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A film by Thomas Riedelsheimer. In English and German with German and English subtitles.

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Light is a fasci­na­ting phe­no­me­non. Without light, the­re would be no cine­ma, no film – and no life. So light is at the ori­gin of ever­y­thing, and yet it remains invi­si­ble to the eye until it hits mat­ter. This moment is – quite lite­ral­ly – the start­ing point of Thomas Riedelsheimer’s latest work, for the spring­time spec­ta­cle of rain­bow shreds in the cine­ma­to­grapher and docu­men­ta­ry filmmaker’s flat beca­me the start­ing point of a search for the ori­gin of the images we form of this world. For this quest he dived deep into two sphe­res that seem to fol­low dif­fe­rent laws but always stri­ve to fathom the magi­cal: phy­sics and art.
An intellec­tu­al and poe­tic ping pong game evol­ves bet­ween rese­ar­chers from the Max Planck Institute in Erlangen and the “Extreme Light Group” of the University of Glasgow as well as inter­na­tio­nal­ly renow­ned artists such as Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt, Julie Brook, Johannes Brunner and Raimund Ritz. In its cour­se, the various per­spec­ti­ves on light lead to new insights on all sides that would hard­ly have been achie­ved wit­hout this metho­di­cal cross-over: about laser power and colour pig­ments, about black holes and floa­ting sculp­tures. In brief moments, the unin­itia­ted may even get some idea of the laws of quan­tum phy­sics, gene­ral­ly con­side­red impos­si­ble to visualise.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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DE/GB 2024, 99 Min., engl./dt. Originalfassung mit deut­schen und eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie, Kamera, Schnitt: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Musik: Fred Frith, gab­by flu­ke-mogul

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A film by Andrea Arnold. In English with German subtitles.

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12 year old Bailey lives with her sin­gle dad Bug and brot­her Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids and Bailey who is approa­ching puber­ty seeks atten­ti­on and adven­ture elsewhere.

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GB 2023, 119 Min., engl. OmU,
Regie: Andrea Arnold
Kamera: Robbie Ryan
Schnitt: Joe Bini
mit: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams, Jason Edward Buda, Jasmine Jobson, James Nelson-Joyce
Kayleigh Frankie Box

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A film by Jesse Eisenberg. In English with German subtitles.

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A Real Pain fol­lows mis­mat­ched cou­sins David and Benji who reu­ni­te for a tour through Poland to honor their bel­oved grand­mo­ther. The adven­ture takes a turn when the odd cou­ple’s old ten­si­ons resur­face against the back­drop of their fami­ly history.

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US/PL 2024, 90 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Jesse Eisenberg
Kamera: Michael Dymak
Schnitt: Robert Nassau
mit Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, Kurt Egyiawan, Liza Sadovy, Daniel Oreskes 

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A film by Johan Grimonprez. In French and English with German subtitles

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Artist Johan Grimonprez’s new film essay stems from detail­ed rese­arch about some of the machi­na­ti­ons the Western colo­ni­al powers, such as his nati­ve Belgium or the US, came up with to under­mi­ne the African deco­lo­niza­ti­on move­ment. It spe­ci­fi­cal­ly reex­ami­nes the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire) and its strugg­le for inde­pen­dence in the con­text of the CIA’s histo­ry of arts patro­na­ge, tel­ling how the US Foreign Intelligence agen­cy sent Louis Armstrong as a jazz ambassa­dor to dis­tract from their invol­vement in the ass­as­si­na­ti­on of new­ly elec­ted Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Nina Simone was sent on a simi­lar tour of Nigeria by a CIA front orga­niza­ti­on, yet other jazz gre­ats got invol­ved less unwit­tingly. Dizzy Gillespie brief­ly ran for pre­si­dent in 1964 and pro­mi­sed that the White House would be ren­a­med the Blues House, while Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach cra­s­hed the UN Security Council to pro­test Lumumba’s ass­as­si­na­ti­on. Both a his­to­ri­cal pam­phlet and a swin­ging musi­cal com­po­si­ti­on, SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT unfolds like a record’s exten­si­ve slee­ve notes, as the jazz sounds pro­pel and car­ry along facts, figu­res and foot­no­tes of major and minor his­to­ries with them at diz­zy­ing speed. (Antoine Thirion)

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BE/FR/NL 2024, 150 Min., engl., frz. OmU, 

Regie: Johan Grimonprez, 

mit: Patrice Lumumba, Louis Armstrong, Andrée Blouin, Nina Simone, Nikita Krutschev, Eisenhower, Fidel Castro, Duke Elligton

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A film by Thomas Riedelsheimer. In English and German with German and English subtitles.

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Light is a fasci­na­ting phe­no­me­non. Without light, the­re would be no cine­ma, no film – and no life. So light is at the ori­gin of ever­y­thing, and yet it remains invi­si­ble to the eye until it hits mat­ter. This moment is – quite lite­ral­ly – the start­ing point of Thomas Riedelsheimer’s latest work, for the spring­time spec­ta­cle of rain­bow shreds in the cine­ma­to­grapher and docu­men­ta­ry filmmaker’s flat beca­me the start­ing point of a search for the ori­gin of the images we form of this world. For this quest he dived deep into two sphe­res that seem to fol­low dif­fe­rent laws but always stri­ve to fathom the magi­cal: phy­sics and art.
An intellec­tu­al and poe­tic ping pong game evol­ves bet­ween rese­ar­chers from the Max Planck Institute in Erlangen and the “Extreme Light Group” of the University of Glasgow as well as inter­na­tio­nal­ly renow­ned artists such as Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt, Julie Brook, Johannes Brunner and Raimund Ritz. In its cour­se, the various per­spec­ti­ves on light lead to new insights on all sides that would hard­ly have been achie­ved wit­hout this metho­di­cal cross-over: about laser power and colour pig­ments, about black holes and floa­ting sculp­tures. In brief moments, the unin­itia­ted may even get some idea of the laws of quan­tum phy­sics, gene­ral­ly con­side­red impos­si­ble to visualise.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

Credits:

DE/GB 2024, 99 Min., engl./dt. Originalfassung mit deut­schen und eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie, Kamera, Schnitt: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Musik: Fred Frith, gab­by flu­ke-mogul

Trailer:

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A film by Andrea Arnold. In English with German subtitles.

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12 year old Bailey lives with her sin­gle dad Bug and brot­her Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids and Bailey who is approa­ching puber­ty seeks atten­ti­on and adven­ture elsewhere.

Credits:

GB 2023, 119 Min., engl. OmU,
Regie: Andrea Arnold
Kamera: Robbie Ryan
Schnitt: Joe Bini
mit: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams, Jason Edward Buda, Jasmine Jobson, James Nelson-Joyce
Kayleigh Frankie Box

Trailer:

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A film by Jesse Eisenberg. In English with German subtitles.

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A Real Pain fol­lows mis­mat­ched cou­sins David and Benji who reu­ni­te for a tour through Poland to honor their bel­oved grand­mo­ther. The adven­ture takes a turn when the odd cou­ple’s old ten­si­ons resur­face against the back­drop of their fami­ly history.

Credits:

US/PL 2024, 90 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Jesse Eisenberg
Kamera: Michael Dymak
Schnitt: Robert Nassau
mit Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, Kurt Egyiawan, Liza Sadovy, Daniel Oreskes 

Trailer:

Im Kino mit deut­schen Untertiteln.

nach oben

A film by Johan Grimonprez. In French and English with German subtitles

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

Artist Johan Grimonprez’s new film essay stems from detail­ed rese­arch about some of the machi­na­ti­ons the Western colo­ni­al powers, such as his nati­ve Belgium or the US, came up with to under­mi­ne the African deco­lo­niza­ti­on move­ment. It spe­ci­fi­cal­ly reex­ami­nes the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire) and its strugg­le for inde­pen­dence in the con­text of the CIA’s histo­ry of arts patro­na­ge, tel­ling how the US Foreign Intelligence agen­cy sent Louis Armstrong as a jazz ambassa­dor to dis­tract from their invol­vement in the ass­as­si­na­ti­on of new­ly elec­ted Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Nina Simone was sent on a simi­lar tour of Nigeria by a CIA front orga­niza­ti­on, yet other jazz gre­ats got invol­ved less unwit­tingly. Dizzy Gillespie brief­ly ran for pre­si­dent in 1964 and pro­mi­sed that the White House would be ren­a­med the Blues House, while Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach cra­s­hed the UN Security Council to pro­test Lumumba’s ass­as­si­na­ti­on. Both a his­to­ri­cal pam­phlet and a swin­ging musi­cal com­po­si­ti­on, SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT unfolds like a record’s exten­si­ve slee­ve notes, as the jazz sounds pro­pel and car­ry along facts, figu­res and foot­no­tes of major and minor his­to­ries with them at diz­zy­ing speed. (Antoine Thirion)

Credits:

BE/FR/NL 2024, 150 Min., engl., frz. OmU, 

Regie: Johan Grimonprez, 

mit: Patrice Lumumba, Louis Armstrong, Andrée Blouin, Nina Simone, Nikita Krutschev, Eisenhower, Fidel Castro, Duke Elligton

Trailer:

nach oben

A film by Thomas Riedelsheimer. In English and German with German and English subtitles.

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

Light is a fasci­na­ting phe­no­me­non. Without light, the­re would be no cine­ma, no film – and no life. So light is at the ori­gin of ever­y­thing, and yet it remains invi­si­ble to the eye until it hits mat­ter. This moment is – quite lite­ral­ly – the start­ing point of Thomas Riedelsheimer’s latest work, for the spring­time spec­ta­cle of rain­bow shreds in the cine­ma­to­grapher and docu­men­ta­ry filmmaker’s flat beca­me the start­ing point of a search for the ori­gin of the images we form of this world. For this quest he dived deep into two sphe­res that seem to fol­low dif­fe­rent laws but always stri­ve to fathom the magi­cal: phy­sics and art.
An intellec­tu­al and poe­tic ping pong game evol­ves bet­ween rese­ar­chers from the Max Planck Institute in Erlangen and the “Extreme Light Group” of the University of Glasgow as well as inter­na­tio­nal­ly renow­ned artists such as Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt, Julie Brook, Johannes Brunner and Raimund Ritz. In its cour­se, the various per­spec­ti­ves on light lead to new insights on all sides that would hard­ly have been achie­ved wit­hout this metho­di­cal cross-over: about laser power and colour pig­ments, about black holes and floa­ting sculp­tures. In brief moments, the unin­itia­ted may even get some idea of the laws of quan­tum phy­sics, gene­ral­ly con­side­red impos­si­ble to visualise.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

Credits:

DE/GB 2024, 99 Min., engl./dt. Originalfassung mit deut­schen und eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie, Kamera, Schnitt: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Musik: Fred Frith, gab­by flu­ke-mogul

Trailer:

nach oben