DORE 0. ONLINE PROGRAMME
Painter and photographer by training, Dore O. founded the Hamburger Filmschau alongside her husband and collaborator Werner Nekes, becoming one of the pioneers of European experimental film in the 1960s. Her first works, infused with the psychedelia of the sixties, followed during the early seventies by an uncompromising and formally rigorous work: rear-projections, over-impositions, repetition of frames, and snatching hand-held shots, which seem at the same time to be the result of primitive impulses and a calculated manipulation of the picture's framing and tempo. Playful and irredeemable visual poetry to let yourself be carried away to the last consequences, from ecstasy to terror.
In her films, landscapes, rooms and faces are merged to form complex lyrical compositions full of beauty and strength that we can finally contemplate in all its magnitude thanks to the new restorations carried out by the Deutsche Kinemathek. A legacy that until now has been insufficiently disseminated due to the deterioration of the existing copies of her films, yet arriving at the right time to rewrite the history of experimental cinema, still with many debts pending.
The German programmer and restorer Masha Matzke, who has been working for years on the preservation of Dore O.'s work, and is preparing a monographic book about it, will guide us through this spotlight on an essential European creator.
JÜM-JÜM
Dore O. and Wernes Nekes | Germany | 1967 | 16mm to DCP | 10 min. | Without dialogues
It is difficult to take your eyes off this film, which moves to the rhythm of the swing in which a young girl is incessantly rocking. Behind the young woman and the swing, a colorful painted penis: it seems to go in and out of the young woman as she swings, a film dipped in humor and psychedelia.
ALASKA
Dore O. | Germany | 1968 | 16mm to DCP | 18 min. | Without dialogues
An Alaskan dream filmed, yet free from the simplistic and misleading metaphors of psychoanalysis. A woman with long hair, the sea, images that evoke pre-Raphaelite paintings. Underneath the overwhelming beauty, lies horror and fear in a film that cannot be analyzed: it must be lived.
LAWALE
Dore O. | Germany | 1969 | 16mm to DCP | 30 min. | Without dialogues
Home images accompanied by infernal noise, in a film that talks about the internal process of the emancipation of a young woman. Her mother in front of the door, looking out the window: the Sunday family meal. The afternoon coffee in a shady room. Breakfast in bed. Dore O. always on the edge of things, absent, a figure that appears intermittently as a hand emerging from a hole trying to cross an invisible threshold.