Festival of Retold Film
A festival of retold films has existed in Germany as a public event since the “Total Recall” project was launched in Düsseldorf in 1999 . In a competition similar to the poetry slams , “experts and connoisseurs” of cinema film culture meet here in order to convince the audience to applaud and vote over a long weekend with as artistic film retelling as possible, presented in free ten-minute speech. The festival is a traveling event.
history
The event, initially ridiculed as a “crazy idea”, was brought into being by Bernd Terstegge from Essen and Axel Ganz from Düsseldorf and followed up with growing public success. In the fifth year of its existence, Berlin was selected as the second venue in 2003 and the festival in the HAU (Hebbel Theater) was held on two days (a Friday and a Saturday in November.) In the meantime, other cities have also been added.
Structure, rules
The non-commercial competition, which is held live in front of an audience, revolves around the linguistically skilled reproduction of films shown in the cinema. You can register in advance or make a spontaneous registration on the evening of the event. The film genre , the country of origin and the year of production are irrelevant. The linguistic approach is freely selectable, including whether you include individual scenes or shots of the film. The appearance can be done either alone or in pairs. Audiovisual or other aids such as B. Printed T-shirts are not permitted. The limit is the 10-minute limit. The end of the time is signaled by an acoustic signal.
At the beginning of the event, the audience receives a pencil and a multi-part voting slip on which between zero and nine points can be awarded for each story. The retellers appear in blocks of five to six participants (i.e. about one hour). There are two blocks on Fridays and three on Saturdays. During the breaks, a DJ provides the background music. At the end of each narrator block, the respective ballot papers are collected and evaluated by helpers in order to ensure that winners can be determined quickly after the last block.
On the second day, at the end of the third block, the highest average number of points (total divided by the number of valid votes cast) is determined and the winner is determined. The audience jury will award the “silver linden tree” as the prize for the most skilful retelling. Since all contributions are recorded visually, it is possible to project the award-winning contribution again on a large screen at the end of the event. This is especially useful when a post on the first day wins.
In 2007 a retelling of Flash Gordon won in Berlin . In 2008 a summary of The Lord of the Rings won in Berlin .