Friday, 8th February 2019 – 8pm

FAUSTO (FAUST)

D+DP: Andrea Bussmann, Cast: Victor Pueyo, Fernando Renjifo, Ziad Chakaroun, Albert Núñez, Gabino Rodríguez, MX/CA 2018, 70 min., Spanish/English/Arabic/French OV w/ English subs – GP

The Mexican coast: a ghostly grimace, delicate and demonic, begins to give an account of escape to another country. Andrea Bussmann shows those who breathe life into this place. She observes men and animals, listens to stories about wildness and untameability. On the border between solid earth and the opaque depths of the sea, her film tells of physical infiltrations, spiritual grey zones and the politics of seeing. Who looks and who speaks? Who records and how can the camera apparatus actually meet living beings? The Canadian anthropologist plays with the possibilities, constraints and blind spots of ethnographic and documentary film. Groping in the dark becomes the modus of an exploration of cinema as a place where souls gather.

After the screening

Debate: DARK MATTER

We want to see the world, we want to understand it. But doesn’t this desire also contain an element of hegemony? Regarding a cinema of darkness and the politics of images that cannot be made out, but can be guessed, dreamt, felt.

Guests: Roger Koza (Film critic) and Kitso Lynn Lelliot (Artist and filmmaker, “Displaced Skin, “Alzire of Bayreuth”)

Moderated by Michael Hack (Berlin Critics’ Week)

Re-Run: Friday, 15th February 2019 – 2pm

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