Cinema Archive Detail

August 2014
Living Archive / Curators in Residence: Lara Khaldi and Yazan Khalili
This month we are welcoming Lara Khaldi and Yazan Khalili in the framework of Living Archive at Arsenal Cinema. They are in Berlin with the support of the Goethe-Institut Ramallah.
On August 19 they will talk about their new lecture performance "Love letters to Mars". For one month they have been researching films in the Arsenal archive which link to the futuristic scenario of their lecture performance: a 2026 Mars mission creates an irreparable rift between two lovers regarding the question of whether the Earth should be saved or new societies and colonies founded on other planets. Utopia and starting over are two of the central themes. In Arsenal’s archive they became interested in the Latvian film 235.000.000 by Uldis Braus, Biruta Veldre and Laima Schurgina from 1966 and Babette Mangoltes THE SKY ON LOCATION (USA 1982).
July 2014
Let's Misbehave! Hollywood before the Hays Code 1930–1934 (2)
The early sound film era was a time of exceptional freedom and openness towards societal realities in Hollywood history. In July 1934, it came to an abrupt end with the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) that had been adopted in 1930 but had been largely ignored by the studios. In fact, many pre-code films did the exact opposite of what the guidelines recommended. They focused largely on sexuality, freer forms of relationship, prohibition, crime and urban worlds featuring stage shows and "gold-diggers". They were about daily life in an America mired in depression, a lack of hope and crime; about drinking alcohol and about emancipated women and masters of survival. Moreover, they were told in an insolent, unembellished tone that eschewed respect, recording and incorporating the rhythms of the big city with their dynamic montage, flippant dialogue, precipitated action and elliptic narration. Thanks to the support of the Capital Cultural Fund in Berlin we are dedicating an extensive program comprising 30 films to this extraordinary era of US cinema until 31st July.
July 2014
Charles Regnier
July 2014
Magical History Tour: Rebels with a Cause – Halbstarke at the cinema
Rebellious, ill-adjusted and cool – the attitude harbored by certain members of the younger generation in the US and other countries, including West Germany during the Adenauer era, clashed with a society that remained authoritarian some 10 years after the end of the war. A German term that dates back to the turn of the 20th century was used to label Germany's rebellious youths and later became the title of a film - DIE HALBSTARKEN (Teenage Wolfpack, Georg Tressler, BRD 1956). For some, the term was a snide insult; for others it was a compliment. Whether in Germany or in the US, the deviant youths indulged in criminal activity, created a disturbance and protested against traditional values. They were cool and into rock 'n' roll and motorbikes. This month's Magical History Tour is dedicated to American and German teenage rebel classics as well as film representations of similarly-minded young rebels from earlier days, or different social and geographical contexts.
July 2014
Hollis Frampton's Magellan Project
July 2014
Vaginal Davis Presents Rising Stars, Falling Stars – We Must Have Music!
July 2014
The DEFA Foundation Presents
July 2014
Filmspotting: Exploring the Deutsche Kinemathek's Film Archive
July 2014
Living Archive
July 2014
Living Archive: New Guest participants
Living Archive continues to receive support from the Goethe-Institut in the form of a grant program. We are looking forward to welcoming four new guest participants in July and August. We start off by receiving Jaqueline Beltrame and Gustavo Spolidoro from Brazil, who co-founded the Festival Cine Esquema Novo in Porto Alegre in 2003. The festival is aimed at following tendencies in contemporary image production and is thus to open to film screenings, installation work as well as new forms of audiovisual production, an agenda that fills a gap in the Brazilian cultural landscape. For this year's Cine Esquema Novo program in November, they will be heading into the Arsenal archive to see what they can find. On July 25, they will be providing insights into their festival work and presenting a selection of their research work together short films by Gustavo Spolidoro at Arsenal cinema.
Lara Khaldi und Yazan Khalili (Forum Expanded 2012) come to Berlin via the Goethe-Institut in Ramallah. On August 19, they present their new lecture performance as a work in progress. They are researching films in the Arsenal archive to this end which link to the futuristic scenario of "Love Letters to Mars": a 2026 Mars mission creates an irreparable rift between two lovers regarding the question of whether the Earth should be saved or new societies and colonies founded on other planets.
The exact program for both events will be announced shortly beforehand.

Living Archive / Curators in Residence: Lara Khaldi and Yazan Khalili

Let's Misbehave! Hollywood before the Hays Code 1930–1934 (2)

Charles Regnier

Magical History Tour: Rebels with a Cause – Halbstarke at the cinema

Hollis Frampton's Magellan Project

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

The DEFA Foundation Presents

Filmspotting: Exploring the Deutsche Kinemathek's Film Archive

Living Archive

Living Archive: New Guest participants