Lullaby For A Witch
Film · 2016 · witchcraft · ritual · transformation
Valeska Gert – Canaille, 1919
Lullaby for a Witch An experimental sound- and film-collage by Aneta Panek, featuring following sounds and film fragments: Maanam – Night Patrol, 1983 Diamanda Galas – Litanies of Satan, 1982 Margita Haberland – Elemental Erde, 1992 Anita Berber – Tanzszenen, 1921-1922 Etienne-Jules Marey – Horses, 1882 Jean Cocteau – The Beauty and the Biest, 1946 Pola Negri – A Woman Commands, 1932 Throbbing Gristle – Hot On the Heels of Love, 1979 Valeska Gert – Canaille, 1919 Béatrice Dalle – in Trouble Every Day by Claire Denis, Soundtrack by Tindersticks, 2001 Mona Mur – performing Auf immer in Ballhaus Barmbek, a film by Christel Buschmann, 1988 Kiev Stingl – performing his poetry in Ballhaus Barmbek, a film by Christel Buschmann, 1988 Soviet Drive on Warsaw – Archives, 1945 Nina Hagen – My Way – Live at Olympia, Paris, 1980 Mary Wigman – Hexentanz, 1929 Gifs found in Les Amis du grenier – Groupe de Résistance 2 The Martial Law in Poland – Archives, 1981 Sounds and pictures from my own archives My work, based on “other knowledge” and artistic research, is about the necessity of visualization and associative speculation in formulating and deconstructing theories and questioning reality. My particular interests are alchemy, transmutation, subversion, and rebellion as means of self-liberation and self-discovery. I am examining the genealogy of punk poetics in its timeless reading, its references and inspiration, the heritage of rebellion, the disenchanted decoding of reality, and the interdisciplinarity and deep time relations between art and punk. My research focuses on my three home cities: Paris, Berlin, and Warsaw. It explores the connections between punk artists from these three scenes and their interwoven, sometimes fantasized or even non-existent relationships, and their interest in nihilism, poetics, authenticity, and rebellion. I am examining these connections and topics through oral history, artistic research, and a kaleidoscopic collection of punk artefacts. Along my travels into these three subcultures, I gathered a significant number of lost or forgotten interviews, images, sounds, and movies. I am now editing these pieces to create a wild experimental film collage, which should be a sort of journey in space and time through motifs, conversation pieces, subversive iconographies, poetry, and music. Lullaby for a Witch is a fragment of this work, but also an autonomous experiment on its own. It thematises punk women, heretics and witches in a dark kaleidoscopic fairy tale, with historical sounds and films. “We are thieves. We get away with loot from the most beautiful or the most scary or the most spectacular places that you can ever find. Just hit and run, and get away with film.” Werner Herzog
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