Cinema Archive Detail

October 2011
15 October: Home Movie Day
With their recurrent motifs, home movies serve personal memory and can rarely be deciphered by outsiders without commentary. Removed from their personal context, they can be a valuable source of material for historical and anthropological research. On international Home Movie Day , a conference at the Deutsche Kinemathek organized in cooperation with the FU Berlin's Visual and Media Anthropology course and Vienna's Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for History and Society will focus on the relationship between "private" and "ethnological" film material.
October 2011
Vaginal Davis presents Rising Stars, Falling Stars – Four year anniversary
Since arriving in Berlin in 2007, the silent movie expert Vaginal Davis has hosted a monthly film event, and to celebrate four years she is dedicating the next session to Louise Brooks, just as she did the opening session.
October 2011
The first years are the best! – UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
To mark UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on October 27, Mariann Lewinsky is presenting early films from 1907 to 1911 from the Deutsche Kinemathek's archive .
October 2011
What is cinema? Jour fixe. Guest appearance: Maria Mohr
As part of the second jour fixe of our What is cinema? film education program we are delighted to welcome the documentary filmmaker Maria Mohr to Arsenal, as always on the third Friday of the month, which this time means October 21. The program is entitled "Impressions of life" and is geared towards students from Class 10 and above.
October 2011
Classics not just for children
The children's classics program is almost always connected to the Magical History Tour, but because we don't have a film history season this month, we are completely independent. Therefore, we are granting a special request and every Sunday for five weeks running we are screening a great classic with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy:
October 2011
New on realeyez.tv: "Day of the Sparrow"
From October 1, Philip Scheffner's DAY OF THE SPARROW (Germany 2010) is available on our VoD Channel at realeyez.tv. In his new film, Philip Scheffner, a passionate birdwatcher in his spare time, creates an audacious homage to a particular sparrow which managed to attain international fame. Scheffner sets out on a fantastic search for clues with the meticulousness of a detective, which takes him from the murder of the sparrow by a Dutch media concern to a nearly forgotten holiday resort on the Baltic Sea. His search finally takes him to the fences of various forbidden zones in the provinces and suburbs of both East and West Germany. Led by a camera that is precise to the point of obsession and a soundtrack that is almost overly attentive, this cinematic investigation eventually turns into a contemporary political thriller. It’s absolutely astounding, expect perhaps for particular birdwatchers and pilots, who have long since noticed the similarities between the gentle landscapes by the river Mosel and Afghani battlefields. It was therefore probably no coincidence that the sparrow’s heroic death took place on the same day that the 18th German soldier died in Afghanistan.
October 2011
New works at ARTE Creative
Since this February, a selection of films from the arsenal distribution range has been available at ARTE Creative, an interactive platform that also encompasses experimental film and video work. Every month, a new arsenal distribution film is added to the channel, which is then available for streaming over a one-year period. Meggie Schneider's OUR PRIDE AND GLORY (Germany 2009, 12’) and Stephen Dwoskin's ASCOLTA! (Italy/Great Britain 2008, 6’) are the latest additions to our ARTE Creative channel. Florian Zeyfangs film INTRODUCTION TO A SHORT HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY (Germany 2008, 12’), DER FATER (Germany 1986, 26') by Christine Noll Brinckmann, Marie Losier’s TONY CONRAD DREAMINIMALIST (USA 2008, 26', English original version), Ayse Erkmen’s COFFEE (Turkey 2007, 25') - which was first shown in the Forum Expanded section of the 2008 Berlinale –Phil Collin’s SOY MI MADRE and Keren Cytter’s film DER SPIEGEL (Germany 2007, 4’) are all still available for streaming. Further films and videos from the arsenal distribution range will be added over the next few months.
October 2011
On Tour in Cairo und Kiev!
As part of the Arab Shorts festival at the Goethe Institute in Cairo we are presenting a shorts program on the role of the image in the transformation process. It includes works by Tödliche Doris, Tom Holert, Florian Zeyfang, Mohammadreza Farzad, Paul Rowley/David Phillips/Tim Blue, Franziska Cordes and Martin Ebner. Just before, the same program will be shown at the Molodist International Film Festival in Kiev (October 22-30). Here, we present Arsenal as an archive, cinema and festival, with its interest in the border zone between film and the other arts. We are showing films by Maya Deren, as well as THE SLEEPING GIRL by Rainer Kirberg (Germany, 2011) from the 6. Forum Expanded program.
September 2011
2nd Jour Fixe: "Impressions of life"
As part of the second jour fixe of our What is cinema? film education
program we are delighted to welcome the documentary filmmaker Maria Mohr to Arsenal, as always on the third Friday of the month, which this time means
October 21. The program is entitled "Impressions of life" and is geared
towards students from Class 10 and above. In a studio-like situation, Maria
Mohr will give an insight into her working methods, which are very much
inspired by autobiographical filmmaking, illustrating her examples with
excerpts from her films K KUMBH KALI (Germany 2002) and COUSIN COUSINE (Germany 2005), photos and other material. "Images and sounds. / You see, hear, find them. / You dream, remember, invent them. / What impresses you? / When do you press REC?"
September 2011
"Putty Hill"
A beautifully realized portrait of a close–knit community on the outskirts of Baltimore, PUTTY HILL is the second feature from celebrated young filmmaker Matt Porterfield (HAMILTON). At a neighbourhood karaoke bar, friends and family gather to remember Cory who died of an overdose at 24. Knowing little about his final days, they attempt to reconstruct his life. In the process, they offer a window onto their own lives, an evocative picture of working-class America, dislocated from the progress and mobility around them, but united in pursuit of a shared dream.

15 October: Home Movie Day

Vaginal Davis presents Rising Stars, Falling Stars – Four year anniversary

The first years are the best! – UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

What is cinema? Jour fixe. Guest appearance: Maria Mohr

Classics not just for children

New on realeyez.tv: "Day of the Sparrow"

New works at ARTE Creative

On Tour in Cairo und Kiev!

2nd Jour Fixe: "Impressions of life"

"Putty Hill"