Public Screening "La Macchina Cinema"

At the request of Entuziazm e.V. (Michael Baute, Volker Pantenburg, Stefan Pethke and Stefanie Schlüter), we will be discussing LA MACCHINA CINEMA (Italy 1978, OV/GeS) on October 11. It was first shown in the Forum in 1979 and then found its way into the archive of the Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek, today's Arsenal. The five-part film was the result of a joint project by a collective comprising the filmmakers Marco Bellochio and Silvano Agosti and the critics Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli. It has a total length of 268 minutes and "draws the line that encircles the phenomenon of cinema and its myth. The five stages of this "journey" from the province to Cinecitta, from the world of Sunday film amateurs to the might of bright and ornamental industrial cinema are made up of one slow "zoom shot" and a series of continuous "focus shots". It is not by chance that LA MACCHINA CINEMA begins with a "long shot" of a foggy landscape and ends with a close-up shot of an autopsy table." (Forum Catalogue Info 1979)