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What (is) Cinema? – Watch them Act

What (is) Cinema? – Watch them Act

Combined programme | IFFR 2002

A mixture of manifestoes and manifestations. Some film-makers provide an opinion, others illustrate a form of politics as such. The programme also poses the question of which language or visual logic is most suitable to reflect a political thought or hypothesis. Film-makers play out their message almost literally or necessitate the viewer forming their own opinion. Some films teeter on the brink of a taboo, others zoom in on the banal side of everyday life to formulate a political argument.

In this combined programme

Apologia
What (is) Cinema?
How, as an audio-visual artist, to include or exclude images of 11 September?
Mama
What (is) Cinema?
Portrait of a group of US Immigration and Customs officers, who work with trained dogs to search for drugs and illegal immigrants.
Tattoo
What (is) Cinema?
A choreography that goes astray, lost somewhere in the British meadows. A military tattoo.
Montessori Sword Fight
What (is) Cinema?
After a young girl discovers her passion for sword fighting, she tries to improve her technique.
Energy Lithuania
What (is) Cinema?
Turning ones eyes to a community of industrial workers, as it gradually dissolves.
Semi-private sub-Hegelian Panty Fantasy (with sound)
What (is) Cinema?
‘Free admission for all those over ninety and accompanied by both their parents’.
Shit belt
What (is) Cinema?
Perhaps the most political incorrect episode in her recent series of existential and often irreverent animated shorts.
Chuggy Broadway
What (is) Cinema?
A parody on American patriotism and the suggestion of cultivated violence.
Anna Hanusova. 27.06.01, 5h 40
What (is) Cinema?
Hanusova is a survivor of the Teresin extinction camp, where she was a member of the music trio Room 28.
Metropolen des Leichtsinns
What (is) Cinema?
A devilish deconstruction of our pre-programmed post-war lives as Western consumers.