Asta lives in a Berlin republic where everyone is somehow a curator - at least you get the impression that people deal with the public space, the demands of the pólis, as if “positions” were being put up for grabs. But now Asta has a problem: their exhibition “Das Kino! The Art!”, which is currently in the project stage, is not to be funded. Asta becomes active ...
Max Linz, dffb student and, since his sarcastic critique of the system Die Finanzen des Grossherzogs Radikant Film (2011), a thorn in the side of all BRD-AV culture subsidizers, has put a manifesto on the state of the nation in the discussion room with his latest film. The theoretical and aesthetic approaches on which the film is based are put on the table right at the beginning (by Asta). It looks like a mixture of Farocki, Tati and Jack Smith, i.e. everything is clearly distorted, colorful, aggressive in its basic tone, erratic in its flow, and didactic whenever necessary. This creates scope for all kinds of aesthetically deviant, unplanned things. The whole thing could also simply be described as a prime example of neorealism for neoliberal times.
