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PRISM: Myth and Fairy Tales
Friday, 4.11. 10.15 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
MÄRCHEN / FAIRY TALE
AUT 2022 | 8 min
R·D: Linus Ehi
G·P: Märchen
D·P: Julia Costa
Queens in their offices, beggars on the bridges, king's daughters in hot pants. Rumpelstiltskin, dancing in a park at night—and Rapunzel, no longer waiting for the prince. Fairy tales for today, told by a flaneur in Berlin, from the Kotti to Potsdamer Platz.
LA LUNA ASOMA / THE MOON APPEARS
BEL 2021 | 4 min
R·D: Jelle Meys
G·P: La Luna Asoma
D·P: Federico García Lorca
Shadow cracks in the light of the full moon. Floating, flying bodies that dissolve into mere shapes and reform. Animated dreamscapes by Jelle Meys, Belgium, to a poem by Federico García Lorca. Poetic expressionism—mysterious and concrete.
LA FRINGALE / HUNGRY
FRA 2021 | 3 min
R·D: Raphaelle Martinez
G·P: La Fringale
D·P: Andrée Chedid
The strict teacher with the pipe slowly loses her composure. She gets hungry bossing around her charges. Breaks the everyone-only-gets-one-plate rule—wonderful anarchy in the dining room. Trick stop animation with chanson to a delightful poem by Andrée Chedid.
NINE NARRATIVE POEMS
CHE 2021 | 8 min
R·D: Franco Tettamanti
G·P: Super Light
D·P: Michael Fehr
One-man show by Swiss poet Michael Fehr. Nine settings of nine poems as very short narratives—about cigars, machine guns, decision makers, transparent birds, and potatoes. Bottom line: “Ocean blue is where I belong.” Stylish, grotesque realism.
感情の解剖学 / ANATOMY OF FEELINGS
TUR 2022 | 3 min
R·D: Çağıl Harmandar
G·P: Duyguların Anatomisi
D·P: Çağıl Harmandar
A room as a box, with a view of the sea. Busts grow in it, almost burst the walls, turn into books. They lose their leaves, scatter them over the waves. The secure and the uncanny grow into each other. Drawings on real film. Anatomy of a reading.
CYCLES
DEU 2021 | 4 min
R·D: Sydney Nwakanma
G·P: Cycles
D·P: Sydney Nwakanma
Stylized film essay on the circularity of all things, with fashion, dance and jazz. Thrown off balance by the speed of cities, windowless houses, worrying about next month's salary – going back to the woods, diving into a lake. “I've been here before / And I'll be here again.”
MAROS MOZI / THE MOVIES
HUN 2022 | 2 min
R·D: Vivien Tóth, Balázs Kecskeméti
G·P: Maros Mozi
D·P: Vivien Tóth
To have no center, neither in the movie theater nor anywhere else. To desire a long-lost love and yet flee from it. To slowly disappear into the projections on one's own body. Imagery in loop about the cinema as a place of longing, to a poem by Vivien Tóth. Crying has to be allowed somewhere.
TAKI SEN / A DREAM LIKE THIS
POL 2022 | 4 min
R·D: Zuzanna Fluder
G·P: Taki Sen
D·P: Bronka Nowicka
Wind against the soundtrack. High-voltage pylons in a bare field. Bloodhounds yapping in the snow. Accompanied by a poem by Bronka Nowicka about how "pulling a dream out of a thief by horses or oxen used to be the worst torture." Black and white animation about the cruelty of the world.
WINTER’S CLIPPING WING
GBR 2022 | 5 min
R·D: Sky Yang, Aldous Ciokajlo-Squire
G·P: Winter's Clipped Wing
D·P: Sky Yang
Images from a “dark land” where nothing exists—not even time. Static shots, replaced by explosions of imagery. Poem reflections intercut with telephone calls. Dialogic project from COVID-19 isolation. Loneliness in winter, the face in ice water.
SEGUE
IRL 2021 | 2 min
R·D: Matthew Thompson
G·P: Segue
D·P: Stephen Sexton
Boys who carry their ruin in their pockets, frogs and birds, the cruel time travelers, desire. What will become of the next generation of men? Northern Irish poet Stephen Sexton performs his poem “Segue” in this poetry clip.
LE HIBOU ET L’HIRONDELLE / THE OWL AND THE SWALLOW
FRA 2022 | 3 min
R·D: Gaspar Chabaud
G·P: Le Hibou et l’Hirondelle
D·P: Claude Roy
A swallow annoys a bureaucratic owl sorting mountains of paper under a tree. If the swallow flies away with a travel bag, rain sets in, all the papers get wet. The owl also removes its robe and leaves. Miniature about paper planes and the lightness of being.
MOVIE HORSES
USA 2022 | 5 min
R·D: Chandel White
G·P: Movie Horses
D·P: Chandel White
Cowgirl fantasies in the auditorium. Selfies of woman with a horse's head. But “it's only a movie.” Essay-poem film against the illusion of cinematic reality, for cleaning up the popcorn after the screening. “A Wonderful Curation” writer/director Chandel White calls it.