CPHDOX 2009 - International Catalogue

CPH:DOX 2009

Contents

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Welcome Juries Gala

28 30 42 72 94 112 136

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

148 150 160 164

ARTIST IN FOCUS Philippe Grandrieux Nathalie Djurberg Vincent Moon

176 178 190 204 214 216 226 236

SPECIAL FOCUS 09 Made in Sweden P:O:R:N:O RE:THINK DOX:POLITICS New Deal Iran Vs. Iran Urban Change

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DOX:REGULARS TOP:DOX Seminars

276 278 286

DOX:EXPANDED Concerts and Parties Special Screenings

294 296 298 304

DOX:INDUSTRY DOX:FORUM DOX:MARKET DOX:LAB

308 320 324

Doc Alliance CONTACTS INDEX OF FILMS

CREDITS Festival Director: Tine Fischer Programme Committee: Tine Fischer (responsible), Niklas Engstrøm, Thure Munkholm, Mads Mikkelsen, Mads Bacher.

Film Preview Group: Niklas Engstrøm (responsible), Thure Munkholm, Mads Bacher, Tine Fischer, Mads Mikkelsen, Daniella Eversby, Malou Leth Reymann, Louise Højgaard Johansen, Mathilde Rosendahl Philipsen, Synnøve Kjærland, Marie Louise Siim DOX:MARKET & DOX:FORUM: Riina Spørring Zachariassen, Tine Mosegaard, Jonas Jessen, Ursula Marcussen DOX:FORUM Graphics design: Majbrit Linnebjerg / Banalic Event Production: Niklas Engstrøm (responsible), Marie Skovgaard, Kaspar Jensen, Thinh Duc Tran, Anders Lindegaard, Stine Fagerholt, Amalie Linde, Eva Kanstrup, Mads Mikkelsen, Nadia Adamsen Faber, Daniella Eversby, Lykke Fogtmann, Kirstine Barfod, Casper Rasmussen, Carl Emil Ammundsen, Marie Louise Siim Marketing and PR: Daniella Eversby (responsible), Rikke Rasmussen, Lykke Fogtmann, Sandra Sveinbjørnsson

CPH:DOX’s official main sponsors are: The Capital Region of Denmark, Playstation, DR, The Danish Ministry of Culture, The Danish Film Institute, Politiken, Copenhagen City Council, Jameson CPH:DOX’s sponsors and contributors are: Alexandra Institute, The American Embassy, Amnesty, CKU, Danish Union of Journalists, Danish Association of Film Directors, EU-nævnet, FAF, IMS, LO, MEDIA, Merkur Bank, Nordisk Filmfond, Nordisk Film & TV fond, Nordisk Kulturfond, Danish Producers Association, Statens Kunstråd, the Embassy of the Czech Republic, TV5monde, UBOD, Vi KBH’R CPH:DOX has collaborated with: Air France, artFREQ, Bazar Music Shop, Cinemateket, Clearchannel, COOP/ Kvickly, Copenheroes, Doc Alliance, Dok Leipzig, DOX:WISE, DSB, East Silver, EAVE, Escho, E-sport Danmark, Europcar, Fair Trade, Fera, Filmkopi, Forbrugerrådet, the French Embassy, Institut Français, Goethe Institut, Greenway, IDDF Jihlava, Joe and the Juice, Kent kaffe, KILROY travels, Lindeman, MBR, Manden med Cameraet, Meyer, Montana, Planete Doc Review, Pumpehuset, Rust, the Swedish Film Institute, Skt. Petri, National Gallery of Denmark, Støberiet, SUPERmarked. org, Third Ear, Tim’s Cookies, VEGA, Vester Kopi, Visions du Reel Nyon, WIFT

Web Editor: Mads Bacher

Catalogue: Niklas Engstrøm, Thure Munkholm, Mads Mikkelsen, Tine Fischer, Louise Voss Bendixen, Louise Højgaard Johansen, Kristoffer Horn Jensen, Janne Kristensen, Lise Nielsen, Vibeke Bryld, Kaspar Jensen, Marie Skovgaard, Ida Brixtofte Nielsen, Carl Emil Aamundsen & Claus Kjær.

Graphic design and layout: Mads Bacher Poster- and front page photograph: Jesper Pedersen, Sofie Holten Poster- and front page layout: Emil Hartvig Andersen Fotograf: Lasse Bech Martinussen Festival trailer: Directors: Jesper Pedersen and Sofie Holten Cinematography: Nadim Carlsen Editing: Sofie Holten Produced by: READY-MADE Typography and production: Andreas Steinmann

Translation: Andrew Blackwell

Advertisement sales: MBR/Musikbranchens Reklamebureau

Festival Producer: Kirstine Barfod (responsible),Casper Rasmussen, Andreas Steinmann

Print: Vester Kopi, 2009, 1,000 copies.

Reprinting permitted on condition of mention of source.

Catalogue Editor: Mads Bacher

Press: Vibeke Bryld (responsible), Ida Brixtofte Nielsen, Lasse Andreasen Print Coordinator: Patricia Drati Rønde Guest Coordinators CPH:DOX: Kirstine Barfod, Casper Rasmussen Guest Coordinators DOX:FORUM: Riina Spørring Zachariassen, Ursula Marcussen Guest Coordinators DOX:LAB: Mette Sø, Jakob Svensson.

Web: Mads Bacher & Andreas Steinmann.

Volunteer Coordination & Production: Lena Bredlund DOX:LAB: Mette Sø (responsible), Jakob Svensson, Jonas Jessen, Solveig Søholm.

YOUNG:DOX: Nadia Adamsen Faber, Kristoffer Horn DOX:CLUB: Kristoffer Horn, Kirstine Barfod, Casper Rasmussen Cities on Speed: Kristoffer Horn (responsible), Nadia Adamsen Faber DOC ALLIANCE: Tine Fischer, Daniella Eversby DR:DOX: Daniella Eversby (responsible), Kaspar Jensen, Kristian Møller Jørgensen, Kirstine Barfod, Casper Rasmussen

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WELCOME

As in previous years, we are here to offer you a quality selection of independent filmmaking from around the world. This year more than ever we have made it our finest ambition to devote ourselves to the discovery of the new auteurs of tomorrow. Curiosity, discovery and a hopefully free mind have formed our choices, we truly hope that the festival can encourage all these talented filmmakers to pursue a personally devoted and free thinking cinema.

We know that it is not an easy job - between business constraints and commercial realities – but we are here to support it.

Artist in focus This year we will screen more than 200 films.

Needless to say we are proud to welcome each of them. But three singular and extraordinary talents have been carefully selected as this year’s ’Artist in Focus’. For the first time in Denmark we are delighted to introduce the Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg. Recently honored with the Silver Lion for the best young artist at the 53rd Venice Biennale, Djurberg has caught attention with her clayanimated films - a play of sexual reminiscence, evocations of the macabre, of violence and the subtle pleasures of cruelty and a vague depravity. Her narratives evoke ambiguous feelings of anxiety and malaise. We are also happy to introduce the man behind one of the most interesting attempts at redefining the relationship between film and music. His name is Vincent Moon, he has been around on the www for some time now, and he has proposed an agenda for the music documentary far away from the industrial promo approach so often dominating this genre. Last but not least, we are deeply honored to welcome one of European art cinema’s most compelling voices. His name is Philippe Grandrieux, and he is by far working at one of the most advanced points in contemporary cinematic research, He has worked in fiction, documentary essay and installation, all the time returning to the most profound and obscure sources of representational desire. Why make images? What purpose do they serve?

DOX:LAB In the spirit of supporting new talent, CPH:DOX this year launches an exclusive talent workshop, handpicking a small number of young, international filmmakers and artists to participate in an experimental documentary laboratory. 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 in terms of culture, film history, narrative traditions, educational backgrounds and different methods of and access to production we hope to stimulate a dialogue based new aesthetic.

The participants will develop and produce 12 films in teams of two, which will be screened during the next edition of CPH:DOX. We cannot wait to see, what these carefully arrangedmarriages will bring us.

DOX:LAB will be a returning lab and production program for young filmmakers taking place during CPH:DOX each year.

DOX:FORUM Finally we are more than happy to welcome you once again and for the third time to our oneof-a-kind distribution platform: DOX:FORUM. The Forum was initiated with a strong belief in the creative, free and auteur-driven documentary film and an equally insisting and realistic belief in the distribution of exactly these types of films. 14 new, challenging documentary projects primarily in post-production will be presented to an excellent line-up of major international funds, sales agents, buyers, distributors, broadcasters, online platforms, festivals, museums, curators and other film and art institutions, The right match is always breathtaking, we will do our best to make it happen.

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DOX:AWARD JURY

Gerwin Tamsma (Netherlands)

Sophie Fiennes (UK)

Frederic Boyer (France)

Christoffer Boe (Denmark)

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Hana Makhmalbaf (Iran)

DOX:AWARD JURY Frederic Boyer (France) Frédéric Boyer was appointed the director of the prestigious Director’s

Cannes, Boyer in 1994 established Videosphere, a video shop dedicated

Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival at the beginning of 2009. Boyer

solely to arthouse films. The shop later grew into a chain, which be-

joined the Director’s Fortnight committee in Cannes in 2003, where he

came the largest of its kind in Europe.

as a programmer paid special attention to films from the USA, Great Britain, Australia, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. Before his time in

Christoffer Boe (Denmark) Christoffer Boe, born in 1974, studied film and media at The University

selected for Venice Days and Toronto International Film Festival, where

of Copenhagen and subsequently trained at The National Film School

he won the Prix du Jury Jeunes. His third feature, ‘Offscreen’, was re-

of Denmark where he graduated in 2001.

leased in 2006 and won the fantastic Jury Prize in Austin as well as

Boe’s career as a filmmaker made a flying start with the Camera d’Or

the Altre Visioni prize in Venice. Most recently, Christoffer Boe made

newcomer award for his feature ‘Reconstruction’ at the Cannes Film

a portrait of the scandalised Danish businessman Klaus Riskær in the

Festival in 2003. ‘Reconstruction’ is written by Boe himself in collabo-

documentary ‘Riskær – Avantgarde-kapitalisten’ . Boe is co-founder of

ration with the screenplay guru Mogens Rukov. In 2005, Boe contin-

the production company Alphaville Pictures.

ued his narrative and visual style in the feature ‘Allegro’, which was

Hana Makhmalbaf (Iran) Iranian director, born 1988 in Teheran, and daughter of the acclaimed

Prize in San Sebastian in 2007. Her second feature, the controversial

director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. At the age of 8, she made herself known

‘Green Days’, which premiered at the film festivals in Venice and Toron-

with her first short film ”The Day My Aunt Was Ill”. The film gained

to in 2009, is a mixture of fiction and reality and documents the run-up

international attention at the Locarno Film Festival in 1997, when she

to the elections in Iran, as well as hithertoo unseen mobile phone foot-

was just 9 years old. 14-year-old, Hana directed the documentary ”Joy

age of the bloody protests after the elections. Hana studied film studies

of Madness” in Afghanistan. At the age of 18, she filmed her first fea-

at Makhmalbaf’s film school during 8 years. She works as a director,

ture ”Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame” in Bamian, Afghanistan. The

photographer and screenwriter. Hana has also published her first book

film won various prestigious awards, among others the Crystal Bear

”Visa for one Moment” in 2003.

and the Peace Film Award in Berlin in 2008, as well as the Special Jury

Sophie Fiennes (UK) Sophie Fiennes has made films since 1998 and is acclaimed for her

film and psychoanalysis, presented by Slavoj Zizek, and she has before

unique observational eye and strong sense of cinematic style. Fiennes

made shorter projects with subjects including Lars von Trier (Lar From

often takes a collaborative approach to filmmaking and has worked

1-10) and UNICEF’s humanitarian activities. The projects currently

together with artists and thinkers from the dancer/choreographer

under development include ‘Over Your Cities, Grass Will Grow’, a film

Michael Clark to the philosopher/psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek. Sophie

project with the artist Anselm Kiefer, ‘Grace Jones, The Musical Of My

Fiennes’s films have been shown in cinemas and at festivals all around

Life’, a digital video project with the singer and performer Grace Jones

the world, including Sundance, Telluride, Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam,

as well as ‘The Pervert’s Guide To Ideology’ – another collaboration

Edinburgh, Sydney and London. Recent projects include ‘The Pervert’s

with Slavoj Zizek.

Guide To Cinema’ (2006), which examines the relationship between

Gerwin Tamsma (Netherlands) Gerwin Tamsma is the programmer of one of the world’s most ac-

the festival’s Hubert Bals Fund, which aims to help filmmakers from

claimed film festivals, the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Be-

developing countries. Gerwin Tamsma is also responsible for the festi-

fore he came to Rotterdam, he worked as a freelance film critic and

val’s Bright Future section for young filmmakers and takes part in the

editor and wrote contributions for, among others, NRZ Handelsblad

selection of films for the Tiger Award competition. He has also curated

and Dutch Film Yearbook. He is now responsible for the programming

a number of retrospective series as well as special programmes for

of the Rotterdam festival’s features from Korea, China, Spain and Latin

the festival. He has sat on both national and international juries, among

America as well as Scandinavia. In addition, he is on the committee of

others in Vancouver, Bafici in Buenos Aires and CinDi in Seoul.

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NEW:VISION AWARD JURY

Sally Berger (USA)

Nicolaus Schafhausen (Germany)

Anselm Franke (Germany)

Eduardo Thomas (Mexico)

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Raya Martin (Philippines)


NEW:VISION AWARD JURY Anselm Franke (Germany) Anselm Franke is the artistic director of Ekstra City Centre for Con-

In addition, he writes for a number of magazines, including pictogram

temporary Art in Antwerp and former director of exhibitions at KW

and Metropolis M. Current projects as curator include Mimétisme (Ex-

Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin until 2006. He is still active

tra City, 2008) and curated solo exhibitions of Peter Friedl and Smadar

in Berlin, where he works as a curator for ‘Forum Expanded’ at the

Dreyfus, and he is also working on an exhibition of drawings by the leg-

Berlin International Film Festival. In 2008, he was appointed curator

endary Russian filmmaker and theoretician Sergei Eisenstein. Franke

at the acclaimed arts biennial Manifesta 7 and the Brussels Biennial.

is currently completing his PhD at Goldsmith’s College in London.

Sally Berger (USA) Sally Berger is curator at the department of film at the Museum of

individual installation shows by Magdalena Campos Pons and Seoung-

Modern Art in New York. In 2001, she co-founded Documentary Fort-

ho Cho. Upcoming exhibitions include the media installation Maya Der-

night, an annual festival that presents current trends in documentary

en’s legacy as well as retrospective series with Sally Potter (April 2010)

films and new media. Her exhibitions range from experimental films to

and Barbara Hammer (September 2010). In connection with Modern

documentaries and features, and include retrospective series of Harun

Mondays at MoMA, she has presented modern artists such as Brody

Farocki, Su Friedrich, Bahman Ghobadi, Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Kim

Condon, Donigan Cumming, Andrea Greyer, Sharon Hayes, Isaac Julien

Longinotto, Alanis Obomsawin and Abderrahmane Sissako, as well as

and Carey Young.

Raya Martin (Philippines) Even if he was only born in 1984, the Philippine Raya Martin has al-

pino film scene. Martin trained at The Film Institute of The University

ready experienced standing in a sold-out screening theatre in Cannes

of the Philippines, but in terms of style and subject-matter, he is a

proclaiming his self-written manifesto for a film revolution in the

self-taught loner. His films like to build on the both privileged and pe-

Philippines. Martin’s style is political, self-conscious and conceptually

ripheral position of the outsider, who has the ability to perceive things

challenging like that of few other living directors, and he has earned

critically, above all the after-effects of colonisation in the third world.

a corresponding attention at international festivals – among others CPH:DOX, with last year’s focus on exactly the young and radical Fili-

Eduardo Thomas (Mexico) Eduardo Thomas represents the Mexican documentary film festival

Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and works as an artist and DJ along-

Ambulante, a new and ground-breaking festival, which in collaboration

side his work as programme editor of Ambulante.

with Canana Cinepolis and Morelia International Film Festival has the ambition of promoting documentary films in Mexico as well as abroad.

The festival has recently exported its programme to countries like Norway, Cuba and the UK. Eduardo Thomas has an MA in Fine Arts from

Nicolaus Schafhausen (Germany) Nicolaus Schafhausen has been the artistic director and administrative

discussion, Schafhausen has placed special emphasis on team work

director of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam

and has as a result managed to put together a team of international

since 2006 and was appointed the curator for the German pavilion at

curators and theoreticians.

both the 52nd and 53rd Venice Biennale. Schafhausen was the artistic

Schafhausen has curated and co-curated a number of shows outside

director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart from 1995 to 1998, where he created

his own institutions, among other things at Stedelijk Museum Amster-

a model for art mediation that set a trend among similar institutions in

dam, Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design in Oslo and Kun-

the 90s. In 1999, he was named the director of Frankfurter Kunstverein,

stbau in Munich. In 2008, Schafhausen co-curated the first Bruxelles

which under his leadership reclaimed its high standing both nation-

Biennial. In 2010, he will curate the Platform Festival in Seoul together

ally and internationally. At Witte de With, which focuses on theory and

with Sunjung Kim.

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SOUND & VISION AWARD JURY

DJ SPOOKY (USA)

Caroline Sascha Cogez (Denmark)

Le Gammeltoft (Denmark)

Erika Wasserman (Sverige)

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J贸hann J贸hannsson (Iceland)

SOUND & VISION AWARD JURY DJ SPOOKY (USA) Paul D Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid is a concept artist, au-

Quartet, Killa Priest, Steve Reich, Yoko Ono and Sonic Youth’s Thurston

thor and musician based in New York. He has exhibited at the Whitney

Moore. He also composed and wrote the music for Slam, which won

Biennial, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Andy Warhol Museum

awards in both Cannes and Sundance. In 2007, Miller travelled to Ant-

and a number of other places. He has among other things written for

arctica to record images and sounds for his work Terra Nova: Sinfonia

The Village Voice and Artforum and is also the editor of the magazine

Antarctica – a blend of audiovisual frequencies and classical music,

21c. In 2004, he published the book Rhythm Science and most recently

which will be performed at CPH:DOX.

Sound Unbound in 2008. DJ Spooky has recorded and collaborated with a broad range of musicians, including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kronos

Jóhann Jóhannsson (Iceland) Critics have called Jóhann Jóhannsson Iceland’s foremost genre-

the music for nine theatre productions and for a number of modern

defying multi-instrumentalist. He has 10 albums under his belt, and

dance performances. Jóhann has toured throughout the world with his

music for film and theatre plays a central role in Jóhannsson’s work.

ensemble, which apart from a piano, a keyboard and Jóhannsson’s own

He has composed music for eight features in Iceland as well as Den-

electronica includes a string quartet and a percussionist. His tours have

mark, Mexico and the USA, and he has also written the music for sev-

taken him to Japan, China, Latvia, France, the USA, Ireland, the Czech

eral documentaries, short films and TV series. Most recently, he has

Republic and now Denmark again.

written and composed the music for the Danish documentarist Max Kestner’s city portrait, ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’, and his CV includes

Erika Wasserman (Sverige) Erika Wasserman was born in 1978 and grew up in Sweden. She works

Toronto 2006), which was Sweden’s Oscar contender in 2007. Before

as a producer for the production company “Fasad”. Fasad has been be-

Erika Wasserman was employed as producer at Fasad, she worked for

hind various critically acclaimed productions over the past few years,

the production company Atmo (Metropia, Videocracy, Gitmo), where

most recently the feature ‘Burrowing’, which premiered at the Berlin

she produced a documentary TV series and participated in the develop-

Film Festival in 2009. At the moment, she is developing a new produc-

ment of numerous features.

tion with the same director, which is planned to be shot in the spring of 2010. Fasad is also the co-producer of ‘Falkenberg Farewell’ (Venice,

Le Gammeltoft (Denmark) Le Gammeltoft is well established in the Danish music industry, the

tion ‘Sound of Copenhagen’ and starting the ‘Klub Rolig’ at Ideal Bar,

Danish and international DJ scene and media world. She is best known

which focuses on quiet, melancholy and thoughtful music. Le Gammel-

as a radio host on P3. But she is also an industrious and respected DJ

toft, who also has an MA in English and Culture and Cultural Agency,

under the name ‘Le Mans’ – both here in Denmark in the Copenhagen

founded the company communicable.dk in 2003 and has for many years

club scene and in international clubs such as ‘Tape’ in Berlin, ‘Keybar’

worked as a freelance journalist, among other things for fashion and

in New York and ‘La Fleche D’Or’ in Paris. Together with her friend and

culture magazines.

colleague Kjeld Tolstrup, she has participated in releasing the compila-

Caroline Sascha Cogez (Denmark) Danish/French director, trained at the Danish film school “Super16”.

videos as a means of identity. Caroline has lived in London for a number

Caroline has written and directed a long row of award-winning shorts.

of years, where she worked for MTV and VH1. Her passion for music has

Her dark and intelligent humour combined with a poetic taste for style

been a source of inspiration for many collaborations and film projects.

have seen her films make it to be shown at international film festivals

In the past few years, Caroline has toured with The Raveonettes and

and on TV channels all over the world. She started working for the film

Peaches, and worked on film projects on the crossroads between fiction

industry as an assistant director for Lars von Trier, while studying so-

and documentary.

ciology at Roskilde University, and wrote her dissertation about music

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AMNESTY AWARD JURY

James Der Derian (UK)

Maja Borg (Sweden)

Reza Hari (Iran)

Helle Faber (Denmark)

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Ryan Harrington (USA)

AMNESTY AWARD JURY Ryan Harrington (USA) Ryan Harrington is the programme director for documentary films

of cinema-distributed documentaries for four years. During his time

at the Tribeca Film Institute, where he administers the Gucci Tribeca

there he was behind the Oscar-nominated films Murderball and Jesus

Documentary Fund and develops other initiatives within documentary

Camp as well as the Sundance favourites My Kid Could Paint That and

film production. He has himself produced the films 21 Below, Entre

American Teen. Other films include Barbara Kopple’s Bearing Witness,

Nos, P-Star Rising and the upcoming film Hungry in America (Kristi

Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern’s The End Of American and Alexis Ar-

Jacobson & Lori Silverbush) and Radio Unnameable. Earlier, Har-

quette’s She’s My Brother.

rington was production manager at A&E IndieFilms in the department

Reza Hari (Iran) The Iranian film director Reza Haeri lives and works in Teheran, where

as well as worked with video installations. He has received numerous

he writes for numerous Iranian newspapers as well as for the BBC. He

international awards for his latest film Final Fitting and is currently in

has also collaborated with institutions such as ARTE and Channel4 and

the process of shooting the film All Restrictions End, which through a

is now the head of International Affairs at the Iranian Documentary As-

focus on the development of Iranian clothes and fashion also looks at

sociation. Over the past 12 years, Reza Haeri has made documentaries

the nation’s concurrent historical development.

and made his debut in 1998 with the documentary Do You Know Mr. Kiarostami? Since then he has made documentaries about taxi drivers in Teheran, the rock band 127, love affairs across national borders,

Helle Faber (Denmark) Helle Faber has a long career behind her at the Danish broadcasting

film producer at Bastard Film, where she works today. Faber has pro-

company Danmarks Radio. After graduating from the Danish School of

duced the award-winning film Enemies of Happiness as well as other

Media and Journalism in 1991, she was employed as a scheduler and

succesful documentaries such as Max Kestner’s Verden i Danmark and

host of the youth programme P4 on P1, following this she worked as a

Nanna Frank Møller’s Let’s Be Together. Faber has also produced this

news reporter. Ten years ago, Helle Faber turned towards working with

year’s Cities on Speed film Shanghai / Space, also directed by Nanna

documentaries, first in documentary series for DR, before taking the

Frank Møller.

step from TV documentary to film documentary as the documentary

James Der Derian (UK) James Der Derian graduated from Oxford University and is now a re-

tary leadership of the American army due to the film’s controversial ap-

search professor at Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown

proach to the implementation of Human Terrain systems in war zones.

University, where he heads the Innovating Global Security and Media

The film can be seen in this year’s film programme. Apart from his

Project. Apart from a number of book publications – among them Virtu-

academic activities, James Der Derian works as a reviewer and editor

ous War, Critical Practices in International Theory and Antidiplomacy –

of various international publications, he is a guest lecturer at numer-

Der Derian has directed and produced three documentaries with Udris

ous European universities, among others Copenhagen University, and

Films, VY2K, After 9/11 and Human Terrain. The latter film caused a

now he’s back in Denmark again, this time as a jury member of the

large debate after its premiere among senior academics and the mili-

Amnesty Award.

Maja Borg (Sweden) At an early age, Maja Borg started writing, producing and directing

documentary filmmaking. The topics in Maja Borg’s films are highly

films. She trained at the Film and TV department at the Edinburgh Col-

diverse and most recently she has tackled contemporary topics such

lege of Art, where she graduated with the documentary Look at Lucia.

as the crisis of capitalism and the global economic downturn. Her films

Maja Borg’s films move along the border between documentary, fiction

have won several awards and have been shown at festivals all over the

and experimental, and she competently fuses the languages of these

world.

genres and creates a visually rich form of expression. She manages in her unique way to renounce alluring genre definitions, and her filmic style combines elements of animation, experimental film and classic

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DANISH:DOX AWARD JURY

Anna J. Ljungmarker (Sweden)

Marcus LindĂŠen (Sweden)

Mikel Cee Karlsson (sweden)

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DANISH:DOX AWARD JURY Anna J. Ljungmarker (Sweden) Anna J. Ljungmarker is the director of BoostHbg, a new Swedish talent

at BoostHgb, Anna J. Ljung is involved with the development of the

development initiative. She has worked in the film industry since 1994,

DocLounge club, which in 2006 started as a new initiative to present

at first as a director/producer until she found her true passion – project

and show documentaries. DocLounge is so far established in Sweden,

development. Apart from working as a developer, Anna J. Ljung has

Denmark and Finland.

been a tutor at Swedish film schools, festivals and for EDN, European Documentary Network, as well as acted as editor and consultant of short and documentary films at Film i Skåne. To supplement her work

Marcus Lindéen (Sweden) Marcus Lindén is a recently graduated director from Dramatiska In-

men. Before he joined the world of film and theatre, Marcus Lindén has

stitutet in Stockholm and has just completed his first, long documen-

among other things worked as a journalist and host on various cultural

tary ‘Regretters’ – about two Swedish men who have changed their

programmes for SVT, and attended art schools in Sweden and abroad

sex twice – for the Swedish production company ATMO. ‘Regretters’ is

– among others Kunsthøjskolen in Holbæk.

based on his internationally translated theatre play of the same name, which again was based on a radio interview that he made with the two

Mikel Cee Karlsson (Sweden) Mikel Cee Karlsson’s background is in music videos - and in the world

his childhood home town, and which can be seen in this year’s special

of professional skateboarding, where he performed kick-flips long be-

series ‘Made in Sweden’. Mikel Cee Karlsson is currently working on

fore he turned to making films. Karlsson has directed a long string of

a longer documentary about José González, which is due to premiere

artistically significant videos for musicians such as Fever Ray and José

next year.

González (many of them together with Andreas Nilsson). Earlier this year, he premiered his critically acclaimed debut feature ‘Greetings From the Woods’, which was shot during the course of four years in

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GALA

White Stripes Gala DIRECTOR: Emmett Malloy

It’s almost like having a second Christmas when we pre-start the festival with a gala evening in the name of blues rock. We will kick off the night with a screening of ‘The White Stripes Under Great Northern Lights’ - the grainy tour portrait of the unusual duo with the high hipster factor. The film will of course be presented by none less than Jack White himself, who will also be present for the subsequent Q&A together with the film’s director, Emmet Malloy, and the rest of the film crew. Later that evening, same-said White can be experienced in his latest project, as he appears at the music venue Vega with Dead Weather. Together with Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age) and Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs), the band has demonstrated with its debut album ‘Horehound’ that they know their rock’n’roll to the bone, as they play a grimy and effective round of garage rock.

And the party doesn’t end there: at 24:00 hrs, we will move two floors down, as we have revamped Idealbar for an afterparty using The Stripes’ signature colours, and we can only hope that Mr. White might want to perform another show with either his Nashville guitar or behind the turntables.

SCREENING DATES Grand Thursday 5/11 18:00 hrs.

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Original title The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights Country USA Year 2009 Running time 93 min.

Production Three Foot Giant, Woodshed Films Producer Mike Sarkissian Distribution Monotone Inc. / Three Foot Giant

Opening Gala: Dreams in Copenhagen LIVE DIRECTOR: Max Kestner

On Friday November 6, CPH:DOX bids you welcome to this year’s opening gala ceremony in the beautiful new concert hall of The Danish Broadcasting Corporation. We are proud to present the world premiere of ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ with a very special guest: the renowned Icelandic composer and musician Jóhann Jóhannsson, who will hold a unique live performance of the soundtrack he has composed for the film. The performance has come about through a collaboration with DR’s Youth Ensemble under the direction of Morten Ryelund.

‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ is Max Kestner’s latest work in a series of films that portrays all aspects of life in Denmark. This time round he takes us into Copenhagen’s apartments and backyards to tell

Original title Drømme i København Country Denmark Year 2009 Production Upfront Films Producer Henrik Veileborg Distribution Upfront Films Aps

us fragments of stories about the people who live there. Stories about shared children, transport, side-step sex, real estate equity, immigrant children and estate agents. But ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ is also about the physical framework of the city. The modern city in film is one of the places where fiction and documentary are most intimately linked, and ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ continues a long cinematic tradition of using the city as the actual protagonist. The images of Copenhagen let you encounter the places we already know, but also take you on a journey of discovery, as Max Kestner presents the city in a new and totally different light.

SCREENING DATES DR Koncerthuset Friday 6/11 21:00 hrs.

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Olafur Eliasson: Space is Process DIRECTOR: Jacob Jørgensen, Henrik Lundø

Olafur Eliasson is widely heralded as one of the most important artists of his generation. His work merges art, science, and natural phenomena to create extraordinary multisensory experiences.

Challenging the passive nature of traditional art-viewing, he engages the observer as an active participant, using tangible elements such as temperature, moisture, aroma, and light to generate physical sensations. ‘Seeing Space’ gives us a unique look at a creative movement out of the ordinary and follows Eliasson from 2004 to 2009 during the taxing work with, among other things, The Waterfalls project in New York and the large ‘Take Your Time’ exhibition at MoMA and PS1 last year. But we are also taken on a small photo safari somewhere out in the magnificent Icelandic moon landscapes. Light, space and sensory perception are - both in their natural and artificial forms - key concepts in an aesthetic that is borne by simple and clear ideas, and which are first realised fully in their encounter with the spectator. If it sounds abstract, there is all the more reason to see what it’s about. Here, Eliasson namely demonstrates some of his experiments himself in vignettes that use the cinema screen as an optical aid. Inspiring, thought-provoking and playful.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Monday 9/11 19:00 hrs. / Stærekassen Saturday 14/11 17:00 hrs.

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Original title Olafur Eliasson: Seeing Space Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 75 min.

Production JJ Film Producer Jacob Jørgensen & Mads Jørgensen Distribution JJ Film ApS v/Jacob Jørgensen

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

DOX:AWARD

10 films have been selected to compete for this year’s DOX:AWARD. The 10 films vary greatly, but they are nonetheless all films that deserve to be highlighted for their ability to insist on the documentary film as an artistic genre in itself. Since the first edition of the festival, CPH:DOX has been committed to focus on documentaries that constantly challenge the genre and our understanding of the entire idea of the documentary film project. We have also made it our mission to look out for new names and talents, and not least to create a platform for them here and now and in the year’s to come. This year, we will present four debut features: ‘77 Doronship’, ‘El Puesto’, ‘The Invention of Dr.

Nakamats’ and ‘Mr Governor’. Four films that bear witness to four unique new talents. They will be joined by two of art cinema’s absolute darlings, namely the Portuguese Pedro Costa and the incessant provocation-auteur Harmony Korine. And last, but not least, we are proud to be able to host the world premieres of three brand new Danish films: ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ by Max Kestner, ‘My Father from Haifa’ by Omar Shargawi and Kasper Astrup Schröder’s ‘The Invention of Dr. Nakamats’.

DOX:AWARD (5,000 euros) is kindly sponsored by DR.

Dreams in Copenhagen DIRECTOR: Max Kestner

WORLD PREMIERE ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ is Max Kestner’s latest film in a seriesof films that portrays all aspects of life in Denmark. This time round he’s taking us into Copenhagen’s apartments and back yards and tells us fragments of stories about the people who live there: stories about shared children, transport, side-step sex, real estate equity, immigrant children and estate agents - they are the stories about Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen. But ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ also focuses on the city’s physical framework. The film is a depiction of the city, its life and its architecture. It’s about the houses we live in, the street doors we enter and exit, and the streets we move about on. The modern city in film is one of the places where fiction and documentary are most intimately linked, and ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ continues a long cinematic tradition of using the city as the actual protagonist.

The images of Copenhagen let you encounter the places we already know, but also take you on a journey of discovery, as Max Kestner presents the city in a new and totally different light.The soundtrack is composed by the Icelandic musician Jóhan Jóhansson.

SCREENING DATES DR Koncerthuset Friday 6/11 21:00 hrs. / Grand Saturday 14/11 16:30 hrs.

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Original title Drømme i København Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 70 min.

Production Upfront Films Aps Producer Henrik Veileborg Distribution Upfront Films Aps

Trash Humpers DIRECTOR: Harmony Korine

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE The uncontrollable provo-auteur of American film, Harmony Korine, is back in ‘Gummo’-land with his brand new outsider exposé, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic America on the other side of financial crises, tornado tragedies and terrorist attacks. It’s Halloween all year round for Harmony Korine, whose borderless no budget aesthetic has set a fashion far beyond the field of filmmaking.

The masked ‘Trash Humpers’ of his fourth film are no exception, and they embark on a senseless spree of performative vandalism and bizarre songs, as if they were in-bred members of a family consisting of chainsaw massacrers and Tod Browning’s circus freaks. Korine has filmed his sarcastic parody of the sleek shock value aesthetics of reality show culture with an antiquated video format with frequent blackouts, and he dissolves any kind of meaningful differentiation of genres with his handheld vérité recordings of the grotesque human inferno of invisible America. Field trip or fiction? Actually: both. And

Original title Trash Humpers Country USA Year 2009 Running time 78 min.

Production O’Salvation Cine Ltd / Alcove Entertainment Producer Charles-Marie Anthonioz Distribution O’Salvation Cine Ltd

on this point he is in line with the ideal of his mentor Werner Herzog about depicting an ecstatic truth.

SCREENING DATES Grand Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Monday 9/11 21:30 hrs. / Dagmar Friday 13/11 21:30 hrs.

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Ne change rien DIRECTOR: Pedro Costa

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Pedro Costa’s latest film is more dark than light, and the same goes for the French diva Jeanne Balibar’s voice. The Portuguese director, who again underlines his position as one of our time’s most important and uncompromising filmmakers, follows his art-punk muse during the recording of the ‘Paramour’ album and onto the stage - with short digressions to the theatre and to a café in Tokyo. The images enshroud Balibar in a darkness that can only be broken by the dust that shines under the limelight at a smoky Parisian nightclub. Here, the slim singer delivers goosebumps-inducing performances, which open with the almost frightening ‘Torture’ (written by the film legend Kenneth Anger), and which constantly balances between atmospheric brittleness and crackling guitar sounds. ‘Ne change rien’ is a document about the back-breaking creative process, which in Costa’s ascetic view is elevated to a study of light and shade, the likes of which have not been seen since the French and German films of the 1920s. Costa signs his portrait of the cult star Balibar with a sense of respect that shines out of the black-and-white images, and which dissolves all sense of time. An aesthetic experience of the rare kind, which has to be seen in the darkness of the cinema.

SCREENING DATES Grand Monday 9/11 16:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 16:30 hrs.

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Original title Ne change rien Country Portugal, France Year 2009 Running time 100 min.

Production Sociedade Optica Tecnica Producer Abel Ribeiro Chaves Distribution Red Star Cinema

Videocracy DIRECTOR: Erik Gandini

In a videocracy the image rule. And in Italy, all the images are owned by one man. Silvio Berluscon’s videocratic revolution started in the early 1970s and reached its temporary peak when he was re-elected last year for his third term in office. Silicone breasts and politics enter into a systematic symbiosis, and Berlusconi has himself chosen his minister for equal opportunities among his former TV bimbos. Power is dressed up as entertainment and a dream of fame that has seduced the entire nation. Erik Gandini from the hip Swedish company ATMO grew up in Italy himself, and he zaps around with conscious style in the surrealistic stream of images. From the hopeful karate-singer via the powerful TV agent with Mussolini on his mobile phone, to the ultra-cynical ‘pimp’ of the paparazzi who blackmails the rich and famous - and to a final glimpse of the media fantom Berlusconi, whose white plastic smile remains hanging in the air long after the TV cameras have been switched off.

Original title Videocracy Country Sweden Year 2009 Running time 85 min.

Production Atmo Media Network AB Producer Kristina Åberg Distribution Atmo Media Network AB

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Wednesday 11/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Sunday 15/11 16:30 hrs.

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77 Doronship DIRECTOR: Pablo Agüero

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE A chain-smoking elderly chatterbox from Argentina crashes over at his highly pregnant daughter-in-law in a small bohemian apartment in Paris. She is alone and waiting for her boyfriend, who one day went out to get some cigarettes and never came back. Together, the two of them embark on a quest to find the lost boyfriend/son/ father-to-be, whose only presence is a whispering and sad voice. ‘77 Doronship’ tests the theory that a film can become a documentary if only the budget is low enough - and ends up proving that this kind of distinction doesn’t apply to a film that exhibits such an eminent sense of presence and unpredictability in its pictorial language. The sad reality turns into the raw material of fantasy and poetry, which the Argentinian director Pablo Agüero uses to sculpt his dreams.

Original title 77 Doronship Country France, Argentina Year 2009 Running time 74 min.

Production Charivari Films, Sureno Films Producer Elise Jalladeau, Pablo Aguero Distribution INCAA - Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA)

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov Wednesday 11/11 19:00 hrs. / Posthus Teatret Friday 13/11 19:00 hrs.

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The Invention of Dr. Nakamats DIRECTOR: Kaspar Astrup Schröder

WORLD PREMIERE The 80-year-old Japanese inventor Dr. Nakamats is the brain behind such useful devices as the very first floppy disk (years ahead of IBM), brain-stimulating tea, the water-powered bike taxi and a motor that is run by light photons. In fact, he holds the world record in inventions, and with over 3,300 patents he’s well ahead of Edison’s thousand. Dr. Nakamats enjoys an almost royal level of respect in Japan, where he has his own fan club - and among the poor businessmen, who almost unwillingly end up insulting him with something as prosaic as money.

But who is he, this mysterious mastermind from Tokyo? And where does his unstoppable drive to bring new things to the world come from? The audience has to come up with its own answer, but there are definitely enough clues to be gleaned from this film. One even becomes a bit mad as one watches the headstrong genius, who gets his best ideas in the seconds before he’s about to drown. But one can understand the admiration for this man, and shares the hope that he

Original title The Invention of Dr. Nakamats Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 55 min.

Production Plus Pictures Aps Producer Mette Heide Distribution Plus Pictures Aps

can keep his public promise to live until he’s 144 years old.

NB!! Dr. Nakamats will himself be present during the festival to present the film together with the director Kaspar Astrup Schröder.

SCREENING DATES Grand Saturday 7/11 21:30 hrs. / Dagmar Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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Mr Governor DIRECTOR: Måns Månsson

The influence of the 1960s American direct cinema documentary tradition has long been under fire for its alleged monopoly on filmic objectivity, formulated in long and patiently observing takes without further commentaries. ‘Mr Governor’, however, confirms with artistic authority that patience is a virtue that doesn’t age, and that genres aren’t solid formulas. Månsson has himself explained the starting point of his critically acclaimed film about Uppsala’s own governor, Anders Björck, by referring to an old childhood fascination with this paternal statesman that he saw so much on TV when he was a kid.

But his film is not a traditional portrait. Månsson - trained at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm - examines all the changes that an apparently static picture goes through, if only it is given a chance to stay on the screen. The footage - shot over a year, depicting ceremonies and diplomatic rituals - is here presented in pure black-and-white 16mm images, which give us a hint of the price

Original title H:R Landshövding Country Sweden Year 2009 Running time 85 min.

Production Anagram Produktion AB Producer Martin Persson Distribution Anagram Produktion AB

to be paid for life-long duty.

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov Saturday 7/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Thursday 12/11 16:30 hrs. / Grand Saturday 14/11 12:00 hrs.

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The Windmill movie DIRECTOR: Alexander Olch

EUROPEAN PREMIERE When Richard P. Rogers died in 2001, he left behind over 200 hours of film footage of his life. A gigantic amount of raw material for a cinematic autobiography, which he was working on for 25 years and never managed to complete. Maybe, as he himself says in this reconstruction by his friend and pupil Alexander Olch, for fear of standing face to face with himself. The privileged film professor from Harvard grew up in an environment that would have been worthy of F. Scott Fitzgerald, among aristocrats and easy-living bons vivants in an intellectual and comfortable bourgeois environment on the American east coast. But also among personal tragedies and family malaise, which is more than alluded to in Olch’s epic wickerwork of scenes from a life on the sunny side. Despite his obvious talent and perceptive nature, Rogers considered himself an artistic fiasco, who spent his life being haunted by his background. But ‘The Windmill Movie’s sophisticated mirror room of self-perception contradict him

Original title The Windmill Movie Country USA Year 2009 Running time 80 min.

Production SCM Production Producer Susan Meiselas Distribution The Film Desk

and fulfil his dream of uniting his life with film.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Saturday 7/11 19:00 hrs. / Dagmar Friday 13/11 19:00 hrs. / Posthus Teatret Saturday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

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My Father from Haifa DIRECTOR: Omar Shargawi

WORLD PREMIERE Two years ago, Omar Shargawi won great acclaim for his violent revenge drama ‘Go With Peace, Jamil’, which portrayed an until then unknown part of the Copenhagen neighbourhood Nørrebro with a raw nerve and authenticity. In his latest film, Shargawi has turned his equally inquisitive and vital camera away from Copenhagen’s criminal underworld towards the political and personal story of his own father.

Shargawi senior, who also acted in his son’s first film, fled as a child from Palestine and ended up after many years in Denmark, where he settled and founded a family. Now he’s longing to revisit Haifa. But if you’ve been through a bit too much and aren’t the youngest person any more, it’s a long way from Nørrebro to Haifa, where the childhood home stands today. He may be grumpy and obstinate, but he’s a worldly-wise man with a good heart. A difficult, but not impossible task for a son who also wants to know all the places and stories left behind.

SCREENING DATES Grand Sunday 8/11 21:30 hrs. / Empire Bio Saturday 14/11 17:30 hrs.

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Original title Fra Haifa til Nørrebro Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 52 min.

Production Zentropa Producer Carsten Holst Distribution Zentropa

El Puesto DIRECTOR: Aurélien Lévêque

WORLD PREMIERE Some films tell stories as if they come off an assembly line. Others stick to what’s visible without moulding it into filmic fast food served in individual portions, instead conjuring up a special and magical sense of space and time, where one can almost smell the damp grass and get a natural high from the thin mountain air. One such film is the 28-year-old French debut director Aurélien Lévêque’s ‘El Puesto’, which in a consistent combination of sensual 16mm images and epic cinemascope frames its solitary, unfathomable protagonist within the vast and painterly landscapes of the Argentinian wilderness. His name is Marin, and out of nothing grows an almost mythical drama about this prehistoric colossus of a man. One can hardly sit still when he tames a wild stallion with nothing but his bare fists, or when he suddenly lifts a flaccid beaver out of a dark waterhole. Lévêque is with him and has an extra eye for the black dogs, which patiently sit in a perfect circle around the chopping block, while Marin’s only friend

Original title El Puesto Country France Year 2009 Running time 74 min.

Production Celluloïd Films Producer Aurélien Lévêque Distribution Celluloid Films

chops out the meat.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Saturday 7/11 21:15 hrs. / Posthus Teatret Friday 13/11 21:15 hrs. / Grand Saturday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

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NEW:VISION AWARD

NEW:VISION AWARD is the competition programme for filmic experiments on the crossroads between documentary and artistic reflection. Provocative and challenging, but also poetic and abstract. The programme consists of works from both visual arts and film. From the short, poetic moment via the cinematic essay to formal experiments and philosophical genre excursions past the limits of reality. They are films that rather strive for the impossible than make do with the average – and video works that critically investigate the status of images in our times. The nominated works all insist on the documentary as a form of artistic expression,

and share a formal and methodological curiosity, which is of paramount importance for the continued development of documentary film. The cinematic styles of the future are being created here, and there is enough food for both inspiration and critical thought in the widely diverse artistic expressions in this series.

NEW:VISION AWARD (5,000 euros) is kindly sponsored by the Danish Association of Film Directors and FAF – the Danish association of Film and TV workers.

Everness DIRECTOR: Alejandro Cesarco

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Everness is a film installation by artist Alejandro Cesarco made up of 5 chapters: a remake of the very last scene of James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’, a monologue on the meaning of tragedy, a breakfast scene, and two songs: one from the Spanish civil war and another from Brasil’s Tropicalista movement. It addresses the revision of public and private history, while tangentially describing ideas typically associated with moments of youth: a first love, the loss of innocence, and a somewhat naive, romantic, yet sincere, political and affective conviction towards the real. In this context Everness also deals with our difficulty or inability to perceive and understand our affective experience and that of others.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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Original title Everness Country Uruguay Year 2008 Running time 12 min.

Contact Tanya Leighton Gallery

Out of Love DIRECTOR: Birgitte Stærmose

WORLD PREMIERE There is something about ‘Out of Love’ that one cannot quite put ones finger on. A feeling of deep unreality and of something that also feels so real that one feels captured by its stranglehold. We are in Kosovo, among the city’s street children, in 2009. The film is built from a small selection of these children. But we are as far from observational documentarism as one can make it. The film’s director Birgitte Stærmose is looking for something else. She wants to tell a story that rises above street level; a story about the children and their loss, grief, survival and humanity. A story that goes much further than the story of the individual, instead tackling their collective history and thus a reality that is much broader. We meet children in something that could be real situations - on the streets and city squares - but then something happens. They speak, and what they say is much larger than their own individual language. They are monologues written for them in a narrative, well-formulated and literary language.

Original title Ønskebørn Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 29 min.

Production Alphaville Pictures Copenhagen Producer Jesper Morthorst Distribution Alphaville Productions Copenhagen

A strange sense of unreality takes over while the distance between us and them grows larger. A distance that protects the children and preserves their entirely private grief. But also a distance that lifts both the children and their stories into a space that makes space for an artistic reflection.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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A-Bit-To-Bite DIRECTOR: Laura Horelli

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Private and public space consistently flow together in the Finnish artist Laura Horelli’s ‘A-Bit-To-Bite’, where her own mother appears in two widely different versions: in Horelli’s reading of her personal and revealing diaries, and on TV as a kitchen expert and host of the 1970s’ Finnish children’s TV show. Just like the American Alex Bag and the Swedish Anders Kreuger, Horelli turns her childhood’s wasted hours in front of the TV into an artistic analysis of herself and of the society that reflects itself in simple and edifying narratives. The TV mother cooks food and tells stories together with a big mouse, while the cancer sufferer of the diaries wearily reflects on her life and her choices - even that of having children. ‘A-Bit-To-Bite’ transposes the media-ethnographic approach of Horelli’s earlier works into a highly personal sphere, where pathos is nonetheless kept at arms’ length.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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Original title Haukka-Pala Country Finland Year 2009 Running time 28 min.

Contact Galleri Barbara Weiss

Another Life Without Sundays (Brown Triumph) DIRECTOR: José Arnaud-Bello, Sebastián Córdova EUROPEAN PREMIERE Another Life Without Sundays (Brown Triumph) is structured like a building and follows a vertical narrative as it registers some of the more sinister aspects of the relationship between architecture and those that live in it. The main character is a modern building.

The film develops through the sole use of still images and subtitles.

While the images present what appears to be a descriptive survey of the interior of a 1950s building, the subtitles offer a series of rumours and stories about the place as if one were being guided through the building by an old, gruff and grumpy tenant. By this association of text and image another building takes form; one that pushes the question of the construction of space away from the architectural object and into a cinematic space where fragments of information are assembled

Original title Another Life Without Sundays (Brown Triumph) Country Mexico Year 2008 Running time 14 min.

Distribution José Arnaud-Bello & Sebastian Córdova

as clues in a story of architectural suspense.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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In Between Days DIRECTOR: Naomi Kawase & Isaki Lacuesta

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE ‘In Between Days’ is the result of a short meeting between the two filmmakers Naomi Kawase and Isaki Lacuesta in Barcelona last year. A formal ‘brief encounter’, which kicked off a cinematographic pen-friendship between Japan and Spain, where each of them works.

Lacuesta sent the first filmic postcard to Kawase, who answered him with a portrait of the people around her that she cares for. The correspondence advances through the impressionistic stream of images, which reflects the two filmmaker’s reflections on time and memory in light and bright colours. And from each of their corners of the world, the two overcome their geographical and linguistic barriers in an intimate and personal documentary style marked by a great sensual directness. Naomi Kawase is one of Asian documentary’s most original and personal voices, while the young and internationally acclaimed Isaki Lacuesta belongs to a new generation of adventurous Spanish filmmakers.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 7/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 16:45 hrs.

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Original title In Between Days Country Spain, Japan Year 2009 Running time 40 min.

Distribution CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona

Madam Butterfly DIRECTOR: Tsai Ming-Liang

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Not much is left of Puccini’s original love story - about an American lieutenant and a 15-year-old geisha, who ends up being abandoned and taking her own life - in this uncompromisingly anti-aesthetic video experiment by the Taiwanese auteur and festival hero Tsai Ming-liang, which extends across a long and desperate moment of confusion at Kuala Lumpur’s central station, only to end up on a bed in a lonely hotel room. Nor are there many traces of either the picturesque sophistication of his early films or the scandalously taboo-breaking escapades of ‘The Wayward Cloud’. But the tragedy is intact, and so is Tsai Ming-liang’s signature in the temporal elongation of his teasing images. How little narration can a moving image contain? And will the two lovers ever have each other? One of the most consistent minimalists of Asian filmmaking has embarked

Original title Madam Butterfly Country Italy, Taiwan, France Year 2009 Running time 36 min.

Production Homegreen films, House on fire, Lucca film festival Distribution Homegreen Films

on a battle against the emotional excesses of classical opera - and he can claim an underplayed victory.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 7/11 18:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 16:45 hrs.

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In Comparison DIRECTOR: Harun Farocki

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE It’s a sheer delight to watch Harun Farocki’s film, which in all its captivating simplicity depicts something as fundamental and surprisingly beautiful as the production of bricks in three different continents. Not just because of the photographic tranquility of the images or their temporal elongation, but also because it’s high time we remind ourselves where money ultimately comes from. ‘In Comparison’ compares (but doesn’t rank) the production of the most basic unit of the modern world in Burkina Faso, India and Europe.

That’s how it goes, and that’s how it should be. Farocki observes the creation of bricks from the clay pit to the finished house in a meditative and rhythmic sequence, which speaks for itself rather than formulating a specific argument in political economy. And the silent speech of the images is all the clearer for it. After his past few years’ work with video and installations, one of European documentarism’s most reflective talents doesn’t only renew himself, but also the way one can look at things.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 19:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 18:30 hrs.

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Original title Zum Vergleich Country Germany Year 2009 Running time 61 min.

Production Harun Farocki Filmproduktion Distribution Harun Farocki Filmproduktion

Pollphail DIRECTOR: Matthew Lloyd

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE On the Scottish west coast lie the dilapidated remains of an economic and architectural utopia. Pollphail is a ghost town, constructed in straight, modernist lines during the oil rush of the 1970s as a mainland satellite for the colossal oil platforms of the North Sea, and built upon an optimism that turned out to be somewhat less well-founded. The conceptual and self-sustaining island community and shipyard was meant to supply the area with manpower and machine power, but until this day not one single person has lived in the otherwise completed town. But today it still stands there, like a stray thought cast in concrete and made to last for ever - at least until now. An art photographer and a local entrepreneur lead us around in the sad product of a notion of the future that never came, and introduce us to the philosophy behind the monumental fiasco. ‘Pollphail’ demonstrates with aesthetic flair that the the abstract relationship between political ideologies and historical space always

Original title Pollphail Country UK Year 2009 Running time 10 min.

Production Clarity Productions Producer Carina Wilson Distribution Clarity Productions

contains a human background. Even if it takes a few years before the picture is developed.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 19:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 18:30 hrs.

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The Impossible DIRECTOR: Sylvain George

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Formal experiments and tough political activism are not necessarily contradictions in the French director Sylvain George’s cinematic universe. Taking its starting point in radical revolutionaries such as Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Dostojevskij and Walter Benjamin, Sylvain George portrays the Europe of illegal immigrants in his most ambitious work to date. Through five chapters, which among other things derive their titles from the aforementioned authors, and which from a formal perspective find their expression in the intersection between Jean Epstein and Jonas Mekas, the immigrants’ previously so promising dream of a new identity and a new life in Europe changes before our eyes. Through prosaic everyday moments that are woven together with a great compositorial and rhythmic talent, George gives all the paperless immigrants a voice and a sense of dignity. And like another Virgil in Dante’s Inferno, he at the same time takes us on a tour through the most unsettling blind spots of European integration policy.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 21:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 16:30 hrs.

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Original title L’Impossible - Pages arrachées Country France Year 2009 Running time 135 min.

Production Noir Production Producer Sylvain George Distribution Noir Production

Nathalie Djurberg DIRECTOR: Nathalie Djurberg

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Nathalie Djurberg, who is also visiting this year’s festival as ‘Artist in Focus’, is presented here with a collection of eerie animations.

‘Badain’ is a satirical adaptation of a real 19th century painting, which depicts a black slave who is given to the queen of Sweden as a gift.

In ‘Camels Drink Water’, two camels save a poor boy without legs from dying of thirst in the desert, enabling him to court three pale and flabby old ladies in laced underwear in ‘Hungry Hungry Hippos’. ‘It’s the Mother’, on the other hand, talks about an entirely different and hair-raising story about the female body in a monstrous mirror image of nature’s dubious order. And in ‘Johnny’, a curious teenage boy,

Original title Nathalie Djurberg Country Sweden Year 2009 Running time 40 min.

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who is spying on three naked nymphs in a forest, gets more than he bargained for when they finally discover him. ‘Putting Down the Prey’ realises an eskimo’s (escape) fantasy of becoming one with nature.

And in the bathroom farce ‘Tiger Licking Girl’s Butt’, the eponymic tiger poses the ever-relevant question: ‘Why do I have this urge to do things over and over again?’ The question is thus passed on to you.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Saturday 14/11 17:00 hrs.

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I Love the Game of the Hockey DIRECTOR: ROBIN FÄRDIG

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE It’s not all hip hop and bling bling out in the strange reality - or lack of reality - of the suburbs. Alexander Bengtsson is 20 years old and a hardcore fan of the local hockey heroes of Frölunda Indians. In fact, he talks about little else in the first-time director and poet Robin Färdig’s film about everyday life outside Gothenburg. But somewhere or other, something’s badly rotten. The camera almost sluggishly glares at Alexander and his parents and friends, and only pans away when they nervously cast a sidelong glance into its expressionless glass eye.

‘I Love the Game of the Hockey’ challenges the ethics of the visible and is a promising taster for Färdig’s upcoming feature, which is also filmed out in the sticks on a non-existent budget.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Saturday 14/11 17:00 hrs.

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Original title I Love the Game of the Hockey, en dokumentärfilm om det som inte är hiphop i förorten Country Sweden Year 2009 Running time 22 min.

Distribution Robin Färdig

Subtitles DIRECTOR: Anders Kreuger

EUROPEAN PREMIERE One can learn a lot from watching television - at least if you see a programme 30 years after it was made. Especially children’s television of the 1970s is a generous source for critical reflection about how an entire generation grew up in front of the idiot box.

‘Subtitles’ is an episode of Swedish children’s television from 1972, shown in its full length, and commented via subtitles by the curator and artist Anders Kreuger, who came across the eye-opening material during an archeological dig in the national television archives. A stone, a piece of string and an empty matchbox are all that the two long-haired and velvet-dressed hosts need to have some fun

Original title Subtitles Country Sweden Year 2008 Running time 25 min.

Distribution Anders Kreuger

and to get their anti-materialistic message across to the children who didn’t really understand much of the programme’s well-meant political tenor. With few and simple means, Kreuger manages to dissect both the progressive ideals of the 1970s, his own childhood and civic education in the modern Swedish welfare state. Try a bit of tax-financed, home-grown food for thought.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Saturday 14/11 17:00 hrs.

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A Man Screaming Is Not a Dancing Bear DIRECTOR: Allora, Cazadilla

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE In the video work A Man Screaming Is Not a Dancing Bear, artists Allora & Calzadilla cut abruptly between gently flowing images of a lush river landscape, a dilapidated interior in an abandoned house, and footage of a young man who, standing outside the window of the house, drums rhythmically on the slats of a Venetian blind. The footage was recorded last year in New Orleans and the Mississippi delta, where hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in 2005. It points to an almost impossible poetry in an everyday scene situated within a ruined, deserted house. Like many other social housing projects in the area, this house has not yet been renovated and is left a wreck with all the traces of the damaging flood. Like in other works by Allora & Calzadilla, the audio consists of an alternative musical performance, referring to both music and the alternative use of existing objects, as a means to social survival.

In the videos of Allora & Calzadilla, the two artists take their point of departure in situations which, in varying ways, refer to political and cultural realities. They have a special eye for how small everyday occurrences can act as images or metaphors of overall global contexts. With these situations from all across the world the artists seek to open our minds to ways of rethinking our world order and our relationships with each other.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 19:15 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 14:45 hrs.

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Original title A Man Screaming Is Not a Dancing Bear Country Puerto Rico Year 2008 Running time 12 min.

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Petropolis - Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands DIRECTOR: Peter Mettler SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE The Canadian director Peter Mettler, whose monumental magnum opus ‘Gambling, Gods and LSD’ has been shown at an earlier edition of CPH:DOX, has moved skywards in a helicopter in his latest film ‘Petropolis’ and filmed a precise and hypnotic film about one of the world’s largest industrial energy projects, Alberta Tar Sands in northern Canada. The area, which is roughly the size of England, is an enormous oil reserve, and from an environmental perspective it’s one of those industrial areas that NGOs are looking at with their most critical suspicion. But ‘Petropolis’ is neither a consequence analysis nor a doomsday prophesy, but moreover a landscape, which in all its monumental silence speaks its own, clear language. The film moves in a constant flow between abstraction and the concrete - from the structural and poetic view of the landscape to the concrete view of

Original title Petropolis - Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands Country Canada Year 2009 Running time 43 min.

Production Grimthorpe Films Distribution Autlook Filmsales GbR

giant yellow machinery that is digging into black sand. Mettler has chosen an aesthetic distance and filmed the landscape from an ‘aerial perspective’, thereby transforming the industrial scenery into a piece of unrivalled political land art.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 19:15 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 14:45 hrs.

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Shell of Shells DIRECTOR: Hondartza Fraga

WORLD PREMIERE ‘Shell of Shells’ is a video made from night-vision footage of a cityscape. The narrative unfolds in the ambivalence between spectacle and threat. Noise, light and smoke seem to be a statement of fugacity and the power of artifice but if their context is challenged so is their meaning. The role of the viewer keeps shifting from vigilant watcher to passive witness as the action is structurally fragmented.

Hondartza Frage works with video, photography and drawing researching the tensions between different image-making systems, analogue and digital technologies and how they affect the way we understand images.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 19:15 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 14:45 hrs.

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Original title Shell of Shells Country UK Year 2009 Running time 7 min.

Distribution Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum

O’er the Land DIRECTOR: Deborah Stratman

The centrepiece of Deborah Stratman’s visual essay is the incredible story of a jet pilot who in 1959 catapulted himself out of his malfunctioning plane at a height of 15 kilometres, and who only after an over 40 minute long fall through a pitch-black thunderstorm, surrounded by lightning and ice-cold temperatures, managed to place his feet on the ground. A fantastic story, which is told by the pilot himself, and which in itself is reason enough to buy a ticket for the hypnotically fascinating ‘O’er the Land’. Stratman has named her reflection on freedom and defence after a verse in the American national anthem, and she takes an insider’s look at her country’s military and social self-perception. A theatrical reenactment of a historical battle in the middle of a forest becomes a surrealist climax (the spectators are sitting in small golf cars drinking coke), while a

Original title O’er the Land Country USA Year 2008 Running time 52 min.

Production Pythagoras Distribution Pythagoras

visit to a ‘gun club’, where weapons enthusiasts meet out in nowhere and shoot away at an invisible enemy, is an eerie and depressing sight.

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

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POW-WOW DIRECTOR: Richard Bartle

WORLD PREMIERE ‘Pow-wow’ is an eight-year long project that began on the 20th January 2001, the inauguration date of President George W. Bush, and was completed on the the 20th January 2009, the date he left office.

During this time, Richard Bartle has traced and documented the rise and fall of world leaders, laboriously reproducing their images on a series of small canvases through a process which reflects and measures the almost daily changes and disruptions in the political arena. Each canvas catalogues the recent political history of a specific state or republic and serves to capture each new leader’s ascent to power. Their subsequent political demise is then charted by erasing or burying them beneath the image of their successor.

Political stasis is suggested in the more readable images. In others, the dense palimpsest of innumerable layers evokes a more volatile or unstable past. The images are presented with a soundtrack - the preamble to the United Nations declaration of human rights, read out simultaneously by UN interpreters in several languages - which imitates the layered and often incomprehensible nature of the images.

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

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Original title POW-WOW Country UK Year 2009 Running time 6 min.

Distribution Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum

No False Echoes DIRECTOR: Wendelien van Oldenborgh

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE In Europe, radio developed as a state controlled instrument, used to edify the masses through speeches and lectures. ‘No False Echoes’ recalls this history of radio and talks about Dutch radio in colonial Indonesia. On behalf of the Dutch government Philips not only exported radio technology to the colony, but also started producing the radio programmes, in order to ensure their innocent, uplifting content, and to keep any unwanted political voices off the ether. While the Dutch colonisers found nostalgic comfort in reports about St. Nicholas, the Indonesian people were busy developing their own nationalist self-awareness. ‘No False Echoes’ deals with these simultaneous yet opposing nationalist movements, against the background of the current revival of nationalist sentiments in The Netherlands. The setting is the former main building of Radio

Original title No False Echoes Country Netherlands Year 2008 Running time 30 min.

Producer Wendelien van Oldenborgh Distribution Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Kootwijk, an architectural monument to modernism and progress, yet also clearly a building that is vacant and has lost its function.

The voices that construct ‘No False Echoes’ are not improvising or searching, but rather assertive, at times almost didactic, fitting the nature of a radio programme. As in a radio talk show, the Dutch perspective is discussed by two experts on radio history and an analyst of today’s political tendencies. The voice of the Indonesian independence movement is represented by a political pamphlet from 1913, Als ik eens Nederlander was (If I were a Dutchman). This provocative manifesto is recited by Salah Edin, the Moroccan-Dutch rap artist known for his biting criticism of today’s perception of immigrants.

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

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Outlandish - Strange Foreign Bodies DIRECTOR: Phillip Warnell

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE On the deck of an abandoned fish trawler in the middle of the polar sea, a lonely squid floats around in a small aquarium. A crystal-clear and unforgettable image. And an enigmatic metaphor for the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy’s thoughts about the relationship between the body and the outside world that presses itself onto it.

Seated by his desk and with his back against a wall of books, Nancy reads out eight short chapters about the corporal integrity of the self and about our illusory experience of the unassailability of the bodily fort, based on his own experiences and on the books he wrote while simultaneously going through a heart transplant and a difficult form of cancer. Abstract issues, maybe, but they nonetheless become immediate and relevant in Philip Warnell’s beautiful and luminous images. ‘Outlandish - Strange Foreign Bodies’ is not just a visually impressive interpretation of the renaissance of the body in philosophy, but also a testimony of the charismatic Nancy’s intellectual fearlessness.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 21:45 hrs. / Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 18:30 hrs.

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Original title Outlandish - Étranges Corps Étrangers Country UK Year 2009 Running time 20 min.

Distribution Philip Warnell

TRYPPS 1-6 DIRECTOR: Ben Russell

The American Ben Russell is still relatively unknown in Europe, even if his films have been shown at prestigious international festivals and galleries. Things have started to change, however, and the six short films in his experimental ‘TRYPPS’ series demonstrate why - and how. Despite their material formality, his early attempts at a soundless and abstract ‘cinéma pur’ are not devoid of the abstract, political comment that has become his self-conscious signature in the later works. Russell’s interest in the ethnographic appear in the third installment’s dreamlike documentations of the noise scene in Rhode Island, while his political occupations are released in a

Original title TRYPPS 1-6 Country USA Year 2009 Running time 52 min.

Distribution Ben Russell

politico-psychedelic Rorschach test in the fourth of the ‘TRYPPS’.

It is, however, his most recent efforts in anthropological metadocumentarism which are promising to bring about his breakthrough.

Shot in Dubai and Malobi respectively, parts five and six point to the methodical reworking of the ethics and aesthetics of a classical documentary genre with a burdened history and lots of blanks yet to be explored. The six ‘TRYPPS’ forms an artistic development with a common philosophical denominator: film is above all a material phenomenon with a potential that is far from being thoroughly explored. And Russell is something as rare as a political formalist, who doesn’t shy away from challenging his audience, but who rewards the trust of the attentive spectator with ample generosity. Note: the fourth part of the six ‘TRYPPS’ could be dangerous for people suffering from epilepsy.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 21:45 hrs. / Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 18:30 hrs.

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Lunch Break DIRECTOR: Sharon Lockhart

The American Sharon Lockhart is one of the few artists who enjoys equal recognition as a filmmaker as she does as a photographer. At the same time, the influence of one art form is consistently present in the other. This is also true for her latest work, which combines the cool observation of photography with the narrative disposition of the film image - only to end up undermining both in a formal minimalism that challenges the (bad) habits of visual perception. The title’s ‘Lunch Break’ takes place at a dockyard in Maine, where the remnants of the American working class are spending their time eating, talking and taking a nap. In one long take, the camera moves through a long corridor in slow motion (which in a generous/ironic gesture extends the workers’ break), and captures the human qualities that structuralist documentary filmmaking is less known to appreciate.

But also the lighting is carefully designed by her role model James Benning (who could be seen at last year’s CPH:DOX) and Becky Allen.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 7/11 14:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Friday 13/11 16:30 hrs.

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Original title Lunch Break Country USA Year 2008 Running time 83 min.

Distribution Arsenal filmverleih GmbH

The Sounding Lines are Obsolete DIRECTOR: John Price

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE He looks like a small Neil Armstrong on the surface of the moon, but in reality he’s on his way to Halloween in his silver-coloured space suit. The Canadian filmmaker John Price has filmed his mesmerisingly beautiful black-and-white home movie as an anthropological study of an invisible envoy from another planet, with his own children playing the representatives of a future human race.

The film’s observer thereby watches life on our planet with both a sense of known familiarity and the unaccustomed view of a stranger through a 16mm camera that floats in an ethereal orbit around the small astronaut and his sister. Price processes his films right down

Original title The Sounding Lines are Obsolete Country Canada Year 2009 Running time 11 min.

Distribution John Price

to their chemical foundations to create his light-sensitive style. The silhouette of a climber, who hangs with all his weightless fragility between outer space and nothingness thereby gets recorded on the image like a fossilised imprint from a time and a place that once was - or maybe one day will come to be. The soundtrack is self-evidently superfluous, and so is each attempt to come up with something resembling an explanation.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 21:00 hrs. / Husets Biograf Monday 9/11 21:00 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Wednesday 11/11 18:00 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Sunday 15/11 16:30 hrs.

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Schamdruck DIRECTOR: Ulf Aminde

WORLD PREMIERE Two people meet at night and peculiar music is the result. A third person joins in, and a curious ménage à trois takes shape in the cold limelight of the neon street lights. The anonymity of public space is already a brutal setting for the small farces and tragedies of everyday life, so why not? Under the direction of the Berlin-based video artist Ulf Aminde, the dreary concrete surroundings are reflected in the black impenetrability of face masks, in a theatrical parody on social customs in a suburban setting, where one is quickly given a telling-off for not minding ones own business. Aminde works with performative stagings of the restrictive norms of social interaction in

Original title Schamdruck Country Germany Year 2009 Running time 12 min.

Distribution Ulf Aminde

the public arena, be it the semi-private home or an apartment block, the artificial setting of an IKEA kitchen or life in a subway station. But Aminde’s improvised analysis of the way we live today also prods the collective fear of random violence and of making the wrong move.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 21:00 hrs. / Husets Biograf Monday 9/11 21:00 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Wednesday 11/11 18:00 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Sunday 15/11 16:30 hrs.

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Otolith III DIRECTOR: The Otolith Group

WORLD PREMIERE The London-based Otolith Group makes films that make even the steadiest among us feel dizzy. The artist duo Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun have named themselves after the pip in our inner ear that governs our sense of balance, and which is consistently driven into over-gear by their fractal-philosophical montage labyrinths.

‘Otolith III’ thus follows up on the group’s two preceding, but independent works in a historical reflection on time, memory and the events that never happened - in this case a Satyajit Ray film, which the Indian master director is now confronted with by four of its (non)actors. Like with their French role models Marker, Godard and

Original title Otolith III Country UK Year 2009 Running time 49 min.

Distribution The Otolith Group

Resnais, the political is ever-present - as thought and expression - in the works of The Otolith Group, whose reality-based science fiction neutralises mental gravity without losing touch with what’s real.

This also goes for the group’s latest work, which pays homage to all the unfinished films, which were born in minds, forgotten again and consigned to oblivion by the flow of time.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 21:00 hrs. / Husets Biograf Monday 9/11 21:00 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Wednesday 11/11 18:00 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Sunday 15/11 16:30 hrs.

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Rip In Pieces America DIRECTOR: Dominic Gagnon

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Rest in pieces, America! Dominic Gagnon turns no blind eye in his ultra-intense collage film which consists entirely of more or less anonymous webcam clips that due to their controversial or explicit nature have been flagged and meanwhile removed from video sites such as YouTube. Well-formulated conspiracy theorists, badtempered grass-roots activists and religious arms fanatics, who use the webcam as both a means to preach and to confess, have all been filtered by the censor, but stored by Gagnon, who neither comments nor embarks on any finger-pointing. For who decides what can be thought and said? And what is paranoia, if you know that you’re right?

‘RIP’ is an uncensored, in-your-face assault on political correctness and on most American institutions. But it also has a bizarre, performative element, which makes it more of a souvenir from the days before Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize. If only one of the people portrayed is right, the Americans are really in trouble...

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Tuesday 10/11 18:30 hrs. / Byens Lys Saturday 14/11 21:00 hrs.

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Original title Rip In Pieces America Country Canada Year 2009 Running time 62 min.

Production FILM 900 Producer Dominic Gagnon Distribution zéro distribution

Not to Scale DIRECTOR: Steve Hawley

WORLD PREMIERE How can it be so difficult not to reveal something about a film where absolutely nothing happens? ‘Not to Scale’ might require a lot of patience, but it’s not a drag to watch, as the simple and uniquely evocative images from an idyllic English country village pass by in a calm tempo, accompanied by twittering birds and a lone car in the distance. It’s summer, and everything radiates with peace and tranquility. But where are all the inhabitants? The streets are deserted, and the only things that move are the leaves in the wind.

Something is not quite the way it should be, and sooner or later one realises that the romantic motifs from the village’s clean-

Original title Not to Scale Country UK Year 2009 Running time 10 min.

Distribution Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum

scrubbed garden ponds are hiding a neurotic fantasy about complete control. The acclaimed English artist Steve Hawley has over 30 years’ experience working with film and video, and here he calmly undermines the audience’s potential expectation that the filmic image should have some kind of anchoring in the tangible world.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Monday 9/11 18:30 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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Untitled DIRECTOR: Alex Bag

EUROPEAN PREMIERE Prehistoric video formats are the new Super8 when it comes to critical-nostalgic parodies on the popular culture of the recent past. It is therefore not so surprising that Alex Bag has adopted the washedout low-res images and primitive chroma key technology of the 1970s in her neo-psychedelic satire on the kind of children’s television that she herself grew up with, and has elevated the expressive potential of the video effects to a triumphant anti-aesthetic level. As a child, Alex Bag could watch her mother every evening as the host of the children’s TV show, and now the New York-based video artist herself takes up the role of a spaced-out, medication-influenced central figure who is accompanied by a sarcastic dragon. Alex Bag drools through her sentences with great effort, while apocalyptic medieval sceneries appear across the green-screen behind her - and a bum in a wheelchair plays Bowie to the children on his guitar. The work was commissioned by the Whitney Museum in connection with Bag’s first solo exhibition.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Monday 9/11 18:30 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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Original title Untitled Country USA Year 2009 Running time 38 min.

Contact Elizabeth Dee Gallery

White Wind DIRECTOR: Nikolai Nekh

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Visual arts gave up the idea ages ago, but within film it is still a widespread notion that production value and artistic value are identical - the higher the quality of sound and image, the better.

And that aesthetic history has a linear shape with a technological evolution that is headed towards something that is nothing less than perfect visual pleasure. In this case, ‘White Wind’ represents a long-surpassed stage in this development. An ethnographic road documentary from Siberia - shot on pixellated Hi-8 video with the wind blustering into the microphone - that doesn’t indicate why we should even be watching these scenes from a drunk wedding and a

Original title Vento Branco Country Portugal Year 2008 Running time 20 min.

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tour around the mini-golf course. Meanwhile, the historical format influences the reality status of the images in both an aesthetic and social direction. What impact does the look of an image for example have on our cultural understanding and prejudices? And what mindset is reflected by the new high definition ecstasy? The answers are blowing in the wind across the Siberian motorways.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Monday 9/11 18:30 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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SOUND & VISION AWARD

As always, this year’s SOUND & VISION AWARD includes a variety of works from the music documentary genre. From classical music to The Doors, from minimal techno to jazz and noise. From portraits of the ever-active punks from the 1980s, Einstürzende Neubauten and The Pop Group’s Mark Stewart, to fascinating French portrayals of the Japanese underground in the ingenious ‘We Don’t Care About Music Anyway’ and Vincent Moon’s portrait of the screaming philosopher Kazuki Tomokawa, ‘La Faute Des Fleurs’. But it’s first and foremost the year of indie-rock in documentary land – and brand new films about Devendra Banhart, The White Stripes and the

fantastic indie-festival All Tomorrow’s Parties should cause excitement among many indie hearts.

In our focus series about Vincent Moon we will supplement the programme with new films about Mogwai and Arcade Fire.

And we simply can’t resist mentioning the two Danish contributions: ‘Insurgentes’ and ‘Stages’ – both made by fast-growing young filmmakers, with a fine sense of cinema as the medium of images. After all, music films are about both sound & vision.

SOUND & VISION AWARD (5,000 euros) is kindly sponsored by TV5 Monde.

The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights DIRECTOR: Emmett Malloy

There is no doubt that The White Stripes have long been the coolest cats in town. And unlike many others, their hipster factor has turned out to be a permanent feature. The director Emmett Malloy has followed the mythical duo on its 2007 tour through Canada, which turned out to be hard to beat in terms of originality and energy. The plan to conquer Canada wasn’t just about holding classic stadium concerts, but had the ambition to be surprising each time, in each new city. We experience White Stripes as they perform a show in a city bus in Winnipeg, at a bowling alley in Saskatoon and to a YMCA day camp in Toronto. There are just as many crazy concerts as there are cities on the tour itinerary, and Malloy is there all along. Between the gigs and the visits to the closed-off backstage area, he has turned his observant camera towards the relationship between Jack and Meg: the duo, which started out being married and later proclaimed to be brother and sister. The duo, whose one half does all the talking, while the other hardly ever utters a word. The duo, which makes grainy blues rock in black, white and red. An expression that Malloy has chosen to continue in the film, which in a most delicate way makes use of the band’s signature colours and pop art scenography.

SCREENING DATES Grand Thursday 5/11 18:00 hrs. / Grand Saturday 7/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Friday 13/11 21:30 hrs.

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Original title The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights Country USA Year 2009 Running time 93 min.

Production Three Foot Giant, Woodshed Films Producer Mike Sarkissian Distribution Monotone Inc. / Three Foot Giant

All Tomorrow’s Parties DIRECTOR: Jonathan Caouette, All Tomorrow’s People

When ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’ is reviewed as a DIY concert film, this is to be taken literally. The film, which portrays the cult festival by the same name, is an intoxicating patchwork of images recorded with everything from video cameras to mobile phones, with Vincent Moon and Jonathan Caouette as the artistic masterminds in the editing suite. The concept for the festival is quite simple: get a band to unite its favourite musicians at a holiday camp during the low season and add a music-loving and laid-back audience. Let them jam, climb up in trees and play concerts together all weekend, and you end up having what Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore describes as “the ultimate mix tape”. The film is an eclectic blend of recordings with and by artists such as Portishead, Grinderman, Mogwai and Slint, and it is impossible not to be enchanted by ATP’s wonderful world, where one both lives in huts with an ocean view and plays mini-golf with one’s biggest indie heroes.

Original title All Tomorrow’s Parties Country UK Year 2009 Running time 82 min.

Production Warp X Producer Luke Morris Distribution Warp Films

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio Friday 6/11 22:30 hrs. / Empire Bio Wednesday 11/11 22:30 hrs. / Grand Saturday 14/11 21:30 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 75

Insurgentes DIRECTOR: Lasse Hoile

WORLD PREMIERE “Art is an extension of yourself”, says Steven Wilson, who is best known as the frontman of the progressive rock band Porcupine Tree.

The man behind several of the band’s music videos, Danish Lasse Hoile, who has also made works for Opeth and Dream Theater, follows the reflective Brit during the release of the 2008 solo album, which has also given this sensationally visionary debut feature its title. With gloomy, existential images, which look as if they are influenced by everything from Tarkvosky to 70s splatter films and The Knife’s visual universe, ‘Insurgentes’ portrays Wilson as a complex musician, human being and a savage vinyl devotee, who has made it his personal project to smash, burn and destroy iPods in his battle against the mp3 format and what he sees as our age’s devaluation of music. There is plenty of destruction, distortion and noise in both Wilson’s sound and Hoile’s images, and the film becomes larger than the sum of its artistic input, thanks to the mutual understanding between the two.

Steven Wilson will himself be present at the screening on the 13th of November for a conversation with Lasse Hoile about today’s music culture. Maybe he will even have the time to destroy a few iPods.

SCREENING DATES Gloria Friday 6/11 17:00 hrs. / Gloria Friday 13/11 21:30 hrs.

76 SOUND & VISION AWARD

Original title Insurgentes Country UK, Denmark Year 2009 Running time 77 min.

Production Desperit Meshers Producer Lasse Hoile, Steven Wilson Distribution Lasse Hoile

The Family Jams DIRECTOR: Kevin Barker

WORLD PREMIERE Even if the long-haired, long-bearded, Jesus-like neo-hippie with a bare stomach doesn’t think that he’s making folk music, The Family Jam’s music nonetheless oozes of folk. When Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom and Vetiver embarked on an American tour in 2004, the band member Kevin Barker brought along a handheld camera.

With it, he filmed the entire tour from the American east coast to the west coast. The film develops from Barker’s personal video diary, which he himself has filmed, edited, produced and directed, to an intimate road movie and a musical close-up and portrait of a moving character. Just like Banhart and co’s intimate family jams - where everyone joins in to play, sing and stamp along - the film radiates a sense of presence, joy and love for music. And it definitely doesn’t get worse with the guest appearances of Antony Hegarty, Esper and Banhart’s great role model, Linda Perhacs.

Original title The Family Jams Country USA Year 2009 Running time 81 min.

Production Neptune’s Thimble Producer Kevin Barker Distribution Kevin Barker

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 7/11 21:30 hrs. / Empire Bio Tuesday 10/11 22:30 hrs. / Empire Bio Friday 13/11 22:30 hrs. / Grand Sunday 15/11 21:30 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 77

Off Ways DIRECTOR: Uli Schueppel

The industrial anarchists Einstürzende Neubauten were the first band from the West to hold a concert in the former GDR after the fall of the Berlin wall. On 21st December 1989, Blixa Bargeld & co packed their band van with drills and guitars, and ventured from Kreuzberg to Lichtenberg. A chaotic journey across several cultural lightyears, which ended with a historic concert in front of thousands of fans, who so far had only heard the group on illegally imported bootleg tapes.

The underground director Uli Schüppel was there all along, and for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall he has woven his original footage from 1989 together with a portrait of today’s Berlin.

Worlds collide, both when a socialist GDR journalist interviews the black-clad nihilists about the social value of their music, and when France’s president François Mitterand suddenly turns up. ‘Off Ways’ is a magnificent document from one of the few moments in history when everyone could be a hero.

Original title Von Wegen (Elektrokohle) Country Germany Year 2009 Running time 90 min.

Production Schueppel Films Producer Uli M. Schueppel Distribution Schueppel Films

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 19:45 hrs. / Cinemateket Tuesday 10/11 16:45 hrs. / Grand Friday 13/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

78 SOUND & VISION AWARD

And I Ride, And I Ride DIRECTOR: Frank Vialle

WORLD PREMIERE If Leonard Cohen were a French guitarist, his name would be Rodolphe Burger, he’d be a professor of philosophy and he’d live somewhere out in the snow-clad mountains of northern France. Here, he’d record his records with his friends and colleagues in his homebuilt studio, smoke cigarettes, talk to his old neighbour and watch the seasons pass. There is a man who fits that description, and it’s not surprising that he’s a cool cat to the bone. Rodolphe Burger of French experimental rock band Kat Onoma is the kind of musician who lets moods beget his music, and his floating playing doesn’t distinguish genres such as jazz, blues and post-punk. To put it succinctly, Burger’s sound is cinematic, and this can be felt in ‘And I Ride, And I Ride’. Much like last year’s portrait of Patti Smith, ‘Dream of Life’, the first-time director Franck Vialle shrouds his virtuoso friend in impressionistic and atmospheric images. Rodolphe Burger can also be seen in Pedro Costa’s ascetic ‘Ne change rien’ together with the

Original title And I Ride, And I Ride Country France Year 2009 Running time 105 min.

Production Atopic Producer Christophe Gougeon Distribution Atopic

French diva Jeanne Balibar.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Sunday 8/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Thursday 12/11 21:30 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 79

We Don’t Care About Music Anyway...

DIRECTOR: Cédric Dupire, Gaspard Kuentz

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Cédric Dupire & Gaspard Kuentz’s hypnotic work challenges the boundaries of both the artistic and the political. Filled with febrile dream visions and snap shots of Tokyo’s radically vibrating underground, the film is a simultaneously unobtrusive and hard attack on a world where normality has turned life into hell. With its incisive commentary on conformist consumer society, several of the film’s protagonists start out in the quickly growing scrap yards in the outskirts of the city and create instruments and sounds with what other people would consider waste. They throw themselves headlong into hyper-intelligent discussions about music, life and politics - and enrich us with a number of beautifully shot concerts, which range from cacophonous industrial noise to energetic no-wave.

‘We Don’t Care About Music Anyway...’ is a unique film about a group of originals, whose eccentric visions simply have to be seen on the big screen. Meet Otomo Yoshihide, Sakamoto Hiromichi, Yamakawa Fuyuki, Numb, Saidrum... and your world will never be the same again!

SCREENING DATES Byens Lys Saturday 7/11 21:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Friday 13/11 21:30 hrs.

80 SOUND & VISION AWARD

Original title We Don’t Care About Music Anyway...

Country France Year 2009 Running time 80 min.

Production Studio Shaiprod, Cityzen TV, Shai Productions, Zadig Productions Producer Jérôme Aglibert Distribution Studio Shaiprod

La faute des fleurs DIRECTOR: Vincent Moon

WORLD PREMIERE To see ‘La Faute des fleurs’ is like being hit by a spaceship. A very Japanese spaceship. After having been told by a fan that here was a story that he shouldn’t miss out on, Vincent Moon travelled to Japan to meet the 59-year-old Japanese folk singer and cult figure Kazuki Tomokawa, also known as ‘the screaming philosopher’. From that moment on, the director’s world had changed completely - and unsuspecting audiences who go and see ‘La Faute des fleurs’ can expect the same. Because Tomokawa, who at first sight looks like someone taken from a yakuza film, but who has in fact acted in films by both Nagisa Oshima and Takashi Miike, loses it completely.

And he burns his bridges during a wild drinking spree, where he is constantly in danger of reaching out for yet another bottle instead of his guitar. This deeply moving portrait brings Tomokawa, his bungled relationship with his son and his passion for gambling at bike races to life. ‘La Faute des Fleurs’ is a quantum leap for Vincent Moon.

Original title La faute des fleurs Country France Year 2008 Running time 70 min.

Production Temporary Areas Producer Naohito Koike, Naoki Ohzeki, Vincent Moon Distribution Vincent Moon

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Thursday 12/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Sunday 15/11 17:00 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 81

Villalobos DIRECTOR: Romuald Karmakar

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE With his uncompromising portrait of the internationally acclaimed micro-house musician Ricardo Villalobos, the controversial German director Romuald Karmakar has completed his trilogy on electronic music and the pulsating club scene at the beginning of the new century. Through close, eye-opening interviews with the otherwise withdrawn DJ, the film introduces his working methods and thought processes, and we are invited to an exclusive visit at the famous Berghain Club in Berlin. In these wild, fluorescent scenes, Villalobos sends us on a solid techno trip, of a kind that has rarely been seen on film. In 2003, Karmakar portrayed the Berlin Love Parade in ‘196 BPM’ and a few years later he filmed the European techno scene in ‘Between the Devil and the Wide Blue Sea’ (CPH:DOX 2006) - but there is no doubt that this last film is the magnum opus of the trilogy.

‘Villalobos’ is a simultaneously super-intimate and ultra-hard film about the master of minimal techno, whose love for classical music and intelligent thoughts about our age and about techno culture can only increase our fascination of ‘Villalobos’.

PARTY: After the screening on 7th November at 22:30 hrs in Vega, LOMIDHIGH will invite you to dance. Read more under DOX:EXPANDED - concerts & parties.

SCREENING DATES Vega Saturday 7/11 22:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Friday 13/11 21:45 hrs.

82 SOUND & VISION AWARD

Original title Villalobos Country Germany Year 2009 Running time 119 min.

Production Pantera Film Producer Romuald Karmarkar Distribution Pantera Film GmbH

Stages DIRECTOR: Uffe Truust

WORLD PREMIERE Over the course of their teenage years, the seven members of Dúné have achieved much more than most people do in an entire lifetime. So when ‘Stages’ condenses two years of the band’s life into a 90-minute road movie, it’s not surprising that the seams are threatening to split. From rehearsals at the youth club to a student party - and directly on to playing in front of 20,000 spectators in Germany with a colossal third-day hangover. The debut director Uffe Truust, who has previously made music videos for the band, manages to get right into ‘bed’ with the band. Both when they discuss their relationship issues in the tour bus and when one of the seven members is hit by an emotional jet lag somewhere between Moscow and Tokyo. ‘Stages’ is an honest and candid portrait of seven vulnerable youths, who together have realised their dream of the wild rock’n’roll life. But who also stick together through thick and thin, when it’s time to pay the costs in the form of constant demands

Original title Stages Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 90 min.

Production Beat Film Producer Stine Boe Jensen Distribution Beat Film

and expectations. It’s full speed ahead all the way through, and one doesn’t doubt one second that the world is waiting for them.

SCREENING DATES Byens Lys Friday 6/11 20:00 hrs. / Dagmar Thursday 12/11 21:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 21:45 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 83

Memory & Desire: 30 Years in the Wilderness with Stephen Duffy and The Lilac Time DIRECTOR: Douglas Arrowsmith SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Lightyears separate the Stephen Duffy presented in Douglas Arrowsmith’s atmospheric portrait film from the young and arty punk lad who started Duran Duran but dropped out after a year to focus on his solo career. Today’s Duffy is a 49-year-old gentleman with a goatee and a face that bears witness to a long-lived life devoted to art. As a 20-year-old he attended arts college, painted his eyes black and quoted Fitzgerald and Dorothy Parker in his dark songs. He has tried most music genres, from introspective and gloomy punk to the kind of neon-coloured pop that he himself calls ‘synth pop marxism’, and in the past 20 years he has regularly seduced a small but devoted following with his band The Lilac Time and their beautiful folk-pop songs. The portrait of Stephen Duffy is the portrait of an artist who insists on art, magic and poetry - and with his sensual Super8 images and strongly personal approach, Arrowsmith brings all three of these elements to glowing life.

Original title Memory & Desire: 30 Years in the Wilderness with Stephen Duffy and The Lilac Time Country Canada, UK Year 2009 Running time 83 min.

Production Bogus Frontage / Felt Films Producer Douglas Arrowsmith Distribution Felt Films

SCREENING DATES Gloria Saturday 7/11 17:00 hrs. / Dagmar Tuesday 10/11 16:30 hrs. / Husets Biograf Sunday 15/11 18:30 hrs.

84 SOUND & VISION AWARD

On/Off: Mark Stewart - From The Pop Group To The Maffia DIRECTOR: Toni Schifer SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Mark Stewart, one of Britain’s most innovative artists, brought the revolutionary Bristol punk to the masses 30 years ago and thereby sowed the seeds for a music scene that over the years has developed continually and gone on to produce bands such as Massive Attack, Tricky and Portishead.

The film portrays Mark Stewart’s musical flirt with a long list of genres from Pop Group’s danceable punk aesthetic via New Step and

Original title On/Off: Mark Stewart - From The Pop Group To The Maffia Country Germany Year 2009

industrial Hip Hop to The Maffia’s dub massacre.

Running time 91 min.

The director Toni Schiffer followed Mark Stewart over a period of

Production Monitorpop Entertainment

three years and has made a detailed and often intimate portrait of the artist, supported by a number of interviews with, among others, Adrian Sherwood (On.U Sound), Daniel Miller (Mute Records), Nick Cave, Douglas Hart (The Jesus & Mary Chain), Fritz Catlin (23 Skidoo),

Producer Toni Schifer Distribution Toni Schifer

Mike Watt (Minutemen, The Stooges) and Massive Attack. What’s more, the film is filled with hitherto unseen concert footage of The Pop Group.

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf Friday 6/11 18:30 hrs. / Grand Thursday 12/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Saturday 14/11 21:30 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 85

Timeless Harvest DIRECTOR: Martin Verdet

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE ‘Timeless Harvest’ is a film about music - the life that music creates, and the life that surrounds music. Martin Verdet’s beautiful and atmospheric film follows the internationally acclaimed composer Per Nørgård, the cello maestros Valter Despalj and Ralph Kirschbaum as well as the Kroger Quartet in their work with music at Frederiksdal Manor on Lolland. The film follows the passing of the seasons, while the audience is taken onto a journey into the world of music through the portrayal of life at Frederiksdal - from the detailed work in the rehearsal room to the machines’ toiling of the heavy earth. With its painterly and sensual images and an unprecedented sense of musical and human detail, Martin Verdet has created a cinematic masterpiece, which brilliantly complements the work of the artists. Never before has the work process of classical music been portrayed with such a passionate nerve and vulnerability.

At the screening on the 14th of November, the director Martin Verdet will talk about the film, followed by a world premiere of a new cello piece by Per Nørgård, played by the leading Nørgård interpreter Jakob Kullberg. Read more about the event on DOX EXPANDED - Concerts and Parties.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 14:15 hrs. / Stærekassen Saturday 14/11 14:00 hrs.

86 SOUND & VISION AWARD

Original title Timeless Harvest Country France Year 2009 Running time 59 min.

Production Z’azimut Films Producer Nicole Zeizig Distribution Z’azimut Films

To Be Or Not To Be DIRECTOR: Frank Scheffer

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE European music is made to be heard. Persian music is made to not be heard. That’s how the Iranian-born composer and conductor Nader Mashayekhi defines the difference between the music he has inherited and the music he has learned to love abroad. After 35 years of studies in Vienna, he returns to Tehran to make the impossible possible. In a country where western sounds are seen as blasphemous and superficial, he starts a symphony orchestra that performs pieces by Mahler, Bach and John Cage. In his attempt to bridge the gap between East and West, Mahsayekh combines classical western instrumentation with the melancholy poetry of Persia in his own compositions. The result is a unique and challenging auditory experience, which is accompanied by almost metaphysically beautiful imagery of desert landscapes.

Original title To Be Or Not To Be Country Netherlands Year 2009 Running time 70 min.

Production Pieter van der Huystee Film & TV Producer Pieter Van der Huystee Distribution Pieter van der Huystee Film & TV

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 16:30 hrs. / Dagmar Thursday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 87

The Delian Mode DIRECTOR: Kara Blake

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Once you have heard the theme tune of ‘Doctor Who’, you never forget it again. The woman behind the gloomy electronic track, which entered British households for the first time in 1963, is Delia Derbyshire, who was employed at BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop in the 1950s, where innovative work was being done, but where the employed never got the recognition for being the composers they in fact were. Derbyshire was ahead of most people, and with her persevering work on the times’ latest technology, the reel tape recorder, she created a renewed form of electronic music with field recordings that she looped, manipulated and turned on its head. Her melodic and almost joyfully revealing recordings have to this day inspired bands such as Portishead, White Noise and Sonic Boom.

When synthesisers made their breakthrough in the 1970s, time was running out for Derbyshire, and today anybody with a hidden inner musician can do the same on the computer - but Delia Derbyshire created the foundation. Kara Blake provides an original visualisation of the pioneering electronic music through nostalgic BBC footage, dark collages and split screens that give the electronic cut up a renewed meaning.

SCREENING DATES Gloria Saturday 7/11 21:30 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Friday 13/11 18:00 hrs.

88 SOUND & VISION AWARD

Original title The Delian Mode Country Canada Year 2009 Running time 25 min.

Production Philtre Films Producer Kara Blake, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre Distribution Vidéographe Distribution

Varese: The One All Alone DIRECTOR: Frank Scheffer

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE (OUT OF COMPETITION) He has inspired musicians from Frank Zappa to John Cage, Penderecki and Stockhausen and was called ‘the stratospheric colossus of sound’ by Henry Miller. The French-born Edgard Varèse (1883-1965) renewed modern composed music with his concept of music as ‘organised sound’. In his work, Varèse was constantly on the lookout for new sources of sound, which found a direct expression in his many collaborations with sound technicians, scientists and instrument makers. He was also one of the first people to use tape recorders and electronic devices, which is why he was considered by many to be the father of electronic music. With his intelligent combination of both visual and acoustic archive material, Frank Scheffer’s fine portrait film digs, like Varèse, deep into the structure of tonal music - and into the man behind Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse and his work, which despite its huge reputation only includes a few finished compositions.

Original title Varese: The One All Alone Country Netherlands Year 2009 Running time 93 min.

Production Kasander film Producer Kees Kasander Distribution Kasander Film

SCREENING DATES Gloria Saturday 7/11 21:30 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Friday 13/11 18:00 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 89

When You’re Strange: A film about The Doors DIRECTOR: Tom DiCillo SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE (OUT OF COMPETITION) The Doors are one of the most mythologised bands ever - not least thanks to Jim Morrison’s characteristic career cocktail consisting of an insatiable appetite for life and a paradoxical death wish that made him meet his end at the age of just 27. ‘When You’re Strange’ is the first official documentary that tells the story of the group and consists entirely of original footage from the period of 1965 to 1971, supplemented with sensational extracts from Jim Morrison’s own, freakish experimental road movie ‘Highway’. The material is nothing less than a historical and cinematic scoop and has not been shown before the American independent director Tom DiCillo was given access to the unique film spools. We are there when Morrison and the organist Ray Manzarek meet each other at the film school at UCLA, until they a few years later stand in the limelight before thousands of fans - but also when they go off the rails under the psychedelic Californian sun. There are miles of cinematic eye candy for film lovers, and a new life for the sound of the ever young revolution.

Original title When You’re Strange: A film about The Doors Country USA Year 2008 Running time 90 min.

Production Rhino Entertainment Company Producer John Beug, Jeff Jampol, Peter Jankowski, Dick Wol Distribution Rhino Entertainment Company

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 22:00 hrs. / Empire Bio Sunday 8/11 22:30 hrs. / Grand Saturday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

90 SOUND & VISION AWARD

Ed Thigpen: Master Of Time, Rhythm And Taste DIRECTOR: Don McGlynn

EUROPEAN PREMIERE (OUT OF COMPETITION) Apart from being an incredible musician with a rare feel for music, the drummer Ed Thigpen is also a human being whose life has brought him to many places: grown up in Saint Louis and Los Angeles, he worked together with the likes of Dinah Washington and Bud Powell at an early age. Later, he spent many years living in Copenhagen.

A musician - but also a teacher and a Christian family father - who constantly seeks out new means of expression. In his personal, multifaceted portrait film, the Copenhagen-based American director Don McGlynn tells the story of Thigpen, whose work has included collaborations with Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Herbie Hancock and Ella Fitzgerald, but who has also enriched the Jazz world with his own two bands, “Ed Thigpen Trio” and “Ed Thigpen Scantet”. He has

Original title Ed Thigpen: Master Of Time, Rhythm And Taste Country USA, Denmark Year 2009 Running time 91 min.

Production Donald McGlynn

participated on no less than 900 albums.

Producer Donald McGlynn

Both the director Don McGlynn and Ed Thigpen will be present at the

Distribution Donald McGlynn

film’s premiere.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 14:00 hrs.

SOUND & VISION AWARD 91

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AMNESTY AWARD

AMNESTY AWARD is CPH:DOX’s competition programme for films that focus on various aspects of the struggle for human rights. This year’s nominated films reach far and wide, and we get to tour the entire planet. From the melancholy sound and image collage ‘Isolation’ about Iraq veterans to ‘Murder’, Andreas Johnsen’s harrowing account of Nicaragua’s insanely strict abortion laws, which hits you like a blow to your chest. ‘Murder’ reveals one aspect of Latin America’s problems with creating a just society – José Padilha (who has previously won the AMNESTY

AWARD with ‘Bus 174’) shows another with his beautiful and extremely touching ‘Garapa’. A continental leap takes us on to Boris Bertram’s brand new ‘Tank City’ about life and the opportunities for artistic epxression in Siberia’s most polluted city – and to the intelligent examination of seemingly banal social rituals in modern China.

AMNESTY AWARD (5,000 euros) is kindly sponsored by Merkur Bank.

Garapa DIRECTOR: José Padilha

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE The word ‘garapa’ refers to the mixture of warm water and sugar that poor Brazilian families give to their children when there isn’t any food in the house - and that’s often the case. Many of them have to survive on handouts and food rations from the ‘Zero Hunger’ programme. But the rations are only enough for one small meal a day, and the result is malnutrition and disease. Women try in vain to keep their large families together, while the men often turn to drinking to soothe their frustration at not being able to find work or make the crops grow. An alcoholic husband sells his family’s meagre food supplies and even the toilet to be able to finance his cachaça abuse. The heart-rending realities and the desperate conditions are captured in unsentimental black-and-white images, which bring us very close to a brutal Brazilian reality.

José Padilha won the Amnesty Award for his ‘Bus 174’ at the first CPH:DOX in 2003.

Original title Garapa Country Brazil Year 2009 Running time 106 min.

Production Zazen Producóes Audiovisuais Producer José Padilha, Marcos Prado Distribution Zazen Producóes Audiovisuais

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 7/11 16:45 hrs. / Vester Vov Vov Saturday 14/11 19:00 hrs. / Vester Vov Vov Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

96 AMNESTY AWARD

Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi DIRECTOR: Ian Olds

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE In april 2007, the 24-year-old Afghan journalist Ajmal Naqshbandi was executed by Taliban warriors. Ajmal had been taken hostage together with an Italian journalist, for whom he had worked as a fixer.

A fixer is a person who makes use of local contacts to facilitate access to interviews and news stories for foreign journalists. It’s a risky job to venture far into Taliban territory, where law and disorder are enforced by armed extremists - but Ajmal has a family to feed. After an intense month, the Italian is liberated and given a hero’s welcome back at home, while Ajmal becomes a pawn in a savage political game when Hamid Karzai’s government refuses to negotiate any further with the Taliban. The film documents Ajmal’s last half year alive and exposes a corrupt and violent Afghan reality.

Original title Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi Country USA Year 2009 Running time 84 min.

Production G Films Producer Ian Olds, Christian Parenti, Nancy Roth Distribution G Films

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 15:00 hrs. / Dagmar Friday 13/11 16:30 hrs.

AMNESTY AWARD 97

Tank City DIRECTOR: Boris Bertram

WORLD PREMIERE In a city that is best known for contaminating its citizens with high levels of radioactivity, two young people turn to dance as a way of dealing with the heritage of the nuclear reactors. The Russian industrial town Chelyabinsk, situated at the foot of the Ural Mountains in western Siberia, is one of the planet’s most radioactive places.

During the cold war it was one of the Soviet Union’s secret cities that was taking part in the development of the first Soviet nuclear bomb. But the city of Chelyabinsk also has one of the most vibrant dance scenes in Russia. In ‘Tank City’, we follow a group of young dancers during the production of a new dance show, which is about losing gravity as a human being. The film is a rare example of a documentary dance and environmental film. The film examines how dance as an art form gives youths a possibility to express themselves freely. ‘Tank City’ is a film about radioactive bodies, dance and survival. And about being young in the aftermath of one of the largest radioactive disasters of the 20th century.

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst Thursday 12/11 20:00 hrs.

98 AMNESTY AWARD

Original title Tankograd Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 58 min.

Production Barok Film Producer Sara Stockmann Distribution Barok Film

Murder DIRECTOR: Andreas Johnsen

WORLD PREMIERE The Catholic Church is fanatically ‘pro-life’. Nonetheless, it sends an unknown number of pregnant Nicaraguan women straight to their deaths. It has always been illegal to have an abortion in Central America’s poorest country, but ahead of the Nicaraguan presidential elections in 2006, the former socialist revolutionary leader Daniel Ortega entered an unholy alliance with the the church in his battle to obtain more votes among the strongly faithful electorate and promised to even criminalise therapeutic abortion, which can only be conducted if a birth is threatening the mother’s life. Ortega became president, and Nicaragua’s parliament pushed through a horrifying change in the law, which means that carrying out any kind of abortion can be punished with up to 8 years in prison - both for the pregnant woman and the doctor involved. But at the same time, pregnancy itself can be a death sentence. CPH:DOX is hosting the world premiere of Danish filmmaker Andreas Johnsen’s powerful and

Original title Murder Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 60 min.

Production rosforth.com Producer Andreas Johnsen Distribution Rosforth & Rosforth

violently intense ‘Murder’, which follows the people who are defying the law to save lives - and thereby put their own lives at risk.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Sunday 8/11 16:30 hrs. / Byens Lys Thursday 12/11 21:00 hrs.

AMNESTY AWARD 99

Isolation DIRECTOR: Luke Seomore, Joseph Bull

WORLD PREMIERE Stuart Griffiths has served in the British army for five years when he decides to resign. He ends up homeless on the streets of London, just like roughly 36,000 other ex-soldiers. His problem is far from unique, and Griffiths here moves - with his own story as a starting point and through conversations and photographs that bear witness to their mutual understanding of the nightmare-inducing experiences - into the world of soldiers who have returned home. Having been a war photographer in Northern Ireland, Griffiths main form of expression is the picture, and Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull’s debut abounds with naturalistic portraits of soldiers during and after a battle, scarred and lacking limbs. But the film is also visually haunting in its own right.

With its impressionistic night footage it describes a tendency of our times that is rarely talked about. And the war’s effects on a human being are given an unprecedented depth thanks to an aesthetic à la David Lynch.

CPH:DOX are proud to host the world premiere of this new, longer version of ‘Isolation’.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 7/11 15:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Friday 13/11 19:15 hrs.

100 AMNESTY AWARD

Original title Isolation Country UK Year 2009 Running time 74 min.

Production Institute for Eyes Producer Hannah Lack Distribution I F Eyes LTD

Erasing David DIRECTOR: David Bond

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE What do we really know about what others know about us? The English filmmaker David Bond leaves behind his little daughter and pregnant wife to find out. With two private detectives on his heels, he flees across Europe’s surveillance universe, while simultaneously leaving behind revealing trails in the form of phone calls, cash withdrawals, Facebook updates and other digital fingerprints. Bond’s own daughter was one of 25 million British, whose personal data was last year leaked due to an error in public IT. This encouraged him to try escaping from the all-observing eye of electronic Big Brother and to go underground for a month, which quickly turns out to be more easily said than done. The self-effacing project are taxing to both body and soul, as the expressionless detectives round in on our man. In the meantime, security experts, professional spies and other (anti) authorities give us their opinion on the state of privacy in the 21st century - and it doesn’t look good.

Original title Erasing David Country UK Year 2009 Running time 78 min.

Production Green Lions Films Ltd Producer Ashley Jones Distribution Green Lions FIlms Ltd

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Monday 9/11 16:45 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 14:00 hrs.

AMNESTY AWARD 101

Once Upon A Time Proletarian DIRECTOR: Xiaolu Guo

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE During the production of her feature film ‘She, a Chinese’, the Chinese director Xiaolu Guo felt an urge to also tell her stories outside the filter of fiction. She therefore simultaneously shot ‘Once Upon A Time Proletarian’, 12 lyrical and politically revealing essays, 12 moving and thought-provoking looks through the keyhole at a postMaoist China, where dreams and disillusion go hand in hand. Meet the penniless farmer who has nothing but his pride and his working morale to hold on to, the two millionaires who update each other on the movements of the stock exchange, the new Russian prostitutes, and the worker at a weapons factory, who nostalgically recalls the Maoist era, when everything was better. And meet the forwardlooking youth, which dreams of becoming famous in the West. The director’s own sadness and concern about the state of the country is constantly present under the surface of the beautifully composed images, and now and again one can catch a glimpse of the greatness and heroism of the past, which, however, is always most visible when it’s being compared with the realities of today.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 18:00 hrs. / Dagmar Thursday 12/11 21:30 hrs.

102 AMNESTY AWARD

Original title Women Cengjing De Wuchanzhe Country China Year 2009 Running time 75 min.

Production Chapter Two Films Producer Guo Xiaolu, Pam Casey Distribution Memento Films International

Their Life is Somewhere Else!

DIRECTOR: Mona Rafatzadeh

EUROPEAN PREMIERE Escalators and everyday chit-chat in Tehran’s top-modern metro.

More and more women fill the platform, until finally a train finally arrives and comes to a halt with great yellow letters on the side reading ‘WOMEN ONLY’. Mona Rafatzadeh, who is still a film student at the university of Tehran, portrays the isolated life of women in the metro in ‘Their Life is Somewhere Else’. The static images soberly register the calm and orderliness that can be found in the metro system. But Mona Rafatzadeh’s partially hidden camera also captures the women’s alternating silence and small-talk, their yawns and the sale of colourful underwear, chewing gum, black veils, sunglasses,

Original title Their Life is Somewhere Else!

Country Iran Year 2009 Running time 13 min.

Producer Mona Rafatzadeh

gucci bags and mobile phones. ‘Their Life is Somewhere Else’ has already earned much international attention, and it will be exciting to follow the young and promising Mona Rafatzadeh’s further development down the road that in the past year has put Iranian documentary back on the cinematic world map.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 16:45 hrs.

AMNESTY AWARD 103

Tehran Without Permission DIRECTOR: Sepideh Farsi

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Sepideh Farsi recorded her impressionistic vox-pops without asking anyone for permission. Not because there is a general filming ban in Iran’s populous capital, but if you don’t ask nobody is going to say no. Equipped with her mobile phone as her digital ‘kino eye’, ‘Tehran Without Permission’ takes a kaleidoscopic insider look at a society where tensions are simmering - especially among that half of the population which is under 25 years old. Persian graffiti and angry rap texts are rarely mentioned when the Islamic regime proudly exports its own, biased story of a strong and unified nation to Western media through its own TV stations. As a result, Farsi’s low-fi street poetry hits one with an all the more unexpected force.

Original title Tehran Bedoune Mojavez Country France/Iran Year 2009 Running time 83 min.

Production Rêves d’Eau Productions Producer Javad Djavahery Distribution Rêves d’Eau Productions

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 16:45 hrs.

104 AMNESTY AWARD

Hotel Sahara DIRECTOR: Bettina Haasen

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Europe is just a stone’s throw away from North Africa - at least if you judge by the maps. In reality, the journey from one continent to the other is both a long and dangerous one for the many illegal immigrants, who each year try to cross the Strait of Gibraltar. In ‘Hotel Sahara’, we follow a number of Africans, who have different takes on the dream about ‘the European paradise’. Some of them have fantasies about careers as footballers and streets without dust, and have therefore already consigned their fate into the hands of local smugglers. Others harbour no illusions and would rather build up a meaningful life right where they are. What they all share is a sense of unfairness at having been born in the wrong place: in an Africa where one doesn’t have the same opportunities as in the rest of the world. With a sober approach, which both registers beauty and decay, polluted deserts with plastic bags lining all the sandbars and wonderful sunsets over hazy mirages, we follow the film’s

Original title Hotel Sahara Country Germany Year 2008 Running time 85 min.

Production Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion Producer Christian Beetz Distribution Deckert Distribution GmbH

protagonists in their respective countries. Just as their fates remain unclear, the film provides no final answers.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Monday 9/11 16:30 hrs. / Vester Vov Vov Friday 13/11 19:00 hrs.

AMNESTY AWARD 105

Presumed Guilty DIRECTOR: Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith

EUROPEAN PREMIERE The 26-year-old rapper and break dancer ‘Tonio’ Zuniga Rodriguez is imprisoned in Mexico City, and his sentence for murdering a young man means he has another 20 years in prison to look forward to. The only thing is that he hasn’t committed the murder, and his family is desperately trying to fight for his release. But it’s an uphill struggle against a decaying legal system and a corrupt police force, which receives a cash reward for each arrest. Two young idealistic lawyers take on the case and demand renewed access to the documents.

They soon reveal that Tonio’s defence lawyer was working with a fake licence, and the case is reopened. The documents are all spread out in the tight legal office of the prison, and Tonio does everything to convince the judge that he’s innocent. But this is more easily said than done in a country where ruthless coincidence rules both the streets and the courtrooms.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Tuesday 10/11 21:45 hrs. / Cinemateket Friday 13/11 19:00 hrs.

106 AMNESTY AWARD

Original title Presumed Guilty Country Mexico Year 2008 Running time 88 min.

Production Abogados con Cámara Producer Layda Negrete, Roberto Hernández, Martha Sosa, Yissel Ibarra Distribution Films Transit

Defamation DIRECTOR: Yoav Shamir

Driven by a personal curiosity and armed with a naive inquisitiveness à la Michael Moore, the Israeli director Yoav Shamir tries to find out how antisemitism is expressed today. To find an answer, he among other things follows a group of Israeli school children on their educational trip to Auschwitz under the motto “Never forgive.

Never forget!” And he tries to understand, what exactly it is that the powerful American-Jewish lobby organisation Anti-Defamation League does. There are many interests and great emotions at play when the opinions of editors, rabbis, intellectuals, left-wing activists and ordinary Israelis are confronted with each other. The DanishIsraeli production is an entertaining, thought-provoking and at times disconcerting look at how complex and and self-perpetuating the discussion about antisemitism is.

Original title Defamation Country Israel, Denmark, USA, Austria Year 2009 Running time 93 min.

Production SF Films, Reveal Productions, Cinephil, Knut.Ogris.Films Producer Karoline Leth, Philippa Kowarsky, Knut Ogris, Sandra Itkoff Distribution Austrian Film Commision

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Saturday 7/11 16:30 hrs. / Husets Biograf Monday 9/11 18:30 hrs.

AMNESTY AWARD 107

American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein DIRECTOR: DAVID RIDGEN & NICOLAS ROSSIER SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE (OUT OF COMPETITION) Professor Norman Finkelstein is a man who makes tempers boil. His theories about how Israel is exploiting the Holocaust and antisemitism to justify its present aggressions towards the Palestinians has made him one of America’s most controversial intellectuals. Critics call him the self-hating Jew and Holocaust denier, while students and colleagues praise his courage to practice free research. As a child of Holocaust survivors, he has been born into the heart of the subject, and especially his mother has influenced his view of the world. But who is this impassioned man, who cries like a child when he is confronted with the world’s injustices - while deriding the Jews’ own crocodile tears? This documentary tells us a captivating story about an uncompromising fireball, who has to pay a high price for his convictions.

Norman Finkelstein will himself be present at the screening on November 12.

SCREENING DATES Grand Thursday 12/11 21:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 19:15 hrs.

108 AMNESTY AWARD

Original title American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein Country USA, Canada Year 2009 Running time 84 min.

Production Baraka Productions Producer David Ridgen & Nicolas Rossier Distribution Baraka Productions

Bananas DIRECTOR: Fredrik Gertten

SPECIAL SCREENING OUT OF COMPETITION Fredrik Gertten’s documentary has caused quite a stir, leading one of the world’s largest fruit producers, Dole Food, to sue the director for libel. The film follows the lawsuit of twelve plantation workers in Nicaragua against Dole Food - a lawsuit of historic dimensions given that it is the first time that Latin American plantation workers have managed to bring about a jury trial within the American legal system.

The charge levelled against Dole is that the company used pesticides that led to infertility. The LA-based lawyer Dominguez ‘Accidentes’ Dominguez has earned his riches through compensation suits - hence the middle name - but it’s no small task to take up the battle against one of the world’s largest corporations, with all the legal and financial muscle it has at its disposal. A fact that both Dominguez and the director Gerrten have since had to experience at first hand.

After the screening on 12 November, the film’s producer LiseLense Møller, Judith Kyst, the general secretary of Fairtrade and

Original title Bananas Country Sweden Year 2009 Running time 80 min.

Production WG Film Producer Lise-Lense Møller & Margarete Jangård Distribution WG film

Morten Emil Jensen, the political advisor of DanChurchAid will talk about banana production from both a historic and contemporary perspective. Afterwards, CPH:DOX and Fairtrade will offer banana smoothies from Joe and the Juice and banana cake from Tim’s Cookies made by bananas from AgroFairs.

SCREENING DATES Grand Sunday 8/11 14:00 hrs. / Grand Thursday 12/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Sunday 15/11 14:00 hrs.

AMNESTY AWARD 109

Human Terrain DIRECTOR: James Der Derian, David Udris & Michael Udris

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE (OUT OF COMPETITION) The latest trick of modern warfare is the Human Terrain System, a cultural understanding programme launched by the American military in 2006. With guns in one hand and a basic course in anthropology in the other, American soldiers are prepared to move in and defeat the enemy in exposed areas of Afghanistan and Iraq.

HTS is a controversial programme that has caused much debate among anthropologists and which is seen by many as a militarisation, which compromises the ethics of the academic disciplines. In ‘Human Terrain’, the American film director, professor and expert in international politics James Der Derian gives us an interesting look at the methods behind HTS, while in the same breath questioning the validity of its methods. Through interviews with programme designers, out-posted soldiers and various scientists, the ethical considerations are discussed in connection with the implementation of these kinds of programmes in new war situations.

After the screening, Der Derian and co-producers Michael & David Udris, Copenhagen University professor Lene Hansen and the Afghanistan expert Peter Dahl Truelsen will debate the problems of using military cultural programmes such as HTS.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Tuesday 10/11 19:15 hrs.

110 AMNESTY AWARD

Original title Human Terrain Country USA Year 2009 Running time 85 min.

Production Oxyopia Productions and Udris Film in collaboration with the Global Media Project Producer James Der Derian, David Udris & Michael Udris Distribution Global Media Project

Survival Song DIRECTOR: Yu Guangyi

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE (OUT OF COMPETITION) A poetic and spectacular Chinese winter landscape is the backdrop for the curious story of the Han family. Mr Han, his wife and Xiao Lizi, the herdsman they employ, have occupied an abandoned house in a desolate mountain area. The house has been evacuated in connection with the state’s water reservoir project, and is constantly facing the threat of demolition. Mr Han is a wild boar hunter, but the primitive and fragile walls of his home conceal some intense everyday dramas.

The herdsman Xiao Lizi is regarded as a dog and is fed with leftovers, accused of peeing on the wife’s clothes and among other things has to punish himself with slaps to the face. The Chinese authorities tear down the roof of the building, and it is all ‘the fucking Party’s fault’, as Mr Han says. The larger political realities that are woven into the small story constantly shine through.

‘Survival Song’ is a beautiful example of how intriguing the documentary format can be when it conveys remote and isolated

Original title Little Li Country China Year 2008 Running time 94 min.

Production Dongfengxincun Producer Yu Guangyi Distribution Fanhall

realities.

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

AMNESTY AWARD 111

DANISH:DOX AWARD

A new generation of Danish directors and producers are currently travelling around the world and returning home with a number of awards and a level of recognition that most countries can only dream about. To follow this development CPH:DOX has initiated an award for the best Danish documentary. The selected films reach far and wide: from visual experiments via courageous genre fusions to classic portrait films. We have done our best to keep our eyes and ears open

for new talents. This is why we this year – even more than last – can present an impressive lineup of first-time filmmakers.

We wish them all the best in the years to come.

DANISH:DOX AWARD (5,000 euros) is kindly sponsored by the Danish Producers’ Association.

Complaints Choir DIRECTOR: Ada Bligaard Søby

WORLD PREMIERE What are you complaining about? This is the question that two Finnish artists have journeyed out to ask people in all four corners of the world in documentary director Ada Bligaard Søby’s docu-musical.

Their aim is not to pour salt in the wounds of the world’s grumpy complainers, but to let everyone vent their dissatisfaction about everything from parking fines to climate change in a liberating chorus of whining harmonies. We are taken to places such as Chicago and Singapore, and even if the cultures vary, it’s obvious that complaining is a basic human trait, and it is tackled with a deadpan approach by the two Finns. Ada Bligaard Søby has, in a short space of time, made her mark as an original new name in the Danish film world, among other things with last year’s poetic New York postcard ‘Black Heart’.

With ‘Complaints Choir’ she is adding a promising first feature to her resume.

After the premiere on 7 November, we invite you to a drink at Grand’s café and to a meeting with the musician Hyæne, who has contributed slanted and beautiful tones to the soundtrack of ‘Complaints Choirs’.

Hyæne will perform with his new setup NIKOLAS, a mechanic and mental breakdown of African viking dub, which wraps white magic and feminine pathos together into a long forgotten beat. Even people without legs can dance, if they really want to.

SCREENING DATES Grand Saturday 7/11 21:30 hrs. / Byens Lys Sunday 15/11 17:30 hrs.

114 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Complaints Choir Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 56 min.

Production Fine & Mellow Productions A/S Producer Morten Kjems Juhl Distribution Fine & Mellow Productions A/S

The DeVilles DIRECTOR: Nicole Horanyi

WORLD PREMIERE Can one become too old for rock’n’roll? Teri Lee and Shawn have been together since they were 17. That eventually has become a long time ago, and they now live in a pastel-coloured house in L.A. with their three teenage children. Teri swings her legs as a professional burlesque dancer at a local strip joint, and Shawn is the lead singer of a garage punk band with the fitting name ‘Standard and Poor’. But even if the Marilyn Monroe hair is sitting perfectly, the dream of the everlasting teenage life is slowly beginning to show signs of ageing.

The crisis is tangible and the relationship is suffering. ‘The Devilles’, though, is first and foremost an American love story with Las Vegas as its final destination, as well as a reportage from a self-made world of retro coolness, where self-promotion and true feelings are not contradictions in terms.

Original title The DeVilles Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 55 min.

Production SF Filmproduktion Producer Karoline Leth Distribution SF Filmproduktion

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio Saturday 7/11 22:30 hrs. / Posthus Teatret Saturday 14/11 21:15 hrs.

DANISH:DOX AWARD 115

Mumbai Disconnected DIRECTOR: Camilla Nielsson, Frederik Jacobi

WORLD PREMIERE If traffic is communication, then the permanent traffic jam in Mumbai has long severed the connections between the city’s inhabitants.

And if uncontrolled growth is a disease, then Mumbai has cancer.

This is the opinion of Veena, who does everything she can to halt the expansion of the road network above the rooftops in her neighbourhood. But Mr Das, who has the ungrateful job of being the official leader of Mumbai’s extreme traffic makeover, has other plans.

Just like the family father Yasin, who has just saved enough money for a super-cheap Nano car, which is forecast to strongly multiply the current number of 550 new cars in Mumbay every day - and to get the already nasty pollution to follow suit. Everything that can go wrong apparently has gone wrong a long time ago in the Indian metropolis.

But what about the future?

Original title Mumbai Disconnected Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 58 min.

Production Upfront Films Aps Producer Henrik Veileborg, Jesper Jack & Anna-Maria Kantarius Distribution Upfront Films Aps

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Sunday 8/11 20:00 hrs. / Grand Friday 13/11 16:30 hrs.

116 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Shanghai Space DIRECTOR: Nanna Frank Møller

WORLD PREMIERE With over 20 million inhabitants spread over an area of 7.000 km2, Shanghai is one of the world’s largest megacities. And with up to 125,000 people per square kilometre, the Chinese megapolis is also one of the places with the highest population density on the planet.

But space is running out. In fact, it’s running out so quickly that there is no longer room for all the people who have lived their entire lives in the city. One of them is Xu, and his little family faces being moved to the suburbs. In the middle of a whirlwind of change, the ageing Xu accepts the situation with stoic calm, and relates to the new times like he’s always done: by taking pictures of them. In Nanna Frank Møller’s film, photography becomes a symbol - and possibly a tacit criticism of elusiveness and the symbolic lack of space in modern China.

Original title Shanghai Space Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 56 min.

Production Bastard Film A/S Producer Helle Faber Distribution Bastard Film A/S

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Sunday 8/11 20:00 hrs. / Grand Friday 13/11 16:30 hrs.

DANISH:DOX AWARD 117

Bogotá Change DIRECTOR: Andreas M. Dalsgaard

WORLD PREMIERE Not long ago the Colombian capital Bogotá was considered one of the world’s most dangerous cities. At an altitude of over 2,600 metres up in the Andes mountains, seven million people were fighting a daily battle against drug crime, corruption, poverty and, not least, against each other. But in 1995 the colourful and independent Antanas Mockus surprised many by being elected to become the city’s Mayor, after having been fired as the vice-chancellor of the university where he had mooned his ungovernable students in a fit of rage. Mockus’s anarchistic and untraditional methods set about a social revolution that meant that Bogotá today is a role model for cities such as New York and Mexico City. ‘Bogotá Change’ tells the story about how this happened, and shows that politics in fact can be both funny and deeply inspiring.

Original title Bogotá Change Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 55 min.

Production Upfront Films Aps Producer Anna-Maria Kantarius, Jesper Jack & Henrik Veileborg Distribution Upfront Films Aps

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf Thursday 12/11 21:00 hrs.

118 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Cairo Garbage DIRECTOR: Mikala Krogh

WORLD PREMIERE Cairo is the mother of all garbage cities. The streets are drowned in waste and entire social groupings survive solely through collecting, sorting and selling the left-overs of other people. The garbage people, as they are called, live a parallel life in the foul-smelling neighbourhoods of Cairo, while the city’s authorities are feverishly trying to convince their citizens about the advantages of modern renovation. The restaurant owner, the private garbage companies and local associations are all trying to do something about the 10,000 tonnes of garbage that is produced in Cairo every single day. And while the authorities are discussing, the companies are dreaming and the people’s associations are moralising, the garbage people are celebrating a wedding in the church of trash - surrounded by exactly the garbage that the entire city is trying to get rid of. A grimy story that is hard to wash off.

Original title Cairo Garbage Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 55 min.

Production Danish Documentary Production, Nimbus Film Producer Sigrid Dyekjær Distribution Nimbus Film

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf Thursday 12/11 21:00 hrs.

DANISH:DOX AWARD 119

Kim DIRECTOR: Morten Meldgaard

WORLD PREMIERE One gets the impression of a unique human being in the debutant director Morten Meldgaard’s collage portrait of the Danish freedom fighter Kim Malthe-Bruun, who was captured and executed by the Nazis at the end of the Second World War. But as a surviving relative says about him: “He was a human being among human beings, not a saint in the underground.” This is worth remembering, as it was precisely the thought of human dignity and equality that made the young sailor decide to stay on land and join the resistance movement.

The story of Kim is told by his sister, his war-time girlfriend as well as through the letters and diaries he left behind, which were later published and now enjoy the status of a modern classic. One can sense the increasing commitment in the young man’s mature and well-formulated thoughts about freedom and responsibility, and hearing his last lines from the death row of Vestre Fængsel is a harrowing experience. But, above all, the film is a life-affirming story about the struggle for freedom in a world which is larger than oneself.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Tuesday 10/11 16:30 hrs.

120 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Kim Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 93 min.

Production Barok Film Producer Sara Stockmann Distribution Barok Film

Into Eternity DIRECTOR: Michael Madsen

WORLD PREMIERE Nuclear waste is produced daily and has been for 50 years. The need for CO2-neutral energy sources is likely to increase the production in the coming decades. So far, all nuclear waste is in interim storages most of which are on the surface, vulnerable to natural or man-made disasters. Safe and permanent ways to store nuclear waste are vital, and the world’s very first attempt at a permanent repository is presently being dug into solid rock in Finland. The facility must last 100.000 years and be able to withstand climate change, seismic activity, rising sea levels, erosion, and ground water leakages that could spread radioactive and radiotoxic contamination. However, while the past can help us predict physical and geological future scenarios, it offers little help when it comes to human behaviour and cultural scenarios. What do we know about society 100, 500 or 1000 years from now? How will society be structured and who will be in charge of the facility? After an ice age or two - will anybody

Original title Into Eternity Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 85 min.

Production Magic Hour Films Producer Lise Lense-Møller Distribution Magic Hour Films

remember that it is there? Will anybody understand the nature of its payload? Do we have a moral obligation to warn future generations of the waste we left behind? How? How and where do we store the warning? Hopefully, someone will have come up with some answers by the time the facility is finished - 120 years from now. With stunning images from the facility, thought provoking interviews with the experts dealing with these questions, and a film inside the film aimed at the future, Into Eternity will take us on a journey filled with wonder, humour, and deadly serious questions.

SCREENING DATES Grand Tuesday 10/11 21:40 hrs. / Posthus Teatret Wednesday 11/11 21:15 hrs.

DANISH:DOX AWARD 121

Albert’s Winter DIRECTOR: Andreas Koefoed

WORLD PREMIERE In Albert’s world, playfulness and seriousness go hand in hand. His mother is suffering from cancer, but he’d prefer not to talk about it or about the grief it causes. As an 8-year-old, he also has other things to think about, such as the singing test at Sankt Annæ school, which will determine if he will be accepted next year, or the worries about losing ones playmates if one changes schools. But the film also depicts the small and large moments of happiness, such as being dressed up as a carrot or to see ones grandfather defy the temperatures and jump into the ice-cold winter sea. Albert’s winter is Andreas Koefoed’s graduation film from the documentary department at the National Film School of Denmark, and it demonstrates the director’s fine eye for the subtle moments of everyday life and for Albert - a gem of a protagonist, who thinks about things and dares to say what grown-ups don’t want to talk about. With his observing, poetic style, Koefoed lets the cold and grey nature of winter seep trough the images. Just like the film’s family, the audience is left looking forward to springtime.

SCREENING DATES Gloria Tuesday 10/11 21:30 hrs. / Byens Lys Sunday 15/11 16:00 hrs.

122 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Alberts vinter Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 30 min.

Production The National Film School of Denmark Producer Caroline Blanco Distribution Andreas Koefoed

My Lost Generation DIRECTOR: Vladimir Tomic

WORLD PREMIERE Art has alway been a clever way to access the memories and traumas of childhood. This is also true for Vladimir Tomic’s documentary selfportrait. Tomic was born in Yugoslavia right after Tito’s death, but fled during the war to Denmark, and while he was digging up the roots of his childhood, he could watch the images of his Bosnian countrymen in concentration camps on TV. In ‘My Lost Generation’, Tomic tells his own as well as his generation’s story by examining what a war can do to a human being. It’s a frightening project, but it’s only through filming that he can overcome his traumas. Fear, violence, scars and distrust are unavoidable premises for the identity-less director, who with his training background from the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts manages to communicate his experiences in a visual, raw and poetic way.

Original title My Lost Generation Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 31 min.

Production Vladimir Tomic Producer Vladimir Tomic Distribution Vladimir Tomic

SCREENING DATES Gloria Tuesday 10/11 21:30 hrs. / Byens Lys Sunday 15/11 16:00 hrs.

DANISH:DOX AWARD 123

Restless in Paradise DIRECTOR: Olavi Linna

WORLD PREMIERE Solf is the kind of provincial town you move away from and never go back to, even if it in 2006 was officially named the most perfect town by the Finns. At least right until the film director Olavi Linna’s brother Kyösti decided to move back. The two brothers always dreamt of leaving their home town while listening to Bowie’s ‘Starman’, but Kyösti, who in the meantime has lived in both Paris and Milan, is now in need of the security of a home and is seeking out the native soil of his childhood. Here, he receives the advice from an old friend, who himself never managed to make the big move, but who in return has clocked 130,000 km on his exercise bike in his own living room.

But what is Kyösti looking for? And is it at all possible to be happy in a town like Solf? ‘Restless in Paradise’ (maybe) finds the answer in the poetry of banal everyday life - in the light that mirrors the window’s formations on the living room wall, and in the naked beauty of northern Finnish nature. As the two brothers’ mother soberly concludes, one can easily become happy, if only one is in touch with ones feelings. Even in Solf.

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio Friday 6/11 17:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Tuesday 10/11 21:30 hrs.

124 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Rastløs i Paradis Country Denmark, Finland Year 2009 Running time 40 min.

Production Upfront Films Producer Jesper Jack Distribution Upfront Films

Heart Of Mine DIRECTOR: Camilla Magid

WORLD PREMIERE The mining town Mount Isa is situated far out in nowhere. The work in the mines is tough and dirty, and the same goes for the nightlife after work. And for every six men in the city there is only one woman left in the small and isolated town. What, then, makes 20,000 mine workers want to stay? And what should one do with ones unrelenting pride if one’s all alone in the world? These are questions asked by the promising young director Camilla Magid in her mid-course film project at the alternative Copenhagen film training programme Super16. ‘Heart of Mine’ presents a gallery of characters like a Nick Cave song and ventures behind the toughness and the primitive masculinity of some of the tough guys in the wild. Many of the men have left behind their wives and children to work in the mines, and they now live in a deep, self-imposed solitude several thousand kilometres away from their families. Maybe to cope with themselves better, maybe in a yearning for a sense of freedom that can only be

Original title Heart Of Mine Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 23 min.

Production Safina Film / Just A Brand Productions Producer Malthe Koch Distribution Just A Brand Productions

found when one has left everything behind.

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio Friday 6/11 17:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Tuesday 10/11 21:30 hrs.

DANISH:DOX AWARD 125

Turf War in No Man’s Land DIRECTOR: Suvi Andrea Helminen

WORLD PREMIERE This is the story about mankind’s attempt to leave its fingerprints on the last bit of untouched nature. 5 countries are trying to make claims to the seabed surrounding the North Pole, one of them being Denmark (through Greenland). Borders have to be drawn. The UN has laid out a set of rules. The territorial war of today is scientific - it is about collecting the most convincing data to prove that the underwater bedrock is an extension of the respective countries. This is the framework of this story that takes place on the first DanishSwedish expedition to collect data in the Arctic ice sea. No icebreaker has ever been in the area before, because the ice is so thick and nature so harsh.

In the middle of the great nothingness, the expedition meets up with a huge Russian atomic icebreaker ‘50 years of Victory’ that assists with breaking the way through the thickest ice. Denmark is now dependant on the political opponent in the battle for the North Pole, namely Russia.

During the expedition, we follow the course of events mainly through Lars-Georg Rödel from the Danish group and through the Swedish expedition leader Anders Karlqvist, whose stories and viewpoints about being on the expedition are unfolded.

Should every spot on the planet be divided and conquered?

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Friday 6/11 21:15 hrs. / Cinemateket Monday 9/11 21:30 hrs.

126 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Turf War in No Man’s Land Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 70 min.

Production Nordlys Film Producer Suvi Andrea Helminen Distribution Nordlys Film

Talk About Love DIRECTOR: Else Bro Thuestad

WORLD PREMIERE Else Bro Thuestad’s broken heart takes her to New York by coincidence. But she is far from done with love, and in a random apartment block in the city she stops the inhabitants in the hallway and, armed with a handheld camera, asks them the overwhelming and intrusive question: what is love? Surprisingly enough, they all - both young and old - have an answer and a love story to talk about. One woman has had enough of it, and another one has never experienced it - apart from in her dreams. The classical answer is that love is the selfless surrender to another human being. One gentleman in the hallway gives us a different answer: to love is to

Original title Talk About Love Country Denmark Production DFI / Filmværkstedet / DR Producer Else Bro Thuestad Distribution DR Undervisning

forestall the loss of the loved one. It comes straight from the heart, and in ‘Talk About Love’ the microcosm of the building becomes an image of something much larger. The film takes us to the corridors, into the intimate rooms and right into the hearts of its inhabitants.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Wednesday 11/11 19:00 hrs. / Byens Lys Sunday 15/11 19:30 hrs.

DANISH:DOX AWARD 127

Me And My Nose DIRECTOR: Ziska Szemes

WORLD PREMIERE Ziska Szemes is Swedish, but there’s not many Swedes who believe this. For her nose says something else, and people consistently assume she’s a foreigner. Armed with a camera, she moves onto the street and asks passers-by how they interpret her looks. She also goes to a plastic surgeon and gets prepared for the big nose job that will make sure that she in the future can be a Swede in peace. There is plenty of space for fun in Szemes’s self-portrait, both frontal and in profile, so that her nose really gets the attention it deserves. Using her nose as a lever, she has accomplished a personal portrayal of the search for ones own identity.

Original title Me And My Nose Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 29 min.

Production Klassefilm Producer Lise Saxtrup Distribution Klassefilm

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Wednesday 11/11 19:00 hrs. / Byens Lys Sunday 15/11 19:30 hrs.

128 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Me and the Jewish Thing DIRECTOR: Ulrik Gutkin

WORLD PREMIERE “Hi, my name is Ulrik, I’m a Dane, and I’m Jewish.” That’s how Ulrik Glutkin introduces his charming self-portrait, and that’s how succinctly it can be put. But things are still not quite that simple, as his girlfriend Signe is neither Jewish nor Christian, and when their son Felix is born, the great question arises as to whether he should be circumcised, like the Jewish tradition prescribes, or if he can avoid the procedure, as his mother insists. The result is large discussions in the family, and Ulrik thinks a lot about how he can pass on his Jewish heritage to his first-born child. ‘Me and the Jewish Thing’ takes a close look at the meaning of religion for a family in the 21st century, and its subject-matter has triggered a debate about the pros and cons of circumcision, and about the role of religion in everyday life. The film is a simultaneously entertaining and serious portrait from modern Copenhagen.

Original title Mig og jøderiet Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 43 min.

Production Copenhagen Film Company Producer Casper Høyberg Distribution Copenhagen Film Company

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Wednesday 11/11 19:00 hrs. / Byens Lys Sunday 15/11 19:30 hrs.

DANISH:DOX AWARD 129

New Danish Screen 1

The talent development scheme of the Danish Film Institute, New Danish Screen, presents the latest films from its cinematic greenhouse, many of which have been selected to participate in the festival’s competition programme. ‘Kim’ (directed by Morten Meldgaard) is a collage portrait of the Danish freedom fighter Kim Malthe-Bruun, who died in German captivity at the end of the war and who left behind a unique human impression. ‘Romeo & Julius’ (directed by Sabine Hviid) stages Shakespeare’s tragic romance with two young boys in the main parts. ‘Out of Love’ (directed by Birgitte Stærmose) is an alternatively tough, artistic experiment shot among the street children of today’s Kosovo, where the scars from the war are still visible. And in ‘Affæren i Prag’ (directed by Christoffer Emil Bruun) the journalist Niels Barfoed and Marina Schepeleran embark on a historic journey back to the Czech Republic, where Barfoed handed over an award to the later president Vaclav Havel - a journey that turns out to be full of unpleasant surprises.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 20:00 hrs.

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NEW DANISH SCREEN 1 Kim Dir. Morten Meldgaard Romeo & Julius Dir. Sabine Hviid Out of Love Dir. Birgitte Stærmose Affæren i Prag Dir. Christoffer Emil Bruun

New Danish Screen 2

The evening continues with two programmes, the first of which starts off with an unperturbed look at gender, body and culture.

‘Nobody Passes Perfectly’ (directed by Saskia Bisp) uses stylised tableaus to portray two people, for whom all of these three concepts are variable. The 80-year-old Japanese inventor in ‘Dr. Nakamats’ (directed by Kaspar Astrup Schröder) gets his best ideas under water and is the creator of thousands of brilliant inventions - and who is ‘big in Japan’ for good reasons. The other programme takes off in Finland’s officially most perfect country town. ‘Restless in Paradise’ (directed by Olavi Linna) follows two brothers who return home to the street of their childhood and ask themselves why. ‘Mirror’ (directed

by Joakim Ladefoged) is the aesthetic highlight of the evening, as

NEW DANISH SCREEN 2 Nobody Passes Perfectly Dir. Saskia Bisp Dr. Nakamats Dir. Kaspar Astrup Schröder Restless in Paradise Dir. Olavi Linna Mirror Dir. Joakim Ladefoged The DeVilles Dir. Nicole Horanyi

it uses dialogue-free black-and-white images to portray a group of bodybuilders during their training for a contest. ‘The DeVilles’ (directed by Nicole Horanyi) is a retro-cool rock’n’roll couple who have made it past 40 and who now have to resort to dramatic means to reinvent love.

PARTY: the New Danish Screen evening concludes with a party at the Asta Bar in Cinemateket.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 22:30 hrs.

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Listening Nights DIRECTOR: Lisbeth Jessen

WORLD PREMIERE - OUT OF COMPETITION It’s not always easy to be young, but throughout the past 30 years, troubled youth in Denmark have had one steady shoulder to cry on.

In the radio programme ‘Tværs’ the phone lines have been open to three decades of youth generations, where Tine Bryld has listened, guided, helped and shaken courage into youths with small and larger problems. ‘Tine på tværs’ follows the production of the very last Tværs programme in the autumn of 2008. Here, we hear some of the conversations that Tine Bryld has had since Tværs was broadcast for the first time in 1972, and we meet some of the people that Tine Bryld has helped. We also meet Tine Bryld privately, and hear her thoughts about her life long engagement with young people and the huge responsibility in bringing back belief and trust in life - also to the ones who has totally lost it.

Original title Tine på Tværs Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 58 min.

Production Upfront Films Producer Jesper Jack Distribution Upfront Films

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Sunday 8/11 21:00 hrs. / Grand Wednesday 11/11 21:30 hrs. / Lejlighed i Larsbjørnstræde 5 Friday 13/11 20:00 hrs.

132 DANISH:DOX AWARD

AFFÆREN I PRAG DIRECTOR: Christoffer Emil Bruun

WORLD PREMIERE In October 1986, the journalist Niels Barfoed travelled to Prague to hand over the peace prize of the newspapers Politiken and Dagens Nyheter to Charta 77 and Vaclav Havel, who at the time was one of the leading critics of the Czech political system. What he does not know is that he and his fellow traveller, the Czech-born Martina Schepelern, are being watched by exactly this system and captured in a report that is now in the national archive. Barfoed and Schepelern returns to Prague 22 years later with this report in their hands. For this report turns out to reveal a totalitarian Eastern Europe - much worse than they, and everyone else, knew about at the time. The journey offers a joyful reunion with Vaclav Havel, who since receiving the award became free Czechoslovakia’s first president; but it also becomes a gloomy and far from nostalgic look at the past.

DEBATE: after the film, Niels Barfoed will be joined by the politician

Original title Affæren i Prag Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 42 min.

Production Plus Pictures Producer Mette Heide Distribution Plus Pictures

and former foreign minister Niels Helveg-Petersen to talk about the possibilities to support dissidents in Eastern Europe in those days and the consequences one could face. The debate will be moderated by the film’s director, the historian and journalist Christoffer Emil Bruun.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Monday 9/11 19:15 hrs.

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HURRY HOME DIRECTOR: Laurits Munch-Petersen

WORLD PREMIERE Gitte and Susie are left on their own when their husbands go to Afghanistan to fight the Taleban. Søren and Anders not only leave behind their wives, but also their children and their everyday lives in Denmark. While the battles are fought in the war zone, the two women can nervously follow the drama in front of the TV screen, while they harbour an unspoken wish that exactly their husbands avoid getting hit. They have to overcome the challenges of everyday life and all its happy moments on their own. Gitte expresses her feelings and thoughts through video diaries, which she films and sends to her husband. Susie’s good memories with her husband, on the other hand, are portrayed as a past that will never return. Laurits MunchPetersen’s ‘Skynd dig hjem’ is a moving and nerve-racking close-up look at families whose lives are directly affected by a faraway war.

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio Sunday 8/11 17:30 hrs. / Dagmar Wednesday 11/11 16:30 hrs.

134 DANISH:DOX AWARD

Original title Skynd dig hjem Country Denmark Year 2009 Production Fridthjof Film A/S Producer Ronnie Fridthjof Distribution Fridthjof Film A/S

10 24.-29.SEP. 2010 BERGEN - NORWAY 21ST EDITION

10 24.-29.SEP. 2010 NORWAY BERGEN - NORWAY 21ST EDITION

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SHORT:DOX AWARD

SHORT:DOX AWARD is a new online competition, where the audience decides which film should walk away with the award worth 2,000 euros. The ten nominated films can be streamed and downloaded on our website, www.cphdox.dk, where three lucky short film fans can also win a portable PSPgo. Documentary filmmaking is going through a rapid development. New digital video equipment has enabled a creative freedom, which is especially mirrored in short films. The short format is a playground and a laboratory, where both established and upcoming filmmakers can test their new ideas and pursue a

personal vision without succumbing to compromises. A freedom shared by the nominated films, and which is expressed by the programme’s ten poetic and unorthodox snapshots from the real world.

The aim of SHORT:DOX AWARD is to test new and alternative distribution platforms for intelligent and artistically original short films, and to support the growth of documentary filmmaking. The award for the winning film is meant as a financial support for future film projects.

SHORT:DOX AWARD (2,000 euros) is kindly sponsored by PSPgo.

175 DIRECTOR: David Gutierrez Camps

The railroads have for ever gripped the imagination of those filmmakers who don’t see the camera as a story-telling machine but as an instrument to discover those aspects of reality that one overlooks in everyday life. With the experimental ‘175’, David Guttierez Camps films himself into the the tradition of New York independents like Shirley Clarke and Rudolph & Jacob Burckhardt and explores the natural abstractions that present themselves during a subway trip through the Capital of the World. Lights, sounds and visual rhythm unite in a kinetic snapshot, and movement itself becomes a representation of all the things that can happen in five New York minutes.

Original title 175 Country USA Year 2009 Running time 5 min.

Production Flying Lemon Producer John Bartleby Distribution Flying Lemon Films

SCREENING DATES Watch the films at www.cphdox.dk

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Fuck You Kiss Me DIRECTOR: Eva Marie Rødbro

Documentary filmmaking is also about how you see things, and not just what you see. It’s a simple thought, which ‘Fuck You Kiss Me’ manages to endow with a new meaning and relevance with its impressionistic and black-and-white snapshots from a Greenland one doesn’t see much of otherwise. Life as a teenager is filled with restless energy on the world’s largest island, and is transformed into a (photo)graphic and skilfully edited montage, which succeeds in accommodating the contradictions in the title - which, by the way, comes from a graffiti in a stairwell. Not a single word is uttered, yet a lot is being said. Eva Marie Rødbro initially trained as an art photographer with a base in Amsterdam, and she filmed ‘Fuck You Kiss Me’ with a regular digital photo-camera during a two-month trip to Nuuk and its surroundings.

Original title Fuck You Kiss Me Country Denmark Year 2008 Running time 6 min.

Producer Eva Marie Rødbro Distribution Eva Marie Rødbro

SCREENING DATES Watch the films at www.cphdox.dk

SHORT:DOX AWARD 139

The Marina Experiment DIRECTOR: Marina Lutz

‘The Marina Experiment’ is the result of over 10,000 polaroid photos and hundreds of hours of home footage that Marina Lutz’s father made of the director during her upper class upbringing in 1960s and 1970s Manhattan. A both eerie and infinitely fascinating archive that she herself has now sorted out and reassembled. Her father’s transgressive voyeurism is turned against himself, while a courageous self portrait simultaneously grows out of the almost incestuously intimate ‘home movies’. The result is a family exposé that can’t be shaken off that easily, and which in an intelligent and absolutely unique way raises the question about the right to not be seen - a question that has not become less relevant in the meantime.

SCREENING DATES Watch the films at www.cphdox.dk

140 SHORT:DOX AWARD

Original title The Marina Experiment Country USA Year 2009 Running time 17 min.

Producer Marina Lutz Distribution Marina Lutz

Peter in Radioland DIRECTOR: Johanna Wagner

While the rest of the world has gradually gone digital, 63-year-old Peter still clings to the good, old-fashioned analogue signal. After a long life in the service of radio, he is not very impressed by the development, and he merely utters a sigh of defeat when the Skype connection to his children abroad gets cut off again - and again. Even if many of the machines that occupy his shelves have sent their last message ages ago, he still sticks by his analogue view of the world and is fighting against the kind of change that is threatening to make his life’s efforts superfluous. Johanna Wagners has won numerous awards for her sensitive and caring portrait of her radio-loving cousin, complete with analogue stop motion animations and nostalgically crackling tape noise. The medium is more than the message. Roger, over.

Original title Peter in Radioland Country UK Year 2009 Running time 9 min.

Production Scottish Documentary Institute Producer Rebecca Day Distribution Scottish Documentary Institute

SCREENING DATES Watch the films at www.cphdox.dk

SHORT:DOX AWARD 141

We - 1st person plural DIRECTOR: Kevin Kirchenbauer Original title

In reality it’s so predictable, but nonetheless things can go so wrong: love, which congeals in routines and repetitions, and political history, which follows the same fatal patterns. The world ought to know better by now, but if nobody wants to learn, one is allowed to make a film that explains everything. This is what Vika Kirchenbauer has done in her aphoristic home footage diary ‘We - 1st Person Plural’, which amusingly and generously observes the strange logic of love and illustrates its poetic lecture with super 8 footage from the family’s archives and from a journey to Lisbon. If film directors think in pictures, the essayistic documentary is the preferred genre of daydreaming. And this is an example of a personal film at its best.

We - 1st person plural (this is a film about the predictable patterns of human behaviour) Country Germany Year 2009 Running time 11 min.

Production Kevin Kirchenbauer Producer Kevin Kirchenbauer Distribution Kevin Kirchenbauer

SCREENING DATES Watch the films at www.cphdox.dk

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My White Baby DIRECTOR: Akosua Adoma Owusu

Curly or straight? Beauty ideals may change, but luckily there is still lots of hair around. That much we know, but the question is: who dictates the whims of fashion - and what can these whims tell us?

Ghanaian haute coiffure, for example, is an artistic discipline that has traditionally required many hands, technical finesse and white toy dolls from the west to practice on - and to mirror oneself in. ‘My White Baby’ remixes the traditional anthropological documentary (including the classic story about Euro-colonialism) to a mad and inventive fusion of both forms and formats. Akosua Adoma Owusu replaces the genre’s authoritative voice-over with old radio adverts and choir songs, and sends it all back from where it came from. Curly, cunningly political and ‘based on a true story’.

Original title Me Broni Ba Country USA, Ghana Year 2008 Running time 22 min.

Production Akosua Adoma Owusu Producer Akosua Adoma Owusu Distribution Akosua Adoma Owusu

SCREENING DATES Watch the films at www.cphdox.dk

SHORT:DOX AWARD 143

Bodil’s First Attempt DIRECTOR: Elin Kristine Kromann

Who would have thought that it was so difficult to make a small film?

It looks easy, but there are so many buttons to choose from on such a video camera thingy, and if you haven’t tried before, you could end up messing up completely. And this is exactly what happens to Bodil during her first attempt: what should have been a cozy home video in an amusement park turns into a documentary that soberly records its own chaotic making. But it’s not always that easy to watch a film. Especially not if you think that everything you see is as simple and straight-forward as it looks. The Danish director Elin Kristine Kromann’s learning-by-doing piece, however, ends up being one of the funniest and most inventive film-on-film films you’ve seen for a long time.

SCREENING DATES Watch the films at www.cphdox.dk

144 SHORT:DOX AWARD

Original title Bodils første forsøg Country Denmark Year 2009 Running time 7 min.

Producer Elin Kristine Kromann Distribution Elin Kristine Kromann

Bongo Superstars DIRECTOR: Signe Stæhr

Hip hop is more than vulgar bling-bling interrupted by commercial breaks. At least if the music has ‘bongo flavour’, which it does among the thirteen rappers in the artist collective TMK Wanaume Halisi, which has named itself after the neighbourhood in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, where they live and fight for their break-through. The group is a collective do-it-yourself enterprise that mixes African rhythms and modern hip hop in a pronounced desire to make music for all human beings. And they indeed succeed in their creative and cultural cross-pollination between western and local traditions. ‘Bongo Superstars’ is all about doing something to make your dreams come true and about having fun while it lasts - and it’s also a much needed reminder of where music comes from.

Original title Bongo Superstars Country Denmark Year 2008 Running time 23 min.

Producer Mikkel Stolt Distribution Fenris Film & Multimedia ApS

SCREENING DATES Watch the films at www.cphdox.dk

SHORT:DOX AWARD 145

At Home With the Jedi DIRECTOR: R. F. Simpson

For many film aficionados, ‘Star Wars’ is something of a religion. But the fact that Jediism is an official religion, based on the teachings of Master Yoda and counting over 3,000 members is less well known.

The two brothers and founders Daniel and Brandon are in their early 20s and share their headquarters with their patient parents in a terraced house in a small port town in Wales, where they are engaged in propagating the message of Jedi philosophy that one should adhere to the Light Side of the Force. This is an excellent message in a town that, like so many others, is troubled by violence and unemployment.

But now the older brother Brandon has had enough of all the negative publicity that goes with the job, and he’s about to abandon the congregation. ‘At Home With the Jedi’ is an intergalactic story about wanting to make a positive difference, come what may.

SCREENING DATES Watch the films at www.cphdox.dk

146 SHORT:DOX AWARD

Original title At Home With the Jedi Country UK Year 2009 Running time 10 min.

Production Clarity Productions Producer Sarah Tierney Distribution Clarity Productions

Three Pilots DIRECTOR: Philip Leaman

The dream of flying can have many causes, but it is a remarkably human trait that encompasses all places and ages. The American ‘Three Pilots’ lets one understand why. The small, brightly coloured airplanes chug away across the sky and spin around making loops, while the three pilots talk about their fascination of flying and about the freedom they experience up in the clouds in a way that makes one want to join them. A wonderful little film, which earlier this year earned the director Philip Leaman an Oscar nomination for the best film school production.

Original title Three Pilots Country USA Year 2009 Running time 7 min.

Producer Mark Perry Distribution Philip Leaman

SCREENING DATES SCREENING DATES Watch the films at www.cphdox.dk

SHORT:DOX AWARD 147

ARTIST IN FOCUS PHILIPPE GRANDRIEUX NATHALIE DJURBERG VINCENT MOON

PHILIPPE GRANDRIEUX

The cinema turns into a psychological ’dark room’ as one of Philippe Grandrieux’s films takes shape on screen. The exclusive work of the enigmatic auteur slips in between the traditionally seperated genres of feature films, video art, installations, avantgarde, horror, and documentaries, all of which are weaved together in a hyper-sensuous and nightmarish synthesis. Inspired by thinkers such as Deleuze, Spinoza, and Artaud, and by directors such as David Lynch, he has created a unique, audiovisual style that sneaks past the realm of language and confronts the spectator with the bare and exposed ’being’ of the body and of material reality. Few filmmakers can acheive a perceptual presence and virtual sense of the real as Grandrieux, whose characters often find themselves in a flickering state somewhere between shock and ecstasy – a condition that is reflected in the sound and cinematographical design of his works. Sudden outbursts of inexplicable aggression and violence threaten a mythological world almost devoid of other action, where not least the relation between the sexes is a main cause to the horrors. In the end, however, it is the question of the humane that preoccupies one of the most original minds working in film today.

Grandrieux (b. 1954) studied at the Bel-

gian film school INSAS in Brussels, where he gained experience with a series of essayist documentaries and TV experiments, while exploring the potential of film to reproduce the physical world in a condensed form.

After having worked with video for many years, Grandrieux made his debut feature film in 1998 with ’Sombre’, the first of his three features to date, but has simultaneously kept working with video art and installation works, which have only been presented on a few rare occasions before. An auteur in the radical sense of the term, the director operates the camera himself, and his trembling and often extremely dark images derive their kinetic energy from the tension between abstraction and narrative – and from the precipice between the imaginary and the symbolic. Grandrieux’s works are designed upon reflections on the cinema as a psychological laboratory, and must above all be experienced in the nocturnal darkness of the cinema with which they melt together.

Artist in Focus: Philippe Grandrieux is presented with the support of the French embassy.

Met DIRECTOR: Philippe Grandrieux

Philippe Grandrieux’s unmistakable style can in many ways be seen as a continuing experiment on synaesthetic perception - in other words the way that all the senses are affected, when sound and images melt together. An effect that is used in his features to deliver the mythological contents in a highly effective way, but which in his video art and rare installation works become the actual focal point for a new - and possibly more real - way to see and make films. As such, ‘Met’ is a perceptual sample of a purely optical and auditory situation.

But the enigmatic and erotically menacing collage of tulip fields and anonymous femininity is not more abstract than what the director’s sensitivity for all things industrial allows it to be. The video works can be seen as preliminary studies for his longer film projects, but they are above all unique works of art in their own right.

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

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Original title Met Country France Year 2009 Running time 5 min.

Distribution Corinne Grandrieux

Retour à Sarajevo DIRECTOR: Philippe Grandrieux

The civil war in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s haunts Grandrieux’s work as a traumatic and symbolic reference. Already one week after the signing of the Dayton peace agreement in November 1995, he followed a group of Muslim Bosnians on their bus journey back to war-ravaged Sarajevo and documented their encounter with the horrors of destruction on the way. ‘Retour à Sarajevo’ is produced by Arte, and can be seen as a documentary foundation for his later film ‘La vie nouvelle’. In some places one can sense Grandrieux’s visual signature, but otherwise his long, unedited takes stick to the vérité format’s principle of observant neutrality. It is not an easy or pleasant

Original title Retour à Sarajevo Country France Year 1995 Running time 71 min.

Distribution Corinne Grandrieux

film, which seen from fourteen years’ distance is both a depressing piece of reality and an important reference point in the director’s oeuvre. Please note: the film is shown with French subtitles.

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

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L’arrière Saison DIRECTOR: Philippe Grandrieux

Femininity is a problematic subject for Grandrieux - not as a problem with a demand for a solution or an answer, but as a fundamental philosophical concept, which can only be sensed in images without any linguistic anchoring. The actual problem therefore lies in the corruption of the culture of images itself. ‘L’arrière-saison’ (which means ‘late summer’) follows up on the shorter ‘Met’ in its attempt to represent a form of gender or sexuality that is not corrupted by culture or language. A flesh-coloured rose might immediately strike one as the most obvious cliché in this connection, but from Grandrieux’s obstinate point of view it becomes a mysterious and monumental icon that strives up towards an overcast sky that is perforated by white-glowing rays of sun.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 18:00 hrs.

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Original title L’arrière saison Country France Year 2009 Running time 21 min.

Distribution Corinne Grandrieux

Grenoble DIRECTOR: Philippe Grandrieux

The double screen installation ‘Grenoble’ is an explicit (and fairly eerie) attempt to visualise the essence of sexuality. For Grandrieux, the relationship between the sexes is a violent and poisonous affair, and here he draws on the French philosopher, author and semisurrealist Georges Bataille’s thoughts about separation being the premise for the erotic, and gives us a painterly and close-up study of three couples, who take turns meeting in a mysterious hotel room to indulge in a Francis Bacon-like performance. At the same time, a group of young people are blindly fumbling their way around the equally naked landscape outside, in an archetypal Grandrieux state

Original title Grenoble Country France Year 2006 Running time 44 min.

Distribution Corinne Grandrieux

between shock and ecstasy, and apparently with all senses but one being blocked out. There is no before or after in Grandrieux’s fragmentary narrative, and therefore no answers to go home with.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 18:00 hrs.

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Sombre DIRECTOR: Philippe Grandrieux

Grandrieux’s first feature is a black abyss that stares right back at you - which in fact happens already in the opening scene. ‘Sombre’ follows the apathetic Jean (Marc Barbé) around the country roads of France. Jean performs puppet theatre to school children and murders prostitutes at random, until he one day meets the enigmatic and innocently pure Claire. The almost epileptic visual style transforms the mythical plot, which is based on Charles Perrault’s adventure about Bluebeard, into hyper-sensitive images and sounds that shift between flickering abstractions and an extreme physical anchoring in material reality. Alan Vega from the post-punk group Suicide has made the soundtrack. ‘Sombre’ is a hardcore film experience in every sense of the word - inspired by both David Lynch and Stan Brakhage.

Original title Sombre Country France Year 1998 Running time 112 min.

Production Mandrake Films Producer Catherine Jacques Distribution Mandrake Films

SCREENING DATES Grand Saturday 7/11 19:00 hrs. / Posthus Teatret Sunday 15/11 21:15 hrs.

156 PHILIPPE GRANDRIEUX

A New Life DIRECTOR: Philippe Grandrieux

A tough gangster movie is hiding somewhere in ‘La vie nouvelle’ - and in its story about a young American with ties to the Eastern European Mafia who becomes obsessed with the thought of possessing one of the gang’s prostitutes. But the images and the aggressive sound design instead come together to form an elliptic allegory about a Europe that is going through human disintegration. ‘La vie nouvelle’ is filmed in Sarajevo (where Grandrieux filmed the documentary ‘Retour à Sarajevo’ in 1995) and Sofia, which in a tracking shot from a hotel room becomes a symbol of the breakdown of the continent.

Trafficking, sexualised violence, the bestial brutality of gangster rule and a constant threat of war: despite the grim prospects, it’s the question of the humane that ultimately preoccupies Grandrieux.

A new life is born into chaos and has never looked so frighteningly vulnerable as in thermic infrared.

Original title La Vie nouvelle Country France Year 102 Running time 102 min.

Production Mandrake Films Producer Catherine Jacques Distribution Mandrake Films

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Thursday 12/11 21:15 hrs. / Grand Saturday 14/11 14:20 hrs.

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A Lake DIRECTOR: Philippe Grandrieux

Grandrieux’s latest film is a post-apocalyptic winter piece, set in the vast twilight of the Nordic forests. The young Alexi collapses in the snow on his way to the family’s hut, alone among the trees with his enormous, silver-coloured horse. An epileptic symptom of more dangerous and forbidden tensions in the family, which come to the fore when a mysterious stranger appears one day and courts his sister Hege. ‘Un Lac’ gets its dark inspiration from German romanticism, and the black tree trunks absorb the light like in a film by a modern Murnau. Just like ‘La vie nouvelle’, the film is a pan-European allegory about the state of New Europe, seen from a linguistic and geographic point zero after the nation state: the foreign actors did not speak French and had to learn their lines phonetically.

A picturesque shadow play and a relevant political comment.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 19:00 hrs. / Posthus Teatret Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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Original title Un lac Country France Year 2009 Running time 90 min.

Production Mandrake Films Producer Catherine Jacques Distribution Mandrake Films

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NATHALIE DJURBERG

Nathalie Djurberg’s work is at the same time repellent and deeply fascinating in the way only ancient childrens’ tales and traffic accidents were thought to be. In only a few minutes her animated adventures unfolds in a mockingly macabre travesty of all things solid and certain – the body, not least, which in Djurberg’s universe reveals itself in all its carnal horror and grotesque formlessness. The flesh is merely a shell, struggling in vain to contain a chaos of hunger, fear, and desire. But authorities are turned upside down, too. Any attempt at social order is dissolved in a liberating, infantile anarchy set to the merry tunes of barrel organlike electronica. The feel-good philosophy and sugarcoated gloss of traditional animation are lightyears away, and family values are nil.

Nathalie Djurberg (b. 1978) quickly gave her up her ambition to become a painter after having been accepted at Malmö Art Academy at an age of 19. Instead she discovered the world of claymation,

which she has since made her speciality in a very comprehensive oeuvre that has turned many heads and opened the eyes of the international art world wide, most recently at this year’s Venice Biennale where she was awarded the prestigious Silver Lion. Djurberg lives in Berlin with her fiancé and composer Hans Berg, who will perform live to her debut film at Statens Museum for Kunst during CPH:DOX. We are pleased to bid welcome to one of the great, young talents of the contemporary art and film scene. Djurberg herself has curated the present selection of her works, which is guaranteed to cause the kind of nightmares a child would be likely to have after staying up for the late edition of the news for the first time.

Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg Live DIRECTOR: Nathalie Djurberg

Nathalie Djurberg has herself curated this selection of her harrowing animations, and her fiancé and composer Hans Berg, who is behind the clattering barrel organ electronica in all her works, will accompany her earliest film ‘(untitled) Sunset’ live on stage at Statens Museum for Kunst. Berg’s music is an ironic reminder of 1970s children’s television and puts Djurberg’s grotesque and shocking universe into a disconcerting perspective. The selected films are unique works in themselves, while at the same time representing a line of ideas central to her work. ‘Badain’ is a satirical adaptation of a real 19th century painting, which depicts a black slave who is given to the queen of Sweden as a gift. In ‘Camels Drink Water’, two camels save a poor boy without legs from dying of thirst in the desert, enabling him to court three pale and flabby old ladies in laced underwear in ‘Hungry Hungry Hippos’. ‘It’s the Mother’, on the other hand, talks about an entirely different and hair-raising story about the female body in a monstrous mirror image of nature’s dubious order.

And in ‘Johnny’, a curious teenage boy, who is spying on three naked nymphs in a forest, gets more than he bargained for when they finally discover him. ‘Putting Down the Prey’ realises an eskimo’s (escape) fantasy of becoming one with nature. And in the bathroom farce ‘Tiger Licking Girl’s Butt’, the eponymic tiger poses the ever-relevant question: ‘Why do I have this urge to do things over and over again?’

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst Wednesday 11/11 20:00 hrs.

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Original title Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg Live Distribution Nathalie Djurberg

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VINCENT MOON

His real name is Mathieu Saura. But it’s under the name of Vincent Moon that music fans from all over the world - or at least those with an internet connection - know the 30-year-old comet of a filmmaker, who has reinvented the music video as a documentary. After having studied under the photgraphers Michael Ackerman and Antoine D’Agata, the young music nerd started getting increasingly interested in moving images. The combination of music and film could easily have ended in MTV-land. But according to Moon, the usual music video has long been stuck in a closed marketing circuit.

With his ‘Take Away Shows’, he has since 2006 offered a non-commercial alternative: small, short films that capture the musicians out in the alleys, hallways and elevators of reality, without amplifiers or special effects. The Take Away Shows paved the way for larger film projects, and Saura’s far-reaching resumé now also includes concert films and docu-

mentaries - all of them equipped with the special shadow/light aesthetic that can give his images an almost abstract quality. Moon’s greatest strength, however, is his ability to capture the music without superfluous embellishments. He is a musical adventurer, an Alan Lomax of film art, constantly seeking for new musical treasure chests. But he not only discovers: he also participates, with his camera as an instrument - and as an initiator of events, like when he fills an apartment with a handful of Danish bands to play for and against each other (‘Temporary Copenhagen’).

Even during his visit at CPH:DOX, Moon will bring reality into motion, and we are among other things looking forward to a live ‘performance’ of the film ‘Little Blue Nothing’ and the recording of a new Take Away Show.

La faute des fleurs DIRECTOR: Vincent Moon

WORLD PREMIERE To see ‘La Faute des fleurs’ is like being hit by a spaceship. A very Japanese spaceship. After having been told by a fan that here was a story that he shouldn’t miss out on, Vincent Moon travelled to Japan to meet the 59-year-old Japanese folk singer and cult figure Kazuki Tomokawa, also known as ‘the screaming philosopher’. From that moment on, the director’s world had changed completely - and unsuspecting audiences who go and see ‘La Faute des fleurs’ can expect the same. Because Tomokawa, who at first sight looks like someone taken from a yakuza film, but who has in fact acted in films by both Nagisa Oshima and Takashi Miike, loses it completely.

And he burns his bridges during a wild drinking spree, where he is constantly in danger of reaching out for yet another bottle instead of his guitar. This deeply moving portrait brings Tomokawa, his bungled relationship with his son and his passion for gambling at bike races to life. ‘La Faute des Fleurs’ is a quantum leap for Vincent Moon.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Thursday 12/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Sunday 15/11 17:00 hrs.

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Original title La faute des fleurs Country France Year 2008 Running time 70 min.

Production Temporary Areas Producer Naohito Koike, Naoki Ohzeki & Vincent Moon Distribution Vincent Moon

Arcade Fire: Miroir Noir DIRECTOR: Vincent Morisset

Elevator concerts, communal singing, mad telephone threats and remote-controlled cars. All of it in one, big, hypnotic film about what is possibly the largest indie-band around today. In a nice mixture of music video, Vincent Moon take away show, alternative ‘making-of’ documentary and concert film, ‘Miroir Noir’ follows Arcade Fire on their around-the-world tour and up close in the studio as they prepare the recording of their latest album ‘Neon Bible’. Much is left to the spectator in this highly original work of music film art. But the sensual Super 8 footage, the alternatingly moving and insane messages from fans and non-fans (!) on the band’s answering machine and the fantastic scenes, where Wyn Butler and co. hurl themselves into playing among their thousands of spectators: all of this you get served on a silver platter by Moon and his namesake, the hip music video director Morisset. The latter ended up with the directing credit for the film - but no matter what, Moon has left his

Original title Arcade Fire: Miroir Noir Country Canada/France Year 2008 Running time 70 min.

Production Arcade Fire, AATOAA Producer Chantal Vaillancourt Distribution Arcade Fire

visual fingerprint in the most beautiful way possible all over ‘Miroir Noir’.

SCREENING DATES Grand Friday 6/11 21:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Monday 9/11 21:45 hrs. / Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 21:45 hrs.

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Little Blue Nothing DIRECTOR: Vincent Moon, Antoine Viviani

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE ‘Little Blue Nothing’ is the sound of the most beautiful music you haven’t heard before. And it’s also the title of the film where Vincent Moon really gets going as a film artist. Everything quivers with sensuality in this touching love story about the two Czech cellists Irena and Vojtech Havel, who in the course of more than 15 year have lived together in a fascinating and almost symbiotic partnership and working relationship. Apart from a long lineup of brilliant neoclassical works, which evoke memories of Arvo Pärt’s minimalism, ECM’s new jazz, Eastern European folk music and Indian ragas, the duo going by the name The Havels (Havlovi in Czech) - has worked with theatre, film, pictorial arts and poetry - without even thinking of having children or submitting to a nuclear family idyll. Vincent Moon’s intimately registering and actively participating camera gets right underneath the skin of the two musicians, for whom art and music is everything. Seeing ‘Little Blue Nothing’ is like lying in an autumn forest and simply enjoying the leaves falling off the trees. This year’s most underplayed music film - but also the most beautiful.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Tuesday 10/11 19:00 hrs. / Husets Biograf Saturday 14/11 18:30 hrs.

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Original title Little Blue Nothing Country France Year 2009 Running time 51 min.

Production Marienbad Producer Antoine Viviani

Temporary Copenhagen / Temporary Slaraffenland DIRECTOR: Vincent Moon WORLD PREMIERE Copenhagen has a scene that offers some of the most interesting music around. We just don’t know about it. But Vincent Moon’s ever-attentive eyes and ears have discovered it - and in the spring of 2009 he decided to assemble Copenhagen’s underground music scene to a very special experimental take away show in an apartment in Østerbro. Efterklang, Slaraffenland, Chimes & Bells, Choir of Young Believers, Murder, Valby Vokalgruppe, Jong Pang, Thulebasen and Sad Lovers set themselves up in the kitchen, living room and bathroom - and subsequently practiced playing one long medley, where one band’s song went over into the next - and so on. Moon himself recorded everything with his curious, floating camera in one long take - and the result is not just a unique document that talks about Copenhagen’s talented music scene in 2009. It is also a decidedly magical film, which allows one to float far away in a rush of happiness over the fact that the world contains such beautiful moments. Vincent Moon himself will also show both his latest, long

Original title Temporary Copenhagen / Temporary Slaraffenland Country France/Denmark Year 2009 Running time 80 min.

Production Rumraket Producer Slaraffenland & Rasmus Stolberg Distribution Vincent Moon

take away show with Slaraffenland as well as other highlights from his time in Copenhagen.

Note: there will be a special screening of ‘Temporary Copenhagen’ in a not yet published apartment in Copenhagen on 15 November. Read more under DOX:EXPANDED - concerts & parties.

SCREENING DATES Byens Lys Friday 6/11 18:00 hrs. / Gloria Friday 13/11 17:00 hrs.

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Six Days/This Is Not A Show DIRECTOR: Vincent Moon, Jeremiah

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE It takes not one, but two films to portray one of the most important rock bands around. Stipe & co abandon their rehearsal space and instead invite a selected audience consisting of family members, friends and fans to five evenings with live versions of 11 new songs.

‘Accelerate’ is the name of the album, R.E.M. is the band, and in Vincent Moon’s ‘Six Days’ we follow the lead singer Michael Stipe on stage, and off stage in interviews, where he expresses his political consciousness and opinions. In the follow-up ‘This Is Not A Show’, we are there for the band’s five exclusive live shows from the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, where they played their new material before it had even been released. Stipe calls the experience ‘an experiment in terror’, and with his digitally distorted, black-and-white and dry-asdust images, Moon provides the contents with its right experimental form. The encounter with Vincent Moon’s films is never an encounter with traditional music films, a fact that his Take-Away Shows also

Original title Six Days/This Is Not A Show Country USA, France Year 2009 Running time 60 min.

Production Warner Music Producer REM/Warner Distribution Vincent Moon

bear witness to. His un-canonised portrait contains no superfluous introduction: the music is allowed to speak for itself.

At the film’s premiere on 7 November, Vincent Moon will tell us about his collaboration with R.E.M. together with the band’s manager Bertis Downs.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 7/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Monday 9/11 21:30 hrs. / Dagmar Saturday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

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Adelia, I Want to Love DIRECTOR: Teresa Eggers, Vincent Moon

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Two stories in one. One of them is about 90-year-old Adelie, who has never been to a real concert. The other is about the frontman of the band Mogwai, who has played in quite a few concerts. We follow the Scottish guitarist and singer Stuart Braithwaite to Italy, where the band is meant to play a festival gig. Braithwaite reflects upon the DIY ethic that has shaped his life as a Glasgow musician - and upon having to talk about it. The underlying story behind the band’s latest album ‘The Hawk is Howling’ is quite simple and not really that exciting, according to him: “5 people who like each other get together to make 10 good songs.” Mogwai’s post-rock and instrumental processes are consistently allowed to guide the film, and the images consist of warm, colourful visuals from Italy. At the same time, Adelie is getting ready. Her grandchild is the festival’s main organiser and he has invited Adelie to attend a real live concert. A small, double-sided portrait that sinks right in, and yet another un-canonised film by

Original title Adelia, I Want to Love Country France Year 2009 Running time 25 min.

Production Temporary Areas Production Producer Mogwai, Antoine Viviani Distribution Vincent Moon

Vincent Moon.

SCREENING DATES Byens Lys Saturday 7/11 19:00 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Friday 13/11 21:30 hrs.

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Burning DIRECTOR: Vincent Moon, Nathanaël Le Scouarnec

The Scottish band Mogwai performs an incandescent show in front of a stunned crowd. As if time stood still, the audience is transported along by musical waves, both poetic and violent. “Burning” dives into this wild sensual flow. Directors Vincent Moon and Nathanaël Le Scouarnec guide us into a dream where there is no tomorrow. This is a black and white experience of the senses carved by the raw emotion of this pioneering band that doesn’t need any words to touch the heart of its listeners. Layered and innovative, the movie has its finger firmly on their pulse, a sonic adventure between hope and rebellion. A lifetime of feelings in just one night.

Original title Burning Country France Year 2009 Running time 50 min.

Production Mogwai Producer Mogwai Distribution Vincent Moon

SCREENING DATES Byens Lys Saturday 7/11 19:00 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Friday 13/11 21:30 hrs.

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All Tomorrow’s Parties DIRECTOR: Jonathan Caouette, All Tomorrow’s People

When ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’ is reviewed as a DIY concert film, this is to be taken literally. The film, which portrays the cult festival by the same name, is an intoxicating patchwork of images recorded with everything from video cameras to mobile phones, with Vincent Moon and Jonathan Caouette as the artistic masterminds in the editing suite. The concept for the festival is quite simple: get a band to unite its favourite musicians at a holiday camp during the low season and add a music-loving and laid-back audience. Let them jam, climb up in trees and play concerts together all weekend, and you end up having what Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore describes as “the ultimate mix tape”. The film is an eclectic blend of recordings with and by artists such as Portishead, Grinderman, Mogwai and Slint, and it is impossible not to be enchanted by ATP’s wonderful world, where one both lives in huts with an ocean view and plays mini-golf with one’s biggest indie heroes.

Original title All Tomorrow’s Parties Country UK Year 2009 Running time 82 min.

Production Warp X Producer Luke Morris Distribution Warp Films

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio Friday 6/11 22:30 hrs. / Empire Bio Wednesday 11/11 22:30 hrs. / Grand Saturday 14/11 21:30 hrs.

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Vincent Moon Artist Talk: The Take Away Shows DIRECTOR: Vincent Moon

At a time when MTV has reduced music to a lonely M, Vincent Moon deconstructs the music film and breathes a new lease of life into the genre. Especially his Take Away Shows continue to impress music fans, who via the internet can experience their biggest idols play live versions in the streets of Paris, in narrow staircases, in shafts and on the toilet! Moon accompanies the musicians with his handheld camera, whose mobility allows him access to even the most intimate spaces - and the most intimate music. For even if Moon has portrayed artists such as R.E.M., Arcade Fire and Sigur R贸s, even lesser-known names such as Beirut, Caribou, Of Montreal, Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Thomas Dybdahl and almost 100 other musicians have been allowed to appear before his camera. Moon is a master of the close-up and the portrait, and he takes the film medium back to its roots with his handheld style and raw pictorial poetry. In this master class, he will talk about his methods and the development of The Take Away Shows, and he will also show some old as well as new Take Away recordings.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 21:30 hrs.

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Original title The Take Away Shows Running time 90 min.

Distribution Vincent Moon

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SPECIAL FOCUS MADE IN SWEDEN P:O:R:N:O RE:THINK

MADE IN SWEDEN

It’s not only the Swedish films – which shine through with their unique style and a high level of creative energy – that have attracted international attention. The talent and the artistic will is supported by an environment that works with alternative modes of production that rely less on film schools and institutions and more on their own, independent poetics.

Over the past decade, the film production company ATMO has distinguished itself as a downright cinematic think tank, above all by making the activist documentary sexy again. ACNE is best known for making tight-fitting black jeans, but in the fashion label’s new film workshop industry, fashion, music and art enter into a creative symbiosis. And FASAD has followed up on its self-taught surprise success ‘Falkenberg Farewell’ with a new

wave of films from the borders of reality.

But the new talents are not just active in Stockholm. Based in Gothenburg and Malmö respectively, Plattform and RåFILM have most recently attracted the attention of international festivals. New Swedish film encompasses documentary, fiction, animation, music video and experimental films, and includes both short films and wildly ambitious feature film projects. What the widely different forms of expression have in common is a political and provocative edge, that challenges the welfare conformism of ‘the people’s home’ – and which it is about time to learn from.

Made in Sweden is presented with the support of the Swedish Film Institute.

Videocracy DIRECTOR: Erik Gandini

Original title: Videocracy / Country: Sweden / Year: 2009 / Running time: 85 min. / Production: Atmo Media Network AB / Producer: Kristina Åberg / Distribution: Atmo Media Network AB

In a videocracy the image rule. And in Italy, all the images are

the paparazzi who blackmails the rich and famous - and to a final

owned by one man. Silvio Berluscon’s videocratic revolution started

glimpse of the media fantom Berlusconi, whose white plastic smile

in the early 1970s and reached its temporary peak when he was

remains hanging in the air long after the TV cameras have been

re-elected last year for his third term in office. Silicone breasts

switched off.

and politics enter into a systematic symbiosis, and Berlusconi has himself chosen his minister for equal opportunities among his former TV bimbos. Power is dressed up as entertainment and a dream of fame that has seduced the entire nation. Erik Gandini from the hip Swedish company ATMO grew up in Italy himself, and he zaps around with conscious style in the surrealistic stream of images. From the hopeful karate-singer via the powerful TV agent with Mussolini on his mobile phone, to the ultra-cynical ’pimp’ of SCREENING DATES Dagmar Wednesday 11/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Sunday 15/11 16:30 hrs.

Greetings from the Woods DIRECTOR: Mikel Cee Karlsson

Original title: Hälsningar från skogen / Country: Sweden / Year: 2009 / Running time: 76 min. / Production: Plattform Production / Producer: Erik Hemmendorff / Distribution: Plattform Production

If one can’t tell by looking at people, what they think, one has to

the tractor business - funny and somewhat eccentric characters,

make up ones own stories. Thus, ’Greetings From the Woods’

if you judge by what you see. And that is exactly the point. If Jim

becomes a documentary fantasy that one has to create for oneself

Jarmusch had been born in Sweden, he’d make a film like this one.

while watching it. The director Mikel Cee Karlsson has, with the support of the Gothenburg-based production company Plattform, spent four years observing the inhabitants of his childhood home town of Varberg. And Carlsson, who earlier made music videos for artists such as Fever Ray, presents us his images without further commentary. Who are they really, those Swedes? The man in the golden costume, the old photographer and the couple running

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf Sunday 8/11 18:30 hrs. / Gloria Wednesday 11/11 21:30 hrs.

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Skinnskatteberg DIRECTOR: Jesper Ganslandt

Original title: Skinnskatteberg / Country: Sweden / Year: 2008 / Running time: 30 min. / Production: Fasad AB / Producer: Erika Wasserman / Distribution: Fasad

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE The microphone stands grow out of the ground like withering trees around Erik Enocksson and his co-musicians in Jesper Ganslandt’s evocative and beautiful concert film, which was shot deep in the Västmanlandia forest in the Swedish wilderness. Under the fir trees one can hear the first, slender notes from an old guitar, which is soon being accompanied by a piano, an accordion and the front man’s frail voice. Enocksson was also responsible for the music in Ganslandt’s successful debut ’Falkenberg Farewell’ in 2006, and his lightly melancholic minimal-folk resounds with crystal clarity among the fir trees, while darkness sets in. Rains starts falling after the first number, and after it has transpired that nobody has brought along a mosquito repellent, not much more is said. The taciturn men look as if they have been sitting there for ever.

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf Saturday 7/11 21:00 hrs. / Byens Lys Saturday 14/11 22:30 hrs.

Broder Daniel Forever DIRECTOR: Henrik Hellström, Kristian Bengtsson, Fredrik Wenzel Original title: Broder Daniel Forever / Country: Sweden / Year: 2009 / Running time: 58 min. / Production: Acne Film / Producer: Kim Buisson / Distribution: Acne Film

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE The Gothenburg group Broder Daniel has made many headlines

Henrik Berggren walks the streets of Gothenburg like an alien to

with their melodic outsider anthems and the turbulent story

the communal backdrop, one is left with no doubt that the poetic

of their band. Since its teenage debut in 1989, the band that is

defiance of the heart will last forever.

inspired by the likes of The Jesus and Mary Chain and Morrissey has shrouded itself in heroically deafening guitar noise and a romantic take on death and love. The fans’ worship and the group’s (anti)hero cult status in Sweden are also well-represented in their chaotic concerts, their mass-mediatised drug abuse and in Håkan Hellström’s exit and success as a solo artist. But last year, the suicide of the guitarist Anders Göthberg put a tragic end to the band. The film is both a commemorative concert and an unsentimental farewell. But as the flamboyant lead singer SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf Saturday 7/11 21:00 hrs. / Byens Lys Saturday 14/11 22:30 hrs.

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Metropia DIRECTOR: Tarik Saleh

Original title: Metropia / Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland / Year: 2009 / Running time: 86 min. / Production: Atmo Media Network AB / Producer: Kristina Åberg / Distribution: Atmo Media Network AB

’Metropia’ takes place during 24 hours in the year 2024. The world

is thus both hyperrealistic and expressive in a class of its own.

has run out of oil, and a multi-national corporation has conjoined

Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis and Udo Kier have lent their voices to

all of Europe’s metros into a mysterious underground network,

the characters, while Terry Gilliam, Franz Kafka and Philip K. Dick

which the shy and paranoid civil servant Roger starts finding

are bowing in recognition from a future near you.

suspicious. For good reasons, as it turns out, but it’s Nina, the woman of his dreams, who becomes his one-way ticket into the mental depths of the subways. ATMO is celebrating its 10-year anniversary as the aesthetic forefront of docu-avantgarde with an animated science fiction dystopia, which sets new standards for what can be done in Scandinavian film. Tarik Saleh’s graphic design

SCREENING DATES Grand Friday 6/11 21:30 hrs. / Grand Tuesday 10/11 21:30 hrs. / Dagmar Sunday 15/11 21:00 hrs.

Burrowing DIRECTOR: Fredrik Wenzel, Henrik Hellström

Original title: Man tänker sitt / Country: Sweden / Year: 2009 / Running time: 78 min. / Production: Fasad AB / Producer: Jesper Ganslandt / Distribution: Fasad

The sensuality in the luminous and almost transparent images

in the background. But ’Burrowing’ offers both heart, mind and a

of the Swedish summer stand in glaring contrast with the

pent-up Scandinavian hatred of life, while offering a documentary

11-year-old Sebastian’s laconic views of small town mentality and

precision in its depiction of the psychological geography of the

Strindbergesque venom in the razor-sharp and heart-rending

terraced houses and the car parks. A magical and haunting film.

midsummer drama about not finding ones place in the world, by the self-taught directing partnership of Wenzel & Hellström. The production company FASAD was founded when a group of friends said a successful ”Farewell Falkenberg” in 2006, to where they have now returned. The spirits of Gus van Sant and the Dardenne brothers can be felt, and Henry Thoreau’s ghost can be sensed

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Tuesday 10/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Friday 13/11 21:30 hrs.

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The Ape DIRECTOR: Jesper Ganslandt

Original title: Apan / Country: Sweden / Year: 2009 / Running time: 81 min. / Production: Fasad AB / Producer: Jesper Kurlandsky / Distribution: Fasad

Suspense and surprise are not just genre ingredients in the new

even buy you a crate of beer and which ended up being Sweden’s

and groundbreaking thriller by the self-taught director Jesper

candidate for the Oscars - in a claustrophobic and consistently

Ganslandt. It’s a working method, which among other things

observant style, which develops from the self-imposed creative

means that the screenplay was kept secret from the lead actor Olle

framework.

Sarri, who was taken onto the set without knowing what was going to happen. It’s even harder to describe the development of the labyrinthine plot from the fatal moment when a man (Sarri) wakes up and has lost everything. ’The Ape’ is a giddy experiment in narrative technique, which nonetheless does not sacrifice narration for the sake of form. Ganslandt follows up on the breakthrough hit ’Falkenberg Farewell’ - which was shot for a budget that wouldn’t

SCREENING DATES Grand Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Posthus Teatret Sunday 8/11 21:15 hrs. / Grand Thursday 12/11 21:30 hrs.

The Film I’m No Longer Talking About DIRECTOR: Martin Degrell, Jesper Ganslandt Original title: The Film I’m No Longer Talking About / Country: Sweden / Year: 2009 / Running time: 72 min. / Production: Fasad AB / Producer: Jesper Ganslandt / Distribution: Fasad

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE One of the most visionary films of recent times was shot in Sweden at the turn of the century. That, in any case, was the plan, but the unnamed masterpiece was never finished. The story about a young man who experiences reality disintegrating around him ends up being a gruesome reality for the charismatic IT millionaire and his first-time film producer Casey, who suddenly becomes the protagonist in his own, overambitious ’horror noir’ and tears his young team of happy film amateurs with him into the pit, when the money dries up. Almost ten years later, Casey & co have returned to the film that nobody talks about any more, and a new film has arisen from the fatal project. The original ’making of’ material is augmented with a dose of mature soul-searching in a universal film about dreams and illusions.

SCREENING DATES Grand Monday 9/11 16:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Friday 13/11 18:30 hrs.

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Mr Governor DIRECTOR: Måns Månsson

Original title: H:R Landshövding / Country: Sweden / Year: 2009 / Running time: 85 min. / Production: Anagram Produktion AB / Producer: Martin Persson / Distribution: Anagram Produktion AB

The influence of the 1960s American direct cinema documentary

picture goes through, if only it is given a chance to stay on the

tradition has long been under fire for its alleged monopoly on

screen. The footage - shot over a year, depicting ceremonies and

filmic objectivity, formulated in long and patiently observing takes

diplomatic rituals - is here presented in pure black-and-white

without further commentaries. ’Mr Governor’, however, confirms

16mm images, which give us a hint of the price to be paid for

with artistic authority that patience is a virtue that doesn’t age, and

life-long duty.

that genres aren’t solid formulas. Månsson has himself explained the starting point of his critically acclaimed film about Uppsala’s own governor, Anders Björck, by referring to an old childhood fascination with this paternal statesman that he saw so much on TV when he was a kid. But his film is not a traditional portrait.

Månsson - trained at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm - examines all the changes that an apparently static SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov Saturday 7/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Thursday 12/11 16:30 hrs. / Grand Saturday 14/11 12:00 hrs.

Nathalie Djurberg DIRECTOR: Nathalie Djurberg

Original title: Nathalie Djurberg / Country: Sweden / Year: 2009 / Running time: 40 min.

Nathalie Djurberg, who is also visiting this year’s festival as ’Artist

him. ’Putting Down the Prey’ realises an eskimo’s (escape) fantasy

in Focus’, is presented here with a collection of eerie animations.

of becoming one with nature. And in the bathroom farce ’Tiger

’Badain’ is a satirical adaptation of a real 19th century painting,

Licking Girl’s Butt’, the eponymic tiger poses the ever-relevant

which depicts a black slave who is given to the queen of Sweden

question: ’Why do I have this urge to do things over and over again?’

as a gift. In ’Camels Drink Water’, two camels save a poor boy

The question is thus passed on to you.

without legs from dying of thirst in the desert, enabling him to court three pale and flabby old ladies in laced underwear in ’Hungry Hungry Hippos’. ’It’s the Mother’, on the other hand, talks about an entirely different and hair-raising story about the female body in a monstrous mirror image of nature’s dubious order. And in ’Johnny’, a curious teenage boy, who is spying on three naked nymphs in a forest, gets more than he bargained for when they finally discover SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Saturday 14/11 17:00 hrs.

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I Love the Game of the Hockey DIRECTOR: ROBIN FÄRDIG Original title: I Love the Game of the Hockey, en dokumentärfilm om det som inte är hiphop i förorten / Country: Sweden / Year: 2009 / Running time: 22 min. / Distribution: Robin Färdig

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE It’s not all hip hop and bling bling out in the strange reality - or lack of reality - of the suburbs. Alexander Bengtsson is 20 years old and a hardcore fan of the local hockey heroes of Frölunda Indians.

In fact, he talks about little else in the first-time director and poet Robin Färdig’s film about everyday life outside Gothenburg.

But somewhere or other, something’s badly rotten. The camera almost sluggishly glares at Alexander and his parents and friends, and only pans away when they nervously cast a sidelong glance into its expressionless glass eye. ’I Love the Game of the Hockey’ challenges the ethics of the visible and is a promising taster for Färdig’s upcoming feature, which is also filmed out in the sticks on a non-existent budget.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Saturday 14/11 17:00 hrs.

Subtitles DIRECTOR: Anders Kreuger

Original title: Subtitles / Country: Sweden / Year: 2008 / Running time: 25 min. / Distribution: Anders Kreuger

EUROPEAN PREMIERE One can learn a lot from watching television - at least if you see

well-meant political tenor. With few and simple means, Kreuger

a programme 30 years after it was made. Especially children’s

manages to dissect both the progressive ideals of the 1970s, his

television of the 1970s is a generous source for critical reflection

own childhood and civic education in the modern Swedish welfare

about how an entire generation grew up in front of the idiot box.

state. Try a bit of tax-financed, home-grown food for thought.

’Subtitles’ is an episode of Swedish children’s television from 1972, shown in its full length, and commented via subtitles by the curator and artist Anders Kreuger, who came across the eye-opening material during an archeological dig in the national television archives. A stone, a piece of string and an empty matchbox are all that the two long-haired and velvet-dressed hosts need to have some fun and to get their anti-materialistic message across to the children - who didn’t really understand much of the programme’s SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Saturday 14/11 17:00 hrs.

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Repainting Cuba DIRECTOR: RåFILM Filmmakers Collective

Original title: Repintando Cuba / Country: Sweden / Year: 2009 / Running time: 10 min. / Production: RåFILM Filmmakers collective / Producer: RåFILM Filmmakers collective / Distribution: Råfilm

The Malmö/Lund-based RåFilm Collective does not make films to make friends, but to change the world. And it’s not with just the collective signature that their experimental and style-conscious film sends a friendly nod to 1970s docu-activism. Film is a political medium, but there is more than punchlines and attitude to be found in ’Repainting Cuba’, which takes a critical look at communist Cuba, where both the façades and the ageing regime were given a coating of colourful paint in connection with the 50 year anniversary of the revolution. Two young Cubans under house arrest talk about being imprisoned for dealing with foreign tourists in a society where gossip and backstabbing is endemic, and where the heavy varnish can’t conceal the cracks.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 7/11 21:00 hrs. / Husets Biograf Saturday 14/11 21:00 hrs.

Not a Svensson Anymore DIRECTOR: Mattias Olsson and Tomas Hanslep

Original title: Ingen Svensson längre / Country: Sweden / Year: 2009 / Running time: 58 min. / Production: Mattias Olsson Films, SVT and Film i Skåne / Producer: Mattias Olsson, Lars Säfström and Joakim Strand / Distribution: Story AB

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Bengt Svensson is a frightened man. Afraid of missing his son so

long journey, but it also reveals that everyone has something new

terribly much, afraid of Colombia, and afraid of what might happen

they can discover on life’s journey. A warm, unsentimental, and

if his son manages to trace his biological father over there. And

wonderfully human film.

all of his forebodings become reality the day he fetches his son Anders at the airport. Anders Svensson now calls himself Emilio Cuesta and does not plan to unpack his bags. He just wants to say ’hi’ before moving back to Bogotá, where he was adopted 30 years ago by Bengt and his wife. And right here this brilliant portrayal of a journey from Stockholm’s suburbs to the misty and labyrinthine metropolis in the lush Andes mountains takes off. It may be a

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 7/11 21:00 hrs. / Husets Biograf Saturday 14/11 21:00 hrs.

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Maggie In Wonderland DIRECTOR: Mark Hammarberg, Ester Martin Bergsmark & Beatrice Maggie Andersson Original title: Maggie In Wonderland / Country: Sweden / Year: 2008 / Running time: 72 min. / Production: Silverosa Film / Producer: Anna Byvald / Distribution: Det Svenske Filminstitut

On the 15th floor in a Malmö suburb lives Maggie, a Kenyan woman with a penchant for golden jewellery and a serious phobia of pigeons. Maggie has lived in Malmö for many years, but the Swedish welfare state is not necessarily the best dancing partner for a person with enough skeletons in the closet to employ an entire psychiatric ward. With her traumatic past and her constant longing for her abandoned son, she lives her days with an impressive will to give a new meaning to her existence. The journey into Maggie’s wild, life-affirming, but also mentally disturbed world is taken through revealing video diaries, and the result is both magical and tragic - and a revolutionary experiment in subjective realism. ’Maggie in Wonderland’ was one of last year’s biggest surprises and has this year been selected for the Doc Alliance competition.

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov Thursday 12/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Saturday 14/11 21:30 hrs.

We Call It Skweee DIRECTOR: Iacopo Patierno, David Giese

Original title: We Call It Skweee / Country: Sweden / Year: 2009 / Running time: 61 min. / Production: GENOME INC. / Producer: Iacopo Patierno, David Giese / Distribution: Atmo Media Network AB

In 2008, the Italian documentary filmmaker Iacopo Patierno

Mesak and Rigas den Andre around large parts of Sweden and

came to Stockholm. During his stay in Sweden, Patierno became

Finland, and subsequently Spain, where eight Swedish and Finnish

acquainted with the Scandinavian electro genre Skweee, and with

artists were chosen to represent the movement.

his own experiences of the Naples dub-step scene, the director decided to embark on a new project: during one whole year he wanted to follow and document the unique and uncompromising approach to music, which he experienced among the Skweee scene’s key musicians. During the shooting of the film, Iacopo Patierno followed a number of musicians, among others Randy Barracuda, Eero Johannes, Daniel Savio, Joxaren, Pavan, S.L.A.,

SCREENING DATES Gloria Friday 6/11 21:30 hrs. / Byens Lys Friday 13/11 21:00 hrs.

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Why do the Swedes make such good films? A focus on talent development Original title: Hvorfor laver svenskerne så gode film? Fokus på talentudvikling / Running time: 90 min. / Distribution: 0

The Swedes are well on their way to re-define the concept of

Swedish film scene for different takes on an answer - also to why

’independent’ in film. New companies such as ATMO, FASAD and

it might be time to look to our neighbours for renewed inspiration.

ACNE operate relatively independently of traditional institutions

Jacob Kirstein Høgel, the artistic director of New Danish Screen,

such as film schools and the film institute, both of which have come

will moderate the discussion.

to play a more supplementary role. The new filmmakers often come from backgrounds in music, the arts and fashion - and it shows.

Swedish films shine through with their stylistic confidence and creative energy, and can easily be both wildly ambitious and playful at the same time, while also succeeding in making the political cool again. What happened? Meet some of the central players of the new

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 15:30 hrs.

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This year it’s 40 years since the ban on picture pornography was lifted in Denmark, the first country in the world to take that step. To mark the occasion, this year’s special series will take an unperturbed look at the most popular documentary genre of them all and examine what sex on film can also entail. People have made porn films as long as they have made films. But the significance of skin-coloured images has changed with society and the currents of time.

This is why we are presenting a curated selection of films from the 1960s to the present day: artistic reflections and cultural artefacts, political manifestos and pornographic provocations. From experimental magnum opuses of the great individualists of modern filmmaking –

Warhol, Ono, Brakhage, Schneeman and Farocki – to entirely new and feminist contributions by the Swedish Mia Engberg and the international art scene. We have strived to create a picture diagnosis, which challenges the industrial monopoly of films that deal explicitly with sexual experience, and which poses the critical question of whether 40 years of liberation has actually resulted in a new tyranny – or if there are new paths to be discovered for the genre, which has secured itself an absolute bottom rung in the documentary hierarchy. Cast a fresh glance on the sexy films - they are here to stay.

Co-curated by Lars Bang Larsen.

4’27 DIRECTOR: Terence Koh

Original title: 4’27 / Country: Canada / Year: 2007 / Running time: 5 min. / Distribution: Peres Projects

The minimally informative title of Terence Koh’s four and a half minute long ’4’27’ situates the sexualised body in a space beyond any context. A naked and androgynous figure wearing long, shiny stripper boots is dancing around in a white room with her face masked by an enormous black wig, like some bizarre creature of the imagination from a 90’s Japanese horror movie. Canadian artist Terence Koh works within a self-established territory of different media with references to the so-called ’neo-goth’ movement, but is ultimately on a level of inspiration that is very much his own. Koh’s world is one of plastic appearances, most often in his signature tonalities of monochrome black or pure white, and is yet haunted by the horrors of the body. His video works no less so.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket TUESDAY 10/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket SATURDAY 14/11 kl. 21:00

Pinochet Porn: The Dictator and the Maid DIRECTOR: Ellen Cantor Original title: Pinochet Porn: The Dictator and the Maid / Country: US / Year: 2009 / Running time: 21 min. / Production: Ellen Cantor / Distribution: Ellen Cantor

’Pinochet Porn: The Dictator and His Maid’ is an independent

a mocking parody on male tyranny - political, imperial, as well as

chapter of a longer epic in the making about the relationship

sexual. Cantor herself describes the ’Pinochet Porn’ project as ”an

between sex and politics - yes, it is an old tale, but it’s presented

epic soap opera about five children growing up during the Pinochet

with a corny ironic self-awareness and the salmon-coloured look

regime, and their subsequent development into adulthood.” We are

of a private 1970’s home movie found in the attic of a wealthy

anticipating the coming episodes in anxious expectancy.

South American dictator after his demise. American artist Ellen Cantor splendidly recaptures the look and feel of the sleazy found treausures of the period, and turns the whole thing upside down in

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket TUESDAY 10/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket SATURDAY 14/11 kl. 21:00

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Lovely Andrea DIRECTOR: Hito Steyerl

Original title: Lovely Andrea / Country: Japan/Austria/Germany / Year: 2007 / Running time: 30 min. / Distribution: Sixpackfilms

Hito Steyerl’s punk-vérité ’Lovely Andrea’ takes us on a guided tour through Tokyo’s sex underground, where she was photographed in 1987 during a steamy bondage session - a picture she now sets about to track down. Intercut with leftovers from the image factories of late modern television (from music videos to the cheap, animated world of Spider-Man vs. Wonder Woman) and set to a suiting 80’s score of Depeche Mode and X-Ray Spex, Steyerl’s hunt for the lost photo and for her own past history leads her and her fellow detectives into a world of very visual pleasures. Its mad-cap energy and tongue-in-cheek aesthetics aside, ’Lovely Andrea’ tackles complex, feminist issues of identity and sexuality in a refreshingly unblatant way.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket TUESDAY 10/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket SATURDAY 14/11 kl. 21:00

Beyond Guilt: The Trilogy DIRECTOR: Ruti Sela, Maayan Amir

Original title: Beyond Guilt: The Trilogy / Country: Israel / Year: 2003 / Running time: 41 min. / Distribution: Mayaan Amir

Israeli Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir’s ’Beyond Guilt: The Trilogy’

The quick encounter before the camera calls to mind the

undermines the power relations between photographer and

ephemeral nature of intimate relations, but most of all the works

photographed, men and women, the public domain and the private

allude to the influences of the occupation, terror and army as

sphere, object and subject. Sela and Amir take an active part in

constitutors of an Israeli identity even in the most private moments,

the occurrences. They seduce the interviewees on the one hand,

The sexual identity and the military-political identity seem

and turn the camera over to them, on the other, as part of their

intertwined inseparably.

aforesaid undermining of power relations between photographer and subject. The choice of pick-up bar services or hotel room as shooting locations strives to represent an underworld with its language and signifiers.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket TUESDAY 10/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket SATURDAY 14/11 kl. 21:00

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A Very kinky Story DIRECTOR: Susan Hinnum

Original title: A Very kinky Story / Country: Denmark / Year: 1994

Danish film maker Susan Hinnum rounds off the ’Bondage, Boots & Black Leather’ programme with ’A Very Kinky Story’, indeed.

Hinnum’s short, homemade animation is a carefree exercise in DIY-filmmaking, coupling frivolous pornographic stock imagery to a message that you can actually make use of.

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket TUESDAY 10/11 kl. 19:00 / Cinemateket SATURDAY 14/11 kl. 21:00

The Fly DIRECTOR: Yoko Ono

Original title: The Fly / Country: USA / Year: 1970 / Running time: 25 min. / Production: Yoko Ono / Producer: Yoko Ono / Distribution: MoMA

A fly is circling tenderly around the body of a naked woman before it makes a zealously humming dash for a break on her nipples, on to her mouth, her stomach, her pubic hair and her toes. And back again. The naked woman is only revealed through the details defined by the fly’s busy trajectory across the landscape of the body - while the film’s director, Yoko Ono, accompanies its work with an absurd-comical humming sound. Her fluxus-based commentary on pornography in ’Fly’ (1971) has long since gone down in art history for its amusing play with the traditionally erotic portrayal of both the rousing and the aroused.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB FRIDAY 6/11 kl. 19:00 / Husets Biograf SUNDAY 8/11 kl. 21:00 / Cinemateket SATURDAY 14/11 kl. 21:30

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Porno DIRECTOR: Homero Cirelli

Original title: Porno / Country: Argentina / Year: 2006 / Running time: 86 min. / Production: Homero Cirelli / Producer: Norberto Arbía, Homero Cirelli, Alejandro Fella / Distribution: Homero Cirelli

After exploring and going by winding paths through never ending

maracas in a scene of pretending festive sex. Without losing a

urban areas in Berlin and Buenos Aires, Homero Cirelli limits

quiet temperance, but being alert, Porno is a sensitive immersion

himself spatially in his third video-film: confined to a country

that documents the obvious and the obtuse, the sober and the

house, he films the making of a porno movie. With sex as the

excessive, the artificial and the natural that swirls in each step.

centre, but visually denied in its erected vitality, Porno suggests a search through the echoes of sexual fantasies and the indirectness of each of the situations of the filming team. A sort of rarefied making of, with no informative guide, nor explanatory interviews or voices in off, that manages to maintain a lost look that captures an ant trapped in a woman’s shoe as well as an actor shaking

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB FRIDAY 6/11 kl. 19:00 / Husets Biograf SUNDAY 8/11 kl. 21:00 / Cinemateket SATURDAY 14/11 kl. 21:30

Mansfield 1962 DIRECTOR: William E. Jones

Original title: Mansfield 1962 / Country: US / Year: 2006 / Running time: 9 min. / Production: William E. Jones / Producer: William E. Jones / Distribution: William E. Jones

With ’Mansfield 1962’, the American video artist William E. Jones

version of the film on the internet, then reedited the footage to

has made a both brutal and awkward portrait of dated sexual

make Mansfield 1962, a haunting, silent condensation of the

morality. In the summer of 1962, the Mansfield, Ohio Police

original.

Department photographed men having sex in a public restroom under the main square of the city. A cameraman hid in a closet and watched the clandestine activities through a two-way mirror.

He filmed over a three week period, and the resulting movie was used to obtain the convictions of over 30 local men on charges of sodomy. With some of this footage the Mansfield Police later produced Camera Surveillance, an instructional film circulated in law enforcement circles. It showed how to set up a sting operation to film and arrest ’sex deviants.’ William E. Jones found a degraded SCREENING DATES Cinemateket SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 16:30 / Cinemateket WEDNESDAY 11/11 kl. 21:00

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Pickelporno DIRECTOR: Pipilotti Rist

Original title: Pickelporno / Country: Switzerland / Year: 1992 / Running time: 12 min. / Distribution: Electronic Arts Intermix

In this visual evocation of sex and sexuality, a man and woman stage an elaborately choreographed courtship ritual, edited with Rist’s usual attention to the syntax of mass media. As a driving bass sample plays, a surveillance camera makes low-flying journeys across the bodies of the actors, yielding images at once familiar and distancing, a strategy in keeping with Rist’s desire ”to propose images of sexuality rather than to analyze the pros and the cons of pornography.”

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 16:30 / Cinemateket WEDNESDAY 11/11 kl. 21:00

Impaled DIRECTOR: Larry Clark

Original title: Impaled / Country: USA / Year: 2006 / Running time: 38 min. / Production: Offhollywood Digital / Producer: Neville Wakefield, Mel Agace / Distribution: Katapult Film Sales

There is not much eroticism about ’Impaled’, American director

soap, however, than an experimental exposé of a culture complete

Larry Clark’s intelligent Big Brother-like casting game, based on

with its own arsenal of performative clichés - all of which are

young, sex-obsessed teenagers’ shared dream of making a career

questioned in the clumsy, sexual rendez-vous between the finalist

as models in the porn industry, only to get laid. Clark’s contribution

and a female co-star twice his age.

to the art/pornography film project ’Destricted’ (which also features work by Gaspar Noé, Matthew Barney, Sam Taylor-Wood, and others) takes place on what is literally a casting couch, where a group of young men compete to star in what turns out to be a very modest production with a forty-something porn actress in front of Clark’s interactive presence. ’Impaled’ is less the shocking reality-

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 16:30 / Cinemateket WEDNESDAY 11/11 kl. 21:00

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An Image DIRECTOR: Harun Farocki

Original title: Ein Bild / Country: Germany / Year: 1984 / Running time: 25 min. / Production: Harun Farocki Filmproduktion / Distribution: Harun Farocki Filmproduktion

Four days spent in a studio working on a centerfold photo for

cases that I’m making a film that is critical of its subject matter,

Playboy magazine provided the subject matter for my film. The

and the owner or manager of the thing that’s being filmed assumes

magazine itself deals with culture, cars, a certain lifestyle. Maybe

that my film is an advertisement for them. I try to do neither. Nor

all those trappings are only there to cover up the naked woman.

do I want to do something in between, but beyond both. (Harun

Maybe it’s like with a paper-doll. The naked woman in the middle

Farocki, Zelluloid, no. 27, Fall 1988)

is a sun around which a system revolves: of culture, of business, of living! (It’s impossible to either look or film into the sun.) One can well imagine that the people creating such a picture, the gravity of which is supposed to hold all that, perform their task with as much care, seriousness, a responsibility as if they were splitting uranium.

This film, An Image, is part of a series I’ve been working on since 1979. The television station that commissioned it assumes in these SCREENING DATES Cinemateket SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 16:30 / Cinemateket WEDNESDAY 11/11 kl. 21:00

Sneakin’ and Peekin’ DIRECTOR: Tom Palazzolo

Original title: Sneakin’ and Peekin’ / Country: USA / Year: 1974 / Running time: 16 min. / Production: Tom Palazzolo / Producer: Tom Palazzolo / Distribution: Canyon Cinema

For those who had the luck to be around, the sexual liberation

to the general state of mind at the time (a revolution has occured,

of the 1970s was about plain fun as much as it was about

for sure), but along with the casual and playful presence of the

politics. At least that is the impression one gets from American

naked campers it provides a disarmingly genuine artefact of a

cinematographer Tom Palazzolo’s hit-and-run documentation of

historical period with an ever debatable legacy.

life in a nudist community during an outdoor summer convention.

The participants play tennis in their birthday costumes and a young Miss Nude America is celebrated by crowds of cheering photographers - among them Palazzolo, who takes a long and appropriately interactive vérité-style peek at his subject. The infantile excitement of ’Sneakin’ and Peekin’ may or may not testify

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 16:30 / Cinemateket WEDNESDAY 11/11 kl. 21:00

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10 X Dirty Diaries

Original title: 10 x Dirty Diaries / Country: Sweden / Year: 2009 / Running time: 120 min. / Production: Story / Producer: Mia Engberg / Distribution: Folkets Bio

Porn and feminism don’t sound like the most obvious match, but

she made in connection with the Gothenburg Film Festival. There is

this is the concept of Mia Enbgerg’s project. She has invited twelve

plenty of DIY-attitude in the productions, which thereby exemplify

Swedish women to reveal their own personal sexual visions on

an important alternative to most mainstream porn, which has

film. Their task was to film themselves and to film what they find

always been light years away from being art.

sexually arousing. The result is 12 widely differing and deeply

After the screening at DOX:CLUB, CPH:DOX and WIFT invite you to

personal pornographic films. But apart from the personal angle,

an artist talk with the Swedish documentarist Mia Engberg, who

the film’s manifesto also has a political message, as it among other

will bring along guests from the team behind Dirty Diaries.

things encourages us to smash capitalism and patriarchism and to thereby fight against the traditionally sexist form of pornography.

Mia Engberg always moves on the fringes of society with her films about gay skinheads, vegans, gender-benders and street children, and the entire project was born out of a short masturbation film SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Friday 6/11 21:30 hrs. / Grand Wednesday 11/11 21:30 hrs. / Empire Bio Sunday 15/11 22:30 hrs.

Tricia’s Wedding DIRECTOR: Milton Miron

Original title: Tricia’s Wedding / Country: USA / Year: 1971 / Running time: 33 min. / Distribution: Frame Line

One can safely say that sexuality was a blurred concept in San

’Tricia’s Wedding’ is the group’s legendary mock-up of Richard and

Francisco’s late 1960s acid collective called Cockettes - men and

Tricia Nixon’s wedding, and is guaranteed to be funnier than being

women, for whom far too much was never good enough. With

present at the real deal.

an inquisitive extravagance as their only true guiding star, they practised gender bending to the core, and when the psychedelic drag queens went on stage, it was to deliver one of their by now heterostratically famous anything goes performances. Portrayed in both Rolling Stone, Life and Esquire, the Cockettes quickly became the hottest pioneers of counter-culture - and not surprisingly the medium of film quickly joined their raving mad stage shows.

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Luminous Procuress DIRECTOR: Steven Arnold

Original title: Luminous Procuress / Country: USA / Year: 1972 / Running time: 74 min. / Distribution: Steven Arnold Archive

Flamboyant surrealist Steven Arnold’s ’Luminous Procuress’ forms second half of this all-out double feature dedicated to the 1960s San Fransisco-based performance collective The Cockettes. Here, several members of The Cockettes contribute to an orgiastic round trip through the limitless sexual excesses of fantasy, which both Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol expressed their admiration for after the premiere.

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 18:30 / Cinemateket THURSDAY 12/11 kl. 21:00

Wedlock House: An Intercourse DIRECTOR: Stan Brakhage Original title: Wedlock House: An Intercourse / Country: US / Year: 1959 / Running time: 11 min. / Production: Stan Brakhage / Producer: Stan Brakhage / Distribution: Canyon Cinema

According to the French philosopher, author and surrealist Georges

both love and the growing erotic obsession between the director

Bataille, the nature of sexuality can not only be described from the

and his first wife. Personal if not exactly private, Brakhage intercuts

outside. Like love and religious faith, the erotic drive is an inner

footage of a marital argument with negative images of the young

experience - something that numerous experimental film directors

couple making love.

have tried to prove by trying to work the inside towards the outside, and vice-versa. The collection of films in the ’Inside/Outside’ programme is about expressing this experience, and includes two cinematic pearls by the great romantic of American experimental filmmaking, Stan Brakhage. In the first, ’Wedlock House: An Intercourse’, an evocative universe is created, which has space for

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 18:30 / Cinemateket THURSDAY 12/11 kl. 21:00

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Fuses DIRECTOR: Carolee Schneeman

Original title: Fuses / Country: US / Year: 1967 / Running time: 22 min. / Production: Carolee Schneeman / Producer: Carolee Schneeman / Distribution: Canyon Cinema

Schneemann’s self-shot erotic film remains a controversial classic.

work that you’ve ever seen-- that’s why people are still looking at

”The notorious masterpiece... a silent celebration in colour of

it! And there’s no objectification or fetishization of the woman.”

heterosexual love making. The film unifies erotic energies within

(- Carolee Schneemann)

a domestic environment through cutting, superimposition and layering of abstract impressions scratched into the celluloid itself...

Fuses succeeds perhaps more than any other film in objectifying the sexual streamings of the body’s mind. ”...I wanted to see if the experience of what I saw would have any correspondence to what I felt-- the intimacy of the lovemaking... And I wanted to put into that materiality of film the energies of the body, so that the film itself dissolves and recombines and is transparent and dense-- as one feels during lovemaking... It is different from any pornographic SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 18:30 / Cinemateket THURSDAY 12/11 kl. 21:00

A Bit Of Matter And A Little Bit More DIRECTOR: Lawrence Weiner Original title: A Bit Of Matter And A Little Bit More / Country: USA / Year: 1976 / Running time: 23 min. / Distribution: Electronic Arts Intermix

American concept artist Lawrence Weiner went in defence of the

(Perhaps a screwed up sex symbol?) Also on the floor are a

succès de scandale of ’Deep Throat’ (1972), the first pornographic

hammer and a nail. Two people approach the circle. One of them

box-office smash hit. Weiner’s response is an experiment in

picks up the hammer and drives the nail into the floor. They both

collective sexual depiction, and a cultural artefact from a time of

walk to the corner of the room where there is a blanket. (Perhaps

radical experiments. ”The male/female, subject/object investigation

this action builds AN OBJECT SECURED UPON A THRESHOLD?)”

in A Bit of Matter and a Little Bit More does not have any titillating

(Alice Weiner)

episodes leading up to it. The appetite is not whetted beforehand.

Hardcore, the opening shot shows the crotch area of two bodies, male and female, engaged in coitus. The camera shifts to a point on the floor where a circle with arrows pointing to it are taped.

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 18:30 / Cinemateket THURSDAY 12/11 kl. 21:00

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The Operation DIRECTOR: Jacob Pander, Marne Lucas

Original title: The Operation / Country: USA / Year: 1995 / Running time: 13 min. / Production: 210 Productions / Producer: Jacob Pander / Distribution: 210 Productions

A pornographic performance shot on heat-sensitive, infrared

is a visionary acheivement out of this world and leaves much more

cameras in a stylized science fiction-setting surrounded by silent

to the imagination than one would expect from a film that makes it

observers in futuristic uniforms. Described by the filmmakers as

an aesthetic principle to lay the corporal nature of sexuality bare.

’radioactive sex’, Jacob Pander and Marne Lucas’s underground piece ’The Operation’ is quite inlike anything else out there. The physical processes of sex are made transcendental by a camera that can literally see through skin, and which registers the blood circulation and heat distribution on the two bodies with a mechanical coolness that - perhaps - obstructs any usual semiautomatic arousal in the viewer. Made in 48 hours, ’The Operation’

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 18:30 / Cinemateket THURSDAY 12/11 kl. 21:00

Karima DIRECTOR: Clarisse Hahn

Original title: Karima / Country: France / Year: 2003 / Running time: 96 min. / Producer: Clarisse Hahn / Distribution: Clarisse Hahn

According to the French documentarist Clarisse Hahn herself, she

life. Stripped of any kind of lust for sensation, Hahn’s film is a rare

precedes the making of her films by looking first and foremost

and successful attempt to portray a sexual inclination - considered

for people or environments that can challenge her personally or

aberrant by the broad public - as being a possibility within a

provoke her to reevaluate her own values. In ’Karima’ it’s the nature

completely normal setting.

of dominating sexuality that is looked at from both inside and outside. In connection with her work on the film, Hahn spent over a year in the company of the young Algerian dominatrix Karima, who is here portrayed as a the seeking woman she is alongside her family life. The sex games are only a small part of an everyday life that consists of equal measures of nothingness and a lust for

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Tuesday 10/11 16:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Friday 13/11 21:00 hrs. / Husets Biograf Sunday 15/11 21:00 hrs.

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Warhol In The Flesh - Film & Live Performance DIRECTOR: Andy Warhol Original title: Warhol In The Flesh - Film & Live Performance

CPH:DOX and Escho are unbuttoning, unzipping, and inviting you to

a stoned orgasm of lo-fi collages and inciting loops. Flækker

a daring soirée at our very own DOX:CLUB at Charlottenborg. There

will round the evening off: pale is the man, and pale is his music,

will be minimalist erotica by Andy Warhol on the silver screen,

which reaches out for the bestial, dressed in foxtail fur and pearl

accompanied live in the tent by Flækker, DJ Hvad and Marie Moko

necklaces.

Eline. Just one rule counts in the world of Pop Art prince Andy Warhol: what you see is what you get - ’Blow Job’ (1963) and ’Kiss’ (1964) included. And we have even added a small surprise into the bargain. Warhol’s monochrome images transcend themselves to become a real representation of ecstasy, while Marie Eline Moko’s hoarse voice kisses the listener from afar and DJ Hvad delivers

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Tuesday 10/11 21:00 hrs.

Pornography in Denmark DIRECTOR: Alex de Renzy

Original title: Pornography in Denmark / Country: USA / Year: 1969 / Running time: 90 min. / Distribution: Oddball Film + Video

The international fascination with Danish broad-mindedness knew

of shyness to both De Renzy and his Danish protagonists, which

no limits as Denmark 40 years ago as one of the first countries in

make his film something else than just a historic curiosity from

the world removed its censorship of picture pornography. There

a time before porn lost its innocence. ’Pornography in Denmark’

is thus an element of wonderfully self-reflecting irony in being

asks the inevitable question about the state of established Danish

able to show Alex de Renzy’s classic ’educational film’, which was

broad-mindedness in 2009 - and about what this term was all about

filmed in Copenhagen during the world’s first sex trade show in

when it all started.

October 1969, and quickly exported to a USA hungry for sensation - not least if you recognize a younger version of somebody you know queuing up in front of the trade show’s premises. De Renzy captured it all: from the streets of old Vesterbro to the bed sheets during a shooting of yet another a skin flick. But at the same time there is plenty of authentic curiosity and a strange sense SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf Wednesday 11/11 20:00 hrs.

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Third Ear - TOTALLY UNCENSORED Original title: Third Ear - TOTALLY UNCENSORED

Third Ear presents an exclusive evening of film and partying, offering you welcome drinks and erotic lounge rhythms from the DJ’s mixing desk. Copenhagen-based film historian Jack Stevenson will present an illustrated tour through the colourful history of Scandinavian sex films under the title ’Totally Uncensored’. He will focus on the many creative ways that Scandinavian directors tried to get around the tight safety net of the censors throughout the 50s and 60s - until they in 1969 finally could do what they wanted. Extracts will be shown from both ’Inga’, ’Jeg, en kvinde’ (’I, a Woman’), and ’Facts: KBH sex Reports’ - as well as many other rarities, including a ten-minute long interview with the most talkedabout porn star of the times, Bodil Jensen.

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf Friday 13/11 18:30 hrs.

FRÆNDELØS DIRECTOR: Leth, Nørgaard, Kirkeby, Lundbye, Louis-Jensen, John og de Waal Original title: Frændeløs / Country: Denmark / Year: 1970 / Running time: 66 min. / Distribution: Danish Film Institute

A head of a decapitated horse is one thing, female fuck machines another. The big boys of Danish experimental filmmaking - Leth, Nørgaard, Kirkeby, Lundbye, Louis-Jensen, John and de Waal - made the anthology ‘Frændeløs’ in 1970, which through five different films among other things illustrates the passion and death of a female Christ - including a naked walk through the halls of the Stock Exchange with the cross held high, as well as a trip to Nørgaard’s especially constructed fuck machines. Lene Adler Petersen strolls charmingly through the film, which still has the potential to provoke today. It’s already worth seeing for Jørgen Leth’s stoned portrait of a hippie girl and Vagn Lundbye’s attempts to make a spaghetti western.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Monday 9/11 16:30 hrs.

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RE:THINK

Copenhagen is getting ready for the climate conference. For this reason CPH:DOX has gotten together with the National Gallery of Denmark, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center and Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art to create the cross-institutional exhibition project RE:THINK. RE:THINK is an exhibition project that focuses on the heightened consciousness about the relationships and connections that seem to have been born from the whole discussion about the planet’s climate.

The exhibition shows the works of artists, who in different ways are interested in these new and complex relational connections. In connection with the exhibi-

tion, CPH:DOX has curated a film programme with classic as well as brand new films, which in various ways work in the field called land art and environmental art. The films are political, poetic and highly original takes on how we can think about connections, what a relationship to nature can consist of, and how art can deal with this complex relationship in both a concrete and conceptual way.

Special Focus: RE:THINK is presented with the support of the National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst), the Danish Arts Council and Alexandra Institute.

DJ Spooky: Sinfonia Antarctica Original title: DJ Spooky: Sinfonia Antarctica

CPH:DOX & artFREQ in collaboration with Alexandra Institute &

In 2008, DJ Spooky spent a month in Antarctica to film and record

the National Gallery of Denmark present the American multi-artist

sound samples of the ice. His recordings are the basis for ’Terra

DJ Spooky.

Nova - Sinfonia Antarctica’, a cross-genre performance that includes an art film, a presentation and a DJ set, and which is

DJ Spooky will visit the National Gallery of Denmark this year with

augmented by the classical quartet Athelas Chamber Players, led

an exclusive edition of his audiovisual show ’Terra Nova - Sinfonia

by the acclaimed Japanese concert pianist Eriko Makimura.

Antarctica’. The show has taken the world by storm, and we are proud to be able to present DJ Spooky to a Danish audience. DJ

Tickets can be bought via www.cphdox.dk and www.billetnet.dk for

Spooky aka That Subliminal Kid is a true multi-talent. His career

only 110 kr.

ranges from world exhibitions in Venice and New York via a long string of critically acclaimed record releases to soundtracks that have earned awards in both Cannes and Sundance.

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst Friday 13/11 20:00 hrs.

Ghost Society: Tank City Live DIRECTOR: Boris Bertram Original title: Ghost Society: Tankograd Live / Country: Denmark / Year: 2009 / Running time: 58 min.

WORLD PREMIERE New Danish indie group Ghost Society is holding a world premiere

took during the shooting of ’Tank City’. In a tradition that includes

performance of its ambitious audiovisual work in collaboration

Nan Goldin’s live collaborations with Matthew Watson and the

with filmmaker Boris Bertram, when CPH:DOX presents the

British artist Ceryth Wyn Evans’s collaboration with Throbbing

premiere of his latest film ’Tank City’. The film is about the city of

Gristle, Ghost Society will perform a newly composed and partially

Chelyabinsk, one of the world’s most polluted cities - its levels of

improvised sound work using the film’s soundtrack as a starting

radioactivity make even Chernobyl look harmless. Ghost Society

point to accompany the projection of the still images.

- aka Sara Savery (People Press Play) & Bichi (Blue Foundation), who has recently worked on the music for ’Twilight’ and Michael

The event is presented in collaboration with the Alexandra Institute

Mann’s ’Miami Vice’ - has made the film’s soundtrack, and after

and the National Gallery of Art.

the exclusive screening of ’Tank City’ at The National Gallery of Art, they will perform an entirely new audiovisual work. The images will consist of the many divine photographs that Bertram’s team SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst Thursday 12/11 20:00 hrs.

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Agrarian Utopia DIRECTOR: Uruphong Raksasad

Original title: Agrarian Utopia / Country: Thailand / Year: 2009 / Running time: 122 min. / Distribution: Extra Virgin

Standing face to face with the fear of losing their land, two

past and the present, fiction and documentary, he also manages

Thai families decide to unite and to cultivate rice on the same

to set the seeds for a both captivatingly complex and fascinatingly

piece of land. Gone are the machines and the general efficiency

beautiful pastoral utopia.

requirements of modern agriculture. Instead, the work on the fields is done completely manually, as one has traditionally done it in Thailand - many years ago, but no longer, which one might not think when one sees the Thai art-director Uruphong Rakasad’s soul-searching hymn to preindustrial Thai nature - and the human being’s relationship to it. Raksasad, who himself is the son of a farmer, rented a patch of land ahead of the filming and offered local farmers the produce if they were willing to work on the fields according to historical methods - and in this clash between the SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst Saturday 7/11 14:00 hrs. / Statens Museum for Kunst Saturday 14/11 14:00 hrs.

Spiral Jetty DIRECTOR: Robert Smithson

Original title: Spiral Jetty / Country: USA / Year: 1970 / Running time: 35 min. / Distribution: Electronic Arts Intermix

The film Spiral Jetty is a ”portrait” of Smithson’s monumental

the film includes stunning aerial footage of Smithson running along

earthwork of the same name at Rozel Point in the Great Salt Lake,

the length of the glowing spiral in what seems like an ecstatic

Utah. Completed in April 1970, Spiral Jetty is an iconic earthwork

ritual. The film Spiral Jetty, together with a series of photoworks

and Smithson’s most renowned piece. At 1500 feet long and 15

taken during the construction of the earthwork, have become

feet wide, Smithson’s spiral of basalt rocks, mud, and salt crystals

integral parts of the overall project.

juts out from the shore and coils dramatically into luminous red water. The film documents the making of this earthwork, which has attained a near-mythological status as it has disappeared and then re-emerged from the lake over the past decades. A voiceover

by Smithson illuminates the ideas and processes that informed the evolution of the work, with allusions to prehistoric relics and radical notions of space, scale and landscape. Poetic and oddly hypnotic, SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst SUNDAY 15/11 kl. 14:00 /

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(Insecurity Zone (Spiral Jetty)) DIRECTOR: Nikolaj Recke

Original title: (Insecurity Zone (Spiral Jetty)) / Country: Denmark / Year: 2009 / Running time: 8 min. / Contact: Rhode Contemporary

WORLD PREMIERE In the summer of 2009, Nikolaj Recke visited one of the chief works

contemporary art’s constant striving to approximate historic art.

of land art, Robert Smithson’s ’Spiral Jetty’ (1971), situated in the

It portrays the history of art as both a mental and physical space,

Great Salt Lake in Utah. Blindfolded, he let himself be guided all

where it is hard to find ones bearings, while one moves around in

the way out onto the spiral-shaped, rocky jetty with the help of

spirals and can’t make out if one is being led or being blinded.

the guidance of others. The video paraphrases a known piece of footage, where Smithson himself runs out onto the jetty shortly

Camera and guide: Jacob Lillemose

after its completion - which in itself is a paraphrase of another

The project is funded by the Danish Arts Council

canonic work from the period, Vito Acconci’s ’Security Zone’ (1971), where the artist let himself be guided around the jetties of New York City by a stranger, blindfolded and with his hands tied together. ’Insecurity Zone’ can be seen partly as a homage to the two works of art, partly as an unpretentious commentary of SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst SUNDAY 15/11 kl. 14:00 /

Heritage + Inland Shipwreck DIRECTOR: Thiago Rocha Pitta

Original title: Heritage + Inland Shipwreck / Country: Brazil / Year: 2008 / Running time: 11 min. / Contact: Galleri Andersen_s

What is distinctive about Thiago Rocha Pitta’s art work is the

elements rise out of the destruction that precedes the construction.

aesthetic use he makes of nature and of time. Earth is the solid

Since everything, in the end, aspires to a state of equilibrium, here

material that characterizes our planet, and water flows through it

we find a center that is justified and free of hierarchy.

in a constant cycle of evaporation and condensation. The processes

Thiago Rocha Pitta’s work has a close connection with the writings

of the elements of nature are basic metaphors of work with secret

of the mariner and author Joseph Conrad. Having witnessed the

internal and external energetic forces. Thiago Rocha Pitta seems to

forces embodied in the sea, Conrad developed a deterministic

overturn the elements. In his film ’Heritage’ (2007), the land is out

attitude to the world, which he expressed in a letter from 1898:

on the open sea, in a boat. In the film ’Inland Shipwreck’ (2008), the

’What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of

ship is buried in solid ground. It seems there are enough mysteries

nature, it is that they are conscious of it. - There is no morality,

and wonders in the real world, and no need to seek the mists of

no knowledge and no hope; there is only the consciousness of

the supernatural. Time as decay or as cyclical nature, entropy. Like

ourselves which drives us about a world that ’is always but a vain

Robert Smithson, one could call this ’creative destruction’. Instead

and fleeting appearance.’

of collapsing and being destroyed after construction, these natural SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst SUNDAY 15/11 kl. 13:00

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Returning a Sound DIRECTOR: Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla Original title: Returning a Sound / Country: Puerto Rico / Year: 2004 / Running time: 6 min. / Contact: Lisson Gallery

Allora & Calzadilla have brought a poetic sensibility to bear on the

of the trumpet as a jazzlike soundtrack, a call to action, or perhaps

complex intersections of power, activism, and environmentalism

an anthem, as the artists discuss in the interview that follows.

within the landscape of Vieques, a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico. Vieques has been - and remains - disputed terrain.

After decades of effort by local and international activists, the US military stopped conducting its notorious bombing exercises on Vieques in 2003. In ’Returning a Sound’, Homar, an activist, rides around Vieques on a moped that Allora & Calzadilla reengineered by attaching a trumpet to the exhaust system. During the ride, every thrust of the throttle or shift in speed alters the instrument’s pitch. Allora & Calzadilla have edited out other ambient noise, leaving only the alternately sputtering vibrato and clear, pure sound SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst SUNDAY 15/11 kl. 13:00

Dark Night of the Soul DIRECTOR: Slater Bradley

Original title: Dark Night of the Soul / Country: UK / Year: 2006 / Running time: 7 min. / Contact: Max Wigram Gallery

Bradley’s practice is an unusual hybrid of grand travelogue, gloomy

transcription of Beethoven’s ’Moonlight Sonata’ replaces Ligeti and

diary and cultural commentary. Diverse filmic genres - music

the romantic contributions of two very different Strausses identified

videos, silent film, 1960s avant-garde cinema, home movies and

with the 1968 film.

Hollywood musicals - play a role in the myriad aesthetic references picked up by the artist. Since 1999 Bradley has enlisted the help of Benjamin Brock, a friend who looks very much like him, to create a body of video and photographic works referred to as the ’Doppelganger Works’. One of his most recent production includes the film Dark Night of the Soul (2006), a tribute to Stanley Kubrick’s ’2001’, in which the Doppelganger wanders in awe through New York’s Museum of Natural History in a space suit, apparently in a return to a world which is a different planet. As always in Bradley’s work, here also music is fundamental to this work where a slow SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst SUNDAY 15/11 kl. 13:00

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The Last Tour DIRECTOR: Marine Huggonier

Original title: The Last Tour / Country: France / Year: 2004 / Running time: 15 min. / Contact: Max Wigram Gallery

The Last Tour is a fiction set in the near future, showing the ’last’

At the close of the film, Hugonnier’s crew releases some fireflies,

voyage in a balloon over the Matterhorn National Park, when

a hint to the 1975 newspaper article by Pier Paolo Pasolini, who

tourist attractions are about to be closed to the public. The viewers

uses the disappearance of fireflies in Italy as a metaphor for the

embark on a ’last tour’, a hot air balloon flight over the famous,

contemporaneous rebirth of Italian fascism and the extinction of

iconic Matterhorn Mountain in the Swiss Alps. The film suggests

political ideologies.

the possibility of a blank space ’re-appearing’ on the map, a reference to the world before the era of discovery, by introducing the moment that scenic outings will definitively belong to the past at ’the end of the society of the spectacle’.

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst SUNDAY 8/11 kl. 12:00 / Statens Museum for Kunst SUNDAY 15/11 kl. 12:00

Travellling Amazonia DIRECTOR: Marine Huggonier

Original title: Travellling Amazonia / Country: France / Year: 2006 / Running time: 24 min. / Contact: Max Wigram Gallery

TRAVELLING AMAZONIA was shot on the Transamazonia road, a 6,000 mile long highway cutting through Amazonia’s vast forest. The construction of the Transamazonia generated an industry around the extraction of natural resources like metal, wood and rubber.

In this film, these materials are used to build a dolly and tracks to realize upon the very same road a ”travelling shot”. Through the making of this ”travelling shot” that recalls the illusions behind the idealism embedded in the Transamazonia’s project, the film addresses the processes and the pioneering ideas that prevailed in this ultimate colonialist project realised during the ”heyday” of Brazil’s aspiration to become ”the country of the future”.

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst SUNDAY 8/11 kl. 12:00 / Statens Museum for Kunst SUNDAY 15/11 kl. 12:00

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Vertigo Rush DIRECTOR: Johann Lurf

Original title: Vertigo Rush / Country: Austria / Year: 2007 / Running time: 19 min. / Producer: johann lurf / Distribution: Sixpackfilms

We have nothing but good reasons to rid ourselves of the illusion

principles are structuring what is left visible. Please note: The

of human control over nature. Hence these three cinematic

visual effects of ’Vertigo Rush’ might be harmful to people who

simulations from the ever burgeoning Austrian experimental film

suffer from epilepsy.

scene, ’au naturel’ as it were. Johann Lurf’s ’Vertigo Rush’ sets off in a slow and silent contra-zoom à la Hitchcock (a camera mounted on a long dolly moves forward and backward into the woods, while simultaneously zooming in the opposite direction), but starts to accelerate only to end in a pulsating and electrifying mindfuck, as if Paul Sharits and Michael Snow had gotten together to remake the grand finale of Stanley Kubrick’s ’2001: A Space Odyssey’ - a journey into an artificial sun created by purely cinematic means.

But behind the apparent perceptual dissolution strict aesthetic SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst SUNDAY 8/11 kl. 12:00 / Statens Museum for Kunst SUNDAY 15/11 kl. 12:00

Trifter 1 DIRECTOR: Rainer Gamsjäger

Original title: Trifter 1 / Country: Austria / Year: 2008 / Running time: 8 min. / Producer: rainer gamsjäger / Distribution: Sixpackfilms

Rainer Gamsjäger’s ’Trifter 1’ is a bit more unobtrusive than its

turns out to be an elaborate exercise in a fundamental pictorial

predecessor, but no less enigmatic and effective in its undermining

manipulation that defies all visual logic. ’Trifter 1’ is based on an

of that romantic notion of nature as the last guarantor of reliable

advanced computer programme written by Gamsjäger, and has to

representation. The immediate ’natural-ism’ of a patient tracking

be experienced to be believed.

shot along a majestetic line of trees in a quiet glade does not last, as habitual vision is stretched beyond recognition by carefully manufactured imagery that turns time into space and vice versa. Composed in a clear seperation between foreground and background, Gamsjäger’s images take on a floating, yet deceptively recognizable quality that leaves even the trained eye estranged.

However, what seems to be a skillfully arranged reworking of a classical motif with an independent, physical existence of its own SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 12:00 / Statens Museum for Kunst SATURDAY 14/11 kl. 12:00

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Night Sweat DIRECTOR: Siegfried A. Fruhauf

Original title: Night Sweat / Country: Austria / Year: 2008 / Running time: 10 min. / Producer: siegfried a. fruhauf / Distribution: Sixpackfilms

Thunderbolts and lightning make up the extremely intense

just that: the moon, which looms mysteriously over dark skies in

centerpiece of Siegfried A. Fruhauf’s dark and sensory

the final episode. Please note: The stroboscopic effects in ’Night

triptych, shot at night on an archaic, analog Hi-8 video format

Sweat’ might be harmful to people who suffer from epilepsy.

to overwhelming effect. ’Night Sweat’ opens in a threatening ambience in the middle of the woods. Something wicked this way comes indeed, and soon enough the pixellated image explodes in an inferno of sound and bright lights. The forces of a climate well beyond human control are let loose in a hypersensorial simulation especially designed for the paradoxically safe space of a cinema.

But like its two predecessors, ’Night Sweat’ is as much a game of perceptions and pictorial illusion as it is a representation of a material reality out there. An emblematic symbol to remind us of SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst SATURDAY 7/11 kl. 12:00 / Statens Museum for Kunst SATURDAY 14/11 kl. 12:00

Under Discussion DIRECTOR: Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla

Original title: Under Discussion / Country: Puerto Rico / Year: 2005 / Running time: 6 min. / Contact: Lisson Gallery

Under discussion is the present state of the land in Vieques,

involved with the Fisherman’s Movement, a key movement in the

Puerto Rico, an island used for 60 years by the US Military and

1970s in Vieques that initiated the civil disobedience movement on

NATO forces for total warfare training. When the civil disobedience

the island, who has converted the discussion table, by turning it

movement succeeded in removing the US military from the island

upside down, into a boat, and is driving it along the coastal areas

in 2003, the land changed ownership from US Military property to

of the island where the land status is still under contestation.

the ownership and management by the US Department of Interior,

Mobilizing the discussion table through its conversion into a

Fish and Wildlife Services. This shift in management has created

fishing boat, the protagonist takes the debate into new unexpected

a stalemate for the civic initiative organizations on the island who

directions.

are demanding that their land firstly be decontaminated of all the toxic substances and unexploded ordinance that plague this vast tract of the island and ultimately restored to municipal jurisdiction and management. This film follows the son of a local fisherman SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst SUNDAY 15/11 kl. 13:00

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Unrealizable Goals DIRECTOR: Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla Original title: Unrealizable Goals / Country: Puerto Rico / Year: 2007 / Running time: 7 min. / Contact: Lisson Gallery

’Unrealizable Golas’ was made in Kitakyushu Japan and considers the apparent contradiction of Japan’s right to political sovereignty while maintaining its pacifist constitution. Inspired by the current debates surrounding the potential amendment of the United States authored ’No War’ clause that if passed would reopen the possibility of becoming an armed state, the video excavates the country’s nationalistic music from the Second World War and places it within the context of the sleepy post-industrial town of Kitakyushu, the original target selected by U.S. Military strategists as ’Ground Zero’ for the second atomic bomb.

SCREENING DATES Statens Museum for Kunst SUNDAY 15/11 kl. 13:00

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DOX:POLITICS NEW DEAL IRAN VS. IRAN URBAN CHANGE

NEW DEAL

75 years ago, the American president Franklin D. Roosevelt invented his new deal, which broke with decades of senseless cutthroat capitalism. Today, we might be in need of a ‘new’ new deal. The global financial crisis has revealed that our good old capitalism is falling apart here and there. Financial systems, political systems and ecological systems – all of them have reached the point where one has to consider if there isn’t some way back – or a totally new way out?

With NEW:DEAL we present a lineup of films that take an endearing but critical look at our economic system – and try to come up with alternatives to the chosen path. From great, exhaustive works such as Kluge’s nine-hour long adaptation of Marx’s ‘Das Kapital’ (!), the awardwinning unravelling of neoliberalism’s

threat to democracy, ‘Encirclement’, and Michael Moore’s brand new critique of capitalism – to more sophisticated system exposers such as the discomforting food industry thriller ‘Food Inc.’, Ben Lewis’s black-humoured dance with the arts market, ‘The Great Contemporary Art Bubble’ and the revolt against the copyright dictatorship of the entertainment industry in ‘Rip – A Remix Manifesto’. A large number of the screenings will be followed by a debate – and we have also dared organise two whole conferences, which bring up modern economic rationale for a renewed analysis.

Welcome to a new world, which is still wearing old clothes.

Capitalism - A Love Story DIRECTOR: Michael Moore

Original title: Capitalism - A Love Story / Country: USA / Year: 2009 / Running time: 120 min. / Production: Dog Eat Dog Films / Producer: Michael Moore, Anne Moore / Distribution: Paramount Vantage

Michael Moore is back again - and this time it’s capitalism itself

dream has turned into a nightmare. The love affair has turned into

that is his target. What kind of price are the Americans actually

deception, lies and abuse. But is there hope to be found in the new,

paying for their historic love affair with capitalism? This is the

forward-looking president? Nobel Prize or not, Moore is not yet

question that Michael Moore tries to answer, while he as always

convinced.

defends the small man’s right to dig deep into the strong powerelite that governs the everyday lives of Americans. Moore takes us to places we don’t usually have access to - where things get both confrontational and embarrassing, but also seriously interesting.

He looks for answers and evidence among both private individuals who have been forced to vacate their homes, as well as among wealthy communal organisations and the political establishment.

It all seems to be pointing towards the fact that the capitalist SCREENING DATES Grand Sunday 8/11 19:00 hrs.

Food Inc. DIRECTOR: Robert Kenner

Original title: Food Inc. / Country: USA / Year: 2008 / Running time: 94 min. / Production: Participant Media, River Road Entertainment / Producer: Robert Kenner, Eric Schlosser / Distribution: Fortissimo Film Sales

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Our food culture has changed more in the past fifteen years than

and thereby almost take on the character of being an epidemic, as

in the preceding millennium. This simple fact starts off a thorough

one in three Americans already today is diagnosed with diabetes. A

revelation of the corrupt American foods industry. The images of

consumer rebellion seems to be the only threat to McDonalds & co.

happy farmers sitting on tractors that grace countless types of

And once you have seen ’Food Inc.’, you are very much ready for it!

packaging are one big lie. Today, 99% of all US foods production takes place in large, specialised industrial complexes or in areas

After the screening on 10 November, we have - in collaboration

that remind one of sports stadiums. In ’Food Inc.’ we are given a

with the Danish Consumer Council and MEYER - organised a

look at the other side of the medal: the impact on our health, on

debate with the Minister For Food Eva Kjer Hansen, the member

the environment and on biodiversity, the growing distance between

or parliament Ida Auken, Mette Boye from the Danish Consumer

citizen and farmer, the increased centralisation of foods production

Council and Ole Linnet Juul from the Confederation of Danish

and the increasing political manipulation. Cheap fast food and

Industry, moderated by Claus Meyer.

sugary snacks become expensive costs to other parts of the system SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 16:30 hrs. / Grand Tuesday 10/11 19:00 hrs. / Kvickly, Falkoner Allé 90 Friday 13/11 21:00 hrs.

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The Yes Men Fix The World DIRECTOR: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonnano, Kurt Engfehr Original title: The Yes Men Fix The World / Country: France, UK, USA / Year: 2009 / Running time: 90 min. / Production: Arte France, Renegade Pictures, Article Z, Charny-Bachrach Entertainment, The Channel 4 Britdoc Foundation / Producer: Doro Bachrach, Ruth Charny, Laura Nix / Distribution: Rezo Films International

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Directors Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, who make up The

they both manage to present the idea of light produced by human

Yes Men, master media stunts with a political bite like nobody else.

fat and the ultimate protection bubble suit, that can offer protection

In their latest attack on the multinational world order, ’The Yes Men

against any kind of attack, be it chemical or explosive or even a

Fix the World’, the pair go much further than one’s imagination can

natural disaster.

follow them. Dressed in their corporate alter egos, they go live on BBC as representatives of The Dow Chemical Company and accept full responsibility for the Bhopal industrial disaster in 1984 and promise full compensation to the many victims. And Dow’s shares plummet, but this is only the beginning of The Yes Men’s both eye-opening and subversive journey through CEO America, where

SCREENING DATES Grand Friday 6/11 16:30 hrs. / Grand Monday 9/11 19:00 hrs. / Dagmar Saturday 14/11 21:30 hrs.

The Shock Doctrine DIRECTOR: Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross Original title: The Shock Doctrine / Country: UK / Year: 2009 / Running time: 85 min. / Production: Revolution Films and Renegade Pictures / Producer: Andrew Eaton, Alex Cooke, Avi Lewis / Distribution: Smile Entertainment

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE With his latest film, the prolific British film director Michael

implemented all over the world in the aftermath of national crises.

Winterbottom has adapted Naomi Klein’s political bestseller about

A true tour de force through the political history of the 20th century,

the ’Shock Doctrine’ into an equally hard-hitting documentary

which is guaranteed to send you out of the cinema both shaking

about the rise and fall of the free market - and not least its chief

your head and a great deal wiser.

ideologue Milton Friedman. With his narrative energy and a sharp eagle’s eye on history, Winterbottom and his equally dedicated

Selected for DOX:CINEMA. The film will be released in Danish

political colleague Mat Whitecross illustrate Klein’s points.

cinemas in January 2010.

Supported by a true cornucopia of historical material, they take us from the free-thinking queen of the Falkland’s war, Margaret Thatcher, and her consummated flirt with Friedman’s teachings to hurricane-hit New Orleans and on to the war in Iraq. And all of this to reveal the consequences of the privatization that has been SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Monday 9/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Sunday 15/11 19:00 hrs.

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News from the Ideological Antiquity - Marx/ Eisenstein/Das Kapital Director: Alexander Kluge / Original title: Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike - Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital / Country: Germany / Year: 2008 / Running time: 570 min.

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE When the Russian montage director Sergei Eisenstein in 1929

to the current state of the times and small embedded object

met up with the all-important father figure of modern literature,

lessons à la Brecht (among other things filmed by the German Tom

James Joyce, it was to discuss a joint attempt to adapt Karl

Tykwer), the ageing director moves around deftly in Marx’s political

Marx’s political magnum opus, ’Das Kapital’, as a film. But it was

universe, and even if the over nine hours long playing time could

impossible to find the financing among both Hollywood’s capitalists

make you think the opposite, he manages to keep the dreaming

or Moscow’s communists, and the project has since been shelved

torchlight procession going until the very last second, thanks to his

and become known as one of film history’s most legendary films

inquisitiveness and playfulness.

that never got made. Now, 80 years later, the German film director and social critic Alexander Kluge has uncovered the project - and

Read more about the special event ’Das Kapital in the Living Room’

has in a dialogue with both Marx, Eisenstein and Joyce achieved

under DOX:EXPANDED - Special Events.

the impossible and made a promising adaptation, which in itself is a dream of a film. With excursions back to antiquity, digressions SCREENING DATES Byens Lys Sunday 8/11 13:00 hrs. / Lejligheden i Larsbjørnstræde 5 Saturday 14/11 17:00 hrs.

The End of the Line DIRECTOR: Rupert Murray

Original title: The End of the Line / Country: UK / Year: 2009 / Running time: 90 min. / Production: The Fish Film Company, Channel Four BRITDOC Foundation / Producer: George Duffield, Claire Lewis / Distribution: The Fish Film Company

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE In the shadow of climate change there is another, equally alarming

African fishers have no work. ”It’s a story that’s been told late”.

development: the drastic reduction of global fish populations.

Now it’s being told in ”The End of the Line”.

Within the past 50 years, the population has fallen by 90 per cent,

After the screening on November 11, there will be a debate with

and quotas recommended by scientists to sustain endangered

the cook Nikolaj Kirk, the Greenpeace biologist Hanne Lyng Winter

species are ignored by both politicians and the fishing industry.

and Michael Andersen, a biologist at the Danish Fishermen’s

If this development continues, the only fish we can order at a

Association.

restaurant in 2050 will be the jellyfish. ’The End of the Line’ gives us a kaleidoscopic view of how the dwindling fish population affects all levels of society: from New Foundland in eastern Canada, where the culture is inextricably linked to cod fishing and where the region is going through a ”loss of soul” due to the disappearance of the species, to waves of migration from Africa to Europe, because SCREENING DATES Grand Wednesday 11/11 19:00 hrs. / Dagmar Sunday 15/11 14:00 hrs.

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The Great Contemporary Art Bubble DIRECTOR: Ben Lewis Original title: The Great Contemporary Art Bubble / Country: UK / Year: 2009 / Running time: 90 min. / Production: Ben Lewis TV / Producer: Fiona O’Doherty / Distribution: DR International Sales

EUROPEAN PREMIERE In the wake of a blossoming financial bubble, modern art was going

bubble could suddenly burst with such a violent bang. And behind

through an exceptional period of success before the financial crisis.

it all, he also reveals an extraordinary meta-world, where art for

But in less than half a year, the prices of individual works fell by up

art’s sake is replaced by economic speculation, market strategies

to 50 per cent. The art historian and film director Ben Lewis has

and investors, but which also turns out to have an infectious

followed the international ’art bubble’ since its climax in September

enthusiasm for what it’s (also) all about: Art.

2008, when Damien Hirst sold his stuffed animals for 111 million pounds - the same day as Lehman Brothers collapsed and the crash was set underway. Through a true eyewitness account, ’The Great Contemporary Art Bubble’ takes us on a journey into the auction houses and galleries of the art world, and we also visit artappreciating billionaires all over the world. Lewis tries to find an answer to the highest market value of art in history, and to how the SCREENING DATES Dagmar Tuesday 10/11 19:00 hrs. / Dagmar Sunday 15/11 16:30 hrs.

Plastic Planet DIRECTOR: Werner Boote

Original title: Plastic Planet / Country: Austria / Year: 2009 / Running time: 95 min. / Production: Neue Sentimental Film Entertainment GmbH, Zuta Filmproduktion / Producer: Thomas Bogner, Daniel Zuta / Distribution: Doc and FIlm

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE It’s hard to imagine everyday life without plastic. The popular

Moore, he takes us on a critical tour around the hidden worlds of

synthetic material is everywhere, even in the world’s oceans,

the plastic industry, where far from everything can bear the light

where a totally new phenomenon has arisen: islands consisting

of day. We guarantee that you’ll never dare drink from a plastic

entirely of plastic waste. Nonetheless we know almost nothing

bottle again.

about the side effects of the materials they are made of. Not

After the screening on November 12, the journalist Thomas

surprisingly, one gets very unpopular if one takes a closer look at

Djursing will moderate a debate between Rasmus Kjedal, the

the multi-coloured, multi-million plastic industry. The Austrian film

director of the Danish Consumer Council, Helle Fabiansen, head

director Werner Boote soon gets to realise this, while he alternates

consultant of the Danish Plastic Industry Association, and Søren

between listening to the propaganda of well-spoken lobbyists and

Andreasen, director at Greenway.

being thrown out of the front door by the large and small players of the industry. On the pretext of wanting to indulge in a childish curiosity and armed with questions enough to outgun even Michael SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov Sunday 8/11 19:00 hrs. / Dagmar Thursday 12/11 19:00 hrs.

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The Encirclement Neoliberalism Ensnares Democracy Director: Richard Brouillette / Original title: L’encerclement - La démocratie dans les rets du néolibéralisme / Country: Canada / Year: 2008 / Running time: 160 min. / Production: Les films du passeur / Producer: Richard Brouillette / Distribution: ANDOLIADO PRODUCCIONES

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE In his multi-award-winning ’The Encirclement’, Richard Brouillette

J. Boudreaux and Jean-Luc Migué to critics such as Omar Aktouf

makes use of interviews with some of the big boys of the 20th

and Noam Chomsky. All in all, thirteen significant personalities

century to get closer to neoliberal ideology and to analyse the

take part in the film, and all of them have been given the chance to

mechanisms that come into play on a global scale, when the

present their opinions in equally long sequences.

dictates of neoliberalism are put into practice all over the world.

The starting point for the film is a leader in Le Monde Diplomatique, which in 1995 under the heading ”the singular thought” expounded the problems of the world’s prostration to neoliberalism. After extensive research, Brouillette started his enormous opus that has been no less than 12 years in the making. The film includes a broad selection of thinkers, from neoliberal advocates such as Donald

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 16:00 hrs. / Dagmar Saturday 14/11 16:00 hrs.

Rip - A remix Manifesto DIRECTOR: Brett Gaylor

Original title: Rip - A remix Manifesto / Country: USA / Running time: 90 min. / Production: EyeSteelFilm, National Film Board of Canada / Producer: Mila Aung-Thwin, Kat Baulu (NFB), Germaine Ying Gee Wong (NFB) / Distribution: Eyesteel Film

There is copyright - and then there is copyleft. With ’RIP’, the

film. The result is a convincing war pamphlet - and an effervescent

web activist and director Brett Gaylor launches into the great

and energetic film.

bootlegging war, where pirates and anti-pirates are battling each

After the screening on November 14 in Empire Bio, one of

other with file-sharing, torrents and enormous compensation

Denmark’s best mashuppers, Lebon of mashup act Den

claims as weapons. The film’s protagonist is Gregg Gillis, a

Sorte Skole, will play a concert at Rust with his new boy band

biomedical engineer at daytime, but dressed up at night as

extraordinaire DOKKEDAL/DIXEN. With respective histories in

the brilliant mash-up artist Girl Talk, who has never asked for

turntablism, extensive crate digging and bar ticket trading, this

permission to use the thousands of samples that are used in his

duo of gents will put the soul in your socks and the erotic back in

music. ’RIP’ itself is a mash-up; Gaylor has therefore made his

aerobics. Watch for the subliminals, there’s cheeky guides for girls

recordings available on the internet, where anyone could remix

and bass beats for the boys.

them freely - and has subsequently integrated these remixes in the

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 7/11 21:45 hrs. / Byens Lys Thursday 12/11 19:00 hrs. / Empire Bio + Rust Saturday 14/11 22:30 hrs.

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Auto*mat DIRECTOR: Martin Marecek

Original title: Auto*mat / Country: Czech Republic / Year: 2009 / Running time: 90 min. / Production: Bionaut Films / Producer: barbora fabianova / Distribution: Taskovski Films (Czech)

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Under the slogan ’The city is for humans - not for cars’, a young idealist is cycling around the streets of Prague and risking life and limb in order to expose the massive traffic problem, which is gradually suffocating one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. With more cars than inhabitants, Prague holds a sad record of being a motor-happy city, and this can be felt by the environment and the health of its inhabitants. The activists call the project AUTO*MATE and use peaceful means and humorous means such as angel costumes and bumper stickers to contain the growing traffic chaos and to call the politicians into action. But the road to a car-free city is long and full of potholes. Everyone who owns a bike should see this film and rejoice in the invention of the bike lane. And all car owners should see it - and consider taking the bus back home.

SCREENING DATES Gloria Sunday 8/11 17:00 hrs. / Byens Lys Saturday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

TEXAS

Original title: Virkelighedsteater & debat: Svindelsystemet / Running time: 150 min.

Profits turned into losses and heroes turned into villains when

play’s topic, economic crime. The panel consists of the philosopher

risk-loving capitalism - and with it the belief in infinite growth - fell

Anders Fogh Jensen, the former large-scale fraudster and

apart as a result of the credit crunch. Success stories turned into

former accountant Bruno Køl Eriksen, and the business journalist

large-scale frauds, which involved some of the most confidence-

and winner of the Cavling award John Mynderup. The debate is

inspiring institutions, companies, organisations and personalities.

moderated by Peder Holm Pedersen, Den Femte Salon.

But how can one swindle ones way through several billion dollars over several years without anybody noticing? Does it have anything to do with our current economic system - a system that is so abstract that we don’t quite understand it? Or is it simply the case of human greed always being one up on human reason? In connection with the new reality theatre show Texa$, CPH:DOX in collaboration with Teater Grob invites you to a debate about the SCREENING DATES Teater Grob Saturday 17/10 17:00 hrs.

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CONFERENCE: Neoliberalism / Financial Crisis / A New New Deal?

Original title: KONFERENCE: Neoliberalisme / Finanskrise / En ny New Deal? / Running time: 300 min.

Did neoliberalism die as a result of the financial crisis? Has it

The list of debaters includes the director for CEPOS Martin Ågerup,

ever been alive? What lessons should we learn from the financial

professor of economics Jesper Pedersen, innovation consultant

crisis? Is there any prospect for a Global New Deal for the 21st

Mikael Lindholm, the director of Merkur Bank Lars Pehrson, cand.

century to take shape? And how might it look? Come and see the

scient.pol. and CEPOS board member Christopher Arzrouni and the

state of neoliberalism being put to debate, as a lineup of notable

philosopher Steen Nepper Larsen.

opinion-makers, economists and philosophers analyse and discuss dominant present trends and predict what the future may hold

Den Femte Salon is established as a collaboration between

in store. The conference will be introduced by director Richard

Dagbladet Information, Hovedstaden’s Oplysnings Forbund and the

Brouillette, who will show and comment on extracts from ’The

magazine Turbulens.net.

Encirclement - Neoliberalism Ensnares Democracy’. The rest of the afternoon consists of various debate sessions interspersed with breaks, giving the audience a chance to arrange their own individual programme for the day.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Saturday 7/11 12:00 hrs.

CONFERENCE: After The Fall

Original title: KONFERENCE: After The Fall

With the 20-year anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall as its

Svetlana Boym (artist and professor at Harvard University), Loretta

starting point, the conference After the Fall focuses on Europe’s

Napoleoni (economist and journalist from Italy), Matthias Lilienthal

current cultural and political situation. Which new utopias - if any

(director of Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin), Staffan Valdemar Holm

- has opening up towards both East and West brought with them?

(theatre director and earlier head of Dramaten in Stockholm) and

And which new forms of artistic expression? Has the veritable boom

Mikkel Bolt (art historian, Copenhagen University).

of artistic biennials and theatre festivals that have taken place

In connection with the conference there will be a performance of

over the past few decades contributed to an artistic exchange - or

Christian Lollike’s ’Fremtidens historie’ (the history of the future)

have they lead to a global standardisation of artistic expression?

and a screening of Erwin Wagenhofer’s ’Let’s Make Money’, and

How is the current financial crisis affecting our view of the history

there will also be an exhibition of the works of Svetlana Boym.

of the past 20 years? Are we standing before a new historical

The conference is organised in collaboration with The Royal

turning point, and are we forced to reinterpret the events of the

Danish Theatre, the Goethe Institute, the Royal Danish Academy of

past decades?

Fine Arts, the Danish National School of Theatre and the cultural

We have invited a number of prominent voices in the debate on

magazine Lettre Internationale, and is supported by the Oticon

international arts and social issues to discuss all these questions:

Foundation.

SCREENING DATES Skuespilhuset Saturday 24/10 10:00 hrs. / Skuespilhuset Sunday 25/10 10:00 hrs.

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IRAN VS. IRAN

Iran is a nation of contrasts. Not just because what the news tells us conflicts with our western values, but because the country itself harbours so many paradoxes and internal contradictions that it is difficult to entertain a black-and-white image of Iranian reality. City vs. countryside, fundamentalism vs. secularism, an age-old civilisation vs. a both energetic and mindless modernity – and 100,000 bloggers fighting each other on the internet!

With IRAN vs. IRAN, CPH:DOX is focusing on the central axis of conflict in an ancient country with a very young population where over 60 per cent are less than 30 years old. Youth rebellion is simmering under the surface, and in films such as ‘Rapping in Teheran’ and Bahman Ghobadi’s ‘Nobody Knows About Per-

sian Cats’, which describe how the underground uses music as an instrument for social change. Both here and in the other films of the series, we are given an insight into ‘the other Iran’ inhabited

by Mozart fans, indie-rockers, hip hoppers and 18 million internet-connected citizens. A few of them will visit CPH:DOX – among them the latest addition to the impressive Iranian pantheon of filmmakers, the 21-year-old Hana Makhmalbaf who will present her latest docu-fiction ‘Green Days’ about this summer’s heated presidential elections, a film that comes fresh from its premiere in Venice.

IRAN vs. IRAN is supported by Vi Københavnere and IMS – International Media Support

Green Days DIRECTOR: Hana Makhmalbaf

Original title: Green Days / Country: Iran / Year: 2009 / Running time: 72 min. / Production: Makhmalbaf Film House / Producer: Hana Makhmalbaf / Distribution: Wild Bunch

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Through the eyes of a depressive young woman we experience the

the film’s controversial nature. The gushingly talented 21-year-old

hope, disappointment and agitation in connection with the Iranian

director is the latest addition to the filmmaking Makhmalbaf

presidential elections in June 2009. The young Ava’s semi-fictional

family, whose members each in their own way manage to present

story is given a dramatic backdrop of demonstrations and violence

cinematic testimonies about an Iran on the verge of a nervous

on the streets of Teheran, and her inner chaos is reflected in her

breakdown.

surroundings. Director Hana Makhmalbaf makes use of formats such as mobile phone video recordings to capture the green-clad opposition supporters’ struggle against Ahmadinejad’s corrupt incumbent government. The result is an unmatched cinematic balancing act between documentary and fiction. After recording the footage, Makhmalbaf had to leave Iran to finish editing the film, as she herself was threatened with imprisonment as a result of SCREENING DATES Palads Wednesday 11/11 19:00 hrs.

Bassidji DIRECTOR: Mehran Tamadon

Original title: Bassidji / Country: Iran, France, Switzerland / Year: 2009 / Running time: 114 min. / Production: Umedia / Producer: Umedia / Distribution: Umedia

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE The Basij are a paramilitary volunteer militia founded in Iran in

surprises. ’Bassidji’ gives us images from a landscape where

1979. Today, they are both an official and widely branching moral-

martyrs are celebrated as idols and the wreckages of bombed

religious movement and a civil police force with only the Quran as

tanks stick out of the desert sand like fossils from endless wars.

a law text. The Iranian director Mehran Tamadon has used no less than three years to get the shy Basiji to talk, and his intelligent and patient approach manages to uncover the human doubt behind the religious elite’s pathos-ridden rhetoric, which acts like a magnet on the country’s unemployed youth. Tamadon grabs the country’s ideological split by the roots, and if all you know about Iran is what you read in newspaper headlines, you are up for quite a few

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Tuesday 3/11 19:15 hrs. / Cinemateket Tuesday 10/11 16:30 hrs.

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Their Life is Somewhere Else!

DIRECTOR: Mona Rafatzadeh

Original title: Their Life is Somewhere Else! / Country: Iran / Year: 2009 / Running time: 13 min. / Producer: Mona Rafatzadeh

EUROPEAN PREMIERE Escalators and everyday chit-chat in Tehran’s top-modern metro.

attention, and it will be exciting to follow the young and promising

More and more women fill the platform, until finally a train finally

Mona Rafatzadeh’s further development down the road that in

arrives and comes to a halt with great yellow letters on the side

the past year has put Iranian documentary back on the cinematic

reading ’WOMEN ONLY’. Mona Rafatzadeh, who is still a film

world map.

student at the university of Tehran, portrays the isolated life of women in the metro in ’Their Life is Somewhere Else’. The static images soberly register the calm and orderliness that can be found in the metro system. But Mona Rafatzadeh’s partially hidden camera also captures the women’s alternating silence and smalltalk, their yawns and the sale of colourful underwear, chewing gum, black veils, sunglasses, gucci bags and mobile phones. ’Their Life is Somewhere Else’ has already earned much international SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 16:45 hrs.

Tehran Without Permission DIRECTOR: Sepideh Farsi

Original title: Tehran Bedoune Mojavez / Country: France/Iran / Year: 2009 / Running time: 83 min. / Production: Rêves d’Eau Productions / Producer: Javad Djavahery / Distribution: Rêves d’Eau Productions

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Sepideh Farsi recorded her impressionistic vox-pops without asking anyone for permission. Not because there is a general filming ban in Iran’s populous capital, but if you don’t ask nobody is going to say no. Equipped with her mobile phone as her digital ’kino eye’, ’Tehran Without Permission’ takes a kaleidoscopic insider look at a society where tensions are simmering - especially among that half of the population which is under 25 years old. Persian graffiti and angry rap texts are rarely mentioned when the Islamic regime proudly exports its own, biased story of a strong and unified nation to Western media through its own TV stations. As a result, Farsi’s low-fi street poetry hits one with an all the more unexpected force.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 16:45 hrs.

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Rapping in Tehran DIRECTOR: Hassan Khademi

Original title: Rapping in Tehran / Country: Iran / Year: 2009 / Running time: 37 min. / Production: Iran / Producer: Hassan Khademi

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE How many Iranian rappers can you remove in one single day, if you

film gets its unforgettable, life-affirming images of young girls in

are convinced that hip hop should be forbidden? Close to a hundred,

headscarves and heavy makeup dancing away to the heavy beats of

if you are as efficient as the Iranian police - but in a country

the music. ’Rapping in Tehran’ is a unique contemporary document

where youth is irreversibly taking over the country, the result is

- and news from the front of a musical youth rebellion.

simply that hundreds of new rappers are seeking out the illegal studios in Tehran to try their hand at the difficult and controversial art of Persian rap. ’Rapping in Tehran’ follows the dangerous cat-and-mouse play and gives us a unique, kaleidoscopic look at the underground culture that is Iranian hip hop - underground despite the fact that several million young Iranians are listening to the music today. The authorities are upholding their ban and rappers are continuing to organise illegal concerts, from which the SCREENING DATES Støberiet Thursday 29/10 21:00 hrs. / Byens Lys Friday 6/11 22:00 hrs. /11954

Vakilism - A Portrait of Babak Vakili DIRECTOR: Sohail A. Hassan Original title: Vakilisme - Et portræt af Babak Vakili / Country: Denmark / Year: 2009 / Running time: 30 min. / Production: BazarMusicShop / Producer: Sohail A. Hassan / Distribution: Sohail Hassan

WORLD PREMIERE If you are in command of your language, why not rap yourself to

Copenhagen N, where he was born and raised. Here, Vakili and

a better world? Babak Vakili is 22, lives in Copenhagen, studies

the film’s debut director, Sohail A. Hassan, give us an image of a

political science, is the son of two Iranian parents and has a heart

neighbourhood, which is much more than youth house activists and

that beats for hip hop. With his indomitable ambition to open

wailing police sirens. Because Nørrebro is definitely the coolest

people’s eyes to tolerance and reason, he utters his words with

part of Copenhagen: synonymous with diversity, authenticity and,

precision and ease, when he wants to make his message heard.

of course, a kebab for 20 kroner. Vakilism? That must be young and

For this is what he wants it to be, and the intense expression of

unstoppable energy packed into words that everyone understands.

rap is perfect for the task. Set against a turbulent neighbourhood of Nørrebro, the film takes us into Vakili’s thoughts about music as communication and not least about his close relationship with

SCREENING DATES Støberiet Thursday 29/10 21:00 hrs. / Byens Lys Friday 6/11 22:00 hrs.

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Back Vocal DIRECTOR: Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

Original title: Seday-e dovom / Country: Iran / Year: 2003 / Running time: 40 min. / Producer: Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Siamak Poursharif

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE The door to the concert arena is closed. The rumour is spreading

singing a duet with oneself? There is no dearth of inventiveness

that the night’s concert is cancelled, because the soprano singer

and musical talents in this captivating, both concretely and

Darya Dadvar is listed in the programme. And that cannot be had in

metaphorically named ‘Back Vocal’, which proves Mojtaba’s flair for

post-revolution Iran! But the people want to see something for their

getting close to a sensitive subject with both her sense of humour

hard-saved money - and before long the doors are forced open...

and respect staying in tact.

The stage is thereby set for Mojtaba Mirtahmasb’s intelligent exploration of the detailed Iranian rules that forbid women to sing solo in public. Mojtaba visits producers, singers and composers, who all try to maintain their artistic integrity within the limits of the law - even if it sometimes can be hard to know, what those limits are. Now that Khomenei has issued a fatwa allowing female duets, can one release one’s solo album by mixing one’s own voice and SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 16:30 hrs. / Dagmar Thursday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

To Be Or Not To Be DIRECTOR: Frank Scheffer

Original title: To Be Or Not To Be / Country: Netherlands / Year: 2009 / Running time: 70 min. / Production: Pieter van der Huystee Film & TV / Producer: Pieter Van der Huystee / Distribution: Pieter van der Huystee Film & TV

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE European music is made to be heard. Persian music is made to not

poetry of Persia in his own compositions. The result is a unique and

be heard. That’s how the Iranian-born composer and conductor

challenging auditory experience, which is accompanied by almost

Nader Mashayekhi defines the difference between the music he

metaphysically beautiful imagery of desert landscapes.

has inherited and the music he has learned to love abroad. After 35 years of studies in Vienna, he returns to Tehran to make the impossible possible. In a country where western sounds are seen as blasphemous and superficial, he starts a symphony orchestra that performs pieces by Mahler, Bach and John Cage. In his attempt to bridge the gap between East and West, Mahsayekh combines classical western instrumentation with the melancholy

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 16:30 hrs. / Dagmar Thursday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

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Nobody Knows About Persian Cats DIRECTOR: Bahman Ghobadi Original title: Kasi Az Gorbehaye Irani Khabar Nadareh / Country: Iran / Year: 2009 / Running time: 106 min. / Production: MIJ-Film / Producer: Bahman Ghobadi / Distribution: Wild Bunch

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Two young musicians, Negar and Ashkan, are freed from prison

Iranians serve up crass political messages against an enraged

after having served a sentence for playing illegal western music. In

core of western rock. The film won the special prize of the jury in

defiance, they plan to start a rock band and to emigrate to Europe.

Cannes this year.

They ally themselves with the speed-talking jack-of-all-trades Nader, who is put in charge with organising the necessary and expensive documents to help them achieve their goal. It is a risky battle against time and the secret police. Bahman Ghobadi, who is otherwise best known for his melancholy feature films about Kurdish refugees, has with this documentary science fiction film increased the tempo by a few notches. In a mixture of comedy, concert film and social realism, we are given an up-beat look at a pulsating but exposed underground in Teheran, where young SCREENING DATES Grand Saturday 7/11 16:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 19:15 hrs.

Road of Dreams DIRECTOR: Mona Rafatzadeh

Original title: Road of Dreams / Country: Iran / Year: 2009 / Running time: 17 min.

WORLD PREMIERE They are dreaming of high-heeled gold shoes, that their birthday

dreams. CPH:DOX is proud to be able to present the world premiere

is just round the corner, and that school is closed down because of

of Mona Rafatzadeh’s short, which in a beautiful and confrontative

heavy snow. The children in Mona Rafatzadeh’s exploratory vérité

way provides a voice to the dreams of the Iranian people.

vox-pop remind us of all other children. At first. Because they also dream about a school where both boys and girls can attend, that they can be seen together with their boyfriend or girlfriend, and that the popular Imam Zaman will soon come to visit them.

Things are different for the grownups. They don’t know what their dreams are, or rather: they don’t dare speak about them. The dream of a spouse, wealth, a car, and a dream job is the common denominator, but the desire to leave Iran and live in California, to travel to Mekka, to live a relaxed and free life is also a part of their SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 14:00 hrs.

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Debate: Filming the Iranian Reality Original title: Debat: Filmen og den iranske virkelighed / Running time: 70 min.

CPH:DOX is inviting you to a seminar with three trendsetting

Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, is the president of the independent Iranian

Iranian documentary filmmakers, who have been invited to the

documentary film directors’ association IRDFA and has made

festival to talk about the historical and artistic developments

documentaries since the mid-1990s. The last speaker is the young

within Iranian documentary filmmaking. The seminar will also

Mona Rafatzadeh, who is still studying filmmaking at the university

focus on how the documentarists maintain their artistic integrity.

of Tehran, and who will have the world premiere of her latest short

Among the participants is Hana Makhmalbaf, the daughter of

‘Road of Dreams’ at CPH:DOX.

the famous Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Hana made her first documentary ‘The Day My Aunt was Ill’ at the age of 8

The panel is moderated by Jesper Højberg, the director of IMS -

with her father’s camera. The film already attracted international

International Media Support.

attention at the time, and since then she has gone from one success to another. Merely 20 years old, she can today look back at a long list of film awards. The second participant in the panel, SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 14:00 hrs.

Seminar: The Revolution Will Be Twittered - Iran & the Internet Original title: Seminar: The Revolution Will Be Twittered - Iran & the Internet / Running time: 90 min.

As part of this year’s focus on Iran, one of this year’s Journalist

participants in the debate you can find the director Reza Haeri, the

Days is dedicated to a media seminar, where Iranian artists,

blogger Arash Kamangir and the journalist and media researcher

social debaters and journalists will discuss the new forms of

Omid Habibinia.

communication and the opportunities that have come about as a result of the proliferation of the internet in Iran. The seminar will

The seminar is organised in collaboration with IMS and moderated

focus on the use of the internet’s communication networks among

by Jesper Højberg, the director of IMS - International Media

journalists, bloggers and other web editors in their aim to reflect

Support.

everyday life in Iran as they experience it. We will take a look at how the implementation of new social media in Iran plays a role in the exchange of views among the Iranian people. Among the

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

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Imamzadeh Internet DIRECTOR: Reza Haeri

Original title: Imamzadeh Internet / Country: Iran / Year: 2003 / Running time: 37 min. / Production: Reza Haeri / Producer: Reza Haeri / Distribution: Reza Haeri

In the southern neighbourhoods of Tehran, right next to the mausoleum of Imam Yahya, there is an Internet café, which attracts young and old. This is the starting point for a documentary about the impact of this technological phenomenon on Iranian culture and society. We travel from the crowded streets of Tehran to the small village of Shahkooh and then back to the religious city of Qom, where young clerics and soon-to-be mullahs are busy connecting to the Web. We meet students, intellectuals, and members of the Islamic parliament, and hear their views on chat-rooms and sex-talk, and the bigger issue of ‘Iran and the West’. The film was produced by ARTE, and has been widely shown and highly acclaimed internationally.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

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Member of

26.10.–01.11.2009 52nd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film DOK Festival: 350 documentary and animated films from about 50 countries, four competitions, 64.500 ¤ in awards, focus on Africa, 20th anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution in Europe, Joris Ivens retrospective, workshops, master classes …

DOK Industry: DOK Market, International DOK Leipzig Co-Production Meeting, DOK Summit panel discussions, Leipzig Forum on innovative non-fiction TV, Leipzig Screening of new German docs Pitching of the Documentary Campus Masterschool organised by Documentary Campus e.V.

www.dok-leipzig.de

DOK Funds: Stadt Leipzig, Sächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, gefördert vom Bundesbeauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien aufgrund eines Beschlusses des Deutschen Bundestages, Auswärtiges Amt, Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, DEFA-Stiftung, German Films, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Medienstiftung der Sparkasse Leipzig, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Sächsische Landesanstalt für privaten Rundfunk und neue Medien, Sächsische Staatskanzlei, ZDF

With the support of MEDIA Programme of the European Union

URBAN CHANGE

The world is changing. And nowhere are the changes more visible than in the cities, where over half of the world’s population lives today. In many places, urban growth has long outpaced urban planning, and catching up is almost impossible.

What significance does the wild growth of megacities have for global development?

Which role do the utopias of the 20th century play today? And how can cinema contribute to influencing the development in a sustainable direction?

Last question first: Urban Change is not about statistics, but about people. And it’s exactly when the many people inhabiting the spaces between the skyscrapers tell their stories that one realises that a solution to urban challenges doesn’t lie in Corbusian master plans, but in a creative and radical form of new thinking that

adapts to changing needs.

Urban Change opens with the world premiere of ‘Cities on Speed’: four Danish films from four of the world’s biggest megacities: Mumbai, Cairo, Shanghai and Bogotà. Each film in its own way describes the uninhibited growth of hypermodern megacities, which simply go on growing and growing. The series continues with a philosophical and tragicomic reflection about the consequences of nonexistent urban planning, and tracks down the utopias of the 19th and 20th century in the future we are already living in.

Special Focus: Urban Change is presented with the support of Vi Københavnere.

Mumbai Disconnected DIRECTOR: Camilla Nielsson, Frederik Jacobi

Original title: Mumbai Disconnected / Country: Denmark / Year: 2009 / Running time: 58 min. / Production: Upfront Films Aps / Producer: Henrik Veileborg, Jesper Jack and Anna-Maria Kantarius / Distribution: Upfront Films Aps

WORLD PREMIERE If traffic is communication, then the permanent traffic jam in

every day - and to get the already nasty pollution to follow suit.

Mumbai has long severed the connections between the city’s

Everything that can go wrong apparently has gone wrong a long

inhabitants. And if uncontrolled growth is a disease, then Mumbai

time ago in the Indian metropolis. But what about the future?

has cancer. This is the opinion of Veena, who does everything she can to halt the expansion of the road network above the rooftops in her neighbourhood. But Mr Das, who has the ungrateful job of being the official leader of Mumbai’s extreme traffic makeover, has other plans. Just like the family father Yasin, who has just saved enough money for a super-cheap Nano car, which is forecast to strongly multiply the current number of 550 new cars in Mumbay

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Sunday 8/11 20:00 hrs. / Grand Friday 13/11 16:30 hrs.

Shanghai Space DIRECTOR: Nanna Frank Møller

Original title: Shanghai Space / Country: Denmark / Year: 2009 / Running time: 56 min. / Production: Bastard Film A/S / Producer: Helle Faber / Distribution: Bastard Film A/S

WORLD PREMIERE With over 20 million inhabitants spread over an area of 7.000 km2,

Nanna Frank Møller’s film, photography becomes a symbol - and

Shanghai is one of the world’s largest megacities. And with up to

possibly a tacit criticism - of elusiveness and the symbolic lack of

125,000 people per square kilometre, the Chinese megapolis is

space in modern China.

also one of the places with the highest population density on the planet. But space is running out. In fact, it’s running out so quickly that there is no longer room for all the people who have lived their entire lives in the city. One of them is Xu, and his little family faces being moved to the suburbs. In the middle of a whirlwind of change, the ageing Xu accepts the situation with stoic calm, and relates to the new times like he’s always done: by taking pictures of them. In

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Bogotá Change DIRECTOR: Andreas M. Dalsgaard

Original title: Bogotá Change / Country: Denmark / Year: 2009 / Running time: 55 min. / Production: Upfront Films Aps / Producer: Anna-Maria Kantarius, Jesper Jack, Henrik Veileborg / Distribution: Upfront Films Aps

WORLD PREMIERE Not long ago the Colombian capital Bogotá was considered one

is a role model for cities such as New York and Mexico City. ’Bogotá

of the world’s most dangerous cities. At an altitude of over 2,600

Change’ tells the story about how this happened, and shows that

metres up in the Andes mountains, seven million people were

politics in fact can be both funny and deeply inspiring.

fighting a daily battle against drug crime, corruption, poverty and, not least, against each other. But in 1995 the colourful and independent Antanas Mockus surprised many by being elected to become the city’s Mayor, after having been fired as the vicechancellor of the university where he had mooned his ungovernable students in a fit of rage. Mockus’s anarchistic and untraditional methods set about a social revolution that meant that Bogotá today

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Saturday 7/11 20:00 hrs. / Husets Biograf Thursday 12/11 21:00 hrs.

Cairo Garbage DIRECTOR: Mikala Krogh

Original title: Cairo Garbage / Country: Denmark / Year: 2009 / Running time: 55 min. / Production: Danish Documentary Production, Nimbus Film / Producer: Sigrid Dyekjær / Distribution: Nimbus Film

WORLD PREMIERE Cairo is the mother of all garbage cities. The streets are drowned in

are dreaming and the people’s associations are moralising, the

waste and entire social groupings survive solely through collecting,

garbage people are celebrating a wedding in the church of trash -

sorting and selling the left-overs of other people. The garbage

surrounded by exactly the garbage that the entire city is trying to

people, as they are called, live a parallel life in the foul-smelling

get rid of. A grimy story that is hard to wash off.

neighbourhoods of Cairo, while the city’s authorities are feverishly trying to convince their citizens about the advantages of modern renovation. The restaurant owner, the private garbage companies and local associations are all trying to do something about the 10,000 tonnes of garbage that is produced in Cairo every single day. And while the authorities are discussing, the companies

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Saturday 7/11 20:00 hrs. / Husets Biograf Thursday 12/11 21:00 hrs.

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High Rise DIRECTOR: Gabriel Mascaro

Original title: Um Lugar Ao Sol / Country: Brazil / Year: 2009 / Running time: 73 min. / Production: Símio Filmes / Producer: Stella Zimmerman, Richard Ellis / Distribution: Símio Filmes

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Architecture adds an utterly tangible, physical dimension to the

follows the construction of yet another skyscraper and gives us a

abysmal cleavage between rich and poor in Sao Paulo, Rio de

wordless summary in the motif of children, who are sunbathing in

Janeiro and Recife, where a female inhabitant of a penthouse

the sun rays between the oblong shadows of the skyscrapers.

notes that the shootings down in the streets look like fireworks if you live on the 15th floor. The sky is the only roof over the heads of the rich elite, and it is prestigious to live at the top. Even if the small dollhouses of the slums are visible from the balcony, and although the social vertigo is not exactly improving. The total lack of connection with the ground is paralleled in the young director Gabriel Mascaro’s impressive and intelligent camera work, which

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Friday 6/11 16:30 hrs. / Husets Biograf Tuesday 10/11 18:30 hrs.

The Unforbidden City DIRECTOR: Floris-Jan van Luyn

Original title: The Unforbidden City / Country: Netherlands / Year: 2008 / Running time: 58 min. / Production: Submarine Productions / Producer: Submarine Productions / Distribution: Submarine Productions

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Close to the Forbidden City in Beijing lies Source Street, a

lingering images, the film shows how changes to small lines on a

neighbourhood that goes back to the 14th century and consists

city map can cause great upheaval in the lives of individual human

of small, winding streets and shacks. An anachronism in the

beings.

middle of a Beijing that is currently going through a boom of new constructions and infrastructure development that is encroaching more and more on the small neighbourhood, which has to be torn down in a near but undefined time in the future. ’The Unforbidden City’ follows three of Source Street’s inhabitants and portrays their considerations and insecurities: when do they have to leave the place, and where will they live? With its calmly flowing and

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Monday 9/11 19:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Tuesday 10/11 21:00 hrs.

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Ruins DIRECTOR: Manuel Mozos

Original title: Ruinas / Country: Portugal / Year: 2009 / Running time: 60 min. / Production: O Som e a Fúria / Producer: João Gusmão, Ana Gomes, Cristina Almeida / Distribution: O Som e a Fúria

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE An abandoned beach hotel collapses in a heavy sigh: a building

the buildings that were never meant to stand for ever. The result is

less, but a story more. One among the many told by Portuguese

a collection of ghost stories, which for once give us the chance to

director Manuel Mozos’s poetic and melancholy ’Ruinas’, in

lean back and listen to them.

timeless and tranquil images of the superfluous apartment blocks, restaurants, houses and shipwrecks of modern reality. Every place is accompanied by small narratives, which like poems or the menu of a closed-down restaurant remind us of the life that once filled it. With an unsentimental approach and the courage to linger, ’Ruinas’ conjures up the beauty in decay and takes an essayistic approach to transitoriness as a basic element of both life, time and

SCREENING DATES Posthus Teatret Monday 9/11 21:15 hrs.

Housing DIRECTOR: Federica Di Giacomo

Original title: Housing / Country: Italy / Year: 2009 / Running time: 90 min. / Production: B&B Film / Producer: Raffaele Brunetti / Distribution: B&B Film

SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE Imagine that you’ve come home from a walk around the block and

which takes place in the remains of an architectural dream about

find a family with children in your living room. They haven’t come to

making the lives of others more effective. No planning is also an

visit you. They have moved in while you were out. This is the reality

option, and its grotesque consequences can turn a home into a

for the inhabitants of the southern Italian city of Bari, where no

prison.

new rental apartments have been built in twenty years. For three thousand desperate families on the waiting lists for a new home, squatting is the only way in - and for those who are lucky enough to have a home to cling onto, they are a daily nightmare. ’Housing’ gives four of the (un)lucky inhabitants a chance to vent their frustration in a minimalistic and deeply tragicomic docudrama,

SCREENING DATES Husets Biograf Tuesday 10/11 21:00 hrs.

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DEBATE: Violent urbanity

Original title: DEBAT: Den urbane vold

How can the downward spiral of violence be stopped in

Peñalosa, who used unorthodox and taboo-breaking measures to

Copenhagen? The Copenhagen local politics candidates Mikkel

transform one of the world’s most dangerous, violent and corrupt

Warming (Danish Red-Green Alliance), Mogens Lønborg

capitals into a safer city populated by considerate citizens within

(Conservative People’s Party), Manu Sareen (Danish Social-Liberal

less than 10 years. After the screening, CPH:DOX has the honour to

Party), Steffen Kjær Johansen (Venstre, Denmark’s Liberal Party)

present the film’s protagonist and the presidential candidate for the

and Ayfer Baykal (Socialist People’s Party) will all give their take

Colombian elections in 2010 - Antanas Mockus - who will answer

on a solution, when CPH:DOX and Støberiet invite the people of

questions before the debate with the Copenhagen politicians gets

Copenhagen to a public meeting at Nørrebrohallen. Taking ’Bogotá

underway.

Change’ as our starting point, we will look out into the world

Katinka Hauxner, a partner of the Hausenberg consultancy and

and see how violence is tackled in other large cities. What can

analysis firm, will moderate the event.

Copenhagen learn from the experience of other cities, and how

The event will take place in Nørrebrohallen, Bragesgade 5, on

can one stamp out violence and insecurity? ’Bogotá Change’ is the

Wednesday 11 November between 19:30 and 22:30 hrs. Entry is free

story about two charismatic mayors, Antanas Mockus and Enrique

of charge. The event is supported by the VI KBH’R fund.

SCREENING DATES Nørrebrohallen Wednesday 11/11 19:30 hrs.

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Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock, Michel Gondry, Anton Corbijn, Rem Koolhaas, Frederick Wiseman, Phil Spector, Ondi Timoner, and the eccentric boxing promoter ‘Big John’ Klemetson. These are just some of the people you can meet in the TOP:DOX series’ great stories about equally great personalities. Among other things – for it is also here that you can experience our own modern culture from behind the scenes. ‘Art & Copy’ dissects the advertising industry, ‘Objectified’ looks at how industrial design ultimately shapes our lives and the way we think, and ‘We Live in Public’ is a frightening experiment in voluntary surveillance. ‘Turn

it Loose’ and ‘Beyond the Game’ follow youths who literally live for breakdance and Warcraft respectively. We have assembled a selection of this year’s biggest and most talked-about films from the international festival scene, and there is enough to choose from. The series’ films are highly diverse, and they show that one can easily be popular without pandering to the average.

Objectified DIRECTOR: Gary Hustwit

Original title: Objectified / Country: USA / Year: 2009 / Running time: 75 min. / Production: Plexi Productions, Swiss Dots / Producer: Gary Hustwit / Distribution: Swiss Dots

When was the last time you thought about who designed your

’Objectified’ is the follow-up of Hustwit’s popular film about the

toothbrush? And have you ever considered what your choice

world’s most-used typeface, ’Helvetica’, which was shown at

of mobile phone says about you? The director Gary Hustwit is

CPH:DOX in 2007.

intensely preoccupied by the design of the world around us and by how industrial design influences the way we live. Some of the world’s most influential designers give us their take on what happens in the complex reaction between designer, object and user. It’s about personal expression, but also about identity, desire and sustainability. The designer’s task is also to be able to look at the creative crystal ball and predict what the future may bring.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Friday 6/11 21:30 hrs. / Grand Wednesday 11/11 16:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Friday 13/11 16:45 hrs.

Turn it Loose DIRECTOR: Alastair Siddons

Original title: Turn it Loose / Country: UK / Year: 2008 / Running time: 96 min. / Production: Partizan Films / Producer: Josh Pitt / Distribution: MKL pour MK2 Diffusion

In September 2007, sixteen of the world’s best b-boys battled

entertaining human drama with a true visual tour de force,

against each other in a discontinued power station in Soweto. They

which emphasises the dance form’s intensity and demonstrates

fought for the title of no less than the best breakdancer on the

irrefutably why it can still fascinate audiences all over the world.

planet. ’Turn it Loose’ is a film about competition. We follow six of the hopeful breakdancers in their battle to realise their wildest

After the screening on 8 November, Breakpoint - an association

dream, while being presented underway with the extraordinary

linked to the battle scene and that among other things organises

story of an unparalleled global phenomenon. Breakdance is

the world-famous breakdance competition Floor Wars - will

the dance of dreams and hope. But it is also the dance of the

demonstrate some tricks and teach the audience some breakdance

streets. Willpower, passion and determination are the basis

/ b-boying moves.

of the protagonists’ road to becoming a part of the world elite. ’Turn it Loose’ takes the audience all the way to the conclusion of the competition, and in the process it combines a subtle and SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Sunday 8/11 16:30 hrs. / Grand Thursday 12/11 21:30 hrs. / Empire Bio Friday 13/11 17:30 hrs.

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Beyond the Game DIRECTOR: Jos de Putter

Original title: Beyond the Game / Country: Netherlands / Year: 2009 / Running time: 77 min. / Production: Diepte Scherpte BV / Producer: Wink de Putter / Distribution: Stichting Dieptescherpte

Behind the computer screen, they are merely young boys with tooth

The screening on November 7 will include an introduction by the

braces and acne. But as their virtual alter egos, they are the world

Esport expert Jacob Sterlie from ESPORT TV on DK4. After the

champions of Warcraft III - and simultaneously the centre of an

screening, two of Denmark’s best WARCRAFT 3 players, ’Rosenkill’

enormous industry, which over the past year has taken especially

and ’Mywa’, will answer questions about life in cyberworld. The

Asia by storm and given computer nerds all over the world a

players will conclude with a live fight. The event is organised in

place to unfold their dreams. In ’Beyond the Game’, Jos de Putter

collaboration with eSport open.

portrays three new grandmasters, Sky, Grubby and MaDFroG, but he is neither out to criticise the young players - or to elevate them to being the new celebrities of the IT age. The traps and fascinations of the multi-million industry are only touched upon briefly as he depicts the ardent gamers’ world and everyday lives with an enormous sense of precision and great sensitivity.

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio Saturday 7/11 17:30 hrs. / Dagmar Wednesday 11/11 19:00 hrs.

The Cove DIRECTOR: Louie Psihoyos

Original title: The Cove / Country: USA / Year: 2009 / Running time: 92 min. / Production: Diamond Docs, Oceanic Preservation Society, SkyFish Films / Producer: Paula DuPré Pesman, Fisher Stevens / Distribution: NonStop Sales

A trip to SeaWorld? Probably not after having seen ’The Cove’,

With a mixture of bloody seriousness, momentary humour and

which in the few months since its release has already won a

interspersed scepticism, ’The Cove’ is both a dazzling portrait and

plethora of awards, not least the audience award at Sundance. We

as captivating as a political thriller.

follow Rick O’Harry - the former trainer of the world’s most famous dolphin, Flipper - who, after discovering that captivity broke the intelligent dolphins, dedicated his life to stopping the capture and slaughter of over 23,000 dolphins every year in the Japanese city Taijii. ’The Cove’ is not just a portrait of a conscience-troubled man on a mission, but also of a multi-million industry, where a dolphin can be sold for up to 150,000 dollars and where the poisonous dolphin meat is sold under false labelling all over the world.

SCREENING DATES Grand Sunday 8/11 12:00 hrs. / Dagmar Wednesday 11/11 21:30 hrs.

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We Live in Public DIRECTOR: Ondi Timoner

Original title: We Live in Public / Country: USA / Year: 2009 / Running time: 90 min. / Production: Interloper Films / Producer: Ondi Timoner, Keirda Bahruth / Distribution: Interloper Films

Here’s to Facebook paranoia. Ondi Timoner’s ’We Live in Public’ is

as a description of an essential part of our collective history and

one disturbing ride, as it tells the story, through legendary internet

as a beautiful portrait of a mad visionary, who forces us to ask

pioneer and artist Josh Harris, of how we willingly part with bits

ourselves: Do I want to live in public?

of ourselves in the internet for the benefit of self-exposure. Josh Harris predicted this development many years before anyone else did. He invented Big Brother before it was invented, and like a ”Warhol of the Web” he accommodated a hundred people in a cellar in New York who were exposed to constant surveillance on the internet, as well as later broadcasting the life of himself and his girlfriend Tonya on the internet under the title ’We Live in Public’. In both cases, the film shows how the euphoria about self-exposure turns into a breakdown. An absolute must-see - both SCREENING DATES Dagmar Monday 9/11 21:30 hrs. / Dagmar Tuesday 10/11 21:30 hrs. / Grand Sunday 15/11 21:30 hrs.

American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese Original title: American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince / Country: USA / Running time: 55 min. / Production: New Empire Films / Producer: Bert Lovitt / Distribution: Katapult Film Sales

The fanatically fabulating Steven Prince is probably best known for his part as the manic weapons dealer in Marin Scorsese’s ’Taxi Driver’. In this rare documentary from 1978, Scorsese turns the camera on his friend and flatmate and lets him tell the anecdotes of his incredible life. In spite of his young age, Prince has apparently experienced more than most people: a road manager for Neil Diamond, actor, drug addict and devil-may-care survivor.

Like a classic Scorsese character, Prince rattles off one story after another from the real world, and they far outshine any Hollywood fantasy. In fact, the legendary overdose scene in Tarantino’s ’Pulp Fiction’ is a tribute to Prince, who himself carried out a life-saving adrenaline injection and saved a friend’s life.

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 21:30 hrs. / Grand Thursday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

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American Prince DIRECTOR: Tommy Pallotta

Original title: American Prince / Country: USA / Year: 2009 / Running time: 52 min. / Production: Submarine Productions / Producer: Tommy Pallotta / Distribution: Submarine Productions

Tommy Pallotta’s documentary is a follow-up to Martin Scorsese’s

Robbie Robertson from The Band - and lived the American dream

’American Boy’ about his friend and storyteller Steven Price.

on speed. The film is of course shown together with Scorsese’s

Scorsese’s film has for years enjoyed the status of being a cult

original portrait.

gem among insiders. Linklater and Tarantino are just the tip of the iceberg of directors, who have let themselves be inspired

by Prince’s manic character and fabulous anecdotes - and his influence on American independent filmmaking is obvious. In ’American Prince’, Pallotta has visited the now middle-aged Prince, who is ready to tell more cock-and-bull stories from a life in the fast lane. The fascination and intensity is undamaged, as Prince describes wild scenes from the artists’ collective in Mullholland House, where he lived together with, among others, Scorsese and SCREENING DATES Dagmar Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 21:30 hrs. / Grand Thursday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

Thorn in the Heart DIRECTOR: Michel Gondry

Original title: L’épine dans le coeur / Country: France / Year: 2009 / Running time: 86 min. / Production: PARTIZAN FILMS / Producer: Georges Bermann / Distribution: MKL pour MK2 Diffusion

Most people know the French director Michel Gondry for his freely

have never before seen the light of day. Gondry’s personal portrait

fabulating film universe, which has spawned both feature films

shows a more thoughtful and sensitive side of the highly productive

and fantastic music videos. In this his latest work he is pointing the

and intricate filmmaker.

camera at his own aunt, Suzette Gondry. The respected matriarch of the creative and eccentric Gondry dynasty has worked as a school teacher in various village schools during the course of 30 years. Together with Michel, she revisits her old workplaces and meets former pupils and colleagues. The memories of the past, and especially her troubled relationship with her son Jean-Yves, gradually lift the cover off the family’s secrets and traumas, which

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Saturday 7/11 21:30 hrs. / Empire Bio Monday 9/11 22:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 19:00 hrs.

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Double Take DIRECTOR: Johan Grimonprez

Original title: Double Take / Country: Belgium, Germany, Netherlands / Year: 2009 / Running time: 80 min. / Production: ZAP-O-MATIK / Producer: Emmy Oost / Distribution: ZAP-O-MATIK

You don’t necessarily have to be a Hitchcock fan to let yourself be

about power and the media, and about what happens, when images

consumed by the Belgian artist Johan Grimonperez’s virtuously

register the patent for fear. It is all pranks - and yet not. Hilarious,

woven conspiracy thriller, which continues the style of the delirious

hysterical, and almost too topical, that much is certain.

Don DeLillo-inspired skyjacking account in ’Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y’.

Thanks to Grimonperez’s fantastic film-historic tricks, the master of suspense himself becomes a double agent who is thrown into a humorous cold war adventure, which takes us from the Cuba crisis via the first moon landings to the shooting of Hitchcock’s ’The Birds’, where the master suddenly meets his future self, while Grimonperez behind both their backs conjures up a seductive tale

SCREENING DATES Grand Saturday 7/11 16:30 hrs. / Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 16:30 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Sunday 15/11 21:00 hrs.

Koolhaas Houselife DIRECTOR: Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoîne

Original title: Koolhaas Houselife / Country: France, Italy / Year: 2008 / Running time: 58 min. / Production: Bêka Films / Producer: Francesco Pappalardo / Distribution: Beka Films

We are tourists in one of modern architecture’s greatest

stood behind the camera. ’Koolhaas Houselife’ is an experimental

masterpieces, namely the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas’s

and innovative film about form and about living with modern

legendary house in Bordeaux. But our tour guide is not of the

architecture.

traditional kind. There are no flags and clichés when the house’s

After the screening we will show an interview, where Rem Koolhaas

cleaning woman shows us around the various nooks and crannies

himself reacts to the film’s guided tour.

of the house. With a solid eye for detail, the partnership Bêka and Lemoîne have followed the daily maintenance of the house and have simultaneously managed to show an architectural stroke of genius seen from its own blind angle, as if Roy Andersson had

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov Friday 6/11 19:00 hrs. / Grand Tuesday 10/11 17:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Sunday 15/11 21:00 hrs.

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Paul Virilio - Thinking Speed DIRECTOR: Stéphane Paoli

Original title: Paul Virilio - Penser la Vitesse / Country: France / Year: 2009 / Running time: 90 min. / Production: Arte France, La Générale de Production / Producer: Alexandre Hallier / Distribution: Arte Distribution

If you ask the French philosopher Paul Virilio, we are all the

experts and cultural historians. Together, this gives us nothing less

children of speed. For in the brave new world of the internet and

than a brilliant introduction to the ever-lively thought universe of

mobile phones it has become possible to be in all places at once.

the ageing philosopher.

Geographic distances have diminished rapidly over the course of the last century, and no other philosopher has used as much effort as Virilio to discuss the widespread consequences in domains as diverse as politics, economics, culture and martial history. Speed in the global network gives rise to new challenges, which have to be understood before they can either be criticised or exploited.

Here, the philosophical field of speed is examined in all its wildgrown branches by Virilio himself, who is also himself examined and happily discussed by everything from economists to political SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Sunday 8/11 21:45 hrs. / Grand Wednesday 11/11 16:30 hrs. / Empire Bio Sunday 15/11 17:30 hrs.

The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Phil Spector DIRECTOR: Vikram Jayanti Original title: The agony and the ecstasy of Phil Spector / Country: UK / Year: 2008 / Running time: 103 min. / Production: VIXPIX Films & BBC ARENA / Producer: Vikram Jayanti & Anthony Wall / Distribution: Vixpix Ltd.

The story of Phil Spector is the story of glory and downfall - of an

the British BBC producer Vikram Jayanti here presents the first

eccentric and an ego that is larger than most people’s. But first and

interview with the man who compares himself with both Bach and

foremost, it’s a story about a huge musical talent. He has written,

Da Vinci - recorded one year before Spector was given a 19-year

accompanied and produced hits for everything from Ronettes,

life sentence. The film is produced by the BBC’s prestigious art

Righteous Brothers to the Beatles, Lennon, Harrison and Ramones,

department, Arena.

and his distinctive wall of sound has long been considered the true sound of the 1960s. But part of the story are also the legal charges he faced, not least for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003. Accompanied by a flood of Spectors hits through the ages,

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 21:45 hrs. / Empire Bio Thursday 12/11 22:30 hrs.

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Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn DIRECTOR: Josh Whiteman Original title: Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn / Country: Australia / Year: 2009 / Running time: 74 min. / Production: Maker Films / Producer: Jason Byrne, Anton Corbijn / Distribution: Definition Films

The legendary rock photographer and film director Anton Corbijn cherishes vulnerability like nobody else. And there is no doubt that he also knows how to frame it in photographs. In this beautiful portrait, the camera is turned around towards the man behind some of the most iconic portraits of music history, music videos for U2, Nirvana and Depeche Mode, and, not least, the breathtakingly beautiful - and wonderfully restless black-and-white - film about Joy Division, ’Control’. ’Shadow Play’ takes a captivating look at a thoughtful and uncompromising artist, who first gave post-punk and subsequently the late 1980s music scene its photographic identity, and who reveals that he cannot create style icons without simultaneously accentuating pain and darkness.

SCREENING DATES Gloria Sunday 8/11 21:30 hrs. / Grand Wednesday 11/11 19:00 hrs. / Gloria Sunday 15/11 21:30 hrs.

La Danse - Le Ballet de L’Opera de Paris DIRECTOR: Frederick Wiseman Original title: La Danse - Le Ballet de L’Opera de Paris / Country: USA, France / Year: 2009 / Running time: 159 min. / Production: Zipporah Films / Producer: Frederick Wiseman / Distribution: Zipporah Films

The American Frederick Wiseman is a seasoned documentarist.

As one of the masters of the direct cinema tradition, he has made films from the inside of society’s institutions since the 1960s, and being no more than a fly on the wall, he lets the drama of everyday life unfold spontaneously in front of his camera. This time he scrutinises every corner of the Ballet de l’Opera in Paris. We get to see exclusive footage of the tough work and strict discipline that rules the dance studios, as the choreographers and the dancers go through the steps and movements in the minutest detail. One doesn’t need to be a dance expert to appreciate and enjoy the perfection, elegance and magic, that unfolds every day both on and off stage at one of Paris’s most distinguished institutions.

SCREENING DATES Grand Sunday 8/11 16:00 hrs. / Cinemateket Saturday 14/11 13:30 hrs.

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Sweetgrass DIRECTOR: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Ilisa Barbash Original title: Sweetgrass / Country: USA / Year: 2009 / Running time: 115 min. / Production: Peabody Museum / Producer: Ilisa Barbash / Distribution: Peabody Museum, Harvard University

A uniquely captivating portrait of life on a sheep farm and the

On Sunday November 15 you will have the chance to get close

annual summer grazing in Sweet Grass, Montana - and at

to the sheepish race, as Denmark’s only female shepherd, Berit

the same time an unpretentious update of the ethnographic

Kiilerich, takes her sheep to the city to teach townspeople some

documentary. During a three-month long journey we get to see

herder’s tricks. We thus earmark an entire evening for sheep and

both a mountainous terrain, misbehaving sheep and immeasurable

the absolutely fascinating art of being able to steer them! Read

loneliness, exhaustion and frustration. But it is also a journey

more information under DOX:EXPANDED - Special Events.

through a mesmerising landscape, which is portrayed through perfectly composed widescreen images, and set against the soundtrack of an impressive bleating choir, which both drowns out everything else and underlines the film’s amusing deconstruction of the Western myth about masculine life as a loner.

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov Monday 9/11 19:00 hrs. / Empire Bio Sunday 15/11 15:00 hrs.

Big John DIRECTOR: Håvard Bustnes

Original title: Blod & Ære / Country: Norway / Year: 2008 / Running time: 85 min. / Production: Faction Film as / Producer: Dag Hoel / Distribution: Norwegian Film Institute

The European lightweight boxing champion Ole and his coach, his

better results under more professional and systematic coaching,

father and patron Big John, are team Klemetsen. And ’Big John’

but that was never an option. As the film so touchingly emphasises,

is a sensitive and funny tour de force of their professional and

Big John was and is Ole’s only true coach in all aspects of life.

personal careers. In today’s 2007, they appear together with their own band, but the film is intercut with flashbacks of the highs and lows of their boxing career. It’s the story about a spectacular partnership, and both little and big John come across as loving but ambitious and obstinate characters. According to Big John, they never fit into the systems of the boxing world, or any system at all for that matter! They just wanted to box. And that’s what they ended up doing - at a top level all over the world during the 1990s. Their story begs the question as to whether Ole could have achieved SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Monday 9/11 21:00 hrs.

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The Sound of Insects Record of a Mummy DIRECTOR: Peter Liechti Original title: Le chant des insectes - rapport d’une momie / Country: Switzerland / Year: 2009 / Running time: 87 min. / Production: Liechti Filmproduktion GmbH / Producer: Peter Liechti / Distribution: Autlook Filmsales GbR

What happens, if you agree to turn your back on life - and with

form recording of the long and lonely path towards death, from the

an open and philosophical mind throw yourself into the arms of

delirious moments of realisation to the more prosaic experiences of

death? This is the question posed by the Swiss documentarist

a body that is ceasing to live.

and experimental film director Peter Liechti in his impressionistic death song ’The Sound of Insects’. Based on the Japanese author Shimada Masahiko’s ’Until I Am a Mummy’, which itself is based on a true story, he here portrays a 40-year-old man’s self-chosen hunger strike - which ends with his death. Through the Canadian documentary film director Peter Mettler’s chanting voice, and set against a true revelation of a pictorial poem, we follow the diary-

SCREENING DATES Vester Vov Vov Tuesday 10/11 19:00 hrs. / Posthus Teatret Thursday 12/11 19:00 hrs.

Art&Copy DIRECTOR: Doug Pray

Original title: Art&Copy / Country: USA / Year: 2009 / Running time: 89 min. / Production: Art&Industry / Producer: Jimmy Greenway, Michael Nadeau / Distribution: Art&Industry

Join us on an enlightening journey through the creative revolutions

is more than sales and good entertainment - for if you believe

of the advertising world, from the great boom of the 1960s to the

the experienced wordsmiths, there is nothing that a little bit of

present. And meet the industry’s unknown authors, who with

creativity can’t solve.

bucketloads of catchy advertising slogans have been responsible for changing our culture as well as our lifestyle. Creative masterminds such as George Lois, Mary Wells, Dan Weiden, Lee Clow and Hal Rineysom are probably known to only a few people - but they alone have stood behind everything from car sales to presidential elections. And in Doug Pray’s documentary they kindly share their opinions, wisdom and extensive visions. Advertising

SCREENING DATES Dagmar Sunday 8/11 19:00 hrs. / Empire Bio Thursday 12/11 20:00 hrs.

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CPH:DOX is once again presenting a broad seminar programme, which gives both the audience as well as the international film industry the opportunity to become acquainted with a long list of invited directors. Get ready for a cornucopia of artist talks and master classes with some of the most interesting directors and artists around. Meet veterans like the Nicolas Philibert, who among other things made the international cinema hit ‘To Be and to Have’. And come and meet new names such as the French music film genius Vincent Moon and the forward-looking British artist collective, The Otolith Group.

We will also be visited by a large delegation from Iran, with prominent names such as the young directing talent Hana Makhmalbaf, and a whole new generation of young media activists, who with their mobile phones and the internet are fighting a battle for a new form of participatory democracy. Or come and hear why the Swedes are so good at making films at the moment.

The seminars are presented with the support of FERA, UBOD, Europa Nævnet, the Danish Union of Journalists and IMS – International Media Support.

Masterclass: Philippe Grandrieux

Philippe Grandrieux is one this year’s artists in focus (see the Artist in Focus-programme). Meet the enigmatic auteur and visual magician in an exclusive master class about films and the philosophy behind making them. Few other filmmakers can offer such a sensual proximity and virtual feeling of reality as Grandrieux, who operates the camera of his films himself. His works are designed right down to the last detail based on complex considerations about the cinema as a psychological laboratory, and his often extremely dark pictures derive their kinetic energy from the tension between abstraction and narration - and from the pitch-black precipice between the imaginary and the symbolic. It may sound abstract, but in Grandrieux’s hands the real becomes tangible and visible in a way that eludes the articulated sphere of linguistic experience. More on this as Grandrieux himself visits CPH:DOX for an artist talk in person.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 13:00 hrs.

260 SEMINARS

Original title Masterclass: Philippe Grandrieux Running time 120 min.

Directors in Dialogue: Romauld Karmakar vs. Benjamin Heisenberg

Experience two of German film’s most challenging directors in an inspiring dialogue about the potential of film in troubled times.

Romuald Kamakar, whose latest film ‘Villalobos’ can be experienced at this year’s Sound & Vision competition, is one of recent German film’s most confrontational and radical directors - both politically

Original title Directors in Dialogue: Romuald Karmakar vs. Benjamin Heisenberg Running time 120 min.

and aesthetically. Widely discussed works such as ‘Der Totmacher’ (1995) and ‘The Himmler Project’ (2000) take a hard and conceptual approach on Germany’s recent history and has caused massive debates back home. Benjamin Heisenber, trained at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, is the co-founder of the acclaimed film publication Revolver, which he founded before going on to make films. His debut film ‘Schläfer’ (‘Sleeper’) premiered at the Un certain regard section in Cannes, where it won the festival’s First Steps Award - a topical drama about a young scientist who agrees to spy on one of his colleagues who is suspected of belonging to a terror cell.

Directors in Dialogue is a new European initiative launched by FERA - the Federation of European Film Directors - to strengthen the intercultural exchange between directors across Europe in a series of dialogues, which are held respectively in Cannes, Berlin, Karlovy Vary, Sarajevo and at CPH:DOX.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 10:00 hrs.

SEMINARS 261

Directors in Dialogue: Nicholas Philibert vs. Eva Mulvad

French director Nicolas Philibert won many hearts and a huge international audience with his moving and human film ‘To Be and to Have’ from 2002, which in a patiently observant style observed life at a small French provincial school during an entire year. Philibert made his first film with the institution-critical ‘La voix de son maître’ in 1978, and has since been compared to American documentary veterans such as Frederick Wiseman due to his insistence on the independence of the image. Meet Nicolas Philibert in a conversation about method and documentary poetry. Directors in Dialogue is a new European initiative launched by FERA - the Federation of European Film Directors - to strengthen the intercultural exchange between directors across Europe in a series of dialogues, which are held respectively in Cannes, Berlin, Karlovy Vary, Sarajevo and at CPH:DOX.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 13:00 hrs.

262 SEMINARS

Original title Directors in Dialogue: Nicholas Philibert vs. Eva Mulvad Running time 90 min.

Why do the Swedes make such good films?

A focus on talent development

The Swedes are well on their way to re-define the concept of ‘independent’ in film. New companies such as ATMO, FASAD and ACNE operate relatively independently of traditional institutions such as film schools and the film institute, both of which have come to play a more supplementary role. The new filmmakers often come from

Original title Hvorfor laver svenskerne så gode film?

Fokus på talentudvikling Running time 90 min.

backgrounds in music, the arts and fashion - and it shows. Swedish films shine through with their stylistic confidence and creative energy, and can easily be both wildly ambitious and playful at the same time, while also succeeding in making the political cool again. What happened? Meet some of the central players of the new Swedish film scene for different takes on an answer - also to why it might be time to look to our neighbours for renewed inspiration. Jacob Kirstein Høgel, the artistic director of New Danish Screen, will moderate the discussion.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 15:30 hrs.

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Directors in Dialogue: Otolith vs. Otolith

The London-based Otolith Group makes films that makes even the steadist spectator feel dizzy. The artist duo Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun have named themselves after the pip in our inner ear that governs our sense of balance, and which is consistently driven out of orbit in their fractal-philosophical montage labyrinths. ‘Otolith III’ thus follows up on the group’s two preceding, but independent works in a historical reflection on time, memory, and events that never happened - in this case a never realised Satyajit Ray film, which the Indian master director is now confronted with by four of its (non)actors. Like with their French role models Marker, Godard and Resnais, the political is ever-present as thought and expression in the works of The Otolith Group, whose reality-based science fiction neutralises mental gravity without losing touch with what’s real.

This also goes for the group’s latest work, which pays homage to all the unfinished films, which were born in minds, forgotten again and consigned to oblivion by the flow of time.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Wednesday 11/11 18:00 hrs.

264 SEMINARS

Original title Directors in Dialogue: Otolith vs. Otolith

In the service of filmmaking - Anders Østergaard talks about his films and working methods From the animated hero in ‘Tintin and I’ via the Danish darling of rock music, Gasolin, to the closed country in ‘Burma VJ’ which won last year’s Dox:Award. Director Anders Østergaard has set a Danish record in documentary film awards, and at this seminar he will talk about his films and working methods. The seminar is held in Danish.

Original title I filmens tjeneste - Anders Østergaard on sine film og arbejdsmetoder Running time 135 min.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 6/11 15:15 hrs.

SEMINARS 265

Vincent Moon Artist Talk: The Take Away Shows

At a time when MTV has reduced music to a lonely M, Vincent Moon deconstructs the music film and breathes a new lease of life into the genre. Especially his Take Away Shows continue to impress music fans, who via the internet can experience their biggest idols play live versions in the streets of Paris, in narrow staircases, in shafts and on the toilet! Moon accompanies the musicians with his handheld camera, whose mobility allows him access to even the most intimate spaces - and the most intimate music. For even if Moon has portrayed artists such as R.E.M., Arcade Fire and Sigur R贸s, even lesser-known names such as Beirut, Caribou, Of Montreal, Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Thomas Dybdahl and almost 100 other musicians have been allowed to appear before his camera. Moon is a master of the close-up and the portrait, and he takes the film medium back to its roots with his handheld style and raw pictorial poetry. In this master class, he will talk about his methods and the development of The Take Away Shows, and he will also show some old as well as new Take Away recordings.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 21:30 hrs.

266 SEMINARS

Original title The Take Away Shows Running time 90 min.

Distribution Vincent Moon

Dj Spooky artist talk

Enjoy a unique chance to experience the American concept artist and musician Paul D Miller talk about his latest book Sound Unbound,

Original title Dj Spooky artist talk

before he embarks on his first and only Danish performance of his Terra Nova: Sinfonia Arctica show at the National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst), accompanied by a classical quartet led by the acclaimed Japanese concert pianist Eriko Makimura. Paul D Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid is a concept artist, author and musician living in New York. He has exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Andy Warhol Museum and a number of other places. He has among other things written for The Village Voice and Artforum and is also an editor of the magazine 21c. He has published the book Rhythm Science and, most recently, Sound Unbound. If Miller’s book Rhythm Science was a rhythmscientific manifesto about flow, then Sound Unbound is the same about remix culture - a culture where the remix has blotted out the boundaries between music, art and literature, what an artist can shape and what an artist can create.

In Sound Unbound Paul D Miller invited a broad range of artists to, in their own words, describe their works and compositorial strategies.

These are the first-hand reports from the avant-garde of sound art and the digital medium’s influence on information-based society.

SCREENING DATES Københavns Universitet Friday 13/11 10:00 hrs.

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Digital Bootcamp

Half a day’s workshop dedicated to helping you and your film navigate through the rapidly developing digital landscape. The Creative Director for Shooting People, James Mullighan, and the head of Shooting People’s activities in the USA, Ingrid Kopp, will guide you through a series of panel discussions, case studies and practical exercises.

The first part - Digital Boundaries - will try to answer the question about why they are important. What is new - in financing, crowd sourcing, production, marketing and distribution.

The second part - Digital Glossaries - will help you decide which social network is the best for your project, and how you best make use of them. There will also be a total immersion course on blogs and websites: useful advice on everything from basic html code to video compression, how social media can help you, and how you can stay up to date.

Third part - Case Study Fourth part - Test Yourself: the participants are split into groups and are given a hypothetical film project. Each group has 20 minutes to prepare a marketing and distribution plan on the basis of earlier lessons and will afterwards present it to the other groups.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 12:00 hrs.

268 SEMINARS

Original title Digital Bootcamp

Navigating the US Market: New Dynamics

These are confusing times. Just as revolutionary production choices are opening up, traditional distribution models continue to crumble. More and more filmmakers choose to take control of their films’ distribution, marketing and outreach responsibilities and to plunge themselves into the perils and rewards of DIY and hybrid distribution strategies.

Original title Navigating the US Market: New Dynamics Running time 90 min.

Documentary filmmakers in particular are setting an example for the industry, connecting with niche audiences and creating buzz and sales, often on a tiny fraction of a typical studio P&A budget.

How are emerging distribution models changing the way films are produced, bought and sold? And how are distributors adapting to the new dynamics of media consumption? With the US marketplace in focus for this panel talk, Thom Powers will talk to distributors from all walks of the US market - from TV and educational to online, theatrical and DVD. Our panel may not have all the answers, but will provide producers with a compass to navigate the rocky shoals of a challenging and still-evolving marketplace.

Panelists: Cynthia Kane/ITVS, Cynthia Close/Documentary Educational Resources, Matt Dentler/Cinetic Film Buff, Emily Russo/Zeitgeist, Josh Green/Emerging Pictures, Richard Lorber/Lorber Films and Alive Mind, Debra Zimmerman/Women Make Movies.

Moderator: Thom Powers/Toronto IFF and Stranger Than Fiction.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 13/11 09:30 hrs.

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Think Outside the Box Office - A Manifesto

Direct access to the audience, overall control of your film and a significantly higher share of the revenues - it might sound too good to be true, but the new hybrid distribution models, which combine direct sales from the filmmaker with distribution via a third party to cinemas, DVD releases and television, are quickly becoming state of the art within documentary distribution thanks to a number of inspiring success stories.

We have invited filmmaker Jon Reiss, named ‘One of the 10 Digital Directors to Watch’ by Variety, to CPH:DOX to give a hands-on keynote presentation about the new models. Jon Reiss is coming to Copenhagen with fresh experience from his latest film ‘Bomb It’ and with his upcoming book publication ‘Think Outside the Box Office: The Ultimate Guide to Film Distribution and Marketing for the Digital Era’.

The book introduces a new hybrid distribution model, which combines the best of traditional and new marketing techniques and which gives us a systematic, step-by-step introduction to how you can make the most of your rights.

The book has not been published yet, but can be bought directly from Jon Reiss after his keynote speech.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 13/11 11:30 hrs.

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Original title Think Outside the Box Office a Manifesto Running time 90 min.

Meet the Funds

Securing the financing to complete a documentary film can seem nearly impossible. It can be as time- and energy consuming and require as much creativity as filmmaking. But good things happen to good people - and recently new funders have entered the field - each with a solid commitment

Original title Meet the Funds Running time 60 min.

to making money available for documentary production. A couple of these are invited to take part in DOX:FORUM this year, joining colleagues here that represent well known and older - but just as dedicated - funds for documentary film. This panel talk offers the chance to meet representatives of important funding organizations. Gain insight into what they look for in a proposal and grant application. Know the common mistakes to avoid before you submit your application, take away strategies that can make your project stand out during the panel review and be sure to bring business cards and your best pitch for your new project.

Panelists: Patricia Finneran/Sundance Documentary Fund, Ryan Harrington/ Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, Thomas Krag/EURIMAGES, Adella Ladjevardi/Cinereach, Charlotte Appelgren/Cine-Regio.

Moderator: Thom Powers/Toronto IFF & Stranger Than Fiction.

After the panel talk, MEDIA Desk Danmark will host an informal drinks reception, which will round off this year’s DOX:FORUM. Ditte Cohn of the MEDIA Desk will introduce MEDIA, yet another significant funder of documentary films, as well as European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs, EAVE. Alan Fountain from EAVE will also attend the event.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Friday 13/11 14:00 hrs.

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Seminar: The Revolution Will Be Twittered Iran & the Internet

As part of this year’s focus on Iran, one of this year’s Journalist Days is dedicated to a media seminar, where Iranian artists, social debaters and journalists will discuss the new forms of communication and the opportunities that have come about as a result of the proliferation of the internet in Iran. The seminar will focus on the use of the internet’s communication networks among journalists, bloggers and other web editors in their aim to reflect everyday life in Iran as they experience it. We will take a look at how the implementation of new social media in Iran plays a role in the exchange of views among the Iranian people. Among the participants in the debate you can find the director Reza Haeri, the blogger Arash Kamangir and the journalist and media researcher Omid Habibinia.

The seminar is organised in collaboration with IMS and moderated by Jesper Højberg, the director of IMS - International Media Support.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Thursday 12/11 16:30 hrs.

272 SEMINARS

Original title Seminar: The Revolution Will Be Twittered - Iran & the Internet Running time 90 min.

KidnappeD BY Taleban

Covering the news in war zones often means risking one’s life. When Danish journalists report from trouble spots such as the Helmand province in Afghanistan, they need an Afghan journalist to be able to work on Taleban-controlled territory - a so-called ‘fixer’. Ajmal Naqshbandi was a fixer. In 2007, he and the Italian journalist he

Original title Kidnappet af Taleban - om krigsjournalistikkens etiske udfordringer Running time 150 min.

worked for were kidnapped by the Taleban in Afghanistan. Thanks to great media attention and the efforts of his government, the Italian journalist was released, while Ajmal was less fortunate. He was forgotten by his Italian employer, didn’t enjoy the same level of media attention and was executed by the Taleban. Ajmal’s fate and the time after his death is portrayed in the fascinating and deeply personal documentary ‘Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi’, which takes the viewer on an intense journey behind the news coverage in a war zone, where nationality can determine the value of a human life.

In collaboration with International Media Support, we will discuss the use of local journalists by Danish and other foreign media in Afghanistan. The event is introduced by the Danish premiere of ‘Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi’, followed by the film’s director Ian Olds, the Afghan journalist Barry Salaam, the director of International Media Support Jesper Højberg and the president of the Danish Union of Journalists Mogens Blicher Bjerregård discussing the journalistic and ethical challenges that are linked to news coverage in war zones, and the safety initiatives that have to be put in place to protect local journalists and their families.

SCREENING DATES Cinemateket Wednesday 11/11 15:00 hrs.

SEMINARS 273

Border Documents

Can documentation be seen as an anchoring of new social and political realities and not just as a form of passport identification or pure representation? This is the question posed in this three-day seminar about border documentation.

We are striving towards new perspectives on today’s status and function of documentaries - as they cross the ontological boundaries between fact and fiction, art and reality (object/subject, the social, the political, the ethical) and reveal alternative ways of seeing, witnessing, representing, archiving and experiencing what Hito Steyerl, who will himself be present at the seminar, calls “the elements of truth”.

The seminar has come about through the collaboration of Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, Free University Berlin InterArts, Jadavpur University (India) Film Studies, Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmith’s University in London, and with the guest participation of Clandestino Festival (Sweden) and Migrant Media (UK), among others. Beyond Borders is sponsored by the AHRC UK Beyond Text programme.

Read more about the three-day programme on www.cphdox.dk.

SCREENING DATES The Royal Academy of Fine Arts 09/11 - 11/11 11:00 hrs.

274 SEMINARS

Original title Border Documents

URBAN CHANGE: CITIES ON SPEED SEMINAR

In the year 1900, 160 million people lived in cities. This number has risen to 3,4 billion today and everything indicates that 7,2 billion people will have settled in urban areas in 2050. Mean while this

Original title Urban Change: Cities on Speed seminar

growth will happen solely in developing countries. This will cause enormous problems: collapse of infrastructure, significant lack of space, insurmountable slums, garbage in the streets, high danger of contamination, lack of water supplies and no access to medicine or food.

If the cities were the utopia of the 20th century, a place of dreams where technology had yet to prove its flipside, the megacities may very well turn out to be the nightmares of the 21st century.

When progress moves at a pace that leaves organization behind, and 10 million unregistered migrants are forced to organize themselves in a 3rd world megacity, people will act in desperation – politicians, urban planners and citizens alike.

The URBAN CHANGE SEMINAR is organized by CITIES ON SPEED, Overgaden – Institute for Contemporary Art, Arkitektforbundet, The American Embassy, DR and The Danish Film Institute and will be helt in English.

DOX:CLUB, Kunstakademiet/Charlottenborg, Kgs. Nytorv 1.

SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Friday 13/11 09:30 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Saturday 14/11 11:00 hrs.

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DOX:EXPANDED CONCERTS AND PARTIES SPECIAL SCREENINGS

CONCERTS AND PARTIES

The core of the festival’s profile is the idea of thinking in new ways about the documentary film genre by integrating it with the reality that the films reflect – and that also goes for the club and music scene.

Jack White from The White Stripes will visit the festival with a new and critically acclaimed film about the band – and he will bring along his latest project The Dead Weather. Mogwai will be here and spin the turntables in connection with the world premiere of Vincent Moon’s latest concert film about them. Jóhann Jóhannsson will perform the soundtrack for Max Kestner’s ‘Dreams in Copenhagen’ live in Koncerthuset together with DR’s Youth Ensemble, and The Havels will do the same in their own special way at the

screening of the portrait film about them, when they visit DOX:CLUB, where you can also hear the Danish Efterklang playing live.

At the National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst) we have set the stage for three cross-genre live performances with Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Blue Doundation’s alter ego Ghost Society and the American sound, image and word magician DJ Spooky. And we haven’t even mentioned half of our EXPANDED programme.

CITIES ON SPEED PREMIERE

During CPH:DOX you can see the four, new ‘Cities on Speed’ films,

all over the world - among other things they were a great success

but already on October 22 you can join an afterparty, which will be

at this year’s Roskilde Festival.

held after the preview screening of the films in the warehouse of Empire Bio. Colombian group Bomba Estéreo is joined by Århus-

The event is presented by ‘Cities on Speed’ in collaboration with

based DJ BANG BANG CLUB, while the two VJ’s behind 2DVISUALS

Music from... Around.

will do a live mix of the raw footage from the four Cities on Speed films combined with Bomba Esteréo’s own visuals.

Bomba Esteréo is the spearhead of a new wave of Colombian urban music which fuses traditional cumbia, bullerengue and champeta with dub, electronic music, hip hop and reggae. The result is artistic and top-quality dance music. Their latest album ‘ESTELLA’ earned great international acclaim, and the last year the band has toured SCREENING DATES Empire Bio Thursday 22/10 22:00 hrs.

Cities on Speed + Afrikan Boy LIVE

Join us in celebrating the new Danish documentary film series

as well as in his involvement with Buraka Som Sistema’s ‘Blood

‘Cities of Speed’ with a dose of urban music. After the first festival

Diamonds Mixtape’, but it becomes explicit in his performances,

screening of the films about Bogotá and Cairo (see DANISH:DOX

where he shows images from classic slave films such as ‘Kunta

and URBAN CHANGE) the merely 20 year old London-based rapper

Kinte’, while he raps over the sound of whip lashes. But the

Young Sunny Ade aka. Afrikan Boy will set foot on a Danish stage

messages are almost always delivered with a solid sense of

for the first time, for a terrific live show. In the past year he has

humour. Expect an inciting mix of dancehall, dub and hip hop in an

roused people’s attention in his joint concerts with names like

M.I.A. league.

M.I.A. and Buraka Som Sistema, who are also among his musical influences. He originally comes from Lagos Town in Nigeria, and

Tickets cost 70 kr and can be bought via www.cphdox.dk or at the

the transition from the chaotic African megacity to the streets of

door. It’s also possible to join the party after the films.

London are reflected in his lyrics - like in the track ‘Who stole my Visa’. His political approach to music is obvious in his own songs SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Saturday 7/11 20:00 hrs.

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Iranian Hip Hop Night: Babak Vakili Live

CPH:DOX, Støberiet, and the hip hop talent factory Bazar Music

Støberiet on Blågårds Plads 3 on Thursday, 29 October. Doors open

Shop invite you to an evening dedicated to all things underground

at 20:00 hrs and tickets cost 40 kr. The event is supported by the VI

and focuses on the latest tendencies within young Iranian art,

KBH’R’ fund.

film, and music, both inside and outside of Iran. ‘Rappin in Teheran’ is a brand new film about young Iranian hip hop and the

The films will also be screened on Friday, 6 November. Rasmus

challenges faced by rappers in Teheran, and ‘Vakilism’ is about

Christian Elling, a researcher on Iranian culture and language, will

the Nørrebro-based rapper with Iranian roots Babak Vakili, who

introduce the films with a talk about Persian rap. After the films,

uses socio-critical texts to rap about life as a human being and as

the directors will be present to answer questions about the films.

an immigrant in today’s Denmark. After the screening Vakili will

The event is supported by the VI KBH’R fund.

take to the stage, followed by Copenhagen’s youngster funk crew number one, the DJ collective Pladevennerne, who will round off the evening. The event takes place in the rooms of Kulturhuset SCREENING DATES Støberiet Thursday 29/10 20:00 hrs. / Byens Lys Friday 6/11 22:00 hrs.

Stages + Dúné live

On 29 October, CPH:DOX will hold a preview event in Pumpehuset

can be bought via www.billetlugen.dk. Please note that concert

with the world premiere of the debut director Uffe Truust’s

tickets give you free access to the film screening. It is not possible

breakneck and brutally honest road movie ‘Stages’ (see the review

to buy separate tickets for the film).

under SOUND & VISION), which follows the seven young members of the electro rock band Dúné during the course of two years.

Things are proceeding at full throttle, but we are also there when it hurts, and when one of the band’s members is suddenly hit by an emotional jet lag somewhere between Moscow and Tokyo. After the film, Dúné will step directly out of the screen and onto the stage, as they kick off their autumn tour with a big concert. The film is shown again during the festival from 6 to 15 November, where it is selected for the SOUND & VISION competition programme. (Tickets SCREENING DATES Pumpehuset Thursday 29/10 20:00 hrs.

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Electronic thursday

As a pre-opening to this year’s CPH:DOX, Elektronisk Torsdag and

house graphic designer and booker for the now-defunct Klubklub

Empire Bio invite you to an alternative approach to the magic of the

on Stengade 30, a VJ for Rumpistol at the Roskilde Festival,

cinema theatre’s darkness. A double concert with two of Denmark’s

and a booker and press agent for the succesful Strøm Festival.

electronic scene’s most interesting names, accompanied by

In addition, you can also experience the quirky and provocative

two talented VJs who in honour of the occasion will live-sample

Karsten Pflum whose aural universe and bass programming

extracts from this year’s CPH:DOX programme. The music will

gives Empire Bio’s bass-heavy surround system a good kick. He is

be transmitted over the thundering PA system of Empire Bio’s

accompanied by another talented VJ, Torben Olander, a narrative

Auditorium 1, where the visuals will be projected onto the screen.

and visual aesthete, who is also one of the tireless forces behind

SpejderRobot, who in 2008 released one of the most critically

Filmstationen at Nørrebro Station.

acclaimed and organic electronica albums as of recent, plays a rare solo concert and is accompanied by VJ and graphic designer Pernille Krog Mogensen, whose resumé includes being both a SCREENING DATES Empire Bio Thursday 5/11 22:00 hrs.

Burning: Mogwai live DJ set

Vincent Moon and his co-director Nathanaël La Scouarnec have

shoegazer, art rock and instrumental metal. Some might notice

made a large black-and-white dream of a concert film, which

the absence of words in large parts of Mogwai’s musical catalogue,

gives us an extremely close-up view of the instrumental rockers

but also that the band knows how to communicate without words

of Mogwai. We are not only proud to be able to host the world

like few others. This is what ‘Burning’ centres around - the feelings

premiere of this cinematic gem, but also to be able to present it

that are awakened in an audience, even without sing-alongs and

with nobody less than Mogwai themselves, as they replace post

catchy refrains. We promise that there is a lot to celebrate when

rock with electronic sounds in an exclusive DJ set! The Glasgow-

DOX:CLUB opens its doors and Stuart Braithwaite & Martin Bulloch

based band, which since the mid-1990s has positioned itself as

serve up a musical bonanza, that can only surprise you.

one of the present times’ most influential bands, derive their inspiration from the likes of Joy Division, Pink Floyd and My Bloody Valentine. Their style has been identified by critics as belonging to the post-rock sphere, even if they have visible connections to both SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Friday 13/11 21:30 hrs.

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Efterklang live: performing parades

Efterklang introduces its series of films and programmes at

to both Gaffa and Ekstra Bladet, ‘Parades’ was the best Danish

DOX:CLUB, which this year will be housed in a giant tent that we

album of the year. After the film, Efterklang will stage a concert and

have erected in the courtyard of the Royal Danish Academy of

present their latest songs, performed in what the band promised to

Fine Arts. Efterklang will get going by presenting the brand new

be an intoxicating, playful and powerful rock expression, to contrast

concert film Performing Parades by Benjamin Hesselholdt. The

the film’s spherical mood.

film is shot in the DR Koncerthuset and moves through a spherical universe, which creates an elegant connection between the staging of fluorescent mountainscapes and the pointed forest troll hats of the musicians. It provides dreamers with rich opportunities to hover away into magical forest landscapes to the sound of Parades, Efterklang’s latest album, which was released in 2007 and awarded three Steppeulv prizes and two Danish Music Awards. According SCREENING DATES DOX:CLUB Wednesday 11/11 21:00 hrs. / DOX:CLUB Thursday 12/11 21:00 hrs.

DOX iN Stærekassen: Høsttidløs + Per Nørgård, Martin Verdet & Jacob K

‘Høsttidløs’ is a film about music - the life that music creates

som levede for længe siden’ (‘One day you shall be one of those

and the life that surrounds music. Martin Verdet’s beautiful and

who lived a long time ago’) for solo cello, written especially for the

evocative film follows the internationally acclaimed composer Per

film and Frederiksdal. The work is played by Jakob Kullberg, whose

Nørgård, the cello maestros Valter Despalj and Ralph Kirschbaum

close and long-time collaboration with Per Nørgård has made him

as well as the Kroger Quartet during their musical work at

one of the leading interpreters of the composer’s music.

Frederiksdal Manor on Lolland. The film follows the passing seasons, while the audience is taken on a voyage to the world of

Tickets can be bought via www.cphdox.dk or www.billetlugen.dk

music through the portrayal of life at Frederiksdal - in everything from the detailed work in the rehearsal room to the machines’ processing of the heavy earth. After the film, there will be an artist talk with French director Martin Verdet, as well as a subsequent world premiere of Per Nørgård’s ‘En gang skal du være en af dem, SCREENING DATES Stærekassen Saturday 14/11 14:00 hrs.

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Home Video: Temporary Copenhagen 2

When Vincent Moon paid a brief visit to Copenhagen this spring,

publish how you can join this unique, double exposure apartment

he among other things had the time to arrange a longer take-

concert film with a live apartment concert to boot. And if you want

away show in a private apartment with no less than nine young

to provide your own home for the occasion, then feel free to write to

Danish bands, including Efterklang, Slaraffenland, Choir of Young

takeawayshow@cphdox.dk.

Believers and Thulebasen (read more about the films in the Vincent Moon series). On the closing day of the festival, we will show the film in the surroundings it deserves - a yet unnamed apartment with plenty of domestic bliss. And this time we will get together an even larger number of Danish bands - for an even longer musical medley. Vincent Moon will of course be present himself to capture the battle with his camera - so make a mark in your calendar on 15 November and keep in touch on www.cphdox.dk, where we will SCREENING DATES Time and place TBA Sunday 15/11

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26th —> 31th October 2010

Institute of Documentary Film: Promotion, training and networking for Eastern European film professionals.

IDF runs Ex Oriente Film Workshop, East European Forum, portal of Eastern European documentary films. www.DOKweb.net Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival: The biggest festival of creative documentary in Central Europe.

Surprising films of high aesthetic quality that belong on the big screen. Three competitions, retrospective profiles, screenings followed by in-depth discussions. www.dokument-festival.cz East Silver: Skolska 12, 110 01 Prague 1, Czech Republic / Tel: +420 222 954 526 Tel/Fax: +420 224 214 858 Skype: eastsilver.net Email: office@eastsilver.net

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East Silver Doc Market: Czech Republic, Jihlava / October 26 – 31, 2010. The only digitized market for Eastern European docs.

East Silver Caravan: a traveling showcase of documentaries submitted to 25 key international festivals and markets.

East Silver TV Focus: Eastern European docs made to fit broadcasters' slots.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

DOX:EXPANDED is full of events of a special – and very different – nature. This year, we will occupy a supermarket with a consumer-critical film about the foods industry, a private apartment with a nine hour long adaptation of Marx’s ‘Das Kapital’ – and the tower of Rundetårn with some of the most interesting films from the borderland between fashion, film and art in ‘A Shaded View On Fashion Film’.

DOX:EXPANDED is about broadening the space of documentary and making it

encounter reality in totally new and unorthodox ways – and, admittedly, about having some good old-fashioned fun.

For reality can also be just that. Now and again.

DOX:EXPANDED Special Screenings is presented with the support of Jameson.

A Shaded View on Fashion Film

At the end of September, the film festival ‘A Shaded View on

Pernet herself has divided into two sub-categories: ‘Reflections’

Fashion Film’ attracted sell-out audiences for the second year in

and ‘Communication’. In ‘Reflections’, we will show films that are

a row. The Parisian festival, which is organised by the icon fashion

made independently of designers and fashion brands. Here you

expert and diva Diane Pernet, focuses on the expression that

can among other things experience Steven Klein’s ‘Fiction Noir’, a

is born in the meeting between fashion, art and film. CPH:DOX

modern adaptation of the 1940s femme fatale, given a cinematic

will - using ‘A Shaded View of Fashion Films’ as its starting

lease of life by Lara Stone. ‘Communication’, on the other hand,

point - show a selection of works, whose living images add a new

covers films that are made using a designer’s wish to convey his or

dimension to an industry that is otherwise primarily defined by the

her vision as a starting point.

constant presence of the still image and the slinky ballet dance of the catwalk. But the fashion industry has always been linked to other art forms, both in its obligatory celebrity-worship and in its artistic expression. The evening’s film programme includes both documentary ‘eye candy’ and avant-garde art films, which SCREENING DATES The Tower of Rundetårn Saturday 07/11 20:00 hrs. Dagmar Thursday 12/11 19:00 hrs.

YouTube Battle 2009

Do you want to be named world champion VJ in YouTube-Battle?

Frog Crew and Moonspoonsaloon are among those who’ve already

Last year, we launched Denmark’s first YouTube-Battle, but this

signed up, so hurry up and get your name down - the tickets are

year CPH:DOX is going the whole hog with a gigantic YouTube party

in great demand. The night’s three winners will walk away with a

at Pumpehuset - and you are hereby invited to attend! Last year’s

Playstation PSP, and free drinks will be served to all from 20:00

loser, the Danish documentarist Michael Noer (‘The Wild Hearts’),

hrs!

is the night’s host together with Julie Umulige, as Pumpehuset boils over with bad resolution, Spanking Monkey, Crying Baby,

The competition starts at 21:00 hrs, and we should maybe add

Singing Hitler and whatever else you/they can come up with. Sign

that Jameson will serve free drinks to all in the Jameson Green

up by sending a mail with your name, address, telephone number

Lounge. Tickets can be bought via www.cphdox.dk or at the door.

and your chosen YouTube link to youtube@cphdox.dk - after

Price: 50 kr.

applying you will receive more information about how to prepare yourself. Couples are welcome! And Thomas Fleurquin, Crunchy SCREENING DATES Pumpehuset Thursday 12/11 21:00 hrs.

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Eat the Reality - Supermarket After Dark

On Friday November 13 CPH:DOX will take the film ‘Food, Inc.’

dream about the supermarket of the future with SUPERmarked.

(see NEW:DEAL) out of the cinema and into the supermarket. In

org. There will be plenty of goodies and drinks and nobody will

collaboration with Kvickly and SUPERmarked.org, CPH:DOX will

leave Kvickly empty-handed that night.

present a night where the usual setting of the supermarket will be made over in new and alternative ways. Apart from the special

Tickets can be bought via www.cphdox.dk. We recommend you to

screening of ‘Food, Inc.’, the audience will encounter a unique food

hurry up, as tickets to this kind of DOX-event tends to be snatched

performance, staged by the performance and pictorial artist Dorte

from the shelf quickly.

Holbek, spiced up with bar code music by Mads Høbye and Daniel Brynolf from Illutron, as well as with sound art by TW 63. You will also have the opportunity to enter into discussions with individual food producers, taste the difference in differently produced foods at Simon’s Cooking Class, confess your consumption habits and SCREENING DATES Kvickly Falkoner Alle 90 Friday 13/11 21:00 hrs.

SHEPHERD WORKSHOP

On Sunday, 15 November you will have the opportunity to get in

and underlines the film’s funny deconstruction of the Western myth

close contact with the sheepish race, as CPH:DOX earmarks a

about masculine life as a loner. After the screening, we will go from

whole evening to focus on sheep. We will show ‘Sweetgrass’, a

the American to the Danish West. Denmark’s only female shepherd,

patient and beautiful film about sheep, shepherds and the majestic

Berit Kiilerich, will bring her sheep from her farm in Western

landscapes of Montana, USA. ‘Sweetgrass’ is a portrait of life on

Jutland to Copenhagen, and she will give you the chance to take a

a sheep farm and the annual summer grazing period. It is a three

closer look at a shepherd’s work with sheep.

month long journey through Beartooth Mountains, where we get to see both a mountainous terrain, misbehaving sheep and loneliness, exhaustion and frustration. But it is also a journey through a mesmerising landscape, which is portrayed through perfectly composed widescreen images, and set against the soundtrack of an impressive bleating choir, which both drowns out everything else SCREENING DATES Empire Bio Sunday 15/11 15:00 hrs.

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Home Video: LISTENING NIGHTS

Lisbeth Jessen’s film about Tine Bryld is an intimate and moving

While the film is about the radio programme and the woman behind

film about the legendary radio show Tværs and about the brains

it, we will tonight focus on another, equally important side of the

behind it. Over the course of 30 years, Tine Bryld has listened to,

programme and the Tværs universe, namely the listener. We dive

guided and shaken hope into youths with small and large problems.

into the Tværs universe and make ourselves comfortable in an

The film follows the production of the very last Tværs programme in

apartment, where we evoke the special, intimate Tværs atmosphere

the autumn of 2008. Here we get to hear some of the conversations

with herbal tea, woolly socks and teen spleen.

that Tine Bryld has had since the first Tværs programme in 1972, and we meet some of the people she has helped. And we are also

Tickets can be bought via www.cphdox.dk or at the door.

allowed in on Tine Bryld’s own life - both private and professional - and get to hear about the thoughts she had in connection with her work about how one can bring back the belief that one can succeed in life.

SCREENING DATES Lejlighed i Larsbjørnstræde 5 Friday 13/11 20:00 hrs.

Home Video: Das Kapital in the Living Room

CPH:DOX will hoist the red flags, abolish the right to private

plans and sing the ‘International’ in all languages present. The

property, and lift the public into private territory for an in every way

revolution starts at 17.00 and continues until the film ends. Tickets

special screening of the German director Alexander Kluge’s nine

can be obtained via www.cphdox.dk or at the door.

hour long adaptation of Karl Marx’s communist magnum opus ‘Das Kapital’. Yes, it is long - but the book is even longer, and for those of you who can’t cope with all of its three volumes, ‘Das Kapital in the living room’ is a comfortable way to impress your friends with a critical analysis of the social structures at the root of the financial crisis. In addition, we will serve lovely homemade food in the soft sofas, as well as taking well-earned breaks to discuss five year

SCREENING DATES Lejlighed i Larsbjørnstræde 5 Saturday 14/11 17:00 hrs.

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De grænseløse - kliker, klaner og karakterer DIRECTOR: Morten Vammen

Morten Vammen’s latest tour de force through the subcultural

eye in the night) about ravers and the ‘Paranoide er altid et skridt

Copenhagen of the 0’s: nerds, fake jet-setters, super-collectors,

foran’ (the paranoid are always one step ahead) about surveillance.

plane-spotters, fashionista-fascists, psychedelics, plastic-

‘De grænseløse’ will be shown at a secret special event to invitees

dreamers, studio-dogsbodies, bodybuilders, mind-builders,

only on Saturday, 7 November. (PS: tickets can be obtained by

self-branders, reality-victims, hyper-liberals, sadists and

sending a mail to nortonamen@hotmail.com).

other normality-challenging characters, cliques and clans in a black-humoured film about the types you meet in our age. An unholy mix of people including Jørn Ege, Jackie Navarro, Bjørn Svin, Throbbing Gristle, Mr. Leather Europe, Peter Leander, DJ Sugi and Boldværket. Morten Vammen is the man behind the novel Efterfesten, the first Danish techno records, the ‘Vinderne’ (winners) series about the jet set, the DOX film ‘Øjet i natten’ (the

Apocalypse NOW! DIRECTOR: Craig Baldwin

The end is near! CPH:DOX, in collaboration with Copenhagen

train station building Lygten will be the setting for the literary

Reads, presents an evening dedicated to the symbols of literary

salon, and Copenhagen’s underground will do its best to make sure

doomsday. Experience Craig Baldwin’s conspiratorial found-footage

there’s a happy ending.

film ‘Tribulation 99’ with a specially composed live accompaniment by the Copenhagen droner/space-rock/kraut-rock trio Svartbag.

Afterwards, the author Mette Moestrup will provide a literary take with a potpourri consisting of extracts from her forthcoming book ‘Jævnet med jorden’ (‘Razed to the Ground’). Mette Moestrup has, among other titles, published the poem collection ‘Tatoveringer (1998), ‘Golden Delicious’ (2002) and ‘Kingsize’ (2006). The former

SCREENING DATES Lygten Saturday 7/11 20:00 hrs.

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The DeVilles - Burlesque Night

Copenhagen Burlesque is paying homage to ‘The DeVilles’ star

provocative and flamboyant rags. You don’t need to have 3-foot

Kitten DeVille with a glamorous and daring evening dedicated

long legs to be a part of the interactive total theatre. C’mon, Candy

to lightly dressed women. Fun, Fun, Fun! Burlesque is all about

Pants!

getting out of oneself, shaking one’s legs, and above all having fun - a good starting point for a wild party, and that’s exactly what it’ll be when Copenhagen Burlesque follows up on September’s large cabaret show with a high-heeled and selectively costumed soirée, where everything can - and most likely will - happen. Throw yourself headlong into the costume trunk, grab some of the free drinks in the Jameson Green Lounge and turn up in your most

SCREENING DATES Empire Bio Saturday 7/11 22:30 hrs.

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DOX:INDUSTRY DOX:FORUM DOX:MARKET DOX:LAB

DOX:FORUM

DOX:FORUM is the three day industry forum of CPH:DOX which is part market event and part learning lab for producers in hybrid distribution and alternative distribution channels for documentary films. Launched successfully in 2007 DOX:FORUM focuses on theatrical and DVD distribution as well as alternative distribution venues such as online platforms, museums, and art galleries. As of 2009 DOX:FORUM is increasing its focus on finishing funds, this year with the seminar MEET THE FUNDS, which introduces its participants to representatives from a number of American film funds.

DOX:FORUM presents a tightly packed program of project presentations, prearranged one-on-one meetings between film makers and distributors, matchmaking events and a line-up of seminars and master classes - and as a brand new

thing in 2009, DOX:FORUM will also introduce a number of Danish world premiering titles in collaboration with CPH:DOX. As CPH:DOX is the largest documentary film event in the Nordic region, DOX:FORUM has a natural emphasis on Nordic projects and Nordic talent, but welcomes projects from around the world.

The third edition of DOX:FORUM also features a new collaboration with European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE), which brings three EAVE projects to Copenhagen this year.

DOX:FORUM is funded by Filmkopi, Nordisk Kulturfond and Nordisk Film & TV Fond.

DOX:MARKET

DOX:MARKET is a Video-on-Demand documentary film market running in conjunction with CPH:DOX. In 2009, the market will be open from 06 - 13 November with priority access given to attending buyers, festival programmers and curators.

DOX:MARKET is located at The Danish Film Institute, in close proximity to the festival center, and presents 20 viewing stations operated with an on-demand digital screening system, offering professionals easy access to an extensive lineup 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 ARGOS, Filmkontakt Nord, LUX and Sheffield Doc/Fest.

The DOX:MARKET is established in close cooperation with Fast Forward (FFWD) and supported by Aiaiai-headphones.

ARGOS - CENTER FOR ART AND MEDIA

Argos explores the relationship between art and media and how these

in Europe that is supported by the European Community’s eContentplus

influence our perception of the world. In a time when digital

programme. The partnership with GAMA is part of the ongoing efforts to

information overload, industrial populism and corporate branding set

open up the Argos collection to a larger audience.

the tone, the arts centre devotes itself to new forms of visibility and publicity. Argos’ territory is comprised of the audiovisual and

Argos has curated 18 works in 5 different series:

plastic arts, whereby much attention is given to the interface with other disciplines and to the conscious and alert association with

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evolutions within the information society.

Performing Space

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Capsular

The centre was founded in Brussels in 1989. Its functions include

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production, conservation and archiving, as well as presentation –

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exhibitions, film and video showings, lectures and performances;

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additionally, Argos houses a public media library and provides a

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service for the international distribution of artists’ films, videos

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and multimedia installations.

DISEMBODIED VOICES Building and Grounds

SHELLY SILVER – NEW YORK

An important aspect of Argos’ multiple functions is the constantly

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expanding media library. Over the years, Argos has created a unique

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What I’m Looking For

collection, which contains 2.500 film and video titles, the largest of

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its kind in Belgium. The media library also contains 3.500 books,

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catalogues, specialist art magazines and critical compilations on audio-visual art and visual culture.

The Argos preservation program is a leading initiative to take stock of and preserve the Belgian audio-visual art patrimony. Argos is a partner of GAMA (Gateway to Archives of Media Art), a central portal

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FILMKONTAKT NORD

Filmkontakt Nord’s International Network & Marketing Manager is de-

are available at Nordisk Panorama Market Online – one from each of the

lighted to give you a taste of some of the latest and greatest documenta-

five Nordic countries. With these films you will be taken on an intellectual

ries from the Nordic countries.

and emotional ride from inside the South Korean dictatorship to the terrifying TV-reality of Italy through an unsolved crime in Norway to the daily

Filmkontakt Nord (FkN) was established in 1991 by a group of visionary

life of a young Buddhist priest in Tokyo. To further explore Dreamland, we

Nordic filmmakers who wanted to further the conditions for independ-

direct you to Nordisk Panorama Market Online later this month, as the

ent short and documentary film. Since then, it’s been their dedication to

film awaits its international premiere at IDFA. Sign up to enjoy this and

promote Nordic shorts and docs internationally and to advance Nordic-

many other great documentaries.

international professional networks. 18 years has passed, and FkN has truly become the First Stop for Nordic Shorts & Docs having established

Nordic Shorts and Docs – click and watch!

itself as a unique central source of information and expertise.

www.filmkontakt.com

FkN’s main event is Nordisk Panorama, comprising a film festival, a

Filmkontakt Nord has curated the following films:

documentary co-financing forum and a market. Spanning all professional

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focus areas from development and financing to distribution and exhibition,

Videocracy

Nordisk Panorama Event is the main annual business platform for shorts

Nemesis

and docs in the Nordic region.

Ito – A Diary of an Urban Priest Dreamland

In 2008 FkN 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, and currently more than 600 films are available around the clock.

FkN has chosen to show you a small selection of the documentaries that were in competition at this year’s Nordisk Panorama and at the same time

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LUX

LUX is an international arts agency for the support and promotion of art-

exhibitions, touring shows) both independently and in partnership with

ists’ moving image practice and the ideas that surround it. LUX exists to

other organisations; publishing (books, DVDs, websites); commissioning

provide access to, and develop audiences for, artists’ moving image work;

both new art works and writing; research support for curators, research-

to provide professional development support for artists working with the

ers and academics; professional development support for artists and arts

moving image; and to contribute to and develop discourse around prac-

professionals and the development of research resources.

tice. www.lux.org.uk Founded in 2002 as a charity and not-for-profit limited company, it builds on a lineage of predecessor organisations (The London Filmmakers Co-

LUX has curated the following film:

operative, London Video Arts and The Lux Centre) which stretches back

Bernadette

to the 1960s. LUX is the only organisation of its kind in the UK, it rep-

Patti Smith: Long For The City

resents the country’s only significant collection of artists’ film and video

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and is the largest distributor of such work in Europe (representing 4500

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works by approximately 1500 artists from 1920s to the present day). LUX

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works with a large number of major institutions including museums, gal-

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leries, festivals and educational establishments, as well as directly with

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the public and artists. LUX receives regular revenue funding from Arts

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Council England.

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The particular focus of LUX is visual arts-based moving image work, a definition which includes experimental film, video art, installation art, performance art, personal documentary, essay films and animation and is inclusive both in terms of context and critical discourse.

The organisation’s main activities are distribution - acting as an agent for artists who work with the moving image; exhibition (screenings, gallery

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Sheffield Doc/Fest

Sheffield Doc/Fest is proud to curate a selection of some of the best UK docs from the 2009 programme.

CPH: DOX and Sheffield Doc/Fest share a vision of promoting excellence in documentary and getting great films to be seen. These documentaries are a cross-section of established and emerging talent from the UK that share a breadth of stories and styles. All of which have something unique to say about our world and the state of documentary today.

In a time when audiences are still hungry for documentary, but finances hinder promotion, partnerships and cooperation between festivals gets docs out to be seen by different audiences around the world and helps incredible stories reach more people. After all, films are made to be seen.

We hope you enjoy this selection.

Hussain Currimbhoy Programmer Sheffield Doc./Fest www.sheffdocfest.com Sheffield Doc./Fest has curated the following films: Far From Gone Erasing David Men of The City Rough Aunties

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DOX:LAB

In the spirit of supporting new talents CPH:DOX this year launches an exclusive talent workshop, handpicking a small number of young, international filmmakers and artists to participate in an experimental documentary laboratory. 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 in terms of culture, film history, narrative traditions, educational backgrounds and different methods of and access to production we hope to stimulate a dialogue based new aesthetic. The participants will in teams of two develop and produce 12 films which will be screened during the next edition of CPH:DOX. We cannot wait to see what these carefully arranged-marriages will bring us.

DOX:LAB will be a returning lab and production program for young filmmakers taking place during CPH:DOX each year.

The talent program is conducted in cooperation with the Filmworkshop / DFI and the Danish Film School, supported by The Danish Film Institute / DFI and CKU.

Participants ‘09 Wai Mar Nyunt (Burma) Thu Thu Shein (Burma) Camilla Magid (Denmark) Boris Bertram (Denmark) Katrine Philp (Denmark) Nikolaj Larsen (Denmark) Annamaria Helgasdottir (Denmark) Ada B. Søby (Denmark) Michael Noer (Denmark) Khavn de la Cruz (Philippines) John Torres (Philippines) Sherad Anthony Sanchez (Philippines) Aada Niilola (Finland) Iris Olsson (Finland) Frosti Runolfsson (Iceland) Gan Chao (China) Zero Lin (China) Corinne Shawi (Lebanon) Halim Sabbagh (Lebanon) Mahasen Nasser El-Din (Palestine) Yves Niyongabo (Rwanda) Robin Färdig (Sweden) Caroline Kamya (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 cinéma du reel where reality surpasses fiction and becomes spectacular.

Doc Alliance was born with the awareness that new initiatives 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 to 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 at the five Festivals starting at VISIONS DU REEL Nyon. At the end of the year an international jury decides about the “Doc Alliance Award”. In 2009 the Award will be handed over during the DOK Leipzig. The five national markets support the films at their festivals and in their theatrical, TV and DVD distribution.

WWW.DOCALLIANCEFILMS.COM is the new online portal of Doc Alliance for Video on Demand offering permanent access to 250 outstanding documentaries selected by the five partner festivals.

Twenty new films are added monthly and these can be acquired through streaming or download.

Maggie In Wonderland DIRECTOR: Mark Hammarberg, Ester Martin Bergsmark & Beatrice Maggie Andersson

On the 15th floor in a Malmö suburb lives Maggie, a Kenyan woman with a penchant for golden jewellery and a serious phobia of pigeons.

Maggie has lived in Malmö for many years, but the Swedish welfare state is not necessarily the best dancing partner for a person with enough skeletons in the closet to employ an entire psychiatric ward.

With her traumatic past and her constant longing for her abandoned son, she lives her days with an impressive will to give a new meaning to her existence. The journey into Maggie’s wild, life-affirming, but also mentally disturbed world is taken through revealing video diaries, and the result is both magical and tragic - and a revolutionary experiment in subjective realism. ‘Maggie in Wonderland’ was one of last year’s biggest surprises and has this year been selected for the Doc Alliance competition.

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Original title Maggie In Wonderland Country Sweden Year 2008 Running time 72 min.

Production Silverosa Film Producer Anna Byvald Distribution Det Svenske Filminstitut

Hotel Sahara DIRECTOR: Bettina Haasen

Europe is just a stone’s throw away from North Africa - at least if you judge by the maps. In reality, the journey from one continent to the other is both a long and dangerous one for the many illegal immigrants, who each year try to cross the Strait of Gibraltar. In ‘Hotel Sahara’, we follow a number of Africans, who have different takes on the dream about ‘the European paradise’. Some of them have fantasies about careers as footballers and streets without dust, and have therefore already consigned their fate into the hands of local smugglers. Others harbour no illusions and would rather build up a meaningful life right where they are. What they all share is a sense of unfairness at having been born in the wrong place: in an Africa where one doesn’t have the same opportunities as in the rest of the world. With a sober approach, which both registers beauty and decay, polluted deserts with plastic bags lining all the sandbars and wonderful sunsets over hazy mirages, we follow the film’s

Original title Hotel Sahara Country Germany Year 2008 Running time 85 min.

Production Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion Producer Christian Beetz Distribution Deckert Distribution GmbH

protagonists in their respective countries. Just as their fates remain unclear, the film provides no final answers.

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Survival Song DIRECTOR: Yu Guangyi

A poetic and spectacular Chinese winter landscape is the backdrop for the curious story of the Han family. Mr Han, his wife and Xiao Lizi, the herdsman they employ, have occupied an abandoned house in a desolate mountain area. The house has been evacuated in connection with the state’s water reservoir project, and is constantly facing the threat of demolition. Mr Han is a wild boar hunter, but the primitive and fragile walls of his home conceal some intense everyday dramas.

The herdsman Xiao Lizi is regarded as a dog and is fed with leftovers, accused of peeing on the wife’s clothes and among other things has to punish himself with slaps to the face. The Chinese authorities tear down the roof of the building, and it is all ‘the fucking Party’s fault’, as Mr Han says. The larger political realities that are woven into the small story constantly shine through.

‘Survival Song’ is a beautiful example of how intriguing the documentary format can be when it conveys remote and isolated realities.

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Original title Little Li Country China Year 2008 Running time 94 min.

Production Dongfengxincun Producer Yu Guangyi Distribution Fanhall

Big John DIRECTOR: Håvard Bustnes

The European lightweight boxing champion Ole and his coach, his father and patron Big John, are team Klemetsen. And ‘Big John’ is a sensitive and funny tour de force of their professional and personal careers. In today’s 2007, they appear together with their own band, but the film is intercut with flashbacks of the highs and lows of their boxing career. It’s the story about a spectacular partnership, and both little and big John come across as loving but ambitious and obstinate characters. According to Big John, they never fit into the systems of the boxing world, or any system at all for that matter! They just wanted to box. And that’s what they ended up doing - at a top level all over the world during the 1990s. Their story begs the question as to whether Ole could have achieved better results under more professional and systematic coaching, but that was never an option.

As the film so touchingly emphasises, Big John was and is Ole’s only true coach in all aspects of life.

Original title Blod & Ære Country Norway Year 2008 Running time 85 min.

Production Faction Film as Producer Dag Hoel Distribution Norwegian Film Institute

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Auto*mat DIRECTOR: Martin Marecek

Under the slogan ‘The city is for humans - not for cars’, a young idealist is cycling around the streets of Prague and risking life and limb in order to expose the massive traffic problem, which is gradually suffocating one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. With more cars than inhabitants, Prague holds a sad record of being a motorhappy city, and this can be felt by the environment and the health of its inhabitants. The activists call the project AUTO*MATE and use peaceful means and humorous means such as angel costumes and bumper stickers to contain the growing traffic chaos and to call the politicians into action. But the road to a car-free city is long and full of potholes. Everyone who owns a bike should see this film and rejoice in the invention of the bike lane. And all car owners should see it - and consider taking the bus back home.

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Original title Auto*mat Country Czech Republic Year 2009 Running time 90 min.

Production Bionaut Films Producer barbora fabianova Distribution Taskovski Films (Czech)

The Sound of Insects - Record of a Mummy DIRECTOR: Peter Liechti

What happens, if you agree to turn your back on life - and with an open and philosophical mind throw yourself into the arms of death? This is the question posed by the Swiss documentarist and experimental film director Peter Liechti in his impressionistic death song ‘The Sound of Insects’. Based on the Japanese author Shimada Masahiko’s ‘Until I Am a Mummy’, which itself is based on a true story, he here portrays a 40-year-old man’s self-chosen hunger strike - which ends with his death. Through the Canadian documentary film director Peter Mettler’s chanting voice, and set against a true revelation of a pictorial poem, we follow the diary-form recording of the long and lonely path towards death, from the delirious moments of realisation to the more prosaic experiences of a body that is ceasing to live.

Original title Le chant des insectes - rapport d’une momie Country Switzerland Year 2009 Running time 87 min.

Production Liechti Filmproduktion GmbH Producer Peter Liechti Distribution Autlook Filmsales GbR

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CONTACTS 210 Productions Jacob Pander 625 Sw 10th Ave., Suite 121-C 97205-2788 Portland, Oregon USA jpander@comcast.net Acne Film Kim Buisson Majorsgatan 11 114 47 Stockholm Sweden Tel: +46 85 55 79 900 info@acnefilm.com Akosua Adoma Owusu 7840 Liberty Springs Circle, Alexandria 22306 Va USA Tel: (517) 217-7966 akosuadoma@yahoo.com Alphaville Productions Copenhagen Aps Badstuestræde 17, 1.

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CONTACTS Clarity Productions Martin Mcgale 4 Stables Yard, Argyle Court, 1103 Argyle Street G3 8ND Glasgow UK Tel: +441412218821 info@producingclarity.com Copenhagen Film Company Casper Høyberg Flæsketorvet 75, 2. Sal 1711 København V Denmark ch@cphfilmcompany.dk Crash Course Productions Barney Broomfield Deans Watermill RH16 2QY Lindfield - West Sussex UK barnetbroomfield@mac.com Danish Film Institute Gothersgade 55 1123 København K Denmark Tel: +45 33 74 36 09 kurstein@dfi.dk Deckert Distribution Gmbh Peterssteinweg 13 04107 Leipzig Germany Tel: +49 341 215 66 38 info@deckert-distribution.com Det Svenske Filminstitut Sara Matushita-Rüster Filmhuset, Borgvägen Postboks 27126 S-102 52 Stockholm Sweden Tel: +46 8 665 1100 sara.ruster@sfi.se Doc And Film Daniela Elstner France d.elstner@docandfilm.com Donald Mcglynn Denmark mcglynndonald@yahoo.com

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CONTACTS Harun Farocki Filmproduktion Harun Farocki Pfarrstraße 9496 10317 Berlin Germany Tel: +49 30 533 36 43 hfarocki@compuserve.com

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Laura Bartlett Gallery Fergus ” Elphinstone” 10 Northington Street ” WC1N 2JG” London UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7404 9251 mail@laurabartlettgallery.com

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Kasander Film Julia Ton Netherlands info@kasanderfilm.nl Kaspar Astrup Schröder Kaspar Astrup Schröder Frederiksvej 13 St. 2000 Frederiksberg Denmark Tel: +45 26 92 45 85 kaspar@kasparworks.com Katapult Film Sales 8490 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 5, West Hollywood CA 90069 USA Tel: (1) 310 358 0303 anna@katapultfilms.com Kevin Barker Kevin Barker Denmark kb8000@earthlink.com Kevin Kirchenbauer Hermannstr. 7-8 12049 Berlin Germany Tel: +49 (0) 170 80 38 635 mes.skinny.fists@gmail.com Klassefilm Lise Saxtrup Axel Torv 12c, 1. Sal 1609 Kbh V Denmark Tel: +45 20267440 sax@klassefilm.dk Lasse Hoile Denmark lasse@lassehoile.com

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CONTACTS Nonstop Sales Döbelnsgatan 24 113 52 Stockholm Sweden Tel: +46 8 673 99 99 Nordlys Film Suvi Helminen Gammel Kongevej 119 A, 3.Tv 1850 Frederiksberg C Denmark Tel: (+45) 22382858 mail@nordlysfilm.dk Norwegian Film Institute Dronningens Gate 16 0105 Oslo Norway Tel: +47 22 47 45 00 int@nfi.no O Som E A Fúria Fabienne Martinot Rua Da Sociedade Farmacêutica, 40 3 Esq 1150-340 Lisboa Portugal Tel: +351 213 582 518 geral@osomeafuria.com O’salvation Cine Ltd Charles-Marie Anthonioz 4100 Lealand Lane TN 37204 Nashville USA Tel: (646) 469-4547 charles-marie.anthonioz@ agnesb.fr Oddball Film + Video 275 Capp Street CA 94110 San Francisco USA Tel: +001 415.558.8112 info@oddballfilm.com Pantera Film Gmbh Romuald Karmakar Uhlandstr. 160 101719 Berlin Germany Tel: +49 30 88 62 76 77 info@panterafilm.de Paramount Vantage 5555 Melrose Ave HOLLYWOOD CA 90038 USA Tel: +1 (323) 956-2000

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10 X Dirty Diaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

175 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4’27” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

77 Doronship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

198 138 192 36

Food Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Frændeløs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fuck You Kiss Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

218 203 139 200

Adelia, I Want to Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

171 Affæren i Prag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

133 253 The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Phil Spector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Agrarian Utopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

207 Albert’s Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

122 All Tomorrow’s Parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75, 173 American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

250 American Prince . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

251 American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein . . . . . . .

108 Amphibious (login-logout) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

And I Ride, And I Ride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

79 Another Life Without Sundays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

47 183 The Ape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Arcade Fire: Miroir Noir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

167 L’arrière Saison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

154 Art&Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

256 At Home With the Jedi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

146 23, 314 Auto*mat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Garapa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Great Contemporary Art Bubble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Green Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Greetings from the Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Grenoble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

96 221 228 180 155

231 Back Vocal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bananas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

109 228 Bassidji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Beyond Guilt: The Trilogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

193 249 Beyond the Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Big John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255, 313 A Bit Of Matter And A Little Bit More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

200 A-Bit-To-Bite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

46 144 Bodil’s First Attempt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bogotá Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118, 239 Bondage, Boots & Black Leather - short film programme . . .

Bongo Superstars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

145 181 Broder Daniel Forever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Burning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

172 Burrowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

182 Cairo Garbage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119, 239 Capitalism - A Love Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

218 Cities on Speed Premiere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

280 Complaints Choir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

114 The Cove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

249 La Danse - Le Ballet de L’Opera de Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Dark Night of the Soul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Defamation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Delian Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The DeVilles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Double Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Dreams in Copenhagen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

254 209 107 88 115 252 32

Ed Thigpen: Master Of Time, Rhythm And Taste . . . . . . . . . . .

The Encirclement - Neoliberalism Ensnares Democracy . . . .

The End of the Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Erasing David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Everness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

91 222 220 101 44

The Family Jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

77 La faute des fleurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81, 166 The Film I’m No Longer Talking About . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

183 Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

97 The Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

194

324 INDEX OF FILMS

125 Heart Of Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Heritage + Inland Shipwreck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

208 240 High Rise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hotel Sahara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105, 311 241 Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Human Terrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

110 I Love the Game of the Hockey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54, 185 An Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

197 Imamzadeh Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

234 Impaled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

196 52 The Impossible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

In Between Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

48 In Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

50 (Insecurity Zone (Spiral Jetty)) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

208 Inside/Outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Insurgentes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

76 Into Eternity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

121 The Invention of Dr. Nakamats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

37 Isolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

100 Karima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Koolhaas Houselife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

201 120 252

A Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Last Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Let’s Make Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Listening Nights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Little Blue Nothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lovely Andrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Luminous Procuress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lunch Break . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

158 210 132 168 193 199 64

Madam Butterfly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

49 Maggie In Wonderland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 87, 310 A Man Screaming Is Not a Dancing Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

56 Mansfield 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

195 The Marina Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

140 Me And My Nose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

128 Me and the Jewish Thing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

129 Memory & Desire: 30 Years in the Wilderness with Stephen Duffy and 84 The Lilac Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Met . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

152 Metropia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

182 Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mr Governor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 184 Mumbai Disconnected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116, 238 Murder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

99 My Father from Haifa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

40 My Lost Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

123 My White Baby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

143 Nathalie Djurberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53, 184

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Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg Live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

162 Ne change rien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

34 New Danish Screen 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

130 New Danish Screen 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

131 A New Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

157 News from the Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital 220 212 Night Sweat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

No False Echoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

61 232 Nobody Knows About Persian Cats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Nobody Passes Perfectly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Not a Svensson Anymore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

186 Not to Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

69 O’er the Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Objectified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Off Ways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Olafur Eliasson: Seeing Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

On/Off: Mark Stewart - From The Pop Group To The Maffia . .

Once Upon A Time Proletarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Opening Gala: Dreams in Copenhagen LIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Otolith III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Out of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Outlandish - Strange Foreign Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

59 248 78 26 85 102 25 201 67 45 62

Paul Virilio - Thinking Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Peter in Radioland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Petropolis - Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands . . .

Pickelporno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pinochet Porn: The Dictator and the Maid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Plastic Planet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pollphail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Porno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pornography in Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

POW-WOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Presumed Guilty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

El Puesto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

253 141 57 196 192 221 51 195 202 60 106 41

Rapping in Tehran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Repainting Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Restless in Paradise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Retour à Sarajevo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Returning a Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Rip - A remix Manifesto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Rip In Pieces America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Road of Dreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ruins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

229 186 124 153 209 222 68 232 241

Survival Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111, 312 Sweetgrass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

255 Talk About Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

127 Tank City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

98 Tehran Without Permission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104, 229 Temporary Copenhagen / Temporary Slaraffenland . . . . . . . .

169 Their Life is Somewhere Else! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103, 229 Third Ear - TOTALLY UNCENSORED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

203 Thorn in the Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

251 147 Three Pilots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Timeless Harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

86 To Be Or Not To Be . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87, 231 33 Trash Humpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Travellling Amazonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

210 198 Tricia’s Wedding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Trifter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

211 63 TRYPPS 1-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Turf War in No Man’s Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

126 Turn it Loose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

248 Under Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Unforbidden City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Unrealizable Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Untitled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Urban Change: Cities on Speed seminar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

212 240 213 70 275

Vakilism - A Portrait of Babak Vakili . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

230 Varese: The One All Alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

89 211 Vertigo Rush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A Very kinky Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

194 Videocracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35, 180 Villalobos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

82 Virkelighedsteater & debat: Svindelsystemet . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

223 Warhol In The Flesh - Film & Live Performance . . . . . . . . . . .

We - 1st person plural . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

We Call It Skweee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

We Don’t Care About Music Anyway... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

We Live in Public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Wedlock House: An Intercourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

When You’re Strange: A film about The Doors . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights . . . . . .

White Wind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Windmill movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

202 142 187 80 250 199 91 74 71 39

The Yes Men Fix The World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

219

Schamdruck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

66 Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

254 Shanghai Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117, 238 Shell of Shells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

58 The Shock Doctrine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

219 Six Days/This Is Not A Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

170 Skinnskatteberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

181 Skynd dig hjem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

134 Sneakin’ and Peekin’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

197 Sombre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

156 The Sound of Insects - Record of a Mummy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256, 315 The Sounding Lines are Obsolete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

65 Spiral Jetty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

207 Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

83 Subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55, 185

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