The g-niale film festival was founded and organized in Stralsund for the first time in August of 1999 as a community project of garage g e.V. and the Film Club Blendwerk e.V. Above all, our festival is geared to present and preserve the genre of the short film, a form of cinematic expression that you can scarcely find in the regular commercial program at the cinemas. The g-niale presents a film programme away from the mainstream. Accordingly, above and beyond the competition programme, we are seeking to present experimental films, silent films with musical accompaniment, and specifically thematic programs that would form the basis for, as well as help to launch, a repertory arthouse in this region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on the Baltic Sea.

The topic of the g-niale 2003 is »trial & error«. Order and chaos, stability and insecurity, trial and error, system and accident, clearness and blurredness, labyrinths and dead ends. g-niale is searching for films that discuss disorientation and uncertainty on a formal and content basis. Films that manipulate perception or take one’s orientation, films that talk about errors and a way out.


13.08.03 - speicher 9 - 21:00
opening
5 years g-niale Stralsund - Best Of
This programme presents once more the winner films of the last four years g-niale. Highlights as »Das dritte Fenster« of the Hamburg based Hanna Nordholt and Fritz Steingrobe, »Ruleta« of the Spanish filmmaker Roberto Santiago, Andreas Töpfer’s »Lehrprogramm U-S-Bahn«, »The Thread« by Jan De Coster from Belgium or »El Cordobes« by Sven Taddicken


random choice - an absolutely insecure programme
A random test is an experiment in the widest sense, whose realisation gives random dependent, uncertain results and which can principally under the same conditions, at least theoretically, be repeated as often as you like. Through a random generator, the programme brings together all entries for the g-niale 2003, i.e. 280 films. The audience uses the device, the expectations are high, we will see what will be to be seen. The ball is rolling, the game can start.


music for films - Olaf Matthes (Greifswald/D)
The only concrete part of music for films is a film screening. In a room crossing endless loop a silent film is projected. Live music is generated via web interface. Installation? Performance? Interaction?


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