In the world of experimental and avant garde film, fear has many faces. A short film selection by DFF film theatre pursues these different facets with films from 1913 all the way to the 2000’s: Presented will be works from early cinema such as Lois Webers proto-horror film SUSPENSE, an early example of the use of split screens, but also works dealing with visual conventions of cinema, such as Matthias Müllers HOME STORIES. Meanwhile, Peter Tscherkassky combines base motifs of fear and the violence of horror films with a fascination for the materiality of film rolls, which in the case of found footage of Sidney J. Furie’s THE ENTITY, he edits and defamiliarizes it into something unique and alien. In DANGEROUS FEMALES, an early American sound film, Marie Dressler and Polly Moran dazzle in a thrilling crime comedy that stands up to fear.

With works by Matthias Müller, Christoph Girardet, Lois Weber, William Watson, Peter Tscherkassky and more.

The selection was compiled by Andreas Beilharz, Gunter Deller, Karola Gramann, Heide Schlüpmann and Björn Schmitt.