HORSE MONEY

In the organizer's words:

Portugal 2014, feature film, 103 min.

Director: Pedro Costa.

With: Ventura, Vitalina Varela, Tito Furtado, Antónia Santos.

Language: OmU (Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole with German subtitles).

Ventura, already the hero of Costa's COLOSSAL YOUTH, is being treated in a mental hospital. In a breathtaking mixture of the real and the hallucinated, the comprehensible and the incomprehensible, the fictional and the documentary, Ventura's past is illuminated with a unique visual language. A complex cinematic journey that shows Ventura as a prisoner of his own mind and of Portuguese history. HORSE MONEY, Costa's fourth film, which focuses on the former slum of Fontainhas and its inhabitants, received the Directing Award in Locarno in 2014 and won the main international prize at the Munich Film Festival.

HORSE MONEY is part of the program accompanying the exhibition CINEMASHER by Judith Meister and Dean Wallflower. At first glance, it stands in complete contrast to the installation - long silent scenes, the focus on details in contrast to the chaotic "ephemerality" of the film snippets in the installation. But the two artworks are actually quite similar - both break with linear, chronological narratives and invite the viewer to construct their own narrative and map of meaning.

ENG: Ventura, already the protagonist of Costa's COLOSSAL YOUTH, is being treated in a mental hospital. Ventura's past is illuminated in a breathtaking mixture of the real and the hallucinated, the comprehensible and the incomprehensible, the fictional and the documentary, and with a unique visual language. A complex cinematic journey that shows Ventura as a prisoner of his own mind and of Portuguese history. HORSE MONEY, Costa's fourth film, which focuses on the former slum of Fontainhas and its inhabitants, received the Directing Award in Locarno in 2014 and won the main international prize at the Munich Film Festival. (Portuguese & Cape Verdean Creole with German subtitles)

HORSE MONEY is part of the exhibition program CINEMASHER by Judith Meister and Dean Wallflower. At first view, it stands in complete contrast to the installation - long silent scenes, the focus on details in contrast to the chaotic "ephemerality" of the film snippets in the installation. But the two artworks are actually quite similar - both break with linear, chronological narratives and invite viewers to construct their own narrative and map of meaning.

Price information:

- 7.00 € (regular) - 5.50 € (reduced*) - 3.50 € (with Leipzig Pass, disabled pass, volunteer pass) - Films longer than 130 min: + 1.00 € - Tickets are available online (plus € 0.70 booking fee), remaining tickets at the Box Office.