How it all began, where it will lead
The idea for BRAIN AGAIN came to us in May of last year. The occasion was the most beautiful poster that adorned the Croisette on the occasion of the Cannes Film Festival at that time. It showed a man's forehead with frizzy hair standing on end like call signs. Across the forehead was a freshly stitched cut that…

JESUS WALKING ON SCREEN. Much strained, often sold, mostly ridiculed. Not only in the widescreen emporiums of the Promised Land, but also on other continents and under different frameworks than those of the New Testament and the Bible film crosses the screen. To free the genre from the limitations usually imposed on it by the relevant compendia: t…

New avantgarde-films from Austria, Great Britain, Germany and the USA.

Body signs. The metamorphoses of Eros, which precede this program as a title, refer to four of the five films assembled here. Their stories deal with the history of the body and its sensuality.
At the same time, we want to present some of the most beautiful avant-garde films o…

What is independent filmmaking in the USA? We couldn't define it in terms of genre or even content. Instead, we'll show it to you. The selection for the week of short and medium-length films came about during an extensive viewing tour through the stocks of the most important distributors in New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
Spread over nine bloc…

For a long time, independent, non-commercial films were almost culturally invisible. Today, they are emerging from this isolation. The boundaries between the different film styles, the various production methods and the different ways of addressing viewers are being erased.

"Footage" is the American technical term for film material. It is derived…