7. Werkleitz Biennale Happy Believers
Festival Program
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Exhibition
Participants
Concept
Service
Picture Gallery
german version
Saturday 09.09.2006

11 a.m.
exhibition guided tour

12 a.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
Jerusalem My Love
Jeppe Rønde
DK 2003, 73 min, Danish with English subtitles


2 p.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
UTOPIA AND THE PRESENT
Introduction by Angelika Richter

Malinovy zvon / The Sound of Malines
Alina Rudnitskaya
RU/DE 2006, 30 min, Russian with English subtitles

Sanctus, Sanctus
Thomas Werner
GDR 1988, 12 min, German

The Actors of Subliminal History
Christian Pogacean
RO 2004, 2:50 min

Sovetskaja elegija / Soviet Elegy
Alexander Sokurov
USSR 1989, 37 min, Russian with German subtitles


4 p.m. Weinecksaal
Belief in Transition
lecture by Boris Buden, Berlin
Moderation: Solvej Helweg Ovensen


6 p.m.
exhibition guided tour

8 p.m. Weinecksaal
Populist Paradise
Performance by Bernadette La Hengst, Till Müller-Klug, Cal McBride, Featuring: Knarf Rellöm, Pastor Leumund, local special guests

10:30 p.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
CURIOUS ABOUT EXISTENCE
Introduction by Jan Schuijren

Low Attention Span / High Curiosity Rate (Portrait of Peter Elliot)
Tiago Carneiro da Cunha
BR/GB 2000, 7 min

The Idiot
Jeroen Eisinga
NL 1999, 7 min, Dutch with English subtitles

Walkabout
Caitlin Hulscher
NL 1994, 2:09 min, English

Die Menschen sind töricht, sie können nicht fliegen / People Are Foolish, They Don't Know How to Fly
Jeroen Eisinga
NL 1998, 5 min, German

Qingjing Jing / Purity and Tranquility Scripture
Hung Chih Peng
TW 2004, 19:38 min

Zoals het werd geopenbaard aan Jeroen Eisinga / As It Was Revealed Unto Jeroen Eisinga
Jeroen Eisinga
NL 1998, 8 min

Curious About Existence
Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
CA 2003, 11 min, English

The Wandering Mind
Caitlin Hulscher
NL 1994, 1:54 min

Towards a Common Understanding
Doug Fishbone
US/GB 2005, 12:30 min, English

One Black / One White
Hung Chih Peng
TW 2001, 2:44 min

Naïve Melody
Kerry Tribe
US 2002, 4 min, English

Essence
Ralph Jürgen Colmar
GB 2005, 1:30 min, English


10 p.m. Happy Believers Club
Sakropop „When using a beat band, the volume should be considerate to the congregation!"
commented Djing by Frank Apunkt Schneider, Bamberg (monochrom)

followed by / followed by
DJ Bigbork, Halle & DJ Beatnik, Weimar


Malinovy zvon / The Sound of Malines

Alina Rudnitskaya: Malinovy zvon / The Sound of Malines
Malinovy Zvon is the portrait of a village in post-socialist Russia where the Eastern Orthodox church has re-gained its footing, until one day a Protestant Finnish priest surfaces and threatens to topple the new order. Malinovy Zvon in Russian means "beautiful, light sound". The term can be traced back to the a carillon that Peter the Great brought from the Flemish city of Malines (Mechelen) to St. Petersburg, and thus stands until today for the eternal conflict between 'Russian' and 'European' tradition. In the film, a song with the same name is sung in honour of the Finnish guest.
The filmmaker once before portrayed this village in her film Rural Lessons (2004). In this new version, however, the religious conflict is moved to the centre of attention. It was made as part of an EMARE fellowship for the 7th Werkleitz Biennale.

Alina Rudnitskaya is director and scriptwriter for documentary films. Her short films are mostly produced for the renowned St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio and describe the new Russian society. Communal Residence and Amazons were shown at the 6th Werkleitz Biennale
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