a cinematic, culinary and musically unique night,
furnished with some precious background information, accompanied with culinary delicacies and enriched with acoustic support, the Time's Up Boating Association – with Leo Schatzl at the helm – invites you to a night of adventurous films which bring you over all the oceans.
Boats are space capsules, driven by aspiration for vastness, for liberty and release. Their navigators are visionaries, inquirers and driven spirits in a quest of new horizons, on the run from the limitations and constraints of today.
Enjoy with us the following movies and treat yourself with a flamboyant order of courses, which follows in taste the regions the adventurists in the movies leave from, cross or go to.
LIST OF FILMS
KON-TIKI
Documentary, Norway/Sweden 1950, 77 min
Director: Thor Heyerdahl
Classic Academy-Award winning documentary film - Biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspecting that the South Sea Islands had been settled by a race from thousands of miles east decided to prove his theory. His expedition was hailed as one of the most fantastic feats of daring of its time. In 1947, Heyerdahl and his crew embarked from Peru on a balsa wood raft built according to the traditions of South America's pre-Columbian Indians. After 101 days on the open sea amid raging storms, whales, and sharks, they landed on the Polynesian island Raroia.
ALONE ACROSS THE PACIFIC
Feature Film, Japan 1963, 97 min
Director: Kon Ichikawa
1963 Japanese true-life drama from the acclaimed director Kon Ichikawa. Spurred on by a desire to break free from his life in Japan, young Kenichi Horie (Yujiro Ishihara) sets sail in his small boat, 'The Mermaid', to single-handedly cross the Pacific Ocean. Pounded by the waves and beset by the psychological problems of loneliness, he almost reaches breaking point, both physically and mentally. The film is based on Horie's own log of the voyage.
THE COLD-BLOODED PENGUIN (Episode of THE THREE CABALLEROS)
Animation, USA 1944, app. 10 mim
Director: Norman Ferguson
A story about the little penguin Pablo, who dreamed of moving to a warmer climate. After several false attempts, he makes a boat out of a chunk of ice. All goes well, until he crosses the equator....
ÜBERLEBEN MIT RÜDIGER NEHBERG
"Im Tretboot nach Brasilien"
documentary, Germany 1988, 42 min - german only
Rüdiger Nehberg, also known as 'Sir Vival', (born 1935) is a German human rights activist, author and survival expert who introduced survival training to Europe. He is the founder and chairman of the anti-FGC organization TARGET, and chairman of the organizations Friends of Peoples Close to Nature. Since 1980, he has been involved in defending the interests of the Yanomami Amerindian tribe. In 1987, Nehberg crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a pedal boat and contributed to the provision of a protected reservation for the Yanomami.
for the hard-boiled videonauts a late-nite bonus:
THE DEATH SHIP
Germany / Mexiko 1959, 97 min
Director: Georg Tressler
The Death Ship describes the predicament of merchant seamen who lack documentation of citizenship and cannot find legal residence or employment in any nation. The narrator is Gerard Gales, an American sailor who claims to be from New Orleans, and who is stranded in Antwerp without passport or working papers. Unable to prove his identity or his eligibility for employment, Gales is repeatedly arrested and deported from one country to the next, by government officials who do not want to be bothered with either assisting or prosecuting him. When he finally manages to find work, it is on the Yorikke, the dangerous and decrepit ship of the title, where undocumented workers from around the world are treated as expendable slaves.
MENU
1st COURSE
salmon-tartar & dried cod
2nd COURSE
peaches sunken in Roquefortcreme
(that's how our chef-duo approches the culinary imagination of the Polynesian Marquesa Islands)
3rd COURSE
assortment of Maki - with pickled ginger and seaweed-salad
4th COURSE
jellied fish
frozen coconut marshmallow
penguin-shaped ice-cream
5th COURSE
pao de queijio – Brazilian cheese balls
feijoada - Brazilian bean stew
molho de pimenta
guacamole
all dishes are served in dried banana-leaves or maybe even in small Viking-vessels, accompanied with an assortment of warm drinks, which easily can be - if appropriate - converted into grog.
