Cordial invitation to the film program in the cinema of the Kölnischer Kunstverein / Kino 813 in the BRÜCKE, on Thursday, February 5, 7 pm:

Lutz Dammbeck
The Master Game, 1998
Germany
106 min.
Written and directed by Lutz Dammbeck

In the presence of the artist and filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck, Hamburg, organized in cooperation with Filmclub 813.

In 1994, 27 paintings by the Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer are painted over with black paint by unknown persons at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. On one painting, the perpetrators paint the text UND DA BESCHLOSS ER AKTIONIST ZU SEIN, an essay on a quote by Adolf Hitler. At the same time, a series of bomb attacks shook Austria, leaving people injured and dead. A "Bajuwarische Befreiungsarmee" (Bavarian Liberation Army), abbreviated to BBA, claims responsibility for the attacks and sees Austria's German identity under threat. The attacks are staged as a fictitious historical and role-playing game that re-enacts the liberation of Vienna from the Turkish armies. So do the attacks come from the right? Is there a connection between the attack at the Vienna Academy and the BBA bombs, as Arnulf Rainer and his entourage initially suspected? Or is it all just a hallucination and a confused dream, provoked by Vienna, the "laboratory for the end of the world"?

Admission by donation.