Und wer ist Ihr Landwirt? Local Food Movement (1) | Essayfilme (1): Die Alchemie des Brotbackens

Film-Nr.: 241
Vorführungstermin: Donnerstag, 13. August 2008, 18.30 Uhr (Vorfilm) [VN24]
Themenschwerpunkt: Und wer ist Ihr Landwirt? — Local Food Movement (1) | Essayfilme (1)

Englischer Titel: Alchemy
Originaltitel: Alchemy
Deutscher Titel: Alchemie
Herkunft: Norwegen 2007
Laufzeit: 20 min
Sprachfassung: Der Film enthält keine Dialoge.

Regie: Eva Bakkeslett
Produzent: Eva Bakkeslett, Clive Ardagh
Schnitt: Clive Ardagh
Kamera: Clive Ardagh
Musik:
Produktion:

URL Film-Homepage: http://poeticsofbread.blogspot.com/
Premierenstatus: Deutsche Erstaufführung
Bisherige Aufführungen: Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival, Toronto, Kanada; Documentary Fortnight 2009, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, USA; North Norwegian Contemporary Art Festival, (Preis der Jury), Bodø, Norwegen; Companion Festival of Bread, Dartington, UK; Desire Lines - Arts and Ecology symposium, Dartington, UK.

Kurzinhalt: Die Alchemie des Brotbackens — Kunst und Ökologie

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Englische Synopsis: A poetic evocation on the alchemy of bread brings the act of baking the most basic of staples, into a high art form. Here nature and human culture collude. Hands pounding, mixing, kneading and stretching, reveal the choreographed rhythms and movements of bread making. Alchemy is a beautifully executed and lyrical film about an activity once ubiquitous in almost every household.



Englische Werkbeschreibung: The baker and protagonist of Alchemy was brought up in Arctic Norway where baking bread is still common in many homes. Her rhythmical movements and confident touch is rooted to generations of woman baking their bread. The timeless beauty of the process brings baking into the realm of poetry and the art that goes beyond the walls of the gallery and onto our kitchen tables. Alchemy gives us the impetus to rediscover and reconnect to the ancient art of bread-baking. It reminds us of the connections between nature and culture and of traditional knowledge and skills we have forgotten. This film is one of a series of short films by the director and producer that reveals the beauty, the sacred and the significant in our everyday world.



Kurzbio Regie: Eva Bakkeslett is a cultivator in the field of arts & ecology. She plants seeds to encourage social growth and environmental change and cultivates her art with a desire to reenergize our engagement with and awareness of the earth. Her passion lies in the interface between nature and culture. Using any suitable medium and interdisciplinary collaboration she spends time in playful exploration revealing the subtle and invisible wonders of life. Her work is often contextualised through interactive community events to inspire and engage people to sense, feel, think and act.

GLOBIANS DOC FEST BERLIN
August 12 - 17, 2009
Kino Toni, Antonplatz

Yes we can! — Obamas Amerika (6) | Essayfilme (2): Sidney, Ohio (USA) — der Strom der Ereignisse in einer amerikanischen Kleinstadt

Film-Nr.: 251
Vorführungstermin: Donnerstag, 13. August 2009, 20.30 Uhr [VN25]
Themenschwerpunkt: Yes we can! — Obamas Amerika (6) | Essayfilme (2)

Englischer Titel: 45365
Originaltitel: 45365
Deutscher Titel: Postleitzahl 45365, USA
Herkunft: USA 2009
Laufzeit: 90 min.
Sprachfassung: Englische Originalfassung

Regie: Bill Ross, Turner Ross
Produzent: Bill Ross, Turner Ross
Schnitt: Bill Ross
Kamera: Bill Ross, Turner Ross
Musik:
Produktion: Ross Bros. Productions, Los Angeles
Kinoverleih: 7th Art Releasing (USA)
Weltvertrieb: 7th Art Releasing (USA)

URL Film-Homepage: http://www.45365movie.com
Premierenstatus: Europäische Erstaufführung
Bisherige Aufführungen: SXSW Film Festival, Austin (Texas), USA (Grand Jury Award Winner); Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham (North Carolina), USA (HBO Emerging Filmmaker Award); Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens (Ohio), USA (Third Prize Documentary Feature & Best Sound Design); Filmdayton Film Festival, Dayton (Ohio), USA; Newport Internation Film Festival, Newport (Rhode Island), USA; Rooftop Films, New York City (NY), USA; Wexner Center, Columbus (Ohio), USA; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (Ohio), USA.



Kurzinhalt: Der Strom an Ereignissen in der US-amerikanischen Kleinstadt Sidney (Ohio) wird zu einem collagierten Mosaik des Alltagslebens. Dieses Filmessay liefert dadurch einen assoziativen Einblick als Beantwortung der Frage: "Wie funktioniert Amerika?" '45365" steht in bester Tradition von Städteporträt-Filmen wie "Menschen am Sonntag" oder "Die Sinfonie einer Großstadt" und aktualisiert dabei den filmischen Formenkanon für unsere Gegenwart: die Perspektive entfernt sich von Metropolen als Maß aller Dinge urbanen Lebens und zielt bewußt auf die Provinz als Lebensraum der Zukunft.

Trailervideo: http://blip.tv/file/2249133 + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ozhxv8IwQ&feature=channel_page

Englische Synopsis: ‘45365’ (pronounced: four, five, three, six, five) follows the lives and stories of a small town as they coalesce into a mosaic of faces, places, and events. The County Fair, a Barber Shop, the retirement home, a football team, a Judge’s race for re-election, a father and son, young love lost, arrest and sentencing are all explored in this sweeping survey of life in Sidney, Ohio.



Englische Werkbeschreibung: 45365’ (pronounced: four, five, three, six, five) explores the congruities of daily life in an American town – Sidney, Ohio. Through a patient and inquisitive look at the lives and landscapes that make up this community of 20,000 people, it captures the complexities and ambiguities of their shared experience. Conclusions are left to the audience as the component characters speak and act for themselves, as themselves. These storylines eventually coalesce into a mosaic of faces, places, and events. It is an inquiring look at everyday life in middle America. Set against the quaint and familiar backdrop of a small town in western Ohio, this is a film about the inner workings of a community and the ways in which its people interact and socialize. From the patrol car to the courtroom, the playground to the nursing home, the parade to the prayer service, it explores their relationships and interactions – with eachother and their environment. Father and son, boyfriends and girlfriend, cop and criminal, officials and the electorate, patrons and providers - it is a portrait of the city and its people. - people somehow not unfamiliar in a landscape that becomes increasingly understood. Void of direct interviews or staging, this film presents the residents of the town as they are in their daily lives. Using a series of long kinetic shots, the viewer is enabled to exist in real time with those being documented. The camera closes in on the mechanics of the moment with spontaneity and sincerity, acting as a clairvoyant conduit to a time now past. Focus is on the full and fluid scene - adrift in the situation as curious and patient observers. Through the people we see the town. Sidney is the small town experience. It is a community - of schools and sports and factories and neighborhoods and familiarity. Sidney is not devoid of social hierarchy or crime or any of the other concerns that are more often associated with more populated urban areas. They are just played out on a smaller stage. It is a microcosm of American life. Filmed over the course of nine months by two men raised in that town – natives with an intrinsic knowledge of their community and a feel for the tides of the town – ‘45365’ encapsulates the magnitude of small town America. Sidney and it’s people offer themes that we can all relate to – no matter how geographically different our experiences.



Dieser Film aus dem Programm des Globians Doc Fest wird wiederholt und zwar am 28. Oktober 2009 um 18.30 Uhr im Eiffelturm-Kino Berlin (im Centre Français de Berlin), Müllerstr. 74, U-Bahnhof Rehberge/Afrikanische Straße.



GLOBIANS DOC FEST BERLIN
August 12 - 17, 2009
Kino Toni, Antonplatz

Essayfilme (3) | Gay Stories (1): Fernbeziehungen über Kontinente hinweg und das Fehlen tragender Grundrechte in einer ökonomisch globalisierten Welt

Film-Nr.: 321
Vorführungstermin: Freitag, 14. August 2009, 15.15 Uhr (Vorfilm) [VN32]
Themenschwerpunkt: Essayfilme (3) | Gay Stories (1) | Yes we can! — Obamas Amerika (9)

Englischer Titel: home
Originaltitel: home
Deutscher Titel: Daheim
Herkunft: USA 2009
Laufzeit: 11 min.
Sprachfassung: Englisch-deutsche Originalfassung

Regie: Broderick Fox
Produzent: Broderick Fox
Schnitt: Broderick Fox
Kamera: Broderick Fox
Musik: Michael Cohen
Produktion:

Premierenstatus: Weltpremiere

Kurzinhalt: Eine Fernbeziehung zwischen den USA und Berlin: ihr Scheitern durch das Fehlen tragender Grundrechte für gleichgeschlechtliche Lebenspartnerschaften in einer ökonomisch globalisierten Welt.

Englische Synopsis: A transnational gay couple searches for home in a world that is commercially globalized but still fragmented when it comes to basic human rights issues.



Englische Werkbeschreibung: “Das hier ist ein “Home Video”, ein “Daheim Film”. Oder eigentlich eher… ein Film auf der Suche nach Heimat.” 'This is a home movie... Or rather... a search-for-home movie.' Armed with an ancient Hi-8 video camera (with broken microphone) and a decrepit Super-8 film camera, filmmaker Broderick Fox travels between Berlin and Los Angeles with his German partner, on an autobiographical search for home and for himself. Years later, Fox pulls these tapes and reels of footage out of a drawer and crafts this documentary—an ode to Berlin, a coming of age story, and a tribute to first love in equal parts. This work is part of Fox's present exploration of 'alternative home movies', telling the stories often silenced or forgotten behind the smiling faces of family albums and home videos. Home was written, shot, produced, and edited by Fox, all for under 200€, underscoring that complex, emotional work can be made without access to specialized technologies or professional budgets.

GLOBIANS DOC FEST BERLIN
August 12 - 17, 2009
Kino Toni, Antonplatz

Essayfilme (4) | Kinderseelen (2): Der Abdruck von Fernseh-Nachrichten einer furchtvollen Welt auf Kinderseelen

Film-Nr.: 351
Vorführungstermin: Freitag, 14. August 2009, 19 Uhr (Vorfilm) [VN35]
Themenschwerpunkt: Essayfilme (4) | Kinderseelen (2)

Englischer Titel: I Covered My Eyes
Originaltitel: I Covered My Eyes
Deutscher Titel: Ich bedeckte meine Augen
Herkunft: USA 2008
Laufzeit: 29 min.
Sprachfassung: Englische Originalfassung

Regie: Paul Turano
Produzent: Paul Turano
Schnitt: Paul Turano
Musik:
Produktion:

URL Film-Homepage: http://www.paulturano.com
Premierenstatus: Europäische Erstaufführung
Bisherige Aufführungen: Hartford International Film Festival, Art Cinema, Hartford (Connecticut) USA; FLEX FEST, Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival, Gainsville (Florida), USA; MAGA, Macon Film and Video Festival, Macon (Georgia) USA; The End of Television, Ian Page, programmer, Pittsburg (Pennsylvania) USA;

Kurzinhalt: Kompilationsfilm über eine furchtvolle und bedrohliche Welt als Abdruck von Fernsehnachrichten auf Kinderseelen und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Entwicklung einer Unterscheidungsfähigkeit von Gut und Böse.

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Englische Synopsis: A film essay reconsidering television newscasts I witnessed as a kid in the 1970's and early 1980's with an eye toward understanding their effect on my sense of personal and political identity in an increasingly vulnerable world.

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Englische Werkbeschreibung: I Covered My Eyes investigates childhood notions of threat and safety by juxtaposing TV news broadcasts of tragic world events with home movie footage. The project was first conceived after seeing the televised images broadcast live on September 11 2001, and wondering what children must be feeling upon witnessing this horrific act within our own borders. Soon after, I wrote a list of the tragic events I distinctly remember witnessing on TV as a child in the 1970’s and early 1980’s. By adopting a child’s perspective, the film evokes my experience of learning about the outside world through news broadcasts, and the accompanying sense of threatened safety from forces outside my immediate family and community. As the sense of vulnerability grows throughout the film from abstract threats to more immediate and actual ones, the seemingly innocent and idyllic world of my childhood becomes overshadowed by an increasing awareness of its fragility and precariousness.

Director's Bio in Englisch: Paul Turano has independently produced numerous personal films and videos. His work has been exhibited nationally and abroad and has been shown at festivals throughout North America, including the Black Maria, Ann Arbor, Athens International, Hartford International, and the New England Film and Video festivals. In his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts his films have been screened at the Harvard Film Archive, the Coolidge Corner Theater, the Embassy Theater, and the Museum of Fine Arts. He is the recipient of a Media Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a Moving Image Fund Grant from the LEF Foundation. He has taught film production and film studies at Hampshire College, Massachusetts College of Art, Harvard University, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. He is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Emerson College. His recent digital video "I Covered My Eyes," won 3rd place at FLEX FEST, and 3rd place in the experimental category at MAGA Film and Video Festival. He is currently completing a ½ hour 16mm film “Windows onto Montebello Rd.” a meditation on personal space and the pre-millennial American political landscape.

Dieser Film aus dem Programm des Globians Doc Fest wird wiederholt und zwar am 09. Dezember 2009 um 20.00 Uhr im Eiffelturm-Kino Berlin (im Centre Français de Berlin), Müllerstr. 74, U-Bahnhof Rehberge/Afrikanische Straße.

GLOBIANS DOC FEST BERLIN
August 12 - 17, 2009
Kino Toni, Antonplatz

Essayfilme (5) | Kinderseelen (3) Die Gewissheiten des Lebens

Film-Nr.: 352
Vorführungstermin: Freitag, 14. August 2009, 19 Uhr (Hauptfilm) [VN35]
Themenschwerpunkt: Essayfilme (5) | Kinderseelen (3)

Englischer Titel: Certainty
Originaltitel: Certainty
Deutscher Titel: Gewissheit
Herkunft: Kanada 2009
Laufzeit: 44 Min.
Sprachfassung: Englische Originalfassung

Regie: David Hauka
Produzent: David Hauka
Schnitt: David Hauka
Kamera: David Hauka
Musik: Glass, Preisner, Keating, Apocalyptica
Produktion: Hauka Films Inc., Vancouver, Kanada

URL Film-Homepage:
Premierenstatus: Weltpremiere

Kurzinhalt: Kindheitserfahrungen als die Gewissheiten des Lebens: Über Leben, Tod und Bäume hochklettern, den Fluss der Zeit und den der Geschichte, Geschichten über Liebe und die des Verlustes sowie über das Wettrennen zum Mond inklusive Atombombentests.

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Rezension/Review: http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Filmmaker+poetic+essay+plumbs+deep+questions/1673677/story.html

Englische Synopsis: Set to the music of Glass, Preisner, Keating and Apocalyptica, 'Certainty' is a compelling examination of life, death and climbing trees. Tales of love, loss and the Race for the Moon set against the flux of time - 'Certainty.'

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Englische Werkbeschreibung: Set to the music of Glass, Preisner, Keating, Prokofiev and Apocalyptica (among others), 'Certainty' is an exploration of life, death and climbing trees. Weaving film from the filmmaker's personal archive with the Space Race and nuclear tests, the film is a compelling look into personal loss set against the flux of time and history.



David Hauka was nominated as "Best Director of a First Feature Film" in 1992 by the Academy of Canadian Cinema for his film "Impolite.” “Solus,” a half hour dance film featuring Owen Montague of Canada’s National Ballet, won a Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival and placed 2nd at the New York Dance on Camera Festival.
Hauka has directed music videos for artists such as Sarah Mclachlan, Lava Hay, Moev and Hilt. His early short films were featured at film festivals in Europe, Australia and the United States.
Recently, Hauka has completed several short films, including “Dream” and “Alberta Ride of the Valkyrie.” Both these films have been featured at international film festivals in Europe and North America.

Dieser Film aus dem Programm des Globians Doc Fest wird wiederholt und zwar am 09. Dezember 2009 um 20.00 Uhr im Eiffelturm-Kino Berlin (im Centre Français de Berlin), Müllerstr. 74, U-Bahnhof Rehberge/Afrikanische Straße.

GLOBIANS DOC FEST BERLIN
August 12 - 17, 2009
Kino Toni, Antonplatz

Essayfilme (6): Meditation über Karneval in Rio

Film-Nr.: 371
Vorführungstermin: Freitag, 14. August 2009, 21.30 Uhr (Vorfilm) [VN37]
Themenschwerpunkt: Neues Denken aus Brasilien (2) | Essayfilme (6)

Englischer Titel: Meditation on Carnaval
Originaltitel: Meditação de Carnaval
Deutscher Titel: Meditationo über Karneval
Herkunft: Brasilien/USA 2009
Laufzeit: 15 min.
Sprachfassung: Portugiesische Originalfassung mit englischen Untertiteln

Regie: Ana Costa Ribeiro
Produzent: Ana Costa Ribeiro
Drehbuch: Ana Costa Ribeiro
Schnitt: Ana Costa Ribeiro
Kamera: Sinisa Kukic
Sprecher: Ana Costa Ribeiro
Produktion: Margem do Rio, Rio de Janeiro

URL Film-Homepage:
Premierenstatus: Deutsche Erstaufführung
Bisherige Aufführungen: FEMINA Festival Internacional de Cinema Feminino, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien;

Kurzinhalt: Ein meditativer Kurzfilm in der Tradition von Resnais und Marker über Straßenkarneval in Rio de Janeiro aus der Perspektive einer aus dem Ausland nach Brasilien zurückkehrenden Frau.

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Englische Synopsis: A meditation on street Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro as seen by a woman who is coming back to Brazil.



Englische Werkbeschreibung: Meditation on Carnaval is a poetic documentary about the presence of women in street Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro. Through a narration in the 1st person, the film transports the spectator to the streets in Rio during the ritual while the filmmaker meditates about the female social roles in Brazilian society. Images from over 50 years ago show the diversity of women who attend street Carnaval in Rio. Girls, young ladies, mothers, women from different social classes. A panorama that is different of the usual stereotype of Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro as a capital of sexual tourism. Our city is known as a land of Carnaval and beautiful women. However, the female body in Carnaval is rarely represented in its creative and political potential, being stereotyped for most of the times. If the stereotype of Brazilian women is linked to their participation in Carnaval, there is also a critique to patriarchal society coming from the ritual itself, through the behavior and the costumes of the revelers. Meditation on Carnaval is also a documentary about the mask. The theme of the mask is connected with transition and metamorphosis. And the mask is linked to a relation between reality and image. In street Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro, the use of the mask allows a critique to our society. It is through this critique that Brazilians can turn the patriarchal values of our culture upside down. Revealing a Carnaval rarely represented in the media and in cinema, Meditation of Carnaval invites the spectator for a walk around a sunny and creative Rio de Janeiro, different of the images of violence and futility with which our city is usually represented.



Director's Bio: Ana Costa Ribeiro is a Brazilian poet and filmmaker. Obtained the Bachelor of Arts in Journalism at UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and the Master of Fine Arts in Cinema at San Francisco State University, where she had Bill Nichols as her advisor. Directed two short films: Chain (San Francisco, 2006) and Meditation on Carnaval (Rio de Janeiro, 2008). Her films have been screened in festivals in Brazil, in the Netherlands, in Germany, in Spain and in the USA. Worked as an assistant director in the award-winner feature film Madame Satã, by Karim Aïnouz, and edited the feature documentaries Tamboro - For Everybody Without Exception, by Sérgio Bernardes, and Voices of America – Paraguay, by Miguel Vassy. Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro where develops her film projects and contributes with other filmmakers as an editor and assistant director. Teaches documentary workshops. Works on a poetry book.

GLOBIANS DOC FEST BERLIN
August 12 - 17, 2009
Kino Toni, Antonplatz