda Woodward, Złodzieje Rowerów, Short Fuse, The Tangled Lines, Daisy Chain, El Banda, Pogotowie Seksualne, Exmisja.
“We are the mods” (E.E. Cassidy, USA, 2009, 83 min)
Naive high school student Sadie sees the world through her 35mm camera. When she becomes infatuated with eccentric mod girl Nico, Sadie finds inspiration in Nico’s world and emerges as part of the mod scene, both documenting and embracing the subculture’s natty fashion, vintage scooters and soul music. Writer-director E.E. Cassidy playfully pays homage to Antonioni and Godard, and sensitively captures complicated female friendship and budding identity in her unique debut feature film.
Trailer: http://www.moviestrailer.org/we-are-the … ailer.html
