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SCREENING-TIME: FRIDAY, THE 16TH OF SEPTEMBER, 6.30-9 PM.
AND ALL FILMS ON VIDEO/TV: AT SUNDAY, THE 18TH OF SEPTEMBER, DURING THE BRUNCH [HOMEBASE]
PLACE: AJZ-KINO, HEEPER STR. 132
 
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Pics: Lo Poggi


 Kings & Disasters [Tödliche Leidenschaft]
Directed by: Werner Hirsch
D 2003/4, 26` 07, DV, colour, english version

With: Buddy Schnitzel, Sylvester Alone, Toni Transit, Lo di Macho, Johnny Kingsize, Océan, Fronck de Sáster, Tino della bella Italia, Blanco Müll, Santos Maria, Jack New, Das Bestrasierte Mädchen, Werner Hirsch
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Gesture for gesture the actors imitate Mexican melodrama which has been acquired for one dollar in Los Angeles. But unlike to the original the imitation is casted with DragKings. The characters are positioned on a equal level of elegance, social class and masculinity. Adjusted to the production conditions the story gets permanently adapted and from time to time abandoned.

Contact: wernerhirsch@arcor.de		 
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 Neulich in Berlin [D 2003, DV, german version]
Kaffeepause [D 2005, 3` 40, DV, without text]
Directed by: Christine Gensheimer, Dagmar Weiß
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The Collage Neulich in Berlin [Once in Berlin] emerged 2003 during a collective 2- monthly stay in Berlin and caricatures the Berlin scene live.
In Kaffeepause [Coffee-break] the lethargie of the two main characters is only bursted through the hectic activities of a cat.

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Christine Gensheimer & Dagmar Weiß got to know each other while studying at FH Bielefeld, Departement of Design. Christine Gensheimer will graduate in 2006 with graphics/illustrations, Dagmar Weiss has studied photo- and film-design and graduated in 2005. For some years already, they have been realizing a veriety of artistic projects, among those the collage-animation-films Neulich in Berlin [Once in Berlin] and Kaffeepause [Coffee-break], which both will be screened at Ladyfest Bielefeld.		 
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female+queer words+beats [D 2003/04, 80`, DV, engl. subtitled]
talk! [D 2005, 5`, DV, engl. subtitled]
Further music- and interview-based statements by female/queer bands+artists [D 2005]
Directed by: Katharina Ellerbrock
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The music-docu-film female+queer words+beats portrays queer female bands such as Le Tigre and rhythm king and her friends which can be seen as directly or indirectly coming from of the Rrriogrrl-movement of the 90s, but stilistically moved from punkrock to electronic music. On stage and back-stage the female musicians Räuberhöhle, Hanin Elias and Peaches express their version of feminism, glamour and revolt.
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talk!, which will be screened at the Ladyfest shortfilm venue, is a short version of my doc female+queer words+beats, including short music- and interview-based statements on feminism+queerness.
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Further music- and interview-based statements by: Lesbians Oon Ecstasy- further statements haven't been fixed yet.

Contact: trashlady@gmx.net
More Infos: kc production

 
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 fuck you:kante
Directed by: Tina Paschetag/K. Ellerbrock [Bielefeld]
D 2003, 4`, DV, german Version
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Memories on a bicycle-crash.

Contact: trashlady@gmx.net		 
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Puszta Cowboy
Directed by: Katrin Kremmler [Budapest]
Budapest 2004, DV, 9`41, engl. subtitled
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Confusion of a Puszta cowboy/dragking on his ways to his sweetheart.

 
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Crossdressing
Directed by: Tatjana Gerlach [Hamburg]
D 2003, DV, 6`55, engl. subtitled
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Crossdressing is an interview-based film and deals with the meaning of clothing for gender-identity.

 
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 Fireflies
Directed by: Katharina Fiegl [Wien]
New York City 1999, 16 mm [screened on DVD], 9`25, b/w & color
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"many years i´ve been banging on a door and singing and just waiting for it
to open". This is how the film that watches three NYC "all girl bands" in dark places backstage begins. They talk about their wishes and visions and they dream the dream of "how to become famous".

Contact: katharina.fiegl@gmx.at 		 
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CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CALL FOR SHORT-FILMS [TOPIC: GERMAN "DEFINING CULTURE"] 

 


Tigerwalk
Directed by: Helga Hofbauer [Wien]
DV, 4`, without text
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Planned to be a visual-made a music clip.
An expedition through queer, ladyspace-tigered spaces.
Footage/found material from ladyfestwien.org, radicalqueer.net, raw.at,
banksy.co.uk, les:maus and from housewalls in Vienna.

Contact: peak_push@yahoo.de

 
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 UnSichtbar! Renee Butch & Renee King auf der Suche nach Renee Femme
Directed by: Christiane, Janna Joke, Jo, Marlen
Hamburg, DV, 15`, german version.
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Renee Butch & Renee King on their quest for Renee Femme
An attempt to film "Umleitkultur", taking theory for input and including a bundle of practical experiences, put on the stage in periphere suburbia. A no-budget production.

Contact: info@renee.bootred.de
Website: www.bootred.de/renee/		 
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 feetish
pornover productions
Directed by: Christina, Eliza, Daniela, Ines [Hamburg]
DV, 3` 52, without text
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Queer foot porno.
Produced during the project seminar "Bodies and norms of heteronormativity" at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg.

Contact: inosaur@web.de		 
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passing suburbia
Regie: Beate Rathke [Justin Time] + Christine Woditschka [Berlin]
DV, 4` 21, without text

With: Anja Schroeter, Kerstin Florkiw, Rochus Obscurus, Beate Rathke, Shirin Kunze
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The setting of the film is the suburbia of Berlin, a new estate of terraced houses called Neu Lindenberg.
Very slowly the camera follows the row of monotone housings, the perfect example of heterosexual normative family life. The stream of action is irritated by the (dis)appearance of unexpetcted disturbances.
Like in Western movies, Drag Kings occupy urban space.
Does the house of one's own keep it's promise of freedom?

Contact: ate.blond@gmx.de + christinewoditschka@yahoo.de