TRICKY WOMEN / TRICKY Realities

CHINA Schwerpunkt

TRICKY REALITIES 13.-17. März 13.-17. März TRICKY WOMEN / TRICKY WOMEN / TRICKY Realities TRICKY Realities Animation Filmfestival Animation Filmfestival trickywomen.at Impressum | Redaktion: culture2culture Übersetzungen: Sabine Schmidt METRO Kinokulturhaus Gestaltung: Ulla Klopf, www.ulla.at des Filmarchiv Austria Druck: Schreier & Braune GesmbH., 1060 Wien Festival Credits Infos

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Artists Talk presented by Daniela Ingruber SA 16.03.,14:00 TICKETS Polnisches Institut 1010, Am Gestade 7 Sponsor*innen Ticketvorverkauf ab 28. Februar METRO Kinokulturhaus Best Practice Sawczynski & Partner OG Johannesgasse 4, 1010 Wien Lectures and Discussion Tickethotline: +43 1 512 18 03 (tägl. 15:00-21:00) FR 15.03., 10:30-16:30 www.filmarchiv.at METRO Kinokulturhaus, free entry! [email protected] Workshops Partner*innen Chinese Ink Painting & Animation Workshop 10er-Block zu € 65,- with Jin Yu and Susi Jirkuff Einzelticket € 9,- at the ZOOM, MQ Ermäßigt € 8,- Fr 15.03., 13:30-17:00 and SA 16.03., 10:00-17:00 (Erste Bank-Kund*innen, Ö1, Schüler*innen, Studierende) The future is female: € FAA-Club 6,- Design Thinking Seestadt with Hilda Tellioglu & Marlene Wagner (TU Wien) Aspern Seestadt TH 14.03., 9:30-18:00

Exhibition STACEY STEERS Bildraum 07, Burggasse 7-9, 1070 Wien TH 14.03., 19:00

Party With Karaoke SA 16.03., 22.00 Medienpartner*innen Marea Alta, Gumpendorfer Straße 28

Award Ceremony & Screening of the awarded Films SU 17.03., 20:15 METRO Kinokulturhaus 1 Content

1 Trailer 2 Welcome | Awards 3 Juries 4 Best Practice 5 Exhibition & Workshops 6 Competition 1 8 Competition 2 10 Competition 3 12 Competition 4 14 UP & COMING 1 16 UP & COMING 2 18 Österreich Panorama 20 Exploring Realities 22 Work & Digital Affairs 24 TIMELINE 26 China | Her: Evolution of Memory 28 China: Spot on China 30 China: Beyond Animation 32 China: Daughters of the Revolution 33 The Man Woman Case 34 Happiness Machine 35 Seder-Masochism 36 DEFA - Films from a forgotten country 38 Meeting Challenges 47 Artists

Trailer For the TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2019 trailer, I chose to portray a witch – a woman not only tricky, but also wise and powerful. One, whose experience and intuition allows her to reach into our deepest and darkest emotions and create wonders from thin air. The festival brings together many amazing female filmmakers and the witch is a symbol of their power, wit and sensitivity. Marta Pajek 2 3 Welcome | Awards Juries Festival directresses: Waltraud Grausgruber, Birgitt Wagner International Competition Film selection (competition): Adele Razkövi, Waltraud Grausgruber, Birgitt Wagner Festival team: Therese Schnöll, Petra Forstner, Manu Molin, Daniela Ingruber, Melanie Letschnig, Mirjam Bromundt, Andreas Eli, Ulla Klopf, Evelyn Rois, Sabine Schmidt, Jasmin Rückert, Natascha Rady, Maria Sol Urban Rabbe, Luca Deutinger, Teodora Filipova, Natalia Kasik, Elisabeth Leeb, Tina Lintner, Laura Peretzki.

Olga Bobrowska Amina Handke Yantong Zhu Dear Guests, Olga Bobrowska is a PhD candida- Amina Handke is an artist, cura- Yantong Zhu is an animation te in Film Studies at Jagiellonian tor and author living and working director and author of children’s TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES: Our new name is designed to add emphasis to a central University, Kraków, specialized in Vienna. Her work examines books. She got her master’s aim of our festival: to explore and discuss different realities of life and take an active role in in classic Chinese animated film, topics of originality, subjectivity, degree in Film from the Tokyo processes of social change. Increasing digitalization is a key aspect in this context and will be and an author of academic articles authorship/audienceship and University of the Arts in 2014. addressed in films as well as workshops and lectures. on Polish and Chinese animation. reception. It is informed by her ex- Her graduation film ‘My Milk Cup She is the co-founder and director tensive expertise and experience Cow’ has won 24 prizes around Organized in collaboration with the Confucius Institute of the University of Vienna, four pro- of the StopTrik International Film in working at the intersections of the world, such as the Grand Prix grammes will showcase China’s vibrant animation scene. From stunning ink-and-wash-pain- Festival (Maribor & Lodz) and art, social practice, participative of KROK, the Young Animation frequently collaborates with other media and a multitude of discip- Award of the Stuttgart Festival ting by animation pioneers to childhood memories to subtle social commentary, these films festivals and presents curated pro- lines and addresses disciplinary of Animated Film, the New Face highlight the amazing spectrum of independent animation in China. grams. Her reviews and critiques borders with mainly time-based Award of the Japan Media Arts We connect across continents. were published in many film ma- (audiovisual, performing and Festival and the Synchro Film gazines; in 2016 she co-edited the conceptual) artistic methods. Award at Tricky Women 2018. She Other programmes such as Up & Coming Talents and the International Competition, the monograph ‘Obsession Perversion also worked as a curator for the Österreich Panorama and Work & Digital Affairs also span a wide range of styles and genres Rebellion. Twisted Dreams of 7th China Independent Animation and present new ideas and unique perspectives. Central European Animation’. Film Forum.

We are looking forward to seeing you and hope our festival will once again be an entertaining Up & Coming and inspiring experience! Waltraud Grausgruber, Birgitt Wagner & the TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES team

Our special thanks go to the filmmakers, our jurors, our donors, our main sponsor, our other

sponsors, our partner institutions, business and media partners, our Festival Advisory Board, Rußmann © Pamela the teams at METRO Kinokulturhaus and Filmarchiv Austria, our partner cinemas and all those who support us and make our festival possible! Rachel Gutgarts Sandra Nigischer Jin Yu Rachel Gutgarts was born and Sandra Nigischer chairs the Jin Yu is an independent anima- raised in Jerusalem. She gradua- women’s network Sorority. She tion director and an associate ted from the animation depart- graduated from the University professor at the China Academy ment at Bezalel Academy of Art of Vienna in German language of Art. She took a master’s degree and Design in Jerusalem, with a and literature and in theatre, film from the School of Media and focus on experimental techniques, and media studies and worked Animation of the China Academy • Tricky Women Award, worth 4,000 Euro, donated by VdFS (2000,- Euro) and mainly animated silk screen prints. as a film journalist for Celluloid of Art in 2008 and is now studying The Grand Post (Post Production Voucher worth 2000,- Euro) Her 2017 graduation film ‘A Love magazine and others. Since 2017, for a PhD in film and animation. Awards• 3-month scholarship to live and work at Q21/MQ under the Artist-in-Residence Program Letter to the One I Made Up’ was she has been production editor at She has directed several ani- • NeoTel Award, worth 3000,- Euro, donated by NeoTel Telefonservice GmbH & Co KG screened at many festivals around DER STANDARD newspaper. mated shorts such as ‘Love Is A • Sabine & Nicolai Sawczynski Audience Award, worth 1000,- Euro the world and was awarded the Dream’, ‘Flying Kites’, ‘Nostalgia’, • Hubert Sielecki-Award for Austrian Animation, worth 500,- Euro Q21 residency program at Tricky ‘Chinese Fantasia’, ‘The Plum • TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES Accreditation 2020 | Up & Coming - Competition Women 2018, amongst others. Blossom’ and ‘A Women’s Life’ and has won numerous awards. 4 5 Best Practice Exhibition & Workshops

METRO Kinokulturhaus STACEY STEERS Friday, March 15 – free admission! In collaboration with Bildrecht we present works by US filmmaker and artist Stacey Steers at Bildraum 07. Steers takes us through surrealist landscapes as we follow the paths of silent-movie stars Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford 10:30 Daughters of the Revolution: Women Filmmakers in Classic Chinese Animation and Janet Gaynor. Her allegoric dreamlike (or nightmarish?) scenarios are an intriguing tribute to 1920s cinema Ideas of women's emancipation and liberation from the feudal chains became key concepts for the Chinese and explore the tumultuous inner lives of women who cast off traditional social roles. In films consisting of up feminism movement. The lives and careers of the four observed filmmakers present ambiguous trajectory of this to six thousand individual collages, Steers’s protagonists take on the demons of doubt, creatures of fear and wave. The technical and narrative development of classic Chinese animation was marked with the unique visions insecurity. of the politically prominent filmmaker and theorist (Bo'er Chen), experimental and influential chief-cinematographer (Xiaoxuan Duan), and the film directors who pursued artistic perfectionism (Cheng Tang) and creative Exhibition opening: TH 14.03., 19:00 modernization (Wenxiao Lin, Yihong Hu). Location: Bildraum 07, Burggasse 7-9, 1070 Wien

Olga Bobrowska, Ph.D. candidate in Film Studies at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, specialized in classic Chinese animated film Chinese Ink Painting & Animation Workshop DIY

11:30 Presentation of the educational programs at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou with Jin Yu (animation artist and professor at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou) by Jin Yu, animation artist and professor at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou & Susi Jirkuff (visual artist working mainly with film, installation and drawing, teaches animation at UfG, Linz and University of Cologne) 12:00 Presentation of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio Da Su, director of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, will give an overview about the history of the organization, After an introduction and demonstration of Chinese ink painting animation Jin Yu will guide through her of the works by women and their current productions. fascinating watercolour and ink painting techniques. The paintings of all participants will be brought together within a short experimental animation.

13:30 Digital Transformation: Opportunities & Challenges Date: FR 15.03., 13:30-17:00 and SA 16.03., 10:00-17:00 The talk will first introduce today's digital transformation process by highlighting critical points of change and in cooperation with ZOOM Trickfilmstudio, MQ, costs: € 140,- open issues. Second, mechanisms and technological means that enable digital transformation of our society will Registration (and payment) until 04.03.: [email protected]. be presented from a computer science point of view. Finally, emerging new opportunities as well as challenges all are facing due to the changes that are already happening will be discussed.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Hilda Tellioglu, TU Wien Faculty of Informatics, Institute of Visual Computing & Human-Centered Technology, Multidisciplinary Design & The future is female: Design Thinking Seestadt User Research Workshop with Hilda Tellioglu & Marlene Wagner 14:30 Feminist Making/Feminist Hacking (TU Wien - Institut für Visual Computing & Human-Centered Technology, Multidisciplinary Design & User Research) Feminist hackerspaces aim at creating an unique space. Through changing conditions intentionally they gene- rate room for experimentation, a safer space, an open space that allows to break with gender norms related to Participating tricky women will get a theoretical and practical overview on Design Thinking and workshop me- technology. thods for co-creation process with diverse stakeholders. Are there specific challenges or potentials for women in the city? Stefanie Wuschitz, Mz*Balthazar´s Lab; Stefanie Wuschitz works at the intersection of art, research and tech- How to read, trace, track urbanity, smartness, mobility of a city? nology, with a particular focus on feminism, open source technology and peer production. How to communicate and implement inclusive and sustainable new urbanities?

15:30 Discussion Date: TH 14.03., 9:30-18:00 costs: € 130,- incl. lunch Location: Seestadt OPEN.mobil LAB, Sonnenallee 26, Aspern Seestadt, 1220 Wien Please send a short statement of motivation, your interests and background to [email protected] (max. 200 words) till 04.03. the latest. 6 Duration: 70 minutes 7 Competition Wettbewerb 1

Peach Blossom Fish Egg Las del diente Cadavre exquis Animal Behaviour Tango te˛sknot | Hailu Chen, Yi Shi, CN 2018, Martina Scarpelli, FR 2018, Ana Pérez López , US 2018, Stéphanie Lansaque & Alison Snowden & David Fine, Tango Of Longing 08’45 12’07 05’30 François Leroy, FR 2018, 12'50 CA 2018, 14’00 Marta Szyman´ska, PL 2018, 05’22

A visual, acoustic and odorous A lonely little fish in a pond is A woman is locked in her Girls are weird. Babies are ballad that follows the wan- Dealing with what comes spoiled by a squirrel. It comes home with an egg, which she weird. Bodies are extra weird. derings of a one-eyed dog. naturally isn’t easy, especially Tango is so much more than to enjoy the squirrel’s love and is both attracted to and scared Today, women are tired of In the maze of Old Hanoi’s for animals. Five animals meet just desire – it can reveal our care more and more and even- of. She eats the egg, she re- choosing between having narrow streets, daily life and regularly to discuss their inner most intimate stories, our tually turns into a beautiful pents. She kills it. She lets the children or a career. legend mingle on the synco- angst in a group therapy sessi- innermost longings and needs, goldfish. Meanwhile, it has be- egg die of hunger. pated rhythm of Hat Xam, the on led by Dr. Clement, a canine our secrets. Is it possible to come a prisoner too, trapped Half-asleep Vietnamese blues. psychotherapist. (Oscar® find satisfaction and relief in in an affluent paradise. Enough Caibei Cai, UK 2018, 05’16 nomination 2019) this dance of constant longing? Anna Mantzaris, UK 2018, 02’21 Muteum Aggie Pak Yee Lee, EE 2017, 04’10

One room, two half bodies, a Moments of lost self-control. silent relationship.

In an art museum we better behave and learn well and always remain serious and sincere. 8 Duration: 80 minutes 9 Competition Wettbewerb 2

Raymonde ou l’évasion Shadow HEDGE Untravel Na je˛zykach | Three Women Reneepoptosis verticale | Raymonde Or The Lei Lei, CN 2017, 05’32 Amanda Bonaiuto, US 2018, Ana Nedeljkovic´ & Nikola On A Bench Renee Zhan, US/JP 2018, 03’24 Vertical Escape 06’05 Majdak Jr., RS 2018, 9’20 Karolina Borgiasz, PL 2017, Sarah Van Den Boom, 04’00 FR 2018, 16’31

The film combines oil painting Three Renees go on a quest to and photography to show the A family visits a funeral home. A film about (local) patriotism, find God, who is also Renee. As Raymonde is fed up with peas, injuries inflicted on a girl who tourism and emigration. A Three women are sitting on a they traverse the mountains aphids, dirty panties and was sexually harassed. Nie masz dystansu | woman lives in a grey, isolated bench in front of an old apart- and valleys of Renee, they digging in her kitchen garden. You Are Overreacting country enclosed by a huge ment building in a small town. discover all the great joys, She would much rather prefer Muybridge’s Disobedient Karina Paciorkowska, wall. She has never travelled They are laughing and commen- sadnesses, and mysteries of sex, and love, and the immen- Horses PL 2018, 03’57 anywhere, but all her life she ting on people until they notice being Renee. sity of the sky. Anna Vasof, AT/GR 2018, has dreamt of leaving forever something. 04’30 for a perfect world called Une visite | A Visit Where can we find the es- ‘Abroad’. Parissa Mohit, CA 2018, sence of cinematic illusion 12’18 when we look into everyday Bloeistraat 11 life, and what happens when Nienke Deutz, BE 2018, 09’41 we use everyday situations, objects, spaces and actions What is the place of women as cinematographic mecha- in modern reality? This film is nisms? (unfortunately) inspired by everyday life, statements of public figures, and the media. Amidst a bustling cityscape, a child pays a visit to a woman Two best friends spend the in a high-rise apartment. Their last summer holidays of their interactions with each other, childhood together. Gradually and with the outside world, their bodies start to morph and become increasingly phantas- shift, making them feel awkward magorical. around each other. 10 Duration: 70 minutes 11 Competition Wettbewerb 3

Inanimate The Juggler Sister Etreintes | Embraced NUIT CHERIE | Sweet Night PASSAGE Lucia Bulgheroni, UK 2018, Jakaite˙ Skirmanta, LT 2018, Siqi Song, CN/US 2018, 08’00 Justine Vuylsteker, FR 2018, Lia Bertels, BE 2018, 13’46 Anja Sidler, CH 2019, 06’42 08’36 11’05 05’27

A loving, close-knit family falls Winter in the Himalayas. Two very different people set Katrine leads a normal life, We live in the same house, but apart as we hurtle through A bear cannot fall asleep off on an adventure and leave with a normal job and a nor- in different apartments, jobs, the Seventies into the divorce because he thinks too much their familiar environment be- mal relationship. But one day situations, beliefs, visions. boom of the Eighties. Years Standing still in front of the and is feeling down. A white hind. Unexpectedly their paths she wakes up to find the world Each in our own compartment, later, when the family home is open window, a woman stares monkey suggests to go to his cross. A film about yearning for around her has changed. Or we fool ourselves that the sold, hindsight and fragments at the dark clouds that obs- aunt’s place and eat some change and the value of coin- rather, it’s the same but she world is one and that it exists. of childhood memory combine cure the sky. Immobile, she honey. In the beautiful winter cidence in a society shaped by is seeing it with different eyes, Sometimes it seems that an to reveal the full story. fights against memories of the night, the bear realizes he has individual development and the noticing things she’s never incomprehensible thread be- past. done well not to fall asleep. pressure to achieve. seen before. Her reality starts comes visible and I am on the Made on one of the two to crumble. verge of understanding. pinscreens built by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker, Five Minutes To Sea which was recently restored. Natalia Mirzoyan, RU 2018, 07’07 Fishboy Anita Bruvere, UK 2018, 08’42

A small but memorable childhood moment is juxtapo- Fishboy is consumed by guilt. sed with the theme of old age Can his girlfriend help him let and the different perception go of the past? of time at the end and the beginning of life. 12 Duration: 70 minutes 13 Competition Wettbewerb 4

GUAXUMA The Stained Club Love Me, Fear Me Fly Us To The Moons Žltá | Yellow III Nara Normande, FR 2018, Mélanie Lopez, Simon Bou- Veronica Solomon, DE 2018, LIA, AT 2017, 05’35 Ivana Sˇebestova, SK 2017, Marta Pajek, PL 2018, 12’00 14’16 cly, Marie Ciesielski, Alice 06’06 06’45 Jaunet, Chan Stéphie Peang, Béatrice Viguier, FR 2018, 06’39

Tayra and I grew up on a beach A digitally animated work by A man and a woman meet in in the northeast of Brazil. We ‘What would you be willing LIA with accompanying sound Scared of everything yellow, a waiting room and immedi- were inseparable. Different to do for them to love you?’ A by Damian Stewart. A swarm sunny and spontaneous, ately get closer to each other. ways of animation with sand danced metaphor about the of forms, reminiscent of alien young opera singer Viola hides They commence a game that bring back happy memories. Finn has stains on his skin. roles we play and the shapes spaceships or mechanical herself in sad violet shadows gradually gets more and more He meets a group of cool kids we take, about the stages we bats, are suspended in space. in this metaphorical story. Will ferocious. Their faces resem- In Our Skin with different stains on their choose, the audience we try Their sweeping movements she find her way to happiness? ble masks while shapes slowly Rosa Beiroa, UK 2017, 03’55 bodies. One day, he under- to impress and the price of create layered patterns of lose their integrity. stands that these stains aren't acceptance. smooth curves, jagged edges just pretty. and digital noise. The Levers Boyoung Kim, KR 2018, 09’24 Sweet Sweat Jung Hyun Kim, EE 2018, 06’13

A celebration of nudity and the freedom of women. The film highlights the exceptional and extraordinary that lies within the seemingly routine of A guy accepts a job offer from undressing and creates a con- a stranger on the street. All nection with often overlooked he has to do is to pull some A child recognizes the erotic feelings and sensations. levers while listening to his relationship between its favourite music through the parents. Curious but overwhel- headphones. It seems like med, the child takes control. easy money – until he hears a strange sound from the other side of the wall. 14 Duration: 69 minutes 15 UP & COMING 1

‘Two of each kind’ they said, didn’t they? But two male peacocks also insist on their right to board has been through, he is torn Kwadratura kola | Eisnasen Noah’s Ark. A young woman tries one last time to overcome her shyness, and the son of a fisherman between his traditions and his Squaring The Circle Veronica Lingg, discovers the beauty of nature. The Up & Coming competition presents outstanding works by students empathy for nature. Karolina Specht, PL 2018, Joel Hofmann, CH 2017, 08’00 of international film and art schools. Attention: Passionate young animators at work! 04’50 (Lucerne University Of Applied Xian (Polish National Film School in Lodz) Sciences And Arts) HOMESICK Grandma’s Matchbox despair at our own impotence. Roxane Campoy, Pauline Ledu, Myriam Belkheyar & Noy Bar, Yoav Aluf & Hila Ayana Sakurada, JP 2018, 05’54 Gwenaëlle Bavoux, FR 2017, Einy, IL 2018, 07’15 (Tokyo University of the Arts) Zugot Zugot | 06’45 (École Georges Méliès) (Bezalel Academy of Art and Design) Two Of Every Kind Efrat Chen, IL 2017, 08’38 (The School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College) Square seems to live amidst Bo and Moco live in an ice-cold chaos and endless changes world. Moco blames the ice A long time ago, a terrible – until we realize that he is for his snotty nose and starts emperor commissioned a Junko returns to her hometown part of a hypnotizing system melting it with his Bunsen bur- painting to celebrate his cruel A crisis in a young woman’s to resolve a quarrel she once of routines and constant repe- ner. At the same time Bo tries reign. life forces her to return to her had with her grandmother. But tition that does not allow any to fix the damage with needle parents’ home. Her reappea- her grandma is nothing like she Two male peacocks insist on movement. and yarn. Chwast | Thicket rance unsettles literally the used to be. Junko feels regret their rights and demand to Adrianna Matwiejczuk, Mum Is Not At Home Today delicate balance in the family and anxiety as she looks back on board Noah's ark. PL 2018, 04’10 nest. their life. Zitong Mai, UK 2018, 04’30 Pulse (Polish National Film School in Lodz) (Royal College of Art) Food Chain O Jezu! | Oh, God! Sarah Forest, Cécile Floucat, Mari Kivi & Liis Kokk, Betina Boz˙ek, PL 2017, 03’00 Pauline Javelot, Juliette EE 2018, 08’30 (Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow) Gales, Thibaut Wambre, (Estonian Academy of Arts) Kevin De Garidel, FR 2018, 06’38 (Supinfocom Valenciennes)

A young girl is struggling with Told in a humorous and absurd extreme shyness. One day she style, this is a bittersweet story decides to give herself one last about childhood and escapism. Jonas, a sensitive young man try in overcoming her fears. On one hand it’s dirty work and from a fisherman’s family, on the other hand a gorgeous A world that loses its original finds a huge dead whale on product. shapes loses its identity. Groa- the beach, harpooned from ning ‘Oh, God!’ as a main the- every side. Deeply shaken at me combines it all: a grimace, the sight of this slaughter and a sigh and a quiet whisper of feeling the pain the animal 16 Duration: 70 minutes 17 UP & COMING 2

The second section of Up & Coming also presents impressive, daring and sometimes experimental Még nem | Not Yet SIGNAL 1805.13 MHz works by young filmmakers: films that take a sensitive and compassionate look at turning points and Tímea Varga, HU 2018, 10’13 Qing-Wen Yao, TW 2018, Blandine Mocaer, FR 2018, challenging situations in life. A young woman faces a personal trauma while exploring a volcano; a (MOME Moholy-Nagy University of Art 07’32 04’59 (ESRA Côte d'Azur) moment of unspeakable horror is conveyed through images that are both expressionist and empathic; and Design) (National Yunlin University of Science and a little boy is searching for his mother. and Technology)

Twinkle Twinkle Oáza | Oasis Caldeira Xiaolin Zhou, JP 2018, 04’40 Daria Kashcheeva, CZ 2017, Catherine Manesse, Estelle (Tama Art University) 02’26 (FAMU – Film and TV School Hocquet & Julie Bousquet, of the Academy of Performing Arts FR 2018, 05’58 Louise, a teenager, meets Lily in Prague) (GOBELINS, l'école de l'image) A child waits for his mother in through her radio. Her voice vain, so he starts looking for Hai has been living in a semi- and music charm her. her. Across various locations closed environment since his we see two fates, two lives, childhood. The only way to see Synchronicity which may never cross paths. the outside world is an ope- Michelle Brand, UK 2018, ning high above him. When he 03’47 (Royal College of Art) A beautiful and sad love story Yi Ru Wang Chang | As Usual follows the guard’s instruction inspired by three poems of Kuan Wen Liu, TW 2018, to clean feathers and fix the Ren Hang. Under the star- Loud music, hectic crowds, All her life Inès has lived in 06’48 broken wall, he always won- ry sky, the protagonist "Mr. wailing babies, car horns, the shadow of her sister, a (Tainan National University of the Arts) ders if there is a wider horizon Cloud" escapes from reality construction work, sirens. So- brilliant volcanologist. As a outside his world. and falls into the space of me- metimes we want to run away. challenge, she decides to join mories and delusions, where But where to? a scientific expedition that Ükskord igavuse väljadel | a new encounter with his lover plans to climb a volcano. Once In The Fields Of People come, people go – yet begins. Hounds Boredom everyone is moving in the Amit Cohen & Ido Shapira, IL Live Or Let Live Teele Strauss, EE 2017, 05’20 same direction. We all share Augenblicke | 2018, 05’47 Yoko Asano, JP 2018, 08’48 (Estonian Academy of Arts) something that we are unawa- A Blink Of An Eye (Bezalel Academy of Art and Design) (Tokyo University of the Arts) The temple and the market re of, creating one big picture Kiana Naghshineh, DE 2018, coexist in a particular place we are unable to see. 03’55 of harmony between sacred (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) religion and daily life; the story tells how people and cats live there together.

A story about a couple whose The life of a dog, trained to act There's a pet caterpillar named life together has come to as a human, changes when Larva in my class. I don't like an end – they struggle with a pack of wild dogs gathers bugs but Larva is sweet and boredom. Three perceptions of only one around his house. we become friends. But one truth – hers, his and ours. day, I am faced with a horrible choice. 18 Duration: 69 minutes 19 DES a popsicle, railway carriages experienced in the process, Österreich Panorama Alexandra Manhalter, AT 2018, that cross the screen verti- is unique for every woman. 04’28 (HTL Spengergasse) cally. Various women and their partners openly share their birth The Outlander experiences. Ani Antonova, AT 2018, 05’00 This fast-paced compilation of the latest Austrian productions reflects the wide variety and creativity of (FH St. Pölten & Universidade Lusó- solar mechanix 1.1 animation in this country. It presents experimental works on artificial identities and role expectations fona de Humanidades e Tecnologias) Martina Tritthart, AT 2018, in the age of social media alongside a dreamlike film poem about the magical dimension of life and a 03’28 poetic reflection on the dark sides of love. An interplay of light and colour. Des is in her mid-twenties. Light phenomena turn into All her life she has been sensual geometric objects that Les Edgarables Völlig fraglich Symphonie der Süchte | accompanied by the voice of interact with the soundtrack. Hanna Schmaderer, AT 2018, Ani Zangocyan, Muriel Nona Jukebox Junky a narrator only she can hear. 02’04 (Mozarteum Salzburg) Schano, Valentin Olle, Theresa Pochlatko, Lydia So far, their relationship has In the 16th century an LeftOver Vanessa Fabiola Liebminger, Schüttengruber, Zoe Stagl, been peaceful and somewhat elephant called Süleyman tra- Yasaman Hasani, AT 2018, 03’54 AT 2017, 02’59 AT 2018, 03‘02 boring. Until he decides to tell velled from Ceylon to Lisbon Living between two worlds, (University Of Vienna - tfm) (HTL Spengergasse) her something she considers before a five-month march East and West, the filmmaker to be a MAJOR spoiler! from Portugal to Austria. This takes us on a poetic journey. is the story of his life. To be a An experimental arrangement Gorilla Thrilla living royal gift is not an easy of elements of her childhood Doris Blätterbinder, Sabrina job, and even in death there is and adulthood provides insights Creatures on a very hot planet Kainz & Jens Cherukad, no peace. into her personal experience of go searching for water. Their AT 2018, 05’06 gender-specific stereotypes in sweat is collected to be used for (FH OÖ Campus Hagenberg) The Magical Dimension these cultures. drinking. Völlig fraglich gives objects A motley group of people in- Gudrun Krebitz, DE 2018, voices, that have been silent dulge in their guilty pleasures 07’06 HOW TO ADAPT Der Fischer und seine Frau | for too long, and opens up a in a gloomy bar. ‘You can always be in two María Chalela-Puccini, The Fisherman And His Wife world full of possibilities. places at once, did you know AT 2017, 01’25 Gerlinde Radler, AT 2018, The Darkest Valentine that? The real world and the 02’48 (Mozarteum Salzburg) Cubes Kathrin Steinbacher, magical world.’ The voice on Isabella Horn, Lisa Mitter- UK/AT 2018, 02’25 the phone whispers in your ear mair, Julia Gruber, AT 2018, (Royal College Of Art) Taxi-driving gorilla Georg – there is a way to alter reality. 03’26 (FH Hagenberg) leads a simple life and dreams What we long for has been of adventure. But when he searching for us for eternity. It stumbles upon a crime scene, is waiting in our own under- he hesitates. world. How to adapt to today’s world as a human: these are the rules. The original fairytale from Fahrvergnügen | BirthStatements the German Baltic Sea coast, The Joy Of Driving Maria Weber, AT 2018, 10‘48 Me-Log written down about 1800 by the Love has many very dark Dagmar Schürrer, AT 2018, Eni Brandner, AT 2018, 06’51 Brothers Grimm, now comes in The song ‘Broken Pieces’ from sides. It is best to whisper 04’00 A reflection on the image we a 2018 dialect version from the Camo & Krooked was the them very quietly to ourselves Seemingly incoherent images create of ourselves through so- Tyrolean mountains. basis for our trip through an – and to those who are ready flash up against the back- cial media, how we manipulate underground world. to listen. ground of a pulsating bar this ‘ethereal’ image, and how it chart: a face, the lower part of affects our views of gender and a man’s body with four legs, the perception of both self and black smoke, a white cloud, Giving birth, and the strength other. 20 Duration: 77 minutes 21 Exploring Realities

Animated Documentaries

The fictionalization of reality as a method of documentarism is key to tell these stories of women and Anzoátegui The Woman Who Turns Into Obon families facing exceptional situations and daily routine, politically motivated oppression and trauma, Bibiana Rojas Gómez, A Castle Samo (Anna Bergmann), and the empowering experience of feminist emancipation. A femmage to role models, survivors, and CO 2018, 15’00 Kathrin Steinbacher, André Hörmann, DE 2018, avantgardists in all spheres of life. AT 2018, 03’45 15’00

Why should you read Von Bürgern und Lavette’s Choice Virginia Woolf? – „Bürgerinnen” – Elyse Kelly, US 2018, 02’16 Iseult Gillespie 50 Jahre Frauenstimmrecht Sarah Saidan, FR 2017, 06’02 im Baselbiet | Of Citizens And ‘Citizens’ Bibiana wants to know more Lalita Brunner, CH 2018, 05’02 about the town where her The story of a woman who Akiko Takakura is one of the mother and grandmother used turns into a castle is based on last survivors of the atomic to live. What she finds is a a case study by Oliver Sacks. bomb explosion of Hiroshima. dark family story that reflects During the Obon festival she The lives of Lavette Mayes and Colombia’s violent history. Tightly Wound receives the spirits of her her children changed forever Shelby Hadden, US 2018, parents and is haunted by In both her essays and her fic- when she was arrested after West Question East Answer 10’11 memories. tion, Virginia Woolf shapes the getting into a fight with her Dal Park, UK 2018, 06’26 slippery nature of subjective Women’s suffrage in Switzer- mother-in-law. The film is part Code Ruth experience into words, while land: 50 years ago, women of a short animated documen- Caroline Nelson, US 2018, her characters frequently lead were given the right to vote in tary series about mass incar- 03’57 inner lives that are deeply the small canton of Basel- ceration in the U.S., commis- at odds with their external Country – relatively early sioned by the American Civil existence. Iseult Gillespie compared to the rest of the Liberties Union (ACLU). helps make sense of these country. A woman recounts her experi- disparities. Spolu sami | Apart An exploration of commu- ence living with vaginismus – Diana Cam Van Nguyen, nication problems between how health professionals have CZ 2018, 09’48 two generations (a Korean failed her, men have rejected grandmother and her German her, and shame, anger, and A true love story about a Mor- granddaughter) based on hatred have plagued her body. se code instructor finding her their cultural and historical path during WWII. background.

Three friends share the same experience: When they were teenagers, one of their parents died. A portrait of young people who had to grow up too soon. 22 Duration: 87 minutes 23 Work & Digital Affairs

A grandmother beating all time-highs in sports with her fore- and backhand, a nursing robot becoming Sorge 87 C4RE a companion, a couple leaving Vietnam in the 80s to earn money as textile workers in the GDR. They are Thanh Nguyen Phuong, Alice Reily de Souza & Jule examples for individuals who present work(ing) realities, longings, family affairs, and the organization DE 2017, 10‘22 Walther, DE 2018, 10’05 of daily routine – the ingredients of this program which takes into account what concerns us all: How to live a happy and balanced life facing all its occupational and personal challenges.

Mattpiskerskan | Blue Sky On Mars Blue Light The Rugbeater Leena Jääskeläinen, FI 2018, Harriet Croucher, UK 2017, Anna Erlandsson, SE 2018, 06’28 04’00 04’00 In 1987, more than 20.000 In a hospital, a patient meets Vietnamese came to the GDR his perfect caretaker. as contract workers. Among them: my parents – Pham Thi Desire Line Lien Huong und Nguyen Duc Ruini Shi, UK 2018, 06’59 Hoan. 30 years later they talk about their memories. How does a scientist see Emergency service person- My grandmother had a way science fiction? nel talk about the realities of Sans Gravité | No Gravity of beating rugs that would Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Charline Parisot, Jérémy make golf champion Annika Freaks Of Nurture and its impact on their lives Cissé, Fioretta Caterina Sörenstam green with envy. Alexandra Lemay, CA 2018, and their families. Cosmidis, Flore Allier- When a tragedy occurs one Her swing was mentioned with 06’28 Estrada, Maud Lemaître- Valentine’s Day, we turn to an awe throughout the city of Dimanche | Sunday Blanchart, Ludovic Abraham, AI for answers. Landskrona. Fanny Dreyer & Gaël Kyriakidis, FR 2018, 07’56 CH 2018, 10’29 The Thing I Left Behind Moj dziwny starszy brat | Chiara Sgatti, UK 2018, 07’47 My Strange Elder Brother Julia Orlik, PL 2018, 12’30

The portrait of a neurotic An astronaut returns to earth mother-daughter relationship and tries to fit in again. is inspired by the filmmaker’s own unorthodox upbringing Expelled from the machine with her single-parent mom, week for incompetence, Sun- A former baseball player who is also a foster parent and day meets a mysterious alter forced to quit her career due A young woman who really dog breeder. ego that takes him on a con- to multiple sclerosis is now wants to succeed at work and templative stroll. At the end being cared for by a robot and her eccentric brother have a of a dreamlike inner journey, a Smart House. A journey Supported by: special relationship. Sunday returns to the machine between dreams and harsh to reinvent it. reality. 25 Timeline

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Opening Beyond 19:00 Competition 1 19:00 Competition 3 18:00 16:45 Seder-Masochism 70‘ 70‘ 62‘ Animation * 70‘ Gartenbaukino 20:00 Up & Coming 2 20:00 Her: Evolution 19:00 Competition 4 17:30 Up & Coming 2 DJ Dalia Ahmed 70‘ 63‘ of Memory 70‘ 70‘ (Dalia‘s Late Night Lemonade, FM4) happiness TICKETS [email protected] 21:00 Competition 2 21:00 Competition 4 20:00 18:30 Up & Coming 1 80‘ 70‘ 60‘ machine 69‘

DEFA - 21:30 Competition 3 21:30 Spot on China 21:00 Daughters 19:30 Films from a seizures epileptic which may trigger photosensitive light effects intense contains This film this programme. should not watch These people with epilepsy. in people 70‘ 56‘ 70‘ of the Revolution 74‘ forgotten country TICKETS The Man Woman AWARD Ceremony 22.30 21:45 Spot on China 20:15 & screening of the 19:00 opening Exhibition 60‘ case 56‘ awarded films ar ning

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‘This selection showcases the creativity of Chinese women artists that is driven by the power of me- Selection curated in cooperation with Yantong Zhu, filmmaker and chief curator of China Inde- mories, including aspects from sensory experience to rational thinking. These works also illustrate pendent Animation Film Forum 2018: their cross-disciplinary approaches, combining perspectives of anthropology, psychology and myth- Chunning (Maggie) GUO, telling.´ Associate professor, Renmin University My Little School The Remedy Shadow Yang Yang, CN 2018, 07’29 Zilai Feng, CN/US 2017, 06’54 Lei Lei, CN 2017, 05’32

Walking did not seem to be looking at bined, transformed and moved Yuxiao Yi, CN 2013, 06’30 me either. around in a jigsaw game, for- ming figures, living creatures, Longhorn Miao’s Love Songs artificial objects. Yijing Wang, CN/UK 2018, 05’32 Bai Ri Yue Guang/ Moon Light in Sunny Day A little boy tells us stories that A Chinese herbal doctor tries IThe film shows the injuries Yue Chen, Kanwen Chen, illustrate the simple yet happy to heal herself from sickness inflicted on a girl who was CN 2018, 03’31 life of children in a mountain by making a soup of memory. sexually harassed. village. The Plum Blossom My Seashell Memory ‘Adopting a micro-perspective CIAO CIAO Jin Yu, CN 2012, 05’00 Yanlai Chen, CN/UK 2015, 10’11 the film creates a whole world Jiayin Chen, CN 2016, 05’34 of particles with an absurd An animated documentary circulatory system. It explains about Long-horn Miao wed- the law of conservation of dings, based on a participatory energy with a seemingly sci- approach in working with peo- A young woman ignores all entific method and reflects on ple with minority backgrounds her mother’s care as she the female body, technology to ensure that their perspecti- looks back on her childhood. and humanity.’ (Yi Yuxiao) ves are represented. The aim A highly delicate psychological In China, the plum flower We drift through childhood is to create a visual archive of description. A bullied girl has a strange is often used to represent memories; recurring motifs – Short Sighted daily life and cultural events. friend. Three times they are the spirit of bravery and a seashell, an orchid – express Yao Liu, CN 2015, 03’47 separated and meet again. fearlessness. Using a classical the artist’s love for her father. I PLAY YOU PLAY WE PLAY Each time the boy is different Chinese song as background Like the shell’s vortex pattern, Mi Chai, CN 2014, 03’45 from how she remembers him. music, Yu Jin tells the story of the camera swirls around soft Perhaps she never really knew a teacher who volunteered at pencil and watercolour dra- him. All she knows about the schools in rural areas all his wings as they morph seam- boy comes from her own ever- life. One of his students chose lessly from scene to scene. changing and growing heart. to follow in his footsteps.

My glasses were broken.

Suddenly I discovered the ad- Supported by: vantage of being short-sighted. The process of creation: I found the sun bigger than Wooden blocks in geometric usual and became accustomed shapes (circles, triangles, to not looking at others, as they squares) are constantly com- 28 CHINA Duration: 56 minutes 29 Schwerpunkt Spot on China

Presented and curated in cooperation with Yantong Zhu, filmmaker and chief curator of China inside and outside cat eyes, A Woman’s Life Black Room Independent Animation Film Forum 2018 and Jin Yu, filmmaker and professor at China Aca- reflecting increasingly strange Jin Yu, CN 2014, 06’00 Jingjing Ren, CN 2017, 04’17 demy of Art, Hangzhou. and different environments of survival of people today. This programme addresses controversial social issues and looks at serious problems, often from a humorous point of view. The filmmakers offer insights into current debates that are relevant not only Hugging Dancing in China but globally: from state control and social media to environmental pollution to domestic Yuanyuan Huang, CN 2015, 05’00 violence and social exclusion.

After the birth of her child, a A girl grows up in a violent Beijing Opera actress famed home. A warm-hearted boy Cat City Home The Laughing Carnival for her role as the legendary brings a little comfort to her Jueyang Zhang, CN 2018, Yanrusi Wang, CN 2018, 03’39 Lei Yang, CN 2018, 05’13 Chinese heroine Mu Guiying wounded mind. This film is 05’56 wants to return to the stage based on my childhood ex- Three guys meet, become and continue her career. The periences. I hope it can bring friends, go their separate ways complex realities of her life courage to friends who have and meet again unexpectedly. are full of contradictions. the same experience. Let me hug you with my dancing heart! 1,000 Chinese children Daisy My Milk Cup Cow contributed their drawings. Jingjing Ren, CN 2016, 04’28 Yantong Zhu, CN/JP 2014, 11’03 A hermit crab without a conch An absurd and ironic story One day, a giant cat was found finds a broken bottle in the in the form of a news report: My Little World in the middle of the forest. sea. It becomes its shell to about a nobody who lives on Mengqian Chen, Jiao Liu, People were so fond of the cat protect against its natural the margins of society, someo- CN 2012, 06’40 that, gradually, an entire city enemies. This ‘unique’ waste ne who was forced to integrate grew around it. drives the crabs to abandon into mainstream groups and their permanent shells and be assimilated by the majority. Day, The Chef rely on solid sea waste. Daisy’s mother cannot protect Nunu’s single-parent father Shuyu Xiong, CN 2016, 02’34 The Door Mirror her: The girl cannot be born tells his 4-year-old daugh- Xi He, CN 2014, 07’17 safely because of resistance ter that there is a cow at the from outside. The original in- bottom of her milk cup. Nunu The story of a girl who has tention of this film was to raise drinks her milk, only to realize autism. She likes to tear paper awareness of how girls are that there is no cow. Gradually and enjoys her beautiful and being discriminated against. the daughter stops believing colourful inside world. her father.

This animation presents the subtle connection between People use peepholes (‘cat urban life and Beijing dishes. eyes’ in Chinese) to peep at Supported by: It vividly reflects how people other people. Modern ink art is are living under the urban used in this dream-like story pressures by using metaphors. to describe a grotesque world 30 CHINA Duration: 62 minutes 31 Schwerpunkt Beyond Animation

Presented by and curated in cooperation with Yantong Zhu, filmmaker and chief curator of Birds Dream Pining Chasing China Independent Animation Film Forum 2018. Chai Mi, CN 2014, 10’15 Caibei Cai, CN/UK 2017, 02’15 Chao Wu, CN 2011, 22’27

Nature, art and artificiality, profound emotions and technologized lives, humanized nature and de- humanized cities: This programme offers insights into China’s contemporary art discourse. All directors presented here are active in various fields of modern art, and their films, installations and performances enjoy great success both in China and in the international art world.

So Red And A Little Blue It Is My Fault * Peach Blossom Fish Sparrows and ravens are the Between lightness and abstrac- What are you chasing? Where Sijia Luo, CN 2015, 04’00 Sha Liu, CN 2016, 02’34 Hailu Chen, Yi Shi, CN 2018, only birds that have survived in tion, Caibei Cai tries to capture are you heading? The crows 08’45 the megacity of Beijing, says an ineffable feeling – in an ani- are watching and you are just Chai Mi. Her handcrafted mo- mation dominated by the stroke a meaningless story in their dels tell us about their dreams, and free association. eyes. The film is composed of about circulation and alienation. seemingly irrelevant things: The film is based on live perfor- Silk And Symmetry Curious children keep marching mances by the artist. Tingting Lu, CN 2010, 04’35 and searching, a wall you can climb over but never turn back, Fragments of information are Using computer-game visuals Cells’ Amusement Park the shadow is weak at night but scattered across computers and a matching soundtrack, A lonely little fish in a pond Ang Li, Caibei Cai, CN 2016, strong during the day. and the internet and constitute Liu Sha shows what happens is spoiled by a squirrel. It 04’30 Using different approaches the world of Red and Blue. when spirituality disappears comes to enjoy the squirrel’s that include hand-painted When they meet, their faces from everyday life and people love and care more and more animation, video, installation, look so red, but maybe their lose themselves in a technolo- and eventually turns into a field trips and interdisciplinary moods are a little blue? gized world. beautiful goldfish. Meanwhile, collaborations, Chao Wu has it has become a prisoner too, gained extensive attention in the * WARNING: This film con- trapped in an affluent paradi- contemporary new media art tains intense light effects se. Brush&Ink-Technique. The video is based on a radio fit- world. which may trigger photosen- An imaginary football game bet- ness programme that is popular sitive epileptic seizures in ween blue and red ink figures, in Chinese schools. The style people with epilepsy. These set in a fascinating sci-fi world of animation is distorted rather people should not watch this of cellular tissue that serves as than realistic in order to make programme. the playing field for blood cells the characters more expressive. and antibodies.

Supported by: 32 CHINA Duration: 70 minutes Duration: 60 minutes 33 Schwerpunkt Daughters The Man Woman Case of the Revolution Women Filmmakers in Classic Chinese Animation

Curated and presented by Olga Bobrowska, Ph.D. candidate in Film Studies at Jagiellonian University, Bobbi & Sheelagh Orange is the New Black: The Man Woman Case Kraków, specialized in classic Barb Taylor, CA 2018, 12’00 Unraveled Anaïs Caura, FR 2017, 45’00 Chinese animated film Špela Cˇadež, SI 2017, 03’40

Ideas of women's emancipation and liberation from the feudal chains became key concepts for the Chinese feminism movement. The lives and careers of the observed filmmakers present ambiguous trajectory of this wave. The technical and narrative development of classic Chinese animation was marked with the unique visions of the politically prominent filmmaker and theorist (Bo'er Chen), experimental and influential chief-cinematographer (Xiaoxuan Duan), and the film directors who pursued artistic perfectionism (Cheng Tang) and creative modernization (Wenxiao Lin, Yihong Hu). Bobbi meets a mythological Sydney, 1920: 38-year-old creature whose ancient battle Commissioned by Netflix, this Eugene Falleni is wanted for for acceptance helps her short recreates some of the the murder of his wife, Annie. Little Sisters of Grassland Deer Bell I Lu ling The Tall Woman And Her overcome highlights of the acclaimed But why would he kill the I Caoyuan yingxiong xiao Cheng Tang, Qiang Wu, Short Husband her own fears of being series. ‘They wanted to have woman he loves? Is he maybe jiemei 1982, 20’00 Yihong Hu, 1989, 10’00 herself – a young lesbian. a recap without dialogue and not the one we think he is? Cheng Tang, Yunda Qian, Cinematography: Xiaoxuan This animated short was since the whole show is mainly Now he is the talk of the town. 1964, 40’00 Duan, prod. Shanghai Ani- created in a traditional method based on dialogue, it was quite And when the truth comes out, Shanghai Animation Film mation Film Studio (Shang- with thousands of handpainted a task to put all this in some everyone wants to know more Studio (Shanghai meishu hai meishu dianying zhi pian cels and pencil crayon sort of sense,’ recalls the about the ‘monster’… dianying zhi pian chang) chang) backgrounds. Featuring director who also faced the Difference is scary and Canadian actor Nisha Ahuja challenge of designing puppets difference intrigues. and Irish actor Mel Bradley. based on real-life actors. Paradoxically, it is in prison that Eugene will be free to be A tall woman and a short man himself. are happily married. Their difference in height doesn’t bother them – but it does One of four ink-and-wash unsettle the people around painting animated films made them who continue to suggest The storyline revolves around at SAFS. It is a tender story of all kinds of remedies for the a supposedly true event of friendship, empathy and almost ‘problem’. The film is based on two girls from Inner Mongolia sisterly relation between a little a short story by Feng Jicai. risking their lives for the sake girl and a young deer. It is a of the herd, consequently wel- gentle tale about love, respect fare of their fellow villagers. and loss. The slow dramaturgi-

This cell animation presents cal pace perfectly fits poetics of Supported by: beautiful, wild and vast land- this unique technique created scapes, while its narrative is by the Chinese artists of the mostly driven by the songs. classic era, among whom Lin Wenxiao was one of the cinematographer Duan Xiao- main animators working on xuan played an integral and this film. essential role. 34 Duration: 60 minutes Duration: 70 minutes 35 Happiness Machine | Seder-Masochism To the Common Good! 20 women artists have an animated discussion about the future of the world

In a unique project initiated by Klangforum Wien and Tricky Women, twenty women artists were invited to team up into ten animator/composer pairs and create works inspired by the concept of the Common Good Economy. The result is ten films about consumption and greed, solidarity and Seder-Masochism competition, unity and rebellion. World premiere of the cinema version and Q&A with the artists! Nina Paley, US 2018, 70’00 Nina Paley will be present via Skype!

The Flounder Music Box Measuring the Distance Elizabeth Hobbs / Joanna Kozuch / Ying Wang Susi Jirkuff / Joanna Bailie Seder-Masochism, an animated musical, loosely follows the Carola Bauckholt Passover Seder story, with events from the Book of Exodus retold by Moses, Aharon, the Angel of Death, Jesus and the director’s father. The film puts a twist on the traditional Biblical story by including a female deity perspective – the Goddess in a tragic struggle against the forces of patriarchy.

Seder-Masochism has been in the works since 2012 when Paley first animated a scene called This Land Is Mine, a parody about Bloomers Generator / Operator never-ending conflict in the Levant which has been viewed over Lickalike Samantha Moore / Malin Bång Andrea Schneider / Marianthi 10 million times on various online channels. Rebecca Blöcher / Papalexandri-Alexandri Eva Reiter Accustomed to working outside the mainstream movie industry, Paley has made Seder-Masochism a one-woman project: she wrote, directed and animated it herself.

Paley released her first feature, Sita Sings the Blues, (screened at Tricky Women 2009), for free to the public in March 2009 under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license, dedicating it to the Hierarchy Glitch public domain 5 years later. Contradicting movie industry expec- Vessela Dantcheva / Electric Indigo Suggestion of Least tations, the more people saw Sita online, the more they sought it PANTOPOS Resistance out in theaters and film festivals. In December 2009, Sita enjoyed Eni Brandner / Michelle Kranot / a 5-week run at the IFC Film Center in New York (extended by Misato Mocizuki Iris ter Schiphorst popular demand beyond its planned 1-week run), and it continu- es screening in theaters, festivals, and special events to this day.

The Happiness Machine Ana Nedeljkovic´ / Hanna Hartman 36 Duration: 74 minutes 37 Die Musici | The Musicians Am Fenster | different way and in an entirely Films from a forgotten country Katja Georgi, 1964, 04’00 City – At The Window new context: Faust wants to Otto Sacher, Marion Rasche, invent a fire that is stronger Female directors of the DEFA studio of animation in Dresden 1979, 06’00 than all the fires in the world. The fascinating artwork is reminiscent of Bosch. Curated and presented by Sabine Scholze (co-founder and board member of the German Institute of Animated Film) Die Lösung | The Solution Sieglinde Hamacher, 1988, On the 30-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we rediscover the most productive women 03’00 artists of the DEFA animation studios of the former GDR. We are showing original archival prints of films by Sieglinde Hamacher, who never shied away from ©Defa-Stiftung controversial issues and whose ‘films continue to be a clever invitation for discourse even today Four gentlemen are complete- ©Defa-Stiftung, Rolf Hofmann thanks to their subject-matter and creative and artistic strength’ (curator Sabine Scholze). Her ly absorbed in the music they A girl stands alone at the fellow filmmakers Marion Rasche, Katja Georgi, Monika Anderson and Bärbel Eckhold also explored are playing, noticing neither window and contemplates new ways of visual expression. Let’s go back in time and watch the stories told by the women ani- that one of them is arrested her relationship after spen- mators of this ‘lost country’. nor that their house is dest- ding the night with her lover. royed in a military operation. A Marion Rasche’s animated oil cut-out animation with its own paintings fade into each other, ©Defa-Stiftung, Brigitte Schönberner Die sieben Rechte des Kontraste | Contrasts Die Wahrheit um den political agenda. creating a charming backdrop Birds are sitting on a power Zuschauers | Sieglinde Hamacher, 1982, Froschkönig | for the surprise hit by the line. Everybody in the flock is Seven Rights Of A Viewer 04’00 The Truth About The Frog Die große Reise der alten Berlin rock band ‘City’. looking in the same direction Marion Rasche, 1982, 02’00 Prince Schildkröte | – except for one. Really, that Sieglinde Hamacher, 1986, The Old Turtle’s Great Journey Ein friedlicher Tag | is unacceptable! A behaviou- 07’00 Bärbel Eckhold, 1989, 02’00 A Peaceful Day ral study of birds with an all Sieglinde Hamacher, 1985, too human attitude, adorably 04’00 animated and full of psycholo- A beetle is frantically chased gical humour. by a bird. It finally manages to wiggle into a crack and belie- Die kluge Bauerntochter |

©Defa-Stiftung, Brigitte Schönberner ves itself out of harm’s way. The Peasant’s Wise Daughter A lot can be seen in a drop But it may not be quite as safe Monika Anderson,1984, 20’00 ©Defa-Stiftung, Helmut Krahnert of water falling from a leaf: as it thinks… A fast-paced, In this well-known fairytale by There is so much you can do things both wonderful and colourful felt-pen animation. the Brothers Grimm, the un- in the darkness of the cinema: terrible, joyful and sad, tales ©Defa-Stiftung ©Defa-Stiftung, Lutz Kleber wavering love and brilliant mind you can chat, knit, sleep, of becoming and perishing. A funny take on the Frog Passion can move mountains: Das Feuer des Faust | of a peasant’s wise daughter smooch, or quietly steal off. The film’s abstract approach Prince tale: The princess The old turtle absolutely loves The Fire of Faust show her husband, the King, A funny short about all the was vehemently rejected by deliberately throws her golden the can-can and is determined Katja Georgi, 1982, 22’00 that he could not find a better things cinema-goers get up to. the cultural powers-that-be ball into the well to get herself to go to Paris. Made by a di- wife even if he tried. Full of and even the negative was the man of her dreams. Howe- rector more widely known for bizarre wit and solid comedy destroyed. The director was ver, the story soon takes some children’s films, this short is while still fresh and modern in able to save one working copy, unexpected turns and twists. remarkable for its artistic ap- its execution, this is the perfect from which a positive was A humorous deconstruction of proach and the creative design feel-good film. made in 1990. the ‘perfect man’. by Maja Nagel, a Sorbian artist and graduate of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.

A compilation that invites us to explore the different stages of life. By times reflective, humorous and Turned Away Orbit absurd, we experience human joys and longings or discover ‘forgotten’ artists and ancient wisdom. Daniela Sherer, US 2017, Tess Martin, NL 2018, 06´50 01’47 L’après-midi de Clémence | Good Intentions A Little Lovin Clemence’s Afternoon Anna Mantzaris, UK 2018, Marie Paccou, FR 2018, 3’10 Lénaïg Lemoigne, FR 2018, 08’00 10’00

Spinning drawings allow us In July 2012, David Mullins and to follow the flow of energy Charlie Craig visited Mas- across our planet and make us terpiece Cakeshop together ponder our place in the cycle Strange and spooky things This charming video combines with Charlie's mother to order of nature. Clémence and her parents are start to happen to a young wo- 1 song of love or the lack a cake for their upcoming late for a big garden party. She man responsible for a hit-and- thereof, 3 famous poets and wedding reception. This is Biidaaban | tries to join the other children run… A short thriller about 26 hands. their story. The Dawn Comes who are playing away from the people who do not always Amanda Strong, CA 2018, adults but they don’t seem too make the best decisions. Something Is Gone La Chambre Des Filles | 18´15 keen on her. Lia Bertels, BE 2018, 02’40 The Sisters’ Bedroom Gloria’s Call Claire Brognez, CA 2018, The Armpit Hair Girl Cheri Gaulke, US 2018, 16’45 06’35 Dahee Jeong, Youngseo Kwon, KR 2017, 06’30

Since time immemorial, When the desire between two indigenous people have A feminist scholar’s wild jour- people is gone. harvested sap from trees to ney of female friendship and Louise enjoys a private produce syrup. Biidaaban, a Kim Boong-eo has a swim- Surrealist art. From the cafés moment to open her treasure young indigenous gender fluid ming lesson. In the shower of Paris to the mountaintops of box in the room she shares person, and Sabe, an age-old room she discovers hair under Lapland, it uses art, animation with her little sister – who, shapeshifter, set out to gather her armpit. She tries to cut and personal storytelling to unbeknown to her, is hiding sap from sugar maples in their it off but the hair is putting reveal an often unseen history under the bed to spy on her. suburban neighbourhood and, up resistance. She finds an of women in the arts. The film deals with sensuality thus, to continue the work of exceptional solution. and erotic experiences. their ancestors. Biidaabaan can see traces of time, people, creatures and land. 28 OCT – 03 NOV 2019 IMMER WIDER BRAV! Kritische Meinungen und Kommentare. Jede Woche.

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