FESA (fig pig)

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Members of the group FESA (feige sau), v. l. To the right: Wolf Götz Richter, Ray van Zeschau , Rainer A. Schmidt , 1992

FESA (feige sau) was a Dresden underground film group between 1985 and 1992.

history

Rainer A. Schmidt , Ray van Zeschau and Wolf Götz Richter founded the underground film group FESA (feige sau) in Dresden in 1985. In 1986, the first independent Dresden film festival took place in a 120 square meter apartment in Schweriner Straße 63, now a listed building, in the Friedrichstadt district. Since it was impossible to organize an official and public event, invitations were distributed to a selected group of people. Nevertheless, after the performances there were repeated checks on persons by the People's Police or observation of the house. From 1986 to 1988 the FESA organized three film festivals.

In 1987 the Filma-Morgana-Filmfestival was launched at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts , in which FESA participated twice. The third festival was refused because the university wanted to carry out a kind of censorship or pre-control of the films. In 1988 Rainer A. Schmidt and Ray van Zeschau founded the band Friends of Italian Opera and gave the newly made films their own soundtrack. FDIO then appeared with three films at the first newly founded Dresden Film Festival in 1989 in the lecture hall of the "Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander" college of education .

The FESA film “Frustratorische Assoziationen 86” was shown in 1991 for the opening of the “Body Search” exhibition and for the inauguration of Martin Roth as director of the German Hygiene Museum in the Steinsaal with the “Friends of Italian Opera” and triggered a scandal.

The last film "Teddy goes to Golgotha" was shot in 1992, but it only officially premiered 21 years later.

28 years after the founding of FESA, the works and two films of the film group “Milder Wahn ” were shown on the big screen of the Fritz-Lang-Saal in the special program of the 25th  Dresden Film Festival “Picnic at the edge of the zone” with the support of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media of the Dresden cinema Schauburg for the first time completely shown again. The evening was hosted by the author and film historian Claus Löser in the presence of the protagonists. Furthermore, the film "WAR Probably" was shown on four days in the film festival series "Fehlfarben-Dresden between 1985 and 1992" in three Dresden cinemas and in the lower church of the Frauenkirche Dresden .

The FESA films have been in Claus Löser's “ex.oriente.lux” film archive since 2013. They are mostly of a surreal character and deal primarily with issues such as social oppression, the environment and militarization - with artistic means that were sometimes drastic for the time.

Movies

  • 1985: InEs
  • 1986: Genesis (with Wolfgang Grossmann )
  • 1986: Labyrinth
  • 1986: Frustrating Associations 86
  • 1987: Waiting for Bodó (with Siegfried Haas )
  • 1987: W Probably (with Siegfried Haas)
  • 1989: Holiday , FESA / FDIO
  • 1990: 1989 , FESA / FDIO
  • 1991: For Vincent (with Susanne Böwe and Katherina Lange ), FESA / FDIO
  • 1992/2013: Teddy goes to Golgotha , FESA / FDIO

literature

  • Claus Löser: Strategies of Refusal. Investigations into the political-aesthetic gesture of inappropriate cinematic articulations in the late phase of the GDR. DEFA Foundation series, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034845-7 .
  • Claus Löser / Karin Fritzsche (eds.): Counter-images. Cinematic subversion in the GDR 1976–1989. Janus Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-928942-38-7 .

Web links

Commons : FESA  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claus Löser : Strategies of denial. Investigations into the political-aesthetic gesture of inappropriate cinematic articulations in the late phase of the GDR. Series DEFA Foundation , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034845-7 .
  2. ↑ Claus Löser, Karin Fritzsche (Ed.): Gegenbilder. Cinematic subversion in the GDR 1976–1989. Janus Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-928942-38-7 .
  3. ↑ Ulf Krüger: Besides anger there has to be something. Scene / Portrait, In: Sächsische Zeitung . February 17, 1999.
  4. ↑ Cornelia Resik: Dresdner Filmfest shows film counterculture from the GDR era. In: Saxon newspaper . 1994.
  5. ↑ Without author: Scandal in the Hygiene Museum: the guests lost their appetite. In: Dresdner Morgenpost . October 21, 1991.
  6. ↑ Friends of the Italian Opera: Brute Melancholy. Indigo NOTES , December 1997/98, No. 48.
  7. ^ Underground films from Dresden. In: Filmfest Dresden. April 2, 2013, accessed on November 23, 2014 ( 2013 program ).
  8. ↑ ARTE magazine KurzSchluss , episode 635, first broadcast: April 19, 2013.
  9. ↑ Kulturradio MDR Figaro : Thinking outside the box: The 25th Dresden Film Festival.
  10. ^ Filmic subversions in the GDR 1976–1989 . In: ex-oriente-lux.net. Retrieved January 16, 2014.