Highlights from the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2019

ALGO-RHYTHM, By Manu Luksch

Los Angeles Filmforum at the Egyptian presents

Highlights from the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2019

Sunday, January 19, 2020 7:30 pm

At the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90028

This program brings together some of the most interesting works from the 2019 International Competition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, In the course of six decades, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has developed into one of the most highly acclaimed cultural events worldwide – a place where renowned figures like Agnès Varda, Martin Scorsese, Alexander Kluge and Werner Herzog first showed their films.

To start the program, Rubén Guzmán, with great dignity, accompanies a Patagonia woman on her forays through a region that she seems to inhabit completely on her own.  In the unusual animated film “Ugahnut život (Imbued Life), an animal taxidermist finds rolls of undeveloped films in each of the animals she is preparing.  The music thriller “ZOMBIES” by Baloji looks at the emotional and social costs of social media while at the same time celebrating the pulsating sub-culture of Kinshasa in gorgeous images.  In the work by Max Philipp Schmid, two men and a woman, overwhelmed by the flood of information via media, find stability in the sort of piano playing once cultivated by the educated middle class and in Far Eastern self-optimization techniques.  And “ALGO-RHYTHM”, by Manu Luksch, is a hip-hop comedy aimed at automatized propaganda, which was filmed in Dakar using photogrammetric techniques.  In sum, the entire intellectual wealth of current international film production is there to be discovered in this program. 81 minutes total

Note the change in ticketing for our events at the Egyptian Theatre.  Advance paid tickets will be reserved through the American Cinematheque site; Filmforum members will reserve through Brown Paper Tickets.  At the theatre on the night of the show, tickets will be available through the Egyptian Theatre ticket window.

Tickets: $12 general; $8 students (with ID)/seniors; $8 for American Cinematheque members; free for Filmforum Members. Paid tickets available in advance through the American Cinematheque from Fandango at https://www.fandango.com/egyptian-theatre-hollywood-aaofx/theater-page?date=2020-01-19   or at the door.

Filmforum member tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets at https://oberhausentour.bpt.me  or at the door. 

Fandango Sales: Please note that student/senior tickets are not available online. Please bring your student ID and/or California ID or license to the box office to receive the discount.

Filmforum members will reserve in advance through Brown Paper Tickets. All Filmforum member reservations will be administered to by Filmforum.

At the theatre on the night of the show, tickets will be available for purchase from the Egyptian Theatre box office. Filmforum members will pick up their tickets from the box office as well. The list will close four hours prior to show time. Available Filmforum member tickets will be available at the box office on the day of the event.

The box office opens 90 minutes prior to showtime. More information about American Cinematheque ticketing can be found here: http://www.americancinematheque.com/information/

For more information: www.lafilmforum.org or 323-377-7238.