German Screen Studies Network 4^th Annual Symposium

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The German Screen Studies Network is delighted to announce

 

A Festival of Ideas exploring German Cinema’s

 

LIVING PASTS, MOVING PRESENT

Thursday Sept 8 – Saturday Sept 10 2016

King’s College London; Queen Mary University of London; Goethe-Institut, London

Close-Up Film Centre, London

 

ADMISSION FREE

 

Three days of screenings, workshops and panel discussions on cinema as a resource for reshaping a crisis-ridden global present.

 

This event begins on Thursday 8^th September with an open research forum, followed by a workshop on Berlin Arsenal’s Living Archive project featuring special guests Senta Siewert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Arsenal). The workshop sets the tone for a Thursday evening screening exploring experiments in film rhythm from Lotte Reiniger to Ruth Legear. Panels and screenings on Friday 9^th September showcase filmmaking projects that reanimate the lost heritage of archive and early silent film through historical documentary (Dreams Rewired/Mobilisierung der Träume, Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode, 2015); DIY cinema (Labor Berlin); and short films including Florian Zeyfang’s Splicefilm (2013) and Susanne Sachsse’s Serious Ladies (2012). On Saturday 10th the focus shifts to the contemporary moment with panels and screenings on modernist explorations of film time (Straub-Huillet); on neoliberal future visions (Fictions and Futures #1. Happiness in the Abstract, 2013); and on activist projects including the short film compilation Research Refugees, and the Nigerian archive and curatorial project Reclaiming History, Unveiling Memory (Didi Cheeka, Lagos Film Society). 

 

ALL SESSIONS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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Organising Committee: Erica Carter, Eleanor Halsall (King’s College London); Alasdair King (Queen Mary University of London); Annie Ring (University College London); Sophie Burt (University of Oxford); Rafael Dernbach (University of Cambridge/FU-Berlin)

 

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Erica Carter