LIGHT YEAR 81: Love Cycles
Thursday, January 6th, 2022
ONLINE: 2-10pm EST
LIVE: Dusk - 10pm @ Pearl Street Triangle; DUMBO, Brooklyn
Berlin Premiere:
SCOPE BLN
Lübecker Straße 43, 10559, Berlin
Thursday, January 6th, 8:45-10pm CET
Canada Premiere:
THE DREY
Woodbine Ave, East York, ON M4C 4E1, Canada
Thursday, January 6th, 6-10 PM EST
The program Love Cycles tells the same story over and over again: the basic need for intimacy and completion through a partner of one's own choice. Just like for the robot in Kurzschluss (Short Circuit), this desire seems to be deeply programmed into the system of the protagonists. Even if the starting point is similar in all three stories, neither of the protagonists seems to enjoy everyday life, the outcome develops from film to film until the happy ending. The compilation consists out of three films from Germany, Austria and Japan.
This edition of Light Year is a collaboration with Moving Silence, the Berlin-based platform for contemporary silent film. The films were selected by Matthias Fritsch, one of the two co-founders. Besides running Moving Silence Fritsch is an independent film maker himself, most well known as the originator of the early video meme “Technoviking” and the collaborative online music video series “Music from the Masses.”
Featuring work by Xaver Xylophon, Miriam Frank, Georg Utz, Harald Hund, Paul Horn, and Ryoya Usuha.
Curated by Matthias Fritsch.