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Filmstill Collective Monologue
Collective Monologue
Jessica Sarah Rinland
By examining different zoological facilities across Argentina, this experimental documentary crafts an intricate portrait of all the many facets that make up a zoo.
Filmstill Collective Monologue

Collective Monologue

Monólogo colectivo
Jessica Sarah Rinland
Camera Lucida
Documentary Film
Argentina,
UK
2024
104 minutes
Spanish
Subtitles: 
English
German premiere

Jessica Sarah Rinland visits zoological gardens across Argentina to craft a portrait not of a single institution, but rather its underlying concept: an observational, yet still ever-probing exploration of zoo itself. The different types of image and their textures she collects to this end—the silky 16mm that comprises the bulk of the film, the crisp surveillance footage, the grainy black-and-white cameras that capture creatures roving “undisturbed”, the yellowing photographs that pin down Indigenous people and animals alike – perfectly correspond to the varying perspectives she gathers on her subject: a place of imprisonment and colonial legacy, but now also one of everyday routine, conservation and even tenderness.
For all the ambivalence of its central theme, this is, like all of Rinland’s work, a film of extraordinary tactility: Human hands that clean, catalogue and caress, leathery trunks and furry fingers that reach between iron bars in search of comfort, plumage glistening in the sun. Jean Piaget coined the term collective monologue to refer to the developmental phase in which the child believes nature is created for them alone and can be controlled as such. It is so strangely moving to see control give way to care.


James Lattimer

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02.11.
#6C1
Cinémathèque in der Nato
Collective Monologue
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02.11.2024
Cinémathèque in der Nato
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Collective Monologue
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03.11.
#792
Regina Palast 4
Collective Monologue
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03.11.2024
Regina Palast 4
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Collective Monologue
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Director
Jessica Sarah Rinland
Script
Jessica Sarah Rinland
Cinematographer
Jessica Sarah Rinland
Editor
Jessica Sarah Rinland
Producer
Jessica Sarah Rinland, Melanie Schapiro
Sound
Philippe Ciompi

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Filmstill Just Above the Surface of the Earth
Just Above the Surface of the Earth
Marianna Milhorat
Conservationist on the trail of the sixth great mass extinction. An experimental portrait that tells of frogs, starfish and bats – and ultimately of us humans.
Filmstill Just Above the Surface of the Earth

Just Above the Surface of the Earth

Just Above the Surface of the Earth
Marianna Milhorat
Camera Lucida
Documentary Film
Canada,
USA
2024
69 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English
German premiere

Highly focused groups of humans move through nature. It is night and they are listening. Or it is midday and they are counting. Sometimes they carry antennas on their backs and roam meadows at the edge of the forest. They are the witnesses of the so-called sixth extinction, the people who document the disappearance of biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Marianna Milhorat approaches them with patience, spending a long time with women who discuss the intensity of the croaking of frogs, while the roar of the streets can be heard in the background. Others report on the “sea star wasting disease”, a mysterious illness that turns starfish into a whitish mush.
“Just Above the Surface of the Earth” leaves little room for hope, but at the same time puts its faith in the indefatigable individuals who have at least decided not to close their eyes. It is to them that Milhorat dedicates this experimental portrait, sophisticated on all cinematic levels. For it is not only bats that flutter through the film, but also thoughts: by Cormac McCarthy, William Golding, Martin Heidegger, or about the mythical river of the dead, Styx. The score, composed by Brian Kirkbride, translates the various microcosms into immersive sound art, giving us access to a world that we often inhabit as if blind and deaf.


Carolin Weidner

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30.10.
#3C1
Cinémathèque in der Nato
Just Above the Surface of the Earth
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30.10.2024
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Just Above the Surface of the Earth
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01.11.
#592
Regina Palast 4
Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
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01.11.2024
Regina Palast 4
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Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
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Director
Marianna Milhorat
Cinematographer
Marianna Milhorat
Editor
Marianna Milhorat
Producer
Marianna Milhorat
Sound Design
Marianna Milhorat
Score
Brian Kirkbride

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Marianna Milhorat
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Filmstill Toti
Toti
Maëlle Chevallier
Two friendly cells explore the organism they live in. They grow up together, meet other creatures, until they are separated by an accident. From now on, they will each go their own way.
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Toti

Toti
Maëlle Chevallier
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Animated Film
Switzerland
2024
6 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None
World premiere

Two cells observed under the microscope. They grow up together and meet many different creatures on their outings. One day they are separated by an accident and it takes a long time before they find each other again. After the first outburst of joy, they realise that they have changed and no longer fit together. A colourful and profound animation.


Lina Dinkla

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29.10.
#261
Passage Kinos Astoria
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29.10.2024
Passage Kinos Astoria
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02.11.
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Schauburg
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02.11.2024
Schauburg
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03.11.
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Schaubühne Lindenfels
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03.11.2024
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Director
Maëlle Chevallier
Script
Maëlle Chevallier
Cinematographer
Maëlle Chevallier
Editor
Zoltán Horváth
Producer
Nicolas Burlet
Sound Design
Jérôme Vittoz
Animation
Maëlle Chevallier, Nicolas Moreau
Animation Technique
2D Digital

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German Competition Documentary Film,
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Filmstill Tracing Light
Tracing Light
Thomas Riedelsheimer
Without light, there would be no cinema – and no life. Searching for the origin of images, this film delves into two worlds that explore the magic of light: physics and art.
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Tracing Light

Tracing Light
Thomas Riedelsheimer
German Competition Documentary Film,
Opening Film
Documentary Film
Germany,
UK
2024
99 minutes
English,
German
Subtitles: 
English, German
Audio Description
World premiere

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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28.10.
#111
CineStar 8
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28.10.2024
CineStar 8
#111
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29.10.
#211
Cinestar 2
Tracing Light
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29.10.2024
Cinestar 2
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Tracing Light
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31.10.
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Schaubühne Lindenfels
Tracing Light
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31.10.2024
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Tracing Light
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02.11.
#622
CineStar 4
Tracing Light
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02.11.2024
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Tracing Light
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Director
Thomas Riedelsheimer
Cinematographer
Thomas Riedelsheimer
Editor
Thomas Riedelsheimer
Producer
Sonja Henrici, Stefan Tolz, Leslie Hills
Sound
Hubertus Rath
Sound Design
Christoph von Schönburg
Score
Fred Frith, gabby fluke-mogul

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Nominated for: VER.DI Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness