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02/08/06
Berlinale Camera to be awarded to Larry Kardish
Larry Kardish, MoMA’s Senior Curator for Film and Media, and Juliane Lorenz have been collaborating repeatedly since 1993. A pinnacle of their teamwork was the first complete Fassbinder retrospective in the United States which they co-curated. Its first venue took place, in January 1997, during the Sundance Film Festival, under the title “Rainer Werner Fassbinder – The Modern Renaissance Man.” The entire show was later presented in the Museum of Modern Art and then traveled to thirty other US-cities, where it was presented in varying configurations. For MoMA’s Department of Film and Media, this became the most successful retrospective of a contemporary filmmaker ever.
Laurence Kardish, born in Ottawa (Canada), joined the Museum of Modern Art in 1968, where he instigated the film series “Cineprobe,” a forum for international avant-garde films and independent film productions. As part of his lifelong dedication for films he also curated about three to four annual retrospectives concentrated on individual filmmakers, producers, or themes. Since 1971, Kardish has been organizing, together with colleagues from the Department of Film and Media and other curators from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the series “New Directors / New Films.” This is a forum where numerous directors - now world famous - began by presenting their first films. Among the celebrities are Pedro Almodovar, Atom Egoyan, Chen Kaige, Spike Lee, John Sayles, Steven Spielberg, and Wim Wenders. Since 1972, Kardish has also been the crucial curatorial voice in the series “New German Cinema / Recent films from Germany,” an annual presentation of the most up-to-date German cinema. There is a plethora of German movies that received their first US-presentation in one of MOMA’s two movie theaters and that subsequently found a commercial US-distributor.
In 1995, the French state honored Laurence Kardish with its L´Orde des Arts et des Lettres – Grade de Chevalier award, in 1996 he received the Meritorious Recognition Gift of Pusan’s first International Film Festival, and in 2005 the German Bundesverdienstkreuz, awarded by the German Government, was bestowed upon him. Now follows the Berlinale Camera. In accordance with his wish, Juliane Lorenz will hold the address. The award ceremony will take place on February 16 at 9:30PM in Berlin’s Filmpalast (located on Kurfürstendamm). Following the ceremony, Tacita Dean’s film The Uncles is going to be presented. We will post the speech on February 16, the day the award is presented, as a blog on our website.Blog: Laudatio Juliane Lorenz
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