8 pm: ZEBRA poetry and film

• 20 h • 8 pm Film and Poetry curated by Thomas Zandegiacomo

ZEBRA


• Assorted highlights from the biannual ZEBRA poetry film awards

In attendance of Thomas Zandegiacomo

• Antonello Faretta IT Just Say No To Family Values 4 min 37s, DV, 2005

received the award for poetry, film and politics
Poem: Just Say No To Family Values John Giorno

An elderly local woman of a village in Southern Italy endures defenceless and almost guilty, the new values dictated by the poet himself.
Hilflos und beinah schuldbewusst, erträgt eine alte Frau in einem süditalienischen Dorf, den Monolog des Dichters über die "neuen Werte".



• Shelly Wain GB The Cummerbund 3 min 21s, DV, 2004

Poem: The Cummerbund Edward Lear



In a night full of twittering creatures and glittering stars, romantically minded ladies should not stay alone.
In einer Nacht voller zwitschernder Wesen und glitzernder Sterne, sollten romantisch veranlagte Damen nicht allein bleiben.



• Taatske Pieterson NL One Person/Lucy 3 min 30s, DV, 2005

received the prize for Experimental Film Poetry 2006
Poem: One Person Taatske Pieterson



Thousands of reasons can cause the death of one person but there are only a few reasons for the death of thousands of people…
Es gibt tausende von Gründen, unter denen ein Mensch zu Tode kommen kann, aber nur wenige Gründe für das Sterben tausender Menschen...



• Eddie White, James Calvert AU Carnivore Reflux 7 min, DV, 2006

Poem: Carnivore Reflux Eddie White



A gastronomical, phantasmagorical nightmare from another time about a little known condition brought on by carnivorous excess.
Ein gastronomisch phantasmagorischer Alptraum aus einer anderen Zeit über den Zustand, den Exzesse des Fleischfressens mit sich bringen.



• Rong GB Oedipus 6 min, DV, 2005

received the ZEBRA Prize for the best Poetry Film 2006
Poem: Oedipus Nathan Filer



No film called Oedipus will ever end happily.
A hand warming tale of lust, incest, death...
Kein Film der Oedipus heißt, wird je ein gutes Ende haben.
Eine "Hand erwärmende" Geschichte von Lust, Inzest, Tod...



• Jason Lam AU Unfed 6 min 25s, DV, 2005

Poem: Cusping I-V Gareth Sion Jenkins



The painful eagerness of unfed hope: about the hidden inner landscape of our longing for connection, meaning and love.
Die schmerzhafte Begierde unerfüllter Hoffnung: über verborgene Seelenlandschaften voller Sehnsucht nach Verbindung, Sinn und Liebe.



• Ralf Schmerberg DE Nach grauen Tagen / After Grey Days 5 min, DV, 2003

received the ZEBRA Prize for the best Poetry Film 2004
Poem: Nach grauen Tagen Ingeborg Bachmann
The regular Sunday activities of a family are here not idyllic, but torture; the only means of escaping the hecticness lies with a balloon.
Das sonntägliche Treiben einer Familie ist hier keine Idylle, sondern Tortur. Da hilft nur ein Ballon, um der Hektik zu entfliehen.



• Eivind Tolas AU Love Is The Law 7 min, 35mm, 2003

Poem: Love is the Law Ole Mads Vevle



The message of love from the Christian tradition is perverted through a modern television news setting.
Die christliche Botschaft der Nächstenliebe wird in ein modernes TV-Nachrichten-Format übertragen.

6:30 pm: Academia Internacional de Cinema, Sao Paulo

• 18 h 30 • 6:30 pm AIC, Sao Paulo, Brazil curated by Ram Devineni


Academia Internacional de Cinema

• Roberto Andreoli BR Sete Grilos/Dois Cachorros (7 Crickets/2 Dogs)
5 min 24s, DV, 2005, Portuguese with English subtitles

• Catia Reis BR Curitibatuquetown 9 min 39s, DV, 2005, No dialogue

• Cristiano Burlan BR 4:48 am

9 min, DV, 2006, Portuguese with English subtitles

Selection of films produced at the Academia Internacional de Cinema in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Sete Grilos/Dois Cachorros (7 Crickets/2 Dogs) is an uncanny vision of a young man's insomnia through an interminable night based on a popular Brazilian poem. Screened at the 2006 Zebra Film Festival in Berlin and the Potenza International Film Festival in Italy.



Director: Roberto Andreoli
Director of Photography: Marcelo Uchoa
Editor: Everton Sebben
Producer: AIC & Lui Prado
Actors: Roberto Andreoli

Time: 5:24 minutes
Format: DVCAM
Date: December 2005
Language: Portuguese with English subtitles
Country: Brasil



Curitibatuquetown, reminiscent in style to Koyaanisqatsi, looks at Curitiba, Brazil from day to night. Brilliant photography, music, and editing.



Director: Catia Reis
Director of Photography & Editor: Everton Sebben
Producer: AIC & Catia Reis

Time: 9:39 minutes
Format: DVCAM
Date: December 2005
Language: No dialogue
Country: Brasil

4:48 am: A common man wakes up every day at the same time, and always does the same things. The film captures the rigorous routines of the mind.



Cristiano Burlan, actor and theater director, was a film student at the Academia Internacional de Cinema. He made several short films including Opus Hamlet Machine, Quase Nada, A Espera, 4:48 am, and Os Solitarios. Currently, he is finishing his first feature film, Coracoes Desertos.

Festival Screenings: 17th International Festival of Short Films in Sao Paulo.

Director & Screenwriter: Cristiano Burlan
Director of Photography: Pilar Perdomo
Editor: Eduardo Autran
Producer: Tatiana Borges & AIC
Actors: Leonardo Marquez

Time: 15 minutes
Format: DVCAM
Date: September 2006
Language: Portuguese with English subtitles
Country: Brasil

10 pm: an evening with aE3 • 4 Hours In Shatila

• 22 h • 10 pm

an evening with aE3


Again aE3 from Nantes will be our host for a very special evening. Next to his personal work he will present a fresh collection from fellow directors, including Flotser from Belgium. Nearly all works presented at this enjoyable night will be screened in world premiere.
Erneut wird aE3, Multimediakünstler aus Nantes, einen ganz speziellen Abend gestalten. Neben eigenen Arbeiten werden Werke befreundeter Regisseure, u.a. Flotser aus Belgien, zur Aufführung gelangen. Fast alle Filme werden als Weltpremieren zu sehen sein.






• aE3 FR/GB Facelines 2 min 25 s, DV, 2006

• aE3 FR/GB Residues After Sleep 6 min 8 s, DV, 2007

• aE3 FR/GB Excavation on a Battlefield 50 s, DV, 2007

• aE3 FR/GB The World's Pain 1 min 24 s, DV, 2007

• aE3 FR/GB Never Anything 41 s, DV, 2007

• aE3 FR/GB reVac (vacarme II) 11 min, DV, 2007





• Flotser BE The Fish and the Ring 12 min, DV, 2007

Afterwards / Im Anschluss



• Carlos Lapenas ES Cuatro Horas En Chatila (Four Hours In Shatila)

23 min, HD, 2006



The Sabra and Shatila massacre (or Sabra and Chatila massacre; Arabic: صبرا وشاتيلا) was carried out in September 1982 by Lebanese Maronite Christian militias against Palestinian refugee camps. The Maronite forces stood under the direct command of Elie Hobeika, who would later become a longtime Lebanese parliament member and in the 1990s also a cabinet minister. The number of victims of the massacre is estimated at 700-3500.

The camps were surrounded by Israeli Defence Forces throughout the incident. The degree to which the Israeli military was involved in the incident is a matter of controversy .

In September 1982 Jean Genet was in Beirut when the massacres took place in the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila. In response, Genet published "Quatre heures à Chatila" (Four Hours in Shatila), an account of his visit to Shatila after the massacres on which this film is based.



1982 kam es in Beirut im Lager Chatila zu einem Massaker von der Phalange-Miliz unter den Palästinensern. Der damalige israelische General Ariel Scharon hatte den phalangalistischen Truppen die Durchsuchung und Säuberung der Lager genehmigt.
Jean Genet, zu jener Zeit in Beirut, machte sich zwei Tage spater vor Ort ein Bild davon. Drei Tage später reiste er zurück nach Paris und arbeitete den ganzen Oktober an dem Essay „Quartre heures à Chatila“ („Vier Stunden in Chatila“) auf dem dieser Film basiert.

8 pm: Wolf Biermann - Hunger nach Heimat

• 20 h • 8 pm Wolf Biermann

Hunger nach Heimat a portrait by Trude Trunk and Andreas Oehler


• Trude Trunk and Andreas Oehler D Wolf Biermann - Hunger nach Heimat 43 min, 2006

photo: picture-alliance

• Wolf Biermann during the legendary concert at the Sportpalast, Cologne, november 13th, 1976 that led to his denaturalization.photo: picture-alliance



In attendance of Trude Trunk and Andreas Oehler

Hunger nach Heimat (Hunger for homeland) by Trude Trunk and Andreas Oehler draws a sensible portrait of the seventy years old poet that gives an insight into his mind. They accompany the balladeer on his search for family roots in Hamburg, visit his working space, are guests among his family and follow him on concerts and into his Catalan summer residence.

Wolf Biermann has very rarely expressed himself in such a keen and striking way. Friend or foe, anyone who believes to know "his or her" Biermann, will get a surprise.

• Der Film von Trude Trunk und Andreas Oehler zeichnet ein einfühlsames Porträt des Dichters im 70. Lebensjahr, das einen Einblick in die heutige Lebenswelt Biermanns gewährt. Das Team begleitet den Liedermacher in Hamburg auf seiner Suche nach den verschütteten Wurzeln einer tragischen Familiengeschichte, ist Gast in seinem Arbeitszimmer und im Kreise seiner Familie und folgt ihm zu Konzerten ins In- und Ausland und in sein katalanisches Sommerdomizil

Selten gab der Dichter in einer vergleichbar eindringlichen Weise über sich Auskunft: Freund oder Feind - alle, die glauben "ihren" Biermann zu kennen, sollten sich auf Überraschungen gefasst machen.

source NDR

In Anwesenheit von Trude Trunk und Andreas Oehler