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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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).
Retrospective Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks (1896–1977) is one of classical Hollywood cinema's great directors. He is regarded as the consummate Hollywood professional, creating narratively and directorially accomplished entertainment full of fast-paced thrills, humor and tension. His oeuvre spans the period from 1926 to 1970 and takes in nearly all the genres of the time: comedies, westerns, musicals as well as war, adventure and gangster films. Our comprehensive retrospective continues until the end of January, presenting presents famous classics alongside some less well-known discoveries.
Full Program Now Available online!
The 2014 program is now available online. Detailed information and screening dates of all Forum and Forum Expanded films and events can be found via the program menu point.
Želimir Žilnik (*1942) is a resident of Novi Sad in Serbia and has been working as a director of shorts, documentaries, features, essay films, and television productions since the end of the 60s. Always radically independent, he has created an oeuvre that reflects in precise, critical terms upon the various societies and their political, cultural, and economic conditions that form the setting of his films - Socialist Yugoslavia, West Germany in the 70s, the movements toward the break-up of Yugoslavia following Tito's death, the wars of the 90s, the transformation processes that paved the way to a market economy, and the new borders now being drawn in Europe. We are very happy to welcome Želimir Žilnik to Arsenal from January 11-13 and will be showing 20 of his films until the end of the month.
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Arsenal on Location is funded by the Capital Cultural Fund
The international programs of Arsenal on Location are a cooperation with the Goethe-Institut
