HANDS ON FASSBINDER – #4 WHO LOVES – WORKING IN A GROUP
Lectures and discussions in Berlin on September 15 and 16
The series of events taking place in 2012 under the umbrella title of HANDS ON FASSBINDER is a collective project mounted by the German film journal REVOLVER, the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB), the Berlin cinema Zeughauskino, the RWFF and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. The project has been made possible by a grant from the German Capital Cultural Fund.
WHO LOVES – WORKING IN A GROUP deals with the following questions faced by filmmakers: How do couples, groups and collectives work? How does this kind of collaboration function? Who do these projects aim to address? Who thinks about forms of presentation when cinema combines analog and digital formats?
An overview of the coming weekend program:
Saturday, September 15 at the .CHB
4 p.m. / PERFORMANCE
“Fassbinderology” – Alban Lefranc and Julien Lacroix
Coinciding with the publication of his novel Fassbinder, la mort en fanfare by Payot/Rivages, Alban Lefranc, assisted by Julien Lacroix, presents the fundamentals of a new field of scholarship: “Fassbinderology.”
Followed by / FILM DOCUMENT / DISCUSSION
“Fassbinder in the Vienna film Museum”
A previously unreleased, filmed discussion with RWF coinciding with the screening of FOX AND HIS FRIENDS in the Austrian Film Museum on November 2, 1975 (22 minutes). The film will be followed by a discussion between Hannes Brühwiler and Alejandro Bachmann, a member of the museum who works on the archiving, presentation and dissemination of film and film history.
6 p.m. / DISCUSSION
“The ARSENAL in close-up: inside a modern cinémathèque” – Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Birgit Kohler and Milena Gregor in conversation with Christoph Hochhäusler and Ekkehard Knörer
The ARSENAL in Berlin is one of Europe’s most well-known film institutions. As an “Institute for Film and Video Art,” it not only runs one of Berlin’s most important cinemas but is also active in the fields of distribution and archiving as well as curating the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival.
6 p.m. / READING
“Attacks on the way through the evening snow” / “Fassbinder, la mort en fanfare,” Alban Lefranc, moderated by Hendrik Jackson
In his books Lefranc interlaces fiction and documentation in order to reinvent several possible lives for Fassbinder.
Sunday, September 16, at the .CHB
6 p.m. / DISCUSSION
Philip Scheffner and Merle Kröger in conversation with Toby Ashraf and Hannes Brühwiler
The works of Philip Scheffner and Merle Kröger can be described as cinematic journeys through the past that combine documentary experimentation and the essay form with the search for evidence. Their three films – THE HALFMOON FILES, DAY OF THE SPARROW and REVISION – circle the events of contemporary German-European history. A conversation about images of history, documentary forms of expression and working in a group.
6:30 p.m. / FILMS AND DISCUSSION
Love, work and cinema, but for whom? Tobias Hering in conversation with Véronique Goël
Tobias Hering invites the filmmaker Veronique Goël to discuss the envisioned audience for cinematic works, the absent public at whom films are directed and for whom they are made. Examples from Goël’s own work and two short films by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet illustrate gestures of orientation to others: dedication, question, letter, evocation and silence.
#4 WHO LOVES – WORKING IN A GROUP / Zeughauskino film program
September 13, 2012 | 8 p.m.
EFFI BRIEST (FRG 1974, 141′, 35 mm) by RWF
September 14, 2012 | 6:30 p.m.
FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (FRG 1975, 123′, 35 mm) by RWF
September 14, 2012 | 9:00 p.m.
BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE (FRG 1971, 103′, 35 mm) BY RWF
Further information 1 on HANDS ON FASSBINDER by REVOLVER.
Further information 2 on the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB).
Further information 3 on the film program in the Zeughauskino Berlin.
Further information 4 on the parallel event to “Who loves.”
Entire program