Film und_ #9 Queer “Home Movies”
Wenn die Schneeschmelze einsetzt by Emil Huppenkothen, Marie Luise Lehner
Open House by Jan Soldat
Piccin Gemellone by Tibor Köhne
Tibor Köhne: Piccin Gemellone, 2024, 19 min
Emil Huppenkothen, Marie Luise Lehner: Wenn die Schneeschmelze einsetzt, 2026, 11 min
Jan Soldat: Open House, 2025, 9 min
Rom Sheratzky: Follow Back, 2025, 23 min
Curated by Stefanie Reisinger and Dietmar Schwärzler
From a film-historical perspective, the “home movie” was an amateur format used to record private events, family and friends’ activities, vacations, and the like on Super 8, 16mm, or video, with the intention of subsequently viewing these recordings together in a private setting. Today, this practice has shifted primarily to our cell phones.
Ideally, home is a place of informality, a sense of belonging that isn’t limited to one’s own four walls. The four films gathered in this program paraphrase the idea of the home movie, utilizing and expanding upon it with great skill to shape (queer) realities. At the center of each is always a diverse array of interpersonal relationships. Tibor Köhne employs a distinctive queer form to tell a parable-like story of critique of capitalism between himself and his brother. Senior electrician Lehner and crevasse researcher Schmitz (Huppenkothen) go on a skiing vacation and simultaneously create an enchanting love story, while Jan Soldat documents a (likewise charming) sex party in Berlin during Christopher Street Day. Rom Sheratzky, in turn, uses a public live stream camera in Frankfurt to get closer to his love interest, an endeavor that oscillates between shameless romantic bliss and a tingling sense of unease in the audience.
A collaboration between Belvedere21/Blickle Kino and sixpackfilm