U.S. Premiere!
In 2017 Ulli Lommel, the inimitable Fassbinder actor, Warhol collaborator and prolific genre auteur, completed his 64th feature film. At age of 72, he was ready to unveil a supreme late-period masterpiece: America – Land of the FreeKS. Tragically, Lommel passed away before his personal travelogue—cruising around Hollywood and beyond in a limousine, profiling an eclectic cross section of personalities, including gamers, political extremists and sexual trailblazers—would premiere at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival. Updating Jacopetti’s “mondo” genre for the age of Kim Kardashian West and Donald Trump, with a splash of Tocquevillian observation, the German Lommel, adorned in a baby blue Mickey Mouse leather racing jacket, paints a chaotic portrait of his adopted country in the throes of a nervous breakdown. Rejecting a purely didactic or moralist condemnation of the present, America – Land of the FreeKS comes from a place of absurdism and humanism, infused with the unique wisdom of one of the 20th/21st centuries biggest filmmaking freeKS.
Introduced by Michael M. Bilandic and Gina Telaroli. One-of-a-kind, mystery Lommel Zine available at screening.
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