17. Feb
20:00, Hackersche Höfe Kino17. Feb
SYCORAX
D: Lois Patiño, Matías Piñeiro, C: Agustina Muñoz, Diana Diegues, Susana Abreu, DOP: Mauro Herce, ES/PT 2021, 20 min., spanish/portuguese OwEs – German Premiere
With her study Caliban and the Witch, scholar Silvia Federici caused international debates by examines the disciplining and murder of women branded as witches in order to create a capitalist social order. Sycorax, witch and mother of Caliban, is absent from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Lois Patiño and Matías Piñeiro, two filmmakers with distinct personal styles, continue her story, embarking on an adventure that sees the pair expanding their individual cinematic language in collaboration with one another. The result is an enigmatic marvel, which offers no neat solutions but resonates powerfully.
LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL (ASONG IMPIYERNO ANG PAG-IBIG)
D: Khavn de la Cruz, C: Lilith Stangenberg, Ian Madrigal, DOP: Albert Banzon, Gym Lumbera, PH/GER 2021, 92 min., tagalog/german OwEs – German Premiere
Hunger, poverty, violence and drugs strike a chord in this visually stunning, big-city cacophony, while Lilith Stangenberg as the furious Orphea fights her way to the cemetery. She wants to bring back her beloved Eurydiko, who has just perished from food poisoning, to rejoin the living. The original myth still defines boundaries between above and below, but in this visionary reinterpretation everything is lost in fulminant chaos. Following his collaboration with Alexander Kluge last year, director and punk poet Khavn has created an irrepressible operatic spectacle, in which Stangenberg, in a mesmerising performance, unleashes Orpheus’ evil twin sister.
Debate MYTHUNDERSTANDING – February 17.
Classical versus punk? Myths work in all styles. A programme revolving around the appropriation and re-coding with female perspectives of some of the most famous stories in the history of art. What attracts filmmakers to myths and to the idea of rewriting them? Can men even make feminist films? We discuss the pleasures of deconstruction and creating palimpsests, and we ask how intense films need to be to become modern legends themselves.
Guests: Lilith Stangenberg, Lois Patiño, Matías Piñeiro, Diedrich Diederichsen, Ana Lily Amirpour
In the presence of: Douglas Candano