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PRISM: All the What-Ifs – ECO POETRY & DYSTOPIA
FRI 13.10.23 | 10.15 pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei
What if nature falls out of balance when artificial intelligences take control? To be seen here: Films about the consequences of progress (supposed) and destruction (real). Reports from an industry that causes cancer. Poetic commentaries on colonialism and war, climate catastrophe, and the power of AI. But also songs honoring the earth.
Hosted by Andrea Schwemmer
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
Wir sind gute Menschen
We are good people
CHE 2022 | 5 min
R·D: Jürg Halter, Rob Lewis
G·P: Wir sind gute Menschen
D·P: Jürg Halter
On roller skates and in a helmet, poet Jürg Halter raps about the inconsistencies of the so-called “first world.” Self-destruction with self-delusion and lies. Trash, poison, a dying planet. Bold beats to a message that’s sad – but true. Desaturated images depict an architecture that no longer appears made for human beings.
I will replace you
POL 2023 | 1 min
R·D: Stanisław Maciejewski
G·P: I will replace you
D·P: CHATGPT & Stanisław Maciejewski
The threat is in the room: “I will replace you.” A green, 1980s-era animation based on a poem by ChatGPT. Biting and funny. How does AI replace humans – in straightforward tasks (such as cleaning or shopping) and complicated ones (like making art or kissing loved ones)? We’re still laughing about it, with thanks to the filmmaker, Stanislaw Maciejewski.
שקיעה
Dawn
ISR 2022 | 3 min
R·D: Michael Jacob
G·P: Questions Regarding The Machine Called Men
D·P: Michael Jacob
A desert world, sketched in charcoal: mountains, steppe, dusty sky. In the distance, a city is smoking. Isolated creatures, borne of humanity’s garbage, morph between cartoon animal and monster. Because “I have cogs in my mind.” To imagine a time when everyone is a machine, rattling on and on, towards their own extinction.
Zwei Sonnen in einem System
Two suns in one system
DEU 2023 | 3 min
R·D: Mariola Brillowska
G·P: Zwei Sonnen in einem System
D·P: Mariola Brillowska
Alternating couples sit together, overlaid by colors, brightly made up, singing a poem by Mariola Brillowska: “We are two suns / In one system / The world is going crazy / And we shine.” On the (im-)possibility of love as planets, about fiery closeness. A different kind of music video – funny, sad, and irreverent.
Aski, la mère de tous
Aski, the mother of all
CAN 2022 | 4 min
R·D: Amélie Courtois
G·P: Aski, la mère de tous
D·P: Amélie Courtois
A plant grows from a stream. Tree trunks, lichens, flowers, berries, foliage – when filmed at close range, they seem otherworldly. Everything a manifestation of “Aski, the mother of all.” Pantheistic poetry film by Amélie Courtois, Innu-Atikamekw multidisciplinary artist from the community of Mashteuiatsh. “She will always be with you. / And you with her.”
Blame the Fox
GBR 2022 | 5 min
R·D: Janet Lees
G·P: Blame The Fox
D·P: Jane Lovell
Grass and fog, water and sand – soft, slow, monochromatic. A Ferris wheel, nearly motionless. Smoke and steam rise from petals. Later people on the flat coast, standing on the mudflats alone. Who is at fault for the birds’ extinction: God? The fox? No: “Blame us / born blind.” Quiet, sarcastic poem by Jane Lovell, in a film by Janet Lees.
MESOkOSMOS
Mesocosms
BRA 2023 | 12 min
R·D: Welket Bungué
G·P: Colon
D·P: Paulo Tambá Bungué
The camera moves through treetops, over stones, bark, plants. In his poem, the filmmaker's father Paulo T. Bungué considers colonialism, forced Christianization, and oppression. A minimalistic body-performance on the beach of a biotope on Ilha Grande, Brazil: drawing circles in the sand with a stake. Picking it up. Work and triumph. Listening to the surf.
Nieuwe Korven
New Hives
BEL 2023 | 2 min
R·D: Hasan Pastacı
G·P: Nieuwe Korven
D·P: Paul Demets
Drones, desperately seeking nectar, crash horribly. Breasts dry out to empty flowers. It's hot outside, but they can’t stop, need to keep looking for food. If only to supply humans with honey: “We are the hunger swarm, feeding you / with what is left to us.” Animations on drawing paper, as if from a children's book on something increasingly under threat: “Nature.”
Loch Allua
GBR 2023 | 2 min
R·D: Hermione Morris, Alfie Sylvester
G·P: Loch Allua
D·P: Helen Mort
Ultimately, it's not about what rock we call our own, but about being able to dive into ourselves. A woman seeks refuge in the beautiful valley and icy waters of Loch Allua, asking some of existence’s deepest questions.
We Are the Dinosaur
USA 2023 | 3 min
R·D: H. Paul Moon
G·P: We Are the Dinosaur
D·P: Bob Holman
Poet and performer Bob Holman gets the lyrical message out to people on the streets of New York: “The whole world is dialing 911 / The Don’t Walk sign just changed to You Better Run.” Unleashed camera by H. Paul Moon, stress soundtrack by Marc Ribot. A scurrilous lamentation on the state of the planet – from Wall Street to Times Square.
Negro
Black
BRA, ESP 2023 | 5 min
R·D: Danilo Adriano Marinho, Pablo Giraldo
G·P: Negro
D·P: Danilo Marinho
An accordion, deep in the forest. To sharpen an axe beside the stream, wash scars from the skin. A bible, bound before the eyes. To hear a drum. Poem by Danilo Adriano Marinho about the torture and oppression of Black people in Brazil. And about liberation: “A body resting in peace. / The peace of being eternal in spirit. / Spirit as color: BLACK.”
Cancer Alley
USA 2023 | 9 min
R·D: Jack Cochran
G·P: Cancer Alley
D·P: Lucy English
The surreal sunset of polluted air. Split-screen images of Cancer Alley, on the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where 200 chemical plants are located in residential neighborhoods. Counter shot: untouched cypress swamps. Accompanied by a poem by Lucy English, juxtaposed with sound bites – On bad days, I put my head in the fridge to breathe.”
π(Pi)
JAP 2023 | 3 min
R·D: POETAQ
G·P: π(Pi)
D·P: POETAQ
Random sequences of numbers, taken from the number Pi. Telephone numbers, years, statistical data. A poetic opera by POETAQ, with expressly straightforward font, accompanied by a mathematical song. An oblique yet precise commentary on the seemingly neverending world crisis: “Empire in decay. // Stock market decline. // More refugees worldwide.”
