River of Grass (engl. OF)

In the organizer's words:

Director: Kelly Reichardt | USA 1994 | 76 min | DCP | English original version | with Lisa Bowman, Larry Fessenden, Dick Russell

Cozy (Lisa Bowman) is bored with her husband, her children and her life in the suburban world of South Florida. She would like to leave it all behind. One night in a bar she meets Lee Ray (Larry Fessenden), who lives with his grandmother and is drifting aimlessly. When a shot is accidentally fired from a revolver they find, the two flee, believing they have committed a murder. However, the Bonnie-and-Clyde wannabes get no further than the nearest motel. The topos of the outlaw lovers on the run is quoted and deconstructed: no love, no crime, no new horizons. An escape that leads nowhere. Reichardt's anti-road movie, commented on off-screen by Cozy's impassive voice, exposes the myth of freedom and adventure as incompatible with the American present with biting humor.
Supporting film: The world is all that is the case Director: Eva Teppe | Germany 2002 | 2 min | SD Video | German original version

They grow upwards in the midst of public festivities: the "Castells" of the Catalan Castellers - human towers built from bodies and trust. Failure is always included. For Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist, Eva Teppe draws on TV footage and radically slows down the fall. The title quotes Ludwig Wittgenstein. Documentary action becomes an abstract maelstrom of color and proximity. A film about falling - and about what a fall is in a picture.

Film copy from the collection of the Kino im Blauen Salon (HfG KA)

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https://kinoimblauensalon.de/de/events/river-of-grass-2026-07-24

Price information:

Free admission | Donation requested