We will be back (hopefully!) with screening in Seomra Spraoi in September (the exact date is still to be confirmed - but it will be probably Friday). Weve got a stunning German doco My Fathers, My Mother and Me (Meine Keine Familie) by Paul-Julien Robert. See you then! https://youtube/watch?v=UNhZ_lg1MgY Paul-Julien Robert is an angry young man. And he has every right to be. Robert was born in 1979 to a young Swiss woman living in Friedrichshof, a famous, and later infamous, Austrian commune that was once the largest in Europe. Like so many utopian communities founded over the past two centuries on the principle of participatory democracy, this one was the brainchild of an individual visionary. He was Otto Mühl, a former Wehrmacht soldier who in the Sixties helped found the Actionist art movement in Vienna and who gained notoriety for his scoptophilic “performances” that involved naked people rolling around in paint and mud and feces groping each other, and often ended with Mühl either defecating on someone or urinating in a performer’s mouth. (YouTube will introduce you to his chefs d’oeuvre.) (nybooks/blogs/nyrblog/2013/aug/07/tyrant-commune/) Paul never had a small family. In the Seventies, his mother considered that to be a false way of life, so she moved into Otto Mühl’s infamous artist commune in Burgenland, where Paul was brought up bereft of any conventional family relationships. Twenty years after the end of an experiment that promised cultural freedom and exercised social totalitarianism, the filmmaker sets about confronting his past – through a content that is unsparing, but a form that is carefully considered and highly intelligent filmicly. In doing so, he also confronts his mother, whom he allows space for reflection. The combination of meetings with former inhabitants of the commune – other children to whom he still has a strong relationship, but also possible fathers – and alarmingly abundant archive material (which becomes evidence) is to the point, dramatically as well as psychologically. Paul-Julien Robert has succeeded in creating a compelling and mature documentary film, because he preserves his artistic composure amid all the personal tragedy. (https://dokfest-muenchen.de/news_view_web.php?nid=537&lang=en)
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:26:33 +0000
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