Guest: Andrew Bujalski

Andrew Bujalski (*1977) is a key representative of the US mumblecore movement, an unusual form of young, independent low-budget cinema that is characterized by its incidental, non-dramatic way of telling stories, whose endings are often left loose, as well as by the work with amateur actors and semi-improvised, everyday dialogues. Andrew Bujalski will be teaching a master class at the dffb this month, and thus we are very pleased to welcome him once again to Arsenal from January 24-27. He was last here when BEESWAX premiered in the Berlinale Forum. He will introduce each of his three films and talk to the audience about them afterwards. Shot on celluloid, with a minimal budget and featuring protagonists from his circle of friends, Bujalski's films are about twenty-somethings who, in a constant state of transition and juggling their existences as artists, their search for self-realization and underpaid (university) jobs, have to get used to the idea that they will have to grow up one day. They always have an excuse, seem to be blocked from taking action, postponing decisions or not taking them at all. People talk a lot, but never clearly – they mumble. Bujalski's films capture the idiom and attitude to life of a specific generation very closely.

On January 27, we are hosting a REVOLVER LIVE! event entitled "Life out of focus" at Arsenal, in which the filmmaker Nicolas Wackerbarth will ask Andrew Bujalski about his aesthetics and his inspirations.