Av Festival 12: Frost (Start Of Slow Cinema Wkend) + Q&A (1997, Germany, Dir. Kelemen)
Part of the Av Festival 12: As Slow As Possible
| Director: | Fred Kelemen |
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| Certificate: | Unknown |
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| Format: | 16mm |
| Language: | German |
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LANDMARK EUROPEAN FILM
Frost is a landmark European film, cementing Kelemen as an inheritor of Fassbinder and Herzog.
PLOT
This three-hour epic 16mm film focuses on a mother and son fleeing her abusive husband in Berlin and wandering the former East Germany seeking a town that has long since vanished.
Set during a sunless Christmas, Frost slowly unfolds during their one-week odyssey across glacial landscapes, towards peace.
FRED KELEMEN: "URGENTLY RELEVANT"
One of the boldest German filmmakers of the last 20-years, critic Susan Sontag compared Kelemen’s “urgently relevant” work to Sokurov and collaborator Bela Tarr.
He garnered attention for his 1990s trilogy – Fate, Frost and Nightfall.
Believing in “time and not in speed”, meditations on human dissolution, cruelty and loneliness unfold at somnambulant pace.
Set amongst Europe’s late-capitalist underclass of the unemployed and dispossessed, he captures nocturnal urban low-life with beauty.
+ DISCUSSION WITH DIRECTOR AND FILM CRITIC
Kelemen will be present to introduce and discuss his work, in conversation with the famous film critic Jonathan Romney (from Sight & Sound magazine).
+ CINEMA OPEN FROM 7.30PM + PIZZA!
Come early and have a drink and a delicious pizza with us!
Part of AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible
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Other films in the Av Festival 12: As Slow As Possible:
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Film: Av Festival 12: Five + Discussion (2003, Iran, Dir. Kiarostami)
7 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Whole Evening Of Films (Slow Cinema Wkend): 6pm - 11pm + Directors Q&A
9 Mar 2012, 6 p.m.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Whole Day Of Films (Slow Cinema Wkend): 11am - 11pm + Directors Q&A
10 Mar 2012, 11 a.m.
Gorgeous film from British superstar Ben Rivers + 10 hour film from Phillipino director Lav Diaz!
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Film: Av Festival 12: Whole Day Of Films (Slow Cinema Wkend): 11am - 11pm + Directors Q&A
11 Mar 2012, 11 a.m.
Latest film from the incredible British artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers - NOT TO MISS!! Followed by film epic from Lav Diaz.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Colossal Youth + Discussion With Samm Haillay (2006, Portugal, Dir. Pedro Costa)
14 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Honor Of The Knights + Intro From Film Lecturer (2006, Spain, Dir. A. Serra)
15 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Serra’s striking, controversial adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, is a revelatory portrait of the relationship between the frail Quixote and his stout loyal scribe Sancho.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Finisterrae + Skype Q&A W. Director! (2010)
18 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours + Discussion (2011, Thailand)
21 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Still Life (2006)
22 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Still Life is set in Fengjie, 150 miles from the Three Gorges Dam, the hydroelectric project on the Yangtze River that submerged thousands of towns and displaced more than a million people. Shot while Fengjie was being demolished, the film has a powerful documentary impact, as two people travel there separately to look for their missing spouses.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Eternity + Discussion (2010)
25 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
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Film: Av Festival 12: Double Bill: Butterflies Have No Memories + Independencia
28 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Special double bill!
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Film: Av Festival 12: Let Each One Go Where He May (2009)
29 Mar 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Russell’s stunning feature debut is an epic road movie drawing from documentary and ethnography. Set in Suriname and shot almost entirely with 16mm steadicam, in thirteen extended ten-minute shots it follows two brothers as they trek from Paramaribo to rainforest villages of the Maroons. Their journey powerfully mirrors that undertaken by their ancestors escape from slavery 300 years earlier.