Haus für Poesie

Poeto-Poly (rep.)

3.15 pm Kino 2

Repeat from Fri. 5.45 pm

How do politics and society really work? Let's watch and listen to the filmmakers and poets of this world. Whether with the emotionless gaze of the camera, a sophisticated 'poetry system' or a socially critical poetry performance. This fascinating trip promises new insights into the minds of other people.

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Re-Verse-Als (rep.)

3.30 pm Kino 3

Haven't yoiu always wondered what the person you're talking to is thinking? And what's really going on in your head? Self-awareness or bitter awakening? These films will help you to help yourself. Dare to take a very private glimpse into multiple personalities, and discover yourself in the process.

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New from the Crucible

3.30 pm Kino 1

They're here! The new poetry films made in German universities and academies. An exciting mix that proves how creatively, wittily and professionally a new generation of filmmakers and artists are transforming poetry and poetry slam into a young genre.

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Competition 1 (rep.)

5.45 pm Kino 2

Repeat of Competition 1

The first part of the Competition programme. 26 films from 17 countries will be competing in two competition blocks for the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival' poetry film prizes. With the diversity of their linguistic and filmic means they create an impressive range of artistic achievement.

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Poetic Tel Aviv

6.00 pm Kino 3

A poetic trip to the "Hill of Spring" (Tel Aviv) with inspiring insights into the houses and life of a pulsating city. In this moving kaleidoscope of experimental films and poetry performances, the viewer wanders between family and love and between enemy and violence.
Curator and presenter: Avi Dabach (filmmmaker and video artist, Tel Aviv)

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Famous Directors - First Poetry Films (1910-1927)

6.00 pm Kino 1

In the early 20th Century prominent poets were just as inspired by the cinema as great filmmakers were by poetry. We will be showing known and unknown gems from the earliest period of film, with musical accompaniment by André Feldhaus. One of the earliest poetry films of all is "The Unchanging Sea" (D. W. Griffith) from 1910 after a poem by Charles Kingsley. Under the name Michael Curtiz he became world famous with "Casablanca" , but one of the first works by Mihály Kertesz was a poetry film. "Jön az öcsem" ("My brother is coming"), loosely based on the poem of the same name by Antal Farkas, is an early testimony to the time of political upheaval in Hungary. The film, made in 1919, will be given its German première at this year's ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival. With its futuristic setting of Walt Whitman's big-city melancholia, Manhatta (1921) by Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand sets standards even today. "L`invitation au voyage" ("Invitation to a journey", 1927) by Germaine Dulac is a timeless interpretation of Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal".

Curated and presented by: Jeanpaul Goergen (film historian, Berlin).

With the kind support of:

The Unchanging Sea
USA 1910, D.W.Griffith, 16mm
Kinemathek Hamburg e.V. / Thomas Pfeiffer     

Jön az öcsém
Hungary 1919, Mihály Kertesz alias Michael Curtiz, 35mm
Hungarian National Film Archive, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin / Dr. György Fehéri

Manhatta
USA 1921, Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler (DVD from 2K DPX data, digitally restored 2006-2009, 11:42 minutes). New orchestral music score by Donald Sosin. Bruce Posner produced and supervised the digital restoration through the collaborative support of Anthology Film Archives, British Film Institute, DTS Digital Images, Lane Collection, The Library of Congress, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, and Nederlands Filmmuseum.Film & music © 2009 Anthology Film Archives. Sound recording © (p) [in circle] 2008 Anthology Film Archives. All rights reserved.     

L´Invitation au voyage
France 1927, Germaine Dulac, 16mm
Light Cone/Christophe Bichon

Avant-Gardist of Film Experimentation and Poetry in Spain

8.15 pm Kino 2

Early poetic, experimental film art from Spain. Segundo de Chomón experimented in his films Hotel eléctrico (1908) and Una excursión incoherente (1909) with visual effects reminscent of works by Georges Méliès. Un chien andalou (1927) by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí continues the series and is bound to have a lasting impression on every viewer. The programme will be rounded off by the films Tríptico Elemental de España (1953-82), Aguaespejo granadino (1953-55), Fuego en Castilla (1958-60) and Acariño galaico (1961-82) by Val del Omar. This "disciple of the cinema" developed the art concept PLAT (Picto-Luminic-Audio-Tactile) and expanded the audio-visual space with his techniques.
Curated by: Rocío Huertas (filmmaker, COSMOPOÉTICA)  

Competition 2

08.30 pm Kino 1

Repeat Sun 17.10. 05.45 pm Kino 2

The second part of the competition programme.

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Focus Argentina

8.30 pm Kino 3

Argentina is celebrating the bicentennial of its independence. Join in the celebrations! To mark the Bicentenario we are presenting films by Argentine poets and filmmakers and building a bridge from Buenos Aires to Berlin.

With the kind support of the German Foreign Ministry

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Borderline Experiences

10.45 pm Kino 2

A lot of things in life are simply unbearable. Violence, crises and conflicts dominate the news. What can help? Screaming and lashing out? – Why not poetry? It is and always has been an effective antidote to hubris and greed for power, whether in Greek Antiquity, in the present or in some dark, unknown future.

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Poetry Passengers

11.00 pm Kino 3

By and with Ed Bowes, Ram Devineni, Bob Holman and Anne Waldman.
This programme showcases some of the best poetry films from USA. “Deep Deuce”, is a film noir poetic tale that delves into the darker side of Hollywood, made by Brent Kite based on a poem by Robert Polito. Eight years after the US poet filmmaker Bob Holman was featured at the 1st ZEBRA Poetry Film Award he is back at the festival with his project “On The Road”, a film about a Gambian folk poet and Bob Holman travelling to West Africa to discover the oral traditions of language and storytelling that are quickly disappearing. Also present are Ed Bowes, a writer, filmmaker and educator on the School of Visual Arts in New York City together with US poet Anne Waldman, a prominent figure in the beat poetry generation, founding the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO with Allen Ginsberg. They showcase their film “Entanglement“, a story about the ways of our visual memory, about the patterns and phrases that float through our minds. Ram Devineni (filmmaker, producer, and founder of Rattapallax, Inc., NYC)

Midnight Specials

11.00 pm Kino 1

Poetry films to make you shiver, smile and laugh out loud. In the night the dark shapes come into your house. They eat your peanut butter and your jam... Come with us on a scurrilous nighttime journey and find out what it's all about. A creepy programme that will electrify you.

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