Official Selection ESFF 2012: The Poacher Woman of the Mountains by Evamaria Schaller

 

 

 

 

Sunday Program – 7pm

 

Loop (Bucle) by Aritz Moreno – A man gets up and prepares coffee. A man gets up and prepares coffee. A man gets up and prepares coffee. 2011: fiction, KIMUAK – Basque Film Library, Spain 03:00

 

Plastic and Glass by Tessa Joosse – In a recycling factory in the north of France the machines dance, the workers join in song, and the truck drivers almost make a ballet. The film shows the process of recycling by impressive machines and by hand. 2010: experimental, France 09:00

 

The Poacher Woman of the Mountains (Die Wilderin vom Montafon) by Evamaria Schaller – The Austrian mountains. Powerful and wild. Dangerous and beautiful. She, the poacher woman, is part of this rich nature. She is the nature, and she has the power to kill. A free interpretation of the real story of the poacher woman of the Montafon. 2011, experimental, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany 20:20

 

Tape Generations by Johan Rijpma – The secret life of tape. 2011, experimental, EYE Film Institute Netherlands 03:00

 

brRRMMMWHEee II by Billy Roisz – brRRMMMWHEee II is fast and furious electronic pop at its best. The speedy flow of sounds and images is based on its own little media archeology: high-pitched noise from a cathode tube of the type used in old television sets, the crackling of a record album, patterns of colors like those generated by an analogue video mixer, and lastly the whirr of a computer’s processing unit. And hidden in the middle of all this, a deformed tuna can serves as a surreptitious and barely discernible memento of the fact that the world once comprised something other than electronic circuits. All these signals and media feed the wild parcourse of brRRMMMWHEee II, in which fragments of sounds and images are captured with analogue methods only. They are joined by micro-sounds generated by the individual machines, which are linked to the recurrent images and function in a way similar to musical riffs: alternating, interrupting and drowning each other out, in the end overlapping and pursuing each other. 2010: experimental, Sixpack Film Americas, Austria 05:00

 

29 30 by Perihan Bilgic – An inward journey through a distant country – an evaluation of the reminiscence of Japan. Experiences fade in the course of time. Remaining fragments are knit together in the mind, forming new images. Striding, rediscovering, keeping, releasing. An approach to what once used to be. Things hidden become visible for a short time in order to volatilise afterwards. 2011: experimental, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland 04:48

 

Alice. M by Philipp Lachenmann - A short absurd fairy tale that takes place at a historical site of modernism, with references to Lewis Carroll and George Lucas. A young man enters a futuristic building, the headquarters of the Communist Party of France in Paris. In the subterranean grand assembly hall he encounters relics of the past that shaped/described history. Simultaneously on the roof of the building a hooded figure scans the premises’ structure while down below the white concrete overground dome of the hall transforms into the moon. Alice in Wonderland in a conflictive version – playing out a poetic discourse on surrealism & socialism where science fiction, architecture, and literature are dialectically intertwined with the human psyche. The title Alice.M relates phonetically as “alism” to the ending of certain “ism” terms, such as “surrealism”, “socialism”, “idealism”, “dualism”. 2010/11: experimental, Germany/France 09:30

 

The Image Film (Der Imagefilm) by Konrad Bohley – Frido Gerschtl tells the story of his former boss, a designer. Following a customer’s request, he is ordered to create a video which represents the designer’s Òauthenticity.Ó None of the attempts are satisfying, so the whole project seems to become a never ending road movie. 2011, fiction, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany 26:06

 

Intermission

 

Historical Document (Hïstorïsk Dokument) by Thomas Pors – This film is a part of a documentary-series from the future, where important historical incidents are told by the ones who were there. Today eye-witness Christian Kasper Mathiasen tell his story about the big crisis in Denmark near the end of the 2nd millennium: The Yeast Crisis. 2010: documentary, Simulakrum, Denmark 07:00

 

One Moment Please… by Maarten Koopman – A man becomes impatient when losing his way in a phone menu. 2011, animation, EYE Film Institute, Netherlands 06:00

 

Quiet You by Joonas Makkonen – A dark comedy about a exceptional man. A nurse comes to visit him, and says that the man needs to learn how to take care of himself. 2011, fiction, Jo-Jo The Dog Films, Finland 06:23

 

Liquidator by Karel Doing – A project making innovative use of existing archive images of Willy Mullens’ silent film Haarlem (1922). The original film shows the city in straightforward shots and camera movements. Due to deterioration these images changed in a dramatic way. In the adaption Karel Doing zooms in on these effects with the aid of digital techniques like optical flow and morphing. Michal Osowski collaborated on the project with sound that is directely linked to the image, he used the changes in density of the film to control complex filters and distortion effects. 2010: experimental, Netherlands 07:00

 

Against Time- the Portrait of a Friend (Gegen Die Zeit- Das Portrait Eines Freundes) by Christopher Aoun – Christopher, 21, asks his very good friend, Jochen, 75, to draw his past. It turns out that Jochen let go of his past, left a family behind and decided to always look towards the future. He forgot about all the people in his past and tried to discover new things while walking and traveling. Despite this, he kept coming back to his hometown in the Black Forest, where he found a memory of his childhood: a Christ figure which used to lay on a tree is now enveloped by it. Christopher asks questions throughout about friendship, memory and death. 2011: documentary, University of Television and Film Munich, Germany 08:06

 

Ravenboy (Rabenjunge) by Andrea Deppert – The children of the village live by the law of the jungle. Led by the meanest, they scorn the Raven boy, the group’s outsider. When one day a fascinating girls appears, putting her spell on everybody, it is the Raven boy she takes interest in. The small community’s moral confidence is shaken. 2011: animation, Film Academy Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany 09:40

 

Fiasco-Fragments Based on the Novel by Imre Kertész (Fiasko-Fragmente Nach dem Roman von Imre Kertész) by Janet Riedel, Katja Pratschke, Gusztav Hamos – Fiasco is a photofilm (consists of photographs that are related to the novela’s text and the sound. Photographs placed in a cinematic context create a film-like experience, they let us ‘think’ cinema and offer interspaces).Steinig, whose story is told, did survive his own death. Stranded at an unfamiliar nameless airport of a big though strangely familiar city, he is looking for a way to ensure his survival in a system which condemns everyone who has not yet lost faith in individuality and freedom. He has come home after Auschwitz. The story is about his new beginning in Stalinist Budapest. ÒFiascoÓ explores the search for identity and the multiplication of one’s personality under the repression of totalitarianism. In addition, the film deals with the perception of time. 2010: experimental, Janet Riedel Fotografie, Germany 30:10