OBERHAUSEN ON TOUR 2019

Two programs of films in one Night

Wed., Feb. 13 - 7-11PM

FREE EVENT

PIX FILM Gallery

Presented by

LIFT, PIX FILM, AdHoc Collective and Goethe Institut

Supported by Living Arts

Made In Germany

Wildnis

The Wild

Helena Wittmann, Germany 2013

colour, German with English subs, 12’

you and me

Karsten Krause, Germany 2009

colour, English, 4’

I’m Not the Enemy

Bjørn Melhus, Germany 2011

colour, English, 13’

Sieben Mal am Tag beklagen wir

unser Los und nachts stehen wir

auf, um nicht zu träumen

Seven Times a Day We Complain

About Our Fate and at Night We Get

Up to Avoid Our Dreams

Susann Maria Hempel, Germany 2014

colour, German with English subs, 18’

Däwit

Daewit

David Jansen, Germany 2015

b/w, no dialogue, 15’

Das offenbare Geheimnis

An Apparent Secret

Eva Könnemann, Germany 2015

colour, German with English subs, 29’

Running time 92’

This compilation is the first part of

a series with the best German short films from the

past 10 years. The films in the programme take a

fresh look at family and home in Germany. While

Helena Wittmann’s camera slowly surveys living

rooms, her protagonists hardly ever leave their

home. Demons lurk everywhere. This is also the

case with Bjørn Melhus, who cleverly interrogates

the way a society that is waging war treats its

veterans. Susann Maria Hempel on the other hand

recalls with unerring acuity an experience unique to

East Germany after 1989, portrayed as an exploded

doll’s house. The associative animation “Daewit”,

which has already been shown at more than 200

festivals, relates how a boy is forced to grow up

among wolves. And at the end, Eva Könnemann

tries to capture a rural village at the edge of the

Ruhr area on camera, with the lack of production

means leading her to develop an innovative artistic

form and working method.All these works were not

only festival favourites in Oberhausen; they also

won important awards at many other festivals or

received the German Short Film Award in Gold.

German Competition 2018

Beyond Beach

Clara Winter/Miguel Ferráez, Germany 2018

colour, English/Spanish with English subs, 14‘

Die Tage

The Days

Yannick Spiess, Germany 2018

colour, German with English subs, 20‘

Fest

Nikita Diakur, Germany 2018

colour, no dialogue, 3‘

Das satanische Dickicht – DREI

The Satanic Thicket – THREE

Willy Hans, Germany 2017

colour and b/w, German with English subs,

21‘30“

Out

Judith Hopf, Germany 2018

colour, no dialogue, 2‘30

Bigger Than Life

Adnan Softić, Germany/Italy/Macedonia

2018, colour, English, 30‘

Running time 91’

This programme with works from the

2018 German Competition centres on civil society,

the globalised middle class and tourism. While

Willy Hans, in calm black-and-white pictures but

with subtle allusions to horror film, recounts how a

small family with educated middle-class principles

gradually falls apart, Yannick Spiess shows us the

everyday routine and dedication to duty of a wealthy

Swiss woman. In between, Nikita Diakur has dolls

dance furiously in the courtyard of a prefab housing

estate. In a free adaptation of Michel Houellebecq,

“Beyond Beach” serenely imagines the lethargy and

indifference of Western hedonists on Latin American

beaches as a colourful daydream. In the work by

Judith Hopf, a slender apartment tower trots out

of the picture whenever things get too boring for

it. And finally, in “Bigger Than Life”, the winner of

the 3sat Promotional Award, music sets the tone

of the film. It provides the playful structure for this

survey of a chauvinist urban project that is intended

to catapult Skopje up among the principal arenas

of European history alongside Rome and Athens.

Screening Oberhausen on Tour