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directors lounge at lichtblick

selected works from "the department of anarchy"
presented by noel lawrence

Sat. 8 February 2020
at 22:00
Lichtblick Cinema
Kastanienallee 77
10435 Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg

Since first appearing in 2012, The Department of Anarchy has become the most popular screening series at the Slamdance Film Festival in Utah, USA. Curated by filmmakers Noel Lawrence and Burke Roberts, the show sells out quickly every year and attracts raucous and enthusiastic audiences hungry for films that experiment, challenge, and even enlighten.

As the "lunatic fringe" of Slamdance, The Department of Anarchy acts as the festival's revolutionary vanguard, continuing its mission of presenting the direct, unfiltered voice of the auteur to the rest of the world.

Slamdance is the little and less conventional sister of the Sundance Festival, Utah, USA. This program is a sampling of older and recent works that appeared in the program.

“Though we screen many kinds of films, they all share a distinct aesthetic. We are looking for provocative and psychedelic work that usually lacks commercial or institutional support."

"Selected Works From The Department of Anarchy" is being presented in collaboration with Directors Lounge Berlin

Cover Image featuring a still from "Ape Sodom"(2016) by Maxwell McCabe

Links:
https://www.lichtblick-kino.org/
https://slamdance.com/
https://directorslounge.net

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Noel Lawrence, who first visited Directors Lounge back in 2009, makes, curates, distributes, and writes about film. He has founded and guided film ventures in home video, new media, and festival environments. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Salon.com, The Wall Street Journal, as well as a book of collected essays on his filmography, J.X. Williams: Les Dossiers Interdits (Camion Noir, 2010). Noel currently programs the "Anarchy" film section at Slamdance. Lawrence's forthcoming feature Sammy-Gate will be premiered at IFFR Rotterdam this year.

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Programme Notes:

1. Dog in The Woods | 5 mins. | 2019
Christian Chapman, Paul Jason Hoffman
A downtrodden housedog escapes into the woods at night to follow the psychedelic temptations of the natural world.

2. Ape Sodom | 14 mins. | 2016
Maxwell McCabe (Canada)
Three degenerates navigate the descending hierarchy of post-consumerist enlightenment.

3. STIHL | 5 mins. | 2013
James Raymond /James Benning. (USA)
A dark fantasy world founded on modern-day fears with chain saws, teddy bears, porno, and masked men.

4. Information Superhighway | 11 mins. | 2018
Mat Nelson (USA)
A man participates in an experiment to test artificial intelligence in driverless cars.

5. Viscera | 4 mins. | 2014
Lauren Morrison (USA)
As houseguests blissfully ignore the provenance of their food, the reality of their consumption takes on a monstrous form.

6. The Re-education of The Senses | 11 mins. | 2020 (German Premiere)
Erinn Hagerty & Adam Savje (USA)
"There's nothing to see here; now, look directly at the screen." An experimental vision of Bauhausian hypnotherapy orchestrated by sentient technology.

7. The Wayward Carnality | 10 mins. | 2016
Joanna Maria Wojcik (Poland)
Grandma, though somewhat confounded, talks to her porn-obsessed grandson about a woman's body from a female perspective.

8. Filtrate | 13 mins. | 2019
Mishka Kornai (Canada)
In a surreal future, humanity has been transformed beyond any and all recognition by the echo chambers of social media.

9. Hot Pursuit | 6 mins. | 2020 (German Premiere)
John Warren (USA)
Subjected to a meticulous digital reprocessing, both action and narrative dissolve and are subsumed into a psychedelic, cascading digital texture, presided over by a hypnotic soundscape.

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directors lounge monthly screenings

filmauswahl des "the department of anarchy"
presented by noel lawrence

Sat. 8 February 2020
at 22:00
Lichtblick Cinema
Kastanienallee 77
10435 Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg

Filmauswahl des Ministeriums für Anarchie Seit ihres ersten Erscheinens, wurde die Vorführungen des Department of Anarchy zum beliebtesten Teil des Film Festivals Slamdance, in Utah, USA. Das von den Filmemachern Noel Lawrence und Burke Roberts kuratierte Programm ist jedes Mal schnell ausgebucht und es zieht ein raues und enthusiastisches Publikum an, das hungrig ist nach Filmen, die experimentell sind, die herausfordern und sogar aufklärerisch wirken.

Als “Extremisten von Slamdance" benannt, wirkt das Department of Anarchy in der Rolle der revolutionären Avantgardisten. In ihrer anhaltenden Mission sind sie angetreten, die ungefilterte Stimme ihrer Autoren an den Rest der Welt zu verbreiten.

Slamdance ist die kleine Schwester des zeitgleich in Utah statt findenden Sundance Festivals. Das hier vorgestellte Programm ist eine Auswahl von älteren und ganz neuen Filmen von Slamdance.

“Auch wenn wir sehr unterschiedliche Arten und Genres im Filmfestival vorstellen, teilen sie doch eine bestimmte Ästhetik. Für das Programm suchen wir nach provokativen und psychedelischen Arbeiten, die normalerweise keine kommerzielle oder institutionelle Unterstützung erfahren."

"Selected Works From The Department of Anarchy" wird präsentiert in Zusammenarbeit mit Directors Lounge Berlin.

Links:
https://www.lichtblick-kino.org/
https://slamdance.com/
https://directorslounge.net

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Noel Lawrence, der erstmals 2009 Filme bei der Directors Lounge zeigte, filmt, kuratiert, verlegt und schreibt über Film. Er gründete und leitete Filmprojekte im Bereich Heimvideos, Neue Medien und Filmfestivals. Seine Artikel erscheinen in der New York Times, Salon.com und The Wall Street Journal, wie auch ein Buch seiner Essays über die J.X.Williams Filmsammlung: Les Dossiers Interdits (Camion Noir, 2010). Noel kuratiert die “Anarchie" Filmabteilung des Slamdance Festivals. Lawrences erstes Feature “Sammy-Gate" wird dieses Jahr beim IFFR Festival in Rotterdam seine Premiere haben.

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