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PRISM: The Worlds inside your mind – MEMORIES & DREAMS
FRI 13.10.23 | 10 pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei
Mysterious monologues on the soundtrack. Worlds of thought between abyss and contemplation. Memories, partly invented, full of postcards, animals and fragmented things. We take a look into the world of ghosts and tortured souls. And show poetry films as manifestations of boundless imagination, as a revolt against the absurdity of suffering.
Hosted by Ingrid Beerbaum
The screenings are normally shown in the original with English subtitles.
Unless stated otherwise, the event languages are German and English.
Please be aware that several films in some film programs include potentially challenging or disturbing content, which may trigger survivors of trauma.
Link to the event
TICKETS
R·D: Regie · Director | G·P: Gedicht · Poem | D·P: Dichter · Poet
FILMS
Takeoff
FIN 2023 | 4 min
R·D: Margo Nowicka, Hanna-Katri Eskelinen, Calvin Guillot
G·P: 1st Flight
D·P: Giovanni Baudonck
Escape from the canyons of social housing. A trapped beetle morphs up a facade. Computer animation to a poem by Giovanni Baudonck – at first labyrinthine and dark, then organic, colorful, and light. As a dream-space traveler, a child breaks free from his life: “Up there I can be anything / up there / I am free.”
6 minutes per kilometer
CAN 2022 | 3 min
R·D: Catherine Boivin
G·P: 6 minutes per kilometer
D·P: Catherine Boivin
Split screen: a country road in fog. Author Catherine Boivin jogs along the road, fields pass by. Mirroring movement and perception. How running changes language. An approach to Boivin's ancestors, the Atikamekw Nehirowisiw: “A long time ago, / our ancestors walked this land / (...) / I run for all those / who cannot.”
Samu
Hide and seek
HUN 2023 | 3 min
R·D: Vivien Tóth
G·P: Samu
D·P: Vivien Tóth
Hiding under bedsheets. Unable to take it anymore. Ripping everything out of the dresser. Scratching the carpet with fingernails. A woman with goggles, curled up in a bathtub. Between sobbing and screaming. And a poem speaks to her child: “Would you crawl in beside me under the bed if everything became too loud?”
I dream My dream
NDL 2023 | 4 min
R·D: Monique van Kerkhof, Bo Oudendijk
G·P: I dream My dream
D·P: Monique van Kerkhof
Frosted glass. Maybe a moon, or the world as seen from under the ice. A round disc. Above it: hands, feet, a face. The disc spins, becomes a record, a drum. Script, bodies, and voices in two languages. A stylized synthesis of the arts in four minutes, to a poem by Monique van Kerkhof about lucid dreams – dreams in which it’s clear that one is dreaming.
Of dreams
POL 2023 | 3 min
R·D: Martyna Dobrowolska
G·P: o snach
D·P: Roman Honet
Fish drenched in the sunlight, just beneath the water. Waves, tadpoles, shoals, and piano music. Images overlaid with white drawings. Fantastic cats and faces, strange bodies, overgrown plants. Accompanied by a poem by the Polish poet Roman Honet: “let me still dream of friends, / people seized on that lost day.”
JAYK’AJ KUTIMUNKI
When are you coming back?
BOL 2023 | 2 min
R·D: Estefania Rocha
G·P: JAYK´AJ KUTIMUNKI
D·P: Esther Virginia Balboa Bustamante
Two figures cannot reach one another. A stream flows between them. When they try to cross it, one of them dissolves in the arms of the other, becoming color. Beautiful animation based on a poem written in Quechua by Bolivian poet Esther Virginia Balboa Bustamante. Composed of parts of other pictures, illustrations of illustrations.
El Trueno
The Thunder
ARG 2022 | 4 min
R·D: Isabel Titiro
G·P: El Trueno
D·P: Isabel Titiro
A deer, a dagger, a cross, animated with just a few strokes. A waterfall, a fire. Ghostly legs stalk through the black-and-white. The only color is from the red moon. A meandering poem by Juan Martín Fernández, about man's invasion of nature – and his powerlessness: “You leave for an instant / and the jungle puts its foot on you.”
Naxos - Ghost World V
FRA 2023 | 5 min
R·D: luvan
G·P: Naxos
D·P: luvan
The sound of cicadas mixed with the surf. Marble steles, almost abstract. Like ghosts, translucent silhouettes between them. One ventures forward, half dancing, half animated: “There is a world of shade beneath shade, made of altered hopes (…).” Hypnotic poem by luvan about finding and resolving, cat queens and Arachne. Hades, updated.
XAR - Sueño de Obsidiana
XAR - Obsidian Dream
BRA 2022 | 13 min
R·D: Fernando Pereira dos Santos, Edgar Calel
G·P: XAR - Obsidian Dream
D·P: Edgar Calel
To awaken to the sound of rain in an empty, massive building. Outside, the wet trees of São Paulo. A movie as a ritual, with the Mayan poet Edgar Calel. A poem, spoken in Kaqchikel, evokes ancestral dreams. Self-surrender, self-reproduction. “I don't know if I am a / person, an animal, an object, or a tool.” The days lose their names.
Overovermorgen
the day after the day after tomorrow
NDL 2023 | 2 min
R·D: Melody Sigmond
G·P: overovermorgen
D·P: Thom Wijenberg
Summer animation, to a poem by Thom Wijenberg: sunflowers, airplanes, dangling legs. Flat figures, lying on their backs, are entirety composed of sea. Inside the house, there is that incomprehensible espresso machine. An old television through which two people run, lost in themselves. Seeing the evening approach, the light. Two minutes of the best kind of escapism.
The distance between the staircase and the sky
GBR 2022 | 7 min
R·D: Katerina Athanasopoulou
G·P: Holidays in the Canary Islands
D·P: Sotiris Koutsoukos
Sunbeds are poised on a beach like game pieces. Cut-up cities. A globe is taped to a burning tree. Then: a cyberpunk street in Athens at night, and a skyscraper in decay, fantastically animated. “Inside it a sea is hidden, and the sand gets in my eyes.” A cinematic poem between night and day, labyrinth and eruption.
Safe House In White
NDL 2023 | 3 min
R·D: Femke Janssen
G·P: Safe House In White
D·P: Ross Sutherland
A fried egg and what can come from it. Memories in rapid succession. Featuring: Wagner, Roy Orbison and K.I.T.T., the Knightrider car. Flowing animation to a poem by Ross Sutherland, spoken word poet from the UK, about his stepfather: “Sometimes / I think the Sun / is actually the inside of our heads.” Laconic, funny and whimsical.
Sacrilege
GBR 2022 | 3 min
R·D: Jess Mountfield
G·P: Sacrilege
D·P: Billie Meredith
The inside is mirrored by a dark landscape: black water, black birds. A person-monster sets fire to everything. Locked in a tower, a young woman asks: “What is a man but a miserable little pile of secrets?” And would seem to escape from her burning dungeon to fly toward the moon.
Dear Mahsa
DEU 2022 | 5 min
R·D: Martin Pflanzer
G·P: امی ᣐ _مهسا #
D·P: Ayeda Alavie
Women collapsing into pits of ink. Sketches of long, vivid locks of hair. Poetic protest against the 2022 murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini by the Iranian morality police, because she was not wearing her mandatory headscarf. Poem by Ayeda Alavie about the oppression of women by the Mullahs’ regime. How they escape the pit by the strands of their hair.
Le Temps
The Time
FRA 2023 | 4 min
R·D: Marie Opron
G·P: Le Temps
D·P: Andrée Chedid
An animation grows out of a woman's hair, folds of a dress that she removes, naked and free to wander through valleys of shapes. Everything around her is changing. Chanson to a poem by Andrée Chedid: “I erased Time / I have no age / I’m in the present / I face the unknown.” To jump and slide. To turn into a tree.
Fragments
CAN 2022 | 2 min
R·D: Gigi Perron, Anick Beaulieu
G·P: Fragments
D·P: Patrice Desbiens
The chimneys smoke green. The wind is blowing. Two boots stomp past old industry. At Frank's Deli in Sudbury, Ontario, a pea soup yields to the hair in it. On the way home, people no longer have faces. Surreal, concrete animation set to lines by French-Canadian poet Patrice Desbiens. With death masks, snow, and full moon.
4Psy
4Dogs
POL 2023 | 3 min
R·D: Maciej Białoruski
G·P: *** (nasze życie jest ...)
D·P: Piotr Grobiliński
A human life, compressed into 3 minutes, told through the four dogs it needs to make it. One as a child, one as a teenager, one as an adult, and one as a pensioner. The last one survives his master. Small, virtuosic etude based on a poem by Piotr Grobiliński, shot on 8mm, Mini-DV, Super 16mm and CMOS Super 35. Sad, touching, and funny.
