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Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025
Filmstill Earl Grey – False Horns [INP031]
Earl Grey – False Horns [INP031]
Gilbert Sinnott
Flowing surfaces and flickering textures, accompanied by beats that seem heavy and fragile at the same time. Evoking memories of the last hours of a sleepless night.
Filmstill Earl Grey – False Horns [INP031]

Earl Grey – False Horns [INP031]

Earl Grey – False Horns [INP031]
Gilbert Sinnott
Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025
Animated Film
Germany
2020
6 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

The breakbeats that drive the flowing surfaces and shimmering textured shapes of this experimental music video seem heavy and fragile at the same time. The soundtrack evokes 1990s drum and bass music, but remains hypnotic and soothing. The appeasing images and sounds seem made to accompany the last hours of a sleepless night.

Franka Sachse

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Gilbert Sinnott
Filmstill Ekbatana

Ekbatana

Ekbatana
Simon Dickel, Werner Müller
German Competition Documentary Film 2025
Documentary Film
Germany
2025
13 minutes
German,
English
Subtitles: 
English

The Super8 material that has been stored in a private archive since 1982 is a conundrum, showing art, demolished buildings, and squatted houses in early 1980s West Berlin. A so-called Artificial Intelligence is consulted to explore the connections between the images. Interestingly, it comes up with references to the ancient capital of the Median Empire and later royal residence of the Achaemenids. We also learn surprising things about the significance of red turtleneck jumpers for gay emancipation and discover the functions of broom and hose. Accompanied by a confusing sound collage, the graffiti on the walls of a much-described city point to an exciting subcultural tradition. A young man looks into the camera. It is the artist Gerhard Faulhaber.

Jan Künemund

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Simon Dickel, Werner Müller
Cinematographer
Gerhard Faulhaber, Werner Müller
Editor
Simon Dickel, Werner Müller
Producer
Simon Dickel, Werner Müller
Sound Design
Simon Dickel, Werner Müller
Narrator
Guntram Wischnewski