Black and white short film with Claudia Skoda and Gerhard Plez as actors.
It is part of Infermental 1, a film that gathers short films of many German directors and lasts 4 hours.

XY - Vorsicht Falle (Tabea Blumenschein, 1981).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	12 min 23 s
Size: 	46.5 MiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	854x480 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	395 kb/s
BPP: 	0.039
Audio
#1:  	German 2.0ch AAC LC @ 128 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/91CD9FC5B069E7A/XY_-_Vorsicht_Falle_(Tabea_Blumenschein,_1981).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/A716CE1AD32ECBB/XY_-_Vorsicht_Falle_English.srt

Language(s):Some German language
Subtitles:English

The post Tabea Blumenschein – XY – Vorsicht Falle AKA XY – Watch Out for the Trap (1981) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
In THE BETRUCTION OF THE BLUE SAILORS, Tabea Blumenschein “plays four different roles in changing appearances and in fantastic costumes that structure the film: a mythical figure that permeates the film on desert sand with siren song; a bird that is killed; a Hawaiian girl and a Sailors. While the siren, accompanied by Asian music, strides along the desert, sailors and birds become the victims of perverted naturalness in the form of the wild Hawaiian girl.” (Claudia Hoff) In the collage principle, areas and quotations from commercialized everyday life and the music, which ranges from noises, sacred gongs, Hawaiian music, Schuricke melodies, musette waltzes to Burmese songs and cultic Ketchak rhythms, and the language – literary texts by Apollinaire, which already use the quotation method, phrases from the world of American show business (Hollywood veteran star), lamentations of a Russian silent film mother […], come satire, the grotesque, the caricature, the clown and the doll up; and it is the deep meaning of these forms of expression, through the demonstration of the marionette-ness, the mechanization of life, through the apparent and real torpor, to let us imagine a different life. (Raoul Hausman). (From the conversation between Ulrike Ottinger/ Tabea Blumenschein and Hanne Bergius)

1.83GB | 47m 00s | 1616×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/828232382E1820D/DIE_BETORUNG_DER_BLAUEN_MATROSEN.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:None

The post Tabea Blumenschein & Ulrike Ottinger – Die Betörung der blauen Matrosen AKA The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors (1975) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The official synopsis wrote:
On the women’s ship Orlando the flags of attack, leather, weapons, lesbian love and death are raised with a beauty which dispenses with a total domination of the viewer’s gaze.
The aesthetic is strictly stylized, exhibiting itself without overwhelming us.

Patricia White, Swarthmore College wrote:
“Ulrike Ottinger has a larger body of work than almost any other lesbian filmmaker, and her rarely seen first feature contains most of the elements that make her work so unique and ahead of its time. In this extravagantly aestheticized, postmodern pirate film she appropriates the male genre for feminist allegory. Madame X — the cruel, uncrowned ruler of the China seas — promises “gold, love, and adventure” to all women who’ll leave their humdrum lives behind. Gathered aboard her ship, Orlando, are a range of types: a frumpy housewife, a glamorous diva, a psychologist, a very German outdoorswoman, a bush pilot, an artist (played by Yvonne Rainer), and a “native” beauty. Their utopia devolves into betrayal and self-destruction, leading to eventual transformation—as the power games of the outside world are ritualized among the women. Tabea Blumenschein, who designed the film’s outrageous costumes, appears in a dual role as the pirate queen and the ship’s lovely, leather clad figurehead. Refusing conventional storytelling and realism for a rich, non-synchronous soundtrack, the film invites its audience along for an unprecedented journey that celebrates the marginal.”

Karsten Witte, Die Zeit wrote:
What makes the film disturbing is that women willingly succumb to the fascination of rituals of power and – in men’s imagination – abandon the territory of innocence and the presumption of women’s moral superiority, rejecting the gentleness of other women’s films, which, like Agnès Varda’s last work, promise ‘love without cares’. This film shows not a trace of fearfulness. On the contrary, it is calculated to evoke fear in those who put up resistance against the fascination of this ritualized and totally aestheticized power.

2.06GB | 2h 25mn | 640×480 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/BEA166C94EEC99B/Ulrike.Ottinger.Madame.X.1978-POENiR.avi

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English Hardsubs

The post Tabea Blumenschein & Ulrike Ottinger – Madame X – Eine absolute Herrscherin (1978) first appeared on Cinema of the World.