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Saturday, December 13, 2014 - 17:30
Written by:
Mareike Bernien, Kerstin Schroedinger
Cast:
Berit Ehmke, Hanna Bergfors, Mayan Printz, Michał Głazik, Tanja Kämper
Cinematography:
Smina Bluth, Mareike Bernien, Kerstin Schroedinger
Editing:
Mareike Bernien, Kerstin Schroedinger
Sound:
Birte Gerstenkorn, Olivia Oyama
Music:
Wibke Tiarks
Producer:
Mareike Bernien, Kerstin Schroedinger
International premiere
Cheerful, carefree and lively – this is what Nazi Germany looks like in the period’s escapist cinema made on Agfa film stock, which promise colours “truer than true”. Shot in the former factory where the stock was produced, RAINBOW’S GRAVITY examines how images from film and media, by ignoring reality end up rewriting it in the collective memory, and as time goes by, become what we call history. Addressing the issue of the political and ideological implications of colour, the short film portrays a country and a generation suffering from an identity crisis, caught in the struggle of reconciling the past with historical fabrications. (Diana Mereoiu, BIEFF)
Director:
MAREIKE BERNIEN (based in Berlin) and KERSTIN SCHROEDINGER (based in London/ Zürich) have been working in collaboration since 2006 in joint film, exhibition and text projects. In their work they seek to critically interrogate image productions and to produce and reproduce images as material of thought. They work with film, radio play, music and text with a historiographical practice, questioning the means of production, historical continuities and ideological certainties of representation. They are interested in an experimental and critical approach to media formats, with an implicit entanglement of content and form.
Website:
Contact:
mareikebernien[at]hotmail[dot]com, krstnschrdngr[at]gmail[dot]com
Festivals, awards:
- Berlin International Film Festival 2014
- Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival Brazil 2014
Director's statement:
RAINBOW'S GRAVITY is a cinematic study on the Agfacolor-Neu colour film stock made in Nazi Germany. Along its three layers of emulsion, the film digs deep into the escapist colourised landscape of this time and asks for the material requirements, retentions and ideological continuities of the Agfacolor palette. The film sequences, projected in the former production line, dismantle not only themselves, but also our view accustomed to historicise. Those scenes aim to visualise what the colour does not show. The film tries to realise, not only how it had been - in the darkrooms of the Agfa film factory - but also how it can be possible at all to face this reality today within film, in images and movements without a final or even conciliatory view of the past. (Mareike Bernien & Kerstin Schroedinger)
RAINBOW'S GRAVITY is a cinematic study on the Agfacolor-Neu colour film stock made in Nazi Germany. Along its three layers of emulsion, the film digs deep into the escapist colourised landscape of this time and asks for the material requirements, retentions and ideological continuities of the Agfacolor palette. The film sequences, projected in the former production line, dismantle not only themselves, but also our view accustomed to historicise. Those scenes aim to visualise what the colour does not show. The film tries to realise, not only how it had been - in the darkrooms of the Agfa film factory - but also how it can be possible at all to face this reality today within film, in images and movements without a final or even conciliatory view of the past. (Mareike Bernien & Kerstin Schroedinger)