Films are collaborative works, created by directors, screenwriters, producers, editors cinematographers, actors, sound editors and many more. For this month's Magical History Tour, we are showing films that make this collective work visible and take it as their very theme. But it isn't just collectives, groups or film factories that highlight the plurality of cinema. The ensemble film is at once a collaborative work of a plural nature and a subversion of classical norms, creating hugely dynamic worlds rendered in cinematic patchwork that take in character mosaics that branch off in all directions, multilayered relationship structures and deliberately de-centered group portraits – complex universes characterized by fantastic acting ensembles, star-studded and egalitarian in equal measure.
