{"id":2168,"date":"2018-02-17T16:05:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T14:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2018-02-17T16:07:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T14:07:13","slug":"saturday-feb-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/2018\/02\/17\/saturday-feb-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"TEDDY TODAY: Saturday 17th February"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s Day 3 of the Berlinale and where do we start with today’s vast selection?! For the classics-lovers out there, Rupert Everett’s ‘The Happy Prince’, detailing the final chapter of openly gay, British author Oscar Wilde’s life, is right up your street. But if you’re looking for something a bit more daring, today’s schedule contains some of the most radical and challenging films of the TEDDY 2018. ‘Shakedown’ is an almost entirely VHS-shot documentation of the eponymous black lesbian club-night, ‘Garbage’ sees the return of controversial Indian director Q in a film that drastically deconstructs masculinity, and the experimental short ‘Contra-Internet’ takes us into a dystopian, post-internet, post-sexual realm. If that’s not enough to satisfy you then there’s plenty more to float your boat in this action-packed timetable so get watching!<\/p>\n

Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Director: Zach Blas<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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USA\/Great Britain 2018 29′, English, Spanish<\/p>\n

Akademie der K\u00fcnste, 19:00<\/p>\n

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Inspired by Derek Jarman\u2019s 1978 queer punk film Jubilee, Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033 follows Ayn Rand and members of her Collective, including Alan Greenspan, on an acid trip in 1955. Casting Susanne Sachsse as Ayn Rand, Zach Blas stages a psychedelic fever dream that sees the philosopher and her hangers-on transported to a dystopian future Silicon Valley. As Apple, Facebook,\u00a0and Google campuses burn, their guide, artificial intelligence Azuma, reveals that Ayn has become a celebrity philosopher to tech executives, as her writings foster their entrepreneurial spirit. Amidst the wreckage, Rand and The Collective are introduced to the Internet and bear witness to techies being captured by anti-campus groupies. Inside an occupied office park, the group encounters Nootropix, a contra-sexual, contra-internet prophet, who lectures on the end of the internet as we know it. Seeking respite, Rand and The Collective find themselves at Silicon Beach, where chunks of polycrystalline silicon mix with sand and ocean.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Garbage<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Director: Q
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A young, seemingly mute woman has been fixed to the wall of an apartment with a long metal chain. She is being kept as a slave in the home of taxi driver Phanishwar, where she sleeps on a table and cooks for him. Phanishwar is a fervent supporter of the right-wing extremist guru \u2018Baba\u2019 and spreads his hatred in the commentary sections of social networks. One day he meets a young woman, Rami, who has had to go underground in Goa after a secretly filmed sex video in which she appeared went viral on the internet. He becomes her driver, whilst secretly stalking her online.
\nIndian director Q does not shy away from controversy, having already succeeded in inflaming passions with the dark tales in his feature film debut, Gandu<\/em>. His stylishly shot revenge story Garbage<\/em> revolves around two women who are exposed to different forms of oppression. Q initially takes time to develop the events, making some (queer) detours until eventually, things radically change. And when female martyrdom turns into retaliation, the director finds drastic images for the filmic deconstruction of (Indian) masculinity.<\/p>\n

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The Happy Prince<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Director: Rupert Everett<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Germany\/Belgium\/Italy 2017 105′, English, French, Italian<\/p>\n

Friedrichstadt Palast, 21:00<\/p>\n

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At the end of the 19th century, dandy Oscar Wilde is the darling of London society \u2013 witty, humorous and scandalous. However, his open homosexuality is too much for the times in which he lives and he is sent to prison. Impoverished and stricken by ill health at
\nthe time of his release, he goes into exile in Paris. After a half-hearted attempt to reconcile with his wife, he resumes his relationship with the young Lord Douglas, which plunges him into total disaster. All he has left are his fanciful stories, with which he conquers the affection of two street boys. Supported by loyal friends who try to protect him from his own excesses, he manages to retain his charm and irony to the bitter end: \u2018Either this hideous wallpaper goes \u2013 or I do …\u2019 Written and directed by Rupert Everett, who also plays the leading role, this biopic focuses on the last years of the once celebrated and later disgraced writer. Flashbacks and associative dream images depict him as the eccentric bon vivant he was to remain throughout his life in a portrait that expands to become a panorama of the emerging modern era.<\/p>\n

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Hojoom (<\/strong>Invasion)<\/h3>\n

Director: Shahram Mokri<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Iran 2017 102′, Farsi<\/p>\n

Cinestar IMAX, 21:30<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Eternal darkness seems to shroud the stadium where men with bizarre tattoos pursue a sport that is never shown or named. A body has been found here, and the police have already identified a guilty party. Now the circumstances of the crime are to be reconstructed, so that the case can be quickly shelved. However, the real killer and his teammates want to use the reconstruction to commit another crime. The twin sister of the victim, who is said to be a vampire, is to be killed. But during the re-enactment of the murder, the players forget their role, chaos breaks out and the characters seem to be caught in an endless loop in which events repeat themselves in different ways. The disquieting feeling that time is dissolving, that past, present and future are becoming one and that history has
\nbeen halted is likely to strike a chord with how many young Iranians feel about their lives. Shahram Mokri\u2019s intimate drama ominously interweaves place, space and time in the stadium\u2019s labyrinthine corridors to form a dark allegory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Je fais o\u00f9 tu me dis <\/strong>(Dressed for Pleasure)<\/h3>\n

Director: Marie de Maricourt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Switzerland 2017 17′, French<\/p>\n

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Following on the heels of Lick Us, Meow, Meow! (Generation 2016) Marie de Maricourt\u2019s back with another dazzling rebellion involving sexual identity. There\u2019s no space for Sarah\u2019s desires under her parents\u2019 roof \u2013 the prevailing climate in the bourgeois household feels more constricting to the young woman than her wheelchair. With the aid of a furtive accomplice Sarah finds ways to transform her gloomy abode into a veritable pleasure dome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pop Rox<\/h3>\n

Director: Nate Trinrud<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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USA 2017 14′, English<\/p>\n

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Jesse is creative and seldom at a loss for words. But how can she confess to her best friend that she is in love \u2013 with her, no less? Should she act it out with finger puppets? No, too silly. Write a love letter? Maybe. Or should she just tell her? With great compassion and a dash of irony, the film depicts the emotional world of a teenager in love and torn between fierce determination and fear of disappointment.<\/p>\n

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Shakedown<\/h3>\n

Director: Leilah Weinraub<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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USA 2018 82′, English<\/p>\n

Zoo Palast 2, 22:00<\/p>\n

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\u2018Shakedown\u2019 was a series of parties founded by and for African American women in Los Angeles that featured go-go dancing and
\nstrip shows for the city\u2019s lesbian underground scene. Inspired by transwoman Mahogany who, as the mother of the scene, presided over queer strip shows and balls for non-heterosexual audiences in the 1980s, butch Ronnie Ron created, produced and presented the new shows. In them, the largely female clientele from the \u2018hood\u2019 slipped dollar notes into lap dancers\u2019 panties while celebrating lesbian sexuality to pulsating hip-hop beats. Showing the protagonists backstage and in interviews, this intimate chronicle reveals that \u2018Shakedown\u2019 was more than just a strip club; as one of the few spaces for lesbian subculture, the club brought together and galvanised a community of freaks and queers of colour, and for that it suffered police reprisals. The film\u2019s director is herself a member of this community; using exclusive archive material, posters and flyers, her film takes a personal look at female desire that is rarely presented on the big screen.<\/p>\n

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