BRAIN AGAIN. Brain. Cinema

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 seemed to be slowly reopening. And above it, in an unusually neat typeface that can only belong to a B-picture poster, lured the title: THE MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN !

This film, directed by the main actor of Sam Raimi's "Dance of the Devils" trilogy, Bruce Campbell, is still not finished. That's a pity, because it would certainly have fit perfectly into the bloody concept, which at that time in Cannes, between glamor and stars, was almost imposing itself on us: to gather films in which brains, brain defects or signals, diseases, symptoms emanating from them are in the center, even the organs themselves usually appear in their memorable form.

BRAIN AGAIN, that will now mean a week of cinema under the skullcap: garishly pulsating as in Paul Sharits' experimental continuous bombardment "Epileptiv Seizure Comparison", solidly idiotic as in many Z-movies of the 50s and 60s; sterile and aggressive as in David Cronenberg and Brian De Palma; politically charged with the "knife in the head" of the New German Cinema of the 70s. In addition, brain as a demonstration object in medical instructional films; brain in trance and techno on video - in short, an organ on its way out: beyond all time and silence. (Stefan Grissemann / Claus Philipp)

Program
Opening Program (Trailer: Brain Again, Martin Arnold, AUT 1994, 1 Min.; T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G, Paul Sharits, USA 1968, 12 Min.; The Human Brain, USA 1976, 8 Min.; The Man with Two Brains; Carl Reiner, USA 1983, 93 Min.)
They Saved Hitler's Brain (David Bradley, USA 1963, b/w, 74 Min.)
Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear (G.A. Romero, USA 1988, colour, 115 Min.)
Paul Sharits 1 (Ray Gun Virus, USA 1966; Piece Mandala/End War, USA 1966; Word Movie / Flux Film 29, USA 1966; N:O:T:H:I:N:G, USA 1968; T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G USA 1968)
El Baron del Terror (Chano Urveta, MEX 1961, b/w, 75 Min.)
Rampage - The Director's Cut (William Friedkin, USA 1987/92, colour, 92 Min.)
The Head. Die Nackte und der Satan (Victor Trivas, D 1959, b/w, 92 Min.)
Scanners (David Cronenberg, CAN 1981, colour, 102 Min.)
The Brain from Planet Arous (Nathan Hertz, USA 1958, b/w, 70 Min.)
The Fury (Brian De Palma, USA 1978, colour, 118 Min.) 
Paul Sharits 2 (Color Sound Frames, USA 1974; Epileptic Seizur Comparison, USA 1976; 3rd Degree, USA 1982)
Das Geheimnis der grauen Zellen (Stefan Stratil, AUT 1986/94, colour, 11 Min.)
The Brain That Wouldn't Die (Joseph Green, USA 1959/62), b/w, 81 Min.)
The Man Who Mistoook His Wife for a Hat (Ch. Lawrence, GB 1987, colour, 75 Min.)
The Human Brain (R. B. Livingston, USA 1976, colour, 8 Min.)
The Man with Two Brains (Carl Reiner, USA 1983, colour, 93 Min.)
Blood of Ghastly Horror (Al Adamson, USA 1965 / 71, colour, 87 Min.)
Messer im Kopf (Reinhard Hauff, D 1978, colour, 112 Min.)
The Frozen Dead (Herbert J. Leder, GB 1967, b/w, 95 Min.)
The Brain (Vengeance) (Freddie Francism, GB/D, 1965, b/w, 85 Min.)
Psychedelevision Techno / Trance / Video-Programm (Steina & Woody Vasulka, Gary Hill, Stephen Beck, Nam June Paik, Enrique Fontanilles, Konrad Becker, Karl Sims, Joan Staveley, Anna Steininger, Julie Kuzminska, Mark Malmberg / XAOS, Ivar Smedstad, David Larcher)
Surprise Film 
Fiend Without a Face (Arthur Crabtree, GB 1958, b/w, 74 Min.)