CPH:DOX 2010 INT catalog

copenhagen international documentary film festival

4 - 14 nov 2010

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Contents

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Welcome Juries Gala

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COMPETITIONS DOX:AWARD NEW:VISION AWARD SOUND & VISION AWARD AMNESTY AWARD DANISH:DOX AWARD SHORT:DOX AWARD

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ARTIST IN FOCUS Harmony Korine Animal Collective & Danny Perez

152 154 160 170 178 186 198

SPECIAL FOCUS Visual Albums TELE:VISIONS Double Take DOX:LAB Enjoy Poverty Food on Film

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DOX:REGULARS TOP:DOX Seminars Events and Parties AUDIO:VISUAL

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DOX:INDUSTRY DOX:FORUM DOX:MARKET DOX:LAB Doc Alliance

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Contacts Index and films

CREDITS Festival Director: Tine Fischer

DOX:CLUB: Frederik Schnoor (responsible), Marco Sewohl

Programme editors: Tine Fischer (responsible), Niklas K. Engstrøm, Mads Mikkelsen

Doc Alliance: Tine Fischer, Daniella Eversby

Programme Assistant: Pawel Mielniczyk Film Preview Group: Mads Mikkelsen (responsible), Tine Fischer, Niklas K. Engstrøm, Pawel Mielniczyk, Vibeke Bryld, Patricia Drati Rønde DOX:FORUM & DOX:MARKET: Daniella Eversby (responsible), Truls Nordstrand Jacobsen, Jasmin Blom, Rebecca Bro DOX:LAB: Patricia Drati Rønde (responsible), Jacob Svensson, Solveig Søholm Jørgensen Live / Event Programme: Niklas K. Engstrøm (responsible), Marie Moltke Brøchner, Lina Lindquist, Frederik Schnoor, Mads Bacher, Michael Noer, Marie Skovgaard, Nadia Faber, Mads Mikkelsen AUDIO:VISUALS: Niklas K. Engstrøm (responsible), Frederik Schnoor, Boris Schiøler Seminar Programme: Tine Fischer (responsible), Niklas Engstrøm, Daniella Eversby, Tine Mosegaard, Synnøve Kjærland, Lina Lindquist, Mads Mikkelsen Marketing & PR: Mads Bacher (responsible), Hans Frederik Jacobsen, Silke Brandes, Julie Koch Fahler, Kenneth Darré Web Editor: Mads Bacher Catalogue Editor: Mads Bacher & Mads Mikkelsen Programme Catalogue: Mads Mikkelsen (responsible), Mads Bacher, Tine Fischer, Niklas K. Engstrøm, Morten Jensen, Ida Brixtofte Nielsen, Patricia Drati Rønde, Louise Højgaard Johansen, Marianne Lentz, Anne Colson, Lena Bøgild Willard, Daniella Eversby Catalogue Editor DOX:FORUM: Rebecca Bro Translation: Andrew Blackwell Production: Susanne Thygaard (responsible), Frederik Sølberg, Lisa Barkholz International production: Nikolaj Ehlers Press: Lena Bøgild Willard Press Assistant: Anne-Lill Bøndergaard Brok International PR and Communication: Patricia Drati Rønde (responsible), Charlotte Nordland, Anne Colson Print Coordinator: Casper Andersen Guest Coordinator CPH:DOX: Nikolaj Ehlers, G iovanna Ottolini, Cecilie Waitz Søborg, Solveig Søholm Jørgensen Volunteer Coordinator: Anna Sofie Kluge Hedegaard, Giulia Triolo YOUNG:DOX: Rikke Lindum Poulsen (responsible), Marie-Louise Siim

Poster/Festival Identity: Silke Brandes Graphic Design & Layout: Mads Bacher Web: Mads Bacher, Andreas Steinmann Festival Trailer: Idea: (Michael Noer), Jeppe Kolstrup Director: Jeppe Kolstrup Cinematographer: Jeppe Kolstrup Editor: Jens Høll Produced by: 360 Production Production: Andreas Steinmann Advertisement Sales: Nikolaj Ehlers CPH:DOX’s official main sponsors are: DR, Politiken CPH:DOX’s public contributors are: Danish Film Institute, The Branding Denmark Fund, Copenhagen City Council, Danish Ministry of Culture CPH:DOX’s award sponsors are: Danish Association of Film Directors, Canon, DR, FAF, Merkur Andelskasse, Danish Producers Association, TV5monde CPH:DOX’s official sponsors og contributors: Braunstein, DSB, Hotel27, Europcar, TNT, Vester Kopi, Danida, Amnesty International, Hotel 27, CKU, Swedish Film Institute, Filmkopi, Nordisk Film, Institut Français, Vi KBH’R, Ambassade de France au Danemark, Statens Kunstråd, UBOD, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, IMS CPH:DOX’s has collaborated with: Air france, The American Embassy, BTG Shift, Cinemateket, Clearchannel, Comtech, Dansk Biavler Forening, Danish Union of Journalists, Danida, DDS, Deliways, Det kolde gys, The Embassy of the Netherlands, The Embassy of Poland, Din nye ven, Doc alliance, Dok Leipzig, DOX:BIO, EAVE, Erik Bagger, Escho, FDB, Finlands instituttet, Filmværkstedet, Gearguys, Goethe Institute, Guanghzou, Hal D, HAY, IMS, Jeounju, Jihlava, Junkbusters, KPH, Kødbyens Fiskebar, Madkastellet, Media, Metro, Meyer, Netkom, Notkin, Den Obelske Familiefond, Operation Dagsværk, Planete Doc Deview, Playstation, MUBI, Politikens publikumspris, RIZ RAZ, Scanomat, SIK, Sing Thehus, SoupANatural, The Danish National Gallery (Statens Museum for Kunst), Støberiet, Tango & Vinos, Third Ear, Teori & Praksis, Vangsgaard, Vega, Visions du reel, WIFT Print: Vester Kopi, 2010, 1,500 copies.

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INFO Newsletter Sign up for our newsletter on www.cphdox.dk. Every day during the festival, we are sending out newsletters with the latest updates, tips for the day’s absolute must-sees and news on special offers.

Info counter If you have any questions that are not answered in this programme – or if you want to buy one of our posters, t-shirts, duffle bags or discount cards – then come and see us at our info counters at Cinemateket.

Calendar We have printed a pocket-friendly festival calendar, which can be found in cinemas and at cafés.

Tickets Tickets for individual screenings can be bought in the cinemas.

Unless stated otherwise, the tickets cost 70 kr. You can also buy a discount card for 350 kr, which gives you access to six performances for the price of five. The discount card is valid for all film screenings, but not for seminars.

DOX:CLUB For the third year in a row CPH:DOX opens our own cinema/ club/venue/hangout/bar DOX:CLUB. In 2008 DOX:CLUB was located in the Meatpacking District and in 2009 it was in a tent in the courtyard of Kunsthal Charlottenborg. This year it will occupy the Teater Grob at Nørrebrogade 37 in the middle of the city. During the ten festival days the theatre will be hosting film screenings, debates and, not least, concerts.

CINEMAS Cinemateket Gothersgade 55 Tel. 33 74 34 12 cinemateket.dk

Gloria Biograf Rådhuspladsen 59 Tel. 33 12 42 92 gloria.dk

Teater Grob Nørebrogade 37 Tel. 35 30 05 00 grob.dk

Dagmar Teatret Jernbanegade 2 Tel. 70 13 12 11 dagmar.dk/kino.dk

Grand Teatret Mikkel Bryggersgade 8 Tel. 33 15 16 11 grandteatret.dk

Vester Vov Vov Absalonsgade 5 Tel. 33 24 42 00 vestervovvov.dk

Empire Bio Guldbergsgade 29F Tel. 35 36 00 36 empire.dk

Posthusteatret Rådhusstræde 1 Tel. 33 11 66 11 posthusteatret.dk

Planetariet Gammel Kongevej 7 Tel. 33 12 12 24 tycho.dk

Borups Højskole Frederiksholms Kanal 24 Tel. 33 12 34 45

Den Danske Filmskole Theodor Christensens Plads 1 Tel. 32 68 64 00

Palads Axeltorv 9 Tel. 33 14 76 06 kino.dk

OTHER VENUES Bakken i Kødbyen Flæsketorvet 17-19 bakkenkbh.dk Bremen Nyropsgade 39-41 Tel. 70 26 32 67 Botanisk Have Øster Farimagsgade 2B Tel. 35 32 22 22

Det Kolde Gys Helgoland Tel. 50 42 18 50 Geologisk Museum Øster Voldgade 5 Tel. 35 32 23 45

Det Grøndlandske Hus Løvstræde 6 Tel. 33 91 12 12 Hal D Strandgade 100 Tel. 70 26 70 80

Støberiet Blågårds Plads 3 VEGA Enghavevej 40 Tel. 33 25 70 11 vega.dk Statens Museum for Kunst Sølvgade 48-50 smk.dk

10 / SERIE Photo: Ada Bligaard Søby (kimberle, 2010)

WELCOME Welcome to the 8th edition of CPH:DOX As in previous years we are here to support and devote ourselves to the discovery of the new auteurs of tomorrow.

Last year the DOX:AWARD was handed over to Harmony Korine’s controversial, genre-defying borderline film Trash Humpers. A brave jury decision and a statement that in many ways has been and still is a strong encouragement to seek out films in the margins of the undefined. As Herzog so blatantly puts it: ”Fact creates norms, and truth illumination”. We hope that the field of non-fiction will walk the illuminating path in ever increasing ways.

Artist in focus In the tradition of supporting a free thinking cinema we have this year asked some very extraordinary people to help us curate two of this year’s most essential programs. The invitation is a carte blanche, and the result is wild and unexpected. American provo-auteur Harmony Korine and the visionary American indietronica-group Animal Collective have in each their very personal ways selected a line-up of films that not only defies easy categorizations but also more profoundly pushes the boundaries of non-fiction to a place far beyond the imaginable.

Korine has curated a film programme that - like his own films,- all together re-defines the cinema of the real.

A beautiful line-up of films that deeply live on the verge of Herzog’s ’ecstatic truth’. Korine’s work has been a constant reference for CPH:DOX since the early beginning of the festival, and we are excited to present a visionary selection of works in a beautiful variety of formats.

Animal Collective has for the last decade defined the innovative indie scene, where music becomes part of a space that also includes visual art, film and performance. The band has along with their long time collaborator Danny Perez curated a programme of documentaries, abstract animation, hallucinatory adventures, psycho-horror, and cult classics. The surrealistic metaphor of film viewing as a waking dream state is close.

DOX:LAB In the spirit of supporting new talents CPH:DOX last year launched an exclusive production laboratory, handpicking a small number of young, international filmmakers and artists to participate in an experimental film workshop. The idea is to create a space where unauthorized cinematic forms can be explored and developed. By handpicking a group of filmmakers with very different backgrounds we hope to stimulate a dialogue based new aesthetic. The participants will in teams of two develop and produce 10 films that will hopefully rock the shaky ground of non-fiction cinema. We know that working in new territories - between established genres and commercial realities – is not an easy job, but we are here to support it.

DOX:FORUM Finally, we are more than happy to welcome you to a brand new version of DOX:FORUM. Forum is from 2010 relaunched as a financing and co-production forum. As in previous editions Forum is dedicated to supporting the creative, free and auteurdriven documentary films. The 25 selected projects will be presented in three sections: The FICTIONONFICTION category representing a line-up of challenging works in the ever-growing hybrid landscape between fiction and non-fiction. The CINEMA category for high-end theatrical films, and the ART category for film projects conceptualized to be screened both within the institution of cinema and that of visual arts. The film projects will be presented to an excellent line-up of major international funds, sales agents, buyers, distributors, broadcasters, online platforms, festivals, museums and other film and art institutions. We cross our fingers and hope to see lots of unexpected alliances.

Welcome to CPH. Tine Fischer Festival Director

DOX:AWARD JURY

PETER KNEGT (CAN)

MARK COUSINS (UK)

VINCA WIEDEMANN (DK)

VIOLETA BAVA (ARG)

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SAFDIE BROTHERS (USA)

DOX:AWARD JURY

MARK COUSINS (UK) Mark Cousins is a man of many talents. Apart from making docu-

and Roman Polanski. Cousins has worked on several projects and

mentaries, he has also found the time to head the Edinburgh Interna-

films in an ongoing working relationship with Tilda Swinton. Together

tional Film Festival and edit several books on film, among them ‘The

they devised ‘The Ballerina ballroom Cinema of Dreams’, as well as

Story of Film’ from 2004. Since 2001, he has written for ‘Prospect’,

co-founded the 8 ½ Foundation, a movie project for kids. Their next

and directed as well as presented BBC2’s ‘Scene for Scene’ which in-

collaboration will be ‘Scotston’, a movie about a girl who sings when

cluded interviews with, among others, Martin Scorcese, David Lynch

she’s anxious.

PETER KNEGT (CAN) Peter Knegt is the Associate Editor of New York based indieWIRE.

national Film Festival, the Hot Docs Canadian International Docu-

com, where he has worked since 2006, covering film festivals around

mentary Festival, Image+Nation, Montreal Gay and Lesbian Film and

the world. He has contributed as a writer to several publications in-

Video Festival and several others. He is currently working on a book

cluding ‘Variety’, ‘Xtra!’, ‘Exclaim’, ‘Cannes Market News’, ‘Hitfix’ and

on Canadian queer issues.

‘Playback’, served as juror at the film festivals in Dubai, Cleveland, Atlanta and Toronto. He has also worked for the Reel Asian Inter-

VIOLETA BAVA (ARG) Violeta Bava has worked at the Buenos Aires International Independ-

has participated in several film workshops related to Latin Ameri-

ent Film Festival (BAFICI) since its beginning in 1999, and is both

can film development, as well as curated programmes for various

its programmer and the co-director of the Buenos Aires Laboratory

international film festivals. Bava is the co-founder of ‘Ruda Cine’, a

(BAL), a leading co-production market for Latin American independ-

film production company that focuses on Latin American Independ-

ent film projects. Since 2002, she has taught Cinema Aesthetics and

ent Cinema.

Ethics at Centro de Investigación Cinematográfica in Buenos Aires,

SAFDIE BROTHERS (USA) The brothers and directors Josh and Ben Safdie live in New York.

were premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. Their first fea-

They already founded their production company ‘Red Bucket Films’

ture collaboration, ‘Go Get Some Rosemary’, was premiered at the

at high school, and have produced various shorts and features, in

Directors’ Fortnight in 2009 and was shown at Sundance in 2010.

addition to working individually with photography and illustration /

Their latest short film ‘John’s Gone’ premiered at the 67th Venice

sculpturing respectively. Both Ben’s short ‘The Acquaintance of a

Film Festival.

Lonely John’ and Josh’s first feature ‘The Pleasure of Being Robbed’

VINCA WIEDEMANN (DK) Vinca Wiedemann does many things. She originally trained as a film

Most recently, she has been working independently as a producer,

editor at the Danish Film School, where she has been teaching since.

author and screenplay consultant, and has among other things col-

Over the years, she has among other things worked as a consultant

laborated with Pernille Fischer Christensen, Jan Troell, Thomas

and lecturer at numerous schools and institutions, and as a jury and

Vinterberg and Christoffer Boe. Wiedemann has recently worked

committee member at cultural institutions and festivals all over the

together with Lars von Trier on the development of his screenplay

world. She worked for several years at the Danish Film Institute as a

for ‘Melancholia’.

feature film consultant and artistic director for New Danish Screen.

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NEW:VISION AWARD JURY

HILA PELEG (ISR)

JOAN YOUNG (USA)

GERALDINE GOMEZ (FRA)

MARK SLADEN (UK)

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HELEN DE WITT (UK)

NEW:VISION AWARD JURY

JOAN YOUNG (USA) In 1995 Joan Young joined the curatorial staff of the Guggenheim

for display in 2011, and ‘Youtube Play, A Biennal of Creative Video’,

Museum in New York. In her capacity as Curator of Contemporary

a collaborative project with Youtube. She also contributes to the mu-

Art, Young has worked on a large number of projects, including the

seum’s publications.

exhibitions of Hugo Boss Prize winners Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tacita Dean and Emily Jacir. Her two most recent projects both revolve around video: a retrospect of video works from the Guggenheim collection

HILA PELEG (ISR) Hila Peleg is a Berlin-based curator and filmmaker. Born in Tel Aviv,

Italy. She is the founder and artistic director of the newly started bi-

Peleg studied Art History at Goldsmiths University in London, where

annual festival ‘Berlin Documentary Forum’ at Berlin’s Haus der Kul-

she is currently a PhD candidate in Curatorial Knowledge and Visual

turen der Welt. Her film ‘A Crime Against Art’ toured festivals around

Culture. She has curated exhibitions for KW Institute for Contempo-

the world, and won the NEW:VISION award at CPH:DOX in 2008.

rary Art and the HAU theatre in Berlin, as well as Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen and European Biennial of Contemporary Art at Trento,

GERALDINE GOMEZ (FRA) Geraldine Gomez has always sought to cross the borders between

ries. In 2005, she launched ‘Hors Pistes’, a multidisciplinary event

cinema, visual art and new technology. Holder of a thesis on the his-

focusing on new trends in contemporary image through screenings,

tory of contemporary art, Gomez plies her interest to several diverse

meetings and performances.

projects. As the head of ‘Nouveaux Territoires’ at the Pompidou Center since 2002, she has discovered and shown innovative and experimental cinema, in a constant attempt to push borders and bounda-

MARK SLADEN (UK) Mark Sladen is the director of Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Before com-

The Face of History’, co-curated with Kate Bush and a large-scale

ing to Charlottenborg, Sladen was head curator at ICA and before

motorised installation by Jeppe Hein. In 2006, Sladen was one of the

that he worked at the Barbican Centre in London, first as Curator

curators of Momentum, the biennial of work focusing on emerging

and subsequently as Senior Curator. Here he was responsible for

artists from the Nordic region, held in Moss in Norway. In addition,

curating modern and contemporary art projects, including large-

Sladen has worked extensively as a writer, contributing articles to

scale loan exhibitions. Sladen’s projects at the Barbican included: ‘In

publications such as ‘Frieze’, ‘Art Review’ and ‘Artforum’.

HELEN DE WITT (UK) Helen de Witt is festivals producer at the British Film Institute, re-

the Scala and Electric cinemas in London. She subsequently became

sponsible for the delivery of the London Film Festival and the Lon-

the first head of cinema at the Lux Centre for Film Video and Digital

don Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. She has taught Film and Media

Arts in London. From there she was appointed head of the BFI’s Pro-

Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London for many years and

gramme Unit before moving to the Festival department.

has published articles on independent cinema, artists’ film and video – and football. After starting her career in independent cinema exhibition and specialised distribution, she became the programmer of

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SOUND & VISION AWARD JURY

COUNT MARTINDT CALLY VON CALLOMON (UK)

RAYMOND SALVATORE HARMON (USA)

MAYA ALBANA (DK)

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SOUND & VISION AWARD JURY

COUNT MARTINDT CALLY VON CALLOMON (UK) The British multi-artist Count Martindt Cally Von Callomon can claim

programme. Von Callomon has been the art director at the legendary

to be many things. Drummer, filmmaker, music guru and bicycle en-

Island Records, curated various film programmes, manages Nick

thusiast. He moves effortlessly through the British music industry,

Drake’s musical heritage, and this summer he cycled from one end

and has among other things designed the cover art for The Cranber-

of Britain to the other on a Penny Farthing.

ries, U2, P.J. Harvey and Scott Walker, marketed Elton John and U2, and been the manager of The The, which are featured in this year’s

MAYA ALBANA (DK) Maya Albana is a documentary director, singer and author. Since

album ‘God Bless Education’ in 2004. In 2007, she graduated as a TV

1992, she was part of the pop group Nice Device. Since the band’s dis-

producer from the Danish Film School, and produced the first season

solution, Maya Albana has worked within the TV industry, where she

of ‘X Factor’ on DR1. In 2008, she directed ‘Martin’s Diary’, a video

has been the host and producer of ‘Freebee’ on TV3 and ZTV, and in

diary in 13 episodes, following which she published the book ‘Martin,

1999 she produced the youth programme ‘Puls’ on TV2. In April 1999,

Eventyret, Ørum og X Factor’. The following years, Maya Albana has

the 25-year-old singer released her first solo album, followed by the

directed various TV programmes for, among others, DR1 and TV2.

RAYMOND SALVATORE HARMON (USA) Raymond Salvatore Harmon has accomplished more than seems

media and experimental films touches upon and shakes up areas

humanly possible, and he always moves on the limits of the area

such as anthropology, philosophical discourse and contemporary

he’s involved in. Be it either as a record producer, a graffiti artist,

art. Harmon’s visually abstract performance film ‘Chronicle’ with The

a filmmaker, a VJ or a curator. He has embarked on critically ac-

Chicago Underground Trio was premiered at CPH:DOX in 2007. After

claimed collaborations with artists as different as Andrew Bird,

a childhood in Detroit’s borderland and a decade in Chicago, Harmon

Richard Bishop, Philippe Petit, Wolf Eyes, Magik Markers, Chicago

now lives in London.

Underground Trio and Exploding Star Orchestra. His work with new

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AMNESTY AWARD JURY

CAROLINE KAMYA (UGA)

GAYLE FERRARO (USA)

JEFF ZIMBALIST (USA)

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AMNESTY AWARD JURY

CAROLINE KAMYA (UGA) Caroline Kamya took her degrees in Architecture and Urban design,

young people in Uganda. Her critically acclaimed debut feature film

as well as TV documentary at Bartlett and Goldsmith in London,

‘Imana’ opened at the Berlin International Film Festival. At this year’s

where she also worked several years for the BBC. She then re-

CPH:DOX, she is showing her newest film ‘Chips and Liver Girls’,

turned to her home country of Uganda to set up iVAD, which is now

which she co-directed with Boris Bertram and which was commis-

the leading production house in Uganda. Kamya also set up a non-

sioned as part of the DOX:LAB programme. Her next film, ‘Firefly’,

profit training arm of iVAD, providing education in TV production for

will be shown at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2011.

GAYLE FERRARO (USA) Gayle Ferraro, who studied at both Harvard, Boston and Oxford, has

exposed prostitution and human trafficking in Myanmar. ‘Ganges:

over the years made films which always focus on the personal – and

River to Heaven’ from 2004 is her exploration and portrait of the cit-

incredible – stories. Her first film, the critically acclaimed ‘Sixteen

ies, burials and events at the Indian river, which mean the life and

Decisions’ from 2000, followed a group of impoverished women from

death for millions of people. This year, she is showing her latest film

Bangladesh, who try to overcome their fate through ambitious en-

‘To Catch a Dollar’ at CPH:DOX, a film about the Nobel laureate Mu-

trepreneurship. The next project was ‘Anonymously Yours’, which

hammad Yunus, which is shown as part of the ‘Enjoy Poverty’ series.

JEFF ZIMBALIST (USA) Jeff Zimbalist is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter, director and

in five continents and in 34 American cities. Jeff has won a schol-

editor, whose films have been shown on HBO, MTV, PBS, UK4 and

arship from the Ford Foundation and has produced documentaries

BBC, as well as being distributed in cinemas all over the world. His

in developing countries for the United Nations, the World Bank and

film ‘Favela Rising’ won 36 international awards, including IDFA’s

the Inter-American Development Bank. Most recently, Jeff and his

‘Film of the Year’ and Tribeca’s ‘Best New Director’ and was also

brother Michael have directed ‘The Two Escobars’, which can be seen

shortlisted for an Oscar. Since then, the film has been distributed

at CPH:DOX 2010.

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DANISH:DOX AWARD JURY

KLARA GRUNNING-HARRIS (DK)

DUNJA GRY JENSEN (DK)

MARTIN DE THURAH (DK)

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DANISH:DOX AWARD JURY

KLARA GRUNNING-HARRIS (DK) Klara Grunning-Harris studied art in Paris and moved to San Fran-

international coproduction. Klara Grunning-Harris has also headed

cisco in 1993, where she graduated in film production at The Acad-

the Norwegian KUDOS Family, whose ambition is to be a leading

emy of Art University in 1997. Since then she has worked as an in-

distributor on all media platforms, and she has had her own produc-

dependent producer, director, consultant, photographer and project

tion company Hell in a Handbasket. From 2010, she is employed as a

manager – since 1999 for ITVS, Independent Television Service in San

documentary film consultant at the Danish Film Institute.

Francisco, where she led the establishment of the department of

DUNJA GRY JENSEN (DK) Dunja Gry Jensen studied screenwriting at the Danish Film School.

Happy’ (Henrik Ruben Genz). Gry also trained as a tutor at North

Apart from writing the screenplays for TV series such as ‘Taxa’, ‘Unit

by Northwest and among other things teaches at the Danish Film

1’ and ‘Blue Collar White Christmas’, she has also written short,

School.

documentary and feature screenplay, including ‘Verden i Danmark’ (Max Kestner), ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ (Max Kestner) and ‘Terribly

MARTIN DE THURAH (DK) Martin de Thurah graduated as an animation director from The Dan-

falder’, which were selected for the festivals in Venice and Cannes

ish Film School in 2002, and was the visual designer of Christoffer

respectively. He has also also exhibited paintings and other works

Boe’s ‘Reconstruction’ (2002) and Max Kestner’s ‘Max by Chance’

of art at Århus Kunstmuseum, Arken and Charlottenborg, among

(2004). De Thurah has made a large number of music videos for

other places.

ground-breaking Danish and international musicians, and has directed the short films ‘We Who Stayed Behind’ and ‘Ung mand

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Opening Gala / Erotic man

We are happy and proud to be able to present the Danish premiere of Jørgen Leth’s long awaited film ‘Erotic Man’ (see Dox Award). The entire country is invited to attend the event, as CPH:DOX in collaboration with our own documentary film club DOX:BIO sees to it that both the film and an exclusive live interview are streamed to 40 cinemas across the country.

REEL TALENT - new award for Danish documentary talent: The Association of Danish Film Directors and CPH:DOX have established a new award, which will be handed out for the first time at this year’s opening ceremony. The Reel Talent award is a talent award which is given to a Danish documentary film director, who with his or her first film has demonstrated a very special cinematic eye. The award is handed out as a collegial pat on the shoulder to a director heading for the stars, and is an incentive for the director to continue the promising filmic vision of the first films.

We hope that the award is an encouragement to fly even higher and to keep up the courage to explore new possibilities within the activity of filmmaking.

SCREENING DATES Store Vega: Wednesday 3/11 19:00 hrs.

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Special screening: happy people - a year IN the taiga Werner herzog presents a film by Dmitry Vasyukov

EUROPEAN PREMIERE In ‘Grizzly Man’, Werner Herzog turned the rediscovered footage of an individual’s struggle into his own story about man and nature, thereby creating one of the most groundbreaking documentaries of recent times.

With the new ‘Happy People - a Year in the Taiga’, the visionary master director has once again adopted an already existing work and added his own distinctive voice (and his matter-of-fact view of nature). This time, the Russian director Dmitry Vasyukov’s documentary series about life in the frozen and magnificent Siberian wilderness has been turned into one-and-a-half hours of pure magic, where one almost feels physically present every single moment. There are no telephone lines, no running water and no medical help out in the Siberian wilderness. The few human beings that live there have over centuries learned to survive on nature’s own premises - and to handle a bear attack, if necessary. Herzog admires the independent and proud life beyond the reach of ‘civilisation’, and Vasyukov’s cinematography captures the magnificence of the vast surroundings, with its layers of snow that are several meters thick. It’s like being there oneself and having one of the greatest narrators of documentary filmmaking in the sidecar of the snowmobile.

Original title Happy People - A Year In The Taiga Country Germany Year 2010 Running time 94 min.

Production Studio Babelsberg Producer Charlie Woebcken, Christopher Fisser, Vladimir Perepelkin, Nick N. Raslan Distribution Studio Babelsberg

SCREENING DATES Grand: Saturday 6/11 16:40 hrs. / Grand: Tuesday 9/11 21:30 hrs. / Grand: Saturday 13/11 19:00 hrs.

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COMPETITIONS DOX:AWARD NEW:VISION AWARD SOUND & VISION AWARD AMNESTY AWARD DANISH:DOX AWARD SHORT:DOX AWARD

DOX:AWARD

13 films have been chosen to compete for this year’s DOX:AWARD. The nominated films are our selection of this year’s outstanding, international documentaries. They stand out thanks to their strong personal vision, their cinematic qualities, and by insisting on the rightful place of documentaries on the cinema screen.

Since the first edition of the festival, CPH:DOX has been committed to documentaries that constantly challenge the genre and our understanding of the idea of what could be called the documentary project. Exploring the boundaries between documentary and fiction has been a constant part of this project since the beginning, and has been essential in shaping the profile of CPH:DOX in parallel with being the defining tendency in contemporary filmmaking over the last decade.

This year no less, and we are excited to present a selection of magnificent films that in very different ways explore the potential of cinema from a both subjective and personal viewpoint. Many (if not all) of the films nominated for this year’s DOX:AWARD walk the line between fact and fiction, with the cinematic reference to the real as their common point of departure. From the poetic and personal, to the political and (thought)provoking, in 13 excellent films that represent the medium at its finest.

DOX:AWARD is a prize of 5,000 Euros. The award is kindly sponsored by DR.

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow DIRECTOR: Sophie Fiennes

Like ruins from a future that is yet to come, the seemingly meaningless and unusable structures tower above the desert-like wastelands which surround the German artist Anselm Kiefer’s home and studio. An artificial wasteland undergoing constant change, excavated by subterranean labyrinths and made by one of the most idiosyncratic artists of our times, whom the British auteur documentarist Sophie Fiennes (‘The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema’) portrays with the precision of a space probe and the eye of a painter. Kiefer works with heavy materials such as concrete, molten lead, ash and ground glass, and the greatness in his peculiar project is revealed with each corner that the camera passes in its inner architecture, accompanied by Jörg Widmann and György Ligeti. ‘Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow’ documents the last days before Kiefer changed residence away from his colossal work, and the film was one of the absolute highlights at this year’s festival in Cannes - both as an insight into a creative process, whose strange patterns makes one dizzy, and as an artistic and sensual experience in its own right, made for the special space of the cinema.

Original title Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow Country UK/France/Netherlands Year 2010 Running time 105 min.

Production Sciapode Producer Sophie Fiennes, Kees Kasander, Emilie Blezet Distribution Sciapode

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Saturday 6/11 12:00 hrs. / Dagmar Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 12:00 hrs.

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The Arbor DIRECTOR: Clio Barnard

One constantly feels one step behind in Clio Barnard’s ‘The Arbor’, which is named after the dreary residential area somewhere in northern England where the film takes place. For Barnard turns the British penchant for miserable social realism on its head in his theatrical ‘real life’ production of the theatre success written by Andrea Dunbar, who was only 19 when she wrote the play - before going on to drink herself to death 10 years later. The film follows the complicated relationship between Dunbar and her grown-up daughter, and is based on several years’ research and interviews with the family. Tape recordings are lip-synched by actors in a living room setting with neither walls or a roof, but set on a field in The Arbor. It looks like nothing seen before, but Barnard’s film is fortunately far easier to watch than to describe. The desperate cycle of addiction, self-destruction and violence is rooted deeply in society, and ‘The Arbor’ is a courageous and innovative attempt to give it a form. Literally a piece of kitchen sink theatre, which would have made Bertolt Brecht proud and which one is left thinking about for a long time.

Original title The Arbor Country UK/Japan Year 2009 Running time 90 min.

Production Artangel production Producer Tracy O’Riordan Distribution Artangel

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Sunday 7/11 16:40 hrs. / Posthus Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 21:30 hrs.

DOX:AWARD / 29

In the Future DIRECTOR: Mauro Andrizzi

WORLD PREMIERE The Argentinian filmmaker Mauro Andrizzi has looked into the crystal ball to give us his take on the future of cinema - or at least on how film can still reinvent itself and continue to subsume us. ‘In the Future’ is an episodic collection of small stories, and a love affair between genres.

Tragedies and farces, ghost stories, kissing, mysterious telephone calls in the middle of the night, and the mellow man whose girlfriend has acted in a porn movie. The action is set somewhere between the familiarity of a video-diary and the soul-bearing of reality TV. But the luminous and alternately black/white and colourful images lift the narrations to a poetic point where nothing is definite and everything is possible. In the meantime, the questions are piling up. What’s it all about? And what is for real? One possible answer lies in the brief, abstract excursions that the camera sets off on between two episodes of the soap opera that is the lives of others. ‘In the Future’ was screened at the film festival in Venice, but is now premiering here in a longer, extended version with a 15 minute epilogue.

Original title En El Futuro Country Argentina Year 2010 Running time 67 min.

Production Mono Films Producer Mauro Andrizzi Distribution Mauro Andrizzi Mono Films

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Saturday 6/11 21:30 hrs. / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Tuesday 9/11 16:30 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 19:00 hrs.

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Detroit Wild City DIRECTOR: Florent Tillon

WORLD PREMIERE Welcome to the city of Detroit, ‘the Murder Capital of the USA’, where the grass is growing over the parking lots and the houses are abandoned.

Here, a new life is slowly beginning to take form and take over the deserted city. But even if the writing on the wall has a different and more apocalyptic meaning, there is no reason to panic. ‘Detroit Wild City’ looks with the wandering gaze and cool, philosophical distance of the outsider at the changes in urban landscapes in a historical moment when a ‘post-’ is written before ‘utopias’, ‘humanity’ and ‘dollar capitalism’.

Invisible disasters have ruined the city, and all that is left are traces in the form of radio adverts about debt relief, flocks of stray dogs, and a mysterious pile of burned New Age books. But on the fringes of it all, people have started to reorganise themselves in autonomous societies, where settlers are growing vegetables and still believe in the future - just not as an extension of the present. Florent Tillon keeps a level head and like a French Jim Jarmusch he turns his selective camera to where new ideas grow in the ruins of the 20th century’s belief in eternal progress.

And where the knowledge that something new is going to happen is a rare piece of good news.

Original title Detroit Wild City Country France Year 2010 Running time 80 min.

Production Ego Productions Producer Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin Distribution Ego Productions

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 21:30 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 16:40 hrs.

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The Good Life DIRECTOR: Eva Mulvad

WORLD PREMIERE 20 Euros for two weeks. This is what two women, mother and daughter, have to make do with in Eva Mulvad’s black family portrait from Portugal’s costa del sol. But things haven’t always been like that. The Danish family used to be wealthy and passed down a fortune across several generations - a fortune that has now been used up. The adult daughter Anne Mette grew up believing that money grows on trees and that it was only a matter of going to the bank when she was out of them. But suddenly the bank account also has no more funds available, and for the first time in her life she has to overcome the taboo of finding herself a job. A period of (self-)reproach begins, and tragedy is lurking behind the comedy that ‘The Good Life’ also is. The golden days of the past are over, and all that is left are the family’s two last aristocrats, who are as out of touch with reality as you can make it. ‘The Good Life’ sends an affectionate nod to the American Maysles brothers and the documentary classic ‘Grey Gardens’.

And yet, Mulvad’s film is in a league of its own with its deeply personal and grim tale, which reveals the director’s sharp eye for the characters of reality - two women, who with their paradoxical, unsympathetic charm could not have been invented any better had one tried.

Original title The Good Life Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 83 min.

Production Danish Documentary Production Producer Sigrid Dyekjær Distribution Danish Documentary Production

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Saturday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Dagmar Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 16:40 hrs. / Dagmar Teatret: Sunday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

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The Four Times DIRECTOR: Michelangelo Frammartino

One of the most astounding films at this year’s Cannes film festival. On the surface, it is a simple study of life’s course in a small country village in the southern Italian province of Calabria. But - without saying too much - there is much more at stake. An old shepherd is spending his last days in a small medieval village. He is herding goats, and spends his days battling with unruly snails and other anarchic elements of nature - while he in a quiet and slightly superstitious way fights his own battle to make his body last just a little bit longer. But one only just manages to settle down in ones seat and get acclimatised to a story about an old man, when he suddenly and undramatically drops out of the narration.

Instead, the story focuses on the wry coincidences and wild trivialities of everyday life, where the B-roles are played by humans and the absolute A-roles are played by everything ranging from pine trees and wild dogs to unruly goats. A film, which in a masterful way balances between black humour, poetic immediacy and existential everyday reflection with a sense of the complexity of the smallest details.

Original title Le quattro volte Country Italy, Germany, Switzerland Year 2010 Running time 90 min.

Production Coproduction Office Producer Susanne Marian, Philippe Bober, Gabriella Manfré, Andres Pfaeffli Distribution Coproduction Office

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Saturday 6/11 21:45 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 14:20 hrs. / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 19:15 hrs.

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I’m Still Here DIRECTOR: Casey Affleck

Joaquin Phoenix took the whole world by surprise when he last year let his hair and his beard grow, and dropped out of the jet set life of Hollywood to pursue a questionable career as a rapper. After an almost autistic appearance in the David Letterman show and a fight in a fancy nightclub in LA, the rumours of Phoenix’s mental short-circuiting made the headlines of both tabloids and serious newspapers. The truth was that the charismatic star had turned himself into a fictional character in a role-play. A social and viral experiment, which could only take place due to Phoenix’s fame and skilful, media-savvy manipulation of the attention that goes with it. Casey Affleck documented Phoenix’s lost year, and ‘I’m Still Here’ is a tightrope-walker’s play with - and intelligent comment on - the media’s meaningless interest in celebrities. A meticulously prepared chaos, which realises nothing less than the old dream of the avant-garde: to break down the boundaries between art and life.

Original title I’m Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix Country USA Year 2010 Running time 107 min.

Production They Are Going to Kill Us Productions Producer Casey Affleck, Joaquin Phoenix, Amanda White Distribution: Magnolia Pictures (Int) Angel (DK)

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Friday 5/11 22:30 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Saturday 6/11 21:30 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Tuesday 9/11 16:30 hrs.

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...And Everything Is Going Fine DIRECTOR: Steven Soderbergh

The American independent director Steven Soderbergh effortlessly switches between huge Hollywood blockbusters and small, incisive niche projects with a human focus. Perhaps not so surprisingly, ‘...

And Everything Is Going Fine’ belongs to the latter group, and in his minimalistic debut as a documentary filmmaker Soderbergh also returns to his starting point: the confession, and again in the lone company of a video camera. But this time it is his late friend Spalding Gray who lays his cards on the table - but not in the way that reality TV has taught us to expect. Behind Gray’s unobtrusive manner was a dazzling speaker who spellbound audiences with his monologues about all the seemingly small things that in the end make up a human life. It is these speeches that, without further explanation, make up the film’s jigsaw puzzle of a biography. And which possibly uncovers traces to Gray’s tragic death in 2004, under circumstances that could indicate suicide. In the end, his own words is all he left behind, and they are exactly the material that Soderbergh’s invisible hand pieces together with precision and human insight to form a philosophical and endearing image of the man behind.

Original title ...And Everything Is Going Fine Country USA Year 2010 Running time 89 min.

Production Magnolia Pictures Producer Joshua Blum, Amy Hobby, Kathie Russo Distribution Magnolia Pictures

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Thursday 4/11 21:45 hrs. / Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 21:00 hrs. / Dagmar Teatret: Sunday 14/11 16:30 hrs.

DOX:AWARD / 35

Son of God DIRECTOR: Khavn la Cruz, Michael Noer

WORLD PREMIERE The wild boys at school, Philippine Khavn de la Cruz and Danish Michael Noer (‘The Wild Hearts’, ‘R’) are behind this febrile dream of a film about a dwarf who is idolised as God’s son by his deeply religious followers in the Philippines. Noer is the white explorer heading a kamikaze expedition, which starts in Manila’s densely populated streets and continues deep into the jungle, where it culminates in a spiritual (re)birth through a hole in the ground. For the many million faithful in the Philippines, the divine has a real existence, and when God’s small son is surrounded by his fans and heals a cancer-suffering man with his guts hanging out of a hole in the stomach, one has to acknowledge that it’s only our welfare society that has waved goodbye to the age of miracles. And it is only here that a long and highly chaotic slum trip has its beginning. Produced within less than half a year and with a budget no more than €11.000, ‘Son of God’ is the closest you can get to a modern mondo movie, but it is also a cunning commentary on western ideas of faith and superstition in the warmer countries.

‘Son of God’ is a part of the talent and development project DOX:LAB. The film will also be screened in a short version (see DOX:LAB p. 180)

Original title Son of God (short version) Country Philippines/Denmark Year 2010 Running time 30 min.

Production DOX:LAB Distribution Michael Noer

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Friday 5/11 21:15 hrs. / Gloria: Tuesday 9/11 21:45 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Friday 12/11 16:40 hrs.

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The Autobiograpy of Nicolae Ceausescu DIRECTOR: Andrei Ujica

Several decades of modern history and over a thousand hours of footage has been made into a dizzying ‘autobiography’ of the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who from 1965 to 1989 ran Romania with an iron fist and increasing megalomania. An autobiography, because Andrei Ujica’s epic masterpiece consists entirely of footage from Ceausescu’s time in power which - apart from an horrifying trial that bookends the film depicts him the way he liked to see himself. In other words, a piece of vain fiction, and a façade that hid the real conditions in the impoverished country. Without commenting on the alternately frightening, fascinating and bizarrely comical archive images, Ujica’s virtuously edited film takes the propaganda of the personal cult to its absurd conclusion - a state where everything is artificial but the politics. Even the dictator’s personal 35mm home movies from the marble palace, and those from a trip to Kim Il-sung’s North Korea where he was welcomed by millions of people in a grotesque parade. ‘After all, a dictator is simply an artist who is able to fully put into practice his egotism. It is a mere question of aesthetic level, whether he turns out to be a Baudelarie or Bolinteneanu, Louis XVI or Nicolae Ceausescu.’ (Andrei Ujica).

Original title Autobiografia Lui Nicolae Ceausescu Country Rumania Year 2010 Running time 180 min.

Production Icon Production Producer Velvet Moraru Distribution Mandragora

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 14:15 hrs. / Husets Biograf: Wednesday 10/11 18:00 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Sunday 14/11 13:30 hrs.

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You Are All Captains DIRECTOR: Oliver Laxe

The children in this orphanage in Tangiers may not have many belongings, but nobody can take away their fantasy, energy and enormous sense of curiosity. A good starting point for a good film, which the Frenchman Oliver Laxe does not make do with filming from an anthropological distance. He involves the children in the actual production, and teaches them about lighting, lenses and 16mm filmmaking equipment, which the children on the other hand do not think can live up to the digital cameras of the tourists. They do not think that the story works either, and a young agitator shouts out in the middle of the lesson: ‘A film should have a story. You can’t make a film this way!’ And on top of it all, the locals are not too keen on being filmed. Laxe’s artistic idealism is dramatically tested in a film that echoes the methods of Abbas Kiarostami and the collective filmmaking experiments of the 1960s, and ends in a colourful disappearance act, which - like the rest of the film - could be pure fantasy. The staging is visibly present in Oliver Laxe’s meta-film, but the children’s reactions and spontaneous lack of manners are genuine enough. And so is their mysterious fascination with film, which is revealed in beautiful black-and-white images. ‘You Are All Captains’ took home the FIPRESCI award in Cannes.

Original title Todos vós sodes capitáns Country Spain Year 2010 Running time 78 min.

Production Zeitun Films Producer Felipe Lage Distribution Memento Films International

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Sunday 7/11 17:00 hrs. / Dagmar Teatret: Thursday 11/11 21:30 hrs. / Dagmar Teatret: Saturday 13/11 16:40 hrs.

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At the Edge of Russia DIRECTOR: Michal Marczak

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE One of the Russian army’s last existing outposts, seen through the young eyes of a 19-year-old rookie. In the midst of the vast and frozen nothingness, and more than a thousand kilometres from the nearest tree, a handful of old soldiers and their young assistant are left to deal with themselves, the magnificent nature and the antiquated political ideas that keeps them on their toes, as they ward off invisible enemies from the Russian borders. Young Aleksey has to gain the respect of his ageing superiors in the more or less absurd and pointless rituals and routines of everyday life. ‘The Edge of Russia’ does not criticise, but instead provides a human image of isolated men who are looking for refuge from the unwieldy chaos of civilian life within the self-inflicted order and discipline of the army. A discipline that is only interrupted by vodka and sad songs. Unforgettable characters, their secrets and demons from their lives as civilians, marked by a special ‘Russian’ blend of melancholy and manly bravery. The young Polish director Michal Marczak’s dazzling debut brings the spectator right up to the border of a fallen empire, whose political ambitions and harsh nature are united in a spectacular metaphor for a modern Russia, which itself remains out of the picture.

Original title Koniec Rosji Country Poland Year 2010 Running time 72 min.

Production Ozumi Films Producer Marianna Rowinska Distribution Against Gravity

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Sunday 7/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 19:00 hrs. / Dagmar Teatret: Friday 12/11 16:40 hrs.

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Erotic Man DIRECTOR: Jørgen Leth

EUROPEAN PREMIERE ”It’s a film told from a man’s point of view. It is based on my sensitivity.

It is not a democratic film. It is very egocentric.”

Jørgen Leth The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the director himself has called an artistic testament.

It is simultaneously his most personal and most provocative film. A film about growing older, about losing, about the special moments one remembers, and about the director’s own circling around the essence of eroticism. Can one measure the erotic? Can one frame it? Can one even define it? We embark on a journey in the footsteps of eroticism.

Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belém, Jacmel, Dakar, Manila - the film’s alter ego Jørgen Leth looks for women, who want to take part in a film about the essence of eroticism while he reflects on the erotic experience.

It is a journey out into the world, but in the nature of things it is also a journey into the man himself to register the erotic, to seek its form and its meaning. A man, who looks at women - who look at the woman. And a film that penetrates into the man’s own memories of the long-lasting love and the fleeting sexual encounters - in a form that balances the poetic and blunt reality of the flesh and the gaze, and the seductive narrative form of fiction.

Original title Det erotiske menneske Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 90 min.

Production Zentropa Entertainments Coproduction/Auto Images AB Producer Marianne Christensen Distribution Trust Films

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Wednesday 3/11 19:00 hrs. / Store Vega: Wednesday 3/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 14:20 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Thursday 11/11 14:20 hrs. / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 10:00 hrs.

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2011

Documentary Film Festival

Feb.11- MAy. 5

6 years

NEW:VISION AWARD

NEW:VISION AWARD is the competition programme for cinematic experiments from the laboratory between documentary and artistic reflection. Provocative and challenging, radical and borderline, poetic and abstract – and always with the courage to explore.

The programme consists of works from both the world of visual art and of film. From the short, poetic moments via the cinematic essay to philosophical genre excursions beyond the limits of reality. These are works that will rather strive for the impossible than make do with the average, and works that critically investigate the status of images in our time.

The nominated works for the NEW:VISION AWARD all insist on the documentary as a form of artistic expression and share a formal and methodological curiousity, which is of paramount importance for the continued development of the documentary film.

The film language of the future is created here, and there is enough food for both fresh inspiration and critical thought in the widely diverse artistic expressions in this series.

NEW:VISION AWARD is kindly sponsored by FAF – The Association of Danish Film and TV Workers.

Ruhr DIRECTOR: James Benning

It is hard reproduce in words the experience of a James Benning film, but it is very easy to embrace it in the darkness of the cinema. Also this new work is a small lesson in watching films, with one of the absolute masters of American documentary behind the camera, whom he this time has taken along to the heavily industrialised Ruhr district in western Germany. In seven static scenes we are shown a glimpse of the indefinable space of modern reality, from a deserted motorway tunnel via a packed mosque to a gigantic steel plant. A time travel that moves towards the film’s monumental and almost psychedelic finale. It may look minimalistic, but make no mistake: Benning, (who was Artist in Focus at CPH:DOX in 2008), has 40 years’ experience in creating images and sounds that run rings around the people who do not pay close attention. The key is rhythm and timing, and paradoxically the result feels infinitely varied and lively, and often very funny. With ‘Ruhr’, meanwhile, Benning has swapped 16mm celluloid for HD video, and turned the sharpness and detail of the digital image into a conscious element with both aesthetic and political resonance. Has the film lost its direct relation to reality through its move to video? Or are we witnessing a new beginning?

Original title Ruhr Country USA Year 2010 Running time 120 min.

Production Schaf Oder Scharf Film Producer Zorana Musikic Distribution Schaf Oder Scharf Film

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 hrs. 18:30 / Gloria: Tuesday 9/11 17:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 18:30 hrs.

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The Regretters DIRECTOR: Marcus Lindeen

‘The Regretters’ is a documentary based on a theatre play, in turn based on a radio show. All of which is made by Marcus Lindeen, who hereby has his debut as a filmmaker. Two widely different people share an unusual story. They were both born as men, they both changed sex, and they both regretted doing so. But this is also where the similarities end. The flamboyant Orlando was one of the first people to go through the physical operation that turned him into a woman, and one of the very few people who also took the journey back again. Michael, on the other hand, regretted his decision right after his operation, and is now longing to go back. The two meet on a stage in a dark TV studio, and talk their hearts out in a two-way interview, which would even leave the most progressive gender theoretician reeling. The personal story is, of course, close at hand, like in Orlando’s almost ten year long relationship with a man who did not know about his partner’s past. But the current social norms are also reflected in the encounter with those who do not fit in, and they leave us with a complex story about seeking happiness without compromising.

Original title Ångrarna Country Sweden Year 2010 Running time 58 min.

Production Atmo Media Network AB Producer Kristina Åberg Distribution Det Svenske Filminstitut

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Monday 8/11 19:00 hrs. / Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria: Saturday 13/11 17:30 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 45

Paria DIRECTOR: Adryan Linden

EUROPEAN PREMIERE There is an ethnic cleansing going on, in the midst of global society and right before our eyes. Those who are different and genetically unwanted are spotted even before they are born, and they will soon be an extinct race. Adryan Linden has decided to speak out, and armed with Nietzsche he calls to both theoretical and militant combat against the homogeneous society and against a form of cleansing, which (also) has an obvious aesthetic dimension. Linden suffers from muscular atrophy and has not left his apartment in seven years. His own days are soon numbered, and before it is too late he wants to do his best to make the world aware of the political ideology behind the medical interventions that prevent handicapped children from being born. ‘Paria’ is Linden’s resistance pamphlet, and the question is not why it is politically controversial - but why we would think it is so in the first place.

Original title Paria Country Sweden Year 2010 Running time 30 min.

Production Unga Rörelsehindrade Producer Jonas Franksson Distribution SFI

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Monday 8/11 19:00 hrs. / Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria: Saturday 13/11 17:30 hrs.

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Double Tide DIRECTOR: Sharon Lockhart

Sharon Lockhart is both a photographer and a filmmaker, and both sides are more clearly evident than ever before in ‘Double Tide’, which in its own way is as much a photograph as it is a film. And which in both cases can be seen as a tightly structured experiment in letting the two media approach each other in a symbiotic hybrid image. Or, rather, in two.

‘Double Tide’ (apparently) consists of merely two images, separated by one (visible) cut. The motif is nothing less romantic than the sun rising over a bay surrounded by fir trees. One lonely being is trudging around in the dark mud, in the process of carrying out some indefinable work, while the early morning light is slowly spreading across the sky. The effect is almost inexplicable: among the directors who in more recent years have made observant minimalism modern again, Lockhart is possibly the most radical. But her works are also always made of humanistic material, which imbue the carefully choreographed compositions with a rare sense of beauty, which give simple physical labour a proud sense of dignity.

A pictorial experience that is made for the specific space of a cinema.

Original title Double Tide Country USA/Austria Year 2010 Running time 99 min.

Production Gladstone Gallery Distribution Lockhart Studio

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 4/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 16:30 hrs. / Gloria: Thursday 11/11 17:30 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 47

Make It New John DIRECTOR: Duncan Campbell

John DeLorean is best known for having provided the name for the DeLorean DMC12, better known as the car from ‘Back to the Future’.

A futuristic symbol for the dream of never-ending progress along the roads of industry and individualism. But DeLorean did more than just lend his name. The entrepreneur and son of Romanian immigrants worked his way up from the bottom to a top position at General Motors, put his entire vision in the silver-coloured miracle, and ended up leaving both his dream and his factory in ruins after having invested everything and lost it all in a spectacular bankruptcy. ‘Make it New John’ is the young Irish artist Duncan Campbell’s take on a topical story from the recent past. A past, which nonetheless is far enough away to take on a fictional veil, which happens through a fascinating montage of archive footage from the 1980s and imaginary interviews with the workers involved.

For Campbell’s film is not just about DeLorean himself, but also about the thousands of human beings working at the assembly lines, who only managed to build 9000 units of his DMC12 before the bubble burst.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 6/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 14:00 hrs.

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Original title Make It New John Country UK Year 2009 Running time 55 min.

Producer Duncan Campbell Distribution LUX

Get Out of the Car DIRECTOR: Thom Andersen

Los Angeles is the city of cars. But if you get out of the car, you get to see a different city. Not least if you see it through the lens of Thom Andersen, which turns away from the thoroughfares and below the surface by focusing on the essentially superficial in the billboards, façades and symbols that are synonymous for modern American culture, but which ends up being more of an (art) historic abstraction than the current urban reality in the largest city of the USA. Thom Andersen’s latest film is both a critique of and an unabashed declaration of love for his home city Los Angeles, and an invitation to park the car and take a fresh look at the city’s flip-side. ‘Get Out of the Car’ is shot on 16mm in vivid popart colours, which guide the viewer’s eyes towards traces of life in the dehumanised cityscapes, and which remind us of the traditions of both Edward Hopper and Andy Warhol. The soundtrack is a musical mix of commentaries and evergreens, and together they create a magnificent and independent sequel to Andersen’s modern city symphony ‘Los Angeles Plays Itself’ (2003).

Original title Get Out of the Car Country USA Year 2010 Running time 35 min.

Producer Thom Anderson Distribution LUX

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 6/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 14:00 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 49

Let Each One Go Where He May DIRECTOR: Ben Russell

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE American independent director Ben Russell lives up to the expectations for his first feature film with a formally experimental and mysterious work, which has already marked a ‘before’ and ‘after’ in the part of the film world that still believes in the camera’s potential to explore the world and see it anew. ‘Let Each One Go Where He May’ was shot in Surinam and is named after a myth, where the end of slavery is announced in local jargon. Two brothers follow in the footsteps of their forefathers and embark on a journey, which in their days led them to a life in freedom - and to an esoteric dance ritual with halloween masks and strap-on dildoes on the market square of a small country village. The camera stays close on their heels, and with just 13 takes lasting 10 minutes each (the equivalent to the length of a reel of 16mm film) it captures the journey’s spiritual character without dialogue or commentaries.

A cinematic masterpiece, which employs simple means to review the classic (power) relations between the visitor and the participants of the ethnographic film - and which possibly even manages to turn it all upside down. But ‘Let Each One Go Where He May’ is above all an entirely unique experience, and a reminder that a film camera can be a magical instrument in the right hands.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 16:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 18:15 hrs.

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Original title Let Each One Go Where He May Country USA Year 2009 Running time 135 min.

Production Ben Russell Producer Ben Russell Distribution Ben Russell

TRYPPS #7 (BADLANDS) DIRECTOR: Ben Russell

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE The first six parts of Ben Russell’s Trypps film series brought him the New Vision Award at CPH:DOX 2009. In this, the latest installment in the series, he continues his journey - or rather, trip - into trance and transcendence with its registration, reflection and abstraction of a young woman’s LSD trip in the Badlands National Park. A simple, yet perplexing setup of a mirror and some brass bells add to the psychedelic atmosphere in a masterful, hypnotic film that sets out as almost romantic document, but slowly starts warping and changing reality in front of our very eyes. A dreamy, cinematic mirror image - or mirage - of the badlands of Terence Malick and a wonderful, new highlight in Russell’s oeuvre.

Original title Trypps 7 Country USA Year 2010 Running time 10 min.

Production Ben Russell Producer Ben Russell Distribution Ben Russell

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 16:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 18:15 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 51

Out DIRECTOR: Roee Rosen

The Israeli filmmaker Roee Rosen is not afraid to provoke. ‘Out’ is a sadomasochistic attempt at political exorcism between two women, where one is ‘possessed’ by Israel’s former defence minister Avigdor Lieberman - an extremely right-wing man, whose influence has to be exorcised with spanking and abstract theory. The ritual looks as if it comes straight from a horror film, but culminates in an absolutely unforgettable finale, where Russian laments and accordion music accompany the symbolic emptiness after the exorcism.

Original title Tse Country Israel Year 2010 Running time 35 min.

Producer Roee Rosen Distribution Roee Rosen

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 21:15 hrs. / Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 16:30 hrs.

52 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Found Footage (The Fourth Wall) DIRECTOR: Clemens von Wedemeyer

World Premiere Clemens von Wedemeyer’s ‘Found Footage (The Fourth Wall)’ is one film in a lineup of eight works which together make up the installation ‘The Fourth Wall’. An ambitious installation which circles around the in anthropological terms - ‘first meeting’ with isolated ethnic groups.

The project takes its starting point in the legendary Tasaday case from the early 1970s, where a Philippine tribe was discovered on the island of Mindanao. The small ‘stone age-like’ tribe became a huge media sensation overnight, but later turned out not to be as undiscovered as first assumed. Since then, the Philippine government has declared them ‘authentic’, but there is still great doubt as to how far their life-style and way of dressing was authentic or not. Wedemeyer’s work focuses on Tasaday as the ultimate media performance.

Original title Found Footage (The Fourth Wall) Country Germany Year 2009 Running time 31 min.

Distribution KOW-Berlin

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 21:15 hrs. / Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 16:30 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 53

marxism today (prologue) DIRECTOR: Phil Collins

‘marxism today (prologue)’ was produced for the Berlin Biennale earlier this year by the British visual artist Phil Collins. Collins placed adverts in a number of newspapers in former East Germany, looking for teachers and academics who had taught marxist-leninist philosophy in the GDR or USSR. Three selected women openly reflect on their times as teachers and about the changes that the past 20 years have brought with them. For the participants, the loss of their jobs after the collapse of the socialist regimes didn’t just entail a personal identity crisis, but to a large extent also an undermining of the core of their public integrity. But ‘marxism today (prologue)’ is not so much a film about loss and longing than it is an unprejudiced look at what the structural core of the teaching really was. Apart from interviews with the women, the film also consists of archive materials from different educational contexts, among them an unforgettable state school discussion about the subject of how far the western European car factory workers were subject to systematic oppression. It is both entertaining, complex and far from the current, national discussion about ‘the red henchmen’ - leftists operating in Danish television in the 1970’s.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 21:15 hrs. / Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 16:30 hrs.

54 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Original title marxism today (prologue) Country Germany Year 2010 Running time 35 min.

Production Shady Lane Productions Producer Phil Collins, Sinisa Mitrovic Distribution Shady Lane Productions

Home Movie (Domashnyee Kino) DIRECTOR: John Price

EUROPEAN PREMIERE The Canadian filmmaker John Price manipulates his films right down to the chemical emulsion in order to create his light-sensitive expressions, and he has shot his mesmerisingly beautiful ‘Home Movie’ on some old reels of Russian 35mm film that were stored too long in a damp cellar, before he loaded them in his camera to immortalise his two children.

The finished images are therefore in a state of advanced dissolution, and remind us more of psychedelic science fiction films with a hint of Tarkovsky than of normal home movies. The result is infinitely alien and fascinating, and nonetheless has a familiar touch and a loving sense of attention, which one cannot avoid feeling privileged to witness. The two children run around in their snowsuits, get to know the world, and take a nap in the back seat of an open car, and everything is as it should be.

This is one film that must be seen on the cinemascope screen.

Original title Home Movie (Domashnyee Kino) Country Canada Year 2010 Running time 35 min.

Production 1273503 Ontario Limited Producer Lea Carlson Distribution John Price

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Monday 8/11 17:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 21:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 16:30 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 55

I Touched Her Legs DIRECTOR: Eva Marie Rødbro

WORLD Premiere They are the descendants of David Bowie’s ‘Young Americans’, and they are both invincible and as fragile as a deer caught in the headlights. Eva Marie Rødbro’s impressionistic montage of snapshots from suburbia is both a deeply poetic as well as an anthropological study of the selfdestructive rites of passage of teenage life. Like in last year’s postcard from a young Greenland, ‘Fuck You Kiss Me’, Rødbro demonstrates in her latest work a special knack of being able to capture the fragile sensitivity of youth - and to convert it into restless images, which with a rhythmic verve and a digital plasticity find their inspiration all the way back in the cinematic ideals of 1920s avant-garde cinema, while at the same time approaching something new and modern. The grainy night vision aesthetic is never more important than the bare presence of the youths, and the film reminds us that documentarism is also about how one sees things, and not just what one looks at. Eva Marie Rødbro is trained as a photo artist and lives in Amsterdam.

Original title I Touched Her Legs Country Denmark/Netherlands Year 2010 Running time 14 min.

Production Eva Marie Rødbro Producer Eva Marie Rødbro Distribution Eva Marie Rødbro

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Monday 8/11 17:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 21:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 16:30 hrs.

56 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Yellow Waste / Blue Heaven DIRECTOR: Martin Køhler Jørgensen

WORLD PREMIERE The United States really only exists in the minds of Americans, so for the visiting foreigner it is just a question of renting a car and accepting it all as a mirage without directions or vanishing points. Thus is the rationale of the two Danish artists Claus Carstensen and Peter Bonde in ‘Yellow Waste / Blue Heaven’, a pitch-black and elliptic road movie/docu-noir down the American highways. And there seems to be tacit agreement to behave accordingly among the small group of middle-aged men in freshly ironed shirts and Richard Nixon masks, who together set off towards unknown lands. An abandoned race track, a gun club, a swimming pool, a motorway diner and an endless motorway are the genre-symbolic settings for their mysterious journey which is documented thoroughly with polaroid pictures en-route. There are traces of a classical Hollywood plot, but even in daylight, Martin K. Jørgensen’s enigmatic and evocative film looks as if it has been shot in the middle of the night, and makes do with impressionistic fragments to show instead of telling.

Original title Yellow Waste / Blue Heaven Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 19 min.

Production Marlow film Producer Thomas Andersen Distribution Rebus Film

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Monday 8/11 17:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 21:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 16:30 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 57

Real Snow White DIRECTOR: Pilvi Takala

WORLD PREMIERE A fake Snow White wreaks havoc in Disneyland and forces the poor guards to work overtime in Pilvi Takala’s performative disguise stunt ‘Real Snow White’, which with simple means and great effect exposes the fear of the real in the midst of an artificial candy floss paradise.

‘The absurd logic of the ‘real character’ and the extreme discipline of Disneyland become apparent when a real fan of Disney’s Snow White is banned from entering the park in a Snow White costume. As visitors are encouraged to dress up and a lot of costume-like merchandise is sold at the park, the full costumes are only sold for children. The Disney slogan ‘Dreams Come True’ of course means dreams produced exclusively by Disney. Anything even slightly out of control immediately evokes fear of the real, possibly dark and perverse dreams coming true. The fantasy of the innocent Snow White doing something bad is so obviously real, that the security guards and management refer to it when explaining why the visitor can’t enter the park dressed up as Snow White.’ - Pilvi Takala.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

58 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Original title Real Snow White Country Finland Year 2009 Running time 9 min.

Production Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Masa Projesi Producer Raphaël Siboni Distribution Pilvi Takala

Magic for Beginners DIRECTOR: Jesse Mclean

If TV and religion have something in common, it is the promise of ecstasy.

Screaming teenagers, sentimental karaoke muzak and tear-jerking close-ups are television’s answer to religion’s transgression of the limits of the possible, and become symptoms of the occult potential of both.

Hence this course in magic for beginners, which celebrates an unlikely marriage between Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger, until a story about telepathy and transcendence interrupts the transmission with a deafening, stroboscopic intermezzo featuring the noise/drone band Oneida. Leonardo DiCaprio is running the show from a VIP lounge off-screen, and sets into motion a mass-psychotic ceremony outside the darkened windows of his limousine. Jesse McLean’s neo-psychedelic TV hallucination finds its material from moving images in a wealth of different formats, and raises the obtrusive question: can emotions be artificial? In any case ‘Magic for Beginners’ corrects Marx’s dictum and underlines that if religion is opium, then TV is ecstasy for the people. Note: ‘Magic for Beginners’ is not recommended for people suffering from epilepsy.

Original title Magic for Beginners Country USA Year 2010 Running time 20 min.

Production Jesse Mclean Producer Jesse Mclean Distribution Jesse Mclean

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 59

Le vele di Scampia DIRECTOR: Tobias Zielony

WORLD PREMIERE A pyramidal / futuristic residential area lit from the inside by pale neon lights is the monumental setting of Tobias Zielony’s silent ‘Le vele di Scampia’, which is named after the film’s suburban location north of Naples, where the rate of unemployment is approaching 50 per cent and drugs and random violence are the order of the day. On the face of it, this is an ideal setting for a piece of solid social realism (Matteo Garrone’s mafia film ‘Gomorrah’ from 2008 was also shot here), but with Zielony’s time-lapse technique the modernist neighbourhood turns into the set of a science fiction nightmare. ‘Le vele di Scampia’ is animated from 7000 individual still photos taken at nighttime, and conjoined to give a sublimely alienating effect. Like in his other works, Zielony focuses especially on the younger inhabitants in the gigantic complex, and on the way they occupy space. It all ends with fireworks, as if to celebrate the triumph of gloom.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

60 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Original title Le vele di Scampia Year 2009 Running time 9 min.

Distribution KOW-Berlin

In Free Fall DIRECTOR: Hito Steyerl

The free fall of the stock markets takes on the metaphoric form of a Boeing 707-700 4X-JYI in Hito Steyerl’s latest work, which in three segments plays with the thought of (another) impeding crash in the capitalist cycle of production and consumption. However, ‘In Free Fall’ is not structured as an argument. Steyerl’s collage of images both ready- and self-made rather follows the whims of the imagination, and alternates between pop and politics before reaching an explosive climax on on an airplane cemetery in the Californian desert - a place where old planes come to be blown up for spectacular use in Hollywood action films. An elderly captain explains from a tricycle, while a small video monitor illustrates the imaginary disasters. Steyerl’s celebratory criticism is anarchic and fun, while at the same time sending shivers down the viewer’s spine.

Original title In Free Fall Country Germany Year 2010 Running time 32 min.

Distribution Neuer Berliner Kunstverein

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 61

Nostalgia I, II, III DIRECTOR: Omer Fast

WORLD PREMIERE The three segments in Omer Fast’s new installation piece ‘Nostalgia’ mirror each other in a simple motif, which changes meaning for every corner one passes in its tricky architecture. Three stories about illegal migration seen from three different perspectives, marked by radical stylistic shifts. From the documentary portrait of the first segment to a reflexive casting process in split-screen, where the director performs a preparatory (and highly comical) interview with an emigrant and former child soldier from Nigeria, and a possible subject for his film.

In the third segment hopeful Englishmen migrate to Africa in a future scenario, which to the last detail is decorated like a 1970s thriller made for tv. The three segments are intended to run in loops, and will for this cinema screening be shown in sequence.

Original title Nostalgia I, II, III Country Israel, Germany, France Year 2010 Running time 48 min.

Production Natasha Dack Producer Natasha Dack Distribution GB Agency

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 18:30 hrs.

62 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Jack Straw’s Castle DIRECTOR: Rosalind Nashashibi

WORLD PREMIERE Rosalind Nashashibi’s two-part film is shot on Hampstead Heath, a park in London, which is known locally as a cruising spot for homosexuals.

Voyeurism and meta-filmic transparency are the two poles between which the camera alternates, while we observe the obscure rituals of nighttime. Random encounters, pick-ups, and preparations for a large scale film shoot is all taking place between the trees. The woods are lit by giant floodlights, a scene which from the wings looks like an outtake from ‘Close Encounter of the Third Kind’. The rituals performed are structured according to rules and codes that remain enigmatic to the viewer, as if the aim was to explore the customs of the locals by way of antropological observation. However, there is reason to step lightly into the unknown. Mysterious, romantic - and constructed down to the last detail.

Original title Jack Straw’s Castle Country UK Year 2009 Running time 17 min.

Distribution LUX

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 18:30 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 63

Burning Bush DIRECTOR: Vincent Grenier

EUROPEAN PREMIERE A pretty picture of a bright red euonymus bush becomes a piece of abstract and wordless illusionist art of an unsettling force through Vincent Grenier’s observant optics. The beauty of nature is a romantic motif with a tradition rooted in decorative realism, which nonetheless refers to an idealised reality behind its superficial appearance - approximately like God, when he, according to the Bible, manifested himself to Moses in the shape of a burning bush. But the miracles, however, are man-made in ‘Burning Bush’, which uses photographic perfectionism to refute the metaphysical idea that an image is somehow connected to what it represents. The cinematic image is relative, and determined by technology.

Grenier brings the heavily theoretical ‘structuralist’ experimental film of the 1970s into the present day, where HD video has opened up new opportunities for cinematic research. But ‘Burning Bush’ is nonetheless very easy to watch - a digital mirage with a full-frontal, expressive force, which confronts its viewer with pure colours, light, and sounds.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 18:30 hrs.

64 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Original title Burning Bush Country Canada Year 2010 Running time 9 min.

Production Vincent Grenier Producer Vincent Grenier Distribution Vincent Grenier

Perestroika DIRECTOR: Sarah Turner

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Two train rides across Russia become one in Sarah Turner’s supernaturally evocative work ‘Perestroika’. A journey in 1987 with a close friend, and one today, coloured by the memory of a personal loss.

Turner herself is only present as a voice and as a reflection in the window, while the black trees and industrial landscapes pass by. Like with Andrei Tarkovsky, Turner’s images are sculpted in time, elegiac and with plenty of space, but also deeply personal and with a rare sense of filmic gravity.

All of this in spite of the fact that her essayistic travel diary is closer to a dream to the sounds of tracks than to a philosophical treatise on the dark matter of time and remembrance. Early video contains the constant possibility of abstraction, but it is here woven together with modern HD footage and an earlier, ghost-like soundtrack - the effect being an experience of witnessing several historical moments at the same time. Technology, thinking and sensation in a dense triad. Which stories do we tell about (and to) ourselves? And how are they shaped by the images and sounds that we store en route? ‘Perestroika’ is a film about change - and it ends symbolically at the world’s deepest lake. A mysterious and transcendental cinema experience of a very special kind.

Original title Perestroika Country UK Year 2009 Running time 118 min.

Production Film London / Arts Council England Producer Sarah Turner Distribution Sarah Turner

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 4/11 16:45 hrs. / Posthus Teatret: Monday 8/11 21:15 hrs. / Posthus Teatret: Saturday 13/11 21:15 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 65

Sculpture Plein-air, Swiecie 2009 DIRECTOR: Artur Zmijewski

WORLD PREMIERE Artur Zmijewski’s works are often politically controversial and interventionist studies of Europe’s historic traumas. However, ‘Sculpture plein-air, Swiecie 2009’ recreates an edifying, if somewhat utopian project from the socialist Poland of the 1960s, where artists and steel workers together created works to abolish class distinctions and make the masses ‘conscious’ of their position in society. In collaboration the workers and the artists develop the concept for a series of sculptures that are set up around town for critical review by skeptical youngsters and passers-by. Zmijewski observes and documents the project that he himself has initiated, without commenting on the relative success of the process and the finished art works. The times may have changed since the 1960’s and the heydays of socialism, but what about artistic idealism and the believe in change?

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 21:15 hrs. / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

66 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Original title Sculpture Plein-air, Swiecie 2009 Country Poland Year 2010 Running time 22 min.

Distribution Foksal Gallery Foundation

Devoir et deroute (Episode 1) DIRECTOR: Frederic Moser & Philippe Schwinger

WORLD Premiere Frederic Moser and Philippe Schwinger’s ‘Devoir et déroute (episode 1)’ is freely inspired by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville’s tv series ‘France/tour/détour/deux/enfants’ from 1978 (which can be seen in the TELE:VISIONS programme at CPH:DOX 2010). Moser and Schwinger revise the socio-analytic method of Godard and Miéville but pursue the theoretical approach of their series. The modernisation of the Parisian ‘banlieues’ after the Second World War created a ghetto, the social consequences of which have begun to show violently in riots and in images of burning cars lighting up the night. However, this is exactly the view which is nuanced by Moser and Schwinger’s sober and unsensational interviews with the young suburbanites.

Original title Devoir et deroute (Episode 1) Country France Year 2009 Running time 27 min.

Distribution KOW-Berlin

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 21:15 hrs. / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

NEW:VISION AWARD / 67

Squeeze DIRECTOR: Mika Rottenberg

WORLD Premiere If Matthew Barney and Jan Svankmajer got together to make a film it might look something like Mika Rottenberg’s ‘Squeeze’. But then, not quite. For there is a tangible sense of pent-up political (and above all feminist) seriousness at play in the barely 10 square meter large space, which is constantly shrinking around the workers in the grotesque and claustrophobic sweatshop, where the female employees are going about their bizarre business producing art objects from lettuce, rubber and blush. Rottenberg integrates documentary footage of workers in India and Arizona into the scenario, creating a holistic interrelation between geographically distant situations and modes of labour. Bare butts, hands, and a lustful tongue writhering from a hole in the wall are parts of a factory modelled on the body, which is never visible in its entirety.

‘Squeeze’ is among many other things a 21st century critique of the very real alienation of industrial labour - and an unforgettable one of sorts.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 21:15 hrs. / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

68 / NEW:VISION AWARD

Original title Squeeze Country USA Year 2010 Running time 20 min.

Distribution Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery

SOUND & VISION AWARD

We love documentaries. We love music. And we love music documentaries - at least some of them! Being closely linked to both fan culture and commercialism, the genre has many pitfalls to be avoided - and we believe that the selected films here have managed to do so, thereby getting closer to fulfilling the genre’s enormous audiovisual potential.

The idea behind the Sound & Vision Award is to show that the music documentary can elevate itself above the average talking head-based fan portrait and that it can have many different faces. From the crazy rock n’ roll attitude of ‘Lemmy’ to the intimate, personal atmosphere of ‘Ain’t In It For My Health’ or ‘The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of José Gonzalez’. And from the luxurious production value of ‘Ride, Rise, Roar’ to the charming DIY-aesthetic of ‘Backyard’ or ‘Werewolves Across America’.

Even the playings with fiction that we favour at CPH:DOX is coming into the world of music documentaries, most notably in ‘This Movie Is Broken’ which is, admittedly, only half a documentary - and half a romantic comedy! But it is also present in the sci fi-musical trip of ‘Separado!’ and in ‘Go Quiet’, Dean Deblois’ follow up to the great success of ‘Heima’.

All in all, this year’s selection is a strong one - and very much in line with our goal with the Sound & Vision Competition, to show the creative diversity of the music documentary genre. Now, start rocking!

SOUND & VISION AWARD (3,000 Euros) is kindly sponsored by TV5 Monde.

Look at What the Light Did Now DIRECTOR: Anthony Seck

Leslie Feist has become a world-famous name thanks to her brilliant solo albums. But to a large degree also thanks to her collectivist spirit, as witnessed in her joint effort with producer and composer Chilly Gonsalez, her band Broken Social Scene - which can be seen in the hybrid film ‘This Movie is Broken’ - and her collaboration with the visual artists who have made her concerts and records a pleasure for more than just the ears. This poetic film about the creative and collective process behind Feist’s latest record ‘The Reminder’ is no exception; with its image-juggling integration of concert footage, Super8 material, photographic art and music videos, ‘Look at What the Light Did Now’ is both an eye- and an ear-opening experience. Feist’s fantastic songs are as crisp as never before and are nicely supported by a number of beautifully orchestrated interviews with the protagonist herself and her many collaboration partners. A must, both for all those who want to know more about the highly likeable singer, and for those who want to know more about the collective spirit that is behind the Canadian indie scene’s global success of recent years.

Original title Look at What the Light Did Now Country Canada Year 2010 Running time 80 min.

Production Revolver Films Producer Jannie McInnes Distribution Revolver Films

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / Dagmar Teatret: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 19:00 / Gloria: Friday 12/11 kl. 21:45 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Saturday 13/11 kl. 21:30

72 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

This Movie is Broken DIRECTOR: Bruce McDonald

The title is fitting. For it is exactly two films - one documentary and one fictional - that start out from a gripping live recording with the eighteen-man (and woman, including Feist, who can also be seen in ‘Look at what the light did now’) band Broken Social Scene. Around this entirely real concert, the film weaves a twisted love comedy about Bruno, who finally hooks up with the friend he has secretly been in love with - and this just before she is about to move to Europe, more or less for good. Bruno desperately tries to use the farewell evening’s concert with Broken Social Science to turn an inevitable one-night-stand into a true love story. Seen from a documentary perspective, the blending of fiction and reality here makes for an original take on the renewal of the live film genre, and a superb reproduction of the intoxicating feeling of being at a concert. And of being in love.

Original title This Movie is Broken Country Canada Year 2010 Running time 88 min.

Production Rhombus Media, Shadow Shows Producer Brandi-Ann Milbradt, Howard Ng Distribution E1 Entertainment

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:30 / Gloria: Monday 8/11 kl. 21:45 / Empire Bio: Friday 12/11 kl. 22:30

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 73

The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of Jose Gonzalez DIRECTOR: Mikel Cee Karlsson, Fredrik Egerstrand

The Swedish/Argentinian musician José Gonzales became known worldwide when his version of ‘Heartbeats’ was used in a Sony commercial, where it accompanied thousands of bouncing rubber balls down a San Francisco road. It was the start of a career, which with its melancholy sound of the debut album ‘Veneer’ left all the sensitive music-lovers around the world breathless. González has since sung his way into folk-people’s hearts with a voice that melts like honey on a baguette, both as a solo artist and as the lead singer of the indie band Junip. As the film’s title indicates, Gonzáles is not your typical musical flâneur who lives his life in the fast lane, in spite of his star status. The bearded singer / songwriter is quite modest and somewhat reserved by nature, but nonetheless an extraordinary personality on the Swedish music scene. His two fellow countrymen Mikel Cee Karlsson and Fredrik Engstrand have followed Gonzáles during three years of his life, while he worked on his second album ‘In our nature’. The film portrays the bearded singer on the road, and during the often winding trajectory of the creative process. It’s as if Gonzáles was filmed from the inside: the film is an exclusive look at the thoughts of a sensitive soul about everything from the movement of photons in the universe to the human being’s development and his own existence - beautifully and captivatingly executed by Karlsson and Engstrand.

Original title The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of José González Country Sweden Year 2010 Running time 74 min.

Production Platform Production Producer Erik Hemmendorff Distribution Plattform Production

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Saturday 6/11 kl. 22:30 / Grand Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 21:30 / Dagmar Teatret: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:30

74 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

Ain’t In It for My Health: a Film about Levon Helm DIRECTOR: Jacob Hatley

EUROPEAN PREMIERE The frontman of legendary rock group The Band, Levon Helm, has survived sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, bankruptcy and a tough battle against throat cancer which has not been helped by the 70 year-old rock singer’s urge to smoke a spliff now and then. In 2008, he fought his way out of all these troubles and recorded his first album in 25 years, which was rewarded with a well-deserved grammy - and now also with a film. It took the young director Jacob Hatley three years to make his paradoxically life-affirming character study of a man with an existential crisis. The money ran out half-way through the shoot, and the film crew was allowed to move in with the ageing rock singer to save money on renting an apartment in Helm’s home town of Woodstock. And maybe this is why ‘Ain’t In It For My Health’ has become such an up-close and touching work. Not one single scene feels forced in this film that starts in a classical vérité style, but slowly and imperceptibly grows into a story about an old rock-and-roller’s conflict-laden relationship with his past and with the band that once was the centerpiece of his life.

Original title Ain’t In It for My Health: a Film about Levon Helm Country USA Year 2010 Running time 83 min.

Production 15 To 50 Productions Producer Mary Posatko, Kenneth Segna Distribution Mary Posatko

Before the film we will show ‘How Old Are You? (15 min.), a short tour film with Robin Pecnold of modern heirs of The Band, Fleet Foxes from Seattle.

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Saturday 6/11 kl. 16:30 / Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:45 / Husets Biograf: Saturday 13/11 kl. 19:00

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 75

Werewolves Across America DIRECTOR: James Hall and Edward Lovelace

WORLD PREMIERE ’I’m kind of useless in the real world’. These are the words of the downand-out guitarist Viking Moses, who is the fascinating and indomitable focal point of this beautiful portrayal of America’s musical backyard. The title’s werewolves are a part of America’s hopeless but hopeful youth, who can’t come to terms with the straight path to career hell. They have gathered in bands such as Phosphorescent, Deer Tick, The Shivers and Real Live Tigers. Wry existences that have all bid farewell to the American dream in order to dress in self-sewn, musical wolf costumes, which don’t bring them any further than the next half-empty concert venue. A brilliant film about ‘Do It Yourself’ as a life form, filled with tragicomic scenes, beautiful Super8 images from suburban America, and set against a 24 carat soundtrack of golden freak folk.

Original title Werewolves Across America Country UK Year 2010 Running time 85 min.

Production Pulse Films Producer Thomas Benski Distribution Pulse Films

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:00 / Gloria: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:45 / Vester Vov Vov: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:15

76 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

Ride, Rise, Roar DIRECTOR: David Hillman Curtis

When the former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne decides to go on tour with his latest record ‘Everything that Happens Will Happen Today’, the songs aren’t even finished yet. So the obstinate artist sets himself a deadline in his own way. For Byrne doesn’t do things like everybody else does. Instead of embarking on the usual promotion tour for yet another record, ‘Ride, Rise, Roar’ follows the creation of a piece of innovative stage art which highlights that Byrne’s ambitions stretch further than just writing fantastic music. In parallel, we follow the creation of the album in collaboration with Brian Eno - two highly intuitive creative processes that are woven together elegantly with live performances and interviews with the white-clad - and meanwhile also white-haired - gentleman.

Original title Ride, Rise, Roar Country USA Year 2010 Running time 86 min.

Production BBC Producer Anthony Wall Distribution Will Schluter

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Thursday 4/11 kl. 21:30 / Vester Vov Vov: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:15 / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 kl. 23:59

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 77

Brian Eno: Another Green World DIRECTOR: Nicola Roberts

Whether you belong to the kind of people who have taken a couple of hundred mid-afternoon naps accompanied by ‘Music for Airports’ or not, there is plenty of brain vitamins of the best and most inspiring kind in ‘Another Green World’. A musical and philosophical master class with the artist and composer Brian Eno, who over four decades has constantly renewed himself and his music, and who here invites us in to his combined home and record studio, and into his creative mind. The highly likeable Eno finds his artistic inspiration in technology, mathematics, future science and his cats, which sneak around silently. And his vision is so contagious that you catch yourself taking mental notes. ‘Another Green World’ is screened together with the short film ‘My Melody’, that goes from theory in to action on a wild and radiant trip to the trumpet festival in Guca, Serbia.

Original title Brian Eno: Another Green World Country UK Year 2010 Running time 60 min.

Distribution BBC

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Thursday 4/11 kl. 22:30 / Dagmar Teatret: Sunday 7/11 kl. 19:00 / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 kl. 23:59 / Gloria: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:45

78 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

My Melody DIRECTOR: Bassem Ajaltouni and Simon Rey

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE In the Balkans, the mix of religions and ethnic groups has created two regional particularities: 1) tensions, and 2) music. The two directors Bassem Ajaltouni and Simon Rey take the train from Paris to Istanbul to interview artists and understand the particuliar role of music in the Balkans - and to understand where the music comes from. The trip also takes them to the festival in Guca, Serbia, where the trumpets are blaring day and night and the party never goes to sleep. ‘My Melody’ is an impressionistic and poetic journey to the backbeat rhythm of Balkan folk music. Shot in Super-8 and video, black/white and color, and interfused with still images, the imagery is as lively and vibrant as the music itself.

‘My Melody’ is screened together with ‘Brian Eno: Another Green World’.

Original title My Melody Country France Year 2010 Running time 26 min.

Production Tertulia Films Producer Brieux Férot Distribution Tertulia Films

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Thursday 4/11 kl. 22:30 / Dagmar Teatret: Sunday 7/11 kl. 19:00 / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 kl. 23:59 / Gloria: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:45

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 79

Separado!

DIRECTOR: Dylan Goch, Gruff Rhys

EUROPEAN PREMIERE To some people, Gruff Rhys may be known as the frontman of the Welsh psych-rock band Super Furry Animals. But Rhys is also a solo artist who moves between folk, singer/songwriter and experimental rock. This mixture of styles, genres and expressions is also prevalent in ‘Separado!’, Rhys’s colourful family fable filled with space helmets, folk rock and a bit of bizarre music history. Together with his co-director Dylan Goch, Rhys sets out to find his childhood musical idol and distant relative, René Griffiths. This takes him all the way to Patagonia, and here we are told the story of a Welsh family that emigrated to South America several hundred years ago to escape suppression. ‘Separado!’ tells the history of both the clan and the country, and all the eccentric characters that Rhys meets en route have a story to tell. Rhys and Goch mix science fiction with musical elements, animation and classical documentary, ending up with an effervescent folkloristic bomb full of surprises.

Original title Separado!

Country UK Year 2010 Running time 84 min.

Production ie ie productions ltd Producer Catryn Ramasut Distribution ie ie productions ltd

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:15 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:30 / Husets Biograf: Saturday 13/11 kl. 21:00

80 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

Lemmy DIRECTOR: Wes Orshoski, Greg Olliver

There are three things that can survive a nuclear war: cockroaches, capitalism and Lemmy from Motörhead. The man who defines rock-androll and who has survived four decades on the road, as well as a daily intake of at least four packs of cigarettes and one-and-a-half bottles of whiskey, has finally got his own film, and plays the lead role as a leatherclad desperado, as if he was sent from the Wild West to show the puppy-fat rock stars of our times how things are done. He has been doing this for so long that he can, in his own words, ‘remember when rock-and-roll was invented’ - something that few people could get away with saying, but which here comes from a man who doesn’t have to prove anything.

The two directors have assembled three years of footage to create a fun and chummy fan film, which is everything else than a traditional hall of fame tribute. For the now 64-year-old Lemmy Kilmister is a surprisingly cheerful acquaintance, who says his honest opinion about everything, and who manages to test-drive a German combat vehicle from the Second World War between a drink and a guest appearance at a stadium concert with Metallica. Don’t try this at home, kids!

Original title Lemmy Country USA Year 2010 Running time 122 min.

Production Lemmy Movie LLC Producer Wes Orshoski, Greg Olliver Distribution Vision Music

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:30 / Dagmar Teatret: Sunday 7/11 kl. 21:30 / Dagmar Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:30 / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 kl. 23:59

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 81

Backyard DIRECTOR: Árni Sveinsson

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE There is little money, and the studio is 10 square metres big and lies in a small backyard in Reykjavik. But the heart is big in this film about one day in the independent Icelandic music scene. Árni and Árni have decided to improvise their own mini-festival, while the rest of the city is celebrating the annual Reykjavik cultural night. The lineup includes bands like múm, Hjaltalín, Borkó, Sin Fang Bous, Reykjavik!, Retro Stefson and FM Belfast, all playing for local passers-by, tourists and backyard cats. Árni Sveinsson’s ‘Backyard’ captures the characteristic do-it-yourself attitude which has made Reykjavik’s underground scene so artistically strong and successful. Genres are completely secondary for the young musicians, and the only thing that can shut them up is heavy rain. But late summer has plenty of nuances, and the sun returns to the small enclosure, which develops into a party that is larger than anyone expected. A film that confirms that there is a way for Iceland out of the crisis. And that 101 is still the coolest zip code of the North.

Original title Backyard Country Iceland Year 2010 Running time 70 min.

Production Kjartanson ehf.

Producer Sindri P. Kjartanson Distribution Kjartanson ehf

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:45 / Empire Bio: Thursday 11/11 kl. 22:30 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Sunday 14/11 kl. 20:00 + koncert med Hjaltalín

82 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

The Promise: The Making of Darkness On The Edge of Town DIRECTOR: Thom Zimny

Bruce Springsteen’s fourth studio album ‘Darkness On the Edge of Town’ contained no hit songs among its ten tracks. But the working-class boy Springsteen and his treasured E Street Band wrote no less than 70 songs for the record, with varying and alternative versions. ‘The Promise’ for the first time approaches the creative working process that preceded the release of the by now classic record in spring 1978. And this is also where the majority of the film’s material comes from: a wealth of hitherto unseen footage from the years 1976 to 1978. But the boss and his band also accompany the historic material with brand-new interviews. The presence of history is felt most strongly when Springsteen invites us inside the four walls of both his studio and his home to provide a look at the creative and intimate sessions of a musician and a poet.

Original title The Promise: The Making of Darkness On The Edge of Town Country USA Year 2010 Running time 90 min.

Production Thrill Hill Productions Producer Thom Zimny Distribution Sony Music

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Sunday 7/11 kl. 19:00 / Grand Teatret: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 21:30 / Grand Teatret: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:30

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 83

I am Secretly an Important Man DIRECTOR: Peter Sillen

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE There are decent chances that you don’t know Jesse Bernstein. But if you’re one of those who once thought that everything smelled of teen spirit and that Kurt Cobain could show the true way to Nirvana, then you should buy a ticket for Peter Sillen’s unforgettable portrait film and find out more about this poet, provocateur and performance artist. Until (and long after) his suicide in 1991, Bernstein was one of the most influential voices in Seattle, and his angry, black-humoured records, released by the grunge company Sub Pop, inspired a long line of the city’s grunge and punk musicians, spearheaded by Cobain. Peter Sillen rolls out the entire fascinating story like a spoken-word performance by Bernstein himself, from his polio-suffering childhood via the adult poet’s exorbitant drug abuse and close friendship with William Burroughs to the masterful posthumous album ‘Prison’ (1992). ‘I Am Secretly An Important Man’ has this year’s most fitting title, but could turn Jesse Bernstein into a less well-kept secret. Thinking of the amazing performances he shines with in the film, this would be fully deserved.

Original title I am Secretly an Important Man Country USA Year 2010 Running time 85 min.

Production Parts And Labor Producer Alex R. Johnson, Peter Sillen Distribution Parts And Labor

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Saturday 6/11 kl. 21:30 / Empire Bio: Monday 8/11 kl. 17:30 / Empire Bio: Friday 12/11 kl. 17:30

84 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

To The End Of The World DIRECTOR: Andreas Koefoed

WORLD PREMIERE The young Danish band ‘The William Blakes’ have made it into something of a dogma to record their albums in no time and under the dictate of certain, changing rules in a house in Bösebo in Sweden, 300 km from Copenhagen and 10 km from the nearest supermarket. The same is true for their latest record ‘The Way of the Warrior’, which took nine days to ‘invent’, helped by the rule that for each time somebody said ‘no’, one should say ‘yes’. Andreas Koefoed, who last year won the Danish award at CPH:DOX for ‘Albert’s Winter’, followed the band during these nine days - and came home with plenty of charming footage of the four witty guys and their both thought-provoking and funny musical discussions, which he wonderfully manages to embellish with his own melancholy winter atmosphere. ‘To the End of the World’ is a film, which despite its simplicity manages to reach far beyond the traditional recording document and become a film one can see again and again. And yes, we’re talking from experience.

Original title Til Verdens Ende Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 45 min.

Production Andreas Koefoed Distribution Speed of Sound

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Thursday 4/11 kl. 21:30 / Grand Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:30 / Gloria: Saturday 13/11 kl. 21:45

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 85

Go Quiet DIRECTOR: Dean DeBlois

EUROPEAN PREMIERE Romantics and part-time dreamers, prick your ears! In 2010, Jón ‘Jónsi’ Birgisson from Sigur Rós released his first solo record after fronting his world-famous band for over 10 years, and now the album ‘Go’ has been accompanied by an evocative, filmic ‘home video’. Each of the album’s nine spherical songs - where he for the first time sings in English - are played

by Jónsi alone and unplugged, on the guitar, piano, harmonium and, not least, with his charismatic voice, which sounds like an androgynous angel song. Jónsi’s own home is staged in soft close-ups illuminated by sparkling lights, in a beautiful and atmospheric film that is perfect for cold autumn days.

Original title Go Quiet Country UK/Iceland/Canada Year 2010 Running time 45 min.

Production Klikk Film Producer John Best Distribution EMI Records

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:30 / Gloria: Saturday 13/11 kl. 21:45

86 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

Go Live (OUT OF COMPETITION) DIRECTOR: Aneil Karia

WORLD PREMIERE The Icelandic band Sigur Rós’s lead singer Jónsi has made a virtue of surrounding himself with strong film artists, and ‘Go Live’ is the latest visual masterpiece to come out of these collaborations. While ‘Go Quiet’ silently depicts Jónsi singing in his home on the day after New Year’s Eve, ‘Go Live’ captures the singer before and during the first concert of his visually flamboyant 2010 tour. Like a tribute to the nature surrounding us, the tour saw Jónsi’s angelic voice and the magnificent soundscapes being woven together with visuals of butterflies, flowers and predators hunting their prey. The young and talented filmmaker Aneil Karia has included these mesmerising images in the film in a way that they form a new and almost fictional layer. Through interviews with the otherwise so shy protagonist, we are given an introduction to the thoughts behind both the concert and his solo album ‘Go’, and these interviews function excellently as small breaks between the exceptional concert recordings.

Like both ‘Go Quiet’ and Sigur Rós’s concert film ‘Heima’ from 2007, Aneil Karia’s feature debut is a work which seduces the audience with both its sound and its imagery, and which therefore deserves to be seen on the silver screen.

Original title Go Live Country UK/Iceland Year 2010 Running time 74 min.

Production Fifty Nine Productions Producer Klikk Film Distribution EMI Records

SCREENING DATES TO BE CONFIRMED

SOUND & VISION AWARD / 87

Lost Inside A Dream - The Story Of Dizzy Mizz Lizzy (OUT OF COMPETITION) DIRECTOR: Theis Molin

WORLD PREMIERE Danish rock group Dizzy Mizz Lizzy experienced their breakthrough already as teenagers, recording two albums that became classics in their home country - and in Japan! - and paved the way for the wave of new bands that sprouted in the Danish rock scene of the mid-1990s.

Shortly after, however, the three band members chose to split up and pursue their respective careers as postman, truck driver and - rock star. None of them had dreamed of the fact that their songs would become evergreens among their fans who in 2010 got the chance to see them reunite. In Theis Molin’s brand-new road movie, we join them during their first encounter in the rehearsal room after ten years, up on stage - and behind the wheel of a truck. Old home videos from their first years together have found their place in a film inviting you to a reunion party with three old friends trying to find the spirit of rock ‘n roll again somewhere between the post office and the gas station.

Original title Lost Inside A Dream - The Story Of Dizzy Mizz Lizzy Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 80 min.

Production ArtPeople Producer Christian Møller Distribution ArtPeople

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Thursday 4/11 kl. 21:30 / Grand Teatret: Monday 8/11 kl. 21:30

88 / SOUND & VISION AWARD

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AMNESTY AWARD

Amnesty Award is CPH:DOX’s competition programme for films focusing on various aspects of the struggle for human rights. With this programme, we try to prove that it is possible to tell those important stories that need to be told without losing the aesthetic focus that makes cinema a medium of artistic expression.

This can make for some beautifully contradictory experiences of anger and joy at the same time, as in Andrei Nekrasov’s ‘Russian Lessons’ or Sabina Guzzanti’s ‘Draquila’, and of life-affirming melancholy as in the poetic burmese disaster movie ‘Nargis When Time Stopped Breathing’, in Renate Costa’s political family drama ‘Cuchillo De Palo’, or in the Syrian teen tale ‘Shout’.

And as this year’s programme shows more than ever, films with a focus on human rights are actually not necessarily depressing – because art can actually change the world, at least small parts of it, as is shown in the most distinguished way in Lucy Walker’s ‘Waste Land’. The programme is diverse and colourful and full of promise - if not always for the world as a whole, at least for the documentary as an art form.

AMNESTY AWARD (5,000 Euros) is kindly sponsored by Merkur Andelskasse.

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Aung San Suu Kyi - Lady of No Fear (Out of Competition) DIRECTOR: Anne Gyrithe Bonne

WORLD PREMIERE Aung San Suu Kyi is first and foremost known as the female political opposition leader at the center of many violent troubles in Burma over the past 20 years. What many people don’t know is that she started out as a British housewife in the higher strata of Oxford society, before she returned to her suppressed native country to fight for freedom. Out of the past 20 years she has spent 15 under house arrest with only very little contact to her husband and children. ‘Lady of No Fear’ is a fitting title, and the film gives us a personal approach to the female freedom fighter Suu Kyi - and her self-sacrificing husband, Dr. Michael Aris. Together, they have foregone the traditional life and marriage in favour of promoting freedom in Burma. The film focuses on the personal consequences of having such a strong sense of idealism, and of believing in the ability to overturn a regime. The film is a tribute to the female rebel leader, her first man, and not least the peaceful Ghandi-esque form of rebellion.

Original title Aung San Suu Kyi - Lady of No Fear Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 60 min.

Production Kamilo Films Producer Helle Ulsteen Distribution Kamilo Films

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Friday 5/11 kl. 16:40 / Grand Teatret: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 17:00 / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 18:45

92 / AMNESTY AWARD

Love During Wartime DIRECTOR: Gabriella Bier

WORLD PREMIERE In the eye of the storm, in one of the world’s most surveilled conflicts, Osama and Jasmin try to create a life together. It turns out to be a nearimpossible task. When a Palestinian and an Israeli marry, they lose the security and social network that are guaranteed other citizens. Wherever they turn for help, they end up in a catch 22 situation. This is a film about love. A love without legal rights, a Romeo and Juliet story against a political background. Love During Wartime follows the couple on their odyssey from the Middle East, through Germany to Austria. A film about a conflict that everyone has an opinion about, but that few really have any insight into - and about the human right to be able to live together.

Original title Love During Wartime Country Sweden Year 2010 Running time 92 min.

Production Story/Pausefilm Producer Tobias Janson Distribution SFI

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 kl. 16:45 / Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:45

AMNESTY AWARD / 93

Waste Land DIRECTOR: Lucy Walker

The Brazilian photographer and visual artist Vic Muniz has specialised in imaginative portraits on everything from diamond dust to syrup, which are exhibited at MoMA and sold for five-figure dollar amounts. But Muniz himself grew up impoverished in Sao Paulo, and art as an exclusive project reserved for the elites is not his style. With the question ‘Can art change people?’, Muniz instead turns art into a social project with a mission. In ‘Waste Land’, Lucy Walker instead follows Muniz during a controversial project in Jardin Gramacho, the world’s largest scrapyard, outside Rio de Janeiro. Here, hundreds of ‘catadores’ are at work collecting rubbish, ordering and sorting it, and earning an absolute minimum wage under desperate conditions. In the hope that art can make a difference, Muniz involves the local rubbish-people in a colourful rubbish orgy of an artwork, which before long hangs alongside Andy Warhol - a project that makes the rubbish-collectors more aware of their own values and ambitions, but also painfully aware of their place on the bottom rung of society. Lucy Walker captures the ethically complex in Muniz’s visual expression and vision, and ‘Waste Land’ has deservedly been lauded all over the world for its moving and life-affirming story.

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Saturday 6/11 kl. 17:30 / Grand Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

94 / AMNESTY AWARD

Original title Waste Land Country UK/Brazil Year 2010 Running time 99 min.

Production Almega Projects Ltd Producer Angus Aynsley, Hank Levine Distribution E1 Entertainment

Pink Saris DIRECTOR: Kim Longinotto

EUROPEAN PREMIERE One of the documentary world’s most powerful female voices, the British Kim Longinotto (‘Divorce Iranian Style’, ‘Rough Aunties’ et al.) is back with a serving of pink activism, elegantly avoiding the number one pitfall of political documentary, namely self-victimisation, and takes a swipe at the Indian caste system. The pink saris of the title are worn by ‘The Gulabi Gang’, a growing group of mostly younger cast-less women, who are fed up with domestic violence and the regular rapes by father-in-laws. Headed by the charismatic leader Sampat Pal - who bars no holds when she lambasts patriarchy and who doesn’t resist entering into a solid fist-fight if that’s what it takes - the group fights for women’s rights in everyday life. Sampat, who herself had to escape from domestic violence and rape, is a live wire, but Longinotto’s film never succumbs to uncritical hero-worship, and with its depiction of four all-too venomous girls it develops into a far more complex struggle than ‘the girls against the boys’. ‘Pink Saris’ is a beautiful extension of Longinotto’s previous accounts of strong women, and is as unavoidable as the rest of her oeuvre.

Original title Pink Saris Country India/UK Year 2010 Running time 100 min.

Production Vixen Films Producer Amber Latif, G Girjashanker Vohra Distribution Vixen Films

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Saturday 6/11 kl. 14:20 / Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 19:15 / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 kl. 14:00

AMNESTY AWARD / 95

Draquila - Italy Trembles DIRECTOR: Sabina Guzzanti

The film that made the Italian culture minister boycott Cannes is a shocking revelation of the grotesque misuse of power in Berlusconi’s government, and of its unscrupulous handling of the tragic earthquake, which on 6 April 2009 destroyed the Italian city of L’Aquila, killed 308 people and made 70,000 Italians homeless. A disaster for some, a goldmine for others. In one stroke, public attention turned from corruption accusations and sex scandals to a new, paternal image of Berlusconi, while his friends in the construction industry literally rubbed their hands at the prospects of a juicy monopoly contract. Nonetheless, L’Aquila is still in ruins today, and many earthquake victims are still living in camps.

But Berlusconi did not reckon with Sabina Guzzanti.

Original title Draquila - l’Italia che trema Country Italy Year 2010 Running time 90 min.

Production Gruppo Ambra, BIM Distribuzione Producer Sergio Bernardi Distribution Wild Bunch

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 4/11 kl. 19:15 / Grand Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 16:40 / Grand Teatret: Saturday 13/11 kl. 21:30

96 / AMNESTY AWARD

The Oath DIRECTOR: Laura Poitras

Abu Jandal is a taxi driver in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. But in spite of his prosaic work, the good man has a somewhat less tranquil past. Back in the 1990s, Abu Jandal joined a relatively unknown movement called Al-Qaeda, and slowly rose up the ranks to become Osama Bin Laden’s bodyguard. And then he recruited his brother-in-law Salim Hamdan.

Salim first became known as Bin Laden’s chauffeur, and subsequently as the first person to be charged by the United States’ war tribunal in Guantanamo. The Oath follows, in parallel, the daily lives of the two former Al Qaeda members Abu and Salim. Abu drives a taxi, says his prayers with his son, gives interviews to the foreign press and educates young muslim students in his home. Salim is incarcerated in Guantanamo - isolated and cut off from being able to communicate with the outside world, apart from through the letters he sends to his brother-in-law. Captured and free. But even if Abu lives a relatively free life in his home country, he is plagued by a bad conscience about his role in Salim’s situation.

Original title The Oath Country USA Year 2010 Running time 96 min.

Production Praxis Films Producer Laura Poitras, Jonathan Oppenheim, Aliza Kaplan, Nasser Arrabyee Distribution Cat & Docs

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Thursday 4/11 kl. 17:30 / Dagmar Teatret: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 16:40 / Grand Teatret: Sunday 14/11 kl. 19:00

AMNESTY AWARD / 97

Shout DIRECTOR: Ester Gould, Sabine Lubbe Bakker

A film about the feeling of being high on freedom. 18-year-old Ezat and Bayan have been best friends ever since they were little, and have grown up in the Israeli-occupied Golan heights, right by the closed border to their home country Syria - a border that limits the contact between separated relatives to shouting with a megaphone across no man’s land.

They see themselves as Syrians, but according to their passport they have no nationality. Meanwhile, when they turn 18, the two friends are given the chance to study in their dream city Damascus, which is located only a few miles away and which attracts them with its wild parties, warm summer nights and cute girls. But where one also has to be careful what one says if one comes from the other side, and where they won’t manage to see their families for a whole year. The two directors Ester Gould and Sabine Lubbe Bakker capture the experience that everything is new, and do so with a visual flair using wide 16mm images, which are grainy with desert dust and the smoke of countless cigarettes. ‘Shout’ takes a fresh look at an old story in a conflict-ridden region, which the youngsters are now set to inherit. The good news is that they also like to have fun and fool around in that part of the world, and that one could become friends with them in no time.

Original title Shout Country The Netherlands Year 2010 Running time 74 min.

Production Pieter van Huystee Film Producer Pieter van Huystee Distribution NPO Sales

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Friday 5/11 kl. 17:30 / Dagmar Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 19:00 / Posthus Teatret: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:15

98 / AMNESTY AWARD

Cuchillo de Palo DIRECTOR: Renate Costa

Some films have qualities so human that they make everything around them seem artificial and calculated. One such film is the 29-year-old Paraguayan debutant Renate Costa’s ‘Cuchillo de Palo’, a low-key and unsentimental example of humanist film art, which combines the personal and the political story to form a simple and touching whole.

‘Cuchillo’ is a detective film, a family exposé, and a photofit picture of Renate Costa’s late uncle, who turns out to have been the black sheep in the family, and who, according to her father (and late uncle’s brother), turns out to be mentioned on the police’s so-called ‘108’-list, a remnant from the military dictatorship of the 1980s, when sexual minorities were persecuted and registered. Costa visits the uncle’s old friends from the cabaret milieu, and not least she tries to chip away at the façade of her conservative colossus of a father. ‘It’s so difficult to understand each other’, she ends up sighing, but maybe there is still hope. In any case, Renate Costa shows the way in her patient and attentive debut, which strikes at the roots of intolerance without promoting its own position.

Original title Cuchillo de Palo Country Spain/Paraguay Year 2010 Running time 95 min.

Production Estudi Playtime (Spain) Producer Marta Andreu, Susana Benito Distribution Umedia

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Saturday 6/11 kl. 21:00 / Posthus Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:15 / Husets Biograf: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

AMNESTY AWARD / 99

Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) DIRECTOR: Nicolas Wadimoff

The break in a run-down school yard is accompanied by exploding grenades. Fishermen who sail too far out to sea end up being under fire. And the animals at the zoo are either starving or stuffed. But there is still life in Gaza, as the subtitle of ‘Aisheen’ indicates. And one can only be impressed by the strongly challenged inhabitants’ will to survive every day in the bitter and exhausting conflict they live in - and which they here manage to put in words. Few weeks after the war between Israel and Palestine in 2009, Nicolas Wadimoff travelled to Gaza to take part in everyday life and to document the destruction at street-level, which rarely reaches the television news in the rest of the world. The rap group DARG Team has made the soundtrack for Wadimoff’s hand-held and intense images, but it is the people he encounters on the way that ‘own’ this film.

Original title Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) Country Switzerland/Quatar Year 2010 Running time 86 min.

Production Akka Films, Point-du-Jour International, Télévision Suisse Romande, JCC-Jazeera Children’s Channel Producer Fayçal Hassairi, Joëlle Bertossa Distribution Point du Jour Productions

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Thursday 4/11 kl. 21:15 / Grand Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 17:00 / Gloria: Sunday 14/11 kl. 17:30

100 / AMNESTY AWARD

Russian Lessons DIRECTOR: Andrei Nekrasov, Olga Konskaya

When the directing duo Andrei Nekrasov and Olga Konskya ventured out from their respective starting-points in Georgia and Russia to shoot ‘Russian Lessons’ in 2009, the result ended up far from being a feel-good tale. The film is a harrowing account of the ‘war’ between Russia and Georgia in 2008, and about its complex historical background. Through reports and interviews, Nekrasov and Konskya try to find out what happened, when several years of political tensions led to the Russian army’s ethnic cleansing of Ossetia and Abhkazia. And with its handheld and rough look, ‘Russian Lessons’ captures the general callousness of war and paints a picture of a power-hungry mega-nation. But ‘Russian Lessons’ is more than just a depiction of war. The difference between Nekrasov and Konskya’s footage and the manipulated Russian media reports is alarming - and it is even more alarming that the West appears to have retold the Russian version of the story year after year. ‘Russian Lessons’ is not just a frightening eye-witness report, but also a highly topical addition to the debate about the media’s coverage of large, political conflicts. For a strongly guided media apparatus can be extremely powerful, and changing the reality that the daily news presents to us means first of all questioning it.

Original title Russian Lessons Country Russia/Norway/Georgia Year 2010 Running time 111 min.

Production Piraya Film AS Producer Torstein Grude, Giorgi Arveladze Distribution Piraya Film AS

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 6/11 kl. 14:00 / Vester Vov Vov: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 21:15 / Posthus Teatret: Sunday 14/11 kl. 19:00

AMNESTY AWARD / 101

Nargis: When Time Stopped Breathing DIRECTOR: Kyaw Kyaw Oo, Maung Myint Aung

No matter how much one tries to shut out reality, one cannot close oneself off from nature. This is what the Burmese regime were forced to realise when cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar’s Ayeyarwaddy delta in May 2008 and cost at least 140,000 people their lives. Deeply affected by the tragedy, a few young Burmese filmmakers assembled a film crew and quickly set off for the delta to document a disaster, the scale of which surprised everyone including the country’s leaders, who were keen to hush up events. In spite of considerable risks the filmmakers have succeeded in creating a film which is every bit as poetic and heartfelt as the title indicates. Told in images that seem to originate from a different planet this documentary displays an ultra-fine balance between melancholy and levelheadedness. In the midst of this inferno of destruction and the ruins of what used to be their homes, are ordinary Burmese people. They have lost everything, but they are still standing, still determined to struggle for survival. ‘Nargis: when time stopped breathing’ is an absolute mustsee for all those who would like to go beyond newspaper headlines and gain an insight into the lives of ordinary people in autocratic Myanmar.

An astonishingly humane piece of work that does infinite justice to its protagonists - and the art of filmmaking.

Original title Nargis: When Time Stopped Breathing Country Myanmar Year 2009 Running time 90 min.

Production Claire Franklin Film Productions Producer Claire Franklin Distribution Claire Franklin Film Production

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Wednesday 3/11 kl. 21:30 / Vester Vov Vov: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:15 / Husets Biograf: Saturday 13/11 kl. 17:00

102 / AMNESTY AWARD

DANISH:DOX AWARD

DANISH:DOX AWARD is this year dedicated to the new talents. Young and upcoming Danish filmmakers, and directors who have one, maybe two films under their belt.

A new generation of Danish directors and producers are currently travelling the world and returning with a number of awards and a level of reception that most countries can ony dream about. Still, the continued success of Danish documentaries depends on the supply of new ideas. And on the ambition and artistic talent to give these ideas a form.

The films nominated for the DANISH:DOX AWARD all realize this ambition, in widely different ways. From the global point of view in documentaries with a political edge, via the intimate portrait film, to the all-out experimental works marked by a strong, artistic vision. The selected films represent a diversity in expressions characteristic of Danish films these years, and a curiousity that point toward the future.

DANISH:DOX AWARD is a cash prize of 5,000 Euros and is kindly sponsored by the Danish Producers’ Association.

Homeless DIRECTOR: Ditte Haarløv Johnsen

WORLD PREMIERE The Danish documentary director Ditte Haarløv-Johnsen has said that she prefers making films about people on the edge - about those who are struggling to belong. This project has taken her around the world, and now back to Copenhagen. ‘Homeless’ paints an honest and unsentimental picture of three human destinies whose vagrant lives are inhuman, but far from incomprehensible. We meet Kenny Emil, Nuka and Norto, all of them born and raised in Greenland, and all of them now living on the streets of Copenhagen. Alcohol abuse is another thing they have in common, but the three of them treat their dependency as a part of their self-destructive lifestyle as opposed to a problem in itself. Kenny Emil, Nuka and Norto end up fighting every day, both with each other and with a social system that is often more alienating than supportive. Ditte Haarløv-Johnsen makes the social helpers and authorities step into the background, while leaving center stage to Kenny Emil, Nuka and Norto, whose accounts go straight to the heart. For even if ‘Homeless’ is raw and at times unpleasant, it also offers glimmers of human warmth in the dreams and hopes that can be found next to the bottle.

Original title Hjemløs Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 55 min.

Production Nature & Science Producer Anders Drud Jordan Distibution Nature & Science

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Sunday 7/11 kl. 15:00 / Det Grønlandske Hus: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 19:00 / Grand Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 14:20

106 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

Trafficking DIRECTOR: Judith Lansade, Sine Plambech

WORLD PREMIERE Escaping poverty is worth the try. But many people end up in the clutches of human traffickers, among them a part of the more than 2,000 foreign prostitutes working in Denmark. For this reason, Copenhagen’s police force introduced a special unit against human trafficking in 2008. But combating the problem is more easily said than done. ‘Trafficking’ follows the investigators Anne and Trine, who with the help of wire tapping, street operations and detective work are trying to assemble witnesses and evidence that could bring down the wirepullers of prostitution. But the police is working in a reality dictated by politics, where the trafficked women are offered little in return for their testimony. The film is a rare insight into an otherwise almost impenetrable and complex world of illegal migration, law, poverty, voodoo, prostitution and globalisation.

A world where the best intentions in the fight against the trafficking of women is constantly being challenged. After the screening, the film’s two directors Judith Lansade and the social anthropologist and PhD student at DIIS and Columbia University, Sine Plambech, will take part in a debate about the film and the realities it portrays.

Original title Trafficking Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 60 min.

Production Upfront Films Producer Henrik Veileborg Distribution Upfront Films Aps

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 kl. 18:00 / Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 kl. 18:00 / Vester Vov Vov: Monday 8/11 kl. 21:15 / Vester Vov Vov: Monday 8/11 kl. 21:15

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 107

My Cousin the Pirate DIRECTOR: Christian Sønderby Jepsen

WORLD PREMIERE 28-year-old Nasib lives in Denmark, where he has lived since he arrived in Denmark as an unaccompanied refugee from Somalia at the age of 9. He grew up in an asylum centre, and today lives together with his Danish wife and their three young children in Odense. Nasib has not been to Somalia the past 20 years, but he stays in touch with his family, and now he wants to return to talk to his cousin Abdi to convince him not to become a pirate. For Nasib’s childhood town is the hub of the large-scale Somali piracy, which has developed from being a struggle for freedom to pure criminal activity. Some of the most hard-boiled pirates come from Nasib’s own clan and family, and he ends up standing faceto-face with them on his journey, while the captured ships float right off the coast where he stays with his cousin. ‘My Cousin the Pirate’, made by the award-winning director Christian Sønderby Jensen, is a rare look at the anatomy of piracy where hopes for the future are drowned in civil war, corruption and khat chewing. While Nasib experiences his heavily impoverished homeland and the contrasts between rich and poor close-up, the moment of Abdi’s first raid is drawing closer.

Original title Min Fætter er Pirat Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 40 min.

Production DDF Producer Helle Faber Distribution Munkfilms

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / Dagmar Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00 / Dagmar Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

108 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

We Are All Africans. Welcome Home.

DIRECTOR: Malene Nielsen

WORLD PREMIERE Taking as its starting-point the Hannah Arendt quote that ‘We should learn to see the world through other people’s eyes’, the filmmaker Malene Nielsen takes us on a playful journey to try and challenge the one-sided western history of Africa, in this case Ethiopia. The film’s framework is a staged talk show, a green sofa environment set up in a street in the middle of Africa’s largest market, Merkato. The director assumes the role of talk-show host and invites passers-by to become the guests. A number of photographs of impoverished children with ballooning stomachs and flies in the corners of their eyes become the focal point of the sofa talks. Do the representations by the powerful western mediators correspond with the guests’ own experiences in one of the world’s poorest countries? Equipped with a curious eye, we move away from the talk show to a sensual and lingering collage of evocative scenes from Addis Abeba’s backwaters. The sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard has joined the trip and he here reinterprets Hannah Arendt: ‘We should learn to listen to the world through other people’s ears’. With his precise aural postcard, Kirkegaard lets us listen to the everyday life of Ehtiopians.

Original title We Are All Africans. Welcome Home.

Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 30 min.

Producer Anna-Maria Kantarius Distribution Malene Nielsen

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 14:00 / Dagmar Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00 / Dagmar Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 109

Tommy DIRECTOR: Sami Saif

WORLD PREMIERE ’Hip hurra, det’ min fødselsdag’ and ‘Disco Tango’ are immortal Eurovision Song Contest classics, which few Danes would not know how to sing along to. Tommy Seebach brought disco to Denmark and made it popular with his very own, charming ‘dansktop’ variety. The man with the big curls and the broad smile was something of a national hero in the 1980s - but the hard life of being an entertainer typecast in the lighter end of show-biz ended up costing him his family and his career. Seebach died under tragic circumstances just 53 years old after battling with alcoholism for several years and finally sobering up. Sami Saif’s ‘Tommy’ is an entertaining and moving film, which the major musical talent has long deserved. From the youth in the rock group ‘Sir Henry and His Butlers’ to the sad ending in 2003. A classic rise and fall story, and a small piece of Danish history seen from a popcultural angle.

Original title Tommy Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 100 min.

Production R-Film Producer Peter Bech Distribution DOX:BIO

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Saturday 6/11 kl. 19:00 / Grand Teatret: Wednesday 17/11 kl. 19:00

110 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

Busker DIRECTOR: Jazbo von Magius Gross

WORLD PREMIERE A musical family portrait is what you get in young debut director Jazbo Gross’s ‘Busker’. Age and musical genres are secondary for the musicians of the film, who live off (and for) playing on Europe’s streets and boulevards. The music is a lifestyle that has been handed down to them over generations. They are performers in spirit, and the rolling stone cliché for once fits their nomadic lifestyle, from Paris and Nice via Milan and Copenhagen to Istanbul. It is all about freedom, and you can hear that from the first to the last verse. ‘Busker’ has the feel of a beat novel and the looks of a genuinely independent documentary, alternating between tableaux style interviews and long takes of the live performances in the streets.

Original title Busker Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 48 min.

Production Brainworks Productions, Zentropa Producer Jazbo von Magius Gross Distribution Jazbo Von Magius Gross

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Sunday 7/11 kl. 17:30 / Husets Biograf: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:15

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 111

Fini DIRECTOR: Jacob Schulsinger

WORLD PREMIERE Probably only a family-member would be allowed to bring the camera all the way into the bedroom to capture the moment when granddad Fini opens his eyes. This is what Jacob Schulsinger has done, and thereby he frames his personal portrait film with the natural cycle of a day.

Fini is doing alright, but he has started to lose his memory, and even the most ingrained routines can be hard to remember - has he already had his cup of tea, brushed his teeth or played table tennis during the day? We accompany Fini and his wife during his daytime pursuits and his obligatory visits to ‘Pilehuset’, an activity centre for the elderly. The grandmother plays a lesser, but nonetheless decisive role as the backbone of both the man and the film. Each scene with Fini is priceless, from the moment when he is lovingly but firmly forced out of bed in the morning and plays a toddler for the first three minutes, to the crude faces he makes with a twinkle in the eye while having a shave. ‘Fini’ is a loving and loyal portrait of the elderly gentleman’s condition, which leaves him in a constant limbo between recognition and oblivion.

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Sunday 7/11 kl. 17:30 / Husets Biograf: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:15

112 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Fini Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 29 min.

Production Secher & Schulsinger Producer Jacob Schulsinger Distribution Jacob Schulsinger

Manenberg DIRECTOR: Karen Waltorp, Christian Vium

WORLD PREMIERE Manenberg is a suburb of Cape Town, which was built during the apartheid era to house low-income black families. Today, it’s a worn-down and overpopulated slum with enormous social problems, where the prospect of becoming a gangster is more likely than the prospect of creating something new from the ruins of the past - but it is also a neighbourhood with strong ties between the residents of the decrepit townhouses. The directing duo Christian Vium and Karen Waltorp are focusing on the latter in their joint debut, and the result is an attentive and vital film.

By profession, Vium and Waltorp are anthropologists, but they combine method and aesthetics in a cinematic whole which is light years away from the traditional methods of the genre and from the paternalistic idea of ‘giving a voice to the excluded’. They look after that themselves. Film can make us present in the moment, and this is what one is in ‘Manenberg’.

Original title Manenberg Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 58 min.

Production Waltorp Vium Producer Karen Waltorp, Christian Vium Distribution Waltorp Vium

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Sunday 7/11 kl. 17:30 / Husets Biograf: Thursday 11/11 kl. 19:00

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 113

Der Geist des Lebens DIRECTOR: Deniz Eroglu

WORLD PREMIERE At the bottom of a sea chest in an old house lies a pile of Super-8 reels, waiting to tell the story of the time when the eccentric plutocrat Asger Bøgedahl invited seven artists and scientists from all over the world to participate in a symposium, whose aim was to unite art and science in one comprehensive work: a dance, describing how the spirit of life was born from the cosmos. A triumph of the spirit, realised in its material form by the best minds within each field of practice. And for that matter, the minutely detailed mise-en-scène of ‘Der Geist des Lebens’ is a natural extension of the babylonian project it portrays. Reality is layered in Deniz Eroglu’s Chinese box of stories and ideas, which reflect the predecessors Luis Buñuel, Raoul Ruiz and Jorge Luis Borges without compromising with its own, promising vision. Deniz Eroglu is a student at Funen Art Academy and primarily works in film. His consistent use of archaic film formats such as Super-8 and 16mm refer to both real and imaginary historical events and characters.

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Saturday 6/11 kl. 17:30 / Gloria: Friday 12/11 kl. 17:30

114 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Der Geist des Lebens Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 18 min.

Production Deniz Eroglu, Robert Nielsen Producer Deniz Eroglu Distribution Deniz Eroglu

The Lake in the Mirror DIRECTOR: Johanna Domke

Once a year a revolution breaks out at the tradition-based boarding school Sorø Akademi. An imaginary rebellion that starts by daybreak and ends ritually on a small island with the burning of a dummy on a bonfire, symbolising the authority of the school’s teachers. ‘Lake in the Mirror’ begins as the memories of a former student revisiting the sites of the events, but progresses towards a different state of realness and becomes a documentation of the staging of the ritual - the alumni himself being the director. But as soon as the ritual sets off, the anger and emotion of the young students boil up to an uncanny level of authenticity.

‘Lake in the Mirror’ deals with nature as a refuge where the rules and hierarchies of society are put out of play - at least until new hierarchies and rituals start regulating the refuge. A rebellious fantasy and a piece of documentary art in one.

Original title Søen i spejlet Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 17 min.

Producer Johanna Domke Distribution Art Agents Gallery

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Saturday 6/11 kl. 17:30 / Gloria: Friday 12/11 kl. 17:30

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 115

The Achromatic Island DIRECTOR: Sofie Thorsen

WORLD PREMIERE Danish visual artist Sofie Thorsen’s ‘The Achromatic Island’ is a film about seeing, but from a concrete and historically specific perspective.

Like a conceptual sight test, the film confronts both the spectator and its invisible protagonist with a series of static long takes of the picturesque landscapes on the Limfjord island Fur, where a rare, hereditary eye disease made a large number of the inhabitants colourblind and oversensitive to light in the 1930s. Thorsen’s film tries to recreate the colourblind experience by photographic means, based on an interview with an elderly man who describes the condition, and the personal story also alludes to the changes and challenges that rural Denmark is facing today. ‘The Achromatic Island’ is based on additional medical research, the limits of which only become obvious in Thorsen’s project: is it possible to convey the visible with words? And can the perception of a human being be reproduced photographically?

Original title The Achromatic Island Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 20 min.

Production Sofie Thorsen Producer Sofie Thorsen Distribution Sofie Thorsen

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst: Thursday 4/11 kl. 00:00 / Gloria: Saturday 6/11 kl. 17:30 / Gloria: Friday 12/11 kl. 17:30

116 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

The Naked of Saint Petersburg DIRECTOR: ADA BLIGAARD SØBY

Ada Bligaard Søby’s portraits could be set pretty much anywhere on the planet. But she chose Saint Petersburg, and the city leaves an unmistakable mark on the pictorial lyricism of this her latest work. The film is set in biting coldness, but offers absurd and witty observations of the insistent elderly people who sunbathe in the snow and thereby frame the film which also hosts ancers and underground fashion, and a therapist who can not afford an office and sees his clients in his car.

Observation and narration form a larger unity in the intimate street images, which are contrasted by the illuminated nostalgia of archive material. Instead of a streamlined and linear narration, Søby elegantly approaches the material of reality through fragmented stories - about a man and a woman, and a woman and a man, in a complicated longdistance relationship.

Original title The Naked of Saint Petersburg Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 23 min.

Production Klassefilm Producer Lise Saxtrup Distribution Klassefilm

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 19:15 / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 117

Empire North DIRECTOR: Jakob Boeskov

WORLD PREMIERE The artist Jakob S. Boeskov marks his debut as a filmmaker with a work that is experimental and boundary-seeking in every possible way. Starring himself in the lead role as a comics illustrator who decides to relinquish his identity to become his cynical, neo-liberal and postmodern alter ego Henrik Höfgren, Boeskov embarks on a controversial art project which aims to dissolve the boundary between art and life - and thus also between fiction and documentary. In the style of the ‘Yes Men’ he develops an ID sniper rifle, which can be used to register political dissidents during demonstrations. The gun becomes a hit at the arms trade show in Qatar.

Everybody wants it and Boeskov’s increasing radicalisation leads him further down a critically slippery slope than he wished for at the beginning.

‘Empire North’ is shot on a mobile phone, and is Boeskov’s commentary on the post-9/11 paranoia of the 21st century. A documentary fiction, political critique and a risky social experiment, all in one.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 19:15 / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

118 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Empire North Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 58 min.

Production Interpretation Production Producer Camilla Andersen Distribution Interpretation Production

5 Pictures of a Father DIRECTOR: Nadia Josefine El Said

WORLD PREMIERE A child’s drawing of a man who is always at work. A rock musician with a boring dayjob. A prison guard who dreams of traveling the world. A Soviet cosmonaut in eternal orbit and a father whose spirit is hovering in the sky. In five short portraits, 5 daughters in varying age from a child to an elderly woman, tell stories about their fathers. Staged tableaux, drawings, graphics and archive material illustrate the stories. They create pictures. Pictures of dreams and absence, of fathers and daughters.

Nadia Josefine El Saids moving and beautifully crafted, new film is made with tender care for detail and design. A visual and narrative pleasure sculpted from the materials of real life.

Original title 5 Billeder af en Far Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 21 min.

Production Upfront Films Producer Anna-Maria Kantarius Distribution Upfront Films

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 19:15 / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 119

Historisk dokument (OUT OF COMPETITION) DIRECTOR: Thomas Pors

WORLD PREMIERE ’Historïsk dokument’ is a part of the new series of documentaries from the future, where you each day can hear about the important historic events from the people who were there to experience them. Today, the eyewitness Christian Kasper Mathiasen tells his story of a crisis that put Denmark in deep trouble around the turn of the millennium - namely the ‘yeast crisis’.

Original title Historisk dokument Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 7 min.

Production Upfront Films Producer Anna-Maria Kantarius Distribution Upfront Films

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 19:00

120 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

My Avatar and me (OUT OF COMPETITION) DIRECTOR: Bente Milton, Mikkel Stolt

WORLD PREMIERE An unfortunate film director decides to try his luck in the virtual online world Second Life. Here, he meets the beautiful avatar Helena, who helps him to get going with an excellent career. But when his success goes to his head, he ends up losing everything. His search for Helena leads him to the island Akasha, where he is contacted by some mysterious light creatures. They promise that he’ll probably be reunited with his loved one, but that he first has to embark on a journey to a mountain in Nevada, where the computer scientist Danny Hillis is in the process of building a gigantic watch - designed to measure the time over the next 10,000 years.

Original title Min avatar og mig Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 90 min.

Producer Peter Bech, Bente Milton, Mikkel Stolt Distribution DR

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 19:00

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 121

The Home Front DIRECTOR: Phie Ambo

Good neighbourhoods do not hang on the trees, even if the impartial Fence Inspection authority in ‘The Home Front’ is doing its best to solve neighbourly quarrels, which involves everything from dogs and fence posts to hedge heights and chainsaws on the loose. A man has cut down his neighbour’s trees while she was not at home. ‘She is probably not used to living out in the country’ he says with a smile, and admits that he’ll probably do it again in 3 to 4 year’s time, when the trees on the other side of the fence have grown so tall that they block the sun from shining into his house. ‘I’d rather not be on bad terms with my neighbours,’ he adds. The background music, which imitate the merry sounds of Danish comedies, underlines the sarcasm. The suburban idyll is mixed with solid portions of stubbornness and narrow-mindedness.

Original title Hjemmefronten - fjenden bag hækken Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 40 min.

Production Danish Documentary Production Producer Sigrid Dyekjær Distribution Danish Documentary Production

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Sunday 7/11 kl. 21:30 / Posthus Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 21:15

122 / DANISH:DOX AWARD

Fever DIRECTOR: Phie Ambo

The first of two new films by Phie Ambo. ‘Fever’ guides us into the incredibly detailed universe of the illustrator Julie Nord, where small girls in pretty dresses have houses in their bellies, and where chimney smoke turns into phantasmagoric patterns of mouths and hands, cats and bones. A work is created, and doubt is sewn. When is a work complete? Julie Nord is sharing her creative reflections with us through the unobtrusive presence of Ambo’s camera. A small bird ends up making all the difference as yet a beautiful, new work is finished. Nord’s perfectionism is impressive in its minute detail and vast scope, and ‘Fever’ is a guided tour through the mind of an uniquely gifted artist.

Original title Fever Country Denmark Year 2010 Running time 17 min.

Production Danish Documentary Production Producer Mille Haynes Distribution Danish Documentary Production

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Sunday 7/11 kl. 21:30 / Posthus Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 21:15

DANISH:DOX AWARD / 123

SHORT:DOX AWARD

SHORT:DOX is CPH:DOX’s online competition for unusual, original and artistic independent shorts.

Documentary filmmaking us going through a rapid development. New digital video equipment has enabled a creative freedom which the short film reflects more than any other. The short film is a playground and a laboratory where both already established and upcoming filmmakers can test their new ideas and pursue a personal vision without succumbing to compromises. A freedom that is expressed by these eight poetic and revealing snapshots from the real world.

The audience is the jury, and the nominated films can be seen for free on cphdox. dk in the period from October 15 to November 14. Everyone can vote online, and we will draw lots for a Canon IXUS 105 camera among the votes cast. The films in the SHORT:DOX competition will be shown on the big screen at our own DOX:CLUB on November 6.

The winning filmmaker will receive a Canon EOS 55D digital SLR with an 18-55 mm zoom lens. The award is sponsored by Canon.

Small Protests DIRECTOR: Zillah Bowes

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Rabbit is a left-wing activist and a squatter. And he has a plan. Together with his friends, he wants to expose housing fraud by occupying the house of a local politician. ‘Small Protests’ is just as much the portrait of a young man, who has chosen to live on the limits of society, as it is a film about political protest. The film’s style is almost as radical as Rabbit himself, and traditional narration falls by the wayside in the best punk fashion. The result is a small, intense and original portrait film, which stays close to its protagonist.

Original title Small Protests Country UK Year 2010 Running time 10 min.

Production Zed Films Producer Zillah Bowes Distribution Zillah Bowes (Zed Films)

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Saturday 6/11 kl. 16:30

126 / SHORT:DOX AWARD

The Mystery of Flying Kicks DIRECTOR: Matthew Bate

Have you ever seen a pair of old sneakers hanging from a telephone wire and thought ‘What’s the fuzz?’. In that case, you’re not the only one. All around the world’s cities, people tie together their old running shoes and throw them up onto the street’s electricity wires. Art, gang crime, sex, politics, drugs and mafia codes are just some of the answers that are given on the open phone answering machine that Matthew Bates set up to solve the mystery of ‘The Flying Kicks’. Submitted stills, videos, vlogs and animations - maybe - give us an answer to one of the urban mysteries, which make it a bit more fun to live in the city.

Original title The Mystery of Flying Kicks Country Australia Year 2009 Running time 14 min.

Production Plexus Films Producer Viron Papadopoulos Distribution Closer Productions

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Saturday 6/11 kl. 16:30

SHORT:DOX AWARD / 127

Irma DIRECTOR: Charles Fairbanks

The contrasts are large between the limelight of the past in the ring and on the hit lists, and today, when the biggest fights are those fought in the midst of everyday life, in back stairwells and in the chaos of the busy roads. Irma Gonzalez was once a world champion wrestler and a popular folk singer. Today, she is walking-impaired, but she still trains at the local fitness center, and her voice is not what it used to be. Charles Fairbanks’s film is a warm and moving portrait, where the colourful and lingering images are given the time to talk to us. Think South America’s documentary answer to ‘The Wrestler’ with havana cigars and shaking hips.

Original title Irma Country Mexico/US Year 2010 Running time 13 min.

Production Charles Fairbanks Producer Charles Fairbanks Distribution Charles Fairbanks

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Saturday 6/11 kl. 16:30

128 / SHORT:DOX AWARD

Jalalu’s Dawn DIRECTOR: Aline d’Auria

On the morning of his birthday in 2009, the American Jazz musician and composer Jalalu Kalvert Nelson held a - mildly said - special solo concert at the edge of Lake Geneva. A memorable moment for the few lucky people who by chance were out taking a walk - and who luckily were captured on film. ‘Jalalu’s Dawn’ celebrates the man of the day with a small, poetic gem, which with its indistinct style and distinctive images places itself musically between night and day, lake and land, and dream and documentary.

Original title Jalalu’s Dawn Country Switzerland Year 2009 Running time 6 min.

Production Aline d’Auria Producer Aline d’Auria Distribution Aline d’Auria

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Saturday 6/11 kl. 16:30

SHORT:DOX AWARD / 129

Runo DIRECTOR: Anna Larsson

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE In Norberg in Sweden’s Västmanland province you can be buried and buy a licensed Elvis wig within the same four walls. The entrepreneur behind this business is called Runo, and his great passion for the king of rock and roll has gradually rubbed off on the entire town. Some inhabitants are considering an Elvis burial, others make do with imitating the king with songs at the annual Elvis festival in the people’s park. Runo’s wise and unimpressed approach to life’s big questions not only breathes brings his old idol to life, but also his future clients among the locals. An unsentimental story about the importance of sticking together in small communities, where even the weirdest things manage to spread once they have taken hold in everyday life. Elvis might have left the building, but Runo still has plenty of work.

Original title Runo Country Sweden Year 2010 Running time 11 min.

Production Anna Larsson Producer Anna Larsson Distribution Anna Larsson

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Saturday 6/11 kl. 16:30

130 / SHORT:DOX AWARD

Sambuca Kid DIRECTOR: Robin Färdig

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Good films can be made during a lunch break. The Swedish filmmaker Robin Färdig shot this sketchy and politically incorrect one-liner of a short during a break at the shoot of his film in the Philippines. It is siesta-time, and both the time and the air are standing still on the veranda, where an 8-year-old girl takes a shot of Sambuca, and then another one, while she with elegant hand movements fools around with a tired servant. Robin Färdig challenges the ethics of the visible and with a conscious sense of irony uses the ‘realist effect’, which comes about by itself as a result of being shot on cheap video equipment, to comment on his own privileged - but limited standpoint. A filmic snapshot, which actually lives up to the rhetoric that everyone can make digital films, everywhere and anytime.

Original title Sambuca Kid Country Sweden/Philippines Year 2010 Running time 7 min.

Production agitprop Producer Marcus Fransman Distribution Agitprop

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Saturday 6/11 kl. 16:30

SHORT:DOX AWARD / 131

Phantoms of the Zoo DIRECTOR: Mahbooba Ibrahimi

The zoo in Kabul was a military location during the war, but is now a relatively peaceful and popular destination for Afghan children and their uncles. Here, they get the chance to relax and forget the trials and tribulations of everyday life. The zookeepers sit in circles smoking pipes and talking about the horrors of war which they experienced all too recently, but which they now can look back on and try to integrate into a narration that can maybe give the meaningless a sense of meaning.

What stories would the zoo’s animals tell, if they could make their opinion known? A question that is allowed to remain unanswered. It can pay off to take a visit to ‘Phantoms of the Zoo’ and hear a story of an Afghanistan that is not a bombed-out desert.

Original title Les fantômes du zoo Country Afghanistan Year 2010 Running time 15 min.

Production Ateliers Varan, Arte International Producer Ateliers Varan Distribution Ateliers Varan

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Lost Every Day DIRECTOR: Michelle Coomber

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Imagine losing your orientation every time you pass round a corner. That each time you enter into your own apartment it feels as if something has changed. This is what everyday life is like for the unnamed woman in Michelle Coomber’s ‘Lost Every Day’, who has suffered from a strange disease all her life, which leads to her familiar environment suddenly becoming unrecognisable. It is as if the world has been turned upside down right in front of her eyes, but this only happens inside her head.

Intelligently illustrated with razor-sharp images from her neighbourhood and with an irresistible, self-ironic tongue in cheek. It is sure to make your head spin.

Original title Lost Every Day Country Scotland Year 2010 Running time 10 min.

Production Bungalow Town Productions Producer Rebecca Day

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ARTIST IN FOCUS HARMONY KORINE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE & DANNY PEREZ

CURATED BY HARMONY KORINE

Last year the American provo-auteur Harmony Korine was awarded a controversial DOX:AWARD at CPH:DOX for his genre-defying borderline film ’Trash Humpers’ – a surreally grotesque nightmare vision of masked freaks embarking on a senseless spree of performative vandalisme, shot and cut directly on washed out vhs-tapes.

Both the film and the award caused great and wide-spread debates which we hope will continue here.

This year we have asked Korine to curate a film programme that, like his own films, re-define ’the real’ in cinematic terms. Korine’s work has been a constant reference for CPH:DOX since the very beginning of the festival in 2003, and we are excited to present a visionary selection of works in a variety of formats and genres. A selection which, like with Korine’s own work, should be taken as an experiment in spotting the real behind the images.

The programme is comprised of works by visionary filmmakers and artists such as Raymond Depardon, Cameron Jamie, William Eggleston, Dennis Hopper, Hector Babenco – and with two works by Harmony’s father Sol Korine, plus two new short films

by Harmony Korine himself.

All rare and magnificent works that share a fundamentally idealist approach to cinema, and an expressive humanism essential to the documentary concerns of filmmaking. It might be Halloween all year round in Harmony Korine’s universe of excessive and absurd beauty, a universe that continually expands into different art forms and media. But it is driven by a vital and critical intensity that has expanded the limits of the possible, and which is crucial to the development of cinema as a means of exploring the real.

Korine has produced video introductions to all the films, which will be screened before each film.

Stranded in Canton DIRECTOR: William J. Eggleston

Original title:Stranded in Canton / Country:USA / Year:1973 / Running time:76 min. / Production:Eggleston Artistic Trust,Eggleston Artistic Trust / Producer: Cadecot Chubb, Winston Eggleston,Cadecot Chubb, Winston Eggleston / Distribution:Cheim & Reid

Harmony Korine: ‘This is an amazing home movie. It is perhaps the greatest home movie ever made’.

William Eggleston shot ‘Stranded in Canton’ among hipsters, drunkards and dropouts in Memphis and Tennessee in 1974, but the film was only completed in 2005. ‘Stranded in Canton’ was shot on one of the first video cameras with an inbuilt audio track (a Sony Porta-pak), which gives the images a night vision-like look and adds an extra layer of ghostly unreality to the bizarre incidents, which for the largest part take place at nighttime. Canton is a

gibberish poem and a fantasy location, which lost souls seek out in a haze of ecstasy, trance, lunacy and inebriation. A flight from reality, which has not become less strange and shocking when seen from 35 years’ distance, and which not least is exemplary Southern Gothic. Eggleston is one of the most influential American photographers of the 20th century, and he elevated the snapshot and the colour photograph to an art form.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 6/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:30

Streetwise DIRECTOR: Martin Bell

Original title:Streetwise / Country:USA / Year:1984 / Running time:91 min. / Production:Bear Creek / Producer: Cheryl McCall / Distribution:Martin Bell

Harmony Korine: ‘The first time I saw this film, when I was a child, I felt like running away and living under a bridge, someplace or other.

It’s an extremely beautiful film, which captures a time and a place that no longer exists in this way.’

Martin Bell’s unforgettable vérité documentary was shot on the streets of Seattle in the mid-1980s, and follows a group of homeless teenage kids aged between 13 and 19, who live off ‘container-raiding’, stealing and hustling. Rat, Tiny, Lulu and Shadow talk as if they were port workers, but behind the tough

façade lie the vulnerable, small beings that have chosen the freedom of the street instead of the broken homes they come from.

A raw masterpiece, and a kind of documentary precursor to Larry Clark’s ‘Kids’ (1995), which Harmony Korine himself wrote the screenplay for as a teenager - the film was also nominated for an Oscar in 1984. A raw masterpiece with a cult following, which you here have a rare chance of seeing the cinema - a film you’ll never forget.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 6/11 kl. 21:30 / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 kl. 19:15

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Pixote DIRECTOR: Hector Babenco

Original title:Pixote a lei do mais fraco / Country:Brazil / Year:1981 / Running time:128 min. / Production:Embrafilme, HB Filmes / Producer: Paulo Francini, Sylvia B. Naves

Harmony Korine: ‘This might be my favourite film of all time. It exists on a completely different level.’

Sao Paulo’s harsh and dirty underworld is more than just a backdrop for Hector Babenco’s heart-rendingly raw masterpiece about a 10-year-old street child’s struggle to survive from one day to the next. Filmed on location in the slums and with a cast of street children playing themselves, Pixote takes the neorealist tradition one step further to convey a desperate authenticity. This is a film, which is ahead of its time with the way it uses the loose framework

of fiction with a sense of purpose and conscience. The reality behind the images is the true protagonist in Babenco’s modern update of Truffaut’s ‘400 Blows’. The film, with its confidence and sense of poetry in tragedy, also manages to take a swipe at the corrupt elite of Brazil’s society in the 1980s.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 16:15

BB, Kranky Klaus, Spook House, Massage the History DIRECTOR: Cameron Jamie Original title:BB (1999), Kranky Klaus (2003), Spook House (2003), Massage the History (2010) / Running time:80 min. / Distribution:Barbara Gladstone Gallery

Harmony Korine: ‘Cameron is a truly great artist and film maker. His films are pure poetry, an invented poetry that is all his own. No one else can do what he does. These films will all be considered very important historical documentations one day.’

Just like Harmony Korine, Cameron Jamie himself explores the surreal side of modern rituals such as Halloween, wrestling and bizarre Christmas traditions in Austria, where hairy monsters frighten the living daylights out of people on the streets. Rituals that take place within clearly defined frameworks of suburban

normality, and which Jamie’s film anthropologically records on Super8 and video. Without commentary and accompanied by the heavy drones of the regular sound designers The Melvins and Sonic Youth. Cameron Jamie is both the director and the visual artist. The programme consists of four short works: BB (1999), Kranky Klaus (2003), Spook House (2003) and Massage the History (2010).

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 6/11 kl. 16:30 / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 kl. 21:15

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Holy Ghost People DIRECTOR: Peter Adair

Original title:Holy Ghost People / Country:USA / Year:1967 / Running time:50 min. / Production:Thistle Film / Producer: Peter Boyd

Harmony Korine: ‘This film contains some of the strongest images I have ever seen. The faith that these people exhibit is incredible. It makes me want to dance around with snakes.’

The ‘Holy Ghost People’ of the title are a group of Christians who in a fervour of religious ecstasy understand the bible by the word and prove their faith by drinking poison, talking in tongues and dancing about with venomous snakes during mass, if the Holy Ghost itself tells them to do so. On paper, it’s a Jesus freak show, but in reality it’s a down-to-earth and liberal community without priests and

leaders, and thanks to Peter Adair’s black-and-white vérité images and open form we get a unique insight into their world. Everyone is mumbling at once, and they all keep calm and remain faithful when one of them is bitten by a rattlesnake. The film is shown together with two brand-new shorts by Harmony Korine himself: ‘Mac and Plac’ and ‘The Blood of Havana’.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:15 / Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 21:30

Mac and Plac DIRECTOR: Harmony Korine

Original title:Mac and Plac / Country:USA / Year:2010 / Running time:28 min. / Production:O’Salvation Cine Ltd. / Producer: Charles-Marie Anthonioz / Distribution: O’Salvation Cine Ltd.

The first of two new short films by Harmony Korine, ‘Mac and Plac’ is a Beckett-like stageplay based on chararcters developed for the feature film ‘Trash Humpers’. The obscure events take place in a gritty basement where two siamese twins connected by their heads entertain a handful of the trash humpers with stories of life and death.

The dialogue is as bizarre as the setting is claustrophobic, and displays Korine’s ear for slang and the absurdity of rational communication.

The lunatics have taken over the asylum in other words, the asylum being the suburbian retreats of the lower middle classes where the filthy, dark basement comes off as an apt metaphor for the collective

subconscious. Like ‘Trash Humpers’, ‘Mac and Plac’ is shot in lengthy takes directly on old, washed out vhs-tapes which gives a very concrete meaning to the popular term ‘trash aesthetics’.

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The Blood of Havana DIRECTOR: Harmony Korine

Original title:The Blood of Havana / Country:USA / Year:2010 / Running time:3 min. / Production:O’Salvation Cine Ltd. / Producer: Charles-Marie Anthonioz / Distribution: O’Salvation Cine Ltd.

The second of two new short films by Harmony Korine sends one of the ‘trash humpers’ from his 2009 feature film on a pleasant vacation in Cuba, where the elderly gentleman roams the narrow streets nagging the same repeated cry of violence and revolution over and over. A melancholy journey to some imagined lost youth spent in the sun, perhaps, but also an afternoon on the sunny side where beautiful women are smiling back at you from storefronts and kids are playing with old rubbish. ‘The Blood of Havana’ was shot on Super-8 instead of the archaic video formats of Korine’s other recent works, which lends a strange sensibility to the surreal images of a wrinkled, old geezer in a robe literally having the time of his life.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:15 / Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 21:30

Hamper McBee: Raw Mash DIRECTOR: Sol Korine, Blaine Dunlap

Original title:Hamper McBee: Raw Mash / Country:USA / Running time:37 min. / Production:PBS / Distribution:Blaine Dunlap

Harmony Korine on Hamper McBee - Raw Mash: ‘my father and his partner made this documentary when i was little boy. it’s about a moonshiner named Hamper mcBee who was also a story teller and a great singer. When i think of my childhood i think of Hamper drinking beer in the morning and telling dirty jokes. He’s one of the greatest performers ever and the hills of mount eagle Tennessee were his stage. This film is incredible.’

‘raw mash’, a singer from Tennessee lives on his own out in the forest and practices alchemy.

The first of two rare films, made by Korine’s own father. Sol Korine worked for PBs in Georgia during the 1970s, where he specialised in character studies, which can be seen as a kind of precursor to the extravagant gallery of characters in Harmony Korine’s own films. in SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 21:15

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Sometimes It’s Gonna Hurt DIRECTOR: Sol Korine, Blaine Dunlap

Original title:Sometimes It’s Gonna Hurt / Country:USA / Running time:38 min. / Distribution:Blaine Dunlap

Korine on ‘Sometimes It’s Gonna Hurt’: ‘My father and his partner made this documentary about kids who ride bulls. these kids are very tough. When you see a small child ride a massive bucking bull it confirms everything that is beautiful about life and the world.’

The second of two films by Korine’s father Sol Korne and his collaborator Blaine Dunlap. ‘Sometimes it’s Gonna Hurt’ visits a rodeo school, where 12-year-old boys in complete uniforms fearlessly ride the ill-tempered bulls, and where the day ends with a tempestuous violin duel.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 21:15

Out of the Blue DIRECTOR: Dennis Hopper

Original title:Out of the Blue / Country:Canada / Year:2010 / Running time:94 min. / Production:Robson Street / Producer: John Alan Simon / Distribution:John Alan Simon

Harmony Korine: ‘One of my absolute favourites. It is hard to understand how such a film could be made in the first place. It basically looks as if it just came from outer space. Linda Manz’s performance is one of the best ever.’

If ‘Easy Rider’ was Dennis Hopper’s answer to the liberation philosophy of the 1960s, then ‘Out of the Blue’ is his disillusioned vision of a 1980s in decay. A black and exalted punk melodrama about a tender-aged ‘boygirl’ (Linda Manz) and her drunken father (Hopper), who together and each one on their own are heading full-

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speed towards a nihilistic rock bottom. Elvis and Sid Vicious are the role models, and Dennis Hopper’s artistic temperament is present in every single image. Equal parts raw realism and Hopper’esque fantasy, but with a vulnerable honesty that is echoed in Neil Young’s title song.

Das Orgien Mysterien Theater DIRECTOR: Peter Kasperak

Original title:Das Orgien Mysterien Theater / Country:Austria / Year:2003 / Running time:122 min. / Production:Nitsch Foundation

Harmony Korine: ‘Nitsch is one of my favorite artists. These performance films are really wonderful. A lot of people find these too disturbing, but I think they should be mandatory viewing in all high school art classes around the world.’

The Austrian artist Herman Nitsch and his colossal cult following has for more than 50 years shocked the world with his body- and material-based works, which are often ritual festival plays that last several days and involve hundreds of volunteers, and which together constitute Das Orgien Mysterien Theater. Symbolic

crucifixions, internal organs, pig’s blood and tuba music are regular ingredients. Nitsch prefers to aim for the impossible or for tragedy, than to let himself make do with a cultural desire to please. Transgression is not just a goal in itself, but also a means to lead us to a state beyond the boundaries of language - to a theatre of cruelty, where the real is staged together with a confrontational primordial force, which in the darkness of the cinema turns into an experiment in overcoming the self. Note: the film has a minimal and purely informative voice-over in easily understandable German, without subtitles.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Monday 8/11 kl. 21:00 / Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 18:30

Urgences DIRECTOR: Raymond Depardon

Original title:Urgences / Country:France / Year:1988 / Running time:90 min. / Production:Palmeraie et désert, Double D Copyright Films, TF1 Films Production / Producer: Claudine Nougaret / Distribution:Cultursfrance

Harmony Korine: ‘Depardon is incredible. He invented his own way of making films. His movies and photography are a big influence on me. He is an unsung hero.’

The Magnum photographer Raymond Depardon’s portrayal of life on a psychiatric ward in the heart of Paris gives us a human and empathetic answer to the ethical question of how one should film exposed people in a situation that they have no control over. No diagnoses are being made in Urgences, and the clients include neither mad doctors or Napoleon cases. Some of them are just

drunk or in need of a holiday, while others have been badly hit by life’s misfortunes. Depardon understands and observes, without assuming a clinical perspective, and ‘Urgences’ is just like his other films in that it values the human focus higher than anything else.

Depardon thereby also responds to a criticism that Korine’s own films have been met with. For if the alternative is merely being allowed to show beautiful people with plenty of success, you might as well stay at home and watch TV.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 6/11 kl. 14:15 / Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 16:30

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Battle in Heaven DIRECTOR: Carlos Reygadas

Original title:Batalla en el cielo / Country:Mexico/France/Germany/Belgium / Year:2005 / Running time:98 min. / Production:Coproduction Office / Producer: Philippe Bober / Distribution:Coproduction Office

Harmony Korine: ‘One of my favourite films of the past decade. Carlos does something very special with this film. It’s like a magic trick and works on its own logic. This is an amazing piece of movie making.’

strange noir plot moves towards its religious anti-climax with a hypnotic, almost sleepwalking intensity, and among other things reveals how strongly sex and the sight of a real body are a taboo even in (other) modern films.

The Mexican Carlos Reygadas’s hyperrealistic and bizarrely dreamlike ‘Battle in Heaven’ was for many reasons a sensation when it came out. A chubby servant and chauffeur starts a sexual relationship with the impudent young daughter of a general, who runs a brothel and fatally convinces him to kidnap a baby. The

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 5/11 kl. 16:45 / Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 kl. 21:30

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Curated by Animal Collective AND Danny Perez

The American indietronica-group Animal Collective are present at CPH:DOX 2010 with as much as three different projects: with their and director Danny Perez’s strange creature ’ODDSAC’ (see Visual Albums), with a spectacular installation and live performance made exclusively for CPH:DOX at the National Gallery, and with this film programme curated in collaboration with Perez.

Animal Collective has for the last decade defined the innovative indie scene where music is part of an expressive whole that also includes visual art, film, events, and performance. The visual side of their excentric, neo-psychedelic universe is strong and consistent, and draws inspiration from many sources – cinema, not least.

On the occasion of their visual album ’ODDSAC’ we have asked the group and collaborator Danny Perez to curate a programme of films that have been influental on their own work. A work, which celebrates the artificial and the authentic on an equal – and artistically unique – level.

The programme consists of documentaries, abstract animation, hallucinatory adventures, psycho-horror, and cult classics from the no man’s land between the imaginary and the real. Each great, and in combination brilliant. The surrealist metaphor of film viewing as a waking dream state is close, as is the ideal of cinema as a permanent revolution of the mind.

Animal Collective and Danny Perez has produced video introductions to all the films, which will be screened before each film.

Crystal Voyager DIRECTOR: David Elfick

Original title:Crystal Voyager / Country:USA / Year:1973 / Running time:80 min. / Production:The Australian Film Development Corporation / Producer: David Elfick

Danny Perez & Animal Collective: ‘We saw ‘Crystal Voyager’ during our first tour in 2001. We played with Black Dice and lived with one of their friends in LA, who had a bootleg copy of the film. We just wanted to chill out after the bus ride, but he suggested we watch this film and we were all just totally blown away, both by how these guys create their own reality. But also by the Echoes part at the end. Mindblowing!’

Australia. A natural high with the surfboard as a symbol of rebellious freedom, which is simultaneously real and imagined. A suntanned film about reaching for the impossible, filmed in dreamlike summer images and spiked with rock music and long hair.

The film peaks with a 23-minute orgasmic climax to the sounds of Pink Floyd’s Echoes, moving in and out of the waves. But right up to the famous finale, David Elfick’s surf documentary reaches countless peaks in its laid-back depiction of the free life of beach boys in 1970s SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 4/11 kl. 21:45 / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 21:30

The Legend of Leigh Bowery DIRECTOR: Charles Atlas

Original title:The Legend of Leigh Bowery / Country:USA/France / Year:2002 / Running time:88 min. / Production:Arte, Atlas Films, One Canvas Production / Producer: Sylvie Blum, Lucy Sexton

Danny Perez & Animal Collective: ‘We have found tremendous inspiration in this ‘man’ - with ‘man’ placed in quotes because his body was his artwork’. Bowery designed the most impossible costumes, which transformed the human body to aggressive sculptures.

The film about him is full of fantastic archive material from his happenings, performances and installations. A true original and a colossal inspiration for us.’

made Boy George & co look like boy scouts when he made a hat out of a toilet seat or gave birth to a fully-grown woman on the stage of his notorious London night club Taboo. But his influence on the noble arts of costume-design and wild nightlife reaches from deep underground to high fashion, and from film to visual arts, where he among other things has modelled for Lucian Freud.

The ultra-flamboyant performance artist and costume designer Leigh Bowery was a taboo-breaker in every possible way, who lived the most extravagant sides of his personality through his outré designs. Bowery

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 4/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 kl. 16:30

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre DIRECTOR: Tobe Hooper

Original title:The Texas Chainsaw Massacre / Country:USA / Year:1974 / Running time:81 min. / Production:Vortex, Inc. / Producer: Tobe Hooper

Danny Perez and Animal Collective: ‘The bizarre sound design has made us aware of how one can use the spaciousness of real sounds to create unique environments. It is also worth emphasising how the film and its brutal visual language is a strong contrast to the romanticised view of the 1960s. In ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ we see a group of flower children being brutally butchered by a family of cannibals. America eating its own. The brutal murders take place in broad daylight, which makes it all even more frightening.’

soundtrack that makes your nerves squirm. And according to the poster it is even based on true events! A group of youths are up for a genuinely nasty surprise when they, during a trip to the American deep South, end up with an inbred family of genuine freaks with a penchant for human meat.

Tobe Hooper’s immortal horror classic is an unsurpassed experiment in cinematic suggestion - an aggressive, filmic inferno with corporal violence (but without actual splatter effects), complemented by a

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 21:45

Brain Damage DIRECTOR: Frank Henenlotter

Original title:Brain Damage / Country:USA / Year:1988 / Running time:85 min. / Production:Palisades Partners / Producer: Edgar Levins / Distribution:Klubb Super 8

Danny Perez & Animal Collective: ‘The monster’s voice is ridiculous and the film’s premise even more so, lending an important touch of humor to the film. Brain Damage is the kind of film one watches as a kid - in the basement together with one’s friends. The ability to watch something from such a specific cinematic time, in a new context, and create a different perspective is something we seek out. It’s not scary. It’s grotesque humor saturated in genre tropes. It’s a blast.’

(Rick Herbst) becomes the host for a disgusting phallic parasite like the monster from Alien, which sucks itself onto his brain and makes him addicted to a mysterious, heroin-like substance - and is in return fed with fresh human brains. His euphoric hallucinations look like they’re taken straight from a 1960s LSD film, and in the hands of the cult director Frank Henenlotter, ‘Brain Damage’ becomes a pitchblack and unmistakable 80’s trash study of the obsession to reach the ultimate high, no matter the cost.

Brain Damage premiered at the legendary Grindhouse strip on 42nd Street in New York, and is equal parts black-humoured drug allegory, psychedelic mind-bender and hard-gore. An unfortunate young man

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:30

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Ruslan and Ludmila DIRECTOR: Aleksandr Ptushko

Original title:Ruslan and Ludmila / Country:Russia / Year:1973 / Running time:149 min. / Production:Mosfilm

Danny Perez & Animal Collective: ‘There has been plenty of talk about the influence of Matthew Barney and Kenneth Anger on ‘Oddsac’, but in reality our film has more in common with the popular psychedelia of Soviet adventure films from between the 1950s and the 1970s. Fantastic costumes and elaborate makeup combined with imaginative sets and primitive coloring and printing techniques.

Even if they look out of date today, they succeeded in creating their own, unique worlds’.

extremely stylised champagne dream of a film, where the beautiful princess Ludmila is abducted from the bridal bed by an evil witch, and who has to be saved by the courageous Ruslan. An exuberant, escapist and pastel-coloured fantasy from the Soviet Union of the 70’s, with homemade effects so spectacular that you will blown off your seats.

Evil dwarves and tragic giants, witches and wizards, a subterranean crystal castle and a pink coral reef - and a love that conquers all evil.

The Soviet adaptation of Pushkin’s classic adventures is an epic and SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 6/11 kl. 21:45 / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 kl. 19:00

Begotten DIRECTOR: E. Elias Merhige

Original title:Begotten / Country:US / Year:1991 / Running time:78 min. / Production:Theater of Material / Producer: E. Elias Merhige

Danny Perez & Animal Collective: ‘Begotten’ looks like a document from another dimension. The extreme black-and-white contrast has been a strong visual inspiration to abstract normal motifs. The sound design is mysterious, minimal and intensifies the feeling of being immersed in the world of a demonic ritual.’

extremely grainy black-and-white images to describe a cyclical process of gruesome death and heathen resurrection. There is no dialogue to explain the natural philosophy behind Merhige’s uncompromising vision, which is a fearless attempt at a religious film experience that makes ‘Antichrist’ look like a picnic in the countryside.

Elias Merhige’s black metal/psycho-horror avant-garde film about the birth of the universe and the meaning of life is not for people of a tender disposition. But for people who think big it is just the thing.

‘Begotten’ is inspired by the biblical creation myth and by a neardeath experience that Merhige himself had as a teenager, and it uses

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:15 / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 kl. 22:00

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Allures DIRECTOR: Jordan Belson

Original title:Allures / Country:USA / Year:1961 / Running time:7 min. / Production:Jordan Belson / Producer: Jordan Belson / Distribution:Light Cone

Danny Perez & Animal Collective: ‘These films are beautiful, spiritual and psychedelic - all at once. What used to be radical and avant-garde has today been adopted by screen-savers and iTunes visualisers. So it’s even more important to value the human contact with technology in the search for new meaning and sensations.’

where several years’ work ended up being just a few minutes of film or visual music, as the genre is called. Screened with six short works by the Whitney Brothers.

Animal Collective have been the frontrunners of the neo-psychedelic renaissance, which MGMT and other indietronica bands have made modern again with alchemistic visual superstructures. Before digital technology made it easy for anyone with a laptop to make their own visuals, there was over 80 years of analogue experimental filmmaking, made by visionary pioneers with extremely time-consuming means, SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 6/11 kl. 21:15 / Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:15

Whitney Brothers: Six Shorts DIRECTOR: John & James Whitney

Original title:Whitney Brothers: Six Shorts / Country:USA / Year:1944 / Running time:51 min. / Production:John & James Whitney / Producer: John & James Whitney

Danny Perez & Animal Collective: ‘These films are beautiful, spiritual and psychedelic - all at once. What used to be radical and avant-garde has today been adopted by screen-savers and iTunes visualisers. So it’s even more important to value the human contact with technology in the search for new meaning and sensations.’

Animal Collective have been the frontrunners of the neo-psychedelic renaissance, which MGMT and other indietronica bands have made modern again with alchemistic visual superstructures. Before digital technology made it easy for anyone with a laptop to make their own visuals, there was over 80 years of analogue experimental filmmaking, made by visionary pioneers with extremely time-consuming means,

where several years’ work ended up being just a few minutes of film - or visual music, as the genre is called. John & James Whitney are two of these filmmakers, and you are here given a unique opportunity to see seven of their works and to experience the 1940s precursor to the light shows that by now are a fixture at every night club and concert venue.

Film programme: Yantra, Lapis, Catalog, Permutations, Arabesque and Abstract Film Exercises II, III & V. The six films are screened with Jordan Belson’s ‘Allures’ (1961).

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 6/11 kl. 21:15 / Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:15

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VISUAL ALBUMS

When the American band Animal Collective and the visual artist Danny Perez earlier this year premiered their joint collaboration ‘ODDSAC’, they were met with astonishment. An indefinable work, somewhere between experimental film, music video, synesthetic art, fiction, self-documentation and ‘visual music, and released by the band as a new album, even if a ‘visual’ one. Not a film, not a record, but...

Of course, Animal Collective is not the first band that has dared venture into the world of film. And even if ‘Yellow Submarine’ is easily categorised as a musical, and Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ as a rock opera, there are quite a few feature (or rather, album-) length visual works that like ‘ODDSAC’ defy any such categorisation. Works that have brought about a new musical perspective onto the visual sphere, and thereby onto film as a medium.

With this programme, we ask if some of these musicians may have created a separate genre of so-called visual albums, set somewhere between film and music - and we try to provide some suggestions as to what constitutes the basic cornerstones of this genre.

What the selected works have in common is that - unlike synaesthetic cinema and visual music - they are initiated on the musical side of the fence, by a rock band, even when made in collaboration with a filmmaker. And this is why we take Animal Collective and Danny Perez at their word and refer to these filmic works as albums – the form of output that has defined the music industry over the past five decades, but which is now being threatened by ‘the iPod way of listening’. All the works are centered around a number of songs, just like a ‘real’ album – but they are here placed in a visual context, which adds a new element to the music and brings it onto a different genre level, far from cinema’s close relationship to narrative rules.

Are these ‘albums’ so diverse that it makes no sense giving them a new genre description? Maybe. And maybe this is exactly the point: here we have a number of works, which manage to break free from the rigid boxes and genre descriptions. They are something else.

Oddsac DIRECTOR: Danny Perez

Original title:Oddsac / Country:USA / Year:2010 / Running time:80 min. / Production:Swiss Dots / Producer: Gary Hustwit, Brian Betancourt, Chris Ronis, Jojo Li / Distribution: Plexi Films

This is not a film. Even if Oddsac premiered at the prestigious Sundance Festival and subsequently screened at one cinema after another, the work first and foremost makes sense when seen from the perspective from which Animal Collective and visual artist Danny Perez see it themselves: as a visual album. There are no plot points, no dialogues, in fact practically none of the conventions that cinema has spent more than 100 years constructing. Instead, we are given a sequence of flickering filmic scenes, dancing closely with the band’s musical soundscapes on the tightrope that is stretched between literalness and abstraction. Vampires, marshmallows and ‘campfire songs’ take on new meanings in the trippy, psychedelic visuals which in conjunction with a number of fantastic, newly composed songs create a space for the artists’ fascination with horror movies - and neither John Carpenter, Jordan Belson or Matthew Barney have lived in vain thanks

to this film. Oddsac was four years in the making, and it could easily take as long before the film is recognised as the ground-breaking, kaleidoscopic work that it is within its genre. But right here and now, you can in the very least enjoy the film as an unavoidable, magical door to a new dimension of Animal Collective’s warped and forever expanding universe.

Before the screening of ODDSAC, a new short film programme by Danny Perez including collaborations with Panda Bear and Black Dice and a short based on the band and Perez’ performance ‘Trans Temporal Gyrus’ at the Guggenheim Museum in New York earlier this year.

SCREENING DATES Planetariet: Sunday 7/11 kl. 20:30 / Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:15

The Residents: Vileness Fats / Eskimo / The Commercial Album DIRECTOR: The Residents Original title:The Residents: Vileness Fats / Eskimo / The Commercial Album / Country:USA / Running time:117 min. / Production:The Residents / Producer: The Residents / Distribution:The Cryptic Coorporation

Vileness Fats (1972/1984/2001): ‘Vileness Fats’ was the mystery men The Residents’ first major film project. In 1972, the group rebuilt their studio into a Dr. Caligariesque cabinet, but four years and fourteen hours of material later, the mysterious project was shelved, until it in 1984 was assembled into a 30-minute version of the story about the country village Vileness fats, which is attacked by The Atomic Shopping Carts! Recently, the story was tightened even more to create the 17-minute restored version that we will show here.

ESKIMO THE MOVIE (1979/2003): ‘Eskimo’, with its blue-tinted stills and hypnotic animations, is a visualisation of the band’s masterly album of the same name,

centered around ‘field recordings’ from inuit-land, recorded by the group’s mentor, The Mysterious N. Senada. This newly restored version is mixed in surround sound with a hitherto unheard level of clarity.

THE COMMERCIAL DVD (2004): In 2004, The Residents took the concept of creating music videos for an entire album to the extreme and made visualisations for all 40 one-minute songs on ‘The Commercial Album’ (1980). The album, which in itself is a satire of the short commercial pop song, reminds one of how much fantastic creativity one could have witnessed while the TV ads were running.

SCREENING DATES Planetariet: Friday 5/11 kl. 20:30 / Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:15

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Cornelius: Sensurround DIRECTOR: Cornelius, Tsujikawa Kochiro, Takagi Masakatsu, The Groovisions Collective Original title:Cornelius: Sensurround / Country:Japan / Year:2008 / Running time:25 min. / Distribution: Cherry Red Records

Japanese avant-garde pop star Cornelius’s genre-mutant of a visual album, ‘Sensurround’, will be transmitted in surround sound from outer space to the IMAX dome of the Planetarium on this special night dedicated to French/Japanese space pop. ‘Sensurround’ is a trippy and beautifully animated space odyssey of the mind, by a musical genius in collaboration with some of the best digital animators working today.

Fun and imaginative, and a pleasure for the eyes as much as the ears.

‘Sensurround’ will be screened with Daft Punk’s animated musical ‘Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5ound 5ystem’.

SCREENING DATES Planetariet: Saturday 6/11 kl. 20:30 / Grand Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:30

Daft Punk: Interstella 5555 DIRECTOR: Kazuhisa Takenôchi

Original title:Daft Punk: Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem / Country:France/Japan / Year:2003 / Running time:68 min. / Production:Daft Life Ltd. Co., Toei Animation Company / Producer: Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo / Distribution: Sony Records

The Japanese anime genius Leiji Matsumoto masterminded the visualisation of Daft Punk’s neo-classic ‘Discovery’, which in its full length has become the story of an intergalactic rock band, which is abducted by space pirates. An animated science fiction musical in a retro-futuristic design and candy-coloured sets, ‘Interstella 5555’ is a radical interpretation of the visual album as art form. Whereas many other musicians in recent years have accompanied all the songs on a record with videos, thereby turning the album into a visual one (here exemplified by Cornelius), Daft Punk decided to make a whole out of

the songs. The outcome is an audiovisual experience that makes for something new - without the music, the visuals would lack any sense, and without the visuals, the music would be - ‘Discovery’. But this is ‘Interstella 5555’, and that’s quite another - and very spaced out - story.

SCREENING DATES Planetariet: Saturday 6/11 kl. 20:30 / Grand Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:30

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Devo: The Men Who Make the Music DIRECTOR: Mark Mothersbaugh, Chuck Statler

Original title:Devo: The Men Who Make the Music / Country:USA / Year:1979 / Running time:50 min. / Production:Devo / Producer: Chuck Statler / Distribution: Mutatu Muzika

In an interview for The Onion Mark Motherbaugh (helmsman for the seminal avant-pop group Devo) claimed that all of Devo’s films contain ‘subliminal messages’, and that when played they prepare the audience for the Devo performance. Such astonishing revelations may explain why Devo has continued to make groundbreaking pop records for more than 30 years: they have already programmed us all! ‘The Men Who Make The Music’ was to be the first ‘Video LP’ upon its completion in 1979 but was held back due to its supposedly ‘anti music industry’ content. A Kafkaesque maze of the corporation’s attempts to control Devo and their struggle to bring the message of Devo to the world.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 kl. 19:15

The The: Infected DIRECTOR: Tim Pope, Peter Christopherson

Original title:The The: Infected / Country:UK / Year:1986 / Running time:45 min. / Distribution: Antar

Filmed at lavishly expensive locations around the world, Matt Johnson’s (aka. The The) ‘Infected’ is as relevant to world culture today as it was 24 years ago. While the world may have had some technological advances in that time the sociopolitical state is much the same as it was in the Reagan Era. ‘Infected’ is informed by the dire state of human existence and its search illusive for spiritual truth. Directed in parts by Tim Pope and Peter Christopherson (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV), the visual version of the album is one of the very first of

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 kl. 19:15

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its kind. Artists like Sonic Youth, Four Tet, Beach house, Tori Amos and Cornelius (also featured in this programme) have all explored the same field, though seldom as focused as here. A groundbreaking work.

La cicatrice interieure DIRECTOR: Phillippe Garrel

Original title:La cicatrice intérieure / Country:France / Year:1970 / Running time:60 min. / Producer: Sylvina Boissonnas / Distribution:Cinémathèque Francaise

The cult director Philippe Garrel was 21 years old, known as the ‘Rimbaud of film art’, and had four features under his belt when he made ‘La cicatrice intérieure’ (‘The Inner Scar’) with the singer Nico, with whom he started a relationship that would last over ten years. The film is a kind of cinematic adaptation of the elegiac album ‘Desertshore’. Nico and Garrel are the first two human beings, lost in a mythological desert landscape with references to Nietzsche, Freud and the French surrealists. Nico’s singing is the only hint of a narrative-forming dialogue, and her dark voice and the apocalyptoromantic lyrics weigh heavily on the supernatural imagery. Garrel is one of film art’s most radically personal directors, he is withdrawn and perfectionistic, and his exclusive works are shown very rarely. After ‘La

cicatrice intérieure’, he made another six films with Nico, before he around 1980 started making more realistic and narrative, but no less poetic films, which often focus on episodes from his own life. We are showing Garrel’s own 35mm print of ‘La cicatrice intèrieure’. Before the film we present Ronald Nameth’s ‘Epxloding Plastic Inevitable’ (1967), a live-visualization of the Velvet Underground & Nico’s classic banana-record.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 21:45

Head DIRECTOR: Bob Rafelson

Original title:Head / Country:USA / Year:1968 / Running time:86 min. / Production:Raybert Productions / Producer: Jack Nicholson, Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider

Directed by Bob Rafelson and written in collaboration with Jack Nicholson, ‘Head’ is a film that turned the psychedelic musical of the 1960s into an art form. A visual album by the film’s protagonists, the world’s first boy band The Monkees, who struggled to move away from the TV context they were conceived in. The Monkees were ‘invented’ in 1966 for Rafelson’s sitcom of the same name, which started a true ‘Monkee mania’, but the band was never given the chance to tour.

‘Head’ turns the image of the band on its head, and shows a band that with a sense of self-irony goes along with the ‘clean image’ as a studio orchestra - as a form of introspective and political criticism of

commercial music culture. The surreal tale explores the dreamlike state that the four ‘Monkees’ find themselves in, and questions the wafer-thin boundary between the public and the private personae of musicians. A surreal roller-coaster ride through the mental funfair of success and fame.

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Saturday 6/11 kl. 21:15 / Vester Vov Vov: Friday 12/11 kl. 21:15

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TELE:VISIONS

One of the major, curated sidebars at this year’s CPH:DOX is dedicated to inventive and visionary television. TELE:VISIONS adapts the auteur theory from film to the specifics of television to ask: What happens when creative and critical minds are let loose within the structural and institutional framework of the medium? What is it that tv can do, that other media can not? And where do we go from here?

The aim of the series is to offer a (thought)provoking selection of works that explore the potential of tv, and to challenge possible, cultural prejudices between tv, film, and the audience. TELE:VISIONS does not aim to tell the full (hi)story of alternative television. Rather, the basic criteria has been those of curiousity, unpredictability, and not least to be of current interest and inspiration today.

The works selected here represents a wide variety of genres: talk shows, satire, punk tv, performative journalism, comedy, ideological analysis, radical avantgarde experiments, and offbeat children’s tv.

We have also asked four influental, Danish television professionals to have their say and to select a programme each. Palle Strøm (Director of TV2 Zulu), Mogens Vemmer (former director of the Department for Children’s Television at Denmarks Radio), and Mikael Bertelsen (’The 11th Hour’) & Mads Brügger (’The Red Chapel’) each present a selection of programmes and moments that would only be possible in the medium of tv. (Please note: partly in Danish).

Turn on, tune in. This is television on visionary wavelenghts.

Black on White DIRECTOR: Pagonis Pagonakis, Susanne Jäger

Original title:Schwarz auf Weiss / Country:Germany / Year:2009 / Running time:85 min. / Production:Captator Film Production / Producer: Gerhard Schmidt / Distribution:Eyeworks Distribution

For decades, the German journalist Günter Wallraff has been an influential pioneer within performative and investigative journalism, which combines fact and fiction. In ‘Black on White’, Wallraff lets cultural prejudices and clichés collide in a politically incorrect social experiment that is sharp, witty and provocative. Wallraff puts on dark makeup to look like a ‘negro’, wears an afro wig and sets off on a long journey through Germany to examine his fellow countrymen’s view of the dangerously foreign. The result is a taboo-breaking, funny, shocking and definitely debate-provoking diagnosis of the hidden welfare racism, which has become the shameful face of the whole of

Europe. But Wallraff’s project also walks an ethical tightrope in its survey of today’s western intolerance. As an ‘agent provocateur’, he doesn’t content himself with recording the reactions of his environment, but intervenes directly with everyone who comes across his path.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 kl. 19:15 / Posthus Teatret: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 19:00 / Dagmar Teatret: Saturday 13/11 kl. 13:00

Facts & Fakes: Alexander Kluge DIRECTOR: Alexander Kluge

Original title:Facts & Fakes: Alexander Kluge / Country:Germany / Running time:80 min. / Production:Kairos Film, DCTP / Distribution:Kairos Film

Immanuel Kant, George W. Bush and King Kong all appear in the whirlwind of ideas that constitute the hundreds of TV productions which the German new wave director Alexander Kluge has broadcast since 1998. Here is a selection of some of the best. From his early, abstract video collages to the absurd and extremely funny ‘Facts & Fakes’ series, where a linguist tries to reform German grammar, and a race-car driver dressed in a helmet and motor goggles is fighting for his professional reputation. Kluge’s project is both a serious and a parodic commentary of the authority and (anti-)aesthetic of the TV medium, and an honest confrontation with the elitist attitude of the director.

Instead, he fills his programmes with other people’s ideas as much as his own - in a collective and for that matter classically democratic mishmash of opinions. The question is: how can television be culturally responsible without putting the viewers to sleep? The answer is right before us, and you are guaranteed to find one or two things that you had not thought about before in the fragmentary montages of pop, international politics, disasters and low-tech video effects.

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / Posthus Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

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Brügger & Bertelsen present...

Original title:Brügger & Bertelsen præsenterer... / Running time:120 min.

Mads Brügger and Mikael Bertelsen, the two masterminds behind the groundbreaking late night show ‘The 11th Hour’ (‘Den 11. time’), have selected a number of TV moments and programmes which take as their starting point the special live element, which more than anything else separates TV from film, and which - not least when something unexpected happens - puts everyone in front of the camera to the test. With extracts and programmes from both Danish and international television, Brügger and Bertelsen also look at TV as a social situation with its own ethical rules and limits, which when used consciously can create unforgettable moments, in a way that

can’t be done by other media.

Unpredictability is the key word here, and it’s guaranteed to be both funny, as well as surprising and thought-provoking. (Please note: the presentation is held in Danish).

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:15

Mogens Vemmer presents...

Original title:Mogens Vemmer præsenterer... / Running time:120 min.

The grand old man of the children and youth department at Denmarks Radio (DR) has chosen a selection of extracts and programmes, which demonstrate that children are more intelligent than grown-ups - and that grown-ups aren’t really that smart. For over 30 years, Mogens Vemmer has been pivotal in shaping the TV audiences of the future on the basis of a fundamental trust that children and youth are able to be critical and form their own opinions. Vemmer introduces and presents this selection himself, and here you have the chance to view or re-view known and unknown faces from 30 years of Danish children’s TV. The details of the programme remain a surprise, but

there is no doubt that it will take children and youth seriously on their own premises - and that there will be enough food for thought, both for today’s TV audiences and for all those who have continued in Vemmer’s footsteps. (Please note: the presentation is held in Danish).

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 6/11 kl. 16:45

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Palle Strøm presents...

Original title:Palle Strøm presents... / Running time:120 min.

Three exemplary and influental takes on the comedy genre, selected

by Director of TV2 Zulu, Palle Strøm.

The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer: Palle Strøm: ‘Reeves & Mortimer were the 1990s inheritors of Monty Python - and especially of the kind of Python humour where a meringue wants to achieve world dominion by winning the Wimbledon. The duo created the popular breakthrough for a new absurdist school by cultivating the arbitrary and consciously bizarre in an intelligent way. The intelligent madness of this show is almost cathartic.’

The Larry Sanders Show: Palle Strøm: ‘An American meta-sitcom, which through selfreference and satire plays with TV as a medium and the talkshow format as a platform, often with celebrities appearing as

themselves. According to Ricky Gervais, Larry Sanders was a great influence for ‘The Office’. Sanders himself is played by the gawky but highly talented American actor Garry Shandling.’

Palle Strøm: ‘A drunken and smoke-filled bad taste party. The comedian’s collective Comic Strip with Rik Myall and Adrian Edmonson (‘The Young Ones’, ‘Bottom’) spearheaded a generation that took over from the intellectual Oxford/Cambridge tradition of Monty Python et al. Instead, the humour of the Comic Strip gang was formed at small clubs and pubs, and their language was vulgar, provocative, but also really funny. ‘Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door’ represents the group at its finest. It is grotesque, infantile, and written and acted by Mayall and Edmonson.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Saturday 6/11 kl. 19:15 / Cinemateket

France/tour/detour/deux/enfants DIRECTOR: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville

Original title:France/tour/détour/deux/enfants / Country:France / Year:1978 / Running time:104 min. / Production:Sonimage, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) / Producer: Jean-Luc Godard / Distribution:Electronic Arts Intermix

Godard’s TV and video works have always been sidelined by his films, but now the time has finally come to take a good look at them. ‘France/ tour/détour/deux/enfants’ is a work for and about television, directed together with Anne-Marie Miéville. The independent episodes are divided symmetrically for TV, so that they mirror each other two by two, but they can be seen in succession. The series follows a French family with two small children, and is a sociological analysis and ideological critique of how a subject is influenced by authoritarian institutions such as schools, the family - and television. But the programmes have no ambitions to deliver statistical objectivity,

instead endorsing a complex and subtly ironic form, which cites the routines of the medium and the over-abundance of images in popular culture in its uncompromising critique. Godard’s interview format is categorical: ‘Is there any connection between war and money?’, ‘What does the revolution mean to you?’, ‘Is silence a part of daytime or of nighttime?’ The programmes are commented in a TV studio by two hosts, and through Godard’s conceptual play of words on the screen. Should things have changed to the point that Godard might be outdated? No comments.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 5/11 kl. 18:45 / Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 21:15 / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:15

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Glenn O’ Brien’s TV Party DIRECTOR: Amos Poe

Original title:Glenn O’ Brien’s TV Party / Country:USA / Year:1978 / Running time:57 min. / Production:Glenn O’Brien / Producer: Glenn O’Brien / Distribution:Brink Films

The elegant art dandy Glenn O’Brien was the host, and his enormous crowd of cool friends were the guests of the legendarily chaotic and unrestrained TV Party: ‘the cocktail party that could be a political party!’ TV Party is a permanent technical error, broadcast live from New York City via public access from 1978 to 1982, with the punk director Amos Poe behind the camera and a more or less self-taught group of technicians manning the studio. A television-fest disguised as a social and aesthetic experiment, which can here be seen in two classic episodes: ‘The Premiere Episode’ and ‘The TV Party Halloween Special’. Meet, among others, Debbie Harry, The Clash, John Lurie and Jean-Michel Basquiat for a night with the cult show, which puts

the P in ‘arty’ and doesn’t give up just because there is a powercut. On the festival’s first night on Thursday, 4 November at 21:00 hrs, we will open TELE:VISIONS with our own TV party at Bakken (Flæsketorvet 19 in Kødbyen). We challenge everyone to get dressed for television and to remember Andy Warhol’s words: ‘Don’t go out to have fun - go out to be fun!’

SCREENING DATES Bakken: Thursday 4/11 kl. 21:00 / Husets Biograf: Friday 12/11 kl. 21:00

The Dick Cavett Show DIRECTOR: Dick Cavett

Original title:The Dick Cavett Show / Country:USA / Running time:27 min. / Production:ABC-TV / Producer: Tony Converse

A young and slim David Bowie (from the ‘Diamond Dogs’ era) is the guest in this episode of Dick Cavett’s legendary late-night talk show, which was broadcast on 5 December 1974 on New York’s ABC. Cavett often dedicated entire episodes of his show to a single guest, and his elegant, witty and intellectual persona turned the talk show into an art form and brought the biggest cultural personalities into the studio,

from Groucho Marx and Salvador Dalí to Norman Mailer and Marlon Brando. And not least Bowie, who here talks about his upbringing, about literature, his tour, TV, and about the art of staging oneself.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 21:15 / Husets Biograf: Sunday 14/11 kl. 19:00

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Screening Room DIRECTOR: Robert Gardner

Original title:Screening Room / Country:USA / Year:1973 / Running time:79 min. / Production:ABC-TV / Distribution:Documentary Educational Resources

Robert Gardner was the host on over one hundred episodes of his talk show ‘Screening Room’, where he - together with the visionary avant-garde of American independent filmmaking - consistently pushed the genre to its limits. The radical political documentarist and legendary bon vivant Emile De Antonio is the guest in this classic episode from 1973, where he among other things shows extracts from his controversial Vietnam opus ‘In the Year of the Pig’ (1969), and with an eminent sense of (self-)critique talks about his ideas of film (and not least satire) as a political weapon, and about the United States’ international role - ideas that have not become less relevant over time, but which would hardly be aired on TV today. Alongside his

show Gardner taught film and visual culture at Harvard, and he is a passionate connoisseur of animation, documentary and experimental filmmaking, but knows how to use his expert knowledge to steer a conversation. The talk show genre is taken literally in Screening Room, and with an unusually cheerful Emile De Antonio as a guest, Gardner’s programme brings out the best the genre has to offer.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 21:15 / Husets Biograf: Sunday 14/11 kl. 19:00

The News DIRECTOR: Ian Breakwell

Original title:The News / Country:UK / Year:1980 / Running time:13 min. / Distribution:Lux

Ian Breakwell’s ‘The News’ is a witty and disturbing parody of the objective authority of TV news. The well-known and symbolically trustworthy anchorman Eric Wallace talks about a number of incidents in a small country village, where the old inhabitants are behaving strangely and where a hole in the ground turns out, upon closer inspection, to be a bump. If the media should be the conveyor of truth, then things are looking pretty bleak in Britain. But there is still hope if we decide to take a second look, which is exactly what the British artist Ian Breakwell does. ‘The News’ is a continuation of the intellectual tradition of absurd, linguistic short circuits à la Monty Python, but unlike his colleagues Breakwell insists on the formalised discourse of

the TV medium - at least as it looked and sounded when he recorded this intelligent and bone-dry sketch in 1980. ‘The News’ is screened together with ‘It Felt Like a Kiss’.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Monday 8/11 kl. 19:00 / Gloria: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 17:30

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It Felt Like a Kiss DIRECTOR: Adam Curtis

Original title:It Felt Like a Kiss / Country:UK / Year:2006 / Running time:60 min. / Production:BBC / Producer: Lucy Kelsall / Distribution:BBC TV

Television is the most dangerous invention of the 20th century. An invention, which the British montage and found footage expert Adam Curtis turns against himself with a sense of sharp irony and a touch of infectious paranoia in ‘It Felt Like a Kiss’, which on the basis of old archive material deconstructs the American dream, as television exported it to the rest of the world with seductive images. Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Saddam Hussein, the CIA and the darling of all conspiracy theorists, Lee Harvey Oswald, share the screen time in Curtis’s virtuoso image trip, which was commissioned by the BBC for a live installation theatre in collaboration with, among others, Damon Albarn and the Kronos quartet. Curtis is precise and polemic, and he is one of the few

radical culture critics who has managed to address a huge audience through the medium that he criticises from within with biting irony. To a higher degree than in his main works The Power of Nightmares and The Century of the Self, Curtis here not only exposes his method, but also his outspoken opinion about the political elite and the way that power is attained and preserved. Witty, critical and with a wakeful eye.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Monday 8/11 kl. 19:00 / Gloria: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 17:30

Fishing with John DIRECTOR: John Lurie

Original title:Fishing with John / Country:USA / Year:1991 / Running time:28 min. / Production:Independent Film Channel / Producer: Deborah Brown, Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury, Taku Nishimae

Jazz musician and actor John Lurie is the host of his own travel/fishing programme, where he takes one of his friends far out in nowhere. In this episode, Lurie and Tom Waits have sailed to Jamaica to catch snappers, which end up in Waits’s trousers after an accident. The tone and the tempo are as laid-back and deadpan as one of Lurie’s saxophone serenades, but since neither Lurie nor Waits know how to operate a fishing rod, the outing quickly turns into having to do with everything between heaven and earth. And that is not so bad when you are in good company. Outdoor life is for pro’s, and Fishing with John is a diehard city-dweller’s take on a genre that is more popular on American cable TV than on European channels. Rumour has it

that the series came into being because John Lurie had no money to pay his rent, but it is still nothing short of being fantastically funny and sublimely cool.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / Husets Biograf: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:15

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The Live! Show DIRECTOR: Jaime Davidovich

Original title:The Live! Show / Country:USA / Year:1983 / Running time:27 min. / Distribution:Electronic Arts Intermix

The Argentinian filmmaker Jaime Davidovich competed with Glenn O’Brien’s ‘TV Party’ for the arty segment of TV audiences in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Davidovich’s own ‘The Live!

Show’ was a weekly vaudeville programme dedicated to art, culture, kitsch and spoiled celebrities - inspired by Cabaret Voltaire and the legendary comedian Ernie Kovacs. Davidovich always appeared as his alter ego Dr. Videovich, a psychologist specialising in TV addiction, and interviewed guests from the arts world and sold objects from his collection of home-made TV merchandise in a TV shop parody.

In this episode from April 1983, one can among other things learn to

‘deconstruct’ TV news. Jaime Davidovich was the core of the artistmanaged TV networks Cable SoHo and Artists Television Network, which came into being with the advent of cable TV in the mid-1970s.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / Husets Biograf: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:15

La bola de cristal

Original title:La bola de cristal / Country:Spain / Year:1984 / Running time:20 min. / Production:Televisión Española (TVE)

‘La bola de cristal’ (1984 - 1988) was an anti-authoritarian product by the ultra-hedonistic counter-reaction known as La Movida (‘the movement’), which followed the death of Franco in 1975, and which broke with several decades of political and cultural oppression. ‘La bola de cristal’ was hosted by the charismatic goth queen Alaska and was a huge hit among children and youth, who lapped up its anarchic and anti-capitalist messages. The regular characters were the evil teddy bears ‘Los electroduendes’ and a cast of young freaks, and each programme was different from the other: puppet theatre, short sketches, rock concerts, political satire and Godard-inspired pop art montages of nuclear wars and African freedom fighting.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / Husets Biograf: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:15

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DOUBLE TAKE

Double Take is a conceptual film- and video-installation that takes place at the National Gallery (Statens Museum for Kunst) from the day of the festival opening on November 4, 2010 to January 2, 2011.

The concept of Double Take is to present the works of two artists from different historical and artistic background back to back, in a screening space where the works are presented in turns creating the effect of a dialogue.

Double Take approaches the strong, common interest in ‘the real’ in both contemporary art and cinema. By creating a parallel viewing situation, the installation accentuates new and perhaps unforeseen qualities of the selected works by way of their relation to each other. The intent is thus not to assert an actual line of artistic influence from one artist to another, but to explore the autonomous space created between carefully paired works.

Two of the works, by Danish artists Sofie Thorsen and Simon Dybbroe-Møller, has been commissioned exclusively for the Double Take exhibition. The full programme featuring the ten different artists and works is screened in a loop.

On Saturday 13 at 2pm, French participating artist Cyprien Gaillard will give an Artist Talk, followed by an exclusive live music/video performance at 8pm with Koudlam (see AUDIO:VISUALS).

Saute ma ville DIRECTOR: Chantal Akerman

Original title:Saute ma ville / Country:Belgium / Year:1968 / Running time:13 min. / Distribution: Galerie Marian Goodman

Chantal Akerman’s world is hermetic and private, but scenic. Especially the home is often the closed space where her characters (all of them women) become visible unto themselves, and are confronted with their own obsessions. Akerman was merely 18 years old, when she in 1968 made her debut with the anarchistic ‘Saute ma ville’, where she herself performs as a housewife on thin ice in the cheerful kitchen, in a revolutionary teenage parody of the cramped conditions of petit-bourgeoisie. With Chaplin and Godard as role-models, the young Chantal throws everything overboard, but at the same time navigates squarely towards the disaster of her own disintegration.

Reality is looming outside the four walls of the home, with a force that really becomes visible in her later works. But a surprisingly large number of her constant topics can already be discerned in this film. The

objective everyday formalism of the black-and-white images contain a feminist critique of domestic routines, which reduce the existence of a housewife to a clumsy and lonely ballet of habits and repetitions, and which are unbearable to observe with others, which Akerman ends up turning into the main principle a few years later in her chief work ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’ (1975)’.

Der Spiegel DIRECTOR: Keren Cytter

Original title:Der Spiegel / Country:Israel, Germany / Year:2007 / Running time:5 min. / Distribution: Pilar Corrias Gallery

If Chantal Akerman’s films are experiments in the singular form, then Keren Cytter’s video works are a study of social and cultural clichés in the plural: ironic, fragmented and extrovert, and as with Akerman seen from a female point of view. ‘Der Spiegel’ (2007) is a performative cabaret, which takes place around a waiting woman, who is accompanied by two cavaliers in a small apartment, while a scantily dressed valkyrian choir give their opinion with a never-ending fugue of comments and advise. The camera circles round in figure eights and attempts to escape out of the window, but without success. Within five minutes, Keren Cytter brings about her caricature of women’s magazine fantasies, and of the love-seeking women as a melodramatic archetype. But her feminist commentary is not formulated as a negative opposition to the set of social and aesthetic conventions that her works

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take a swipe at. On the contrary, the film is playful and delivered with plenty of tongue in cheek, with a visual language which in a teasing and provocative way breaks down the fourth wall.

Bingo/Ninths DIRECTOR: Gordon Matta-Clark

Original title:Bingo/Ninths / Country:US / Year:1974 / Running time:10 min. / Distribution: Electronic Arts Intermix

Well aware that few of his ‘works’ would survive, Gordon MattaClark documented many of his actions in the 1970’s on film and video. ‘Bingo/Ninths’ is one of them, and like Matta-Clark’s other works from this period it is an inter-disciplinary project combining architecture, performance, film, and absurd theory. A small house in the New York suburb Niagara Falls is the patient in an operation where Matta-Clark and his gang cut out the façade in nine equal pieces, so that the interior of the building becomes visible from the outside. One hour later the house was torn down. Gordon Matta-Clark fuses the influence of French surrealists and situationism with a subtle sense of humour, which is worthy of being compared with Buster Keaton.

The soundless drama that unfolds as the house is being cut apart is both comical and anarchistic in its apparent lack of rational motivation.

But for exactly the same reasons, it also renders visible the social and political limitations which the modern division of space entails.

Desniansky Raion DIRECTOR: Cyprien Gaillard

Original title:Desniansky Raion / Country:France / Year:2007 / Running time:29 min. / Distribution: Laura Bartlett Gallery

The simultaneously grandiose and minimalistic video works of French artist Cyprien Gaillard concentrate on the ruins of the architectural and political utopias of recent history. Gaillard’s work, which also covers other media, is a monumental prism, which digs up the modernist rests of the 20th century for archeological scrutiny. The neo-apocalyptic video vision ‘Desniansky Raion’ got its name from a gigantic, ex-socialist concrete building in Belgrade but starts off in St. Petersburg, where hooligans meet up in groups of hundreds to beat each other up in organised mega-fights, and ends with a helicopter flight across an abandoned residential area which looks like another planet. Gaillard sculpts his works from the existing, and the greatness in his romantic and apocalyptic scenarios is in no small way thanks to their reference to the real.

Cyprien Gaillard will perform live with the French musician Koudlam in an exclusive performance at Statens Museum for Kunst in connection with Double Take on Saturday, 13 November at 20:00 hrs.

You can also meet Cyprien Gaillard for an artist talk on Saturday, 13 November at 14:00 hrs at Statens Museum for Kunst. Free entry.

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Exhibition DIRECTOR: Sean Snyder

Original title:Exhibition / Country:US / Year:2008 / Running time:7 min. / Distribution: Galerie Chantal Crousel

Sean Snyder’s work explores the relationship between technology, communication, ideology and art - more specifically the way that art circulates from creator to spectator, through the agency of authoritarian institutions such as the state and the museum. ‘Exhibition’ consists of archive footage from a Ukrainian art museum at the end of the 1960s, where the proletariat is given an introductory lesson on the genre of ‘socialist realism’. Snyder’s strategy, meanwhile, is not just simple irony. His research- and archive-based work analyses the propaganda element in the Soviet teaching as a rhetorical mode with its own historical status, which can not be reduced to a kitsch curiosity. For the institution itself is being dissected just as much, and seen in this perspective, the question is not how much has changed across cultures, ages and political regimes - but how much has remained the same.

The Plain DIRECTOR: Simon Dybbroe Møller

Original title:The Plain / Country:Denmark / Year:2010 / Running time:7 min. / Production:Simon Dybbroe Møller / Producer: Simon Dybbroe Møller / Distribution:Studie Dybbroe Møller

WORLD PREMIERE The camera zooms in on a detail in an abstract painting, while a laconic voice-over talks about surfaces, compositions and geometric principles.

Simon Dybbroe Møller mimes the classical presentation of art, as we know it from TV programmes in the 1960’s and 1970’s. While the imagery continues its restless panning across non-figurative paintings, the pedagogic voice-over changes its focus. With corresponding, hypnotically lingering descriptions, and with the same meticulous terminology, the voice now talks about the relationships between the participants of a fashionable dinner party, about monolithic skyscrapers and about limousines with tinted windows. From being a distanced, academic and omniscient narrator, the voice progressively changes into an increasingly distinct subjective position, obviously affected by frustration, fascination and desire. As is often the case in Dybbroe Møller’s works, ‘The Plain’ also turns historic art practices and their reception upside down. And likewise ‘The Plain’, which was produced for Double Take, balances on a dizzying tightrope between nostalgic veneration and critical irony.

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Pig Iron DIRECTOR: James Benning

Original title:Pig Iron / Country:USA/Korea / Year:2010 / Running time:31 min. / Production:Jeonju International Film Festival / Distribution:Jeonju International Film Festival

James Benning is one of the few filmmakers who can actually live up to the old cliché that film can change the way we see, to a degree that one almost feels that one has just removed a pair of blinkers.

Benning has replaced film with video and started a new era in his more than 40 year long career as a filmmaker who specialises in the art of perception. The new technology has given Benning (and others with him) new opportunities to take his research one step further in directions that had not been possible up to now. Like ‘Ruhr’ (see New Vision Award), ‘Pig Iron’ is filmed in Germany, and is a half-hour long recording from a steel work, where iron is produced in a continuous process. The final work is closer to a moving photograph, and is executed like an experiment - in almost the scientific meaning of the word. The razor-sharp high definition image moves as a result of all the minor changes that it undergoes in half an hour, and at the same time it reflects the spectator’s own activity. ‘Pig Iron’ was commissioned by the Korean Jeonju Film Festival as part of Digital Project 2010.

The Achromatic Island DIRECTOR: Sofie Thorsen

Original title:The Achromatic Island / Country:Denmark / Year:2010 / Running time:20 min. / Production:Sofie Thorsen / Producer: Sofie Thorsen / Distribution:Sofie Thorsen

WORLD PREMIERE Danish visual artist Sofie Thorsen’s ‘The Achromatic Island’ is a film about seeing, but from a concrete and historically specific perspective.

Like a conceptual sight test, the film confronts both the spectator and its invisible protagonist with a series of static long takes of the picturesque landscapes on the Limfjord island Fur, where a rare, hereditary eye disease made a large number of the inhabitants colourblind and over-sensitive to light in the 1930s. Thorsen’s film tries to recreate the colourblind experience by photographic means, based on an interview with an elderly man who describes the condition, and the personal story also alludes to the changes and challenges that rural Denmark is facing today. ‘The Achromatic Island’ is based on additional medical research, the limits of which only become obvious in Thorsen’s project: is it possible to convey the visible with words? And can the perception of a human being be reproduced photographically?

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Chumlum DIRECTOR: Ron Rice

Original title:Chumlum / Country:USA / Year:1964 / Running time:25 min. / Production:Ron Rice / Producer: Ron Rice / Distribution:The Film-Makers’ Cooperative

The flamboyant performance artist Jack Smith performs as a sultan in a sensual masquerade in something that looks like a middle-eastern Harem, but which in reality is a loft in downtown Manhattan at some point in the 1960s. ‘Chumlum’ is an oriental fantasy, an opium dream with roots in Rimbaud, Baudelaire and B-movies from the 1940’s.

The sleepy and colourful images are layered onto Smith and his decadent friends, and the same goes for the dreamlike sitar music. With Hollywood as its model, the film is all about seductive illusion, cheap luxury and escapism, but on a budget that does not manage to cover up the impoverished reality behind the images. Being central players of the era’s American underground film scene, Ron Rice and Jack Smith share a fascination for the artificial, exotic, vulgar, and nonetheless bizarrely real - in short: camp, where emotional authenticity is not a question of realism, but about sensuality of a certain kind. Ron Rice died at the age of 29 that same year and ‘Chumlum’ was the last of his four completed films, which in an obituary led Jonas Mekas to compare him with the surrealist Jean Vigo.

Adolescence DIRECTOR: Ange Leccia

Original title:Adolescence / Country:France / Year:2000 / Running time:13 min. / Producer: Ange Leccia / Distribution:Ange Leccia

‘Adolescence’ limits itself to three formal devices, each of which is designed to trigger emotions, and which in combination violate all rules of cinematic good taste and practice: close-ups, slow motion and pop music, which together are served with the kind of explicitness that is usually reserved for karaoke videos or cheap commercials. In the hands of the French video and pictorial artist Ange Leccia, the overexposed video images - shot on a camera bought in a supermarket - turn into a cool and transcendental homage to the vulnerable young faces that look back at you from the screen. Whereas Ron Rice’s underground aesthetics are a reference to Hollywood, Leccia works with the ‘artless’ video image. His young heroes are beautiful and vulnerable beings, illuminated by the white-glowing rays of the sun, and they symbolise the innocence and beauty that mass-produced images can have at the right moment. Andy Warhol is a precursor, but Ange Leccia also insists on the human and the authentic behind the banal and the pathetic. Leccia has an extensive opus of film and video productions under his belt, and these include both shorter experimental works and longer, narrative films.

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DOX:LAB

DOX:LAB is CPH:DOX’s own international talent development programme. DOX:LAB was launched last year, when 11 directors from Africa, Asia and the Middle East teamed up with 11 Nordic directors and were given carte blanche and a grant to create the eleven widely different and artistically powerful films that now have their film festival premiere at CPH:DOX 2010.

The filmmakers are given complete creative control, the only demand being that the films should be made in the countries of residence outside of Scandinavia.

The ambition of DOX:LAB is to stimulate cultural exchange in cinematic terms, and to create special and challenging works of artistic vision. And we are excited to present the 11 first films, that all fulfil this ambition in widely different but equally brilliant ways. Love stories, poetic essays, politically powerful works, and radical experimental films that go beyond the real to explore the realms of the imagination.

We are proud and happy to present these 11 films, three of which are of feature length.

DOX:LAB continues in 2010 with a new team of filmmakers who will meet each other for the first time during this year’s festival.

Hudas Hudas DIRECTOR: Frosti Runolfsson, John Torres

Original title:Hudas Hudas / Country:Philippines/Iceland / Year:2010 / Running time:90 min. / Distribution:Frosti Runolfsson

WORLD PREMIERE It is ‘Black Friday’ in the mountain village San Pedro: a ritualistic special day, which has become a trippy and symbolic film. A yellowclad man goes on a walk through the fertile landscapes with death himself, while the inhabitants are remembering Judas’s treason by lamenting the sorrows of the past year - and the remaining scars of the Spanish colonial era, which lasted for over three hundred years in the Philippines. Things happen, and night falls to an acid house score

by The Brian Jonestown Massacre. The end is near and something new is coming. Apocalypses during prime time and a tropical Valhalla under plastic palm trees, perhaps. But also a world that is not ruled

by imperialist dictates and plot logic. John Torres and the Icelandic filmmaker Frosti Runolfson are far out in nowhere, where visions and daydreams become myths and legends.

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf: Saturday 6/11 kl. 19:00 / Husets Biograf: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:00

Son of God (short version) DIRECTOR: Khavn la Cruz, Michael Noer

Original title:Son of God (short version) / Country:Philippines/Denmark / Year:2010 / Running time:30 min. / Distribution:Michael Noer

WORLD PREMIERE The wild boys at school, Philippine Khavn de la Cruz and Danish Michael Noer (‘The Wild Hearts’, ‘R’) are behind this febrile dream of a film about a dwarf who is idolised as God’s son by his deeply religious followers in the Philippines. Noer is the white explorer heading a kamikaze expedition, which starts in Manila’s densely populated streets and continues deep into the jungle, where it culminates in a spiritual (re) birth through a hole in the ground. For the many million faithful in the Philippines, the divine has a real existence, and when God’s small son is surrounded by his fans and heals a cancer-suffering man with his guts hanging out of a hole in the stomach, one has to acknowledge

that it’s only our welfare society that has waved goodbye to the age of miracles. And it is only here that a long and highly chaotic slum trip has its beginning. ‘Son of God’ is the closest you can get to a modern mondo movie, but it is also a cunning commentary on western ideas of faith and superstition in the warmer countries. Note: ‘Son of God’ also exists in a feature version (see DOX:AWARD).

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:15 / Gloria: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 21:45 / Grand Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 16:40

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Master Chen Lives on 88 Lucky Street DIRECTOR: Zero Lin, Ada Bligaard Søby

Original title:Master Chen Lives on 88 Lucky Street / Country:China/Denmark / Year:2010 / Running time:20 min. / Production: Upfront Films / Distribution:Ada Bligaard Søby

WORLD PREMIERE Master Chen has never seen his wife, his daughter, or the skyscrapers that surround his home in the middle of Shanghai. He is blind, and makes a living giving traditional Chinese massage to busy businessmen.

Chen lost his eyesight in a fight during his rootless youth, and has not seen the colossal changes that China has gone through during the past twenty years. But he can feel them on the bodies of his clients, where his fingers can literally read the passing of time. Zero Lin and Ada Bligaard Søby have made a sensual and attentive film about a man who can remember the colour red, but who has forgotten what pink looks like. But ‘My World’ is also a film about the world surrounding

him, where the small and densely populated streets lie right next to the modern skylines, which are shooting up like mushrooms.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:15 / Gloria: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 21:45 / Grand Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 16:40

One is the Loneliest Number...

DIRECTOR: Gan Chao, Anna María Helgadóttir

Original title:One is the Loneliest Number... / Country:China/Denmark / Year:2010 / Running time:20 min. / Production: Upfront Films / Distribution:Anna Maria Helgadóttir

WORLD PREMIERE When the two directors met for the first time, they decided to put their cultural differences aside and to focus on what they have in common: a deep feeling of loneliness. But what should have been the charting of an inner landscape instead became a photofit picture of the film’s subject matter. Chao and Helgadóttir never met when both of them were first in Shanghai, and their joint project instead turned into an impressionist montage of pictures from a megacity, seen through the filter of a traveller’s sensual melancholy - a state closer to lost in space than ‘Lost in Translation’. With Helgadóttir as the single (and

at times invisible) protagonist in an urban setting of skyscrapers and fluorescent nights, the result is a piece of philosophical science fiction, which lingers on long after one has left the cinema.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:15 / Gloria: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 21:45 / Grand Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 16:40

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Balangay DIRECTOR: Sherad Anthony Sanchez, Robin Färdig

Original title:Balangay / Country:Philippines/Sweden / Year:2010 / Running time:88 min. / Distribution:Robin Färdig

WORLD PREMIERE The setting is an abandoned airport in the Philippines. One of the absolute rock-bottom pits of globalisation, which is temporarily housing the lumads: a rootless and homeless group of modern nomadic people, who are struggling to find a place in the new urban reality. A visiting NGO worker moves in with shamans, large families and small children. They are all on their way to somewhere else, and they are all caught in the dusty and acid-green interiors of what once used to be luxury. Off-screen, a revolution is (possibly) under way, but even here, time seems to have stood still like a scratched gramophone

record. ‘Balangay’ is related to the modern, Asian arts film, where the atmosphere of the location brings a collective character to life. But it is also solidly rooted in the reality which now haunts the threadbare remnants of the international utopias of the past.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 4/11 kl. 21:15 / Grand Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 12:00

Chips and Liver Girls DIRECTOR: Caroline Kamya, Boris Bertram

Original title:Chips and Liver Girls / Country:Uganda/Denmark / Year:2010 / Running time:30 min. / Distribution:Boris Bertram

WORLD PREMIERE A typical ‘chips and liver girl’ navigate full-speed among their friends, their boyfriends, and the elderly men who pay for their studies and a modern life in luxury. For the university is not the only school for the thousands of young female students in the large city of Kampala, where everyone is fighting a daily struggle against everyone else in order to stay ahead. One of them is called Sonja, and even when she is going around with her 4-year-old son, she manages to twist the men around her little finger in a city that never sleeps. Romance means a man who can pay, poetry is passé and flowers are so last year. Caroline Kamya and Boris Bertram portray a self-confident and individualistic

generation of women in Uganda, which both mirrors a Western form of hedonism as well as continuing some cultural traditions, which have maybe never been as unshakably traditional as rumour has it.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Saturday 6/11 kl. 21:15 / Empire Bio: Monday 8/11 kl. 22:30

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Je t’aime infiniment DIRECTOR: Corine Shawi, Nikolaj Larsen

Original title:Je t’aime infiniment / Country:Lebanon/Denmark / Year:2010 / Running time:22 min. / Distribution:Nikolaj Larsen

WORLD PREMIERE Two very old sisters live together and share a disturbing past. ‘Je t’aime infiniment’ is a moving story about love and loss, but also a juicy gossip story, which unfolds in unpredictable and extremely funny fragments - and in this way it sticks to the familiar tone shared by two people who have known each other forever. Corine Shawi and Nikolaj Larsen may not have known each other quite that long, but they have here nonetheless made an unforgettable film about love under the long shadow of death. Vast mountain landscapes and bloody roadkill are a memento mori, but the film’s enthralling imagery and long

takes nonetheless let the living have the last say. The two directors have a precise yet poetic eye for the familiar in the unfamiliar - and the unfamiliar in the familiar.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Saturday 6/11 kl. 21:15 / Empire Bio: Monday 8/11 kl. 22:30

Memory DIRECTOR: Yves Montand, Iris Olsson

Original title:Memory / Country:Rwanda/Finland / Year:2010 / Running time:48 min. / Distribution:Iris Olsson

WORLD PREMIERE 16 years after the most comprehensive genocide since the Second World War, Rwanda today is a country with scars that are so deep that it’s hard to comprehend. Yves Montand and the Finnish director Iris Olsson try nonetheless, and they travel together through the central African republic, where the people are slowly beginning to trust each other again. But the memory of the massacre in 1994, where one sixth of the country’s population was killed in three months, still casts a long shadow. School children are taught about the genocide and its causes: colonialism and the cynical leaders. And at nighttime, the people gather on the streets to sing and tell each other about the

stories of the survivors. One long scene at the end of the film sums up the emptiness and the incomprehensible loss, and raises the question as to what the future has in store for the scarred country. A courageous film about the time that comes after.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Saturday 6/11 kl. 21:15 / Empire Bio: Monday 8/11 kl. 22:30

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From Palestine With Love DIRECTOR: Mahasen Nasser-Eldin, Camilla Magid

Original title:From Palestine With Love / Country:Palestine/Denmark / Year:2010 / Running time:25 min. / Distribution:Super 16

WORLD PREMIERE Mays is 22 years old, is a dancer, lives in the occupied Palestinian territories and is planning a life with her Swedish boyfriend Caspar in Stockholm, where she wants to study at the university. But it is a large step from dream to reality, and from Ramallah to Sweden.

The expectations of the families and the Swedish bureaucracy are getting in the way of the young couple’s plans, such as when Mays is trying to apply for the decisive place at the university and discovers that her nationality does not exist in the system. Nonetheless, there is no finger-pointing in Mahasen Nasser-Eldin and Camilla Magid’s warm and subtly romantic ‘From Palestine with Love’, which succeeds

with something as simple and nonetheless courageous as believing in the fact that things will work out if one’s heart is in the right place.

And yes, it is a true love story. It is just not the kind one has heard so many times before.

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Friday 5/11 kl. 17:30 / Empire Bio: Sunday 7/11 kl. 22:30

Dragon Beach DIRECTOR: Wai Mar Nyunt, Aada Niilola

Original title:Dragon Beach / Country:Myanmar/Finland / Year:2010 / Running time:19 min. / Distribution:Aada Niilola

WORLD PREMIERE Shamans live between two worlds: the one we can see with our eyes, and the one that we can only see with our souls. In this in-between space lives the female protagonist of ‘Dragon Beach’, and it is here that Wai Mar Nyunt and Aada Niilola’s hypnotic visual poem of a film takes place. As a 14-year-old, she was singled out by a mysterious man in a dream, who told her that she was the chosen one, and later on she was rescued from dying by a deceased brother from a past life. Today, she is grown-up and can herself describe her supernatural abilities, which allow her to talk to the gods and the restless souls. And to help her fellow humans in the Burmese society, which is here seen from

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Friday 5/11 kl. 17:30 / Empire Bio: Sunday 7/11 kl. 22:30

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a different angle than one is used to - no matter if one lives outside Burma or in the country itself. ‘Dragon Beach’ takes the telephone to the other side, and poses the question if the world around us is no more than a reflection of our visual and cognitive habits.

5 Beats Before Death DIRECTOR: Thu Thu Shein, Katrine Philps

Original title:5 Beats Before Death / Country:Burma/Denmark / Year:2010 / Running time:28 min. / Distribution:Katrine Philp

WORLD PREMIERE Nobody knows what death is, as nobody has survived long enough to talk about it. But maybe death is not the end of life after all. ‘When an old person dies, a baby is born’, as one of the old ladies says without a hint of sorrow in ‘5 Beats Before Death’, which follows the lives of those still alive at a home for elderly women in Burma. Here, they prepare with Buddhist tranquility and cheerful black humour for what the afterlife may bring. They speak openly and without fear about the life that will soon end, and about the journey that they are about to embark on. The only thing they are afraid of is that they might come

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Friday 5/11 kl. 17:30 / Empire Bio: Sunday 7/11 kl. 22:30

back as ghosts. Therefore, it is important for the old ladies to say farewell to their loved ones and to face death on their own, without being attached to anything in this world. This is something that has to be done, but it is not always easy. But they do have each other’s good company, and the result is a cheerful, funny and wonderfully life-affirming film.

ENJOY POVERTY

Enjoy poverty? Who in their right minds would do that? The title of this programme is provocative – as provocative as the film it is taken from: Renzo Marten’s controversial magnum opus about the western world’s representation of the impoverished ‘others’. But our aim is not to provoke, but to provide food for thought and to make you reflect upon the ‘victim discourse’ that we – documentarists, the media, aid agencies, do-gooders in general – almost automatically use when we discuss the poor of the third world.

We have therefore put together a programme of films, which each in their own way question the way that the poor are cast in the roles of victims – be it through representational critique as in Renzo Marten’s film or in Malene Nielsen’s ‘We Are All Africans’, through different perspectives on poverty issues as in ‘Good Fortune’ and ‘When China Met Africa’, or through positive, solution-oriented stories as in Gayle Ferraro’s ‘To Catch A Dollar’.

There are also positive stories out there. And there is plenty of power among the people in the so-called third world. But does that mean that we can go so far as to enjoy poverty? Even if we should and will answer this question with a resounding ‘no’, we, the do-gooders, can’t avoid the fact that we are all wrapped up in poverty pornography.

And we are ready to punish ourselves for it with plenty of self-flagellation. And even then, there is a risk that we are enjoying it! Films such as ‘Enjoy Poverty’ or ‘Manda Bala’ are so brilliant that it’s impossible not to enjoy them. And how, then, does enjoying the film differ from enjoying the film’s topic and background?

With ‘Enjoy Poverty’, we are trying to introduce shades of grey to both the poverty debate and the representation debate. We have refused to settle with just one perspective of this complex topic and have thereby attempted to eliminate the blind spots that come with singular points of view. Have we succeeded? Come and see for yourselves – and see if you enjoy it.

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Enjoy Poverty DIRECTOR: Renzo Martens

Who owns poverty? The Dutch artist Renzo Martens is on an artistic mission in Congo. He wants to make the impoverished inhabitants aware of what he thinks is their primary economic resource: poverty. During his two-year journey, he meets both UN peacekeepers who are busy protecting the country’s gold mines, and international photographers who make a living selling pictures of dead bodies and starving children. The artist has brought along an enormous neon sign which shines in the midst of all the grim prospects. The sign says: ‘Enjoy Poverty’. Martens’s film is a highly controversial, but also nuanced and self-reflective ‘j’accuse’ against media-transmitted neo-colonialism, which the film itself is a part of.

Original title Enjoy Poverty

Debate: The screening on 8 November is followed by a panel debate about the ‘poverty industry’ with:

Production Atlas Films

- Linda Polman, Dutch journalist and author of books including ‘War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times’ - Lisa Ann Richey, professor of international development studies at Roskilde University, and about to release the book ‘Brand Aid. Shopping Well to save the World.’

- Vivianna Nyros, programme and fund worker, Médecins Sans Frontières

Country The Netherlands Year 2008 Running time 90 min.

Producer Peter Krüger Renzo Martens Distribution Autlook Filmsales GbR

The debate is organised in collaboration with Højskolebladet and the Association of Folk High Schools in Denmark.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / Borups H: Monday 8/11 kl. 19:00 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Saturday 13/11 kl. 16:30

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SUNDANCE INSTITUTE PRESENTS: Documentary Film Program - Short Film Project with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Three brand new short films about poverty presented by the Sundance Institute as part of a collaborative project with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation designed to harness the power of film to create communities and inspire action. The goal of the project is to connect global audiences with stories from the frontlines of global development health, poverty and education.

The Institute’s Documentary Film Program selected a group of awardwinning independent filmmakers––Glenn Baker, Teboho Edkins, Mark Monroe, Maren Granger-Monsen, M.D., Nicole Newnham, Jonathan Stack, Ricki Stern, and Annie Sundberg––to create compelling, character-driven stories with clear directorial vision based on the belief that these are the kind of films that will connect with audiences The films are part of a communications initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which plans to share the films online and at speeches and public events around the world.

The films will be presented before selected screenings in the series ‘Enjoy Poverty’.

Original title THE REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISTS SUNDANCE INSTITUTE PRESENTS: Maren Grainger-Monsen, Documentary MD, Director/Producer, Nicole NewnFilm Program - Short film project Bill and Melinda Gates ham, Director/Producer, Ranjan Palit,with Producer / Running Time: Foundation 04:05 / USA, 2010 In the slums of Calcutta, young people are serving their commuCountry USA nities by leading vaccination drives, working together to empower themselves, and safeguard the future of their community.

Year 2010 MAKING MONEY MOBILE Production Jonathan Stack, Director/Producer, Mara Batlin, Producer / Run Sundance Institute Time: 6:00 (t.b.c.) / USA, 2010 Producer Capturing the game-changing power of cellular telephones to Don Edkins, Mara Batlin, Ranjan Palit deliver financial services to the poor in earthquake ravaged Haiti, teams are building on models developed in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa. The film highlights the potential of low-cost cellular technology to serve the poor.

PHELA (LIFE) Teboho Edkins, Director, Don Edkins, Producer / Running Time: 6:29 / South Africa, USA 2010 Location: Lesotho Living with HIV presents daunting challenges to prospective parents. This intimate portrait of an expectant mother in Lesotho follows her brave journey as she carefully follows prevention protocols before, during and after giving birth, and goes on to teach others.

Distribution Sundance Institute

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My Cousin the Pirate DIRECTOR: Christian Sønderby Jepsen

Original title:Min Fætter er Pirat / Country:Denmark / Year:2010 / Running time:40 min. / Production:Monday Media / Producer: Helle Faber / Distribution:Monday Media

WORLD PREMIERE 28-year-old Nasib lives in Denmark, where he has lived since he arrived in Denmark as an unaccompanied refugee from Somalia at the age of 9. He grew up in an asylum centre, and today lives together with his Danish wife and their three young children in Odense. Nasib has not been to Somalia the past 20 years, but he stays in touch with his family, and now he wants to return to talk to his cousin Abdi to convince him not to become a pirate. For Nasib’s childhood town is the hub of the large-scale Somali piracy, which has developed from being a struggle for freedom to pure criminal activity. Some of the most hard-boiled pirates come from Nasib’s own clan and family, and

he ends up standing face-to-face with them on his journey, while the captured ships float right off the coast where he stays with his cousin.

‘My Cousin the Pirate’, made by the award-winning director Christian Sønderby Jensen, is a rare look at the anatomy of piracy where hopes for the future are drowned in civil war, corruption and khat chewing.

While Nasib experiences his heavily impoverished homeland and the contrasts between rich and poor close-up, the moment of Abdi’s first raid is drawing closer.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / Dagmar Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00 / Dagmar Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

We Are All Africans. Welcome Home.

DIRECTOR: Malene Nielsen

Original title:We Are All Africans. Welcome Home. / Country:Denmark / Year:2010 / Running time:30 min. / Producer: Associate Producer: Anna-Maria Kantarius

WORLD PREMIERE Taking as its starting-point the Hannah Arendt quote that ‘We should learn to see the world through other people’s eyes’, the filmmaker Malene Nielsen takes us on a playful journey to try and challenge the one-sided western history of Africa, in this case Ethiopia. The film’s framework is a staged talk show, a green sofa environment set up in a street in the middle of Africa’s largest market, Merkato. The director assumes the role of talk-show host and invites passers-by to become the guests. A number of photographs of impoverished children with ballooning stomachs and flies in the corners of their eyes become the focal point of the sofa talks. Do the representations by the powerful western mediators correspond with the guests’ own experiences in one of the world’s poorest countries? Equipped with a curious eye,

we move away from the talk show to a sensual and lingering collage of evocative scenes from Addis Abeba’s backwaters. The sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard has joined the trip and he here reinterprets Hannah Arendt: ‘We should learn to listen to the world through other people’s ears’. With his precise aural postcard, Kirkegaard lets us listen to the everyday life of Ehtiopians.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Friday 5/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 14:00 / Dagmar Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00 / Dagmar Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

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Good Fortune DIRECTOR: LANDON VAN SOEST, JEREMY LEVINE

Original title:Good Fortune / Country:USA / Year:2009 / Running time:75 min. / Production:Transient Pictures / Producer: Landon Van Soest, Jeremy Levine / Distribution: Transient Pictures

In Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum, the shanty huts are built almost on top of each other and the narrow streets are filled with excrement and rubbish. Nonetheless, the local midwife Silva Ahiamba is happy with life and the low rent the area offers. So when the United Nations initiates a major resettlement project, Kibera’s inhabitants protest strongly. But does this help? At the same time, Dominion - a major private American entrepreneur project - has moved into the Yala Swamp area to grow rice and to upgrade the living standards of local farmers. But the latter have a hard time seeing what the benefits are for them. And when their livestock starts perishing, because the countryside has been partially flooded by Dominion, that’s the last straw for the farmers. But Dominion makes do with the suggestion

that they become fishermen instead. The lack of civic participation is fatal in the stringently top-down-managed development projects that ‘Good Fortune’ follows, and the film takes a good look at who actually decides that other people are living in poverty, what poverty is - and who should earn the money doing something about it.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Thursday 4/11 kl. 17:30 / Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 16:45 / Vester Vov Vov: Saturday 13/11 kl. 16:30

Send A Bullet DIRECTOR: Jason Kohn

Original title:Manda Bala / Country:Brazil/USA / Year:2007 / Running time:85 min. / Production:Kilo Films / Producer: Jason Kohn, Jared Ian Goldman, Joey Frank / Distribution:Celsius Entertainment Ltd.

A visually spellbinding, kaleidoscopic account of Brazil’s criminal downside, with its rising criminal statistics and an exceptionally brutal kidnapping culture. The American first-time director Jason Cohn has made a film that has excited audiences at festivals all over the world, but which was banned in Brazil. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) takes place primarily in Sao Paulo and portrays the spiralling violence in Brazil through interviews with politicians, criminals, doctors, victims and super-trained police squads. The film starts, almost surrealistically, in the world’s largest frog farm, before it takes the spectator through Sao Paulo’s slums and to the official capital Brasília, which with its

architectural gems by Oscar Niemeyer underlines the difference between the squalor of the favelas and the living conditions of the political elite. Jason Cohn has created a stylistic tour de force, which shines a light on a society that is rotten to the core, where helicopter transports, armoured cars and specialised plastic surgeons are necessary elements in a Brazil marked by crime and grotesque kidnappings. ‘Manda Bala’ asks the question: what is worse? To steal with a pen or with a gun?

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 4/11 kl. 21:30 / Dagmar Teatret: Monday 8/11 kl. 16:30 / Grand Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 19:00

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Women are Heroes DIRECTOR: JR

Original title:Women Are Heroes / Country:France / Year:2010 / Running time:80 min. / Production:27.11 production Social Animals / Distribution:Elle Driver

A cinematographic fast-motion trip through some of the world’s most densely inhabited favelas, slums and shantytowns. The women are the heroes of the French photographer, street artist and activist JR’s adrenalin rush of a film, which documents a collective project with its starting point in the premise that art can at least make, if not the world itself, then at least the world around us a somewhat better place. The idea is simple: JR has photographed proud and charismatic women in Rio, Kenya, India and Cambodia in black-and-white close-ups, which are enlarged into huge stickers and hung on the façades and roofs of the labyrinthine, self-built dwelling neighbourhoods. Et voilà: the

city has suddenly been given a face and a sense of humanity that is desperately needed, and one would have to be a dead fish not to be moved a little bit by it. ‘Women are Heroes’ conquers new territories in the intersection between documentarism, activism and top-tuned music video aestheticism. One is literally torn along, and reminded of the fact that documentaries can indeed be beautiful to look at while fighting tooth and nail for a good cause. And on top of that, the film is a highly interesting sidekick to ‘Waste Land’ (see Amnesty Award).

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Saturday 6/11 kl. 19:00 / Empire Bio: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 22:30 / Vester Vov Vov: Saturday 13/11 kl. 21:15

Trafficking DIRECTOR: Judith Lansade, Sine Plambech

Original title:Mission: Kvindehandel / Country:Denmark / Year:2010 / Running time:60 min. / Production:Upfront Films / Producer: Henrik Veileborg / Distribution:Upfront Films Aps WORLD PREMIEREEscaping poverty is worth the try. But many people end up in the

clutches of human traffickers, among them a part of the more than 2,000 foreign prostitutes working in Denmark. For this reason, Copenhagen’s police force introduced a special unit against human trafficking in 2008. But combating the problem is more easily said than done. ‘Trafficking’ follows the investigators Anne and Trine, who with the help of wire tapping, street operations and detective work are trying to assemble witnesses and evidence that could bring down the wirepullers of prostitution. But the police is working in a reality dictated by politics, where the trafficked women are offered little in return for their testimony. The film is a rare insight into an otherwise

almost impenetrable and complex world of illegal migration, law, poverty, voodoo, prostitution and globalisation. A world where the best intentions in the fight against the trafficking of women is constantly being challenged. After the screening, the film’s two directors Judith Lansade and the social anthropologist and PhD student at DIIS and Columbia University, Sine Plambech, will take part in a debate about the film and the realities it portrays.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 kl. 18:00 / Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 kl. 18:00 / Vester Vov Vov: Monday 8/11 kl. 21:15 / Vester Vov Vov: Monday 8/11 kl. 21:15

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To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America DIRECTOR: Gayle Ferraro Original title:To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America / Country:Bangladesh/USA / Year:2009 / Running time:85 min. / Distribution: Nevette Previd Inc.

The poor should not be a profitable industry. For this reason, Muhammad Yunus founded Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1976, which was the first bank to hand out micro credits to poor women.

Women, who with Yunus’s money and trust generated growth and opportunities for themselves and their families. Grameen Bank now has branches in 35 different countries all over the world. Even in the United States, where the small and cheap loans quickly become popular among the poorest immigrants of the New York borough of Queens.

But Grameen Bank’s requirements that the new American debtors should meet in groups every week - to keep check on each other’s

business plans as well as debt repayments - is not so popular. For the group cohesion is not that great, and being a female entrepreneur is hard work. Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work with micro credits.

The director Gayle Ferraro will be present at the screening on 10 November in DOX:CLUB, where he will talk about the film and about Yunus’s large project.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 5/11 kl. 16:30 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 18:00 / Husets Biograf: Sunday 14/11 kl. 17:00

When China Met Africa DIRECTOR: Nick Francis, Marc Francis

Original title:When China Met Africa / Country:UK/France / Year:2010 / Running time:75 min. / Production:Zeta Productions, Speak-it Films / Producer: Miriana Bojic Walter, Nick Francis, Marc Francis / Distribution: Speak-it Films

In 2006, African and Chinese leaders held a major summit in Beijing.

They pledged each other friendship and a will to continue their business partnership in the coming years. And since then, billions of dollars have flowed from China to Africa, both in the form of investments and of loans. Thousands of Chinese companies and entrepreneurs have moved to Africa to look for new resources, new markets and new opportunities. This is highly profitable for the companies, but what do the Africans - and the Chinese who have moved there - say themselves? Is Africa in the throes of being colonised all over again?

Or is an arrogant West simply pointing the fingers of its own bad

conscience at the sins of its past? Both versions are given a totally new meaning, when seen through Chinese eyes and on African soil.

And it’s only just starting.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Sunday 7/11 kl. 14:00 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 16:00 / Posthus Teatret: Saturday 13/11 kl. 19:00

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The Arrivals DIRECTOR: Claudine Bories, Patrice Chagnard

Original title:Les arrivants / Country:France / Year:2009 / Running time:111 min. / Production: / Distribution: Doc & Film

Who are they, all these people who every day try to sneak their way into Fort Europe? At a small and highly modest immigration office in Paris, we follow the life and the dramatic working days of two employees - and the even more chaotic and desperate lives of their many clients, who often arrive empty-handed, without any belongings and often without any papers. They are hoping to be granted asylum and a new life in France. But the road to freedom and a new life in Europe is covered with an almost inhuman level of bureaucracy, which becomes a frustrating obstacle for the people sitting on both sides of the desk. The film’s two directors Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard are flies on the wall

in the narrow office, and in a wonderful way manage to put faces to the people who are usually presented as statistics - and to the people whose job it is to receive the latest arrivals.

An employee of the Danish Red Cross’s asylum department will introduce the screening on Saturday, 6 November.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Saturday 6/11 kl. 19:00 / Vester Vov Vov: Sunday 7/11 kl. 16:30

War Child / concert by Emmanuel Jal DIRECTOR: Christian Karim Chrobog

Original title:War Child / Country:USA / Year:2008 / Running time:150 min. / Production:Reel U Media / Producer: Afshin Molavi, Christian Karim Chrobog

The former child soldier and now world-famous hip hop artist, author and human rights activist Emmanuel Jal is given a beautiful portrait in ‘War Child’. Jal journeys back to his village in Sudan, where he meets his father for the first time since he was sent away as a 7-year-old and, like thousands of ‘Lost Boys’, ended up on a never-ending journey through the horrors of war. Jal was smuggled into Kenya by a British aid worker as a 12-year-old, and finally got the chance to go to school and have a safer life. After discovering music at the age of 20, Jal’s career took off drastically, and at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday concert, Peter Gabriel called him ‘a young musician with the potential

of Bob Marley’. CPH:DOX is proud to be able to present Emmanuel Jal for the first time in Denmark, both on the silver screen and at a live concert after the film!

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:30 / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 kl. 16:30

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SEMINAR: .IT WORKS! - a dialogue with Emmanuel Jal Original title:seminar:.IT WORKS! - en dialog med Emmanuel Jal / Running time:120 min.

With crucial and basic goals such as honouring human rights, protecting children and providing education for all, the guests of this panel discussion will discuss constructive tools and ideas in both the arts, music, film, theatre and design, and from the IT sector, humanitarian organisations, human rights organisations, journalism and the educational sector. How can we inspire each other to collaborate, to think with our hearts and to use our knowledge to create instead of to destroy? The debate aims to suggest ideas as to what can be done to increase self-sufficiency, independence and problem-solving locally through global networks. Three panels with cultural figures,

human rights organisations, as well as representatives from the theatre, arts and music, will create the framework for Emmanuel Jal’s visit to Copenhagen. The coordinator is Georg Metz. The debate will be held in English.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 kl. 10:00

SEMINAR: Solutions

Original title:Solutions / Running time:120 min.

The revolutionaries of the 21st century are those who believe that global poverty can be eradicated. If we acknowledge that everything we do leaves a mark in distant countries, then our generation has a unique opportunity to eradicate global poverty by managing the future here and now. Let yourself be inspired by a number of speakers who believe in the possibilities for change - from the great political and global shift in mentality, explained by Michael Norton from the crowdfunding platform Buzzbank, Christian Friis Bach and Linda Polman to the simple but self-evident, beautiful and effective idea, Colalife. You can also

meet Architects Without Frontiers, which in all possible ways work for sustainable architecture, and who for the occasion have installed a special light sculpture in the foyer of DOX:CLUB!

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Monday 8/11 kl. 16:30

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SEMINAR: WHY POVERTY? Broadcasters Challenging TV Stereotypes Original title:WHY POVERTY? Broadcasters Challenging TV Stereotypes / Running time:120 min.

We have gotten so used to drinking our evening tea to the media’s images of the most impoverished people of our planet, that they have become dangerously easy to ignore. Now, a lineup of European broadcasters have gotten together to break the monopoly of poverty pornography on television, and will over the next two years produce eight new documentaries, which shall leave the global audience with a far more nuanced, active and future-oriented insight into the world’s poverty problems. Meet the project’s producer Don Edkins, two of the most involved programme editors from BBC2 and DR2 respectively, Nick Fraser and Mette Hoffman Meyer, and one of the directors chosen to take part in the project, Brian Hill, to an explosive debate about portraying ‘the poor’. Stay tuned, and get your bad conscience in order.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 11:00

SEMINAR: Exploit, Consume, Enjoy

Original title:SEMINAR: Exploit, Consume, Enjoy / Running time:90 min.

In his satirical essay ‘How to Write About Africa’, the Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainana gives us a few straight tips on how to make sure you’ve made a true blockbuster when you are trying to portray the enormous continent: remember the infinite savannas with the tall and thin black people wandering through sunsets and children walking around with AK47s. What is reality and what is a product of western institutions and media, who compete against each other to obtain the money and the attention of a global audience? The debate is about method, effect and about the western representation of the poverty complex. Meet, among others, Linda Polman (Dutch journalist

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and author), Carolina Kamya (film director from Uganda), Camilla Nielsson (Danish documentarist) and Malene Nielsen (Danish artist and filmmaker), whose debut film ‘We are All Africans’ is shown as an introduction to the debate.

FOOD ON FILM

Four culinary film nights with CPH:DOX and Meyers Madhus CPH:DOX and Meyers Madhus have developed the food film series ‘Food on Film’. Four films about modern food culture – and a disastrous lack of it – where selected screenings are followed by a debate and culinary offerings from Meyers Madhus. Become wiser about the food you are eating and expand your taste horizons at the same time.

Bon appetit!

Food on Film is arranged in collaboration with Meyers Madhus and supported by FDB

Fresh DIRECTOR: Ana Sofia Joanes

Original title:Fresh / Country:USA / Year:2009 / Running time:72 min. / Distribution:Jamie Yuenger

‘Fresh’ is a natural continuation of last year’s hit documentary ‘Food.

Inc.’ But where the latter exposes the powerful food industry to the bone and emphasises the problems, ‘Fresh’ points towards the future at the strong and progressive voices of the underground. The director Ana Sofia Joanes asks what kind of ideas and initiatives can solve the great challenges of the food industry - and not least of agriculture. The hunt for an answer takes her on a journey from the dark industrial complexes of the food chain, via forward-looking American thinkers such as Michael Pollan and John Ikerd, to the farmers of the future and innovative supermarkets. ‘Fresh’ is an activist proclamation, held in a constructive tone of voice that is rare among critical documentaries.

Picking up the ball from ‘Fresh’, Food on Film has nominated a

number of initiatives that stick out from the underground and which are defined by their ability to innovate and to solve some of today’s problems with forward-looking solutions. The award focuses on the many initiatives that are germinating on Danish soil, but which deserve stronger visibility. At the screening on 9 November, the award committee will choose the winning initiative, and to round it all off, Meyers Madhus will offer the audience some tasty food.

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 19:00 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Saturday 13/11 kl. 12:00

Cooking History DIRECTOR: Peter Kerekes

Original title: Cooking History / Country: Slovakia / Year: 2009 / Running time: 88 min. / Production: Filmfonds Wien Mischief Films Negativ Slovak Television YLE Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) / Producer: Péter Kerekes Georg Misch Pavel Strnad / Distribution: Taskovski Films (Czech)

Without food and drink, a soldier is worthless, but the cooks of the battlefields are rarely awarded any medals. In his wry, black-humoured documentary ‘Cooking History’, the Slovak director Péter Kerekes lets a handful of war veteran cooks talk about their stories and recipes.

Peter Silbernagel was one of the few survivors when the German submarine Hai sank in 1963. He talks about his experiences while he stands and cooks at a beach, which is slowly being covered by tidal water. A Hungarian cook talks about the bloody realities of making sausages from everything available during the Hungarian uprising in 1956, and the personal cook of the father of the Yugoslav nation, Tito, initiates us into the menus of the state banquets during the country’s

heyday. He concludes that the collapse of the menus anticipated the collapse of Yugoslavia. Another great experience is the encounter with a Jewish baker, who survived the concentration camps and emigrated to Argentina after the war, with the aim of poisoning a former SS officer.

‘Cooking History’ is a creatively staged and a highly thought-provoking micro-history, seasoned with black pepper and black humour.

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Friday 15/10 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket: Tuesday 19/10 kl. 19:15 / Cinemateket: Wednesday 20/10 kl. 16:45 / Cinemateket: Friday 22/10 kl. 19:15 / Cinemateket: Sunday 24/10 kl. 14:15 / Cinemateket: Tuesday 26/10 kl. 21:30

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Tapped DIRECTOR: Stephanie Soechtig, Jason Lindsey

Original title:Tapped / Country:Canada / Year:2009 / Running time:75 min. / Production:Atlas Films / Producer: Stephanie Soechtig, Sarah Gibson / Distribution: Atlas Films

On behalf of water, we raise the curtain to Stephanie Soechtig’s effective critique of the water we drink from plastic bottles. The film turns a hitherto harmless and healthy substitute for soft drinks on its head.

From then on, the questions just start flowing: Should clean water be a human right on an equal footing with freedom? Will water still be an accessible resource when Nestle, Pepsi and other multinational companies at an increasingly fast pace are absorbing it from our common underground? And why is it that we are drinking water from plastic bottles that are filled with harmful substances? ‘Tapped’ is a visually inventive reality thriller, which sends shivers down your spine, while it trawls through

modern society’s dependence of liquid gold: H2O. Today, we pay more for a liter of water than for a liter of petrol. The World Bank estimates that the lucrative ‘water market’ is worth upwards of 800 billion dollars. Maybe this is why there today is 46 times as much plastic in the world’s oceans as there is plankton - and more is being added every day.

After the screening, we will add these questions to the debate and offer you some municipal water and raw food snacks in connection with the event. Read more about this on www.cphdox.dk

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 19:00 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Saturday 13/11 kl. 14:00

Colony DIRECTOR: Carter Gunn & Russ McDonnell

Original title:Colony / Country:Ireland / Year:2009 / Running time:75 min. / Production:Fastnet Films / Producer: Morgan Bushe, Macdara Kelleher / Distribution:E1 Entertainment

‘Colony’ is about the inexplicable phenomenon Colony Collapse Disorder: millions of bees all over the world have disappeared in recent years - and nobody knows where to. I breathtakingly beautiful images of both bees and their owners, the film tells the story of the human beings success with exploiting bees to optimise agricultural production, and not least the fall on the day when the industrious bees disappear. At first glance, the film is about the small but not insignificant downturn in the bee industry - but under the highly aesthetic surface hides a realisation that the collapse of bee colonies should be taken seriously in a larger perspective. For bees are absolutely essential to our food production - without bees, there is no pollination, and without

pollination, there is no harvest. ‘Colony’ is a film that in one go manages to be both agenda-setting and artistically life-imbuing. A troubling film, which quite bluntly can be called one of the very best documentaries of recent years.

After the film, we invite you - in collaboration with the Danish Beekeepers’ Association and Meyers Bageri - to some of the country’s best honey cakes, freshly baked bread and honey from bees that have worked all over Denmark.

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 17:30 / Geologisk Museum: Friday 12/11 kl. 17:00 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Sunday 14/11 kl. 14:00

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TOP:DOX

TOP:DOX is the programme for festival hits and front page stories from the world of documentaries. Great films, great stories, great personalities – from George Lucas to Bjørn Lomborg. And films by great directors, not least: Frederick Wiseman, Errol Morris, Ondi Timoner, and Nicolas Philibert among many others.

But TOP:DOX is also the series which takes a closer look at our own, modern culture.

The downsides of our times are explored in depth in ‘Inside Job’, ‘Freakonomics’, and ‘Cool It’, films that point the parallel financial and environmental crisis as the defining issues of the present.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bill Hicks, David Lynch, and Don Rosa are on the other hand among the artists that you can meet in close-up in TOP:DOX, some of them for the very first time.

In sum, a selection of highly diverse films that when taken together prove that one can easily be popular without being bland.

The People vs. George Lucas DIRECTOR: Alexandre O. Philippe

Original title:The People vs. George Lucas / Country:USA / Year:2010 / Running time:96 min. / Production:Exhibit A Pictures / Producer: Vanessa Philippe, Anna Higgs / Distribution:The Salt Company (International) ltd

Who owns ‘Star Wars’? George Lucas, or the fans that have taken the films to heart and made them their own? The intergalactic disappointment about the three ‘new’ episodes of the space saga were just one of many slaps in the face of the fans, who most recently had to endure the Happy Meal character Jar-Jar Binks and the fact that Lucas changed the original films without taking into consideration their historical status. In other words, it was about time that fans, freaks and film historians united and with creative innovation launched themselves in a serious ‘cultural property’ discussion in the shape of therapeutic group sessions, self-produced sequels and global debate sites. ‘Star Wars’ is a religion with several million followers all over the world,

who since the premiere of the first film in 1977 have dedicated their lives to the works of the creator. George Lucas, who started out as a young independent idealist and created one of the most spectacular success stories of film history, also created one of the world’s biggest cult films, a culture-historical phenomenon, and a money-machine without equal. But the people have started to loose faith, and more than just one caricature has been spotted on the internet. Maybe Lucas shouldn’t rule the universe he has created. But who should?

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Saturday 6/11 kl. 14:20 / Grand Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:30 / Empire Bio: Sunday 14/11 kl. 17:30

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child DIRECTOR: Tamra Davis Original title:Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child / Country:USA / Year:2010 / Running time:92 min. / Production:Pretty Pictures / Producer: Stanley F. Buchthal, Alexis Spraic, Lilly Bright / Distribution:Fortissimo Film Sales

Jean-Michel Basquiat first became famous for his art, and subsequently became famous for being famous. When the charismatic young shooting star artist made his entry on the lively downtown arts scene of Manhattan in the 1980s, he was a homeless teenager from Brooklyn, but when he died of a heroin overdose at the myth-making age of 27, he was already an icon, feared and celebrated by New York’s white arts establishment. ‘The Radiant Child’ is built around a long interview which the director Tamra Davis made with her friend in 1986, and for the first time tells the story of Basquiat’s artistic life and afterlife. From the moment the first graffiti tags signed ‘SAMO’ start appearing on

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façades, it doesn’t last many ‘New York minutes’ before the No Wave scene adopts him like a wunderkind, who with a spontaneous, intuitive and creative freedom interprets inspiration from the Jazz scene and William S. Burroughs’s literature in the more than 1000 paintings and even more drawings he ends up leaving behind. But as the prices for his works start exploding, things change just as rapidly for the young star artist, whose works grow in every respect and keep on changing with time. For Samo is still kool with a k.

Life and Times of Don Rosa DIRECTOR: Sebastian Cordes

Original title:Life and Times of Don Rosa / Country:Denmark / Year:2010 / Running time:76 min. / Producer: Mathias Bohn/Jakob Bæk Kristensen / Distribution:sebastian Cordes

WORLD PREMIERE ’I’ve never been to a single party in my life’, says the American illustrator Don Rosa at some point in the Danish filmmaker Sebastian Cordes’ latest scoop of a portrait film. Don Rosa is known and admired

by Donald Duck fans all over the world for his well-told stories and incredible detailed drawing style, and he is one of the very few Disney illustrators with a personal signature - his role model Carl Barks is the other one. But in ‘Life and Times of Don Rosa’, we are given a very close look at the shy man behind the beloved comic strips. Rosa hasn’t given any interviews for years, and has suffered both a writer’s and an illustrator’s block as well as a depression that almost meant the end

of the film project. It is therefore a surprisingly open and honest Don Rosa we are shown, as he lays all his cards on the table and talks about his life and his problem-ridden relationship to the Disney empire. An isolated childhood spent in the world of fantasy brought him - through long and winding roads - to Duckburg, after he as a youngster had developed his deeply personal style in freaky and autobiographical strips, which were closer to Robert Crumb than Donald Duck, and which can here be seen for the first time.

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Monday 8/11 kl. 19:00 / Gloria: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:45 / Dagmar Teatret: Friday 12/11 kl. 21:30

David Wants to Fly DIRECTOR: David Sieveking

Original title:David Wants to Fly / Country:Germany/Austria/Switzerland / Year:2009 / Running time:96 min. / Production:LICHTBLICK FILM LICHTBLICK MEDIA Produktion / Producer: Martin Heisler, Carl-Ludwig Rettinger / Distribution:Autlook Filmsales GbR

Is there life after film school? And what is David Lynch up to these days? David Sieveking is a freshly graduated film director, who dreams of making documentary masterpieces, but contrary to his idol David Lynch, he lacks inspiration. He therefore decides to leave Berlin and to travel to the USA, where Lynch is teaching one of his ‘transcendental meditation’ courses, a trance form that is supposed to be pure viagra for the creative subconscious - and which costs accordingly. His curiosity takes the young David out on an increasingly absurd pilgrimage to search for the inner origin of creativity and the billion dollar industry

it entails. The meditation that is meant to lead him into himself instead takes him into deep water, while his film project goes through one critical - and comically absurd - twist after another.

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Friday 5/11 kl. 17:00 / Grand Teatret: Sunday 7/11 kl. 12:00 / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 kl. 21:45 / Empire Bio: Sunday 14/11 kl. 22:30

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Inside Job DIRECTOR: Charles Ferguson

Original title:Inside Job / Country:USA / Year:2010 / Running time:105 min. / Production:Sony Picture Classic / Producer: Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs / Distribution: Somy Picture Classic

‘Inside Job’ is a hard-hitting lesson in critical documentarism. Armed with extremely thorough research and a sharp interviewing technique, the master director Charles Ferguson (winner of the Amnesty Award at CPH:DOX 2007 for ‘No End in Sight’) digs deep to unearth some of the central players of the implosion of the financial sector, thereby uncovering some outrageous truths. With a fast-paced thriller format, which reminds one of Michael Mann and John Le Carré, we are told the entire story about the financial crisis, so we actually end up understanding what happened. Ferguson provides a number of original insights - from Wall Street’s exorbitant and systematic use of

prostitutes on the company’s accounts to the cocaine-like effect that chasing for money has on the brain - which places the bonus economy in a new, anthropologically interesting perspective without succumbing to predictable anti-capitalism. ‘Inside Job’ is to the financial sector what ‘Food Inc.’ was to the foods sector: an incisive criticism disguised as a captivating reality thriller; an intelligent outcry about realities that are so absurd that one cannot avoid laughing out loud - even if the laughter has a painful edge to it.

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Saturday 6/11 kl. 16:40 / Grand Teatret: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 16:40 / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 kl. 14:15

Freakonomics DIRECTOR: Heidi Ewing, Alex Gibney, Seth Gordon, Rachel Grady, Eugene Jarecki, Morgan Spurlock Original title:Freakonomics / Country:USA / Year:2010 / Running time:85 min. / Distribution:Celsius Entertainment Ltd.

Does free abortion limit future crime? And can the economy be eye-opening in a fun and entertaining way? You might not believe it, but the answer to both questions is a resounding yes! The proof was delivered by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, when they in 2005 joined the ranks of Harry Potter on global best-seller lists with their book ‘Freakonomics’. Through their different and counter-intuitive use of economic theory, the two freakonomists explained everything from corruption in sumo wrestling via the meaning of names for the social future of children to the direct effect of abortion legislation on the number of criminals. The wry, unprejudiced and witty attitude is

maintained in this thoroughly entertaining adaptation, interpreted by top directors such as Morgan Spurlock (‘Super Size Me’), Eugene Jarecki (‘Capturing The Friedmans’) and Alex Gibney (‘Enron’).

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Sunday 7/11 kl. 14:20 / Grand Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 19:00

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Cool It DIRECTOR: Ondi Timoner

Original title:Cool It / Country:USA / Year:2010 / Running time:90 min. / Production:1019 Entertainment / Producer: Terry Botwick / Distribution: ContentFilm International

No matter if you agree with Bjørn Lomborg or not, you can’t avoid having to take a stance on his opinions. The discussion about global warming is put into perspective when the world-famous documentarist Ondi Timoner (Dig!) zooms in on Lomborg and his hotly debated ideas about the planet’s climate issues. From his early days at Greenpeace to the times when he is suddenly under fire from both the public opinion and the scientific community because of his controversial books, to his status today as being one of the most influential figures in the debate about global warming. Lomborg’s point is that we should set priorities, and that the climate is further down the black list than many other of the world’s problems. Has the fear of global warming

become a cogwheel in a political propaganda industry? In the film, Lomborg and other scientists reject Al Gore’s film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and the fear that in general has been built around the issue of global warming, and see it as a form of propaganda which is exploited to create political agendas.

At the premiere on 4 November, Bjørn Lomborg will himself be present to talk about the film and the climate debate in the year 2010.

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Thursday 4/11 kl. 19:00 / Empire Bio: Monday 8/11 kl. 20:00 / Dagmar Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 16:40 / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 kl. 14:15

Tabloid DIRECTOR: Errol Morris

Original title:Tabloid / Country:USA / Year:2010 / Running time:86 min. / Production: Submarine Entertainment / Producer: Mark Lipson, Julie Bilson Ahlberg / Distribution: Submarine Entertainment

The American filmmaker Errol Morris is back in top form with ‘Tabloid’ - a colourful tragedy about the young suburban lover Joyce McKinney, who in the early 1970s made the newspaper headlines on both sides of the Atlantic when she decided to kidnap her boyfriend from what she herself called a mormon cult. Filtered through the tabloid press’s tough fight fore the best front page news stories - told in first person

by Joyce herself as well as by two competing journalists - Morris elegantly shows, how the picture of the innocent Joyce, who full of love just wanted to see her boyfriend again, quickly was replaced by a different, substantially more bombastic story: about sexual slavery,

‘reverse’ rape, British bonding and a media-manipulating femme fatale.

“Sick, sad and funny” is what Errol Morris himself called his latest approach to one of the more absurd stories of everyday life. For fans of the offbeat director, this is a recommendation in itself.

SCREENING DATES Palads Biograferne: Monday 8/11 kl. 19:00 / Palads Biograferne: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 19:00

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Boxing Gym DIRECTOR: Frederick Wiseman

Original title:Boxing Gym / Country:USA / Year:2010 / Running time:91 min. / Production:Zipporah Films / Producer: Zipporah Films / Distribution:Doc & Film International

If the hardest part of the art of documentary is to make it look easy, then the 80-year-old director Frederick Wiseman is one of the greatest in his field. Even if ‘Boxing Gym’ is his 39th film, the American documentary veteran still delivers the goods with a vitality and a special sense of intimacy, which is due to more than just a long life’s life-long experience. The stage is this time set in a boxing club for local amateurs, where they are training and chatting more than they are breaking noses and cutting eyebrows. Lord’s Gym is in Austin, Texas, but could just as well have been anywhere in the United States.

Here, people of all ages and all colours meet, both women and men, to box and to hang out. Wiseman’s attentive camera has a keen eye for details and an ear for the location’s rhythms, and generously and

patiently takes in impressions and small narrations. But the overall work can not be reduced to a method, as Wiseman once again excels in a documentary genre that he himself has been pivotal in developing.

SCREENING DATES Gloria: Thursday 4/11 kl. 17:30 / Empire Bio: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 17:30 / Grand Teatret: Sunday 14/11 kl. 17:00

Nenette DIRECTOR: Nicolas Philibert

Original title:Nenette / Country:France / Year:2010 / Running time:70 min. / Production:Les films du losange / Producer: Nicolas Philibert, assisted Léa Masson / Distribution:Les Films du Losange

The French documentary auteur Nicolas Philibert’s latest film is a loving portrait of a 40-year-old, red-haired diva, who lives in Paris and every day welcomes hundreds of admirers. Her name is Nénette, and in her home in the parisian zoo she sits majestically and looks back at all the visitors, who are all on first-name terms with her. Philibert, who has conquered many hearts and a large international audience with his moving and human films, once more emphasises his faith in the spectator and in the discretely observant method, which he has turned into his cinematic signature. The camera is turned entirely towards the enormous animal, while spectators and zookeepers can only be heard - in a situation which with a subtle humour reflects the

cinema experience itself and creates a wordless dialogue between film, participants and spectators. The simple effect of watching the beautiful and proud Nénette without a break is quite simply unique. But ‘Nénette’ also raises critical questions about caging and humanity across species, and about how far a film’s apparently neutral perspective is at all possible. For the sound is just as important as the picture when one of Europe’s greatest documentary filmmakers once again gives us his take on cinematic ethics.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 kl. 16:45 / Cinemateket: Saturday 13/11 kl. 16:45 / Cinemateket: Sunday 14/11 kl. 16:45 / Cinemateket: Tuesday 16/11 kl. 21:30 / Cinemateket: Wednesday 17/11 kl. 19:00

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American: The Bill Hicks Story DIRECTOR: Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas

Original title:American: The Bill Hicks Story / Country:USA / Year:2010 / Running time:100 min. / Production:RDF Rights / Producer: Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas / Distribution: Autlook Film Sales

Here is a film for everyone who has run out of ideas, is in need of a laugh and/or being pulled by the nose by one of the world’s possibly funniest - and most intelligent - comedians. Even if he died as a 32-year-old, the American standup genius Bill Hicks managed to have a critical and controversial shooting star career lasting 20 years, before his self-destructive lifestyle had the better of him. Hicks grew up in a baptist environment in the southern states, but wanted to transgress boundaries like his idol Richard Pryor, and started experimenting with psychedelic mushrooms and LDS. Cocaine, smoking and alcohol ended up becoming the core of Hicks’s performances, before he moved to New

York, went through an artistic transformation and became preoccupied with American ‘anti-intellectualism’ and ‘untruthfulness’. ‘American’ is the story about a prescient show-business visionary, who was never too shy to say what he thought.

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Friday 5/11 kl. 21:30 / Empire Bio: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 22:30 / Dagmar Teatret: Saturday 13/11 kl. 21:45

The Two Escobars DIRECTOR: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist

Original title:The Two Escobars / Country:Columbia/USA / Year:2010 / Running time:100 min. / Production:All Rise Films, ESPN Films / Producer: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist / Distribution:All Rise Films

The world’s most powerful drugs baron and one of Colombia’s most charismatic football players are the two protagonists of the documentary thriller by the brothers Jeff and Michael Zimbalist about corruption, violence, drug dollars and Colombian national pride in the mid-1990s. Pablo Escobar was one of the world’s richest and possibly most unscrupulous criminals, but he won the hearts of the people with his good intentions to change the living conditions of the poorest for the better. Andres Escobar was a sublime football player and a much-needed role model for many - until he scored the fatal own-goal during the World Cup in 1994 and was murdered just a few

days after later. ‘The Two Escobars’ outlines the biggest tragedy in Colombia’s modern history in a blunt and dramatic knock-out of a film, which has awed American critics. An epic and captivating story about revenge, hope and drug dollars.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Monday 8/11 kl. 21:30 / Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:45 / Empire Bio: Saturday 13/11 kl. 22:30

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Metrobranding DIRECTOR: Adrian Voicu, Ana Vlad

Original title:Metrobranding / Country:Rumania / Year:2009 / Running time:92 min. / Production:Mandragora / Producer: Anca Puiu / Distribution:Mandragora

In the good old days, not so long ago, there was no more than one brand to choose from for each commodity in Romanian supermarkets. The Mobra motorbike, the Ileana sewing machine and the Relaxa mattress were some of the monopoly brands that made life a bit better for the inhabitants of the communist satellite state. And which over time also grew into symbols of a lost age, which, if nothing else, offered a sense of comfortable predictability, which today maybe is passé. Metrobranding looks at how time could convert a pair of Dragasani sneakers from a production line product into a piece of nostalgia, and at how industrial design in more than one way reflects the leading paradigm of an era.

But as we all know, a good product is not worth much without happy users, and the film therefore also focuses on the people. Younger and older Romanians have a differing view of the design success stories of the past - regarding them with both bittersweet melancholy and modern astonishment - and of how the smallest everyday objects in reality are a great part of the stuff that both personal and collective memory is made of. A cheerful film and a serious question: is one more free if one has several types of underpants to choose from?

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Thursday 4/11 kl. 16:40 / Posthus Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 19:00

Life 2.0 DIRECTOR: Jason Spingarn-Koff

Original title:Life 2.0 / Country:USA / Year:2010 / Running time:99 min. / Production:Andrew Lauren Productions, PalmStar Entertainment / Producer: Jason Spingarn-Koff, Andrew Lauren, Stephan Paternot

For some it’s just a computer game. But for a growing number of people the virtual world ‘Second Life’ is a place where they can finally be themselves. With an ultra-artificial background and a rising level of suspense, ‘Life 2.0’ weaves together the stories of a 30-year-old anonymous husband who lives his life online as an 11-year-old girl, and the housewife Amie and her accelerating internet affair with the worldly-wise Blunty, and the African-Amerikan woman Asri, whose flourishing virtual business (run from a shabby basement room in Detroit) is pirate copied and forces her to sue the responsible person in real life. The director Jason Spingarn-Koff created his own nerdy and curious avatar, and disappeared into ‘Second Life’ to follow four people, whose real lives are lived in cyberspace.

The film is presented in collaboration with New Media Days. The screening on 8 November will have a unique and special 2.0 version introduction.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 4/11 kl. 16:30 / Grand Teatret: Monday 8/11 kl. 19:00 / Empire Bio: Saturday 13/11 kl. 17:30

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Waiting for Superman DIRECTOR: Davis Guggenheim

Original title:Waiting for Superman / Country:USA / Year:2010 / Running time:102 min. / Distribution:United International Pictures

The Oscar-nominated director Davis Guggenheim (‘An Inconvenient Truth and ‘It Might Get Loud’) is back with a powerful and highly intelligent ‘j’accuse’ against The United States’ educational policies.

First and foremost, the film is a drama, which hast taken the best of Hollywood’s golden age and brought it to reality to provide a selfreflecting depiction of the beautiful, white and well-educated teachers on the one hand - and five children, all of them latinos or blacks, and their struggle to survive in the American school system on the other.

Like a somewhat less black-and-white Michael Moore, Guggenheim uses imaginative animation and pop culture features to turn his political

plea into a film that is worth seeing no matter what country you come from, and which luckily addresses far more than just its core topic - and which has been received with both the audience award at Sundance and some of this year’s most enthusiastic reviews back in the States.

SCREENING DATES Grand Teatret: Thursday 4/11 kl. 17:00 / Grand Teatret: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 21:30

Steam of Life DIRECTOR: Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen

Original title:Miesten vuoro / Country:Finland / Year:2010 / Running time:81 min. / Production:Oktober / Producer: Berghäll Joonas / Distribution: Films Transit

If you were ever wondering what it is about the Finns and their peculiar relation to the sauna, or were just plain curious what the deadpan tradition is all bout, ‘Steam of Life’ is a must-see. This film serves you better than any anthropology study, as it goes deep into the souls of Finnish men who after entering a sauna uncover not only their bodies, but also their troubled souls. Steam-filled rooms across this cold country are full of men who open up and reflect on their lives with an honesty and intensity rarely seen in a documentary. We hear stories about deaths and births, losses of loved ones, life failures and joys, all in all almost heart-breaking confessions lifted by humorous

intermezzos and immaculate long takes of Finnish landscapes. One feels like a fly on the steamy walls when listening to the stories.

However, the sauna scenes have been shot with a whole filmmaker team of five extra naked men in there together with the protagonists.

‘Steam of Life’ sure warms your heart, as much as sauna can warm your body on a cold winter day.

SCREENING DATES Det Kolde Gys: Saturday 6/11 kl. 10:00 / Det Kolde Gys: Saturday 6/11 kl. 16:00 / Gloria: Sunday 7/11 kl. 21:45 / Dagmar Teatret: Monday 8/11 kl. 19:00 / Grand Teatret: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:30

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Into Eternity DIRECTOR: Michael Madsen

Original title:Into Eternity / Country:Denmark / Year:2009 / Running time:85 min. / Production:Magic Hour Films / Producer: Lise Lense-Møller / Distribution: Danish Film Institute

Michael Madsen’s award-winning nuclear thriller that world premiered at last year’s CPH:DOX, has been nominated for this year’s Doc Alliance award, giving you another chance to see the gorgeously beautiful and deeply disturbing film on the big screen. Every day, all around the world, great amounts of atomic waste are being produced, which are stored in temporary depots that are vulnerable to natural and manmade disasters. In an attempt to establish the world’s first permanent depot for atomic waste, digging is under way in Finland directly into the unshakeable bedrock. The depot should last for 100,000 years and be resistant to all kinds of climate change and other influences. But what do we know about future societies? Will there, after an ice age

or two, still be anyone around who knows that the depot exists? Do we have a moral obligation to warn future generations about the waste that we are leaving behind? Which languages and signs will one be able to understand in future? How and where do we put the warning signs? Hopefully, these questions will be answered before the depot is completed in about 120 years’ time.

The Doc Alliance award is handed out each year by CPH:DOX and four other European documentary film festivals.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 21:30 / Posthus Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:15

Go Get Some Rosemary DIRECTOR: Ben & Josh Safdie

Original title:Go Get Some Rosemary / Country:USA / Year:2010 / Running time:100 min. / Production:Red Bucket Films / Producer:Casey Neistat / Distribution:Films Boutique

The Brooklyn-based brothers Ben and Josh Safdie have made the independent film ‘independendent’ again and create their poetic and dreamlike everyday stories from the raw materials of reality. The Safdie brothers are visiting CPH:DOX and showing ‘Go Get Some Rosemary’, which premiered in Cannes and later on at Sundance. The story about a divorced and disorganised father, who only gets to see his two young sons two weeks every year, is partly autobiographic fiction based on the two brother’s joint upbringing in the city that never sleeps. A sensual, bittersweet and slightly nostalgic film, made without a proper screenplay, relying instead on improvisations and documentary vérité spontaneity in the best New York and new wave tradition. A warm film for the cool autumn days - for everyone who can’t afford to travel to see the leaves fall in Central Park.

SCREENING DATES Grand: Thursday 11/11 19:00

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The woman in my life

Original title:Kvinnan i mitt liv / Country:Sweden / Year:2010 / Running time:120 min.

CPH:DOX follows up on last year’s special focus series ‘Made in Sweden’ with an entirely new anthology of short films that focus on women.

The Swedish Film Institute and the Swedish national broadcaster SVT last year launched the concept ‘The woman in my life’ and challenged people to shoot and submit films about this topic. Like with last year’s controversial success film ‘Dirty Diaries’, the result is a lineup of highly different and artistically uncompromising films about the otherwise so romantic topic - and they have a cool feminist edge and the kind of aesthetic perfectionism that Swedes are experts at. From the story about two twin sisters’ escape from Azerbaijan to the SM-looking (but totally asexual) relationship between a middle-aged woman and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s somewhat older widow on an aristocratic French manor.

Till Maria Read more(Tora aboutMårtens) the individual films on www.cphdox.dk Anders and Maria never dared to believe in love. But then they met each other. A life that had been marked by sorrow, abuse, and homeSCREENING DATES lessness gained a meaning. A film about a wedding, and about findDagmar Teatret: Saturday 6/11 kl. 16:40 / Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 kl. 21:45 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Saturday 13/11 kl. 20:00 ing hope through love.

En bondes längtan (Rebecka Rasmusson) Knut’s farmer collegues in the Swedish countryside has only ever seen him behind the wheel of his tractor and in the fields. But all his life Knut has longed to be a woman.

Flickan från stålverket (Ronja Yu) Ronja’s mother grew up in Mao’s China. She herself came to the West as a succesful scientist and settled down in the peaceful and idyllic Sweden. But who is she really? Ronja’s film is about the search for an absent mother.

ShoRT:DoX vS. fuTuRe ShoRTS Bilder av Dina (Johanna St Michaels) A rumour is out in Hollywood, that the legendary fashion agent Dina stole hertitle:SHORT:DOX clients money to vs. have cosmetic operations. direcOriginal Future Shorts / RunningFashion time:240 min. tor and ex-model Johanna St. Michaels traces her former agent to find out what actually happened.

Blodssystrar (Malin Andersson) Teenage SHORTS sisters Julia and Johanna has stuck each otherdedicated in many FUTURE and CPH:DOX welcome you totoan evening a difficult situation.ofAfter all, being the run from Azerbadjan is a to the celebration the short film on with live performers and a free little easier when youown areDOX:CLUB two energetic twins who share everything. drink at the festival’s on Nørrebrogade 37! The evening is split in two parts and starts at 17:00 hrs with a screening of the Tryggare kanare ingen vara (Hans-Erik Therus) 8 films that nominated for this year’s SHORT:DOX award (see Mum is playing theisharmonium coffee is served. With an underSHORT:DOX), and followed at and 19:00 by a programme organised by stated humour the relation between a son and his straightforward the international short film project FUTURE SHORTS, which on this mother is screen acted out. night will short films simultaneously all over the world - and then there are free drinks and surprises in the break!

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By Torgnys death bed the dizzying love story is rolled up, about how he and Ebba got reunited at the age of 90 after living in seperation SCREENING DATES for 60 years.

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With branches in 18 countries and over 60 cities, FUTURE SHORTS is known for its close cooperation between countries, its extensive online distribution and spectacular groundbreaking film screenings in countries as different as Bangladesh, UK, Australia, Vietnam, Russia, South Africa, USA - and Denmark!

The ticket gives you access to both events, so there is no reason not to go for it all.

The complete film program will be disclosed shortly before the event at www.futureshorts.dk and www.cphdox.dk. And don’t miss out on a rare chance to see the short films ont he big screen!

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Saturday 6/11 kl. 16:40 / Cinemateket: Monday 8/11 kl.

21:45 / DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Saturday 13/11 kl. 20:00

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SEMINARS

Debates, master classes, artist talks.

Again this year, CPH:DOX presents a broadly conceived seminar programme, which gives the audience as well as the international film industry the chance to become acquainted with a large number of filmmakers, artists, debaters and other people with ideas to spare. Meet filmmakers Ben & Josh Safdie, Ben Russell, John Price, visual artist Cyprien Gaillard, German legend journalist G端nter Wallraff, and a delegation of directors from the lively Iranian underground. New platforms and ways of (crowd) funding are also on the agenda, and there is plenty to learn and take home.

A SPACESHIP IN THE BASEMENT: FAN CULTURE AND CULTURAL PROPERTY

What happens when fans take ownership of a cultural ‘product’? Who ‘owns’ Star Wars? And is bootlegging a crime or a moral obligation, when George Lucas et al. change the original versions of their films and keep them unavailable on everything else than the antiquated laserdisc format? Or what about people who remake entire films or make their own unofficial sequels out in the garage? Meet director Alexandre P. Philippe, researcher in fan culture Casper H. Radil and a representative of the Danish Star Wars fan club for a debate about fan culture, cultural ownership and creative exchange, taking ‘The People vs. George Lucas’ (see Top Dox) as a starting point.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 kl. 14:00

Masterclass: Günter Wallraff

The legendary German journalist Günter Wallraff is visiting CPH:DOX with his latest film ‘Black on White’ (see TELE:VISIONS), which he presents at a special screening on Saturday, November 13. Meet a pioneer of performative journalism, who builds bridges between facts and fiction, and get the chance to ask questions about his method, ethics and how critical and investigative journalism can develop.

For 40 years, Günter Wallraff has done undercover journalism. The special thing about Wallraff’s approach is that he tackles social and political problems from within, by dressing up as a fictional character to conduct his journalistic research. It is especially his disguises that have caused indignation. He himself admits that the method is not SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Saturday 13/11 kl. 13:00

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beyond criticism, but he sees it as a kind of self-defence, and believes that it can be justified when used to reveal imbalances in dominating power structures.

Artist Talk: Cyprien Gaillard

Meet the French visual artist Cyprien Gaillard who is participating in CPH:DOX 2010 with two different projects. An exclusive live performance at Statens Museum for Kunst on Saturday, 13 November with the composer Koudlam (see AUDIO:VISUALS), and in the film/video installation Double Take. Gaillard is one of his generation’s most interesting artists, whose simultaneously magnificent and minimalistic video works concentrate on the ruins of the architectural and political utopias of the recent past. Gaillard’s works, which also make use of other media, make up a monumental prism, which brings up the modernist rests of the 20th century for archeological examination.

He consistently sculpts his works out of the already existing, and the magnificence of his romantic apocalypse scenarios is not least a result of their persistent reference to the real.

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst: Saturday 13/11 kl. 14:00

Jacob Aue Sobol: THE Ultimate aCCESS

The photographer Jacob Aue Sobol is the only Dane to be accepted in the international photographer’s group Magnum. Avoiding the established routes, the young photographer has made a world-wide name for himself through his highly personal, black-and-white snapshots from his own everyday life in Greenland, Guatemala and Tokyo. Meet Jacob Aue Sobol and hear him talk about his personal projects in, among other places, Greenland, Tokyo and Copenhagen, and get an exclusive insight into his characteristic work methods, where the camera is first and foremost used as a tool to establish contact and intimacy. How and when do we feel ourselves through

the images we create? And how do we create images and develop a language that grows beyond the comfort-zone of normality? Images, which mean something to us. A language we can identify with. Sobol is a master of the up-close and personal photograph, where the focus is on playfulness, the irrational and the accidental. Sobol has shot to the world’s elite and is one of our times’ most inspiring young photographers.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 14:30

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Masterclass: Ben & Josh Safdie

The Brooklyn-based brothers Ben and Josh Safdie have made the independent film ‘independendent’ again at a time when the personal film is under pressure like never before. And they have conquered the hearts of both the audiences and the critics. Their poetic, creative and dreamlike everyday stories mix documentary observation and small narrations in the best New York tradition. Together, and on their own, they have made films since they were 17 years old, and even if that is not all that long ago, their films have since premiered at Cannes, Venice and Sundance. The alternative production collective Red Bucket Films is their base, and includes artists, authors, photographers and

filmmakers - most of them aged 25 or less. Meet the Safdie brothers at a masterclass about how you can make fantastic films for no money and get them seen by an audience worldwide. And take some new ideas home with you.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Thursday 11/11 kl. 12:00

Masterclass: Ben Russell & John Price

Meet two of the most visionary names in contemporary experimental documentarism at a joint masterclass about the renaissance of the experimental film, about film vs. video, about re-inventing the cinematic space, and about documentarism as a means to explore the world.

Last year’s joint New Vision Award winner Ben Russell, who this year presents his first feature ‘Let Each One Go Where He May’, has established a filmic opus which in its own unique way reflects on the historical avant-garde film tradition and on etnographic documentary filmmaking. John Price’s latest film ‘Home Movie’ has its European premiere at CPH:DOX, and is a psychedelic science fiction film with a distant relative in Tarkovsky, but is shot in and around Price’s own home.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 14:00

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Mob Rule: Kickstarter on Crowdfunding

There is a rapid growth of crowdfunding through social, internetbased networks, and CPH:DOX is proud to invite the ultra-hip New York-based Kickstarter to Copenhagen. Kickstarter is the pioneer of crowdfunding, and addresses young artists, entrepreneurs, creatives and filmmakers who would like to realise their project. Kickstarter was founded in 2009 and has hosted over 7,000 projects, which have been supported by over 150,000 minor donors. ‘TPB AFK’ aka ‘The Pirate Bay - Away From Keyboard’ is one of them. The director Simon Klose managed to raise 51,000 USD in one month with a campaign that attracted over 400,000 unique visitors. Meet the founder of Kickstarter, Yancey Strickler, together with Simon Klose for an inspiring dialogue about crowdfunding.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 13:30

New platforms: Guggenheim, Youtube & Babelgum

Three exclusive takes on new and alternative distribution models. We have invited Joan Young from Guggenheim, who recently announced a partnership with YouTube for their first Biennial for ‘Creative Video’, a collaboration which embraces the changing landscape within new media. Next up: the London-based distribution company DOGWOOF and Oli Harbottle, whose innovative and experimental strategies within the marketing and distribution of films are some of the most talked-about in the industry. And finally, Andreas Lemos from the free internet TV portal, which in 2007 launched ‘The Babelgum Online Film Festival’, the first global online film festival, where the award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee is the judge.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 11:00

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The Art Museum As TV Station?

Art museums have increasingly become involved in the production of media content. Many museums have started their own digital TV channels, where such productions are shown, e.g. Tate Media and Boijmans van Beuningen’s Arttube. The development raises several interesting questions. What, for example, are the implications for the conventional players of the media industry (producers, broadcasters, directors)? What relationship is there between museums as vertically integrated producers / broadcasters and the directors involved? What qualitative criteria are at stake? And is there space for institutional (self-)criticism, or is this kind of TV an advanced form of museal

marketing? The invited panel members are Kate Vogel (producer, Tate Media, formerly Channel 4), Rasmus Nielsen (artist’s group Superflex), and Mathilde Schytz Juul (Head of Digital Productions, SMK).

The event is supported by Rytmisk Center and 10 Procent Puljen.

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 16:00

Iran Underground

Last year, CPH:DOX focused on Iran with a series of documentaries and seminars. But several of the invited guests were kept behind in Tehran and refused an exit visa due to the escalating political situation. In recent years, Iranian documentary filmmaking has made a strong name for itself internationally, and is praised for its poetic and concise artistic language. But the necessary artistic freedom is being compromised more and more. For this reason, CPH:DOX invites you to a seminar with independent Iranian documentarists and film critics, who have been invited here to talk about what Iranian underground films are about and what they can achieve, and about how they are produced

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 10:00

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and distributed outside Iran. See the film ‘Sofar’ by Ahmad Jalali Farahani, which deals with two Iranian rappers that sing protest songs, as well as extracts from a number of other Iranian underground films.

18 documentaries from Libanon, Iran and Denmark

Over the past few years, the Danish Film School in collaboration with International Media Support (IMS) has established an exchange programme for middle-eastern and Danish film students. This year, Iranian, Lebanese and Danish directors have met and exchanged ideas about formal approaches and working methods. A process, which has led to the production of 9 films from Lebanon, made by directors from the Danish Film School, and 9 films from Copenhagen, made

by Iranian and Lebanese directors. The programme is organised in collaboration with Teheran Film School and Screen Institute Beirut.

The 18 films are shown at the Danish Film School in connection

with CPH:DOX on Monday, 18 November in the Film School’s large cinema and at U2 - from 12:30 to 24:00 hrs. Further information about the directors, titles, times and tickets can be found on CPH:DOX’s website www.cphdox.dk.

SCREENING DATES Den Danske Filmskole: Monday 8/11 kl. 12:30

NEW INTERNATIONAL FUNDS

We have invited two of the latest hottest international funds - with money in their pockets for the development and production of international documentaries - to CPH:DOX, and we invite you to come and exchange ideas and business cards with them at this short, inspiring and enlightening panel. Ryan Harrington introduces the new TFI Documentary Fund from The Tribeca Film Institute, which can offer HBO scholarships and grants worth over $100,000. Maxyne Franklin from Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation talks about their recently announced partnership with PUMA.Creative. In this connection, they have launched a whole series of awards, one of which is The Catalyst

Awards - an international fund for documentary films in development, which awards 40 prizes each year. Come and be inspired and find out what types of projects they support, how much they finance and, not least, how you can get some money from them. The funds are open to filmmakers of all nationalities.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Friday 12/11 kl. 12:15

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DOX:MOSAIC - Documentary Film in the Arab world

Documentary filmmaking is going through sweeping changes in the Middle East, both as a medium and in its expression. New documentary film festivals are sprouting all over the region and creating new platforms for the creation of a public film culture, and Al-Jazeera recently launched a 24-hour documentary channel. Nonetheless, there are only few European documentary film productions that make it to the arab airwaves. Is there a way one can reach out to 300 million viewers on the Middle-Eastern TV market? DOX:MOSAIC is a dialogue meeting between broadcasters, filmmakers and producers from the Middle East and Europe, aiming to create strong ties across the world. Meet the commissioning editors from Al-Jazeera, Al Arabiya and other arab TV stations to exchange ideas, where each element is part of creating a broader picture.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 9:30

Manipulation - Images on Air

Original title:Manipulation - Images on Air

In a collaboration between CPH:DOX, The National Gallery of Denmark and Manden med Cameraet, Christina Christensen’s short film ‘Manipulation’ is shown in an outdoor installation. Discover how the film’s dark universe spreads when the movie is projected onto the large, dark treetops, and the soundtrack makes you shiver. The installation is displayed on November 12-14, 2010 in Anlægget at Statens Museum for Kunst. The duration of ‘Manipulation’ is 11 minutes and it loops between 19:00 to 00:00. Free admission.

‘If you ever cheat on me, chose someone you don’t like, because I kill him, and it would be a shame if you liked him.’ This documentary quote is the trigger for the movie ‘Manipulation’ where the feeling of jealousy is explored through hidden recordings edited as fiction in a universe of association. ‘Manipulation’ is created through months of hidden recordings made by private detectives and with the instructor’s hidden cameras without it’s cast knowing.

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‘Manipulation’ is a film inspired by the photographic artist Sophie Calle’s detective methods. Sophie Calle uses photos and text to exhibit her associations, Christina Christensen uses the moving image, editing and sound to create a fictional story built around documentary footage but edited as fiction and leaves her audience in a stream of associations.

Christina Christensen (f.1979) is part of the danish alternative filmschool SUPER16 as a director and works on the borders between documentary and fiction, film and art.

Sponsored by Filmværkstedet, Nordisk Film, Manden med Cameraet, Dansk Skuespillerforbund, Den Obelske Familiefond and Dansk Forfatterforening.

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EVENTS AND PARTIES

It’s party time!

Try something you have never tried before: win a Youtube Battle, try winter bathing, listen to the radio, or think outside the box. Again this year, the films are continuing their lives in reality with a number of unusual events which have deserved a place of their own and are listed here.

TV dinner at DOX:CLUB: It Felt Like a Kiss + The News Running time:70 min.

Take your dinner into the cinema on Monday, 8 November at 19:15 hrs, where we invite you to TV dinner at DOX:CLUB with the double screening of ‘It Felt Like a Kiss’ and ‘The News’ - two witty and sharp satires about the power of television over our (thinking) habits and collective consciousness. It’s intelligent and dry as dust in that special British way, and it’s without doubt the most brain-stimulating TV dinner in the history of television (read more under TELE:VISIONS).

There is plenty of opportunities to buy dinner in the streets around DOX:CLUB on Nørrebrogade 37.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Monday 8/11 kl. 19:00

TV Party at Bakken

Running time:420 min.

All real! All kool! All kicks! All night!

Join us at the Bakken nightclub on the festival’s first evening for a TV Party on the occasion of this year’s great special series TELE:VISIONS! It’ll be cheap (40 kr), and it’ll be fun. Come and see the legendary chaotic ‘Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party’ live from New York City in the year 1978 (read much more under TELE:VISIONS), get dressed for TV, and remember Andy Warhol’s immortal advice: ‘Don’t go out to have fun - go out to be fun.’

After the screening there will be DJs and a party all night long.

SCREENING DATES Bakken: Thursday 4/11 kl. 21:00

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MAnipulation - images on air

Original title:Manipulation - Images on Air / Director: Christina Christensen

In a collaboration between CPH:DOX, The National Gallery of Denmark and Manden med Cameraet, Christina Christensen’s short film ‘Manipulation’ is shown in an outdoor installation. Discover how the film’s dark universe spreads when the movie is projected onto the large, dark treetops, and the soundtrack makes you shiver.

‘If you ever cheat on me, chose someone you don’t like, because I kill him, and it would be a shame if you liked him.’ This documentary quote is the trigger for the movie ‘Manipulation’ where the feeling of jealousy is explored through hidden recordings edited as fiction in a universe of association. ‘Manipulation’ is created through months of hidden recordings made by private detectives and with the instructor’s hidden cameras without it’s cast knowing.

‘Manipulation’ is a film inspired by the photographic artist Sophie Calle’s

detective methods. Sophie Calle uses photos and text to exhibit her associations, Christina Christensen uses the moving image, editing and sound to create a fictional story built around documentary footage but edited as fiction and leaves her audience in a stream of associations.

Christina Christensen (f.1979) is part of the danish alternative filmschool SUPER16 as a director and works on the borders between documentary and fiction, film and art.

Sponsored by Filmværkstedet, Nordisk Film, Manden med Cameraet, Dansk Skuespillerforbund, Den Obelske Familiefond and Dansk Forfatterforening.

Photo: Rolf Konow

SCREENING DATES The installation is displayed on November 12-14, 2010 in Anlægget at Statens Museum for Kunst. The duration of ‘Manipulation’ is 11 minutes and it loops between 19:00 to 00:00. Free admission.

SHORT:DOX vs. Future Shorts

Running time:240 min.

FUTURE SHORTS and CPH:DOX welcome you to an evening dedicated to the celebration of the short film with live performers and a free drink at the festival’s own DOX:CLUB on Nørrebrogade 37! The evening is split in two parts and starts at 17:00 hrs with a screening of the 8 films that are nominated for this year’s SHORT:DOX award (see SHORT:DOX), and is followed at 19:00 by a programme organised by the international short film project FUTURE SHORTS, which on this night will screen short films simultaneously all over the world - and then there are free drinks and surprises in the break!

Passionately believing in short films as a supreme medium, FUTURE SHORTS presents the best and most groundbreaking films the world of shorts has to offer.

Since 2003, Future Shorts has positioned itself as a unique international platform for exhibiting the best in fresh talent.

With branches in 18 countries and over 60 cities, FUTURE SHORTS is known for its close cooperation between countries, its extensive online distribution and spectacular groundbreaking film screenings in countries as different as Bangladesh, UK, Australia, Vietnam, Russia, South Africa, USA - and Denmark!

The ticket gives you access to both events, so there is no reason not to go for it all.

The complete film program will be disclosed shortly before the event at www.futureshorts.dk and www.cphdox.dk. And don’t miss out on a rare chance to see the short films ont he big screen!

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Saturday 6/11 kl. 17:00

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Youtube Battle

For the third year running, CPH:DOX goes the whole hog with a gigantic YouTube Battle party at Vega, where we vote for the universe’s best video jockey - and you are hereby invited!

Apart from audiovisual live acts, there will be performing body artists and circus freaks at this year’s biggest viral event. The Danish documentarist Michael Noer (‘The Wild Hearts’ and ‘R’) takes to the stage as the hyperactive host, when Vega boils over with bad resolution, human youtube clips and chatroulette challenges.

APPLY FOR THE COMPETITION: If you would like to battle last year’s winner of the Youtube competition, send a mail with your name, address, telephone number and one or several chosen YouTube clips to youtube@cphdox.dk. Couples and teams are welcome!

SCREENING DATES Store Vega: Saturday 13/11 kl. 22:00

Listening Party with Third Ear

Running time:300 min.

Come to the premiere of Third Ear’s latest radio work, ‘Grandpa’s Two Lives’ by Anna Thaulow, and listen in when the creator’s of Denmark’s most talked-about radio podcast present the best of this year’s production and give us their take on the radio documentarism of the future.

Third Ear says ‘Podcast is the new rock and roll!’ and has developed a characteristic, new kind of narrative radio documentary, which fuses classical radio montage with genetically engineered narrative techniques, which differ markedly from the internet’s stream of fleety new media.

After her grandfather’s death, Anna Thaulow tries to piece together his identity, after a strange discovery of old papers, locked suitcases and old cassette tapes revealed that her good old grandpa might have been living a double life in the midst of the nuclear family’s heart.

Come, listen and learn.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Friday 12/11 kl. 19:00

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Vincent Moon: Secret Shorts

Running time:120 min.

With his ‘Take Away Shows’, Vincent Moon has since 2006 provided an uncommercial alternative to MTV and reinvented the music video as a documentary: small films, which capture the musicians out in the alleyways, staircases and elevators of reality, without amplifiers or special effects. Last year, he was Artist in Focus at CPH:DOX, and won the Sound & Vision award for the best music film. This year he is back again, in part with a concert for AUDIO:VISUALS, and in part with this special presentation of his latest productions. The screening will in true Moon-style take place at a secret location - to join in you just have to write to Vincent Moon himself on vincentmoon@gmail. com. The entire do is, of course, free of charge - but more than that: if you bring along a USB stick or the like, you can also expect some music film gifts from Moon. And by then at the latest, you’ll realise that it’s almost Christmas.

A Metro Ride to Norway

Running time:420 min.

It’s not every day that a seven-hour long and absolutely eventless film is shown on prime time TV - and that it even becomes one of the year’s greatest audience hits.

This, however, is what happened in Norway earlier this year!

Over 1.2 mn Norwegians were glued to the television sets when the Norwegian national broadcaster NRK showed the classic “Bergensbanen”.

The film is seven hours of unedited TV shot from the front windscreen of a train on the 377 km long journey from Bergen to Oslo. During the entire film, the camera maintains the same angle, while the train chugs across 300 bridges, through almost 200 tunnels and various smaller cities in Norway.

CPH:DOX and Copenhagen’s Metro are now proud and happy to invite Danish travellers on this beautiful and meditative train journey from Copenhagen’s most central station at Kongens Nytorv and to the beautiful nature of Bergen.

Experience the snow fall in November, when we start on the afternoon of Friday, 5 November and continue late into the night with a trip into Norwegian nature, accompanied by spherical music by some of Denmark’s best electronic musicians, among them Jonas Munk (Manual) and DJ Kim LAS (DRAMA!, Mit Nye Band, Den Fri).

SCREENING DATES Metro, Kgs. Nytorv st.: Friday 5/11 kl. 17:00

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Afternoon films and Q & A with Ben & Josh Safdie Running time:80 min.

Welcome to the best afternoon at DOX:CLUB, where the American brothers and independent darlings Ben and Josh Safdie will show two of their short films and talk about how they conquered the festival world and the hearts of the audiences with their poetic and dream-like stories from everyday life. The Safie brothers combine documentary observation with small stories in the best New York tradition, which you here - for free - can see in the films ‘We Are Going to the Zoo’ (Josh) and ‘The Acquaintances of a Lonely John’ (Ben).

Entrance is free of charge, and there are snacks and a free ecological beer for everyone. The event is organised in collaboration with the online film portal MUBI (formerly The Auteurs) and Playstation.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Thursday 11/11 kl. 15:00

Street Art: Debate and Workshop Running time:120 min.

In continuation of the two colourful and politically powerful street art films ‘Waste Land’ and ‘Women are Heroes’, Støberiet, CPH:DOX and KPH (Københavns Projekthus) invite you to an arts debate and workshop on 7 November at Støberiet on Blågårdsplads. We start with a screening of ‘Women are Heroes’ (see Enjoy Poverty) at DOX:CLUB at 12:00 hrs and from 14:00 hrs there is a debate and workshop at Støberiet, just round the corner on Blågårds Plads 3, where Lene Bengtson (gadekunst. dk), Bjarne Fey (Copenhagen’s Culture and Leisure Administration) Valdemar Silverstein Markussen (Bolsjefabrikken) and others take part in a debate about art and the artist’s role as an activist in a polarised

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world, where the desire to create and creativity constantly give rise to new encounters. In collaboration with the environmentally conscious rubbish collectors Junkbusters (junkbusters.dk), Lars Hempler and Andreas Reventlov (aka the Rubbish Boys) will organise a workshop where everyone is invited to create a work of street art, which will stand on Blågårds Plads during the remainder of the festival.

Nørrebro Knock-Out: Film and Boxing Match Running time:120 min.

Meet two of Denmark’s best upcoming boxers and learn some tricks before the screening of the documentary veteran Frederick Wiseman’s new ‘Boxing Gym’ on Wednesday, 10 November at 17:30 hrs in Empire!

Both are proud bearers of the title ‘Danish Champion’ and both are members of the SIK Fight boxing club in Nørrebro, where they started out as children. Rashi Kaseem was 8 while Khalid Khattab was 10 when he first joined the club. The even starts with patch training, before things get going for real and the two sportsmen show what they are capable of in a boxing ring. And if you by any chance have forgotten that boxing is a true gentlemen’s sport, then today is your day!

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 17:30

Steam of Life: Screening, winter bathing and a trip to the sauna Running time:120 min.

Ok, it’s maybe not quite winter yet. But it’s just around the corner, and for all of you who haven’t tried this before, the time is perfect to pay your first visit to the winter swimming club!

CPH:DOX and the winter swimming club Det Kolde Gys (www. detkoldegys.dk), in collaboration with Den Finske Forening and Det Danske Saunaselskab (www.saunaselskab.dk), present the film ‘Steam of Life’ (see Top Dox), followed by a dip in the sea. The perky participants are divided into groups of ten, and after a dip in the sea you can warm up in a true Finnish sauna in the middle of the beach.

The whole experience is accompanied by the expert guidance of representatives of the three organisations.

There will be two sessions of film, winter swimming and sauna on Saturday 6 November at 10:00 and 16:00 hrs.

Welcome, and remember to bring a swimsuit!

Tickets can be bought on www.cphdox.dk

SCREENING DATES Det Kolde Gys: Saturday 6/11 kl. 10:00 / Det Kolde Gys: Saturday 6/11 kl. 16:00

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AUDIO:VISUALS

AUDIO:VISUALS is CPH:DOX’ new programme of concerts dedicated to combining visual art with live music in new and challenging ways.

The concept is simple. We have invited a number of musicians and film/visual artists to colla-borate in creating unique live events. The ambitions behind the concept are reflected by the fact that the majority of the concerts are first performances – a term usually reserved for classical music but with AUDIO:VISUALS, it’s our hope to extend it into the world of non-classical music.

The concerts will take place at three different venues: The National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst) is the setting for three exclusive events of an international scale, created together by visual artists and musicians. In CPH:DOX’s own festival center DOX:CLUB, which this year is located at Teater Grob in the heart of Copen-hagen, you can experience more intimate artistic encounters. Lastly the concert venue VEGA will host three renowned bands, each one with its own cinematic show as a part of their tours.

The aim of AUDIO:VISUALS is to explore the potential of visual art and live music in combination. CPH:DOX strongly believes in the possibilities of cross-over events, and with AUDIO:VISUALS we wish to underline the visual aspects of a concert while at the same time letting the vibrant, expressive presence of a live performance influence the experience of the visual designs.

The concept is to think neither in terms of a concert or an installation, but to set the two artforms up for a date and take off wherever they may.

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Koudlam & Cyprien Gaillard

Join us on an unforgettable space trip with two of the most visionary young stars from the French arts and music scene, who will shroud the white marble at Statens Museum for Kunst in dense, totally danceable darkness. Koudlam is a former opera singer, but he is currently on his way up to join the stars of the French electro heavens with his heavy and post-punk inspired, azteco-futuristic compositions. His intense, dark and highly captivating electro has previously led him to enter into fruitful collaborations with artists such as Kenneth Anger - and he fits perfectly with the grandiose, neo-apocalyptic video visions of his fellow countryman Cyprien Gaillard, one of the greatest new names of the international arts world. Together, they have enthralled the

audiences at Tate Modern, Art Basel Miami, the New Museum, and many other places with their electropic video symphonies transmitted straight from a Russian concrete hell. It is an event far beyond the ordinary when Koudlam and Gaillard land in Copenhagen with a special edition of their extreme performances. The future is not what it used to be, but Koudlam and Gaillard give us their take on what it could look like - as if seen from another planet.

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst: Saturday 13/11 kl. 20:00

Shit & Shine vs Anna Maria Helgadottir

The super-hyped London/Texas band Shit and Shine is finally coming to Denmark with its famous live show. And what’s more, they are coming with an entirely new audiovisual creation made in collaboration with the Danish/Icelandic artist Anna Maria Helgadóttir (formerly of the Ingen Frygt group). Shit & Shine has toured with among others Sunn 0))) and Lightning Bolt, and was named the year’s best act at Sónar in 2006. Since then the rumours about their excessive live performances have spread like wildfire. Their concerts often develop into trance sessions, making the spectator melt into a mass of hypnotic stimuli.

The music is purely a brilliant blend of noise and krautrock, dubstep and electro, revolving around tribal drum rhythms, piercing guitar riffs

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and deep drones. For the concert in Copenhagen they are bringing no less than five drummers, a guitarist and a shaman dressed in a rabbit mask. But it gets better still, as they exclusively for this concert have produced a film together with Anna Maria Helgadóttír, which like one long movement through the freaky universe of the band will double their presence and turn Statens Museum for Kunst into an all-embracing, unequalled installation. Expect no less than this year’s best concert experience.

Animal Collective vs Danny Perez

CPH:DOX can present something of a global sensation when the lead act of this year’s AUDIO:VISUALS programme, Animal Collective, takes to the stage at Statens Museum for Kunst together with Danny Perez to present ‘Globby Bodies’ - a brand-new sound and video installation, performed here for the first time ever. The renowned, critically acclaimed and totally undefinable experimental avant-popindie-rock-band will convert no less than three of the gallery’s exhibition rooms into a universe of images and sound. And on the main stage you can see both a unique live performance featuring guitar player Deacon together with Gang Gang Dance’s Tim DeWitt, with warm

warm up performance by Angel Deradoorian (Dirty Projectors) as well as a DJ set with Dave Portner aka Avey Tare. ‘Globby Bodies’ is a beautiful extension of both the location-specific installation that the band made at the Guggenheim museum in New York this spring, as well as of their visual album ‘ODDSAC’ (2010), and opens up a new and an in every sense multi-dimensional experience that is constantly reinventing itself.

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst: Sunday 14/11 kl. 19:00

The Pony Tales Presents Black Summer

The Pony Tales is a collaboration between musician Kristoffer Sonne and filmmaker Nadia Marquard Otzen, and the beautiful result is the visual album ‘Black Summer’, which the couple will perform live accompanied by Sonne’s London-based band. ‘Black Summer’ consists of nine film scenes staged around a composition, and together they tell a story of love, brutality and lust among a group of isolated teenagers in the middle of the supernatural and ruthless nature of the Faroe Islands. Sonne and co. will accompany this official world premiere of the film with a bleak soundtrack that carries the story forward, and is performed live during the screening. And this is above all how The

Pony Tales should be experienced: loudly, violently and with both the projector and the sound system turned all the way up. In this way, both the images and the extreme cinematic power of the music will suck the audience deep into a black hole of melancholy and nightmarish darkness. A new Danish super-project is born with The Pony Tales.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Saturday 6/11 kl. 22:00

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Khavn de la Cruz Vs. Vigo Band

The Philippine film factory of Khavn de la Cruz shoots out one film after another. His latest work, ‘Son Of God’ was made in collaboration with the Danish filmmaker Michael Noer and can be seen in various versions at CPH:DOX 2010. For this unique concert evening Khavn has in a radical way remixed the film and reworked it into visuals for his own, phenomenal band Vigo. While Khavn’s crazy images of a regal dwarf version of Jesus runs across the screen, the six-man band will tune in with its unique blend of chamber jazz and avant-pop. Being a modern and confident band, Vigo plays with its artistic expression, and Philippine tones are filtered through jazz and pop noir. The music

dances irresistibly on the boundaries between love and insanity, and is as untraditional and unruly as Jean Vigo, the French filmmaking genius who gives the band its name. Vigo consists of six conservatory-trained musicians: the bassist Simon Tan, the drummer Paolo Manuel, the guitarist Kakoy Legaspi, the sound magician Caliph8, the female vocalist Tao Aves and Khavn himself, who manages to both sing and to play the piano while pumping images from another planet onto the screen.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Friday 5/11 kl. 22:00

The William Blakes

The massively talented documentary filmmaker Andreas Koefoed has made a film about one of the most currently hyped Danish bands, The William Blakes, and about the experiment they did when they isolated themselves in a Swedish winter hut in order to record their recently released album ‘The Way Of The Warrior’ in just nine days.

The band will celebrate the premiere of ‘To the End of the World’ with an exclusive concert for the few people who can manage to secure themselves a place in Teater Grob’s small and atmospheric auditorium. The William Blakes consists of Kristian Leth, Bo Rande and the Nordsø brothers Frederik and Fridolin, each of whom have

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produced a number of successful albums both in Denmark and abroad.

The music of the quartet is a kind of highly nuanced art pop which on their latest album leans towards the 1980s and to names such as Talk Talk, Depeche Mode and Duran Duran, but with a distinctive and enduring William Blakes signature.

Hjaltalin vs. Saga Sig & Hildur Yeoman

They have deservedly been massively praised for their playful mash-up of genres, for nobody comes close to the seven members of Hjaltalín when it comes to combining spaghetti westerns, disco and West Side Story without batting an eyelid. During CPH:DOX 2010 you can witness the band in ‘Backyard’, a brilliant DIY documentary about Iceland’s music scene after the financial crisis - and on this night you will naturally also get the chance to witness them live after the screening! This will happen on the very last day of the festival, when the band presents the premiere of an entirely new and hitherto topsecret audiovisual show made in collaboration with their two fellow

countrymen, the young artists Hildur Yeoman and Saga Sig. No matter what they have to offer on the visual side, one can expect a lineup of strongly cinematic songs built around solid pop constructions, which are made for filmic accompaniment. Hjaltalín is a super-eclectic rock ensemble, which - much like bands such as Efterklang, Oh No Ono and Arcade Fire - complements the traditional rock setup with orchestral instruments such as the bassoon, the violin and the piano. There is no doubt: Iceland is back - at least in musical terms!

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Sunday 14/11 kl. 20:00

Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) Vs. Separado

The frontman of the Welsh psych-pop-band Super Furry Animals, Gruff Rhys, has spent over 15 years producing one quirky rock song after another, both in company with the rest of the superb ‘Animals’, in countless side projects all over the world, and all on his own. It is in the latter state that one can meet the eclectic pop alchemist this night. He is bringing along the crazy, twisted and highly beautiful road movie ‘Separado’, which depicts Gruff’s trip to Patagonia as he looks for a distant relative in both genetic and in musical terms. The film, which can best be described as a kind of Monty Pythonesque episode of ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ meets ‘Star Trek’, is presented by Gruff

himself. And as if this wasn’t enough, he will come down from the screen after the projection to perform a small-scale live show. And if it ends up being only half as entertaining as the ones he performs in the film, we can still look forward to a serving of beautifully warped and totally life-affirming pop music of the most colourful kind.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Wednesday 10/11 kl. 21:30

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Scenatet vs Michael Madsen

Bent Sørensen (born 1958) is today regarded as one of Denmark’s most important composers. His distinctive music undoubtedly deserves the original reinterpretation of the classical portrait concert, which filmmaker Michael Madsen (‘Into Eternity’, 2009) has created together with curator Anna Berit Asp Christensen and the leading avant-garde ensemble SCENATET. Their innovative concept ‘DocumentaryConcert’ is a silent film depiction of Bent Sørensen’s everyday life, which mainly takes place between the coffee machine, the piano and the computer. The ensemble accompanies these situations with a live performance of Sørensen’s most important works - and together

with the floating camera, the music enriches the still-life reality with an almost magical, alien atmosphere. A crackling, contrasting clash between image and sound, reality and abstraction, homely idyl, and modernist science fiction.

DocumentaryConcert is supported by Århus municipality, the production fund of the Danish composers’ association DKF, KODA and Sonning Fonden.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 19:00

Jomi Massage vs. Jakob Oredsson

She has a past in the noise rock band Murmur, is the lead singer of the almost legendary Speaker Bite Me and performs under the aka Jomi Massage. He is the latest star in the Swedish arts scene and already has a comprehensive resume that includes light sculptures, stage design, animation and architecture, that among other things has led him to a close cooperation with the theatre genius Robert Wilson. Together they - Danish Signe Høirup Wille Jørgensen and merely 25-year-old Swedish artist comet Jakob Oredsson - will stage Jomi Massage’s music in a visual way that will employ projections, minimalism and soft darkness to supplement the bony nature of the

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Sunday 7/11 kl. 20:00

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songs. In other words a totally unique show, where the intimate space of Teater Grob has been included in the staging and thereby provides the basis for the opportunities and limitations upon which the concert and the installations are developed. A cross-artistic performance with an unlimited desire to set limits.

Vincent Moon & Gaspar Claus

Vincent Moon has become world famous for his ‘take away shows’, a kind of documentary music videos, which have captured musicians such as The National, Sufjan Stevens and Arcade Fire live in the reality out there, far from stages and studios. Last year he won the Sound & Vision Award for the best music documentary at CPH:DOX, and repayed the honour with a captivating film concert featuring the Czech cellist couple The Havels. Now he is back with another talented cellist, his young fellow countryman Gaspar Claus. Together they will perform an entirely new, deeply original and interactive work, which is created during the actual performance. Hidden behind a transparent screen,

Claus and Moon will use their respective instruments, the cello and the camera, to create a kind of direct take away show, with the result being projected onto the screen immediately and blending together with the silhouettes of the two artists. Expect an unparalleled, intense and improvised live show, a battle of the art forms, which according to the combatants themselves will go down in history.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:00

Einstürzende Neubauten

The groundbreaking Berlin-based Einstürzende Neubauten has been around for almost thirty years ‘and they will celebrate this with a mini tour through a number of selected cities and venues that have been important to them during their long career. The visit to Copenhagen will span over two evenings, and is presented by Live Nation in collaboration with CPH:DOX. On November 4 Einstürzende Neubauten will start off with a ‘side show’ - a different kind of experience, which focuses on the band in its entirety as well as on the works of the individual band members.

A presentation of various films and installations is followed by a short concert, where the band will play songs that have rarely or

never figured in their live repertoire, as well as entirely new pieces.

In the last part of the side show, the individual band members will present their own works: Blixa Bargeld’s ‘Vocal Acrobatics’// Alexander Hacke’s ‘Hitman’s Heel’ with Danielle Picciotto & Chris Hughes (Fatal Shore) // Andrew Unruh’s ‘Drumtables’// Jochen Arbeit’s ‘Solo Activities with local greats’// Rudolf Moser’s ‘Mosermeyer’’ On November 5 Einstürzende Neubauten will hold a regular concert at Store Vega.

SCREENING DATES Store Vega: Thursday 4/11 kl. 20:00 / Store Vega: Friday 5/11 kl. 20:00

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Beach House

The Baltimore duo is made up of French-born Victoria Legrand and the American Alex Scally. Since 2004, they have produced cinematic dream pop that manages to conjure up images like nobody else. Their three albums ‘Beach House’ (2006), ‘Devotion’ (2008) and their latest ‘Teen Dream’ (2010) have all enjoyed rave reviews - and attracted a constantly growing crowd of followers. Tonight, Beach House will present a different kind of show, which apart from the actual live concert also offers a screening of the visual version of their latest album ‘Teen Dream’.

The evening is organised by Live Nation in collaboration with CPH:DOX and Vega.

SCREENING DATES Store Vega: Friday 12/11 kl. 20:00

The Residents

There is probably no band more mythicised than The Residents.

They have been around for 40 years and released even more albums.

And from day one the band members have managed to keep their identities a secret, not least because they have always appeared behind masks - even before Karin Dreijer knew how to spell The Knife! It is impossible to describe The Residents’ eclectic music with a specific term. Their mixture of avant-garde jazz, electronica, art pop, distortion and classical compositions is challenging, but the band manages to unite the complex elements in unified compositions which reveal themselves to knowledgeable concert-goers. Their often surprising shows playfully interweave music with visual projects and narrations.

SCREENING DATES Store Vega: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 20:00

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This concert is the legendary band’s first performance in Copenhagen for more than two decades - and you may never get the chance again.

The concert is organised by ICO Concerts in collaboration with CPH:DOX.

DOX:INDUSTRY DOX:FORUm DOX:MARKET DOX:LAB DOC ALLIANCE

DOX:FORUM

DOX:FORUM which takes place during CPH:DOX - brings together key international financiers, all intent on discovering the latest independent and innovative works in development with documentary filmmakers, fiction filmmakers and visual artists exploring the boundaries of documentary filmmaking in new strong projects.

DOX:FORUM is a 3 day industry event presenting a tightly packed program of project presentations, prearranged one-on-one meetings and a line-up of seminars and master classes.

This year, an exclusive number of 20 projects have been selected for presentation, which will take place on Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th November. As a new addition, the Forum has 2 main focus areas: FICTIONONFICTION Projects crossing boundaries between documentary and fiction CINEMA High end theatrical feature lenght documentaries with international distribution potential.

Since its inception in 2007, DOX:FORUM has gained a world-class reputation for bringing together the international professionals who are changing the way films are being created, financed and distributed. It is an international hotspot where leading European and international professionals come to meet the Nordic scene.

For the second year running, the Forum features a collaboration with European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs - EAVE. DOX:FORUM is kindly funded by Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Nordisk Film Fonden and The Branding Denmark Fund.

DOX:MARKET

DOX:MARKET is a video-on-Demand documentary film market running in conjunction with CPH:DOX. In 2010 the market will be open from 4th –14th of November from 10am - 8pm, with priority access given to attending buyers, festival programmeres and curators.

DOX:MARKET is located at The Danish Film Institute, in close proximity to the festival center, and presents 20 viewing stations of iPads / iMacs operated with an on-demand digital screening system, offering professionals easy access to an extensive line-up of recent documentary titles.

DOX:MARKET is a curated market that reflects CPH:DOX’s overall interest in visually and artistically strong documentary films. All films selected for an official festival screening at CPH:DOX are automatically included in the digital market. In addition to these titles, DOX:MARKET also includes four series curated especially for the market by Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, Jeonju International Film Festival, Filmkontakt Nord and Scottish Documentary Institute.

DOX:MARKET is established in close cooperation with Fast Forward (FFWD),and supported by Aiaiai-headphones and furniture from HAY.

FILMKONTAKT NORD

As Filmkontakt Nord’s International Network & Marketing Manager I’m delighted to give you a taste of some of the latest and greatest documentaries from the Nordic countries.

Filmkontakt Nord (FkN) was established in 1991 by a group of visionary Nordic filmmakers who wanted to further the conditions for independent short and documentary film. Since then, FkN has been dedicated to promote Nordic shorts and docs internationally and to advance Nordic-international professional networks. 19 years has passed, and FkN has truly become the First Stop for Nordic Shorts & Docs having established itself as a unique central source of information and expertise.

FkN’s main event is Nordisk Panorama, comprising a film festival, a documentary co-financing forum and a market. Spanning all professional focus areas from development and financing to distribution and exhibition, Nordisk Panorama Event is the main annual business platform for shorts and docs in the Nordic region.

In 2008 FkN furthermore launched Nordisk Panorama Market Online aimed at international TV-buyers, distributors, sales agents and festival programmers. Now, approved professionals can stream films in full length at their own convenience around the clock. Currently more than 900 films are available just a click away.

I have chosen to show you a small selection of the amazing documentaries that were in competition at this year’s Nordisk Panorama and at the same time are available at Nordisk Panorama Market Online – one from each of the five Nordic countries.

With these films you will be taken on an intellectual and emotional ride of exceptional dimensions. Hopefully this taste will give you an appetite for more outstanding Nordic documentaries to be found in abundance at Nordisk Panorama Market Online year round. To start exploring, all you need to do is to sign up.

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Nordic Shorts and Docs – click and watch! www.filmkontakt.com Filmkontakt Nord has curated the following films: Steam Of Life (fi) Directors:Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen Russian Lessons (no) Directors: Olga Konskaya, Andrei Nekrasov Armadillo (dk) Director: Janus Metz Pedersen Ola Svensson Superstar (se) Director: Stefan Berg Architecture Of Homes (is) Director: Thórunn Hafstad

Guangzhou international documentary film festival

Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, China (GZ DOC) is China’s only national documentary industrial event hosted

by State Administration of Radio, Film and TV and Guangdong Provincial Government.

influential international event. GZ DOC wishes to attract international attention to the Chinese documentary market and visa versa.

GZ DOC endeavors to “bring China to the world and have the world know China”. It has been developing itself towards an international, professional and market-oriented festival. GZ DOC has over 100 Documentary Screenings, Competitions, a documentary Market, Forum and workshops. GZ Doc has also built a strong platform for the Chinese documentary industry to communicate and meet with their international colleagues.

GZ DOC has curated the following short documentary series:

CROSSING BORDERS is GZ DOC’s training and exchange programme done in collaboration between Documentary Campus, EDN and GDA – Guangzhou Documentary Association. It is an international documentary program spanning from the Asia-Pacific region to Europe and back again

Water and Land Directors:Huang Cong, Wang Feng

GZ DOC Screening endeavors to introduce great documentaries to Chinese audience who rarely have access to these films. Documentary screenings have been taking place through out festival venues and universities since 2003 - and in 2009 more than 100 films were screened in multiple venues across the city.

The Real Crisis Director:Ma Fangfang

GZ DOC also organizes annual documentary filmmaker delegations to attend large international documentary events abroad in order to help Chinese documentary filmmakers get a deeper understanding of the international documentary market. It has also helped to bring international Commissioning Editors closer to Chinese filmmakers as well as promoting the communication between them.

Patent Wars DIrectors:Long Miaoyuan

In the next three years, GZ DOC aims to strengthen its ability to help communication and interaction between the Chinese and international documentary industry with the hope of making GZ DOC an

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ECLIPSE Feed on the Iron Director:Huaqing Jin

M 4-fen Land Director: Yan Fei

Cotton Director:Zhou Hao

Tide Director:Yao Song ping The 78th Hole Directors:Huang Cong, Sun Jia

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JEONJU INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Launched in 2000, Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) is the second biggest international film festival and the most important supporter of alternative, independent and adventurous films in Korea.

JIFF has curated the following films: The Strange Dance Director: Park Dong-Hyun

In Response to the continual support of moviegoers, JIFF has begun its journey to excavate new films and enable the audience to experience diversity in the cinematic world. JIFF now announces its 12th feast in Jeonju, one of the most beautiful traditional cities in Korea.

For 9 days from April 28th to May 6th in 2011, the public will have a chance to meet about 200 films. Undoubtedly, JIFF’s aim is to be the most sought-after film festival in Asia; the hub of alternative, independent and adventurous films.

Before The Full Moon Director: Seo Se-Jin

JIFF has highlighted the unique voices of independent films by presenting various, meaningful and contemporary cinematic films to their audience for the last 10 years, Since 2000, a number of filmmakers have been introduced to the world stage through JIFF and it has resulted in the awardess of JIFF becoming acclaimed by other international film festivals. As a result, our efforts and accomplishment have been recognised by film professionals all over the world.

My Heart is not Broken Yet Director: Ahn Hae-Ryong

Beyond the accomplishment and the triumph that we have achieved in the last 10 years, JIFF now opens a new chapter for the next decade. The passion and respect for the newer films are our spirit and with 209 films from 49 countries this year, we promise that it will be a truly cinematic journey for both cineastes and audiences.

Action Boys Director: Jung Byoung-Gil

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Sogyumo Acacia Band’s Story Director: Min Hwan-Ki Children of God Director: Yi Seung-Jun

The Past Is a Strange Country Director: Kim Eungsu 63 Years On Director: Kim Dong-Won

House of the Freshness Director: Ahn Kearn-hyung

THE SCOTTISH FILM INSTITUTE

Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI) is an internationally recognised documentary research and production centre based in Edinburgh. An organisation made up of filmmakers that work together across industry and academia, our aim is to stimulate and inspire the documentary scene in Scotland and beyond through focus on creative excellence. We run training initiatives such as Bridging the Gap, Interdoc and Doc Week which include masterclasses, screenings and workshops hosting a wealth of international filmmakers.

SDI was created in 2004 and is an internationally recognised documentary research centre at Edinburgh College of Art specialising in documentary training, production and distribution. Our aim is to stimulate and inspire the documentary scene in Scotland and beyond through focus on creative excellence and unashamed international outlook. We are a community hub where several generations of documentary filmmakers can share and work together across industry and academia.

Our films have played at major film festivals, such as Sundance, Cannes, Hotdocs, Tribeca, Full Frame, Silverdocs, IDFA, Cinema du Reel, Vision du Reel and Leipzig and have picked up major awards and nominations.

SFI has curatede the following films: The Edge of Dreaming Director:Amy Hardie Sighthill Stories Director: Darren Herche The Nurture Room DIrector:Matt Pinder One Thousand Pictures Director:Jennifer Stoddart Colony Directors:Carter Gunn, Ross Mcdonnel Caring from Calum Lou McLoughlan Maris’ Way Director: Anne Milne

In 2007 we set up SDI Productions Ltd, in order to develop a slate of feature documentaries with some of our Bridging the Gap alumni, and enable ambitious co-productions such as “The New Ten Commandments” with Lansdowne Productions, and Future For Sale, directed by Maja Borg.

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DOX:LAB

In the spirit of supporting new talents CPH:DOX last year launched the very first edition of DOX:LAB, handpicking a small number of international filmmakers to participate in an experimental documentary laboratory.

As DOX:LAB ’09 turned out to be a huge success, we are excited to return this year with a whole new set of filmmakers. Eighteen participants representing twelve different countries has been carefully matched in teams of two and will meet each other for the first time during CPH:DOX ‘10 in an exclusive workshop.

Once again we are proud to present a fabulous team of participants, counting several award winning filmmakers and acknowledged artists. On a limited budget the teams will develop and produce 9 films which will be screened during the next edition of CPH:DOX. The main idea behind DOX:LAB is to create a space where unauthorized cinematic forms can be explored and developed.

By handpicking a group of filmmakers with very different backgrounds in terms of culture, film history, narrative traditions and different methods of and access to production we hope to stimulate a dialogue based new aesthetic.

The program is conducted in cooperation with The Filmworkshop / DFI and Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum, supported by Aarhus Festival, The Danish Film Institute, CKU, The Swedish Film Institute, The Finnish Film Foundation, Den Obelske Familiefond, International Media Support and Screen Institute Beirut.

Participants ‘10 Mauro Andrizzi (Argentina) Dechen Roder (Buthan) Li Hongqi (China) Kasper Bisgaard (Denmark) Caroline Sascha Cogez (Denmark) Lilibeth Cuenca (Denmark) Jesper Just (Denmark) Jeppe Rønde (Denmark) Reetta Aalto (Finland) Salla Sorri, (Finland) Vipin Vijay (India) Woo Min Jin (Malaysia) Renate Costa (Paraguay) Marcus Lindeen (Sweden) Måns Månsson (Sweden) Nidal Hassan (Syria) Uruphong Raksasad (Thailand) Donald Mugisha (Uganda)

DOC ALLIANCE

DOC ALLIANCE is a partnership which emerged as a result of the co-operative effort of five key European documentary film festivals – CPH:DOX Copenhagen, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, Planete Doc Review Warsaw and VISIONS DU REEL Nyon. The aim of the Doc Alliance initiative is to support the diversity of feature documentaries and to convince audiences of the fascinating, moving and instructive aspects of the cinema du réel where reality surpasses fiction and becomes spectacular.

Doc Alliance was born with the awareness that new initatives are needed to promote remarkable films to a general market that is less permeable to their circulation and commercialisation and to approach various audiences in every conceivable manner, ranging from cinema, television, DVD , VOD and other networks. Its objective is to create an inventive and dynamic distribution platform for filmmakers and producers by offering attractive alternatives, debates, choices and perspectives.

DOC ALLIANCE SELECTION represents five high-quality films, one selected by each of the Doc Alliance festival partners. The films tour the five festivals, and at the end of the year an international jury selects the Doc Alliance winner. In 2010 the Award will be handed over during the IDFF Jihlava festival.

WWW.DOCALLIANCEFILMS.COM is Doc Alliances’ new online cinema offering permanent access to over 400 outstanding documentaries selected by the five partner festivals. Twenty new films are added monthly and can be aquired through streaming or download.

As a one-off event you are able to watch films on DAF for FREE! This is a one-off 48 hour event only. Make sure to log on to WWW.DOCALLIANCEFILMS.COM and watch the films before it’s too late.

Into Eternity DIRECTOR: Michael Madsen

Original title:Into Eternity / Country:Denmark / Year:2009 / Running time:85 min. / Production:Magic Hour Films / Producer: Lise Lense-Møller

Michael Madsen’s award-winning nuclear thriller that world premiered at last year’s CPH:DOX, has been nominated for this year’s Doc Alliance award, giving you another chance to see the gorgeously beautiful and deeply disturbing film on the big screen. Every day, all around the world, great amounts of atomic waste are being produced, which are stored in temporary depots that are vulnerable to natural and manmade disasters. In an attempt to establish the world’s first permanent depot for atomic waste, digging is under way in Finland directly into the unshakeable bedrock. The depot should last for 100,000 years and be resistant to all kinds of climate change and other influences. But what do we know about future societies? Will there, after an ice age

or two, still be anyone around who knows that the depot exists? Do we have a moral obligation to warn future generations about the waste that we are leaving behind? Which languages and signs will one be able to understand in future? How and where do we put the warning signs? Hopefully, these questions will be answered before the depot is completed in about 120 years’ time.

The Doc Alliance award is handed out each year by CPH:DOX and four other European documentary film festivals.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB / Teater Grob: Tuesday 9/11 kl. 21:30 / Posthus Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 21:15

The Arrivals DIRECTOR: Claudine Bories, Patrice Chagnard

Original title:Les arrivants / Country:France / Year:2009 / Running time:111 min.

Who are they, all these people who every day try to sneak their way into Fort Europe? At a small and highly modest immigration office in Paris, we follow the life and the dramatic working days of two employees - and the even more chaotic and desperate lives of their many clients, who often arrive empty-handed, without any belongings and often without any papers. They are hoping to be granted asylum and a new life in France. But the road to freedom and a new life in Europe is covered with an almost inhuman level of bureaucracy, which becomes a frustrating obstacle for the people sitting on both sides of the desk. The film’s two directors Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard are flies on the wall

in the narrow office, and in a wonderful way manage to put faces to the people who are usually presented as statistics - and to the people whose job it is to receive the latest arrivals.

An employee of the Danish Red Cross’s asylum department will introduce the screening on Saturday, 6 November.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret: Saturday 6/11 kl. 19:00 / Vester Vov Vov: Sunday 7/11 kl. 16:30

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Metrobranding DIRECTOR: Adrian Voicu, Ana Vlad

Original title:Metrobranding / Country:Rumania / Year:2009 / Running time:92 min. / Production:Mandragora / Producer: Anca Puiu / Distribution:Mandragora

In the good old days, not so long ago, there was no more than one brand to choose from for each commodity in Romanian supermarkets. The Mobra motorbike, the Ileana sewing machine and the Relaxa mattress were some of the monopoly brands that made life a bit better for the inhabitants of the communist satellite state. And which over time also grew into symbols of a lost age, which, if nothing else, offered a sense of comfortable predictability, which today maybe is passé. Metrobranding looks at how time could convert a pair of Dragasani sneakers from a production line product into a piece of nostalgia, and at how industrial design in more than one way reflects the leading paradigm of an era.

But as we all know, a good product is not worth much without happy users, and the film therefore also focuses on the people. Younger and older Romanians have a differing view of the design success stories of the past - regarding them with both bittersweet melancholy and modern astonishment - and of how the smallest everyday objects in reality are a great part of the stuff that both personal and collective memory is made of. A cheerful film and a serious question: is one more free if one has several types of underpants to choose from?

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Teatret: Thursday 4/11 kl. 16:40 / Posthus Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 19:00

Steam of Life DIRECTOR: Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen

Original title:Miesten vuoro / Country:Finland / Year:2010 / Running time:81 min. / Production:Oktober / Producer: Berghäll Joonas

If you were ever wondering what it is about the Finns and their peculiar relation to the sauna, or were just plain curious what the deadpan tradition is all bout, ‘Steam of Life’ is a must-see. This film serves you better than any anthropology study, as it goes deep into the souls of Finnish men who after entering a sauna uncover not only their bodies, but also their troubled souls. Steam-filled rooms across this cold country are full of men who open up and reflect on their lives with an honesty and intensity rarely seen in a documentary. We hear stories about deaths and births, losses of loved ones, life failures and joys, all in all almost heart-breaking confessions lifted by humorous

intermezzos and immaculate long takes of Finnish landscapes. One feels like a fly on the steamy walls when listening to the stories.

However, the sauna scenes have been shot with a whole filmmaker team of five extra naked men in there together with the protagonists.

‘Steam of Life’ sure warms your heart, as much as sauna can warm your body on a cold winter day.

SCREENING DATES Det Kolde Gys: Saturday 6/11 kl. 10:00 / Det Kolde Gys: Saturday 6/11 kl. 16:00 / Gloria: Sunday 7/11 kl. 21:45 / Dagmar Teatret: Monday 8/11 kl. 19:00 / Grand Teatret: Sunday 14/11 kl. 21:30

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Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) DIRECTOR: Nicolas Wadimoff

Original title:Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) / Country:Switzerland/Quatar / Year:2010 / Running time:86 min. / Production:Akka Films, Point-du-Jour International, Télévision Suisse Romande, JCC-Jazeera Children’s Channel / Producer: Fayçal Hassairi, Joëlle Bertossa / Distribution:Point du Jour Productions

The break in a run-down school yard is accompanied by exploding grenades. Fishermen who sail too far out to sea end up being under fire. And the animals at the zoo are either starving or stuffed. But there is still life in Gaza, as the subtitle of ‘Aisheen’ indicates. And one can only be impressed by the strongly challenged inhabitants’ will to survive every day in the bitter and exhausting conflict they live in - and which they here manage to put in words. Few weeks after the war between Israel and Palestine in 2009, Nicolas Wadimoff travelled to Gaza to take part in everyday life and to document the destruction at street-level, which rarely reaches the television news in the rest

of the world. The rap group DARG Team has made the soundtrack for Wadimoff’s hand-held and intense images, but it is the people he encounters on the way that ‘own’ this film.

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov: Thursday 4/11 kl. 21:15 / Grand Teatret: Thursday 11/11 kl. 17:00 / Gloria: Sunday 14/11 kl. 17:30

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STEAM OF LIFE BY JOONAS BERGHÄLL & MIKA HOTAKAINEN PHOTO BY OKTOBER OY

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CONTACTS Aada Niilola Finland aadasigurlina@gmail.com Ada Bligaard Søby Denmark adasoby@hotmail.com Against Gravity Widok 5/7/9, Street, Suite 410 00-023 Warsaw, Poland Tel. +48 60 475 1030 joanna.plesnar@wp.pl Agitprop c/o Fransman, Bragegatan 2B 21430 Malmö, Sweden Tel. +46 7 0672 9463 marcus@rannstensfilm.se Akka Films 4 Rue des Marbriers 1204 Genève, Switzerland Tel. + 41 22 345 11 70 info@akkafilms.ch Aline d’Auria Rue du Maupas 46 1004 Lausanne Switzerland Tel. +41 76 520 5832 info@alinedauria.ch All Rise Films contact@allrisefilms.com Andreas Koefoed Sorgenfrigade 1, 3.th.

2200 Copenhagen N Denmark Tel. +45 4091 4031 andkoef@yahoo.dk

Anna Maria Helgadóttir Denmark Tel. +45 6073 7683 annamariahelgadottir@gmail.com Antar Marlinspike Hall, Walpole, Halesworth IP19 9AR Suffolk, UK Tel. +44 19 8678 4664 cally@antar.cc

Boris Bertram Amagergade 11B, 2. tv.

1423 Copenhagen K Denmark boris.bertram@gmail.com

Artangel 31 Eyre Street Hill EC1R 5EW London, UK Tel. +44 20 7713 1400

Brink Films 134 S. Van Ness CA 90004 Los Angeles USA Tel. +1 972 3529 8897 film@brinkfilm.com

ArtPeople| PeopleGroup Vester Farimagsgade 41 1606 Copenhagen V Denmark Tel. +45 7221 5317 marie.hecht@artpeople.dk

Bungalow Town Productions Ltd Southmore Cottage, Long Green IP22 1PU Wortham, Suffolk UK rachel@bungalow-town.com

Atlas Films 3120 A Colorado Avenue 90404 santa Monica, USA Tel. +1 310 310 8637 stephanie@atlasfilms.com

Campbell of Argyle Films Ltd PO Box 109236, Newmarket 1031 Auckland New Zealand Tel. +116 421894424 camcooley@yahoo.com

Atmo Media Network AB Götgatan 9 S 11646 Stockholm, Sweden Tel. +46 8462 2690 info@atmo.se Autlook Filmsales GbR Zieglergasse 75/1 AT-1070 Wien, Austria Tel. +43 720 5535 70 youn@autlookfilms.com

Ange Leccia France angeleccia@free.fr

Barbara Gladstone Gallery 515 West 24th Street NY 10011 New York, USA Tel. +1 212 206 9300 info@gladstonegallery.com

Angel Films Blomstervænget 52 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark Peter Sølvsten Thomsen Tel. +45 25 59 99 16 peter@angelfilms.dk

BBC Worldwide 80 Wood Lane W120TT London, UK Tel. +44 20 8433 2000

Anna Larsson Lantmannagatn 21448 Malmö Sweden Tel. +46 7 3957 4715 violetta.anna@gmail.com

Blaine Dunlap USA pixlap@gmail

Ben Russell USA br@dimeshow.com Beofilm / DDR-Film Denmark Tel. +45 2681 0622

Cat & Docs 18 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris France Tel. +33 1 4459 6353 maelle@catndocs.com, cat@ catndocs.com Celsius Entertainment Ltd. 249 Gray WC1X 8QZ London UK Tel. +44 20 7193 1801 mc@celsiusentertainment.com Channel 4 International 124 Horseferry Road SW1 2TX London UK Tel. +44 20 7396 4444 rlife@channel4.co.uk Charles Fairbanks PO Box 571 68850 Lexington, Nebraska USA Tel. +1 734 478 0662 charles.fairbanks@gmail.com

Cheim & Reid 547 West 25th Street NY 10001 New York USA Tel. +1 212 242 7727 Jan Endlich jan@cheimread.com Cherry Red Records 114 Power Road W4 5PY London UK Tel. +44 20 8996 3120 infonet@cherryred.co.uk Cinédoc / Paris Film-Coop 18 rue Montmartre 75001 Paris France Tel. +33 1 4233 1064 cinedoc@wanadoo.fr Cinémathèque Francaise France Bernard Benoliel b.benoliel@ cinemathequefrancaise.com Claire Franklin Film Production c/o atelier 19e Gauss strasse 19e D-22765 Hamburg Germany nargis.film@googlemail.com Closer Productions 54A High Street Kensington 5068 Adelaide, Australia Tel. +61 413 797 674 matt@closerproductions.com.au ContentFilm International 19 Heddon Street W1B 4BG London, UK Tel. +44 207 851 6500 rebecca.berry@contentfilm.com Culturesfrance 1 bis, avenue de Villars 75007 Paris France Tel. +33 1 5369 8300 info@culturesfrance.com Danish Documentary Production Kompagnistræde 20B 1201 Copenhagen K Denmark Tel. +45 2616 2535

CONTACTS Danish Film Institute Gothersgade 55 1123 Copenhagen K Denmark Tel. +45 3374 3609 kurstein@dfi.dk Denise Vindevogel 103 Meerweg B: A63 1601 Ruisbroeck The Netherlands Deniz Eroglu Denmark Tel. +45 6177 6005 babacim@gmail.com Doc & Film International 13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris, France Tel. +33 1 4277 5687 d.elstner@docandfilm.com Documentary Educational Resources 101 Morse Street MA 02472 Watertown, USA Tel. +1 617 926 0491 docued@der.org, cclose@der.org DOX:BIO Tagensvej 85 F 2200 Copenhagen N Denmark info@doxbio.dk Doyle Studio 35 Powers Street 11211 Brooklyn, NY, USA DRG 21-25 St Anne’s Court W1F 0BJ London, UK Tel. +44 20 7494 5828 b.noot@drg.tv E1 Entertainment 175 Bloor St. East, Suite 1400 N. Tower CDN Toronto, Canada Tel. +1 416 646 2400 cmickie@e1ent.com Eggleston Artistic Trust USA info@egglestontrust.com

Ego Productions 3 rue des Déchargeurs 75001 Paris, France Tel. +33 6 2322 2072 Electronic Arts Intermix 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor NY 10011 New York, USA Tel. +1 212 337 0694 info@eai.org Elle Driver 66, rue de Miromesnil 75008 Paris, France Tel. +33 1 5643 4875 julie@elledriver.eu EMI Records 27 Wrights Lane W8 5SW London, UK Tel. +44 20 7795 7000 Estudi Playtime, S.L. Passeig del Canal, 5-Estudi 8 St. Feliu de Llobregat 8980 Barcelona, Spain Tel. +34 637 925 405 Eva Marie Rødbro Dirk Sonoystraat 139 1067XV Amsterdam Netherlands Tel. +31 61 207 9048 ms.redbridge@gmail.com Exhibit A Pictures 186 East 2nd Street 10009 New York USA Tel. +001 646-436-3550 vanessa@peoplevsgeorge.com Eyeworks Distribution Anthony Fokkerweg 61 1059 CP Amsterdam Netherlands Tel. +31 20 346 3715 distribution@eyeworks.tv Fastnet Films 75-76 Camden St. Lwr. - 1st floor 2 Dublin Ireland Tel. +353 1 478 9566

Films Transit International Inc. 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Quebec Canada Tel. +1 514 844 3358 janrofekamp@filmstransit.com, info@filmstransit.com Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE TV1 PL 89 24 Yleisradio/ Helsinki Finland Tel. +358 9 1480 2621 First Hand Films Fritz Heeb-Weg 5 8050 Zürich Switzerland Tel. +41 44 312 20 60 info@firsthandfilms.com Foksal Gallery Foundation Ul. Górskiego 1A 00-033 Warsaw Poland Tel. +48 22 826 5081 mail@fgf.com.pl Fortissimo Film Sales Veemarkt 77-79 1019 DA Amsterdam Netherlands Tel. +31 20 627 3215 Freestyle Phanatix Framtidsgatan 8 244 31 Kävlinge Sweden Tel. +46 46 73 00 90 Freestyle Releasing, LLC 24955 Pacific Coast Highway, Suite A103 90265 Malibu, CA USA Tel. +1 310 456 2332 Frosti Runolfsson Iceland billymonkeyface@gmail.com Galerie Chantal Crousel 10 rue Charlot 75003 Paris Tel. +33 142 773 887 galerie@crousel.com

Galerie Marian Goodman 79, rue du Temple 75003 Paris - France Tel. 00 33 (0)1 48 04 70 52 www.mariangoodman.com GB Agency 18 rue des 4 Fils F-75003 Paris F-75003 Paris France Tel. +33 1 5379 0713 gb@gbagency.fr Icon Production Str. Plantelor nr. 23 ap.4 Romania Tel. +40 213 111 367 velvetmoraru@yahoo.com ie ie productions ltd UK catryn@ramasut.com Indiestory FL., BaekAk B/D, 135-4, TongIndong, 110-043 Seoul Korea, Republic of Tel. +82 2 722 6051 Institut National de l’Audovisuel, INA Avenue de l’Europe 4 94366 Bry sur Marne Cedex France Tel. +33 1 4983 2000 Interpretation Productions Tel. +45 39 64 22 84 empirenorththemovie@gmail.com Iris Olsson Finland olssoniris@gmail.com Jamie Yuenger USA jamie@FRESHthemovie.com Jazbo von Magius Gross Bykildevej 2, 3tv 2500 Valby Denmark Tel. +45 2278 6833 jazbogross@gmail.com

CONTACTS Jeonju International Film Festival 4F, Korea Stationery Centre 186-33 Jangchung-dong 2-ga, Jung-gu 100-855 Seoul Korea, Republic of Tel. +82 2 2285 0562 industry@jiff.or.kr Jesse Mclean USA jessemclean@gmail.com John Alan Simon USA Tel. +1 818 760 4438 simon50@aol.com John Price 185 Vine Avenue M6P IV9 Toronto Canada john@filmdiary.org Kairos Film Friedrichstr. 17 80801 München Germany Tel. +49 89 2717 480 kluge@dctp.de Katrine Philp Denmark katrinephilp@gmail.com Kilo Films USA Jared Ian Goldman jigoldman30@gmail.com Kjartanson ehf Vatnsstígur 9 101 Reykjavík Iceland Tel. +354 8987 111 sifu76@gmail.com Klassefilm Kronprinsessegade 46D 4 1306 Copenhagen K Denmark Tel. +45 2026 7440 sax@klassefilm.dk Klubb Super 8 Postfack 193 116 74 Stockholm Sweden rgramfors@chello.se

KOW-Berlin Brunnenstrasse D-10119 Berlin Germany Tel. +49 (0)30 311 66 770 gallery@kow-berlin.com

Magic Hour Films ApS Baldersgade 6 2200 Copenhagen N Denmark Tel. +45 3964 2284 llm@magichourfilms.dk

Monday Media Vermundsgade 40A 2100 Copenhagen Ø Tel. +45 39 16 60 00 Denmark monday@monday.dk

Laura Bartlett Gallery 10 Northington Street WC1N 2JG London, UK Tel. +44 20 7404 9251 mail@laurabartlettgallery.com

Magna Tv & Film / Zentropa Hesseløgade 2, 2. th 2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark

Mosfilm Russia Sergey Simagin guseva@mosfilm.ru

Les Ateliers Varan 6 Impasse Mont-Louis 75011 Paris, France Tel. +33 1 4356 6404 contact@ateliersvaran.com

Magnolia Pictures 49 W 27th St., 7th Floor NY 10001 New York USA Tel. +1 212 924 6701 nfuruichi@magpictures.com

Munkfilms 83 Perivale Crescent, Scarborough M1J 2C4 Ontario Canada alex@munkfilms.com

Les Films du Losange 22, Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie 75116 Paris France Tel. +33 1 4443 8710 l.zipci@filmsdulosange.fr

Malene Nielsen Freundsgade 12 1775 Copenhagen V Denmark Tel. +45 2621 7858 kosmonautknap@gmail.com

Mutato Muzika 8760 Sunset Blvd.

CA 90069 Los Angeles USA Tel. +1 310 360 0561 info@mutato.com

Lichtblick Film und Fernsehproduktion Apostelnstrasse 11 50667 Köln Germany Tel. +49 221 925 7520

Mandragora Docentilor 12A, ap. 3, Sector 1 11403 Bucharest Romania Tel. +40 722 364 132 anca@mandragora.ro

National Film and Sound Archive McCoy Circuit, Acton ACT 2601 Canberra Australia Tel. +64 02 6248 2210 David.Atfield@nfsa.gov.au

Light Cone 157, rue de Crimée, atelier 105 75019 Paris France Tel. +33 1 4659 0153 eleni.gioti@lightcone.org

Mary Posatko USA levonhelmmovie@gmail.com

Lisa Troland USA Tel. +1 646 448 4457 lisatroland@gmail.com Lockhart Studio 665 Oleander Drive CA 90042 Los Angeles USA Tel. +1 323 478 0305 lockhartstudio@me.com LUX 3rd Floor 18 Shacklewell Lane London NW1 9NX E8 2EZ UK Tel. +44 207 503 3980 mike.sperlinger@lux.org.uk

Mauro Andrizzi - Mono Films Achaval 221 - 1st floor C1406CWA Buenos Aires Argentina Tel. +54 11 3527 0059 mauroandrizzi@gmail.com Memento Films International 6 Cité Paradis 75010 Paris France Tel. + 33 1 5334 9027 sales@memento-films.com Michael Noer Enghavevej 23, 3.th.

1674 Copenhagen V Denmark Tel. +45 2328 6375 michael_noer@hotmail.com

Nature & Science Vester Voldgade 94 st.th.

1552 Copenhagen K Denmark Tel. +45 2540 1700 info@naturescience.dk Neuer Berliner Kunstverein 10115 Berlin Germany nbk@nbk.org Nevette Previd Inc. USA nevette@previdconsulting.com Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery USA nicole@nicoleklagsbrun.com Nikolaj Larsen Denmark nikolaj@spring69.dk

CONTACTS Nitsch Foundation Hegelgasse 5 1010 Vienna, Austria Tel. +43 1 513 55 30 office@nitschfoundation.com NPO Sales PO Box 26444 1202 GP Hilversum Netherlands Tel. +31 35 677 3561 info@nposales.com O’Salvation Cine Ltd 4100 Lealand Lane TN 37204 Nashville USA Tel. +1 646 469 4547 charles-marie.anthonioz@ agnesb.fr

Pilvi Takala Finland pilvi.takala@gmail.com Piraya Film AS Lervigsveien 22 NO’4 Norway Stavanger Norway Tel. +47 51 11 63 36 mail@piraya.no Plattform Production Sweden mail@plattformproduktion.se Plexus Films 54a High Street Kensington 5068 Adelaide, Australia Tel. +61 8 8361 3933 matt@plexusfilms.com.au

Olivier-Films 36 avenue du Printemps 1410 Waterloo Belgium Tel. +32 2 344 00 94 r.olivier@skynet.be

Point du Jour Productions 38, rue Croix des Petits Champs 75001 Paris France Tel. +33 1 4703 1711 d.weitzel@pointdujour-prod.fr

Palm Pictures 76 Ninth Avenue, Suite 1110 NY 10001 New York USA Tel. +1 212 320 3600 Ed.Arentz@palmpictures.com

Praxis Films Laura Poitras, Phone: (212) 268-0218 Email: laurapoitras@gmail.com

Parts and Labor 177 North 10th Street, Suite F NY 11211 Brooklyn, USA Tel. +1 917 224 3166 lars@population2.com Pett Productions Ltd The Glass House, 26a Merstham High St, RH1 3EA Merstham, Surrey, UK Tel. +44 17 3764 6848 info@pettproductions.co.uk Pieter van Huystee Film og Tv Noordermarkt 37-39 1015 NA Amsterdam Netherlands Tel. +31 20 421 0606 simone@pvhfilm.nl Pilar Corrias Gallery 54 Eastcastle Streest W1W8EF London, UK Tel. +44 207 323 7000 isabella@pilarcorrias.com

Pulse Films 1 Book Mews, Flitcroft Street WC2H 8DJ London UK Tel. +44 20 7240 2414 thomas@pulsefilms.co.uk Radio Televisión Española Avda.Radiotelevisión no 4 28223 Pozuelo de Ala Madrid Spain Tel. +34 91 581 5401 mjesus.perez@rtve.es Rebus Film Lundtoftegade 16 2200 Copenhagen N Denmark Tel. +45 2972 2097 Reel U Media USA Tel. +1 516 833 5855 lisa.reelu@gmail.com Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New

York Public Library for the Performing Arts Elena Rossi-Snook New York, USA erossisnook@nypl.org

Schau Ort Müllerstrasse 57 8004 Zürich, Austria Tel. +43 43 322 01 15 info@schauort.com

Revolver Films 53 Ontario St., 4th Floor Toronto, Ontario, M5a 2V1, Canada Tel. +1 (416) 869-0420 Janiie McInnes jannie@revolverfilms.com

Sciapode 16 Rue Bleue 75009 Paris, France Tel. +33 1 7834 2525 info@sciapode.net

Rhino Entertainment Company 3400 West Olive Avenue, 4th Floor CA 91505 Burbank, USA Tel. +1 818 238 6209 Erin.D’Angelo@rhino.com Rhombus Media 99 Spadina Avenue, Suite 600 M5V 3P8 Toronto, Ontario Canada Tel. +1 416 971 7856 Ro*co Films International llc 80 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 5 94965 Sausalito, USA Tel. +1 415 332 6471 info@rocofilms.com Robin Färdig Sweden Tel. +46 73 678 19 79 robinfardig@gmail.com Roee Rosen POB 326 60910 Bnai Zion, Israel Tel. +972 5 4222 6853 agrosen@netvision.net.il Sarah Turner 7 Greencoat Mansions, Greencoat Row SW1P 1PG London, UK Tel. +44 79 6011 0403 sturner@bewitched.demon.co.uk Schaf Oder Scharf Film Gleimstrasse 27 10437 Berlin Germany Tel. +49 30 4199 6613 zorana@schafoderscharf.de

Scottish Documentary Institute/Docspace 74 Lauriston Place EH3 9DF Edinbourg, UK Tel. +44 131 2216125 f.pretsell@eca.ac.uk Sebastian Cordes Denmark cordes.film@gmail.com Secher & Schulsinger Jesper Brochmands Gade 3, 2tv.

Denmark Tel. +45 2812 1112 schulsinger@hotmail.com Serena Brown Production Assistant BBC UK Tel. +44 20 7765 0020 serena.keynon@bbc.co.uk Shady Lane Productions UK Tel. +49 30 609 239 76 info@shadylaneproductions. co.uk Sofie Thorsen Ausstellungstrasse 17/15 1020 Wien, Austria Tel. +43 699 1258 7040 mail@sofiethorsen.net Sony Danmark a/s Hørsvinget 1 2630 Taastrup Denmark Sony Pictures Releasing International 10202 West Washington Blvd.

CA 90232-3195 Culver City USA Tel. +1 310 244 2073 sal_ladestro@spe.sony.com

CONTACTS Sophie Dulac Distribution 16, rue Christophe Colombe 75008 Paris France Tel. +33 1 4443 4600 sddistribution@sddistribution.fr

Sundance Institute 8530 Wilshire Blvd., 3rd Floor Beverly Hills, CA 90211-3114 Tel: 310-360-1981 Fax: 310-360-1969 Paricia_Finneran@Sundance.org

The Salt Company (International) ltd 3rd floor, 1a adpar street W2 1DE London, UK Tel. +44 20 7535 6714 info@salt-co.com

Speak-it Films UK Tel. +44 207 939 3160 info@speak-it.org

Super 16 Mosedalvej 14 2500 Valby Denmark Tel. +45 2889 3930 info@super16.dk

Transient Pictures 250 W 49th Street, Suite 805 NY 10019 New York, USA Tel. +1 610 500 1605 landon@transientpictures.com

Story AB Virkesvägen 2a 12030 Stockholm, Sweden Tel. +46 8156 280 tobias@story.se Storyline Entertainment Toronto, Canada Tel. +001 416 603-8333 lisa@storylineentertainment.com Storyteller Productions 25 Washington Street, #536 11201 Brooklyn, NY USA Storyville Films 125 West End Avenue, FL4 10023 New York, USA films@storyville.org Strange and Beautiful USA felix@strangeandbeautiful.com Studio Babelsberg August-Bebel-Straße 26-53 ‘14482 Potsdam, Germany Tel. +49 33 1721 2137 eike.wolf@studiobabelsberg.com

Swedish Film Institute Filmhuset, Borgvägen Postbox 27126 S-102 52 Stockholm Sweden Tel. +46 8 665 1100 sara.ruster@sfi.se Swiss Dots 67, Redchurch Street E2 7DH London N6 5SF UK Tel. +44 20 7739 9875 helvetica@swissdots.com Taskovski Films (Czech) Korunovacni 32 170 00 Czech Republic Tel. +420 731 164 079 irena@taskovskifilms.com Tertulia Films 35 rue Oberkampf 75011 Paris, France Tel. +33 6 7413 7935 brieux.ferot@tertuliafilms.com

Studio Dybbroe Møller Denmark studiodybbroemoller@gmail.com

The Coproduction Office Mommsenstrasse 27 D-10629 Berlin, Germany Tel. +49 30 3243 053 festivals@coproductionoffice.eu

Stylejam 3F, 3 25 5 jingumae, shibuyaku 150 001 Tokyo, Japan Tel. +81 3 5771 3566 yuko@stylejam.com.jp

The Cryptic Corporation USA hfox@crypticorp.com

Submarine Entertainment 132 Crosby st., 8th Fl 10012 New York USA Tel. +1 212 625 1410 josh@submarine.com

The Film-Makers’ Cooperative 475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor NY 10016 New York, NY, USA Tel. +1 212 267 566 filmmakerscoop@gmail.com

YLE/FST5 Radiogatan 5 24 Rundradion, Finland Tel. +358 4 0559 7172 lotta.wigelius-wulff@yle.fi Zed Films 36 Yehudit Avenue 67016 Tel-Aviv, Israel Tel. +972 3 562 2252 info@zedfilms.co.il

Umedia 14 rue de 18 août 93100 Montreuil, France Tel. +33 1 4870 7318 contact@umedia.fr

Zentropa Filmbyen #12 Postbox 505 2650 Hvidovre Denmark Tel. +45 36 86 87 64 zentropa.real@filmbyen.com

United International Pictures Building 5, Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Road Uip House W45YF London, UK Tel. +44 20 3184 2500 enquiries@uip.com

Zillah Bowes (Zed Films) Flat 3, 49 Lady Margaret Road NW5 2NH London UK Tel. +44 20 7939 236813 z@zillahbowes.com

Upfront Films Aps Baldersgade 6 2200 Copenhagen N Denmark Tel. +45 8881 0788 hv@upfrontfilms.dk

Zipporah Films One Richdale Ave., Unit #4 MA 02140 Cambridge USA Tel. +1 617 576 3603 info@zipporah.com

Vincent Grenier Canada vgrenier@binghamton.edu

Zeitun Films info@zeitunfilms.com www.zeitunfilms.es

Vixen Films 26, Balfour Road Kim Longinotto N5 2HE London, UK Tel. +44 20 7359 7368 kimlonginotto@hotmail.com WALTORP VIUM Skindergade 2c, 2. tv 1159 Copenhagen K Denmark Tel. +45 4062 9763 info@christianvium.dk Wild Bunch 99 rue de la Verrerie 75004 Paris, France Tel. +33 1 5301 5020 edevos@wildbunch.eu Will Schluter wschluter@gmail.com

TITLES Cuchillo de Palo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

18 documentaries from Libanon, Iran and Denmark 4 shorts by Cameron Jamie . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5 Beats Before Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5 Pictures of a Father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

93 217 135 181 115

Empire North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Enjoy Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Erotic Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of Jose Gonzalez . .

114 184 38 170 74

The Achromatic Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Adolescence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Afternoon films and Q & A with Ben & Josh Safdie .

AGAINST DEATH (THE FOURTH WALL ) . . . . . . . .

Ain’t In It for My Health: a Film about Levon Helm .

Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

American: The Bill Hicks Story . . . . . . . . . . . . ...And Everything Is Going Fine . . . . . . . . . . . .

Animal Collective vs Danny Perez . . . . . . . . . . .

The Arbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Art Museum As TV Station? . . . . . . . . . . . .

Artist Talk: Cyprien Gaillard . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

At the Edge of Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Aung San Suu Kyi - Lady of No Fear . . . . . . . . . .

The Autobiograpy of Nicolae Ceausescu . . . . . . .

112, 171 172 226 50 75 94, 254 205 33 231 27 188, 252 216 213 37 98 35

Facts & Fakes: Alexander Kluge . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fishing with John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Four Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Freakonomics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

From Palestine With Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

158 119 108 163 31 202 194 180

Get Out of the Car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Glenn O’ Brien’s TV Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Go Get Some Rosemary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Go Quiet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Go Live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Good Fortune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Good Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) Vs. Separado . . .

47 161 208 86 87 185 30 233

Backyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Balangay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Battle in Heaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Beach House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Begotten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bingo/Ninths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Black on White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Blood of Havana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

La bola de cristal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Boxing Gym . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Brain Damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Brian Eno: Another Green World . . . . . . . . . . .

Brügger & Bertelsen present... . . . . . . . . . . . .

Burning Bush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Busker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

82 178 140 236 146 169 158 136 164 204 145 78 159 62 107

Hamper McBee: Raw Mash . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Happy People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hjaltalín vs. Saga Sig & Hildur Yeoman . . . . . . . .

Holy Ghost People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Home Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Home Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Homeless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hudas Hudas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

137 23 155 233 136 118 52 102 176

Chips and Liver Girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chumlum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

La cicatrice intérieure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Colony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cooking History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cool It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cornelius: Sensurround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Crystal Voyager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

178 172 155 195 194 203 153 144

I am Secretly an Important Man . . . . . . . . . . . .

I Touched Her Legs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I’m Still Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

In Free Fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

In the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Inside Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Into Eternity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Iran Underground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Irma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

It Felt Like a Kiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IT WORKS! - a dialogue with Emmanuel Jal . . . . .

84 53 32 59 28 202 208, 252 216 124 163 189

Daft Punk: Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem . . . . . . . .

David Wants to Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Desniansky Raion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Detroit Wild City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Devo: The Men Who Make the Music . . . . . . . . .

Devoir et déroute (Episode 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Dick Cavett Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Double Tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

DOX:MOSAIC - Documentary Film in the Arab world Dragon Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Draquila - Italy Trembles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

153 201 169 29 154 65 161 45 218 180 90

Einstürzende Neubauten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

235

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Jack Straw’s Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Jacob Aue Sobol: Den Ultimative adgang . . . . . .

Jalalu’s Dawn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Je t’aime infiniment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child . . . . . .

Jomi Massage vs. Jakob Oredsson . . . . . . . . . .

Jordan Belson: Allures + Whitney Brothers: Six Shorts Khavn de la Cruz Vs. Vigo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Koudlam & Cyprien Gaillard . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

61 213 125 179 200 234 147 232 230

The Lake in the Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Legend of Leigh Bowery . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lemmy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Life 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Life and Times of Don Rosa . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Listening Party with Third Ear . . . . . . . . . . . . .

111 144 81 206 201 224

TITLES The Live! Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Look at What the Light Did Now . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lost Every Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lost Inside A Dream - The Story Of Dizzy Mizz Lizzy .

Love During Wartime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

164 72 129 85 97

Mac and Plac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Magic for Beginners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Make It New John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Manenberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Manipulation - Images on Air . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Marxism today (prologue) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Master Chen Lives on 88 Lucky Street . . . . . . . .

Masterclass: Ben & Josh Safdie . . . . . . . . . . . .

Masterclass: Ben Russell & John Price . . . . . . .

Masterclass: Günter Wallraff . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A Metro Ride to Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Metrobranding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mob Rule: Kickstarter on Crowdfunding . . . . . . .

Mogens Vemmer presents... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

My Avatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

My Cousin the Pirate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

My Melody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Mystery of Flying Kicks . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

137 57 46 109 228 51 177 214 214 212 179 225 206, 253 215 159 117 104, 184 79 123

The Naked of Saint Petersburg . . . . . . . . . . . .

Nargis - When Time Stopped Breathing . . . . . . .

Nénette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

New Iinternational Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

New platforms: Guggenheim, Youtube & Babelgum .

The News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Nostalgia I, II, III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Nørrebro Knock-Out: Film and Boxing Match . . . .

113 96 204 217 215 162 60 227

The Oath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Oddsac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

One is the Loneliest Number... . . . . . . . . . . . .

Das Orgien Mysterien Theater . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Out of the Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow . . . . . . . . . . .

91 152 177 139 49 138 26

Palle Strøm presents... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Paria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The People vs. George Lucas . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Perestroika . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Phantoms of the Zoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pig Iron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pink Saris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pixote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Plain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pony Tales Presents Black Summer . . . . . . . . .

The Promise: The Making of Darkness On The Edge of Town Real Snow White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Regretters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Residents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ride, Rise, Roar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ruhr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Runo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ruslan and Ludmila . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

160 44 200 63 128 171 89 135 170 231 83

56 43 152, 152 77 42 126 146

Russian Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

95

Sambuca Kid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

127 Saute ma ville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

168 Scenatet & Bent Sørensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

234 Screening Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

162 Sculpture Plein-air, Swiecie 2009 . . . . . . . . . . .

64 Seminar: Exploit, Consume, Enjoy . . . . . . . . . .

191 Send A Bullet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

186 Separado! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

80 Shit & Shine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

230 SHORT:DOX vs. Future Shorts . . . . . . . . . . . . .

223 Shout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

92 Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication . . . . .

160 Small Protests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

122 Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

190 Sometimes It’s Gonna Hurt . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

138 Son of God (short version) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

34, 176 A Spaceship In The Basement . . . . . . . . . . . . .

212 Der Spiegel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

168 The Spirit of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

110 Squeeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

66 Steam of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207, 227, 253 Stranded in Canton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

134 Street Art: Debate and Workshop . . . . . . . . . . .

226 Streetwise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

134 Sundance Institute Presents . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

188 Tabloid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

203 Tapped . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

195 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre . . . . . . . . . . . .

145 The The: Infected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

154 This Movie is Broken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

73 To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America 187 To The End Of The World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

70, 232 Tommy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

106 Trafficking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103, 187 Trypps 7 / Let Each One Go Where He May . . . . . .

48 TV dinner at DOX:CLUB: It Felt Like a Kiss + The News 222 TV Party at Bakken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

222 The Two Escobars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

205 Urgences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

139

Le vele di Scampia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vincent Moon & Gaspar Claus . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vincent Moon: Secret Shorts . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

58 235 225

Waiting for Superman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

207 War Child / concert by Emmanuel Jal . . . . . . . . .

189 Waste Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

88 We Are All Africans. Welcome Home. . . . . . . . . . 105, 185 Werewolves Across America . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

76 When China Met Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

188 WHY POVERTY? Broadcasters Challenging TV Stereotypes 190 The Woman in My Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

215 Women are Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

186 The Yeast Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Yellow Waste / Blue Heaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

You Are All Captains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Youtube Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

116 54, 55 36 224

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