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Re-Visions 2020
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100 Years of Cinema
Heinrich Sabl
A short and entertaining foray through 100 years of international cinema history: an animated man takes a walk that leads us from the magic cylinder into legendary film scenes.
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100 Years of Cinema

100 Jahre Kino
Heinrich Sabl
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
Germany
1994
3 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Cinema turned 100. With his homage Heinrich Sabl went one short step further back into the prehistory of cinematography for a run-up. Individual images are set in motion in a praxinoscope, invented by Émile Reynaud in 1877. A pedestrian seizes this illusion as an occasion to walk out of the magic cylinder through scenes from international film history.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Heinrich Sabl
Script
Heinrich Sabl
Cinematographer
Hans Moser
Producer
Heinrich Sabl
Animation
Sven Pannicke
Re-Visions 2020
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Achilles
Barry Purves
Trench warfare around Troy, the heroes are well-known. This adaptation of a classical myth, inspired by antique designs, dares to show explicit images for adults.

UK

UK
1995
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Achilles

Achilles
Barry Purves
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
UK
1995
11 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

The winner of the first golden “Animation Dove”: nine years of war between Greeks and Trojans have gone past. The impulsive Patroclus, comrade in arms and bed mate of the rather battle-weary Achilles, thinks that victory can be achieved by other means. The tragedy takes its course – just as it was passed down in the classical myths but supplemented by what they left unspoken.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Barry Purves
Script
Barry Purves
Editor
Leo Casserley
Producer
Glenn Holberton
Score
Nigel Hess
Animation
Barry Purves
Production Company
Channel Four, Bare Boards Productions
Re-Visions 2022
Filmstill Are You Listening!
Are You Listening!
Kamar Ahmad Simon
This warm-hearted portrait of a village stricken by flood in Bangladesh opened DOK Leipzig ten years ago and has lost nothing of its bitter topicality.
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Are You Listening!

Shunte ki pao!
Kamar Ahmad Simon
Re-Visions 2022
Documentary Film
Bangladesh
2012
90 minutes
Bengali
Subtitles: 
English

Ten years after its premiere, Kamar Ahmad Simon’s film has lost nothing of its bitter topicality. In 2022, too, millions of people are fleeing floods after heavy rainfall in Bangladesh, hundreds of villages are flooded or completely cut-off. On 27 May 2009, cyclone Aila hit the Bangladeshi coast. The community portrayed in “Are You Listening!” has settled in a makeshift home on an old dyke and keeps stubbornly waiting for the new one to be built. With a fine sense for absurd situations, the filmmaker documents a daily life marked by the determination to return one day against all odds.

Marie Kloos

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Director
Kamar Ahmad Simon
Script
Kamar Ahmad Simon
Cinematographer
Kamar Ahmad Simon, Sheikh Rajibul Islam
Editor
Saikat Sekhareshwar Ray
Producer
Sara Afreen
Re-Visions 2020
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Buy My Film!
John Schnall
An unappreciated filmmaker wants to be part of the big industry, sell himself and be bought. A torrent of buzzwords from the beginner’s guide to self-marketing.
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Buy My Film!

Buy My Film!
John Schnall
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
USA
1995
3 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

A genius of independent cinema looks back on his hitherto unrecognized work. From now on he will leave this unprofitable art well alone, be part of the big business, sell himself and be bought. A brilliant future seems within reach. A torrent of buzzwords from the beginner’s guide to self-marketing. Burning ambition. Caustic sarcasm. Biting irony.

Ralph Eue

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Director
John Schnall
Script
John Schnall
Producer
John Schnall
Re-Visions 2020
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Carnival of Animals
Michaela Pavlátová
Two different planets: men and women. What used to be one in paradise was divided a long time ago by original sin. But the world is consumed with longing for a reunion.
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Carnival of Animals

Karneval zvířat
Michaela Pavlátová
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
Czech Republic
2006
9 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Two different planets: men and women. What used to be one in paradise was divided by original sin. Ever since then, the sexes have been facing each other in conflict, all the while consumed with longing for a reunion. Expectations are high, the excitement is immense, the imagination is boundless. A day in the garden of carnal delights – from ecstasy to exhaustion and back.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Michaela Pavlátová
Script
Michaela Pavlátová
Editor
Michaela Pavlátová
Producer
Negativ Film Productions
Sound
Michaela Pavlátová
Animation
Michaela Pavlátová
Re-Visions 2020
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City Paradise
Gaëlle Denis
Tomoko from Japan travels to London. She is well-prepared, works hard on a language course and has brought her goldfish to fight homesickness. But she still feels lonely.
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City Paradise

City Paradise
Gaëlle Denis
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
UK
2004
6 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

Who hasn’t?! You arrive in a foreign land, ready to embrace the world, but the world refuses to be embraced. Tomoko from Japan travels to London. She is well-prepared, works hard on a language course and has brought her goldfish to fight homesickness. And yet she feels lonely and unable to utter a word when spoken to. What to do? How about a slight change of perspective?

Ralph Eue

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Director
Gaëlle Denis
Script
Gaëlle Denis
Cinematographer
Sarah Bartles-Smith
Editor
Tony Fish
Producer
Erika Forzy, Andrew Ruhemann
Sound
Fabrice Gerardi, Andy Thompson
Score
Joce Mienniel, Joanna Newsom
Production Company
Channel Four, Passion Pictures
Re-Visions 2020
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Error 404
Kays Khalil
The Tunisian censors used “Error 404” to block unwanted websites. The situation changed only after Mohamed Bouazizi burned himself in public on 17 December 2010.
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Error 404

Error 404
Kays Khalil
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
Germany
2017
7 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

What’s growing in that empty space there? On 17 December 2010, the Tunisian grocer Mohamed Bouazizi burns himself to death in public – the Arab Spring begins, the fire spreads through the Internet. A fast-forward trip through the interior architecture of a modern revolution, right into the dispersed character of the event: from the planet’s surfaces to digital de-spatialization.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Kays Khalil
Script
Kays Khalil
Cinematographer
Kays Khalil
Editor
Kays Khalil, Kazim Emrah Akal
Producer
Kays Khalil
Sound
Rudi Hochrein
Score
Marcus Tronsberg
Animation
Kays Khalil, Kazim Emrah Akal
Re-Visions 2020
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Ferment
Tim Macmillan
An old man and his granddaughter are sitting in a quiet square in the middle of the city. Suddenly he has a heart attack, falls to the ground – and time freezes.
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Ferment

Ferment
Tim Macmillan
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
UK
1999
5 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

An old man and his granddaughter are sitting in a quiet square in the middle of the city. Suddenly he has a heart attack, falls to the ground – and time freezes. This could be the famous second where you see your life flash before your inner eye. But in which direction is it moving? Forward into the past, backward into the future or sideways into the now?

Ralph Eue

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Director
Tim Macmillan
Script
Tim Macmillan
Cinematographer
Tim Macmillan
Editor
Malcolm Macmillan
Producer
Grace Kitto
Sound
Soma
Animation
Tim Macmillan
World Sales
LUX Distribution
Production Company
LUX Distribution
Re-Visions 2020
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Fight da faida
Vincenzo Gioanola
A garishly colourful political rap video from Italy. Politics, business and daily life are poisoned by the influence of Mafia and Camorra. Fight da faida! Fight blood vengeance!
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Fight da faida

Fight da faida
Vincenzo Gioanola
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
Italy
1995
5 minutes
Italian
Subtitles: 
None

A garishly coloured and driving video for a 1992 single by the Italian rapper Frankie hi-nrg mc. It’s about how the Mafia and Camorra poison politics, business and everyday life. This incandescent complaint from a “civil war” turns into an appeal: immunize yourself against the seductions of a deathly lifestyle! Fight da faida: Fight the apparent inevitability of blood vengeance!

Ralph Eue

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Director
Vincenzo Gioanola
Producer
Vincenzo Gioanola
Animation
Vincenzo Gioanola
Re-Visions 2020
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Frankly Caroline
Frank Mouris, Caroline Mouris
Frank is Caroline’s husband. The successful director wants to help her with her autobiography but of course have a say in it, too. Caroline isn’t exactly enthusiastic.
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Frankly Caroline

Frankly Caroline
Frank Mouris, Caroline Mouris
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
USA
1999
9 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

A couple of filmmakers – she produces, he directs – are trying hard to assemble the autobiography of the woman, Caroline. A long time ago the man, Frank, won an Oscar for the adaptation of his own life on film. Now he just wants to help Caroline a little, but of course have a say in things, too. Caroline isn’t exactly enthusiastic.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Frank Mouris, Caroline Mouris
Script
Caroline Mouris
Cinematographer
Frank Mouris
Editor
Caroline Mouris
Producer
Caroline Mouris
Animation
Frank Mouris
Production Company
Mouris Squared
Re-Visions 2020
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Hello
Jonas Raeber
A plaid man, a friendly hello, a praise of travelling to the South – followed by an animated escalation of everything that long needed to be said.
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Hello

Grüezi
Jonas Raeber
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
Switzerland
1995
3 minutes
Swiss German
Subtitles: 
German

A short yes and a long but. A man in a plaid shirt says a friendly hello and rhapsodizes about travelling to southern countries. But when he returns, he finds those southern foreigners have been swept, yes, into Switzerland. That’s not good. Not good at all! Every sentence fires up the next. The longer his hate-rant lasts, the redder and madder the otherwise friendly plaid man grows.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Jonas Raeber
Script
Jonas Raeber
Producer
Jonas Raeber
Sound
Daniel Bühler
Animation
Jonas Raeber
Production Company
SWAMP Animation Luzern
Re-Visions 2020
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Hilary
Anthony Hodgson
A bizarre bedtime story featuring a princess and her toy mouse, a mother urging suspicion and a dogfood-munching grandfather.
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Hilary

Hilary
Anthony Hodgson
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
UK
1994
9 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

An eerily beautiful bedtime story with lots of loose ends. Featuring: a princess and her toy mouse, a mother who advises the girl to always be suspicious of strangers, and a bizarre grandfather who secretly munches dogfood. It’s possible that the sleepy child is taking in only a quarter of this absurd and morbid tale, but that’s probably a good thing.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Anthony Hodgson
Script
Anthony Hodgson
Editor
Anthony Hodgson
Producer
Royal College of Art
Score
Anthony Hodgson
Animation
Anthony Hodgson
Re-Visions 2020
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Machini
Frank Mukunday, Trésor Tshibangu Tshamala
In the Congo, the people and the environment are suffering from the consequences of cobalt and lithium mining. How do those live who work in the dirt to provide our “clean” energy?
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Machini

Machini
Frank Mukunday, Trésor Tshibangu Tshamala
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
DR Congo,
Belgium
2019
10 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
English

Electromobility is a great promise of the future. The Democratic Republic of the Congo with its vast cobalt and lithium deposits supplies two of the essential building blocks for the necessary batteries. “Machini” focuses on the lives of those who bear the brunt of the exploitation of such dirty raw materials for our “clean” energy.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Frank Mukunday, Trésor Tshibangu Tshamala
Script
Frank Mukunday, Trésor Tshibangu Tshamala
Cinematographer
Frank Mukunday, Trésor Tshibangu Tshamala
Editor
Frank Mukunday, Caroline Nugues-Bourchat
Producer
Ellen Meiresonne, Rosa Spaliviero
Sound
David Douglas Masamuna
Score
Francesco Nchikala
Animation
Frank Mukunday, Trésor Tshibangu Tshamala
World Sales
Maïlis Fourie
Re-Visions 2021
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Mother Dao, the Turtlelike
Vincent Monnikendam
“A kinematographic image of the Dutch-Indies 1912 – c.1933”, assembled from silent footage commissioned by the colonial rulers, learns to speak: in the stories of the colonized.
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Mother Dao, the Turtlelike

Moeder Dao, de schildpadgelijkende
Vincent Monnikendam
Re-Visions 2021
Documentary Film
Netherlands
1995
88 minutes
Dutch,
Indonesian
Subtitles: 
English

Vincent Monnikendam calls his archive film “a kinematographic image of the Dutch-Indies 1912 – c. 1933” in the subtitle, echoing the ponderous bureaucratic language of the Dutch authorities who at the time commissioned the footage he re-edited. He condensed some 280,000 metres of nitrate film, shot by professionals but left largely uncut, into a compilation about indigenous people and their immigrant rulers in the former colony. The originally silent footage begins to speak – not in an explanatory voiceover, but in the songs and stories of the colonized. The images are unchanged. But they have to be read in a new way.

Sylvia Görke

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Director
Vincent Monnikendam
Script
Vincent Monnikendam
Cinematographer
Vincent Monnikendam, Hans van der Marck
Editor
Licky Zydower, Albert Markus
Producer
Rade Miličević
Score
Jan-Dries Groenendijk
Re-Visions 2020
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My Baby Left Me
Milorad Krstić
Sexual hallucinations of an abandoned man. The hell of jealousy mingles with the bonfire of vanities, pink longing fades into purple lust.
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My Baby Left Me

My Baby Left Me
Milorad Krstić
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
Hungary
1995
9 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Sexual hallucinations of an abandoned man in which literally everything turns into a questionable object of throbbing lust. The hell of jealousy mingles with the bonfire of vanities and pink longing fades into purple desire: lecherous bodies. Pounding pain. Panting music. Phallus seeks vagina. Eternal, restless, greedy.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Milorad Krstić
Cinematographer
Mihály Kovács
Editor
Csaba Varga
Producer
Csaba Varga, András Erkel
Score
András Wahorn
Animation
Milorad Krstić
Production Company
Varga Studio
Re-Visions 2022
Filmstill New Eldorado
New Eldorado
Tibor Kocsis
The Romanian village of Roșia Montană is believed to sit on a 300-ton gold deposit. Twenty years ago, Tibor Kocsis filmed the emergence of a protest movement against the mining project.
Filmstill New Eldorado

New Eldorado

Új Eldorádó
Tibor Kocsis
Re-Visions 2022
Documentary Film
Hungary
2004
76 minutes
English,
French,
German,
Hungarian,
Romanian
Subtitles: 
English

The biggest gold deposit in Europe is located underneath Roșia Montană, Romania. The ancient Romans dug shafts with hammers and chisels, later gunpowder and dynamite were used to mine the precious metal. But when the possibilities of traditional mining methods seem exhausted in the early 2000s, a Canadian company enters the scene, planning to pulverise the whole village and the four neighbouring mountains – and to use highly toxic hydrocyanic acid to extract the gold from the rock. Tibor Kocsis observes over several years how the corporation is trying to drive out the inhabitants of the village, and how a resistance is forming that lasts until today.

Marie Kloos

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Director
Tibor Kocsis
Cinematographer
Tibor Kocsis
Editor
György Márió Kövári
Producer
Tibor Kocsis