Reiner Uthoff

Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias

For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has explored, as a practitioner and theoretician, the rules and limits of cinema, which he always seeks to break and extend in new ways. One example of his tireless search and research are the Geschichten vom Kübelkind, which he co-directed with Ula Stöckl in 1969/70, 22 absurdly funny, subversive and anarchistic short films of different lengths, which consciously oppose all conventions, with incredible success. The films remain unrivalled in their Dadaistic inventiveness.

Ausgeträumt

A worker wants to escape the monotony of his work and sets off for Munich to see his pop music idol up close. Due to a breakdown, he doesn't make it to his destination, but meets a cabaret troupe, which he joins. The new environment confronts him with politically interested people for the first time in his life, but also involves him in a protest by the peace movement and gets him imprisoned. A modern fairy tale about a man who set out to see the world.