Do it your self

Filmlab Aarhus has carefully chosen five films, which in its own way is a do-it-yourself-, indie- or at least a low-budget film, which is made by new, young film talents and has travelled around the world at international film festivals.

DETROIT WILD CITY – director: Florent Tillon
29 Aug. 9.30pm, Screen B. Duration: 80 min

Welcome to the car city Detroit, ’the murder Capital of the USA’, where the grass today grows on top of parking lots and the houses lay deserted. But where life is bit by bit taking roots and taking over the deserted city.
Detroit Wild City premiered at CPH:DOX in 2010, and looks from the outsider’s perspective at the changes in the urban landscapes, where there’s a capital ‘post’ in front of utopians, humanity and dollar capital.

TRASH HUMPERS – director: Harmony Korine
30 Aug, 8.30pm, Screen B. Duration: 78 min

Trash Humpers, which won a controversial main prize at CPH:DOX in 2009, is recorded and edited directly on an old VHS tape and takes place in a post-apocalyptic America on the other side of recessions, tornado tragedies and terror-attacks. Halloween is all year round for Harmony Korine, who marks her position as her generation’s most innovative provocateur.

ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES – director: Jonathan Caouette & All Tomorrow’s People
30 Aug.,10pm, Screen C. Duration: 82 min

When ’All Tomorrow’s Parties’ is mentioned as a DIY-film and as the ’ultimate mixtape’ by Sonic Youth-guitarist Thurston Moore, it must be taken literally. The film about the hip indie-festival by the same name is namely shot on several hundreds of cameras and put together in an intoxicating and very musical whole by Jonathan Caouette (Tarnation).
Equal parts festival, playroom and holiday colony accompanied by, amongst others, Grinderman, Portishead, Belle & Sebastian and Mogwai.

GO GET SOME ROSEMARY – director: Ben & Josh Safdie
31 Aug. 9pm, Screen B. Duration: 100 min

The Brookyn-based brothers Ben and Josh Safdie have made the independent film ‘independent’ again and create their poetic, dreamy and often autobiographical stories from everyday life out of reality’s raw material on an absolute low budget, without a script and with the help from good friends. ‘Go Get Some Rosemary’ premiered in Cannes and revolves around a divorced messy dad, who only sees his two small sons two weeks a year. In accordance with New York film tradition, a sensory, bittersweet and somewhat nostalgic film.

CATFISH – director: Henry Joost & Arial Schulman
31 Aug. 10pm, Screen C. Duration: 87 min

The documentary’s version of The Blair Witch Project is made almost for no money and was definitely the most discussed film at the Sundance festival, while people could not reach an agreement with oneself nor with each other on what to think of the film. Is Catfish for real – or is it fake? But the point lies exactly in the question, and has therefore elicited a fierce debate.