Cinema Archive Detail

February 2014
Classics Not Just For Children
February 2014
Ken Jacobs: "The Guests"
Ken Jacobs has digitally enhanced a one-minute film from the early days of cinema into what is presumably the first ever black-and-white silent film in 3D. For 70 minutes, we watch the congregation mounting the steps of a Parisian church as our attention is drawn to the smallest of details.Silent film, avant-garde, and digital 3D: one hundred and twenty years of film history merging into one single cinematic event. (11.2. Zoo Palast & 13.2. Cubix)
February 2014
CAIRO - THE STILL AND THE MOVING
A work-in-progress presentation showing works currently being produced in Cairo's vibrant film scene that explore themes and debates of relevance there. With: Hanan Abdalla, Viola Shafik, Cresida Trew, moderated by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus.
Monday 10.2., 12:30 Arsenal 1
February 2014
Jack Smith: Beyond the Rented World
Forum Expanded presents two programs of never seen, newly restored films by underground legend and queer icon Jack Smith entitled "Beyond the Rented World". On Sunday February 9 rare footage of Smith’s drag muse Mario Montez, who passed away in September 2013 can be seen at HAU1. John Zorn, seminal figure of the avant-garde and experimental music scene, who worked with Jack Smith on his performances in the late 1970s, will accompany two films with records from Jack Smith’s personal collection. On Friday Febraury 14 Smith’s notorious adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet is on show in the Berlinische Galerie. Both film programs are curated and introduced by film preservationist Jerry Tartaglia.
February 2014
Our Catalogue as an E-Book
Once again, we are making the Forum catalogue available as an e-book for mobile devices. The e-catalogue can be downloaded for free in various formats. The catalogue texts for the individual films are also available as PDF files as always on the respective programme pages.
February 2014
Think:Film No.2
Unter dem Titel Entitled What Do We Know When We Know Where Something Is? the ninth edition of Forum Expanded presents the conference Think:Film No. 2 in collaboration with the Alliance Cultural Foundation at the Berlinische Galerie on February 12 and 13.
Gallery, museum, theater, or cinema – the discussion about the relationship of film to the other arts is largely oriented around notions of space and place. Where does a film come from and where is it shown? The question is posed not only in regard to the artistic surroundings, but also to national affiliations. Hybrid forms, transna- tional co-productions, historical and political shifts open the question up to new meanings.
February 2014
Forum Expanded Exhibitions and Openings
The 9th edition of Forum Expanded opens on February 5 with the "What Do We Know When We Know Where Something Is" group exhibition at ST. AGNES, Kreuzberg. The opening starts at 6 pm; the exhibition will then be open daily from 11 am to 7 pm. Another exhibition showing IN THE SIMILKAMEEN by Tyler Hagan in the Marshall McLuhan Salon of Canada's embassy will be opened on February 6 between 5:30 and 8 pm and will then be open daily from 2 to 8 pm.
The installation FICTIONS AND FUTURES #1 – HAPPINESS IN THE ABSTRACT by Minze Tummescheit and Arne Hector can be seen in the Black Box in the Arsenal foyer from February 7.
Hourly shuttle service to ST. AGNES and Berlinische Galerie starting from Eichendorffgasse next to Forum Guest Office 11am - 7pm.
January 2014
"A Day’s Pleasure, Behind the Screen" – A Film Curatorial Performance by Clemens von Wedemeyer
For the Berlin premiere of Clemens von Wedemeyer’s film MUSTER (Germany 2012, January 18 at Arsenal Cinema), we have invited him to take a look at our collection and have made both of our cinemas and the foyer available to him for one day. The program A DAY’S PLEASURE, BEHIND THE SCREEN, which we will be presenting January 19, evolved through this invitation. "What would it be like if you broke down the walls of a multiplex cinema, if those watching entirely different films were to suddenly come together in order to watch separate films? The experiment: two complementing programs will be shown in parallel, with audience members able to choose and stroll between the two of them with the same ticket. The secret shuffling out of the cinema and the distracting sound of the door shutting become a part of a dispersed shared performance here. Much like during a film festival, only part of this marathon curated program can actually be seen, with another part of it always being missed in its place. The inspiration for the performance were two films by Charlie Chaplin." (Clemens von Wedemeyer)
January 2014
50 Years of Arsenal: Dovzhenko's "Arsenal"
For our institution’s 50th anniversary, we were with the help of the Capital Cultural Fund able to acquire new prints of six films in our collection. To bring the series of presentations of these new acquisitions to a close, we are showing Alexander Dovzhenko’s programmatic name-giving revolution film ARSENAL (USSR 1929) in a newly restored print from the film archive in Kiev on 3.1. The film title references the Kiev munitions store where the January 1918 Ukrainian revolution reached a head. Dovzhenko places the depiction of the uprising at the end of a complex kaleidoscope of events, an audaciously edited, richly symbolic description of the horrors of the First World War, those suffered by the population and the heroic struggle of the young Communist movement. The film will receive a live piano accompaniment by acclaimed composer and pianist Eunice Martins, who will be playing her own new composition for ARSENAL.
January 2014
New arsenal distribution Titles
We are delighted that we were able to add the following films from the 2013 Forum and Forum Expanded program to our distribution range: AL-KHOROUG LEL-NAHAR / COMING FORTH BY DAY (Hala Lotfy, Egypt, UAE 2012), HÉLIO OITICICA (Cesar Oiticia Filho, Brasil 2012, 94 min), I USED TO BE DARKER (Matt Porterfield, USA 2013, 90 min), LEVIATHAN (Lucien Castaing-Taylor/ Véréna Paravel, USA/France/UK 2012, 87 min), SIENIAWKA (Marcin Malaszczak, Germany, Poland 2013, 126 min), STEMPLE PASS (James Benning, USA 2012, 121 min), LUNCH WITH GERTRUDE STEIN (Isabelle Prim, France 2012, 45 min), ONCE EVERY DAY (Richard Foreman, USA 2012, 64 min), ROTATION (Ginan Seidl/ Clara Wieck, Germany 2012, 8 min), NOT BLACKING OUT JUST TURNING THE LIGHTS OFF (James Richards, UK 2012, 17 min) und BÜHNE (Daniel Kötter, Germany 2012, 8 min).

Classics Not Just For Children

Ken Jacobs: "The Guests"

CAIRO - THE STILL AND THE MOVING

Jack Smith: Beyond the Rented World

Our Catalogue as an E-Book

Think:Film No.2

Forum Expanded Exhibitions and Openings

"A Day’s Pleasure, Behind the Screen" – A Film Curatorial Performance by Clemens von Wedemeyer

50 Years of Arsenal: Dovzhenko's "Arsenal"

New arsenal distribution Titles