The Beauty is the Beast
La Belle est la Bête
Austria/Luxembourg/Netherlands 2005
3 min / colour / 35 mm / 1:1.66 Dolby Digital
La Belle est la Bête
Austria/Luxembourg/Netherlands 2005
3 min / colour / 35 mm / 1:1.66 Dolby Digital
A dream, a woman, a furred tongue: Bady Minck’s The Beauty is the Beast operates on the interface between civilization and wilderness, nature and culture, human and animal. A film that raises the issue of the pros and cons of our cultivation. On the threshold between the animal inside and the civilized exterior “the beauty (la belle)” herself becomes “the beast (la bête)”.
“In the mouth, where the outside slips into the secret inside, a new human-animal interface. In this tale of our metamorphoses, the beauty becomes the beast and confirms her kinship with Kafka´s martyred insect.”
Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal
Script & Direction: Bady Minck
Actress: Anja Salomonowitz
Camera: Martin Putz
Sound & Editing: Sebastian Brameshuber
Digital Postproduction: Peter Saghegyi
Set Design & Line Producer: Karoline Taschner
Directing-Assistant: Maria Poell
Camera-Assistant: Johann Lurf
Hairdresser: Frederik Steiner
Titles: Joachim Techt
Postproduction 2K: Sebastian Brameshuber
Shooting 35 mm: Martin Putz
Shooting Studio: 11er Haus Wien
Editing Studio: AMOUR FOU Vienna
Re-recording sound mixing studio: Tremens Film Wien
Re-recording sound mixer: Bernhard Maisch
Written Text: Franz Kafka
Producers: Bady Minck & Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
Production: AMOUR FOU Vienna, AMOUR FOU Luxembourg, Kesselskramer Amsterdam
Supported by: Diesel Foundation Amsterdam, BKA.kunst Österreich
Festivals
Bamberger Kurzfilmtage, Germany
Retrospektive Luxemburger Kurzfilme (20.- 26.01.2014)
K3 Filmfestival @ Kinoteka Slovenska, Ljubljana
Retrospective Bady Minck & Exhibition (September 2012)
Internationaler Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany
Retrospective Bady Minck (Januar 2012)
Festival Novog Filma i Videa
Beograd, Serbia, Retrospective Bady Minck (08.-12.12.2010)
International Film Festival Thessaloniki, Greece
Tribute to D.O.P. Martin Putz (03.- 12.12.2010)
Linoleum Festival of Contemporary Animation & Media-Art, Moskau
Retrospective Bady Minck (11.12. – 13.12.2009)
Animator International Film Festival Poznan, Poland
Retrospective Bady Minck (7.7. – 12.7.2008)
Mediterranean Environmental Award Almeria, Spain (15.1. – 18.1.2008)
Festival du Court Métrage d’Animation de Neufchâteau
Special “Cinéma d’Animation Luxembourgeois” (12.11. – 17.11.2007)
Linoleum Festival of Alternative Animation Moscow
(15.8. – 18.8.2007)
Festival Cinéfleuve – Kino im Fluss, Liège (30.6. – 24.7.2007)
Retrospective Bady Minck, Carpe Diem Liège (15.7.2007)
Festival Cinéfleuve – Kino im Fluss, Charleroi (30.6. – 24.7.2007)
Retrospective Bady Minck, BSP Charleroi (11.7.2007)
Festival Cinéfleuve – Kino im Fluss, Trier (30.6. – 24.7.2007)
Retrospective Bady Minck, Broadway Kino Trier (5. – 6.7.2007)
Festival international du film d’animation d’Annecy
(11.6. – 16.6.2007)
Festival international des Très Courts (4.5. – 6.5.2007)
Festival di Palazzo Venezia / Roma Art Doc Fest
International Competition, Section “New Languages” (8.9. – 28.9.2006)
European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, Germany
(10.5. – 14.5.2006)
Festival international du court métrage d’Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
(26.4. – 30.4.2006)
VIPER International Festival for Film, Video and New Media
International Competition (16.3. – 20.3.2006)
Sonar International Short Film Festival
Visual Contest (5.3. – 27.4.2006)
Directors Lounge Berlin (9.2. – 19.2.2006)
Ongoing Festival Stuttgart Theater im Depot (5.2.2006)
Stuttgarter Filmwinter International Competition (19.1. – 22.1.2006)
International Short & Independent Film Festival Dhaka, Bangladesh (22.12. – 30.12.2005)
Dissolvenze Film Festival Gradisca, Italy
Special “Amour Fou Pour Vous” (30.11. – 4.12.2005)
Stockholm International Film Festival
ifestival Competition (17.11. – 27.11.2005)
Asolo Art Film Festival (5.11. – 12.11.2005)
KunstFilmBiennale Köln, Germany
Official Competition (19.10. – 24.10.2005)
Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal (13.10. – 23.10.2005)
Semaine du Film Luxembourgeois, Luxembourg
Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis (8.10. – 15.10.2005)
Kurzfilmbiennale, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Special “Amour Fou Pour Vous” (12.9. – 18.9.2005)
Festivaletteratura Mantova, Italy (7.9. – 11.9.2005)
Dokufest – International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Prizren, Kosovo Official Competition (31.8. – 4.9.2005)
Io, Isabella International Film Week, Valsinni, Italy
Opening Night (25.8. – 31.8.2005)
Cadore Doc Festival, Pieve di Cadore, Italy
Retrospective Bady Minck (1.8. – 7.8.2005)
Cinéfleuve – Kino im Fluss Festival, Sarreguemines-Saarbrücken-Merzig-Trier-Grevenmacher-Luxembourg-Metz
Opening Night (30.6. – 9.7.2005)
Festival de Cine de Huesca (9.6. – 18.6.2005)
International Festival of New Film Split, Kroatien
(3.6. – 10.6.2005)
Premiere: International Film Festival Rotterdam (26.1. – 6.2.2005)
Screenings
24.-25.09.2012 / Ljubljana, Slo
Kineteka Slovenska
Retrospective Bady Minck & Exhibition
15.01.2012 / Vienna, A
Filmcasino
Phantome. Metamorphosen Animismus im Film
Filmprogramm zur Ausstellung Animismus. Moderne hinter den Spiegeln
Generali Foundation in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Filmmuseum Wien
08.02. 2011 / Paris, F
Retrospective – Entrepôt
19.10.2010 / Berlin, D
Die Kurbel, Luxemburg=Film
10.06.2010 / Luxembourg, L
Cinémathèque Luxembourg Ciné-conférence “Le cinéma luxembourgeois et les femmes”
26.11.2009 / Manchester, GB
Angels of Anarchy
Manchester Art Gallery
Bady Minck Double Bill
08.05.2008 / Innsbruck/A
Leokino Spezial KinoviSIEon
“Seems To Be – differente Identitäten zwischen ich / wir / queer”
12.12.2007 / Sankt-Peterburg, RUS
Kulturforum Moskau
Retrospective Bady Minck at Rodina Kinoteatr
26.11.2007
Dudelange/L Centre National de l’audiovisuel
DVD presentation “12 short films made in Luxembourg”
14.09.2007
Vienna/A Asifakeil Trickkunstraum Museumsquartier
Tricktransmission – Miniwelten
13.05.2007
Traiskirchen-Bratislava/A-SK Ausländer-Marathon
12.05.2007
Luxembourg/L Premiere Cinémathèque Luxembourg
09.03.2007
Moskva/RUS Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
Retrospective Bady Minck
07.12.2006
Munich/D Akademie der Bildenden Künste
Retrospective Bady Minck
31.10.2006
Vienna/A Klub Kohelet Fluc
June 2006
Esch-sur-Alzette/L Konschtkëscht
Installation 1.6. – 30.6.2006
April 2006
Nairobi/Kenya Economy Class Art Expo
Retrospective Bady Minck
05.04.2006
Linz/A Kunstuniversität, Studienrichtung Raum & Designstrategien (Prof. Elsa Prochazka)
Lecture Bady Minck & Screening
02.12.2005
Gradisca/I Studii di Cinema di Universita di Udine
Masterclass Bady Minck
08.10.2005
Innsbruck/A kinovi[sie]on
Otto-Preminger-Institut Leokino
Retrospective Bady Minck
Oct 2005
Vienna/A Bellaria Prolongation Opening Film for “Bin Jip”
Daily Screenings for 2 weeks
16.09.2005
St.Pölten/A Cinema Paradiso Theatrical Release
Opening Film for “Bin Jip”
Daily Screenings for 2 weeks
16.09.2005
Graz/A KIZ Kino Theatrical Release
Opening Film for “Bin Jip”
Daily Screenings for 2 weeks
16.09.2005
Salzburg/A Das Kino Theatrical Release
Opening Film for “Bin Jip”
Daily Screenings for 2 weeks
16.09.2005
Linz/A Moviemento Theatrical Release
Opening Film for “Bin Jip”
Daily Screenings for 2 weeks
16.09.2005
Vienna/A Künstlerhaus Theatrical Release
Opening Film for “Bin Jip”
Daily Screenings for 2 weeks
16.09.2005
Vienna/A Filmcasino Theatrical Release
Opening Film for “Bin Jip”
Daily Screenings for 4 weeks
Theatrical Release
Theatrical Release in Austria 16.9.2005
Opening Film for Bin Jip by Kim Ki-Duk
>> Filmcasino Vienna, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Das Kino Salzburg, Cinema Paradiso St. Pölten, Moviemento Linz, KIZ Kino Graz
Prolongation Vienna: from 28.10.2005 >> Bellaria Kino
TV
ORF1 >> Die Lange Nacht des kurzen Films
22.3.2007 22.55h
OktoTV >> anschläge.tv
5.4.2006 21h
plus 5 reruns
DVD & VOD
La Belle est la Bête @ Flimmit
Im Anfang war der Blick
4 films by Bady Minck
with In the Beginning was the Eye, The Beauty is the Beast, Mécanomagie, The Man with modern Nerves
Run Time: 90 minutes
Dolby Surround, PAL, TV Format 4:3, All Regions
German with French, English, Italian and Polish subtitles
Bonus: Making Of “Landschaft wird inszeniert”, 24-page booklet in German and English
Available @ Filmgalerie 451, Amazon, CNA, Mudam, Lowave