Underskog

Onsdag 6. april 2011

• 20:00 Moloch filmklubb presents: Come and See (Idi i smotri) (1985), Solipsia fotokollektivet

  A boy is unwillingly thrust into the atrocities of war in WWII Byelorussia, fighting for a hopelessly unequipped resistance movement against the ruthless German forces. Witnessing scenes of abject terror and accidentally surviving horrifying situations he loses his innocence and then his mind. Free entrance & popcorn – please reserve a seat if attending. Welcome!

Onsdag 30. mars 2011

• 20:00 Moloch filmklubb presents: The Diamond Arm (Brilliantovaya ruka) (1969), Solipsia fotokollektivet

  A boss of a black market ring (referred to as “The Chief”) wants to smuggle a batch of jewelry into the Soviet Union by hiding it into the orthopedic cast of a courier. By a confusing accident the contraband lands into the cast of a broken arm of a “simple Soviet citizen” Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov. He lets the militsiya know about this, and the militsiya captain uses Gorbunkov as a bait to catch the criminals. Most of the plot are various attempts of two crooks, Lyolik and Gennadiy Kozodoyev, …

Onsdag 16. mars 2011

• 20:00 Moloch filmklubb presents: The Island (Ostrov) (2006), Solipsia fotokollektivet

  Somewhere in Nothern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives a very unusual man. His fellow-monks are confused by his bizarre conduct. Those who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future. However, he considers himself unworthy because of a sin he committed in his youth. The film is a parable, combining the realities of Russian everyday life with monastic ritual and routine. Free entrance & popcorn – please reserve a seat …

Onsdag 9. mars 2011

• 20:00 Moloch filmklubb presents: Operation “Y” & Other Shurik’s Adventures (Operatsiya Y i drugiye …, Solipsia fotokollektivet

  Operation Y and Other Shurik’s Adventures is a 1965 Soviet slapstick comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai, starring Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Seleznyova, Yuri Nikulin, Georgy Vitsin and Yevgeny Morgunov. The film consists of three independent parts: “Workmate” , “Déjà vu” and “Operation Y”. The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly. Operation Y and Other Shurik’s Adventures …

Onsdag 2. mars 2011

• 20:00 Moloch filmklubb presents: Offret (The Sacrifice) (1986), Solipsia fotokollektivet

  Offret (The Sacrifice) is the final film by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky. Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have the war not happen at all. Free entrance & popcorn – please reserve a seat if attending. Welcome!

Onsdag 23. februar 2011

• 20:00 Moloch filmklubb presents: Andrei Rublev (1966), Solipsia fotokollektivet

  Andrei Rublev is set against the background of 15th century Russia. Although the film is only loosely based on the life of Andrei Rublev, its depiction of medieval Russia is realistic. Tarkovsky created a film that shows the artist as “a world-historic figure” and “Christianity as an axiom of Russia’s historical identity”during a turbulent period of Russian history, that ultimately resulted in the Tsardom of Russia. The film is about the essence of art and the importance of faith and shows an …

Onsdag 16. februar 2011

• 20:00 Moloch filmklubb presents: Oci ciornie (Dark Eyes) (1987), Solipsia fotokollektivet

  Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks filmed almost entirely in creams, whites, and ochers, the clownish and superfluous Romano Patroni leaves his wife’s opulent home to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman whose marriage is a horror. He pursues her into the Russian heartland and returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love. His amazed and appreciative Russian listener …

Onsdag 9. februar 2011

• 20:00 Moloch filmklubb presents: The Hairdresser’s Husband (1990), Solipsia fotokollektivet

  Twelve-year-old Antoine falls profoundly in love with a voluptuous but suicidal hairdresser, a formative experience he never forgets. Much later in life, he seeks to repeat his romance by marrying Mathilde – also voluptuous and also a hairdresser – with whom he forms an intimate and consuming relationship in an attempt to blot out the miseries of this world from their lives. Free entrance & popcorn – please reserve a seat if attending. Welcome!

Onsdag 2. februar 2011

• 20:00 Moloch filmklubb presents: Polyester (1981), Solipsia fotokollektivet

  Polyester is a 1981 comedy film directed, produced, and written by John Waters, and starring Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, and Mink Stole. It was filmed in Waters’ native Baltimore, Maryland, and features a gimmick called “Odorama”, whereby viewers could smell what they saw on screen through scratch and sniff cards. The film is a satirical look at suburban life involving divorce, abortion, adultery, alcoholism, fetishism, and the Religious Right. Housewife’s world falls apart when her …

Onsdag 26. januar 2011

• 20:00 Moloch Filmklubb: Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Solipsia fotokollektivet

  This classic 1957 American film noir was directed by Alexander Mackendrick, and stars Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison and Martin Milner. The screenplay was written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman and Alexander Mackendrick from the novelette by Lehman. The film tells the story of a powerful newspaper columnist named J. J. Hunsecker (based on famed New York columnist Walter Winchell) who uses his connections to ruin his sister’s relationship with a man he deems inappropriate. Despite …

Onsdag 19. januar 2011

• 20:00 Moloch filmklubb presents: Cinema Paradiso (1988), Solipsia fotokollektivet

  Movies can wield a strange power over those who sit in the darkened seats of a theatre. The truly great ones manipulate your perception of reality, suspend your disbelief, and ultimately either alter or affirm your view on life. NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO is just such a movie. It is the near-perfect melding of direction, acting, script, sound track, and cinematography. Phillipe Noiret and Salvatore Cascio give the kind of performance…s usually associated with much more recognizable actors. The …

Onsdag 8. desember 2010

• 20:00 Moloch filmklubb presents: Checkpoint (2003), Solipsia fotokollektivet

  Checkpoint (Machssomim) is a 2003 documentary by Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir, showing the everyday interaction between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian civilians at several of the region’s Israeli Defence Forces’ checkpoints. This award-winning, contoversial film is shot in cinéma vérité-style with no narration, but offers a fly-on-the-wall perspective of everyday situations at the border. From a review at Eye for film: “This could be a laid back Palestinian exposé of what is happening at the …

Onsdag 1. desember 2010

• 20:00 Moloch filmklubb presents: Encounters at the End of the World (2008), Solipsia fotokollektivet

  This documentary film by Werner Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger was completed in 2007, and released the year after. Herzog’s characteristic voiceover narration explains that this film will not be a typical Antarctica film about fluffy penguins, but will explore the dreams of the people and the landscape. The entire film crew consisted of Herzog, who recorded all production sound, and cinematographer Zeitlinger. The two went to Antarctica without any opportunity to plan filming …

Onsdag 24. november 2010

• 20:00 Moloch filmklubb presents: Into Great Silence (2005), Solipsia fotokollektivet

  This award-winning German documentary of 2005, originally named Die Grosse Stille, was written and directed by Philip Gröning. It is an examination of life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France. From the film’s web page, here: Silence. Repitition. Rhythm. The film is an austere, next to silent meditation on monastic life in a very pure form. No music except the chants in the monastery, no interviews, no commentaries, no extra material. …

Onsdag 17. november 2010

• 20:00 Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Solipsia fotokollektivet

  Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova. It presents urban life in Odessa and other Soviet cities. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life. To the extent that it can be said to have “characters,” they are the cameramen of the title and the modern Soviet Union he discovers and presents in the …

Onsdag 10. november 2010

• 20:00 Mein liebster Feind – Klaus Kinski (1999), Solipsia fotokollektivet

  In the 1950s, when Werner Herzog was 13, he was sharing an apartment with Klaus Kinski, an ego-maniacal live-wire. In an unabated, 48 hour fit of rage, Kinski destroyed every piece of furniture in sight. From this chaos, a beautiful albeit volatile partnership was born. In 1972, Herzog cast Kinski in Aguirre, The Wrath of God. Four more films would follow. In this personal documentary, Herzog traces the often violent ups and downs of their relationship, revisiting Munich apartment where they …

Tirsdag 9. november 2010

• 18:00 Boklansering og foredrag: Svalbard Spor, Solipsia fotokollektivet

  Fotograf og lærer Per-Anders Rosenkvist og tekstforfatter/verdens nordligste sogneprest Leif Magne Helgesen presenterer sin nye reportasjebok fra Svalbard. Forfatterne har fulgt Kystvakten på oppdrag, vært med inn i kullgruva i Svea, møtt innbyggerne i det russiske/ukrainske samfunnet Barentsburg, fulgt forskerne i deres søken etter svar, vært med hundeslede over Svalbards mektige isbreer og møtt noen frodige personer i Longyearbyen. Foredrag, diskusjon og boksignering. Mer om boken: “Svalbard …

Onsdag 3. november 2010

• 20:00 Moloch filmklubb: Alt om min far (2002), intro + Q&A ved regissør Even Benestad, Solipsia fotokollektivet

  - I want to spend my time fighting for the unusual person’s right to be unusual. (Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad) Starting our November of documentaries, we’ve taken a break from voting and democracy, and have made an executive decision in screening this docu-pearl. Regular voting from next week, and suggestions are once again welcomed. This Norwegian documentary by Even Benestad stars his father Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad – the medical doctor, therapist and national celebrity – who changes …

Fredag 29. oktober 2010

• 19:30 Foredrag med Dag Alveng, Solipsia fotokollektivet

  Dag Alveng er en av Norges fremste og betydeligste fotokunstnere. 30 års karriere har resultert i 8 hyller med permer fulle av negativer og 70 000 fotografier. Han er den eneste nålevende norske kunstner som både er representert i The Metropolitan Museum of Art og i The Museum of Modern Art i New York. Ikke minst er han av de fotografene som har vært med på å gi kunst-fotografiet oppmerksomhet i Norge som en av stifterne av Fotogalleriet på 1970-tallet. Som den profilerte fotografen han er, har …

Tirsdag 26. oktober 2010

• 20:00 Moloch filmklubb: Dracula (1931), Solipsia fotokollektivet

  “I never drink….. wine” Béla Lugosi as the Count. Bram Stoker’s novel. Tod Browning directs. Classic bloodsuckery. NB! NEW LOCATION: Prinsens gate 3b. Still free entrance & popcorn. “I….. bid you….. welcome”