Edgar Reitz & Ula Stöckl: Tales of the Dumpster Kid (Geschichten vom Kübelkind)
After the premiere of its restored version at this year's Berlinale, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2018 will be first in in presenting one of the most unique collaboration in German cinema history in the UK.
“The Dumpster Kid (Kristine de Loup) grows from a placenta. Dr. Wohlfahrt from social services finds her on a hospital rubbish dump. In subsequent episodes, she looks for foster parents to take responsibility for the kid and integrate her into society. Dumpster Kid goes to school and to church. Always dressed in a red dress and red tights, she is nosy about everything, asking a few too many questions and taking whatever she desires. She steals and has sex, seducing some and humiliating others. She meets Al Capone and d’Artagnan. She is always in danger, yet immortal.” (Text Berlinale)
Ula Stöckl, whose
The Cat Has Nine Lives recently toured the UK, and Edgar Reitz, the creator of
Heimat made T
ales of the Dumpster Kid in 1969 entirely with their friends, taking on a radical position outside the standard cinema system with their series of 25 16-mm shorts of different lengths. Guests at a pub-cum-cinema in Munich could select the episodes they wanted to watch from a menu.
BFMAF will re-create this "pub-cinema" setting by presenting the 22 episodes in the sequence chosen by the audience.
Supported by the Goethe-Institut London
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