Four programmes of Eastern European shorts from the archive of the International Short film Festival Oberhausen

 

From 18 to 26 November 2011, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut Paris and the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, will present four programmes of outstanding short films from Eastern Europe in Paris during the Rencontres Internationales festival. Screenings will be held at the Goethe-Institut Paris and the Centre Pompidou/Rencontres Internationales.

 

 

The programmes feature works by such influential filmmakers as Walerian Borowczyk, Alexander Sokourov, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Jaan Toomik, Victor Alimpiev, Karpo Godina or Želimir Žilnik. The series will not just provide intimate insights into the work of one of the oldest and most renowned short film festivals, but also into 50 years of cinema in Eastern Europe and, last but not least, into a unique short film archive. The selection focuses on rarely shown works on the interface between film and the arts from the last ten years. It’s a rare opportunity to see such an extensive programme from the archive of the International Short Film Festival, which holds a number of unique copies and is among the biggest and certainly oldest short film archives in the world.

 

The screenings will be presented by François Bonenfant (Le Fresnoy), Sylvie Rollet (Université Paris III), François Michaud (Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris) and Anne-Marie Duguet (Université Paris I, Anarchive). Lars Henrik Gass, director of the Oberhausen festival, will be present at some of the screenings.

 

In addition, Oberhausen will present a programme of groundbreaking German music videos from 1998 to 2007 at the Goethe-Institut Paris on 19 November. In 1999, the festival was the first film festival in the world to introduce an award for music videos, the MuVi Award, which has since been awarded annually to clip directors for the visual quality of their works. A party after the screening will feature DJ Toulouse Low Trax (Duesseldorf), who actively participated in some of the clips as a musician or filmmaker.

 

 

The programmes

 

 

Saturday, 19 November, 18 h

Goethe-Institut, 17 avenue d’Iéna, 75116 Paris

Presented by François Bonenfant, Le Fresnoy

 

The end of the USSR

Les jeux des anges (Angel's Games)_Walerian Borowczyk_France 1964

Sovetskaja elegija (Soviet Elegy)_Alexander Sokurow_USSR 1989

Skrajojimai melynam lauke (Flying Over Blue Fields)_Audrius Stonys_Lithuania 1996

 

20 h

Experimental German music video

A selection of groundbreaking German music videos from 1998 to 2007

 

ca. 22 h

Party with DJ Toulouse Low Trax (Duesseldorf)

 

 

Tuesday, 22 November, 19.30 h

Goethe-Institut, 17 avenue d’Iéna, 75116 Paris

Presented by Sylvie Rollet, Université Paris III

In Yugoslavia, socialism was always a bit different

Nezaposleni Ljudi (The Unemployed)_ Želimir Žilnik_Yugoslavia 1968

Gratinirani mozak Pupilije Ferkeverk (Gratinated Brain of Pupilija Ferkeverk)_Karpo Godina_Yugoslavia 1970

Lipanjska gibanja (June Turmoil)_ Želimir Žilnik_Yugoslavia 1969

Zdravi ljudi za razonodu (The Litany Of the Healthy People)_Karpo Godina_Yugoslavia 1971

Crni film (Black Film)_ Želimir Žilnik _Yugoslavia 1971

 

 

Friday, 25 November, 18 h

Centre Pompidou, Cinéma 2

Presented by François Michaud, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

 

Bruner'$ Trial_Olga Stolpovskaya_Russia 1998

Scarlet Sails_Olga Egorova/Natalia Pershina_Russia 2005

Solovushka (Sweet Nightingale)_Victor Alimpiev_Russia 2005

Papa Gena_Laila Pakalnina_Latvia 2001

Armulaud (Communion)_Jaan Toomik_Estonia 2007

Inwentaryzacja (Inventory)_Pawel Łoziński_Poland 2010

 

 

Saturday, 26 November, 16 h

Centre Pompidou, Cinéma 2

Presented by Anne-Marie Duguet, Université Paris I/Anarchive

 

Nowa Książka (New Book)_Zbigniew Rybczyński_Poland 1975

Z mojego okna (From My Window 1978-1999)_Józef Robakowski_Poland 1999

Pustynia (Desert)_Tania Detkina_Russia 2002

Kak stat stervoi (Vixen Academy)_Alina Rudnitskaya_Russia 2008

 

 

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Oberhausen, 2 November 2011

 

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