Filmmakers' Choice: And At the End, the Light

On December 21, Maike Mia Höhne will be presenting films by Maya Deren, Carolee Schneemann, Stan Brakhage, Marie Menken and Rüdiger Neumann. "The repetition is in difficulty, again and again. Why again and again? Because it has to happen again and again to trigger a sound. To create an echo. It's about transcendence these days, again and again. RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME (Maya Deren, 1946). Condensing the internalized into the outside. To the bodies in motion. No disappearing into pornography, devotion: FUSES (Carolee Schneemann, 1965–68). Stan Brakhage picks up on the light in EYE MYTH EDUCATIONAL (1972) and Marie Menken follows Christmas lights in LIGHTS (1965), transferring them from real life into the cinematic realm. STEIN / LICHT (Rüdiger Neumann, 1993) is a journey though time and tide. It is only in the darkest black of night, as visceral as celluloid, that the sound of the lights that appear on the horizon is produced." (Maike Mia Höhne)