Shrill voices, biting beats, and noisy machines form the soundtrack of resistance. Amidst social unrest, music becomes a political weapon, an outlet, a movement. Discussions meet parties, statements meet subculture, criticism meets performance, abstraction meets movement. Noise is not just sound, but attitude – a collective that fights against stagnation and arbitrariness. People organize under its banner. Loud. Connected. Unmistakable. (Linn Löffler)
It’s nighttime in Havana. Young people gather to ecstatically surrender themselves to the hard techno beats... Assuming the car starts and you get there, or the power supply doesn’t fail and the generator works. We follow a group of young people. They dance, drink, discuss, and drift through the gloomy, dimly lit city. The dysfunctionality and decay of the system, political propaganda, and world events provide them with topics for discussion.
They rev their motorcycles, kick up dust, and roar through the megacity of Lagos. The motorcycle taxi gang, known as "Okada," has built up an unofficial economy to survive financially and counteract the harsh life in Nigeria. Jobs and prospects are scarce here. For this freedom, they accept the illegality, dangers, and penalties that threaten them every day. In the biker community, the "Machine Boys" feel alive, strong, and secure.… >>>
Since the 1980s, twin sisters Yvonne and Susy Klos have been enriching the Munich punk scene with their electro-Dadaist performances. Their work is directed against right-wing ideologies, social brutalization, and the normalization of authoritarian thinking, and is satirical, radical, and anarchic. The film accompanies the twins for three days around the federal elections in February 2025 – a moment when political alliances between the CDU and AfD provoke public outrage and protests across the country. A portrait of two artists whose view of the world is rebellious yet open to contradictions.
CN: Flashing Lights
Rushing electronic sound accompanied by flickering black-and-white lines; abstract configurations that move in rhythm to the sound, faster and faster, then slower again. Hypnotic and intoxicating, they create an ecstatic cinematic experience in the style of Fruhauf.
The filmmaker chatters away – neurotic, funny, unstoppable. She actually wants to use the film to apply for a scholarship, but her story unmistakably pushes itself to the forefront. The starting point is a party she threw at age 20 to finance her abortion. Ruthlessly, serenely, and without self-pity, she recounts her life in precarious party circles and complicated relationship entanglements. The aesthetics are liberatingly simple, trashy-minimalist, animated in a raw 3D style. An annoying and honest autobiographical reckoning.… >>>
Protrusions, corners, edges, slits, and cracks in the smooth rock face provide support to overcome your own gravity. You also need two hands, two feet, careful preparation of each step, gentle probing and testing of possibilities with your fingertips, and, last but not least, the group that stands by your side to advise and protect you. There is a lot of sweat, a little blood, and above all a lot of energy. Climbing, slipping, falling, trying again. In the end, climbing to the summit entirely under your own steam, yet together.
