Our next "Filmmakers' Choice" will be presented by Carola Spadoni on June 15.

In 1968, to come to terms with reality meant to overcome the patriarchal structures of academic knowledge and to enrich it with personal as well as collective experience. A continuum of love, rebellion and radical decisions spread around the streets of Rome; and life and art became inseparable. The area around Piazza Navona and Trastevere - in which workers still lived at the time - became the home, stage and school of experimenting youths. At the same time, film was declared a political act instead of an artistic endeavor. Political speeches, the dialectic of "stream of consciousness", performative, "mise en scène", intimacy, background noises and the self-perception of the cinema moved into the forefront. We will screen rarely seen Italian films, fragments of a discourse about Rome in '68 and its unique echo.

In June and July, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, presents a selection of films from the first ten years of Forum Expanded. The Forum Expanded co-curators Nanna Heidenreich and Uli Ziemons will be in attendance to present ten programs to the Korean audience.

Films from the very first edition - like Harun Farocki's ZUR BAUWEISE DES FILMS BEI GRIFFITH - will be shown alongside those from the most recent edition, e.g. LA DOLCE SIRIA by Ammar Al-Beik. Further works included are by Maite Abella, Gheith Al-Amine, Basma Alsharif, Maria Theresa Alvarez, Bruce LaBruce, Octavio Cortázar, Keren Cytter, Roy Dib, Ayşe Erkmen, Jeanne Faust und Jörn Zehe, 
Ken Jacobs, Sharon Lockhart, Armando Lulaj, Mpumelelo Mcata, Isabelle Prim, Nicolas Rey, Paul Rowley, Tim Blue and David Philips, Constanze Ruhm and Christine Lang, Isabell Spengler as well as Florian Zeyfang. Many films will have their Korean premiere.