Lawale (1969) by Dore O. Nekes
Thursday, November 1, 1984, 8:00 pm
The Other Side: European Avant-Garde Cinema 1960-1980
Program III: West Germany. Co-sponsored by the Goethe Institute. Guest curated by Regina Cornwell/Organized by the American Federation of the Arts
The Other Side surveys and celebrates 20 years of Europe’s longest and most fertile period of avant-garde filmmaking, from 1960-1980. In collaboration with the Pacific Film Archive, this 10-part series features many films never before seen in the U.S. Five of the programs will be shown at P.F.A. and the remaining five at the Cinematheque. This series was guest- curated by critic Regina Cornwall.
Lawale, Dore O. Nekes (1969). The milieu of the “petit bourgeois” is critically reappraised through formal tableaux, disjunctive sound and the presence of O herself.
Selbstschüsse (Self-Shooting), Lutz Mommartz (1967). Self-Shooting “parodies the preoccupation with the self-reflexive in cinema,” a mounting fascination in the late ‘60s. As both subject and object, Mommartz “joins his camera antics with a potpourri of program music, to both heighten and lighten his parody.”
Dallas-Texas-After The Goldrush, Klaus Wyborny (1970-71). Reflecting Wyborny’s interest in primitive cinema, the film illustrates possible storylines that are hinted at but never developed. That becomes the task of the viewer.
Italienisches Capriccio, Viado Kristl (1969). Kristl uses a Dadaist style to deal with the subject of militarism, pointing up the ways in which it is perceived as a rational necessity, yet is brought into play in irrational ways.