Cinema Archive Detail

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.
October 2014
Out now: "The Great Musuem"
THE GREAT MUSUEM by Johannes Holzhausen is theatrically released from October 16.
The film, which premiered in this year's Forum programme and received the Caligari Award, takes a look behind the scenes of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It’s a pleasure to follow the camera on its extended forays through the magnificent halls and well-stocked storage rooms, listening in on the exhibition curators and lingering with interest by the restorers. All those working in the midst of these artistic treasures and portraits are almost on first-name terms with them and their Habsburg benefactors; for some, this stately heritage feels like a ball and chain.
Fulfilling a museum’s lofty duties in the modern day – collection, preservation, research, exhibition and communication – requires good management. As some examine paintings almost tenderly for insect damage, countless meetings revolve around budget planning, marketing campaigns and visits from politicians. The film observes this balancing act between maintaining a time-honoured institution of memory and offering modern cultural services without casting judgement. Only the now retired director of the Collection of Arms and Armour can permit himself to remark that all that smooth marketing talk could equally be applied to toothpaste. And then he feeds brie and walnuts to the pigeons on his office window sill. (Anna Hoffmann)
October 2014
"Asta Upset"
The film is set in a modern day 'Berlin Republic' liberated from all irrelevancies. It’s about artistic production, the creative industries and above all film and cinema – a political manifesto in feature film format. It centres on Asta, tough, hardened by theory and immaculately styled right down to the emblems on her leather jacket, with current art scene jargon flowing elegantly from her lips. She’s no hippie broad, but rather a modern-day warrior, verbally sparring with legendary actress Hannelore Hoger, her 'film mother', about her hobby of urban gardening. After the relentless competition between curators over the funding for her exhibition 'The Cinema! The Art', for which Hannelore Hoger even whispers inaudible recommendations into the ear of the German President, Asta ultimately plumps for international backing from an Indian friend. He luckily happens to be with her out in the country when she bumps into her arch-enemy Ms Top Cultural Department Brass, a meeting with far-reaching consequences. The film is an entertaining dissection of the current state of the cultural industry, for which 'left-wing' and 'right-wing' are relevant, yet oddly obsolete categories. (Dorothee Wenner, Forum catalogue)
October 2014
In Cinemas: "The Airstrip – Decampment of Modernism, Part III"
The Filmgalerie 451 is releasing Heinz Emigholz' THE AIRSTRIP early October. On October 12 and 19, the film, which premiered as part of this year's Forum programme, will be screened at Arsenal cinema with the director being present.
THE AIRSTRIP is the third part of the "Decampment of Modernism"-series and as the final part "offers no big finale of architectural film history, but rather a brilliant desert landscape full of unexpected new beginnings." (Stefanie Schulte Strathaus)

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"

Out now: "The Great Musuem"

"Asta Upset"

In Cinemas: "The Airstrip – Decampment of Modernism, Part III"