Oberhausen bringing shorts to almost 50 international screens

"Oberhausen on Tour 2013“, the seventh edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen's tour of short films, will begin in Hanover on 26 January, 2013. Before the films reach their last stop in Münster on 11 July, they will have travelled through 19 countries and around 50 cities, from Santiago de Compostela through London to Paris, from Ciudad de Mexico through Los Angeles to Johannesburg. What is remarkable here is that „Oberhausen on Tour“ is showing solely feature-length programmes of shorts. All of the works originate from the competitions and the archive of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. For the first time, the Festival has also produced a trailer for “Oberhausen on Tour 2013”.

With „Oberhausen on Tour“, Oberhausen has been bringing outstanding works from its distribution arm and archive into the cinemas since 2003, all of them being compiled in feature-length programmes. Apart from prize-winners and highlights from the competition sections of the 58th Short Film Festival in 2012, the festival has prepared two political programmes from its archive: „Resistance“ with political films from 1961 to 2010, from Dan Drasin's Sunday (1961) through Karpo Godina's legendary Gratinirani Mozak Pupilije Ferkeverk (Gratinated Brain of Pupilija Ferkeverk, 1970) to John Smith's experimental Flag Mountain (2010). „GDR Revisited“ takes a look at the role of artists, sportsmen and intellectuals in the GDR, from Marc Thümmler's study about the photographer Harald Hauswald, Radfahrer (2008), to Phil Collins’ work marxism today (prologue) about former teachers of Marxism-Leninism from the GDR (2010). 2013 will also see the tour offering a programme of children's films as well as the „Artist Film & Video“ selection.

„We are aware that some of our partner cinemas are suffering considerably from the financial crisis. It is all the more important and gratifying for us that 2013 will see us almost repeating 2012's record number of venues and countries, and we have even been able to welcome new countries with the additions of Slovenia, Canada, Uruguay and Lithuania,“ says project manager Carsten Spicher.

The stops

Germany

Berlin Kino in der Brotfabrik; Bremen City 46; Dresden Thalia; Düsseldorf Kino im Filmmuseum; Frankfurt Kino im Filmmuseum; Freiburg Kommunales Kino; Hamburg Metropolis; Hanover Kino im Sprengel; Cologne Filmpalette; Leipzig Reihe Experimentalfilm; Munich Werkstattkino; Münster Die Linse; Nürnberg Filmhaus; Regensburg Filmgalerie; Saarbrücken Kino achteinhalb; Wiesbaden Caligari FilmBühne.

International

Austria, Innsbruck Internationales Film Festival and Linz Moviemento; Belgium, Gent Art Cinema OFFoff and Antwerp Cinema Zuid; Bulgaria, Plovdiv Center for Contemporary Art, Ruse Sala Ruse and Sofia The Red House; Canada, Toronto TIFF Bell Lightbox; Colombia, Bogotá Cinemateca Distrital, Cali Sala de cine prorates and Medellín Centro Colombo Americano; Croatia, Zagreb Tuškanac; France, Paris ENSBA; Great Britain, London Barbican Centre and Newcastle upon Tyne Star and Shadow; Lithuania, Kaunas Goethe-Institut and Vilnius Goethe-Institut; Mexico, Ciudad de México Goethe-Institut, Guadalajara Cineforo Universidad, Monterrey Cineteca Nuevo León and San Luis Potosí Centro Cultural Alemán; Netherlands, Rotterdam WORM; Slovenia, Ljubljana Slovenska kinoteka; Spain, Madrid Goethe-Institut, and Santiago de Compostela Curtocircuito; South Africa, Johannesburg The Bioscope; Switzerland, Bern Lichtspiel / Kinemathek and Geneva Cinéma Spoutnik; Turkey, Istanbul Istanbul Modern; Uruguay, Montevideo Goethe-Institut; USA, Los Angeles Filmforum.

The film programmes

International Competition 2012

Award winners and highlights including the winner of the 2012 Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen, Snow Tapes (Mich’ael Zupraner, Israel/Palestinian territories, 2011).

German Competition 2012

Award winners and highlights including the winner of the prize for the best contribution to the German Competition 2012, Item Number (Oliver Husain, Germany/Canada 2012).

MuVi Award 2012

All candidates for the 14^th MuVi Award and three bonus clips from the international music video programme 2012.

Artist Film & Video 2012

A selection of works by international artist that were screened in the 2012 competitions.

Resistance

A trip through the history of the festival and the aesthetics of political film then and now, illustrated by political films from the Oberhausen Archive.

GDR Revisited

Artists, intellectuals and athletes from the GDR in a compilation of films that look back from the vantage point of the 21^st century.

Children’s Films

A unique programme of animated films by Vera Neubauer, all without dialogues and suitable for children from the age of six.

„Oberhausen on Tour 2013“ is supported by the City of Oberhausen, the Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, and sponsored by German Films Service + Marketing.

High resolution press photos can be downloaded at here.

Oberhausen 22 January 2013

Press contact: Sabine Niewalda, Tel. +49 (0)208 825-3073, niewalda@kurzfilmtage.de