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Oberhausen on Tour – German Competition
November 2, 2022 @ 20:00 - 21:30
Free admission
Goethe-Institut Cyprus and ARTos House are happy to present three short film programmes from the 67th edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen over three nights in November 2022. The screenings taking place at ARTos House start on Wednesday 2 November with five films from the German Competition programme. On Thursday 3 November the five films comprising the Art and Experiment programme will be presented. The screenings conclude on Friday 4 November with the eleven films in the MuVi Award programme.
German Competition
This programme brings together some of the most interesting works to come out of the German Competition and the newly introduced German Online Competition of the 2021 Festival. “Top Down Memory” deals with manipulations of history in the context of the reconstruction of the Berlin Palace. With the help of Mussolini, Karl Liebknecht and Justin Bieber, among others, the film describes the political significance of the balcony and asks who writes our history. In the silent film “Levantado do Chão”, a man undertakes a somnambulistic city walk beyond constraints and time. “X” is a cinematic ancestral ritual in honour of the spirits of the Ruhr area, in which Mareike Wegener imagines a devil’s pact as the last resort for people who can no longer find work. “(Steve) Temple”, on the other hand, treats the Ruhr area as a fictional landscape and anarchic space where people live in spontaneity and cooperation free of hierarchies.
While Simon Rupieper notes that pixels get smaller and smaller with age, a cyber entity connects with an international feminist network in “feminism is a browser_materialisation”, trying to find out why it exists and what became of the utopias of the internet. In the process, the film sets up an experimental monument to some of the pioneers of cyberfeminism.
Top Down Memory
Daniel Theiler, Germany 2020
colour, German/English/Italian with English or German subs, 12’30’’
Levantado do Chão (Raised from the Ground)
Melissa Dullius/Gustavo Jahn, Brazil/Germany 2020
b/w, silent, 11’
Im gelben Licht (Through Yellow Light)
Simon Rupieper, Germany 2020
colour, German with English subs, 7‘30‘‘
feminism is a browser_materialisation
Charlotte Eifler, Germany 2021
colour, English with German subs, 12’
(Steve) Temple
Tanita Olbrich, Germany/USA 2020
colour, English, 6’
X
Mareike Wegener, Germany 2020
colour, German with English subs, 28‘30‘‘
