ANTÔNIA
Preta, Barbarah, Mayah and Lena live in Vila Brasilândia on the outskirts of São Paulo. All four of them work as background singers, but they share the dream to once take center stage and sing. They decide to fight for their dream and start a career as the band Antônia. Endowed with talent, a manager and a repertoire from rap, pop, soul and mbp (música popular brasileira) they embark on the rocky road of club and party gigs. But just when they have their first success and the way out of misery seems to lie ahead, they are caught up with everyday life and its ubiquitous poverty, male chauvinism and violence. 

21.4., 9 p.m., Schauburg 1 
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ASK THE WIND
Ayako Mogi, D/J 2002, 57’, documentary
Pianist Misa Shimomura and violinist Saikou Miyajima are a couple, living with their children in the South-West of Japan. He occasionally works as a causual labourer, she as a nurse in a retirement home. Which doesn’t alter the fact that, primarily, they are both musicians dedicated to the cause of improvised music. Ayako Mogi’s work has always seemed to be composed with a musical sensibility. In ASK THE WIND, she tackles the relationship between sound and image, teasing out the aesthetics of the everyday. The face of a baby crying or the reflections in a puddle as rubber-booted kiddies splash through it are as interesting.

20. 4., 1.30 p.m., Schauburg 2
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BENIDORM
Carolin Schmitz, D 2006, 19’, short film

BENIDORM is an important tourist centre on the Mediterranean. The town stands for package tourism, sun and surf at give-away rates. And for a paved-over coast. In the wintertime, mostly pensioners come. BENIDORM is a film about age, dignity and transience.

21.4., 2 p.m., Schauburg 2
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BEYOND THE ROCKS
Sam Wood, USA 1922, 81’, silent film with Gloria Swanson
BEYOND THE ROCKS takes us from England via the Alps and Paris to the Algerian desert, thus providing the wonderful Gloria Swanson with any number of opportunities to (a) adapt her wardrobe, exotic and orientalising at the best of times, to each change of scenery and (b) cast her famously intense gazes from under the rims of voluminous hats and turbans. She plays Theodora, a captain’s daughter, who in a marriage of convenience weds an old and corpulent but wealthy parvenu in order to ensure a certain affluence for her father and sisters. Said gentleman may be kind-hearted but it he isn’t. Lord Bracondale, though, the sublime and sleek Rudolph Valentino, simply oozes it and, what’s more, comes to our heroine’s rescue in life-threatening situations … twice.
Live accompaniment on the piano by Ruth Bieri (CH).

19. 4., 8 p.m., domicil
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BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA
Anke Limprecht, D/ET 2005, 17’, short film
The Library of Alexandria (built around 295 BC) was the most prestigious place of learning in the Ancient World. The cause for its destruction (around 500 AD) still unknown, it was rebuilt under the aegis of the Egyptian government and the UNESCO and reopened in 2002. The Egyptians are very proud of their project, and the management is committed to recreating the myth of the ancient library. Director Anke Limprecht, a librarian herself, shows us the everyday dealings in the world’s largest reading room.

21.4., 2 p.m., Schauburg 2  
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BIRDS
Pleix, F 2006, 3’, music video
Flying dogs in a music video of the band Vitalic.

19.4., 11 p.m., Schauburg 2
21. 4., 9 p.m., domicil

BRIDE & PREJUDICE
Gurinder Chadha, GB/USA 2004, 106’, musical
Mrs Bakshi from Amritsar in India tirelessly looks for suitable bachelors for her four daughters. When the English resident Balraj comes to a wedding in Amritsar, there is no holding. Gurinder Chadha transferred Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice from 19th century England to an India of the 21st century and staged it as a Bollywood-style musical.

21. 4., 11 p.m., Schauburg 1
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CARNETS DE VALSE: VIENNE – PARIS – LIMA (Waltz Diaries)
Patricia Plattner, CH/A/F 2005, 55’, documentary
Patricia Plattner visits Vienna, Paris and Lima in search of the quintessence and the origins of the waltz which is not a specifically Austrian invention. People across Europe were stepping out to the three-four beat of the musette where the accordion set the tone, not the violin. Meanwhile in Peru, the Creole Waltz also enjoys huge popularity. Here you don’t just dance, you sing to the sound of guitar and cajon.

22. 4., 4 p.m., Schauburg 2
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CLUB Q – THE LEGENDARY DANCE PARTY
Kirsten Wolf, USA 2003, 34’, documentary
It all began in the 980s. Once a month, about a thousand women of all skin colours, of all ages and backgrounds gathered. It went on for 15 years. They wanted to dance and party. The Club Q, San Francisco’s legendary lesbian party was a singular phenomenon: its longevity and its wide-ranging audience seemed a miracle in the rapidly changing club scene of the city. The idea for Q came from the club promoter and DJ Page Hodel.

21.4.,8.30 p.m., Schauburg 2
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CODENAME FIGARO
Anja Salomonowitz, A 2006, 1’, short film
A telephone conversation between a man and a woman. He is Singhalese. They are going to marry. Love talk? They are discussing questions they might be asked. Questions about their connubial flat and their secret pet names.

21. 4., 11 p.m., Schauburg 1

COMEBACK
Mara Matuschka, A 2005, 14’, experimental short film
We witness the genesis of a diva. Glamorous dresses, masks and gestures turn this profane person into an icon of her own success. Ample self-reflexion confirms the desired effect. The unexpected confrontation with her own alter ego, manifesting herself as the diva’s actual rival, introduces a dream play of mirrorings and déjà vus. 

18.4., 10.30 p.m., Schauburg 2
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CRAZY
Heddy Honigmann, NL 1999, 97’, documentary
The film’s title song CRAZY (Seal) will forever remind one UN commander of the horrors he personally witnessed during a bomb attack on a Sarajevo market. We join Heddy Honigmann, as she lets Dutch soldiers talk about their military deployments in the Balkans, Cambodia, Lebanon and Ruanda. Each one of them had a particular song that helped him come down or override the fear. With great skill and sensitivity, the director observes how the veterans give themselves up to the music and to the memories. It’s as if the music is the only key available to unlock these people’s suppressed emotions.

21. 4., 2 p.m., Schauburg 1
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DEBT BEGINS AT 20
Stephanie Beroes, USA 1980, 40’, experimental short film
A portrait of the legendary Pittsburgh punk scene of the early 1980s. The film mixes documentary and semi-fictional material which is almost comically tied up through the use of inter- and subtitles.

18.4., 10.30 p.m., Schauburg 2
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DER FREMDE VOGEL
(The Strange Bird )
Urban Gad, D 1911, 44’, silent film with Asta Nielsen
In this early silent-movie drama, Asta Nielsen plays May, an English woman on holiday in the idyllic Spree Forest, who falls in love with a young fisherman and then rebels against her father and the constraints of a socially correct marriage.
Musical accompaniment by the Asta Harmonists conducted by Maud Nelissen.

20.4., 9 p.m., domicil
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DIE AKKORDEONSPIELERIN 
(Macedonian Dream – A Girl and Her Accordion)
Biljana Garvanlieva, D 2006, 30’, Dokumentarfilm
Emilija lives in Macedonia, she wants to be a concert musician and practices on her old Supita accordion day in, day out. The problem is if she’s going to get anywhere, she’ll need a new instrument but her family can’t afford one. Although a trained art teacher, her father works as a bodyguard while her mother sells sweets
on the black market. 

22. 4., 2 p.m., Schauburg 1

DREI GRAZIEN 
(Three Graces)
Hanna Nordholt and Fritz Steingrobe, D 2006, 15’, short film
There a three Graces governing the media: look, sound and script. These three Graces are a force to reckon with even on their own. When they team up, they are invincibile. DREI GRAZIEN tells the history of media development with striking visuals and sound, starting with Thomas Alva Edison, who was the first to record his own voice.

21. 4., 2 p.m., Schauburg 1

EAST OF HAVANA
Emilia Menocal und Jauretsi Saizarbitoria, USA 2006, 82’, documentary
Soandry, Mikki Flow and Magyori Martinez live in the workers’ district of Alamar, Cuba’s homegrown Bronx. Sometimes, the three have to sell their clothes to pay for the next meal. But as the hip hop trio El Cartel, they are revered by Cuba’s youth, their lyrics giving a voice to the kids’ frustration. EAST OF HAVANA shows the life of these charismatic artists whose mission it is to introduce rap to Cuba. In their endeavours to get a hip hop festival going, Mikki is thwarted by government officials and Hurricane Charley. Produced by Charlize Theron

21.4., 6.15 p.m., Schauburg 2
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D’EST EN MUSIQUE – 
a play with images from the film D’Est by Chantal Akerman
With Sonia Wieder-Atherton (violoncello) and Laurent Cabasso (piano)
The musicians become one with the film image, the film image absorbs the musicians as organic part of itself. It surprises nobody that musicians play in the street without being run over. Sonia Wieder-Atherton has reassembled Chantal Akerman’s film D’Est to fit a new score she selected for it. It is impossible to draw the line between music, film and theatre.

Opening of the Festival, 
17.4., 7.30 p.m., Theatre Dortmund
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Experimental-Kurzfilme –
The Stars are Projectors
Vier Kurzfilme aus den letzten 30 Jahren, die dem Verhältnis von Pop und Ego nachgehen. Von den postapokalyptischen Selbstinszenierungen des New Yorker Underground der 1980er Jahre über die groteske Begegnung einer Operndiva mit ihrem Alter Ego, exzentrische Rituale der Einverleibung männlicher Starposen bis hin zum widerständigen Pathos der Pittsburgher Punkszene.
STATEN ISLAND • COMEBACK • NEVERMIND • DEBT BEGINS AT 20

Mi 18.4., 22.30, Schauburg 2
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FALLEN
Barbara Albert, A 2006, 88’, competition
Five women in their early thirties meet again in their small home town after 14 years. Their unforeseen reunion lasts for two days and a night; a journey into the past, present and future begins, where old wounds are opened up and life-long illusions are exposed. In sparse dialogue and powerful images, Barbara Albert shows that it’s never too late to change things and that there’s always room for a new dream.

18. 4., 6 p.m., Schauburg 1
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FOREVER
Heddy Honigmann, NL 2006, 93’, documentary  
The Père-Lachaise in Paris is one of the most famous and beautiful cemeteries in the world. For it is here that renowned artists – such as Edith Piaf and Jim Morrison as well as Chopin and Proust – were to find their final resting place, their graves still a destination for pilgrims from all over the world. Heddy Honigmann draws the visitors to Père-Lachaise Cemetery into conversation. Chance encounters reveal details of intimate relationships. This place of the dead seems increasingly to act as a source of inspiration for the living. Ultimately, though, FOREVER poses serious questions about the transience of life and the eternity of art.

20. 4., 4 p.m., Schauburg 1
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FULL METAL VILLAGE
Sung-Hyung Cho, D 2006, 90’, documentary
At the first weekend in August every year, the tiny village of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein says goodbye to the peace and quiet that usually rules the roost in this parish of two thousand souls. For it moves the threeday Wacken Open Air Festival: over 40,000 heavy-metal fans from all over the world pilgrim to the Wacken Festival. Sung-Hyung Cho, herself a stranger to the North German province, takes a critical look at this curious and likable encounter between two entirely different cultures.

20. 4., 8.30 p.m., Schauburg 2
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GEGEN DIE WAND (Head On)
Fatih Akin, D 2004, 123’, feature film with Sibel Kekilli
In order to escape her restrictive parents, Sibel asks the cynical alcoholic Cahit to enter into a fictitious marriage. Cahit, to whom Turkish conventions and traditions mean nothing, eventually agrees to her plea. They share an apartment, but not life.Sibel enjoys her freedom: she dances into the wee hours, sleeps with various men, celebrates her lust for life. But Cahit also gains new courage to face life from living with the young woman. It is too late when they come to realise that they have actually fallen in love with each other.
When Sibel Kekilli gave her debut in HEAD ON in 2004, the force of her acting was a tectonic event in German film. For her multilayered interpretation of the role of hungry-for-life German-Turkish girl Sibel, Kekilli was awarded the German Film Prize for best actress.
Debate with Sibel Kekilli 

19. 4.,8.15 p.m., Schauburg 2
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GELIEBTE WEISSE MAUS 
(Beloved White Mouse)
The East-German answer to the Swinging Sixties. The traffic policeman Fritz oversees traffic at the Dresden Schillerplatz. Every morning, he encounters the beautiful Helene, who crosses the intersection on her scooter. He falls in love, yet lacks the courage to talk to Helene. The more courageous Helene takes matters in her own hands and causes a small accident, forcing him to talk to her. The film attracted an audience of four million. Karin Schröder was called Doris Day of the GDR.

22. 4., 9 p.m., domicil
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GOLDEN EIGHTIES
A Parisian shopping mall: neon-lit fashion stores and snack bars. Eli, an American, has already spent the entire morning there. He introduces us to Sylvie, whose lover has left to try his luck on the other side of the Atlantic. Then to Mado, the young hairdresser, whose love for the handsome salesman Robert goes unanswered, while he is courting Lili, girlfriend of the great gangster M. Jean. GOLDEN EIGHTIES is a frolicsome and funny musical. The theme is love, but the lyrics are blunt and also deal with sex and money. 

22.4., 2 p.m., Schauburg 2
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GUNDULA – BORN ‘58
Gitta Nickel, DDR 1982, 56’, documentary
A single parent with a small daughter, the 24-year-old Gundula works as a nurse at a retirement home. In the free time she has, she likes to sing in a band. Here, to camera, she speaks about her everyday routine and whatever’s on her mind, about world peace and about her attitude to getting old (even if that seems a long way off). Gundula is a character study of a young woman who expects more of life than just work and family. Moreover, it casts fascinating light on the early 1980s German Democratic Republic.

18. 4., 4 p.m., Schauburg 2
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HITLER’S HITPARADE
Oliver Axer, Susanne Benze; D 2003, 75’, Documentary
HITLER’S HITPARADE is a disturbing and subversive collage of sequences from various kinds of film made during the Nazi Regime – amateur footage, commercials, cartoons, propaganda, documentaries and feature films, all backed by a soundtrack of showtunes and other popular music of the 1930s and 1940s.

20. 4., 4 p.m., Schauburg 2
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HUMAN RADIO
Miranda Pennell, GB 2002, 9’, short film
The director put an advertisement in the paper: “Looking for living-room dancers”. She then began to work with the first ten people to respond. HUMAN RADIO is the result. Miranda Pennell explores how much film there is in dance and how much dance there is in film and thus comes up with a new definition of the dance film genre.

19. 4., 10.30 p.m., domicil 

JAM SESSION
Isabela Plucinska, D 2005, 10’, animation
Theresa and Viktor are about 50 years old. They have been married for a long time and dully live side by side. Tonight they cannot get to sleep: there is loud music coming from the jazz club downstairs. The couple doesn’t understand what’s happening to them – but the music does something to them and their surroundings.

22. 4., 12 a.m., domicil 

Josephine Baker –
A Celebration of Life in Stages
Dance performance with Maria Mitchell und Terry Jenoure
Avantgarde artists Maria Mitchell and Terry Jenoure from New York celebrate the triumphs and struggles of Josephine Baker in words, dance and live music. 

20.4., 6 p.m., domicil

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KURZFILMPROGRAMM
ONKEL DDR singt schön über die Zeit vor dem Mauerfall und CLUB Q erinnert an die coolsten Lesben-Parties aller Zeiten. Ein unterhaltsames Kurzfilmprogramm:
LIEB ICH DICH • THE INFLUENCE OF OCULAR LIGHT PERCEPTION • CLUB Q – THE LEGENDARY DANCE PARTY • ONKEL DDR • LAST CHANCE

Sa 21.4., 20.30 Uhr, Schauburg 2
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KURZ DAVOR IST ES PASSIERT 
(It Happened Just Before)
Anja Salomonowitz,  A 2006, 72’, feature film
Anja Salomonowitz chooses an unusual approach to the theme of trafficking of women. Her film is based on actual stories of trafficked women, from whom the director has written her documentary screenplay. The stories are told not by actresses, but by people who could be in a certain relation to the events and locations of the film: a customs officer, a village resident, a brothel waiter, a diplomat and a taxi driver. A film about false promises, exploitation and disappointment. KURZ DAVOR IST ES PASSIERT was awarded the Caligari film prize at the Berlinale in 2007.

Sa 21. 4., 4 p.m., Schauburg 2
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LADY CHATTERLEY
Pascale Ferran, F 2006, 161’, competition
Constance marries the irresistable Cambrigde man, who returns from the battle of Flanders a broken man. He will be impotent and sitting in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Charlotte feels lonely and abandoned in a country life that bores her. She starts an affair with the silent gamekeeper of the estate, who awakens in LADY CHATTERLEY a longing she has never experienced. The film – a huge box office success in France – is based on the novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H.Lawrence, which caused a scandal in 1928 for its alleged pornographic content and direct and blunt writing.

19. 4., 9 p.m., Schauburg 1
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LARGER THAN LIFE
Mariam Ohanyan, ARM 2006, 23’, short film
Both of Natalie’s parents were musicians and so she grew up on the stage, deciding early on that she wanted to be a famous singer when she grew up. Except her voice didn’t play along. Today, she’s the prompter at Yerevan Operahouse and takes her job really seriously.

19. 4., 4 p.m., Schauburg 2

LAST CHANCE
Marion Porten, USA 2005, 5’, short film
IThe scene is a New York subway station and a street busker is singing the final song of her set – LAST CHANCE. While she’s singing, she packs up her things as well.

21.4., 8.30 p.m., Schauburg 2
22. 4., 9 p.m., domicil
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LES HALLUCINATIONS D’UN POMPIER 
(The Hallucinations of a Fireman)
F 1928, 8’, Short silent film with Josephine Baker
A Parisian fire fighter gets drunk in a café. Inebriated, he sees naked women everywhere. At once, an erotic fantasy and an experimental film, the Josephine Baker dance scene in the Métro is the crowning glory. LES HALLUCINATIONS D’UN POMPIER was a trailer for the Folies Bergère, where Josephine Baker appeared in the Vent de Folie revue in 1928.
Live accompaniment on the piano by Barbara Lenz.

20.4., 6 p.m., domicil

LIEB ICH DICH 
(Do I Love You)
Janna Ji Wonders, D 2005, 2’, music video
Will you still love me when I’m old? A music video with Norma Werner. 

19.4., 11 p.m., Schauburg 2 
21.4., 8.30 p.m., Schauburg 2
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LOS REBELDES 
(The Rebels)
Ariane Kessissoglou, D/CU 2001, 10’, short film
The Cuban radio station Radio Progreso broadcasts radio novelas in its adventure programme, to the delight of faithful party members. Noise artists and DJs produce the acoustical landscape for the unflagging struggle of the Rebels of San Pedro – mono, synchronous, analogous.

20. 4., 4 p.m., Schauburg 1 

MARY LOU WILLIAMS: MUSIC ON MY MIND
Joanne Burke, USA 1990, 57’, documentary
The Afro-American pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams, born in Georgia in 1910, was a prodigy. For sixty years she made music and was one of the most remarkable personalities in jazz. 1953, at the height of her career, she left the stage in Paris in the middle of the set and never played again for the next 15 years. Until her glorious comeback she looked after drug-addicted musicians in Harlem. Later, she would become professor of jazz at Duke University. She died in 1981. MARY LOU WILLIAMS: MUSIC ON MY MIND tells the dramatic story of her life in interviews with her and her companions. The commentary is spoken by singer Roberta Flack.

22. 4., 10.30 a.m., domicil  
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MEISTERSINGER – THE SOUND OF RUSSIA
Ekaterina Eremenko, D/GUS 2003, 59’, documentary
Once a year, they meet up in Moscow for a national singing competition organised by the Society of Amateur Canary Bird Singing. And it’s an exclusively male preserve. As the ornithophile men train their feathered friends for the big event, their wives are left to do all the housework. THE SOUND OF RUSSIA is the portrait of creature passions, an affectionate film exploring an exceptional bond between men and birds, a humorous study of the roles of the sexes in Russian society.

22. 4., 2 p.m, Schauburg 1
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Minimalistisches Konzert
Eine musikalische Begegnung zwischen Ulrike Haage (Klavier) und Angelika Niescier (Saxofon) zur Einstimmung auf den im Anschluss gezeigten
Dokumentarfilm ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA.

Fr 20. 4., 23 Uhr, domicil
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Musikvideo-Programm Teil I – Paint Your Skin
When you consider the interaction between sound and vision, music video makes an interesting case: as opposed to short films, music here serves as a prompter and as a source of inspiration for the visual (narrative), especially in its formal realisation. Part I (Paint your skin): A central junction where decomposition, reinvention and mutation takes place is the body. The female perspective is focussed on the body on account of early socialisation.

• Fighter (Christina Aguilera)_Floria Sigismondi, CDN 2003, 4’
• Ta douleur (Camille)_Paf ! le Chien, F 2005, 3’20’’
• Lieb ich dich (Echtzeit)_Janna Ji Wonders, D 2006, 3’
• Kick It (Peaches feat Iggy Pop)_ Dawn Shadforth & Alex Smith, GB 2003, 2’50’’
• Skinny Teeth_Jennifer Reeves, USA 2001, 7’
• Purple Brain (Sandra Künzi)_Sandra Künzi, CH 2005, 3’
• Addicted to Love (Sonic Youth)_Kim Gordon, USA 1985, 3’30’’
• We Don’t Play Guitars (Chicks on Speed)_Deborah Schamoni, D 2003, 4'
• Birds (Vitalic)_Pleix, F 2006, 3’
• Cosmetic Emergency (diverse)_Martha Colburn, USA 2005, 8’
• Attitude (Suede)_Lindy Heymann, USA, 2003, 3’22’’
• Melt Down (De la Soul)_Deborah Schamoni, Judith Hopf, D, 2005, 4’30’’
• In Flames (Hanin Elias)_Hanin Elias, USA 2000, 4’
• Work It (Missy Elliot)_Missy Elliot, USA, 2002, 4’23’’
• Saint Mary’s (Sparklehorse)_Sophie Muller, USA, 2006, 3’58’’

19.4., 11 p.m., Schauburg 2
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Musikvideo-Programm Teil II – Form
When you consider the interaction between sound and vision, music video makes an interesting case: as opposed to short films, music here serves as a prompter and as a source of inspiration for the visual (narrative), especially in its formal realisation. Part II (Forms) shows editing of found footage, remakes or homage, and various animation techniques which are employed, from handmade to electronically generated.

• Sharkey’s Day_Laurie Anderson, USA 1984, 4’07’’
• Kool Thing (Sonic Youth)_Tamra Davis, USA, 1990, 4’09’’
• Megalomaniac (Incubus)_Floria Sigismondi, CDN, 2004, 4’28’’
• Wrong Time Capsule (Deerhoof)_Martha Colburn, USA, 2005, 2’52’’
• Forsaken (Hugo Wolf)_Laura Taler, CDN 2005, 4’06’’
• Volkslied_Maria Wolkowicz; D 2006, 2’
• Busby_Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck, D 1997, 3’30’’
• So Dazed (Quio)_Christine Lang, D 2006, 4’
• Die Zeit heilt alle Wunder (Wir sind Helden)_Cornelia Cornelsen & Florian Giefer, D 2004, 9’30’’
• Baby C’mon (Stephen Malkmus)_Lana Kim & Andy Bruntel, USA 2005, 3’26’’
• B-Alles (Marina Gioti), GR 2005, 2’
• Wordy Rappinghood (Chicks on Speed)_Deborah Schamoni & Ted Gaier, D 2004, 3’30’’
• Relax, It’s Only a Ghost (Phantom/Ghost)_Sandra Trostel, D 2006, 4’30’’
• How To Believe in Jesus (Tujiko Nuriko)_Graw Böckler, D 2003, 6’30’’
• Matki Wandalki (Felix Kubin)_Mariola Brillowska, D 2005, 2’30’’
• Bloodsample (Lo Soul)_Thomas Draschan, Stella Friedrichs, Sebastian Brameshuber, D 2004, 4’
• Black Lead (Death in Vegas)_Corine Stübi, D 2006, 7’

20.4., 11 p.m., Schauburg 2
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NEVERMIND
Jennifer Reeder, USA 1999, 18’, experimental short film
A non-narrative post punk aria showing the artist singing Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” playback. The extreme deceleration introduces static into the popular original, upsets and de-familiarises it to wrest it from its streamlined commercialism. 

18.4., 10.30 p.m., Schauburg 2
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NOTES FROM THE SANATORIUM
Asya Lukin, GB 2006, 7’, animation
Notes from the diary of an old man – everyday scenes and memories – up to the last moment of his life. 

18. 4., 4 p.m., Schauburg 2

NUSSIN
Clara van Gool, NL 1998, 14’, Short Film
Tango: A party in an living room leads to nocturnal rambles. NUSSIN was inspired by the dance performance Ocho.

21. 4., 11 a.m., Schauburg 1

Ô BORD DE LA MER
Sibylle Stürmer, D 2007, 3’, sound:  Marilyn Janssen, short film
“Where land and sea meet. Sand, waves, gurgling foam and I. My feet…” (Sibylle Stürmer)

21.4., 2 p.m., Schauburg 2
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ONKEL DDR (Uncle GDR)
Olga Koch, D 2004, 28’, short film
In the good old days of communist East Germany, ONKEL DDR would gather the intellectual elite of East Berlin in his flat off Kastanienallee. A wonderfully punky one-woman show as the sum total of all socialist singer-songwriters.

21.4., 8.30 p.m., Schauburg 2
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OPERNFIEBER 
(Opera Fever)
Katharina Rupp, D/CH 2004, 70’, Documentary
Katharina Rupp embarks on a musical journey to Italy’s major opera houses, going on stage and behind the scenes to film the doers, the opera lovers, the stake-holders, the faded personalities and the petty criminals – all of whom (in spite of the fierce opposition and rivalry) are bound by an unconditional love of opera. OPERNFIEBER is the story of the deeply rooted popularity of this art form in Italy.

21. 4., 11 a.m., Schauburg 1
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ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA
Shirley Clarke, USA 1985, documentary
The US-American jazz musician (saxophone, trumpet, violin) and composer Ornette Coleman, born in 1930, has become known as the pionier of Free Jazz. Shirley Clark in her documentary ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA pays the visionary an exceptional tribute. Like Coleman himself, this film will not fit any category. Clarke composes her own work using concert footage, computer animation, interviews and play scenes to capture Coleman’s idiosyncratic musical style in pictures. It took Clarke 20 years to finish the film. Rapid zooms, cuts and sequences introduce the viewer into the artist’s world.

20. 4., 11 p.m., domicil
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PAPA GENA
Laila Pakalnina, LT 2001, 10’, short film
The Papagena Aria from Mozart’s Magic Flute is being played on headphones to people of all ages and both genders in their everyday surroundings. While they listen to the music, the camera records their reactions in their faces and their gestures. Laila Pakalnina portrays people in their surroundings and the landscape they live in. In juxtaposition to the emotional music this makes for impressions that are very personal, surprising and comical, at times.

22. 4., 4 p.m., Schauburg 2 

pdq^d
Live Performance with Petra Dollemann and Peter van Bergen
Petra Dolleman’s and Peter J. A. van Bergen’s performance is an improvisation with both sounds and images: the musical improvisations of van Bergen (clarinet, saxophone and electronic sounds) are Dolleman’s source of inspiration for her creative work with prepared images (photography, drawings, animations, video) as well as live drawings and recordings.The live performance of pdq^d with its images and sounds is an ever renewed quest for the fundamental ties between the two art forms.

21.4., 6.30 p.m., domicil
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PEOPLE IN ORDER
Lenka Clayton und James Price, GB 2006, 12’, short film
A person of every age between 1 and 100 beats a drum. One time for each year.

19. 4., 6.15 p.m., Schauburg 2

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Vorfilm: ROSALIE ET SES MEUBLES FIDÈLES, Stummfilmbegleitung: Ruth Bieri u. Workshop- Teilnehmerinnen
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So 22. 4., 18 Uhr, Schauburg 1
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RED ROAD
Jackie works for a video surveillance firm in Glasgow. One day, she spots a man, whom she had hoped to never see again. She observes him, follows him into a housing project named Red Road, consumed by – revenge? Fear? The director doesn’t reveal Jackies motives for a long time, she just follows her, thus constantly elevating the suspense. 

21. 4., 6 p.m., Schauburg 1
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REFLEXIONEN
Carolin Nokel, D 2002, 3’, short film
IIn the mirror cabinet by Ken Lum, visitors of the documenta not only encounter twelve signs of depression, but also themselves – and a camera.

21.4., 2 p.m., Schauburg 2
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RISING TONES CROSS
Ebba Jahn, USA/D 1984, 111’, documentary
The atmospheric imagery of RISING TONES CROSS offers us a glimpse of the life and the experiences of mostly Afro-American jazz musicians. Ebba Jahn took a look around New York with Wuppertal bass legend Peter Kowald in 1984 and made pictures of musicians whose music has rarely been recorded. A few of them, like Don Cherry and Jeanne Lee, are no longer alive, whereas others, like Gayle and William Parker, had their breakthrough long after the film was made and are now leading figures of the new free jazz wave.

22. 4., 12 a.m., domicil
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ROSALIE ET SES MEUBLES FIDÈLES 
(Rosalie and Her Loyal Furniture)
F 1911,  5’, silent short film with Sarah Duhamel
ROSALIE ET SES MEUBLES FIDÈLES is an episode from Pathé’s Rosalie series in which comedienne Sarah Duhamel is confronted with items of furniture brought to life by animated film.
During the workshop “Setting a silent movie to music” a new score to the film will emerge under the expert guidance of Ruth Bieri.

22.4., 6 p.m., Schauburg 1

SEEING RED
Su Friedrich, USA 2005, 27’, experimental short film
The film oscillates between the reflections on Friedrich’s personal uncertainty and footage of the color red in its many shades and forms. These montage sequences are united with Friedrich’s diary footage through Bach’s The Goldberg Variations.

20. 4., 1.30 p.m., Schauburg 2

SHOW PEOPLE
King Vidor, USA 1928, 82’, silent film with Marion Davies
SHOW PEOPLE, an homage to the halcyon days of the slapstick comedies, is an inside view of Hollywood’s studio system and a satire on the role games played behind the scenes at the Dream Factory. The plot as such is based on Gloria Swanson’s rise to fame but also on the career of the leading lady here, Marion Davies, who was able to unfold her gift for comedy in numerous role changes. Another special feature is the large number of stars making guest appearances. At lunch in a fictive studio, for example, we see virtually all the Hollywood VIPs of the time – plus minor roles taken by stars such as Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin and Gloria Swanson, not to mention director King Vidor. SHOW PEOPLE received high praise from the critics of its day and was one of the last big boxoffice hits of the silent movie era.
Live accompaniment on the piano by Joachim Bärenz.

18. 4., 8 p.m., domicil
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SOUNDS OF SAND
Marion Hänsel, F/B 2006, 96’, competition
Somewhere in Africa. The deserts are constantly spreading, an endless drought lets wells run dry, livestock die. Most village residents follow their instinct and move South. Only Rahne, the only one in his village who knows how to read and write, decides to move East with his wife Mouna and his three children, even though it is a war zone. Rahne and his family wander through the hostile land under a relentlessly scorching sun, spurred on by the one thought to find water. SOUNDS OF SAND is a story about exodus, survival and hope and it is a parable for the despair of a whole continent.

20. 4, 9 p.m., Schauburg 1
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ST. LOUIS BLUES
Dudley Murphy, USA 1929, 15’, short film with Bessie Smith
The blues singer Bessie Smith catches her lover, the gambler Jimmy, with another woman and… sings the blues. This short film with an exclusively black cast is the only film document of the legendary Bessie Smith.

22. 4., 10.30 a.m., domicil 

STATIONARY MUSIC
Jayne Parker, GB 2005, 16’, short film
STATIONARY MUSIC is the title of the first movement of Stefan Wolpe’s first piano sonata, which was composed in 1925. Introduced and presented by his daughter, the pianist Katharina Wolpe.

20. 4., 1.30 p.m., Schauburg 2 

STATEN ISLAND
Vivienne Dick, USA 1978, 4’, experimental short film
An androgynous creature, played by New York punk musician Pat Place, steps ashore on the debris-strewn beach of Staten Island. In her shiny silver overall in front of a post apocalyptic backdrop she mirrors the cool decadence of the underground of the early 1980s.

18.4., 10.30 p.m., Schauburg 2
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STEPHANIE DALEY
Hilary Brougher, USA 2005, 91’, competition
STEPHANIE DALEY hurries through the snow, she stumbles, she leaves a trail of blood behind her. In the hospital she is soon accused of the murder of her newborn child whose body was found in a trash bin. Stephanie is sent to see the forensic psychologist (Tilda Swinton), who is asked to determine the question of guilt. This drama, shot in tranquil and long camera perspectives, is a touching and shocking film, a complex story with no easy solutions.

18. 4., 9 p.m., Schauburg 1
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SUPPOSED TO
Re-editing sampled footage and dialogue from science fiction films, psychological thrillers and corporate training videos, SUPPOSED TO builds a hybrid narrative of characters exhausted by work, acting out, escaping conflict and misdirected blame, and ultimately returning to an inevitable deep wordless knowledge that shapes our shared reality.

22.4., 11 a.m., Schauburg 2 

TA DOULEUR
Paf! le chien, F 2005, 3’, Music video
A woman and a wool thread in a music video for Camille.

19.4., 11 p.m., Schauburg 2
21.4., 6.15 p.m., Schauburg 2 

THE HOSTAGE
Laila Pakalnina, EST/SLO/LT 
2006, 74’, competition
Things don’t seem quite right in THE HOSTAGE: a hijacker lets himself be interviewed by the hostage (a seven-year-old boy) and demands choirs and biathletes, a farmer first loses his bees and then his cow and in all shots we see a fat striped cat. Laila Pakalnina leaves many question unanswered in her film, yet she shows how all things are interdependent and what happens in a day in Riga. 

19. 4., 6 p.m., Schauburg 1
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THE INFLUENCE OF OCULAR LIGHT PERCEPTION
Stella Friedrichs and Thomas Draschan, 
D 2005, 6’, short film
Found footage and narrative musical quotes, playful interpretations about the “influence of light, as perceived by the eye, on the metabolism of man and animals”.

21.4., 8.30 p.m., Schauburg 2
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The Silent Message of Film Music
Vortrag von Maud Nelissen
Maud Nelissen, die bekannteste niederländische Stummfilmbegleiterin, spricht über die Kunst der musikalischen Filmbegleitung. Anhand von konkreten Beispielen am Klavier können sich die Zuhörer ein Bild davon machen, wie Musik eingesetzt werden kann und wie Komponisten Filmen Leben, Tiefe und eine weitere Dimension einhauchen. (in Englisch).

Sa 21.4., 14 Uhr, domicil club
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THELONIOUS MONK: STRAIGHT, NO CHASER
Charlotte, Zwerin USA 1988, 89’, documentary
Thelonious Monk is one of the most innovative jazz pianists and composers of all time. Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser uses footage from 14 hours of concerts shot by Christian Blackwood in 1967 and 1968. Interviews with Monk’s manager, his family and friends offer a glimpse of the life of one the giants of jazz and show his personality.

19. 4., 10.30 p.m., domicil
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TO THE OTHER SIDE
Natalia Almada, MEX/USA, 2005, 66’, documentary
Magdiel is a 23-year-old corrido singer living in the Mexican drug region of Sinaloa. He is faced with only two alternatives: use his fishing boat to smuggle marijuana, opium and cocaine or migrate illegally to the USA and hope for a better life there. One day, the big opportunity comes along: A coyote – slang for human trafficker – asks Magdiel to write a corrido (song) for him. In return, he will guide Magdiel through the desert and across the border. Natalia Almada goes along with her camera TO THE OTHER SIDE. As a result, she exposes the ruinous economic crisis in Mexico while narrating the history of corrido as the voice of those most affected by the poverty.

19. 4., 6.15 p.m., Schauburg 2
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TUNE IN
Esther Johnson, GB 2006, 15’, short film
TUNE IN follows the fascinating world of amateur radio operators. Although amateur by definition, HAMS (translating as an acronym for Help All Mankind) undertake a rigorous licensing exam covering strict regulations and intellectually challenging technical knowledge.

22. 4., 4 p.m., Schauburg 2 

ÜBER DAS REGIE FÜHREN 
(About Directing)
Josie Rücker, D 2006, 73’, Documentary
The Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig plays the first Symphony of Brahms. The composer wanted to take his own course, the conductor planned on becoming an engine driver. How can you create a film about music? 

22.4., 11 a.m, Schauburg 2
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Uraufführung Stummfilmkomposition von Maud Nelissen
ZAPATAS BANDE und DER FREMDE VOGEL
Wir präsentieren die musikalische Uraufführung beider Filme mit der Komposition von Maud Nelissen und ihrem siebenköpfigen Ensemble „The Asta Harmonists“. Die Niederländerin gehört zu den wichtigsten Stummfilmkomponistinnen in Europa: ihre Interpretation ist modern, aber inspiriert von den Künstlern der damaligen Zeit.
Stummfilmbegleitung: The Asta Harmonists (NL)

Fr. 20.4., 21 Uhr, domicil
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VOLKSLIED 
(Folk Song)
Maria Wolkowicz, D 2006, 2’, short film
A middle class sitting room and a filthy folk song.

20. 4., 4 p.m., Schauburg 2
20.4., 11 p.m., Schauburg 2

Werkstattgespräch mit der Kamerafrau Gisela Tuchtenhagen
Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Filmemacherin und eine der ersten deutschen Bildgestalterinnen, wird ihre dokumentarische Kameraarbeit anhand von Filmausschnitten vorstellen und diskutieren.

Sa 21.4., 11 Uhr, Schauburg 2 l
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Werkstattgespräch mit Sonia Wieder-Atherton
Die französische Cellistin Sonia Wieder-Atherton zählt zu den rennomiertesten Musikerinnen unserer Zeit. Sie zeichnet sich verantwortlich für die Filmmusik von zahlreichen Arbeiten von Chantal Akerman. In dem Werkstattgespräch wird sie über ihre Zusammenarbeit mit der Autorenfilmerin sprechen.
Moderation: Birgit Kohler (in Englisch)

Do 19.4., 17 Uhr, domicil club
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Werkstattgespräch: Dokumentarfilm und Sound mit LaDoc
LaDoc, das Netzwerk Kölner Dokumentarfilmerinnen, präsentiert ein Programm aus vier Kurzfilmen, für die ein besonderes Sounddesign erarbeitet oder eine spezielle Musik komponiert wurde. Die Filmemacherinnen reisen zur Diskussion mit ihren Kurzfilmen und zwei Sounddesignerinnen im Gepäck an. BENIDORM, BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA, REFLEXIONEN, Ô BORD DE LA MER

Sa 21.4., 14 Uhr, Schauburg 2
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WHEN THE ROAD BENDS
Jasmine Dellal, USA 2006, 109’, documentary
They come from Spain, India, Macedonia and Romania: five music groups that appear as The Gypsy Caravan and play their gypsy music – from flamenco to bras band music and from Romanian violins to Indian folk music. Jasmine Dellal’s documentary accompany this caravan on a tour though Europe ad North America. Even so, WHEN THE ROAD BENDS is more than mere tour footage. The director seeks out the protagonists in their own homeland, visits them at home with their families and investigates the significance of music for their lives. 

21. 4., 9 p.m., domicil
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WHOSE IS THIS SONG?
Adela Peeva, BG 2003, 70’, documentary
Adela Peeva first hears that song in a restaurant in Istanbul. With her at the table are friends from a number of Balkan countries, all of whom start to hum along in recognition. Each of them claims that the song comes from their country. So the film-maker sets off on a tour through Europe in an attempt to find the source of that song. But what began as a relatively straightforward research trip soon turns into a sociological and historical study of misunderstanding between the peoples of a (Balkan) region scarred by ethnic hatred and war. Tragicomically, the documentary exposes the craziness of national myth building and the all too human need for people to set themselves apart from neighbours who in real life are pretty much similar.

19. 4., 4 p.m., Schauburg 2
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WOLFSBERGEN
Nanouk Leopold, NL 2007, 93’, competition
83-year-old Konrad announces to his relatives in writing that he wants to die. His daughter refuses to discuss his wish. The granddaughters are having problems of their own. Gradually, everyone is forced to take a stand. Something has got to change. WOLFSBERGEN is a film about people who have lost their ability to love and be loved, it is a caleidoscopic portrait of a dysfunctional family. 

20. 4., 6 p.m., Schauburg 1
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WOOLLY TOWN – WOOLLY HEAD
Vera Neubauer, GB 2005, 5’, animation
Little woolly head Annie is in trouble for making up stories, but she knows how to stand up to people. A masterfully knit little gem of puppet animation.

20. 4., 8.30 p.m., Schauburg 2

ZAPATAS BANDE
Urban Gad, D 1914, 36’, mit Asta Nielsen
Ein Filmteam fährt nach Italien, um einen Film über eine Räuberbande zu drehen. Doch sie werden nicht nur von echten Räubern überfallen, sondern auch mit diesen verwechselt. Musikalische Uraufführung der Komposition von Maud Nelissen und ihrem siebenköpfigen Ensemble.
Stummfilmbegleitung: The Asta Harmonists (NL)

Fr. 20.4., 21 Uhr, domicil
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ZELLTEILUNG
Multimedia Performance
Neun international arbeitende Künstlerinnen aus den Bereichen Video, Musik und Tanz treffen in zwei außergewöhnlichen Ensembles aufeinander. Sie knüpften Kontakt auf dem renommierten Frischzelle-Festival, einer Plattform für das Zusammenführen von bildenden Künstlern, Komponisten und Musikern.

Termin: Sa 21.4., 16.30 Uhr, domicil jazzclub

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