Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
FIRST TIME [The Time for All but Sunset – VIOLET]
Apr 14, 2024 2pm to 7pm Looped Screening, Auditorium HKW Berlin
Apr 9, 2024 7pm Opening
Schlagwort: FIRST TIME
FIRST TIME – Berlin Premiere
FIRST TIME – Paris Premiere
Okt 31 2023 2pm CWB Paris
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – New Cinema and Contemporary Art
Official Selection: FIRST TIME [The Time for All but Sunset – VIOLET]
SPRING&SUMMER SCREENINGS 2023
„FIRST TIME [The Time for All but Sunset – VIOLET]“
ART STUDIO 55
Apr 01 Limassol, Cyprus
QUERGESTREIFT FILMFEST
Apr 14-23 Konstanz, Germany
GRAN LUX SESSION DE VISIONNAGE 50
Apr 29 Viewing Session N°50, Gran Lux, tramway T1 & T3 : arrêt / stop place Bellevue, Saint-Etienne, France
NNYOC GALLERY
Jun 03 INFLORESCENCE at “plz make sense out of it”, NNYOC Gallery Reykjavik, Iceland
XPOSED INTL. QUEER FILM FESTIVAL
Jun 15-18 Berlin, Germany
KLASSENTREFFEN FESTIVAL
Jun 15.+16. 14:00, Aula HFBK Hamburg
MEETINGS OF YOUNG EUROPEAN CINEMA
June 23 20.30, Open Air Cinema of Goethe-Institute Bulgaria, Sofia arteurbanacollectif.com
35K FILMCLUB
Autumn 23, DFFB, Berlin, Germany
FILMINK REVIEW AUSTRALIA PREMIERE FIRST TIME
First Films Festival Sat 19 Nov 3:20pm, Golden Age Cinema, Sydney
FIRST TIME [The Time for All but Sunset – VIOLET]
„[…] if you think you’re in the wrong film, sit tight, it will soon make sense. […]“
filmink.com.au/reviews/first-time
AUTUMN SCREENINGS 2022
„FIRST TIME [The Time for All but Sunset – VIOLET]“
CINEMANCIA FESTIVAL METROPOLITANO DE CINE MEDELLÍN
Sep 01-10 Medellín, Antioquia, Columbia
26TH QUEER LISBOA FILM FESTIVAL
Sep 16-24 Queer Art Competition, Cinema São Jorge, Cinemateca Portuguesa Lisbon, Portugal
25FPS FILM FESTIVAL ZAGREB
Sep 22-24 Zagreb, Croatia
5TH FILMFEST SUNDSVALL
Sep 28-Oct 2 Sundsvall, Sweden
30TH FILMFEST HAMBURG
Sep 29-Oct 08 Hamburg, Germany
BLACK CANVAS FILM FESTIVAL MEXICO
Sep 30-Oct 09 Mexico City, Mexico
17TH UNDERDOX FILMESTIVAL MUNICH
Oct 10 7:30pm Werkstattkino München
39TH KASSELER DOKEST
Nov 19 10:15pm Bali Kino Kassel
FIRST FILMS SYDNEY
Nov 18-20 Golden Age Sydney, Australia „BELIEVE“ & „FIRST TIME“
QUEER WAVE FESTIVAL CYPRUS
Nov 25-Dec 04 (closing film) Nicosia and Limassol, Cyprus
„INFLORESCENCE“ AT TANZAHOi HAMBURG
Sep 11 17:00 „Opening Remarks“, Metropolis Kino, Hamburg, Germany
World Premiere CINEMOON at Filmfest Hamburg
Sunday Oct 2nd, 2022: World Premiere of our cinema installation CINEMOON – right after FIRST TIME [The Time for All but Sunset – VIOLET] at Filmfest Hamburg.
10pm Metropolis Kino Hamburg
Funky hat reingeschaut in „First Time”
Endergebnis:
Super: 84%
Nicht so mein Fall: 16%
SICILIA QUEER AWARDS
The international jury composed of the artistic director of the New York Film Festival, Dennis Lim, the award-winning Spanish independent producer Lluís Miñarro, the French producer Judith Lou Lévy, the Argentine director Eduardo Williams and the Spanish director Tuixén Benet, assigns the award for
Best Feature Film in the New Visions section to FIRST TIME [The Time for All but Sunset – VIOLET] by Nicolaas Schmidt.
„A film with a rigorous and playful form that creates tension and mystery with minimal means. It draws the viewer’s attention to small details and gestures, opening a space for reflection on the experience of temporality, on the codes of the story, on language and on the history of cinema.“
A Special Mention of the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI) jury, composed of Emanuele Di Nicola and Gaia Simionato, goes to FIRST TIME [The Time for All but Sunset – VIOLET] by Nicolaas Schmidt.
„The film represents the meeting on the subway between two teenagers through a language without words, made up only of songs, looks and sharing a common space. A middle ground, the puberty, before the definition of a precise sexuality identity. It’s an enigmatic and suspended tale, which generates in the audience the same pre-erotic tension that envelops the characters. A story that opens a situation without closing, that asks a question without answer, addressed to the young protagonists and to us. It does with a courageous and experimental style that brings film back to its primary form, made of music and imperceptible but full of meaning gestures. „First Time“ by Nicolaas Schmidt shows that cinema is not just dialogue, it’s mostly the art of the image.“
FIRST TIME – PALERMO REVIEWS
„A minimalist journey through the discrepancies of our time.
sentieriselvaggi.it
[…]
A mid-length film that Chantal Akerman would have liked. Out of the public sphere, where every image points to the wrong thing, out of the isolation of a technology incapable of capturing the nuances of a sunset, out of the despair of a vicious circle in which we continue to be pulled like hypnotized passengers.“
„In the simplicity of the narrative structure, the absence of dialogue, the sobriety of the means of expression, and the perfect use of music, the film achieves an admirable intensity. Proof of the arbitrariness with which rational thought articulated in speech has historically been privileged as the preferred, if not sole, vehicle of meaning. Nothing in First Time is mediated by words, and it is the images that filter through the tension of first love and the shadows of a sexuality with which one has perhaps yet to be confronted.“
artribune.com
VIENNA SHORTS ONLINE
Deeply appreciate #Vienna’s #Freedom to #Exception as much as being part of this special (or #bestof) program by Daniel Ebner.
Happy to distance myself from the theater-only policy of the film, so boys n girls and all beyond that categories in #Austria: here’s your #first and #final option to watch FIRST TIME [The Time for All but Sunset – VIOLET] #online!
Hint for #TicToc generation:
You just cant „skip to the good part“ as that’s hidden between every #frame (there are 25 in one second).
The film uses circumstances&chances of a collaborative #cinema theater viewing, so it only has a chance, if you find a way for #enjoying with #ease.
Recommendation:
A #relaxed situation (maybe after work & #sunset), when it’s also a bit darker – with a good sound level or even better with #headphones in #bed, right before #falling #asleep.
(Daniel Ebner, Vienna Shorts)
film.at/news/vienna-shorts-2022-interview
ATHENS INTL. FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL Jury Award for FIRST TIME
„We’ve always liked art more than we like categories.“
(David Colagiovanni, AIFVF about selecting First Time for feature section)
#ticket2ride #AIFVF2022
„FIRST TIME“ USA DOUBLE PREMIERE
East Coast, NYC
March 20, 2022 5pm, Museum of the Moving Image, (First Look), 36-01 35th Ave, Queens, New York City
West Coast, LA
March 18, 2022 6pm, Locarno in Los Angeles – 2022 Arts+Archives, 2220 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles
💗🚇💗 film info
THE FILM STAGE TOP TEN INCL. FIRST TIME
„Romance is front and center in Nicolaas Schmidt’s FIRST TIME, even if it’s not obvious. The opening plays Robin Beck’s power ballad over footage of ’80s Coca Cola ads of people showing outward expressions of love and affection before it transitions to the main event: a 40-minute single take of two young men sitting across from each other on the subway, total strangers who sit in silence on their commute while throwing quick, stealthy glances at each other every now and then. Schmidt sets the scene but leaves plenty room for interpretation, given the setup of the shot itself. You can admire views of Hamburg during golden hour; you can hone in on the soundtrack of post-rock tunes combined with the hustle and bustle of passengers; you can see a tale of unspoken queer romance building before your eyes; or you can just get bored senseless by two guys sitting on a train. FIRST TIME is a film made up of possibilities, and by laying them all out so plainly it makes a strong case for acting upon one’s own desire rather than letting the moment pass.“ – C.J. P.
The Film Stage (Top 10 Films of 2021)
AUTUMN 2021 SCREENINGS
LE PLAZA GENEVE: BOUQUETS D‘iMAGE #1
from Dec 15, 2021, Le Plaza „Inflorescence“ (among other works)
MUSEUM FÜR KUNST UND GEWERBE HAMBURG
Dec 12, 2021, 15:00+17:00 MK&G Freiraum „Final Stage“
62ND FESTIVAL DEI POPOLI FIRENZE
Nov 20-28, 2021, Florence „First Time“ (Italy Premiere)
11TH BIEFF BUCHAREST INTL. EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
Nov 16-21, 2021, Saturday 19:30 Cinemateca Eforie „Inflorescence“ (Romania Premiere)
15TH KFFK ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM
Nov 16-21, 2021, Filmhaus Köln „Final Stage“
70TH IFFMH INTL. FILM FESTIVAL MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG
Nov 11-21, 2021, Mannheim/Heidelberg „First Time“
63TH NORDIC FILM DAYS LÜBECK
Nov 4, 2021 13:15, CineStar „First Time“
55TH HOFER FILMTAGE
Oct 26-31, 2021 „First Time“
Mi Oct 27 17.15 Central 1 (Deutschland Premiere)
Do Oct 28 12.00 Casino, So 20.30 Scala 2
47/48TH ATHENS INTL. FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
Oct 15-24, 2021, Athens/Ohio „Inflorescence“ (USA Premiere)
50TH MONTREAL FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINÉMA
Oct 06-17, 2021, Les Nouveaux Alchimistes 2, Montreal „First Time“ (Canada Premiere)
31TH OSLO/FUSION INTL. FILM FESTIVAL
Oct 01-10, 2021, Oslo „Inflorescence“
13TH OSTRAVA KAMERA OKO INTL. FILM FESTIVAL
Sep 29-Oct 03, 2021, Ostrava „First Time” (Czechia Premiere)
NIJMEEGESE KUNSTNACHT
Sep 18, 2021, 8pm Post Nijmegen „Inflorescence“ (Infinite Loop)
15TH XPOSED INTL. QUEER FILM FESTIVAL BERLIN
Aug 12, 2021, 6pm Shorts 2 „Flowers of Performance“, Moviemento Cinema „Inflorescence“
74TH LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL
„First Time“ (World Premiere)
Aug 10, 2021 2pm, La Sala
Aug 11, 2021 6pm, PalaVideo
Aug 12, 2021 9pm, L’altra Sala
Special Mention for FIRST TIME at Locarno Film Festival (Leopards of Tomorrow)
„An audacious and humorous comment against the mainstream cinema and its standardized narratives, reminiscent of some of Chantal Ackerman and Straub-Huillet’s formally rigorous works. And at the same time a refreshing invitation to turn back our gaze to the world around us and discover anew the cinematic treasures hidden under the surface of our uneventful everyday life. For the courage and the freedom to take us into a risky and thought-provoking journey.”
The Jury consisting of filmmaker and artist Kamal Aljafari, producer Marie-Pierre Macia, and filmmaker, artist, curator, and Golden Bear winner Adina Pintilie.
PRESS REVIEWS / INTERVIEWS
„First Time [The Time for All but Sunset – VIOLET] verbindet Bilder auf eine ganz einfache, einleuchtende Weise miteinander, so dass sich aus ihrer Summe Fragen ergeben.“
Frédéric Jaeger, Critic.de (german)
„Ein Exkurs über das Tabu eines überbordenden Ästhetizismus, den die Kunst gern unter Kitschverdacht stellt. Und doch fühlt man sich an eine Zeit erinnert, als man noch von Experimentalfilm sprach, aber damit Abenteuerlust verband und Reisen ins Unbekannte.“
Daniel Kothenschulte, Frankfurter Rundschau (german)
„Den Zugriff auf Zeit und Ort mit jeder Minute mehr zu verlieren – auch das eine Art, den Kopf verdreht zu bekommen. Und vielleicht die schönste des Festivals.“
Hannah Pilarczyk, Spiegel Online (german)
„Schmidt zelebriert die radikale kinematografische Reduktion förmlich, First Time ist alles andere als konformistischer Kitsch: eine Erzählung gegen klassische Narrative.“
Jens Balkenborg, Lerchenfeld HFBK Hamburg (german)
„A uniquely crafted film work done with intelligence and heart.“
Marina D. Richter, ubiquarian.net (english)
„The film is proof that if you have some form of tension at the heart of a movie, you can easily stretch conventional cinematic patience. […] FIRST TIME provides an experience both emotionally and intellectually stimulating (as well as being rather funny).“
Redmond Bacon, dmovies.org (english)
„Nicolaas Schmidt Crafts a Mesmerising and Minimalist Work of Sly Romance in Arthouse Drama ‘FIRST TIME’.“
Redmond Bacon, directorsnotes.com (english)
„The very best film of this edition of Locarno.“
Le Polyester (français)
„In this minimal love story, the look out the window on the metropolis, the soundtrack of the film and two lonely teenagers are condensed into a social critique.“
Marcello Strano, Paeseroma (italiano)
„Within the film, the filmmaker cleverly and elegantly plays and mixes the musical element with a rather fashion photographic and scenographic aesthetic, all to go and tell a minimal and intimate story.“
L’Occhio Del Cineasta (italiano)
„FIRST TIME“ WORLD PREMIERE AT LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2021
FIRST TIME [The Time for All but Sunset – VIOLET]
First screening:
Tue Aug 10, 2021 2pm, La Sala
(with presentation at beginning and Q&A with the audience after the film)
Repetition 1:
Wed Aug 11, 2021 6pm, PalaVideo
Repetition 2:
Thu Aug 12, 2021 9pm, L’altra Sala
