Exhibition ZOO-Nature

ZOO-Cabinet

Lange Nacht der Affen

13.10. | 21:00 | ZAZIE Kino & Bar

Festival Opening

The greeting spreech on the festival holds Claus Peter Boßmann, chairman of the Awards Committee of the MDM.

Shooting Animals

We have titled this programme Shooting Animals to highlight an affinity between good animal film makers and early hunters, both of which have to mutate in the course of their work into animals in order to follow their traces. The... [more]

Poisson
Étienne-Jules Marey & Georges Demenÿ, FR/IT 1891, 3 min

The Cameraman's Revenge
Wladyslaw Starewicz, RU 1911, 14 min [Piano]

Dog Duet
William Wegman, USA 1975, 3 min

Obitateli / Inhabitants
Artavazd Peleshyan, UdSSR 1970, 10 min; Aus dem Archiv der Internationalen Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

Donkey with Snow
Romuald Karmakar, DE 2010, 4 min

ZOO-Concert

14.10. 2011 | 20:30 h | Lux Cinema

Theatre of the Animals

Chimpanzees in trousers, shirt and tie sitting at tables having to pretend to act like humans is probably a sight familiar to everyone from television series or circuses. Thankfully less well known are scenes in which polar bears... [more]

Calling Man Ray
William Wegman, USA 1974, 1 min

Cockfight, No. 2
W. K. L. Dickson & William Heise, USA 1894, 1 min, [Piano]; Production Edison Manufacturing Co.

The Acrobatic Fly
Percy Smith, UK 1910, 3 min [Piano]

Circus Sarrasani in the World War: the Execution of Arno the Elephant after He Runs Amok
DE 1914-18, 3min [Piano]

Gus Visser and his singing Duck
Theodore Case & Earl Sponable, USA 1925, 3 min

Spelling Lesson
William Wegman, USA 1973, 1 min

Queerosities – Diving Horses
Major Film Laboratories Inc, USA , 1 min

Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 2): Doggy Crowd gets ringside-seat at Pussy-weight Battle
The Jam Handy Organization, USA 1937, 2 min (excerpt)

Theatre of Animals
N. Agapowa, UdSSR 1950, 35mm, 38 min; Archiv Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv

Smoking
William Wegman, USA 1977, 1 min

Second Nature – Fox and Crow
Guy Ben-Ner, UK/IL 2008, 11 min

Inheritance

The German Kulturfilm emerged from WWI propaganda films. Already in 1913, Franz Bergmann and Willi Warstat developed a concept for positive nationalistic films against the “tasteless, criminal and erotic-sexual films” (meaning... [more]

The Stag Beetle
Ulrich K. T. Schulz, DE 1921, 19 min [Piano]

Inheritance
Carl C. Hartmann, DE 1935, 11 min

Internationale Jagdausstellung in Berlin 1937
DE 1937, 12 min

Running Battle
Kurt Blank-Kubla, DE 1938, 15 min

The Eternal Jew
Fritz Hippler, DE 1940, 2 Ausschnitte: Ratten: 4, Schächten: 9

Looking at the Animal

Are we capable of just looking at animals or has the age of “Okulartyrannis“, as the philosopher Ulrich Sonnemann titled the image-addicted modern period, rendered our gaze permanently instrumental?At least it is possible to try... [more]

Nature Conservation: Animal Shots I
Hermann Hähnle, DE 1915-20, 3 min, Ausschnitt 5

Conditioned Reflexes in Animals (Pavlov)
UdSSR 1920's, 9 min

Carpenters of the Wood
Heinz Sielmann, DE 1954, 19 min

A Fish Family
Moody Institute of Science, USA 1957, 10 min

Heinz Meynhardt – Wildschwein ehrenhalber
Karl-Heinz Carpentier & Wolfgang Hupe & Heinz Meynhardt, DDR 1977, 30 min; Aus dem Deutschen Rundfunkarchiv. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Margot Meynhardt.

Convulsion
Chen Sheinberg, IL 1998, 4 min

Blue Eyes
Chen Sheinberg, IL 2008, 4 min

Jungtierbeute

Studentische Ausstellung

Playstation

Piotr Baran [more]

Swallows on a Spit

The first human-made weapons, hand axes and spearheads, were probably directed at animals. The weapons were deployed in the hunt. That means that technical devices were part of the hunt from the start and that hunting is... [more]

Court of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – His Highness Going Pheasant-Hunting
DE 1913/1914, 2 min; Archiv Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv

In the Negro Village – Hunting Hippopotamuses
DE vor 1914, 3 min; Archiv Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv

La Peine du talion Tit for Tat
Gaston Velle, FR 1906, 6 min [Piano]; Produktion Pathé; Archiv Lobster Films

Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 2, No.3): Fish Story
The Jam Handy Organization, USA 1936, 2 min; Prelinger Archives

Swallows on a Spit
Bernhard & Michael Grzimek, DE 1958, 10 min

Our African Trip
Peter Kubelka, AU 1966, 13 min

Boar Stories
Heinz Meynhardt, DDR 1981, 14 min; Aus dem Deutschen Rundfunkarchiv. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Margot Meynhardt.

Stalking (Camera follows Man Ray)
William Wegman, USA 1975, 2 min

About Love

As Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari write in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia “people who love dogs and cats are idiots”. With this statement, they mainly want to go against the usual distinction made between... [more]

Pancia – Frauchen – Mistress
Iwona Siekierzynska, PL 1995, 15 min

Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 1, No. 3): Grand Rapids Michigan
The Jam Handy Organization, USA 1935, 2 min

Vierbeinige Weltraumfahrer
N. Tichonow, UdSSR 1959, 22 min; Archiv: Bundesfilmarchiv

Pro lyubov / About Love
Vladimir Tyulkin, Kazakhstan 2005, 26 min

Photofilm
Joachim Hellwig, DDR 1975, 3 min; Vertrieb Progress Film-Verleih

Le Chat qui dort – The Sleeping Cat
Joël Bartoloméo, FR 1992, 4 min

Then I’ll Take Your Cat – Part One
Joanna Rytel, SE 2002, 8 min

While Darwin Sleeps

Above and beyond their proper function, natural history museums have become well-loved event locations. This has not just to do with a culture of spectacle seeking ever more bizarre venues, but rather reflects the desire to be... [more]

While Darwin Sleeps ...
Paul Bush, UK 2004, 5 min; Int. Vertrieb LUX

Lurch
Boris Hars-Tschachotin, DE 2001, 20 min

Creature Comfort

All over the world, zoos are among the most popular recreation facilities. Evolved from royal menageries, transformed into civil education centres during the French Revolution with the Jardin des Plantes, the archetype of all... [more]

From Old Newsreels – Emperor Wilhelm at Hagenbeck Zoo
Wochenschau, DE 1910, 2 min (Ausschnitt); Archiv Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv

Australian Dasyurides (Dasyuridae) – The Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus)
Heinz F. Moeller, DE 1978 (1930), 3 min (Ausschnitt); Archiv Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv

Animals without Foe and Fear
Bernhard & Michael Grzimek, DE 1953, 11 min

Das Paradies der Tiere
Rita Arendt, DDR 1965, 17 min; Progress Film-Verleih

Wildschweingeschichten – Emil im Zoo
Heinz Meynhardt, DDR 1981, 14 min; Aus dem Deutschen Rundfunkarchiv. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Margot Meynhardt.

Creature Comforts
Nick Park, UK 1989, 5 min

Monkey Performance
Joanna Rytel, SE 2002, 3 min

The Non-Toed Fur-Coatie
Neozoon Collective, DE 2010, 3 min

Utility Animals, Useless Animals

Practically any animal that can be tamed can be domesticated. Eipo – Umgang mit Schweinen (Eipo – Living With Pigs), a documentary by the ethologist Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, follows the affectionate interaction between the Eipo,... [more]

Âne / Donkey
Étienne-Jules Marey, Georges Demenÿ, FR 1893, 1 min, stumm; Archiv Cinémathèque Française

The Dog and His Various Merits
Produktion Pathé, FR 1907, 2 min; Archiv EmGee Film Library

Useless Dog
Ken Wardrop, Ireland 2004, 5 min

Eipo (WesternNew Guinea, Central Highlands) – Living with Pigs
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, DE 1975, 13 min

Araby Thoroughbred Horse
Zbigniew Raplewski, PL 1963, 12 min; Archiv Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv

New and Used Car Salesman
William Wegman, USA 1974, 2 min

The Herd
Ken Wardrop, Ireland 2008, 4 min

Ein viertel Schäferstündchen
Uwe Belz, DDR 1979, 19 min

Thomas and the Cow
Heiko Fischer & Torsten Lohrmann, DE 1995, 3 min

Dhia Dhikir
Abu Ali aka Toni Serra, MO 2004, 6 min

A Mark of Wholesome Meat
Dept. of Agriculture, USA 1964, 2 min (Ausschnitt); Produktion U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Motion Picture Service

Sweetgrass

This documentary, made by the anthropologists and filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor und Ilisa Barbash, accompanies the shepherds from one of the last family ranches in the Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains over three summers. The... [more]

Sweetgrass
Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Ilisa Barbash, USA 2009, 115 min, OmU

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