Thursday 07.09.2006
12 a.m.
exhibition guided tour
2 p.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
SUBJECTIVE TRUTHS
Introduction by Angelika Richter
Ein Wunder
Stanislav Mucha
DE 2000, 7 min,
Polish and German voice over with English subtitles
Saving the World
Maija Blåfield, FI 1999-2005, 55 min,
English and German with English subtitles
4 p.m. Weinecksaal
Artists Talk
with Andrea Büttner and François Bucher
Moderation: Angelika Richter
(in English)
6 p.m. Weinecksaal
Artists Talk
with Korpys/Löffler and Monika Oechsler,
Moderation: Anke Hoffmann
6 p.m.
exhibition guided tour
8 p.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Introduction by Angelika Richter
Kasino 2001
Tobias Kipp
DE 2005, 10:30 min, German with English subtitles
Telemistica
Christian Jankowski
DE 1999, 22 min, Italian with English subtitles
Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present
Owen Land
US 1973, 5 min, English
Sieben bis zehn Millionen
Stefan Panhans
DE 2005, 5:39 min, German
Praise You
Music by Fatboy Slim, directed by Spike Jonze
GB 2001, 3:40 min
Preacher With an Unknown God Rob
Rob VanAlkemade
US 2005, 16 min, English
No Sir, Orison!
Owen Land
US 1975, 3 min, English
10:30 p.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
Waking Life
Richard Linklater
US 2001, 99 min, English
10 p.m. Happy Believers Club
Red Skies Over Paradise
DJ Ektoplasma, Berlin
No Sir, Orison!
"No Sir" is a snappy if rhetorical anagram for "Orison", an archaic word meaning prayer, address to God and, by extension, even the mere act of uttering words. The film's title is itself a palindrome, symbolically accentuating the film's two symmetrical but opposite camps: the colloquial versus the ceremonial, a polarity that Owen Land visually compresses into the single image of the devotee in the supermarket aisle. The hero, who forsakes his groceries for an oration on the alleged similarity between love and the market, in turn exchanges this hymn for a prayer. The intervention of a crudely sceptical 'deus ex machina' brings the film full circle with a reply that answers the question even as it implicitly contradicts it.
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