Films for the end of the world - picks from Screening Raum Eins
A time, a place... When I thought the COVID-19 pandemic could be an apocalypse, I set up a makeshift screening area for films in my flat. Watched only obscure films, mainly with apocalyptic / post apocalyptic / personal apocalyptic / post capitalist / doom ridden themes. These were the masterpieces. Why did I use a couple of random German words? Quien sabe? When I was a kid my brother and I would scream German phrases at each other after watching episodes of Das Boot. That's as much logic to it as there is. What a time.
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- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsOleg TabakovYuriy BogatyryovElena SoloveySt. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov. He sleeps much of the day. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle and introduces him to Olga.
- DirectorJean-Claude RousseauRousseau's first full-length feature, and one of the best documentaries/experimental films of the past few decades, sprung equally from Robert Bresson, Michael Snow, and Jean-Marie Straub (who has called Rousseau one of the three best working artists in modern Europe). Again hard places played against drifting sounds from unseen sites beyond the image; the images and sounds, repeated, become inflections of each other. But this time there are historical inflections; Rousseau's film, like Straub's, takes place in a sort of meta-history as characters and ancient sites each become products of outside light and shadow.
- DirectorFred KelemenStarsAdolfo AssorHarry BaerIsolde BarthTime of darkness. Time of fire kindled against cold and fear. During the Holy Night, the seven year old Micha has to escape with his young mother Marianne from the violence of his drunken father.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsAleksei AnanishnovEskender UmarovIrina SokolovaDays of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia.
- DirectorJean-François LaguionieStarsMichel RobinLorella Di CiccoArmand BabelGwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roseline embark on a trip to bring him back.
- DirectorGakuryû IshiiStarsRena KomineTadanobu AsanoKotomi KyônoBus conductor Tomiko falls in love with driver Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being a serial killer who killed his female conductors after tiring of them.
- DirectorJodie MackA playful trip around the world, through its fabrics and textiles and their place in a busy international market.
- DirectorBertrand BonelloStarsMathieu AmalricAsia ArgentoGuillaume DepardieuAfter a freak accident, Burt finds himself locked in a coffin overnight. After surviving the ordeal, he decides to live his life purely for pleasure, but ultimately he finds himself in a bizarre war of the sexes.
- DirectorAlbert SerraStarsLluís CarbóLluís Serrat BatlleLluís SerratThree wise men embark on a journey to see the newborn Jesus Christ.
- DirectorMarguerite DurasStarsBulle OgierYann AndréaMarguerite DurasA dialogue-driven drama about a woman and her brother who meet at a deserted seaside hotel to deal with their passionate incestuous feelings for each other and reminisce about their happy childhood.
- DirectorAlain JessuaStarsCharles DennerAnna GaylorGuy Saint-JeanReal estate agent Jacques Valin records his life story on a tape recorder when he loses job.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsHugues QuesterAnne AlvaroMelvil PoupaudA surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island and encounters a man with multiple personalities.
- DirectorHarun FarockiIn Comparison revisits issues explored in the director's 2007 two channel installation Comparison Via a Third. Spanning continents and cultures, the film focuses on the brick in its many contexts, from the collective efforts of a community building a clinic in Burkina Faso, through semi industrialized moldings in India, to industrial production lines in Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland. Through its notable structure and its captivating rhythms, In Comparison presents various methods of labor production, allowing for an assessment that changes with every layer and goes well beyond a simple binary divide.
- DirectorManuel MozosFragments of spaces, buildings and structures, memories and remains of past eras, places of work or leisure now inhabited by our memories alone, or really forgotten. Dead things or living proof of time, natural elements, and human predators themselves.
- DirectorGuy GillesStarsMacha MérilPatrick JouanéBernard VerleyA young girl remembers her impossible love for a melancholic boy.
- DirectorManuel Knapp