Filmmakers' Choice

Together with the official cinema premiere of LUDDITES!, the program shows films about the history of industrialization and its decline, of cinematic acts of sabotage of dominant narratives and of the haptic connectivity of textiles.
"Luddites!" shows and undertakes an interweaving of the memory of a marginal, but not erased history of resistance against the inhuman and destructive reorganizations of society since the 19th century. In a far-reaching circular path, the ongoing consequences of this history are projected into the post-colonial, -industrial and -documentary space of the present. The bitter songs about the uprisings of the weavers from the 19th century, which accompanied the workers' movements ever since, tangent the circulation of the image track as a chorus of suffragettes who cannot comply. These songs appear as interruptions, almost disruptions or irritations.
The selected films are accomplices and collaborators of LUDDITES, that accompanied, commented, and localized its coming to being. (ks)

Programm: 
GRANDMA THREADING A NEEDLE G.A Smith GB 1900 without dialogue 16 mm 1 min.
MISÈRE AU BORINAGE Joris Ivens, Henri Storck Belgien 1933 original version 16 mm 26 min.
HANDTINTING Joyce Wieland Kanada 1967 silent 16 mm 6 min.
DIE MASCHINENSTÜRMER*/LUDDITES! Kerstin Schroedinger D 2021 Original version with English subtitles DCP 81 min.