The next edition of Filmmakers' choice is presented by Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn on April 12: Their selection "Corpos & Cosmos" shows a pulsating filmic body from works which examine moments of intimacy and desire and reveal the diversity of identities that inhabit us. In CHINESE CHECKERS and PÁTIO the game of seduction between two characters leads to a filmic form. A seductive camera in IN THE GRASS follows a masked woman on a meadow, while video images that have been transposed to film create an ethereal relationship between two contrasting women in DREAMS OF A VIRGIN. Visions of beauty follow each other in SLEEPY HAVEN and FIREWORKS and create a dreamlike atmosphere. CONNECTION and MOON PLAY feature footage of celestial bodies that enchant us with their dance and light.

On April 17, Arsenal Filmatelier shows experimental and animation films for children aged 4 and above in a program called "The cinema dances". The garish film PPII by MM Serra takes a trip to a house in Mexico where a house is decorated with red and green ribbons and also to early cinema, in which serpentine dancers swing their costumes. In Maya Deren's magical camera experiment A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR THE CAMERA, you can see how a dancer overcomes great distances in one single movement: He is in a forest and lands in a living room in one step. The black-and-white silent movie is followed by Len Lye's RAINBOW DANCE, a musical dance of colors which apart from unclouded joy also promises savings. At the end of the program, you'll find out how the animation filmmaker Winsor McCay won a bet made 101 years ago that would bring dinosaurs back to life. GERTIE THE DINOSAUR performs a dance and other tricks.

In this program entitled "Not so silent films" on April 24, we will watch in PREMIERE SEANCE (Lumière Brothers, F 1895) the films that two inventive photo industrialists from Lyon presented in 1895 during the first screening in history. We will watch early special effects in LES PAPILLONS JAPONAIS (Japanese Butterflies, Segundo de Chomón, F 1908), the silent comedy BEHIND THE SCREEN (Charles Chaplin, USA 1916) and jump through 100 years of film history with the silent movie with music DAS LICHT (Anna Faroqhi, Haim Peretz, pupils of Anna-Seghers-GS, G 2015). We examine questions such as: How do film images move? What do old films have to do with filmmaking today? After the screening, we will create pictures without using a camera or projector.