interfilm 1989
In 1989, interfilm decided to expand the presentations to all film and video formats. The newly founded fsk cinema was added as a venue. In addition to the country programs, which had become conceptual in the meantime, more and more motto programs such as the "Gay / Lesbian Film Night" now came to the fore.
Don't be shy and don't be inhibited, because what you have never seen before, you won't get to see here. What rarely hurts at such an event is a little exchange of ideas about this or that film, sometimes before rather than after, because in some cases it is more advisable to stare thoughtfully at the end in order not to attract unpleasant attention.
Be warned against excessive enthusiasm, because in the end you are only as embarrassing as your own taste in movies and you usually can't do any better. But where is the exception? Certainly in the films where it is enough that they simply please and no compulsively interested batting of the eyelashes is required to burst the other or a thought bubble. A good false set of teeth, suitable for the various formats SUPER-8 VIDEO 16mm seems nevertheless necessary to bite through five days of film.
Finally, a few rough reflections on the theme: this year, too, symbols are important in film, when the inner and outer worlds intertwine most dramatically and the hero or heroine has a really hard time. The more sophisticated films can be recognized by their long takes and complicated camera operations - but the unintentional "camera sliding out of hand" still remains controversial among some filmmakers, which is why this aspect finally requires a fundamental film-theoretical discussion. There is less experimentation, because so much always gets broken in the process and budgets are tight. It's a pity that there's still too little kissing and shooting in the films, even though it's cheap and the zombies are missing to eat those off the screen who tear too dreary-assed dull mono and dialogue.
Selection program I (Super 8)
Selection Program II (Super 8)
Selection Program III (Super 8)
Special program
The Elephant of Ivory (Super 8)
Gay/Lesbian Film Night (Super 8 / 16mm)
Selection Program I (16mm)
Selection Program II (16mm)
Selection Program III (16mm)
Special program
AGZ - Film Production (16mm)
Tony Hill (16mm)
Eric Pauwels (16mm)
Country Program
USA (Super 8 / 16mm)
USA I (Video)
USA II (Video)
Belgium (Video)
Scandinavia (Video)
France (Video)
International (Video)
Special program
Berlin realities (Video)
Idiots Videoten (Video)
Dance & Movement (Video)
Lars von Triers "Medea" (Video)
Lars von Triers "Images of a relief" (16mm / 35mm)
Gusztav Hamos' "L'invincible" (35mm / Video)
Concert - Performance Antarctica - Flexitar No. 2
Special program Video Idiots
In 1982 Axel Brand and others organized interfilm, the "1st International Super 8 - Festival" in Berlin.
In the battle for the hobby filmmaker market, Super 8 was already in its last legs against the rising amateur medium VHS, when the Berlin art underground pitted cine film with its coarse-grained dilettante aesthetic for HdK students, garage musicians and cab drivers against the slightly dusty film avant-garde. Avant-garde and experimental film festivals opened up to the frowned-upon hobbyist format Super 8 only after the technical shortcomings of cine film were defined as artistic stylistic devices. Wild Super 8 activists became wimpy film artists again.
With a seven-year delay, a video and television program is available for the first time at Interfilm. From Germany comes a program guaranteed free of video art, but full of attempts to test the limits of good taste, plagiarism, logic, quality and competence, in order to be able to redefine them again or to leave them out for good. In addition to their festival program, the Videoten invite you to an interfilm live television broadcast on Saturday, September 30, on the Open Channel (SK 8) of Berlin's cable television programs from 10:00 p.m. to 0:00 a.m. in the studio at Voltastrasse 5 or from home on the television set by phone at 4 60 02 195.
Interfilm 7, 30.9.89, 24.00 Uhr
Wieland Speck
Safer Sex Porno
Michael Brynntrup
Narziss und Echo (Premiere!)
14'
Steve Cummins
Le corps image
10'
UliVersum
Zitrusfrüchte 2
6'
Bruce Labruce
I know how it is to be dead
15'
Thomas Feldmann
Start
1'
Thomas Feldmann
German Runs
4'
Jonathan Pollard
Venus Infers
10'
Volker Schönwart
Cleanliness is next to Godliness
4'
Die Praxis
Müll
10'
Gerard Durant / Jürgen Brüning
Cinematon faux No. 997
3'
Thomas Mank
Triptychon -Studie für ein Selbstbildnis
11'
Jörq Kronsbein
Mikes neuer Kronleuchter, oder Meine Kamera hat einen automatischen Zoom
3'
Matthias Müller
Aus der Ferne - The Memo Book (Premiere!)
29'
Teufelsberg
Edith Schröder - eine deutsche Hausfrau
30'
Rolf Kligge
A Safer Sex Dream
12'
A.Strip-Pickles
Le temp de reflechir (Ausschnitt)
6'
Karyn Kay
Someone else's clothes
35'
Hans-J. Köhler
Der Auslöser
26'
Cornelia Gürtler
Schützenfest
20'
Betty Gordon
Scetch to Variety
20'
Die Auswahl trafen Michael Brynntrup und Matthias Müller. Durch das Programm führte BeV StroganoV.
Vielen Dank für Anregungen und Hilfe an Wieland Speck, Alf Bold, Jürgen Brüning, Mahide, Olaf Stöben.