BURNT OFFERINGS - Dan Curtis

Dienstag 22.04.2014
20:30 Uhr
vorgestellt von Jan Künemund oder Sebastian Markt

USA 1976 / 116 min / Regie: Dan Curtis / Buch: Dan Curtis, William F. Nolan; nach einem Roman von Robert Marasco / Kamera: Jacques R. Marquette / Editor: Denis Virkler / Musik: Bob Cobert / Cast: Oliver Reed,Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart, Lee Montgomery, Dub Taylor, Bette Davis et. al.

"[A] Plodding, campy haunted house chiller"
[Dennis Schwartz / Ozu's World]

EXHIBITION - Joanna Hogg

Dienstag 15.04.2014
20:30 Uhr
vorgestellt von Jan Künemund

GB 2013 / 104 min / written & directed by Joanna Hogg / Camera: Ed Rutherford / Editor: Helle le Fevre/ Production Design: Stephane Collonge / Art Director: Pedro Moura / Sound: Howard Peryer / Supervising Sound Sesigner: Jovan Ajder / Supervising Sound Editor: Ajder / Assistant Director: Paolo Guglielmotti / Casting: Olivia Scott-Webb.
Cast: Viv Albertine, Liam Gillick, Tom Hiddleston, Harry Kershaw, Mary Roscoe, Christopher McWatters et. al.

Worldpremiere: Locarno, Int. Competition 2013

“Ein Künstlerehepaar und ihr Designerhaus in London stehen im Zentrum dieses britischen Konzeptfilms. Sie zeichnet und probt Performances, er entwirft Grafiken am Computer, ohne dass je deutlich würde, was er genau tut. Auf jeden Fall sind sie reicht, kinderlos und unabhängig. Er möchte nach 18 Jahren in dem Haus nochmal wo anders wohnen, ihr fällt der Abschied vom Haus offensichtlich schwer. Namen bekommen die beiden nie, sie nennen sich gegenseitig D und H. Gespielt werden sie von der Musikerin und Sängerin Viv Albertine und dem britischen Konzeptkünstler Liam Gillick. Joanna Hogg kommt aus dem Umfeld von Derek Jarman und der ganze Film balanciert mit brillanter Sicherheit zwischen Szenen einer Ehe und einer subtilen Künstlerparodie.“
 

[Michael Sennhauser]

“With acute sensitivity, Brit writer-helmer Joanna Hogg’s third feature, ‘Exhibition’, explores the difficulty of telling inside from outside, intimacy from estrangement, and revelation from concealment. It seems entirely appropriate, then, that the whole thing teeters between very boring and completely fascinating, like being stuck on a plane in business-class seats next to a bickering couple you can’t stop eavesdropping on. Formally more ambitious but even more spare, brooding and oblique than her uncompromisingly rarefied previous pics, ‘Unrelated’ and ‘Archipelago’, ‘Exhibition’ could divide Hogg’s small but loyal pool of fans.” 

[Leslie Felperin: Joanna Hogg's exquisite, chilly third feature teeters between very boring and completely fascinating / Variety]
 

"To look at your three films as a progression, you seem to be going in an opposite direction to most, narrowing your focus and your canvas with each film. Is that deliberate?


It’s true there is a determination not to do that indie-film-to-Hollywood thing. So I’m not consciously swimming against the tide but there is something about wanting to keep my films at a certain scale and not leap to bigger budgets. I’m interested in creating a body of work that I can have some creative control over.
It’s quite difficult to do because people assume you’re going to go on to bigger things. But I worked in a more industrial way on TV, and a less personal way, so now I’m working very counter to that work. And so far the stories that I’ve written have worked with the scale of production that I like. Never say never though!

[Interview with Joanna Hogg / indiewire]