On October 21 Annika Larsson presents films interrogating the act of seeing - an exploration of found footage, and the refusal of fixed meanings. The program opens with Lutz Mommartz's vividly dancing ABOVE UNDER from 1967, continuing with Stan Brakhage’s poetic investigation of vision and the unconscious through processed murky, unclear images composed from TV, scientific films and cartoons (MURDER PSALM), followed by James Benning’s film YOUTUBE TRILOGY – 4 SONGS, HISTORY AND ASIAN GIRLS, an arrangement of material from YouTube that "...mirrors what is out there, and what is looked at." (James Benning), and a film by Rheim Alkadhi from 2007 SUBTITLES FOR STOLEN PICTURES consisting of appropriated news photos from the war in Iraq, and a story curiously narrated by a dead protagonist. Ending with Ken Jacobs raw and unedited PERFECT FILM, a found film-reel of discarded news coverage of the assassination of Malcolm X.

A monthly star fixture: Vaginal Davis, who moved from L.A. to Berlin in 2007, has been inviting Berlin audiences to film evenings of a special nature ever since. For the anniversary celebration on October 27, she is, as every year, dedicating the program to actress Louise Brooks. We are showing the first film she shot with G.W. Pabst, PANDORA'S BOX (1929). Louise Brooks plays the seductive Lulu, who holds sway over all before her. Yet after her husband is killed on their wedding night, suspicion falls on her.

Followed by drinks and music.