67th edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
This programme brings together some of the most interesting works to come out of the German Competition and the newly introduced German Online Competition of the 2021 Festival. Top Down Memory deals with manipulations of history in the context of the reconstruction of the Berlin Palace. With the help of Mussolini, Karl Liebknecht and Justin Bieber, among others, the film describes the political significance of the balcony and asks who writes our history. In the silent film Levantado do Chão , a man undertakes a somnambulistic city walk beyond constraints and time. X is a cinematic ancestral ritual in honour of the spirits of the Ruhr area, in which Mareike Wegener imagines a devil's pact as the last resort for people who can no longer find work. (Steve) Temple, on the other hand, treats the Ruhr area as a fictional landscape and anarchic space where people live in spontaneity and cooperation free of hierarchies.
While Simon Rupieper notes that pixels get smaller and smaller with age, a cyber entity connects with an international feminist network in feminism is a browser_materialisation, trying to find out why it exists and what became of the utopias of the internet. In the process, the film sets up an experimental monument to some of the pioneers of cyberfeminism.
Top Down Memory
Directed by: Daniel Theiler, Germany 2020
German/English/Italian with English or German subs, 12 min. 30 sec.
Levantado do Chão (Raised from the Ground)
Directed by: Melissa Dullius/Gustavo Jahn, Brasil/Germany 2020
silent, 11 min.
Im gelben Licht (Through Yellow Light)
Directed by: Simon Rupieper, Germany 2020
German with English subs, 7 min. 30 sec.
feminism is a browser_materialisation
Directed by: Charlotte Eifler, Germany 2021
English, 12 min.
(Steve) Temple
Directed by: Tanita Olbrich, Germany/USA 2020
English, 6 min.
X
Directed by: Mareike Wegener, Germany 2020
German with English subs, 28 min.30 sec.
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