Once again after four successful editions, LaborBerlin presents Diffraktion, its annual showcase of new works on film by its members and friends. This year, Diffraktion is very excited to welcome guest programmer Koyo Yamashita who is presenting a selection of Japanese experimental films made between 1975 and 1980. The program provides a glance into one of the most fruitful periods in independent Japanese cinema. With works rarely screened in Germany, it also serves as a unique opportunity to experience one of Japan’s most unruly and idiosyncratic artistic scenes. Koyo Yashamita is the artistic director of the Image Forum Festival and programmer of Image Forum, one of Tokyo’s best-known independent cinemas. He joins us after taking part in the Jury for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short films at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
This program will be accompanied by our traditional program of new films, Installations and expanded cinema performances by lab members and friends. As always the films range widely in formal and thematic approach yet they all explore the unique and ever expanding qualities of analog film.
Programme:
19h: Between The Frames Japanese Experimental Film: Prolific Years 1975-1980 Presented by Koyo Yamashita - Atman by Toshio Matsumoto - My Movie Melodies by Jun’ichi Okuyama - Dutchman’s Photograph by Isao Kota - Switchback by Nobuhiro Kawanaka - Film Display by Shunzo Seo - Heliograph by Hiroshi Yamazaki - WHY by Keiichi Tanaami - Hikari by Nobuhiro Aihara - Still Movie by Yoichi Nagata - Xénogénès by Akihiko Morishita - SPACY by Takashi Ito
21h: New Films and Performances by Members & Friends - Friedrichsfelde Ost by Nenad Cosic & Milica Jovcic - Plant In My Head by Pedro Maia - T’chelet by Deborah Phillips - In The Traveler´s Heart by Distruktur - Alcheringa by Björn Speidel - Tigerlelles Entropie by Dagie Brundert - Ghost Culture – Mouth by Lewis Lloyd - Schuld Sind Alle by Viktor Dill - Now I Want To Laugh by Anja Dornieden & Juan Gonzalez - Passenger Film 2 by Robert Prideaux - Over The Dog Days by Klara Ravat
Installations: Clara Bausch Anja Dornieden & Juan Gonzalez Lucas Maia