Cinema Archive Detail

April 2013
Magical History Tour: Letters in movement
Flowing cascades of signs, rotating words, dancing letters, scratched, embossed, double-exposed, superimposed, animated – from the beginning of cinema printed characters have been freed from their static identity and rendered dynamic in multiple ways. Letters that succumb to movement have very different functions. They open or close films, act as a commentary or a metaphor (of storytelling), as providers of information or graphic elements, as a dramaturgical tool or as an emotionalizing factor. Writing in film opens up new areas of association asking questions about visibility and structure, perception and materialism, mise-en-scene and innovation, The Magical History Tour is making an excursion into the moving world of letters, presenting examples of how writing was examined in early avant-garde and experimental cinema, "classic" Lettrist films, and also looking at contemporary feature films with writing leitmotifs.
April 2013
Several Forum Films Awarded in Buenos Aires
At the 15th edition of the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) LA PAZ, VIOLA, I USED TO BE DARKER and MATERIA OSCURA received numerous awards. Santiago Loza's LA PAZ won Best Film of the national competition and was given the award of the Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos Argentinos (ACCA). VIOLA by Matías Piñeiro received the FIPRESCI award as well as the proze for Best Actress which was given collectively to María Villar, Agustina Muñoz, Elisa Carricajo and Romina Paula. Matt Porterfield won Best Director for his film I USED TO BE DARKER, and in the Human Rights Competition MATERIA OSCURA by Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti was voted Best Film.
April 2013
Living Archive
Stefanie Schlüter invites schoolchildren to Arsenal with her "Living Archive for children, with children" project. What can a film archive do, what can films do for the aesthetic and cultural edcuation of young people growing up in the digital age? The center of her project, which is primarily directed at elementary pupils, is the Arsenal's comprehensive collection of experimental films. These can confront the viewer with an unusual view of things, they are often playful in form and deal with questions of perception at the intersection between film and other arts.
April 2013
"The Strange Little Cat" wins main prize at CPH:PIX
Ramon Zürcher's THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT (DAS MERKWÜRDIGE KÄTZCHEN) has received the New Talent Grand PIX at CPH:PIX in Copenhagen. With his film Zürcher was chosen as the most promising new talent in the competition, among ten other debutating directors. In the jurys motivational speech at the award ceremony they said: "We spend an hour and a half in a stranger's kitchen, a location we all know. It shows the mystery of the mundane, everyday life through the magnifying glass of cinema. A film so specific it becomes universal". Along with the honour, Ramon Zürcher gets a cash prize of 15.000 Euros, meant to help the director develop his new next project.
April 2013
Vaginal Davis presents: Rising Stars, Falling Stars: We Must Have Music!
His films are full of music. In SALOME'S LAST DANCE (GB 1988) Ken Russel organizes a private performance of the forbidden play Salome for it’s author Oscar Wilde in a luxurious brothel in Victorian London. The staff becomes an amateur ensemble, with the head of the establishment playing Herod, a waitress taking on the lead role and Wilde's friend Lord Alfred Douglas, alias 'Bosie', becomes John the Baptist.
As always, the evening will begin with an introduction by curatorial mother Vaginal Davis and end with music and wine. (21.4.)
April 2013
FilmDokument: Erwin Leiser
April 2013
"Living Archive for Children, with Children"
Stefanie Schlüter invites schoolchildren to Arsenal with her "Living Archive for children, with children" project. What can a film archive do, what can films do for the aesthetic and cultural edcuation of young people growing up in the digital age? The center of her project, which is primarily directed at elementary pupils, is the Arsenal's comprehensive collection of experimental films. These can confront the viewer with an unusual view of things, they are often playful in form and deal with questions of perception at the intersection between film and other arts.
April 2013
The DEFA Foundation presents
April 2013
Filmmakers' Choice
April 2013
Filmmakers' Choice on April 16
From unexposed film to a medially reflected self-reflection: Nam June Paik's ZEN FOR FILM (1964), a visual analogy of John Cage's silence, marked the start of a search for possibilities of self-perception in film and video art. In WAITING (1979) Nan Hoover examines the subjective feeling of time; Annika Larsson films blind football players in BLIND (2010) and Florian Zeyfang examines the possibilities of visual reproduction in INTRODUCTION TO A SHORT HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY (2008). In Kenneth Anger's KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (1965) the "I" is reflected in fetishistic polished chrome, and Ming Wong imitates fictional identities in LERNE DEUTSCH MIT PETRA VON KANT (2007). In Keren Cytter's DER SPIEGEL (2007) the mirror becomes a destroyer of self-perception, and at the end Stefan Zeyen tries to prevent a FAREWELL (2009) until the image dissolves. Presented by Niklas Goldbach.

Magical History Tour: Letters in movement

Several Forum Films Awarded in Buenos Aires

Living Archive

"The Strange Little Cat" wins main prize at CPH:PIX

Vaginal Davis presents: Rising Stars, Falling Stars: We Must Have Music!

FilmDokument: Erwin Leiser

"Living Archive for Children, with Children"

The DEFA Foundation presents

Filmmakers' Choice

Filmmakers' Choice on April 16