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MARK LOMBARDI – DEATH-DEFYING ACTS OF ART AND CONSPIRACY
by Mareike Wegener CULTURE | ARTS | CONTROVERSY | WAR&PEACE | CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY | ECONOMY | POLITICS
A few weeks after 9/11, an FBI agent called the Whitney Museum of American Art and asked to see a
drawing on exhibit there. The piece was by Mark Lombardi. Just months earlier, the artist was found
dead in his studio. Although the official cause of death was documented as a suicide, there were
many doubts. Using just a pencil and a huge sheet of paper, Lombardi had created an intricate
pattern of curves and arcs to illustrate the links between global finance and international terrorism.
This documentary is a dense portrait of Lombardi‘s life and work that examines how art can express
universal truths that are reflected in our present.
German title: MARK LOMBARDI – KUNST UND KONSPIRATION
Festivals: Max Ophüls Preis / Saarbrücken
52min or 79min | HDcam | DCP | 16:9 | original English version with German subtitles available
Recorded for all eternity: the ecstasy in Steven’s face when
South Africa scores the first goal of the 2010 World Cup.
In Extension 11, one of the countless districts of the township
of Mamelodi, Pretoria, all hell breaks loose. For a brief moment
Steven forgets what he calls the most important thing in his life
at some other point in the film: ‘doing business’. A big term
for the little kiosk that feeds his family. Set against the World
Cup, MEANWHILE IN MAMELODI shows the lives of ordinary
people who must hustle to get by. Moskito for example, Steven's gawky 17-year-old daughter, who
confidently describes herself as a child of the post-Apartheid generation and is looking for a way out
of poverty. Steven's wife is suffering from a mysterious mental disease that is kept at bay only by massive
doses of medication. Another burden. No, life isn’t easy. But Steven steadfastly pursues his plan.
In one of the most beautiful scenes of this very intimate portrait of a family Steven sings the song
about the boss while he serves his customers. Everything is better than working for the man. An
insight that is true whatever the colour of your skin is. (Matthias Heeder / DOK Leipzig)
Festivals: DOK Leipzig, Kassel
75min | HD | 16:9 | color | Dolby Stereo | original English version with German subtitles available
World Sales:
RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES UG
Schlesische Str. 29/30
10997 Berlin, Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 30-47372980
info@riseandshine-berlin.de
www.riseandshine-berlin.com
MAYBE BANGLADESH
by Carolin Schattenkirchner and Jochen ‘erich’ Abel MUSIC | TRAVEL | CULTURE | DOCU-FICTION
MAYBE BANGLADESH … these words, spoken by a Nepalese
cook in Bavaria, Germany, set the ball rolling. What we get is
a trip of imaginative dimensions. Erich, a musician with itchy
feet, wants to track an unlabeled cassette back to where it
originated. All because of a haunting voice singing of Govinda.
A sound Erich just can't get out of his head.
Will Erich find the singer? Is there a divine plan at work in
the background? And just who is Govinda? This simple but
captivating tale was documented on video. But rather than a straightforward documentation, the film
blends the story of Erich's journey with fiction and embellishes it with cartoons and humour.
Festivals: Filmschau Baden-Württemberg; Bollywood&Beyond Stuttgart; Globians world&culture, Berlin; Luzern, Chennai
50min | DV | PAL | DigiBeta | DVD | German version with English subtitles available
Contact:
Carolin Schattenkirchner
Vogtshaldenstr. 26
72074 Tuebingen, Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 7071-256437
carolin@sofortstart.de
www.shadowchurch.de
www.maybe-bangladesh.de
MEANWHILE IN MAMELODI
by Benjamin Kahlmeyer WORK | SOCIAL | ECONOMY | DAILY LIFE | HUMAN RIGHTS | AFRICA
Contact:
Filmakademie
Baden-Württemberg GmbH
Sigrid Gairing, Vertrieb & Lizenzen
Akademiehof 10
71638 Ludwigsburg, Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 7141-969193
fax: +49 (0) 7141-96955193
sigrid.gairing@filmakademie.de
boris.frank@filmakademie.de
benkah@gmx.de
www.meanwhile-in-mamelodi.com
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