Private screening. INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR FILM FESTIVAL
November 12 to 15, 2015
From November 12 to 15. November, the Kinothek Asta-Nielsen, in collaboration with the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, brings amateur film of the celluloid era to light, offering rare glimpses of formerly private recordings. The international as well as regional films from the 1930s to the 1980s captivate not only through their cinematic staging and documentation, but also through the technique and aesthetics of the material. As far as possible, the films will be projected in the original formats Normal 8, Super 8 and 16 mm. Thanks to the support of national and international archives, a diverse programme has been created that explores the range between home movie and underground and with which the films once screened in a private setting now find a concrete audience again. Four days in which a film world of its own will open up, be marvelled at and explored.
For example, with four films from 1959-1975, the Austrian Film Museum Vienna focuses on the staging and transformation of gender roles - from female facial care to the nappy-changing husband of the 1950s. Presented by Paolo Caneppele (Archive Director) and Raoul Schmidt (Film Archivist). With the long-term project Revisiting Memory, Cinematheque Cairo poses politically highly topical questions about ownership and interpretive sovereignty of collective memory. The film program provides an insight into the project and into the amateur film holdings of the Cinematheque Cairo. Presented by archivist Yasmin Desouki. In addition to the open workshop Shooting, Editing, Screening and Preservation with David Landolf and Brigitte Paulowitz, the Cinematheque Bern will show three amateur films in which women took the camera into their own hands. Brigitte Paulowitz is a film restorer and head of film collections, David Landolf director of the Kinemathek / Lichtspiel Bern. And a little punk is not to be missed: The Werkstattkino München revives the legendary Berlin club in the early 1980s with So war das S.O.36.
The film program is framed by selected context events. Carina Lesky (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society) presents Abenteuer Alltag. On the Archaeology of Amateur Film. Published in 2015 by the Austrian Film Museum, this is the first publication in the German-speaking world to provide an overview of current archive-based research on European amateur film. Whether it's daily newspapers and shoe boxes, cookie tins and wooden boxes, cardboard boxes and banana crates - every collector or film amateur seems to have developed a personal, free-spirited theory of the packaging system for long-term preservation. The most dazzling pieces from their collection are presented in the exhibition The Amteur Film Box at the Austrian Film Museum Vienna. Curated by Paolo Caneppele and Raoul Schmidt.
Venue: Künstlerhaus Mousonturm .Waldschmidtstraße 4 60316 Frankfurt
Admission prices: Day ticket 12 Euro, reduced 6 EuroFrom 8 pm 6 Euro at the box office Mousonturm Single event 6 Euro, only at the box office Mousonturm
Further info at: http://www.kinothek-asta-nielsen.de/
