Magical History Tour – Mind the Gap
Everywhere we look, there are narrative irregularities, omissions of all kinds, time jumps, memory loops, blank spaces. The title of the summer Magical History Tour is less a warning than a summons, inviting us to pay particular attention to surprising, often perplexing, sometimes amusing variations on elliptical storytelling. It will be worthwhile: a sharpened perspective on ambitious narratives and their artistic implementations is guaranteed to elicit unusual viewing experiences. The films being shown as part of the program in July and August are similarly promising, drawing an arc from omitted lines in Lubitsch's TO BE OR NOT TO BE (USA 1942) to MUSIC (G 2022) by Angela Schanelec, for whom omission is "a prerequisite to narration" in the first place. (Milena Gregor)
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