ANAT EVEN | FLORIAN GEIERSTANGER zu Gast

15.09.09 | 20.30 Uhr

in Anwesenheit der Filmemacher

Aus gegebenem Anlass haben wir gleich zwei Filmemacher zu Gast. ANAT EVEN aus Israel und FLORIAN GEIERSTANGER aus Deutschland. Der Abend wird in 2 Teile gegliedert sein.

I. TEIL | 20:30 Uhr

2 Filme von FLORIAN GEIERSTANGER

anschließend Gespräch

PAULUS: WHAT YOU DID IN MY HEAD | Deutschland 2009 | Regie: Florian Geierstanger | Autor: Florian Geierstanger | Erzähler: Brigit Wirth | Produzent: | Tonmischung: Tom Rudolph | Kamera: Susanne Schranner | Montage: Florian Geierstanger | Sprache: | 6min |

"Der Film handelt von Verbindungen der Geschichten, die einer erzählt, mit seinem eigenen Leben. Die Geschichten unterscheiden sich in ihrem Grad an Realität, unterscheiden sich in der Art ihrer Verbindung mit dem Leben der jungen Frau: Eine Geschichte ist biografisch, aus der Vergangenheit. Die zweite Geschichte ist ein Weitererzählen, ein Überliefern einer Geschichte aus dem Erzählschatz der christlichen Familie. Es ist die Paulus-Geschichte. Die dritte Geschichte ist ausgedacht, eine Spekulation über die Zukunft." (Florian Geierstanger)

AUGEN SCHAUEN MICH AN (Preview) | Deutschland 2009 | Regie: Florian Geierstanger | Autor: Florian Geierstanger | Besetzung: Hanna Schlums, Franziska Willensbacher, Amelie Stieg, Werner Deimel u.a | Produzent: | Ton: Christian Rabl, Claudia Schmid, Sylvia Schlums, Florian Baumgartner | Kamera: Benedikt Muckenthaler, Georg Haslauer | Montage: Florian Geierstanger | Sprache: | 20min |

Eine Schülerin erzählt in einem Klassenzimmer von einem schiefgegangen Kunstunterrichtsprojekt. Auf einem Handy läuft ein Musikvideo, die Kamera schwenkt in den Konzertraum. Die Schülerin befragt eine Genetikerin zu einem Experiment und erzählt von einem fehlgeschlagenen Menschenversuch, die Kamera verfolgt eine Mutantin.

AUGEN SEHEN MICH AN schafft einen filmischen Raum in dem sich dokumentarischer Blick und Fantasie streifen, begegnen, anstecken. Geschichten werden erzählt: wahre, erlebte, fantastische, tradierte, und auf je eigene Weise ins Bild gesetzt, fügen sich zu einem vielschichtigen Gewebe aus Sichtbarkeiten.

LINKS
Offizielle Hompage: http://florian.geierstanger.org

II. TEIL | 22:00 Uhr

Werkstattgespräch mit Anat Even

Anat Even is an independent filmmaker since 1991. She produces, writes and directs all of her full-length films. Her works are concerned with themes of memory, identity and belonging, and direct a poignant critical gaze at Israeli society. Anat's films are screened at international festivals, broadcast on TV stations around the world, shown at museums and galleries and have won prizes. She teaches cinema at the Academic College – Sapir, and is the winner of the 2004 Cinema Prize Awarded by the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture.

FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION)

2005 | MIKDAMOT / PRELIMINARIES

A cinematic literary dialogue among the Israeli author, S. Yizhar, and filmmaker Anat Even; The film traverses Israel’s battered landscape, moving along its bypass roads that masquerade as the highway to Zionism, progressing and retreating in time when in fact it is stuck at the very point that Yizhar, the infant/80 year old, marked in his book “Mikdamot” – when the Zionist dream is simultaneously realized and shattered.

(40 min) Entry Vision Du Reel, Swiss, DocAviv, Israel, Confluences, Paris, Museum of Modern Art, Dresden and others. Prizes: SRG SSR idée Suisse, Vision Du Reel 2006, The Best Israeli short Documentary 2006

2002 | SATURDAY AT JENIN

Immediately after the Israeli army destroyed the refugee camp in Jenin I found a way to enter the city. I turned my camera to the ruins of the refugee camp; my regard is turned inward, to myself, to us, to the darkness"

(3 min). Part of "Mabatim" – "Gazes", (Produced by "Matar plus"), Entries in Jerusalem film festival, 2002 and others, screened at museums in Europe & USA. Broadcasted in channel

2001 | ASUROT / DETAINED

Three Palestinian widows, live with their 11 children in a house on Shuhada Street in Hebron. Their house lies on the border; the façade is under Israeli occupation, the Palestinian authority controls the back. At the entrance to the house a military post, on the roof the Israeli army has placed a watch point over Palestinian Hebron. Three women, trapped in the middle, constantly surrounded by Israeli soldiers, carry on their difficult lives in a perverse situation: the occupation becomes a routine, the absurd becomes a given. This is the story of an occupation that extends to the staircase and the roof of the house, where it encounters poverty, loneliness, pain, but also the small joys of everyday life. This is an internal prison; the external one is the ongoing occupation.

(75 min). Entries in over 50 festivals around the world, shown in cinema theaters in Germany, at the MOMA, NY, Aired on: DRS, Switzerland, CBC Newsworld – “The Passionate Eye”, Canada, Education 22, Malta, RTSI, Switzerland, SVT, Sweden, VRT, Belgium, The Channel 8, Israel | Prizes: The Golden Dove – Leipzig International Film Festival, Germany, 2001, Honorable Mention – The Jerusalem International Film Festival (Wolgin Award Competition), 2001 The Audience Award – Vesoul Asian International Film Festival, France, 2002, Honorable Mention – Lisbon International Documentary Film Festival, Portugal, 2002

ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONS ABOUT ANAT EVEN:

Professional Education: UCLA - Film and Art Studies 1981-1984 | Teaching Film studies at the Sapir Academy College since 2005, Film studies at the Camera Obscure art school, 1998 - 2005 | Initiator & Artistic director – The annual Israeli Documentary Film Seminar, 2001- 2003. | Artistic director -Cinema Project - The Joshua Rabinowich fund, 2006, 2007 | Winner "The Art of Cinema" prize by the Ministry of Education and Culture, 2004 | Work for TV stations IBA – Israel TV, directed reportages for various programs and magazines on the subjects of nature, science, art and humanities. 1988-91, Israel Today – An American Israeli TV station in Los Angeles, directed and edited reportage documentary films and commercials. 1983-84