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Isa Genzken and Kai Althoff’s no-budget vignettes mix role-play, comic performance and unsettled conversations about art and intimacy. Music Box Theatre screens the film on Dec. 3.
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The roles keep changing in Die kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau), but the artists playing them remain part of the picture: Isa Genzken and Kai Althoff are credited as its directors and writers as well as its performers. Their no-budget vignettes put detectives, babies, sex workers, bourgeois figures and proletarians into exchanges that can turn from sympathy to conflict.
Between 2007 and 2009, Genzken and Althoff developed a series of no-budget episodes through occasional collaboration. The scenes draw on settings in Cologne, Berlin and New York, including hotels, apartments and bars. Instead of following one continuous situation, the film collects separate encounters, giving it an episodic shape.
The English gloss of the title is The Little Bus Stop (Scaffolding).
Further reading: Die kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau) at Music Box Theatre ↗
The characters try to find satisfaction in lives they are imitating, but their conversations do not settle into easy agreement. The listing describes them moving between sympathy and antagonism, while the artists’ identities remain close to the surface. That overlap makes the role-play a way to ask what room remains for art-making and closeness when relationships are colored by exchange.
Further reading: Die kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau) at Music Box Theatre ↗
The vignettes combine physical comedy with dialogue that turns toward bigger questions, rather than treating comedy and reflection as separate modes. The event description points to John Waters and Rosa von Praunheim as comic reference points, and to Buster Keaton and comic duos such as Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello. Those comparisons help set expectations for a work that moves between unruly humor and more searching exchanges.
Further reading: Die kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau) at Music Box Theatre ↗
The listed program is a single screening of Die kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau) on Dec. 3 at 7:15 p.m.
One screening is listed. The event information does not give a runtime or end time.
Die kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau) at Music Box Theatre ↗
The listing does not say which ticket categories correspond to those prices. Tickets are linked through Music Box Theatre’s event page.
Die kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau) at Music Box Theatre ↗
The theater describes its Chicago program as including independent, foreign and classic films and says it has operated for more than 30 years.
The event information does not specify the film’s language, whether subtitles are provided, an age policy or event-specific accessibility details.
Die kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau) at Music Box Theatre ↗
The screening is at Music Box Theatre, 3733 North Southport, Chicago, IL, in Lakeview. The CTA Brown Line’s Southport station is about 0.3 miles away. Nearby bus routes include the #152 Addison and #77 Belmont; the #9 Ashland runs a few blocks west.
Die kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau) at Music Box Theatre ↗ · Music Box Theatre, Upcoming Events in Chicago on Do312 ↗
The venue listing notes metered street parking on Southport. It says free street parking is typically available on and west of Ashland Avenue and north of Irving Park Road. Music Box Theatre has no dedicated lot.
The event lists tickets at $10, $11 and $13, but does not identify the categories associated with each price.
Die kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau) at Music Box Theatre ↗
The event information gives a 7:15 p.m. start but does not state the film’s runtime or an end time.
Die kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau) at Music Box Theatre ↗
The Southport Brown Line station is about 0.3 miles away. Nearby buses include the #152 Addison and #77 Belmont; the #9 Ashland runs a few blocks west.
The venue has no dedicated lot. Its listing notes metered street parking on Southport and says free street parking is typically available on and west of Ashland Avenue and north of Irving Park Road.
3733 North Southport, Chicago, IL
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