Cinema Archive Detail

October 2014
Visionary Archive in Johannesburg
“Visionary Archive“ is divided into five thematic, interconnected projects, all of which investigate what contemporary, transcultural, curatorial and artistic work with archives and archival research could look like. The “B-Schemes – An Archive Project and Film Program on Film Productions for Black Viewers in 1970s and 1980s South Africa“ project is dedicated to carrying out detailed archive research on a corpus of South African films that has still not received the research attention it deserves, with the goal of carrying out a critical reappraisal of these films and giving them new visibility. The project is directed by Darryl Els in collaboration with Marie-Hélène Gutberlet. The result of this research alongside a selection of films from the B-Schemes pool will be presented as part of the closing event in Berlin in May 2015. From October 24 until 26 three of the films from the B-Schemes will be screened at The Bioscope Independent Cinema, a cinema space in Johannesburg co-founded and directed by Darryl Els.
October 2014
Visionary Archive: It all depends #4
In October, the fourth edition of It all depends takes place as part of the Visionary Archive project. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s APPUNTI PER UN'ORESTIADE AFRICANA (Notes Towards an African Orestes, Italy 1969) will be screened on October 1. Narrated in the style of a cinematic notebook, Pasolini’s interest in adapting the ancient tragedy for the screen using African actors is mixed with a stubbornly colonial look at realities in Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia. The structure of the cinematic notebook and the cultural ideological charge it carries demand that Pasolini’s film be placed in context with two further films. In her video work NOTES ON PASOLINI'S FORM OF A CITY (Germany 2013), Sandra Schäfer examines Pasolini’s projections of Africa before the backdrop of his critique of modernity. We are showing the film on October 3 together with Haile Gerima’s radical social satire MIRT SOST SHI AMIT (Harvest, 3,000 Years, Ethiopia 1975), shot in Ethiopia at the end of Haile Selassie’s rule.
October 2014
Filmmakers’ Choice: Invisible Images
October 2014
Filmmakers’ Choice: Invisible Images
The films in this program presented by Sylvie Boisseau and Frank Westermeyer on October 20, generate invisible images by means of language, playing in the process with well-known representational forms, such as the confession or the Latin American telenovela. By intensifying or exaggerating convention, they challenge our belief in the visible. In UNE SALE HISTOIRE (France 1977), Jean Eustache films two identical confessions by a passionate voyeur one after the other with the words exactly the same in each case. Phil Collins switches the actors in every single scene of his telenovela SOY MI MADRE without the narrative flow ever being interrupted. For the OPTIONISTEN, the presentation of his limitless possibilities is already enough.
October 2014
Children's Exhibition "… und Action!"
October 2014
Vaginal Davis Presents Rising Stars, Falling Stars – We Must Have Music!
October 2014
Filmspotting. On The UNESCO World Day of Audiovisual Heritage
October 2014
Premiere: DIE ZEIT VERGEHT WIE EIN BRÜLLENDER LÖWE
October 2014
New in our distribution range
We are pleased to have some new titles in our distribution catalogue: Philipp Hartmann's DIE ZEIT VERGEHT WIE EIN BRÜLLENDER LÖWE (Germany 2013), all of Loretta Fahrenholz’s films (HAUST (Germany 2010), QUE BÁRBARA (USA 2011), IMPLOSION (Germany/USA 2011), GRAND OPENINGS RETURN OF THE BLOGS (USA 2012), DITCH PLAINS (Germany/USA 2013), MY THROAT, MY AIR (Germany 2013)), as well as Johanna Domke and Marouan Omara’s film CROP (Germany/Egypt 2012) which has already won several festival awards.
A digital (Blu-ray) version of Yvonne Rainer's experimental classic LIVES OF PERFORMERS (USA 1972) is also now available.
October 2014
Cinema Release "Butter on the Latch" and "Thou Wast Mild and Lovely"
arsenal distribution is releasing BUTTER ON THE LATCH and THOU WAST MILD AND LOVELY by Josephine Decker, both of which premiered in this year's Forum programme and have been received enthusiastically.
In the sinister folktale BUTTER ON THE LATCH Sarah reunites with her old friend Isolde at a Balkan folk Camp. She meets a handsome guy but while she makes her advances, obscure feelings begin to disrupt her behavior. In THOU WAST MILD AND LOVELY Akin arrives at his new job as a farm hand to discover the erotically charged young Sarah, whose fascination with nature takes on an ominous bent when her father catches Akin in a lie – and forces him to reckon with it. Both films open October 16.

Visionary Archive in Johannesburg

Visionary Archive: It all depends #4

Filmmakers’ Choice: Invisible Images

Filmmakers’ Choice: Invisible Images

Children's Exhibition "… und Action!"

Vaginal Davis Presents Rising Stars, Falling Stars – We Must Have Music!

Filmspotting. On The UNESCO World Day of Audiovisual Heritage

Premiere: DIE ZEIT VERGEHT WIE EIN BRÜLLENDER LÖWE

New in our distribution range

Cinema Release "Butter on the Latch" and "Thou Wast Mild and Lovely"