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PRISM: Mental Cinema
Saturday, 5.11. 4.45 pm, Kino in der Kulturbrauerei
Hosted by: Ricardo Brunn
Alongside the International Competition, the festival offers an insight into the sheer diversity of the poetry film scene in nine programs featuring about 100 animations, feature films, experimental films, and documentaries. With modern myths and well-known fairy tales, filmmakers and poets explore urban space or report on destinies and adventures. Films offer a platform for female voices from over seven centuries. Urban and natural landscapes are scrutinized, explored, rediscovered. A new focus on social interaction, where a dot on the forehead, an impairment, origin, sexual orientation or skin color continuously trigger conflict.
Content note: The films in this programme may contain explicit depictions of physical and/or psychological violence as well as various kinds of assault. Please be aware that these depictions may trigger survivors and may thus prove harmful to their mental health.
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FILMS
THE ARCHITECTURAL METAPHOR
IRL 2021 | 2 min
R·D: Matthew Thompson
G·P: The architectural Metaphor
D·P: Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin
Struggling through autumn branches, near a lake, this is how the Irish actress Venetia Bowe recites a poem by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Laughter and desire, memory and death, close together in an old convent. And the clear voice of music that says: "Hold me, I'm going".
Երբ ես տխուր եմ / WHEN I AM SAD
ARM 2021 | 7 min
R·D: Lilit Altunyan
G·P: Երբ ես տխուր եմ
D·P: Lilit Altunyan
When you're sad, the trees don't talk to you, the winds sweep through you. White carrier pigeons, paper ships, eyes. Animation against a blue background, like naïve painting, to a poem by Lilit Altunyan on the links between life and experience, melancholy, and hope.
BLUEPRINTS. 14,32 M²
HUN 2021 | 6 min
R·D: Szabina Péter, Kristóf János Bodnár, Kinga Tóth
G·P: ELFELEJTETTEK
D·P: Kinga Tóth
The voice of the performance poet Kinga Tóth, superimposed three times, speaks a prosaic prayer that revolves around aging, super-real and concrete. Reduction of the world to a room, slowly measured by the camera - 14.32 m², on which, invisibly, a battle against oblivion rages.
THE BODY IS SO RESILIENT
DEU 2021 | 5 min
R·D: Moana Vonstadl
G·P: The Body is so Resilient
D·P: Moana Vonstadl
She wants to merge with the garden around her, the seeds, branches, pools. Become a garden herself, vegetation inside. Black and white images from a slightly different Eden: satisfaction and revulsion of a hungry Eve. "A rescue from paradise, / to the solid ground of the wilderness".
EL ARROYO / THE STREAM
ECU 2022 | 2 min
R·D: Débora Monserrat Vásquez
G·P: El Arroyo
D·P: Delmira Agustini
A cartoon girl as a picture donor. Snakes, flowers, pumping organs. Animation morphing from image to image, after a poem by Uruguay’s great Delmira Agustini, who was murdered in 1914 after divorcing her husband. Surreal combination of eros and fright.
ENCARA BELLUGA / STILL MOVING
ESP 2022 | 6 min
R·D: Tià Zanoguera
G·P: Encara Belluga
D·P: Albert Balasch
A man walks naked through the dark painting, through a manuscript page, undermined by a mole. Moving works by the painter Tià Zanoguera - the screen as an exhibition. The mole is language itself, says the poem by Albert Balasch. The language that wins the day in the end.
GRAVURA
PRT 2021 | 2 min
R·D: Marta França Ribeiro, Alice do Carmo, Tiago Pimenta
G·P: Os Mortos
D·P: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
The dead live around us and weep when we don't see them. Delicate animation to a poem by Portuguese classicist Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen in which the dead wander through rooms, windows, or trees. “Bent over our sleep / they drink our dreams like milk.”
MAYA KARUSSELL / MAYA CAROUSEL
DEU/IND 2022 | 9 min
R·D: Werner Fritsch
G·P: Maya Karussell
D·P: Werner Fritsch
A whirlpool of images from Asia: city scenes, telephone lines, pigeons, temples. Trivial and sublime alternate at carousel speed. In addition, two voices - Faust and Mephista - speak mystical-poetic cascades full of allusion and wit. At the end, peaks rest above the clouds.
NE FÉLJ / DON'T BE AFRAID
HUN 2022 | 4 min
R·D: Bence Kotány
G·P: Ne Félj
D·P: János Pilinszky
Wanting to burn an ex along with his house. Angry revenge poem by Hungarian János Pilinszky, read by two actresses, sentence by sentence, cut into each other. Their interpretation juxtaposes poetry recitation and theater, reduced to maximum effect.
LIPFIT
NDL 2022 | 6 min
R·D: Alfred Marseille, Jan Baeke
G·P: Lipfit
D·P: Jan Baeke
Tour de Force on Speed Jazz. Montage of material from film and media (gestures, furniture, fashion, looks), as if assembled by cultural archaeologists of the 22nd century. In addition, a poem full of neologisms, semantic and syntactic aberrations - the colloquial language of a near future.
ROND ROND ROND / ROUND ROUND ROUND
BEL 2022 | 7 min
R·D: Nicolas Monfort
G·P: Rond Rond Rond
D·P: Nicolas Monfort
Not only is the ball round, but also the pupil, and everything else in this film by Nicolas Monfort. An anarchic mix of real images, found footage, and geometry, set to lounge jazz by Votre Chazam and lines that rhyme dadaistically with the word “rond.”
FISSURA
BRA 2022 | 1 min
R·D: Laís Vieira Laffitte, Jero Cerezo
G·P: Fissura
D·P: Laís Vieira Laffitte
Light through a bursting vase’s cracks. Fast, analog images combining beauty with horror in the modern tradition. Accompanied by a poem by director Laís Vieira Laffite about something new growing from disturbance, including a quote from Hölderlin. This is how “the saving also grows.