Films on the subject of home: the traveling cinema "Bewegliche Bilder" is traveling through the Schongau region

Created: 08/04/2022 10:03 am

This is traveling cinema: In Kinsau at the sports grounds, the cinema audience saw the film "Ape Maria".

© Manuela Schmid

What does home mean?

Theresa Zwerschke and Elisa Schmitt want to approach this question in their traveling cinema "Bewegliche Bilder".

With each film, they illuminate the concept of homeland from a different perspective.

District – Three weekends, six venues: The traveling cinema “Bewegliche Bilder” brings plenty of film culture to the region just in time for the holiday season.

Always pursuing the question of what home means, the 28-year-old cinema makers Theresa Zwerschke and Elisa Schmitt dig up films from five decades.

Sometimes they go back to Werner Herzog's "Herz aus Glas" in 1976, sometimes they let a contemporary feature film flicker across the screen.

"We asked ourselves: What makes a film a homeland film," explains Theresa Zwerschke at one of the screenings that took place on the sports field in Kinsau.

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Last Saturday, the organizers set up a screen and projector on the Kinsau sports field.

The film “Ape Maria” began there with the roar of the engine.

An Ape, a three-wheeled cult vehicle from Italy with a driver's cab, rattles through the snow-covered South Tyrolean landscape on the edge of the Dolomites.

For the youngster Andreas, the Ape is a feeling of home: it is his everyday means of transport, he takes it to the pub to meet up with friends and play billiards.

Or in the tree hut, which is located in the middle of the mountains in the forest.

In order to keep his vehicle in good shape, he and his friend constantly screw around on his Ape.

The creators: Theresa Zwerschke (left) and Elisa Schmitt are on the road with the traveling cinema in the Schongau region.

© Manuela Schmid

The film by Greta Mentzel is a somewhat different kind of homeland film: the beautiful mountain scenery is not in the foreground here, and there is also no dramatic plot.

Rather, the everyday life of two South Tyrolean boys is shown: How they spend their free time, how they get through the night, or how they transport an entire door into the forest with the Ape and then hoist it up into their tree hut.

And again and again the roar of the Ape can be heard - for Andreas the vehicle is almost something like his sanctuary.

The Ape, the village in the mountains, the billiard bar: for Andreas, all of this is what you can call home.

Cinema evening in Kinsau had to be canceled due to rain - films will be made up for later

The next film, "The Village", which was still showing in Kinsau, took the cinema audience to a Turkish village.

Another completely different piece of home.

But unfortunately not much of this short film could be seen: A downpour put an abrupt end to the open-air performance.

The films, which could no longer be seen in Kinsau as a result, are now to be shown instead at the last screening on August 13th in the cultural center in Schwabniederhofen.

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"Actually we wanted to show the short films that would have been made in the workshop," says Zwerschke and talks about the workshop in which young people could have shot and edited their own film.

However, because not enough participants had registered, the course could not take place.

Films illuminate the concept of homeland from different perspectives

The films in the traveling cinema raise questions such as: “What exactly is homeland?”, “How is homeland defined in the films viewed and what image is drawn with it?” But also: “Who is represented by the films, who is excluded – and which future of homeland can possibly be tested in this way?”

Schmitt and Zwerschke, who grew up in Schwabniederhofen and Birkland, now live in Berlin.

Schmitt works as a curator and art historian and is currently a student in the “Cultures of the Curatorial” department at the Kunsthochschule Leipzig.

Zwerschke works as a freelance artist and art teacher.

"Want to contribute something to the cultural scene of the region with a traveling cinema"

"Because we have a strong connection to the area from growing up in the Schongauer Land, we would like to contribute something to the cultural scene of the region with our traveling cinema," the two explain.

Because the cultural project is supported by the Cultural Office Weilheim-Schongau and the Federal Government's Socio-Culture Fund, admission is free.

The cinema evenings are also intended to encourage viewers to engage in discourse.

Some of the talks are with the filmmakers themselves, for example about the background to the film.

And of course about your own definitions of home.

"The films set off their own thoughts with each one," says Zwerschke.

“We had some interesting conversations there.”

Schedule of the traveling cinema

is coming to Birkland on Thursday, August 4th at 9 p.m. in the Gasthaus Zum Neuwirt ("Apachen via Ansbach"; "The egg is a shitty gift from God") and on August 5th at 9 p.m. in the schoolyard in Altenstadt ("Neubau ").

On August 12, the cinema will be playing at 9 p.m. in the Atelier Graficum in Peiting (“Echo”; “Herz aus Glas”).

The last screening evening is on August 13th at 8 p.m. in the cultural center in Schwabniederhofen (various short films).

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