December
Geur, kleur, punk, psychedelica en aardappelen — wat ons betreft uitstekende ingrediënten om de aanstaande midwinter mee in te gaan. En ook nog een prachtig contemporaine film noir. In de eerste week direct warmbloedig van start in aanwezigheid van de filmmakers om muzikaal activistisch af te sluiten met een klassieke TranScreen goes Cavia. Skål!
Saturday 3 December 20:30
ART
WORM.Filmwerkplaats presents: The Scent of Colour
EN WORM.Filmwerkplaats brings to Filmhuis Cavia the Berlin based artists Deborah S. Phillips and Klara Ravat. Both work with a variety of media, but their common ground is 16mm filmmaking. The Scent of Colour encompasses recent and early works - 16mm films and expanded cinema performances. Phillips’ research descends deeply into the essence of the colours red, blue and green, explored through their chemical, linguistic and musical properties, while Ravat’s work focusses on the sense of smell as research, creating media and odour artworks combined with analogue filmmaking.
A Q&A with the artists will follow the screening.
PART ONE: MULTISENSORY – Klara Ravat (± 45 min)
- Pixel Jungle - 2015 / 16mm / color / silent / 3:26 min
- Banisters - 2016 / video / color / sound / 16:04 min
- Petrichor - 2014, 16mm / color / digital sound / scent / 14 min
- Work in Progress - mixed-medium / variable
PART TWO: 3 COLOURS OF LIGHT – Deborah S. Philips (± 45 min)
- Untitled Colourmation - 1992 / 16mm / coul / son / 0:45 min
- CAPSICUM - 2008 / 16mm / coul / son / 11 min
- Into the Blue - 2016 / performance / 10-15 min
- im grünen Bereich - 2016 / 16mm / coul / work-in- progress / 5-7 min
- IIIII - 2012 / 16mm / coul / sound / 2 min
DEBORAH S. PHILLIPS is a Berlin-based visual artist who has been working in a variety of analogue media including 16mm film, slide collages, works-on- paper, installations, performances and handmade books for more than 25 years. Her work often involves in-depth explorations of a theme, such as architectural ornament or monochromes over the course of years. Her series dedicated to 3 colours of light will be completed, after 12 years, by March 2017. She has presented her work at Arsenal (Berlin, GE), Lightcone (Paris, FR), Fajr Festival Teheran (Iran), Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (GE), Toronto International Film Festival (CA), L'Alternativa Barcelona (ES) Anthology Film Archives, and Millennium Film Workshop (NY), Women Make Waves Taipei (TW) and the European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, (GE) among others.
KLARA RAVAT creates media and odour artworks, installations and experimental films. By opposing the divisionbetween the realm of memory and the realm of experience, Ravat absorbs the tradition of remembrance art into daily practice. This personal follow-up and revival of a past habit is important as an act of reflection. By investigating the concept of landscape in an adventurous and exploratory way, she wants to amplify the wonderment of the spectator by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil poetic images that leave traces and balances on the edge of alienation and recognition. Her works appear as dreamlike images, often accompanied by scent, in which fiction and reality meet, meanings shift, past and present fuse. For the past years Ravat has been developing works related to the sense of smell as a research on how do we perceive through this sense. Klara Ravat currently lives and works in Berlin.
Thursday 8 & Friday 9 December 20:30
CONTEMPORARY
Black Coal, Thin Ice
Yi'nan Diao, 2014, China, 110'
NL Een fascinerende hedendaagse interpretatie van het film noir genre door Chinese regisseur Yi’nan Diao. Een ex-politieagent onderzoekt een serie moorden die worden ontdekt door de plotselinge verschijning van menselijke lichaamsdelen in een kolencentrale. De film is op een unieke manier gefilmd, daarnaast is de koude en gure sfeer van het leven in een industriële Chinese stad op geen enkele manier te vergelijken met wat je tegenkomt in de hedendaagse Westerse film.
EN A fascinating contemporary interpretation of the film noir genre from Chinese director Yi’nan Diao. An ex-cop is investigating a series of murders discovered by human body parts suddenly turning up in a coal-processing plant. Filmed in a unique way, the cold and bleak atmosphere of the film depicting life in an industrial Chinese city is unlike any seen in contemporary Western filmmaking.
Saturday 10 december, 20:30
FILM CLUB
Psychick Cinema presents: Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
Steve Gebhardt, 2007, USA, 86'
EN In the mid-1960s, the US escalated its undeclared war against the spiritual brotherhoods, urban tribes, and psychedelic churches that emerged in major cities across the US. Spear-headed by the FBI, this wave of repression targeted the most charismatic figureheads that had emerged from the psychedelic underground. The persecution of these men and women, as well as thousands of stoned visionaries, gave rise to a new cultural folk-hero: the 'pot martyr'. The most famous 'pot martyr' to emerge from this period was John Sinclair, minister of propaganda of the White Panther Party, marijuana advocate, and rock n' rock beatnik poet. Throughout the 1960s, Sinclair dedicated his life to fostering a revolutionary culture of free love, racial harmony, and psychedelic communalism in his home state of Michigan; however, in 1969, he was sentenced to serve a minimum mandatory prison sentence of ten years. His only "crime" was giving two marijuana cigarettes to an undercover narcotics agent. However, Sinclair was not destined to serve the entirety of his sentence, as an army of psychedelic warriors rose up to free him. This month's Psychick Cinema is devoted to Sinclair's story, as well as the larger spiritual revolution he led.
We're happy to mention that John Sinclair himself will be on-hand for the evening!
The film will be proceeded by a lecture by Christian Greer, entitled "Total Assault on Culture: Spiritual Brotherhoods, Urban Tribes, and Psychedelic Churches in the mid-1960s."
Thursday 15 & Friday 16 December 20:30
DOCU
Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse
Agnès Varda, 2000, France, 82'
NL Deze essentiële documentaire uit 2000 van Franse nouvelle vague filmmaker Agnès Varda belandt veelvuldig in lijstjes van beste documentaire aller tijden. In de film, gemaakt op vergevorderde leeftijd, legde Varda het leven vast van de allerarmsten op het Franse platteland: de mensen die na het oogsten de achtergelaten resten aardappel en rapen verzamelen. Ook in de stad proberen de armsten restanten in de vuilnisbakken van supermarkten te vinden om rond te kunnen komen. Varda richt haar onverbloemde blik op de sociale situatie van Frankrijk en creëerde een sterk politiek portret van een land vol ongelijkheden.
EN This essential documentary from 2000 by French nouvelle vague director Agnès Varda frequently ends up in lists of best documentaries ever made. In the film, made at an advanced age, Varda recorded the life of the poorest people in the French countryside: those who collect the turnips or potatoes that are left after the fields have been harvested. Also in the city the poor try to survive by gleaning what has been left by supermarkets in their rubbish bins. Varda focusses her unflinching gaze on the social situation of France and created a strong political portrait of a country full of inequality.
Saturday 17 december 20:30
SPECIAL
TranScreen presents: Folkbildningsterror
Lasse Långström, 2014, Sweden, 120', ENG subs
NL De film Folkbildningsterror (Popular Education Terror) is een portret van de vreugde, warmte en hartverwarmende muziek die ontstaat wanneer eigengereide culturele Marxisten ten strijde trekken. In een propagandistische optocht van muzikale aanvallen op sociale instituten worden wij getrakteerd op een punk-spektakel vol geweld, misdaad, drugs, verzet en feministisch ontwaken.
EN The film Folkbildningsterror (Popular Education Terror) is a portrayal of the joy, the warmth and the delightful music that occurs when self-righteous cultural Marxists take up arms. In a propagandistic cavalcade of musical attacks on societal institutions we are treated to punk-produced entertainment packed with violence, crime, drug resistance and a feministic awakening from beyond the grave.