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SUMMARY:The Future of German Screen Studies: Cultures\, Media\, Histories
DESCRIPTION:Conference\, University of St Andrews \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull conference programme: https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/05/06/the-future-of-german-screen-studies-conference/
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/the-future-of-german-screen-studies-cultures-media-histories/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240321T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240322T223000
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CREATED:20240124T205440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240124T215506Z
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SUMMARY:Entrenched Narratives\, Hidden Figures: Reappraising Representations of War Across German Screen Media
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URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/entrenched-narratives-hidden-figures-reappraising-representations-of-war-across-german-screen-media/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240109T080000
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SUMMARY:FOKUS\, Films from Germany in Scotland
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URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/fokus-films-from-germany-in-scotland/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231110T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231112T000000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20240124T205045Z
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SUMMARY:Screening Politics: Film Festivals\, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War
DESCRIPTION:Workshop\, University of St Andrews
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/screening-politics-film-festivals-archives-and-cinematic-exhibition-in-the-cold-war/
LOCATION:Wardlaw Museum\, St Andrews
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230622T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230623T235959
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SUMMARY:Images at Work: Labour and the Moving Image 
DESCRIPTION:Nash Lecture Theatre\, Strand Campus King’s College London \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis in-person international research conference organized by Laura Lux (KCL) and Georgina L Breuilly (KCL) brings together film studies scholars to examine representations of labour on screen. \n\n\n\nYou can find more information and the programme here.
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/images-at-work-labour-and-the-moving-image/
LOCATION:King’s College London
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221116T171500
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SUMMARY:FINSTERWORLD: Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:BYRE WORLD in association with the GSSN presents FINSTERWORLD by the director Frauke Finsterwalder. The film screening is followed by a Q&A with the director and co-author Christian Kracht\, moderated by Dora Osborne (University of St Andrews).
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/finsterworld-film-screening/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220530T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220601T120000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20230601T113936Z
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SUMMARY:"Documenting Socialism" Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The 2-day symposium organized by Prof. Seán Allan (University of St Andrews) and Sebastian Heiduschke (Oregon State University) is part of the GSSN’s research subproject “Documenting Socialism: New Perspectives on East German Documentary Film”. It brings together the present and next generation of scholars working on East German documentary film and reflects on new theoretical and methodological approaches. A volume of essays coming out in mid-2023 hopes to close the gap in English-speaking scholarship on East German documentary cinema and serve as a point of reference for future scholars.
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/documenting-socialism-symposium/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210801
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210802
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SUMMARY:GSSN is Moving
DESCRIPTION:The German Screen Studies Network (GSSN) will be moving its base to Scotland\, where colleagues from the Universities of St Andrews and Aberdeen will continue to coordinate and promote both online and in-person events\, including screenings\, interviews\, workshops and much else. Watch this space for further announcements about our autumn programme and write to Dr. Dora Osborne (do38@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Dr. Paul Flaig (pf49@st-andrews.ac.uk) with any GSSN-related questions. \n 
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/gssn-is-moving/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210512T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210512T190000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
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SUMMARY:Tangled Pasts: Negotiating Politics of the Past and Present in Postwar German Film
DESCRIPTION:Speakers Elizabeth Ward (Institute of Modern Languages Research\, University of London) Bill Niven (Professor Emeritus in Contemporary German History\, Nottingham Trent University) Chair: David Clarke (Professor of Modern German Studies\, Cardiff University) Institute: Institute of Modern Languages Research Focusing on the West and East respectively\, Bill Niven and Elizabeth Ward discuss two different attempts to contain socially or politically contentious subjects within political frameworks in the Federal Republic and German Democratic Republic. Throughout its existence\, the German Democratic Republic’s ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed during the Third Reich. Instead\, it cast the East German working class as both the victims of\, and antifascist victors over\, National Socialist oppression\, whilst marginalising discussions of Jewish suffering. Yet the Holocaust and the persecution of Jews was a present theme in East German film throughout the history of the GDR. So how did East German filmmakers approach the crimes of the Holocaust in a country where memories of National Socialist persecution were highly prescribed\, tightly controlled and invariably political? Elizabeth will discuss the findings of her new book\, East German Film and the Holocaust (2021\, Berghahn Books). Drawing on the findings of extensive archival work coupled with detailed close readings of the films\, she will discuss examples from films including Konrad Wolf’s Sterne (1959)\, Wolfgang Luderer’s Lebende Ware (1966) and Siegfried Kühn’s Die Schauspielerin (1988) to reveal the ways in which East German Holocaust films created an alternative space for the discussion of the National Socialist past as well as how such films were viewed by the state. Bill’s focus will be on West Germany\, and particularly on the postwar career of the film director Veit Harlan\, whose notorious antisemitic film Jud Süß had been shown to millions of Germans and non-Germans during the Second World War. While the Holocaust played a largely marginal role West German films in the 1950s and 1960s\, the debates around Veit Harlan in the 1950s ensured that the theme was ever-present when it came to arguing for or against his rehabilitation. Bill will discuss the ways in which West German politics\, media\, judiciary and society more widely participated in and shaped an at times vitriolic controversy over the right to free speech and freedom of artistic expression against the background of complicity in the Holocaust. His paper will also discuss the role of the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle (FSK) in the discussions around Harlan’s films from the 1950s\, particularly Anders als du und ich on the subject of homosexuality. The FSK demanded so many cuts that Harlan claimed it was the new Goebbels. Harlan took on a peculiarly ambivalent role\, seeking to cultivate an image of himself as a defender of Jews and homosexuals\, one who had been defamed as the very opposite.All attendees will receive a code for 50% off the hardback edition of East German Film and the Holocaust.All are welcome to attend this free event\, at 17.00 BST. You will need to register in advance to receive the online event joining link. Please click here to register. Download guidance on participating in an online event (pdf) Contact: Jenny Stubbs\, jenny.stubbs@sas.ac.uk\, 020 7862 8832.  \n\nSIGN UP
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/tangled-pasts-negotiating-politics-of-the-past-and-present-in-postwar-german-film/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201220
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
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SUMMARY:Mini-Season – Hussein Shariffe (1934 – 2005): Exile and homecoming between London\, Cairo and Khartoum
DESCRIPTION:Panels: December 18–19\, 2020\n\nOnline screenings throughout December 2020\n\nRegister here\n\nFind the recordings of the online panels here\n\n\n\nIn 1959\, the Slade School of Fine Art staged its annual group photograph of the class of ’59. Amidst the group sits a young Sudanese student\, Hussein Mamoun Shariffe.  Shariffe was by the late 1950s attracting acclaim for his art\, winning the John Moores Prize for Young Artists\, and staging his first solo show in 1957 at London’s Gallery One. He returned to Khartoum in 1960 to work as artist\, lecturer\, critic and\, later\, Head of the Cinema section of the Department of Culture. In 1973\, this leading Sudanese intellectual and artist moved to London’s National Film School to complete two productions\, the essay film THE DISLOCATION OF AMBER (1975\, 32’)\, and the Jean Rhys adaptation TIGERS ARE BETTER LOOKING (1979\, 20’).\n\n \n\nShariffe’s later life was to be disrupted by political instability in Sudan. Moving between London and Khartoum through the early 1980s\, he eventually joined the many compatriots who had fled into exile following the 1989 military coup. His third and final destination in a long life of transnational displacement was Cairo\, where he continued an exilic art practice that crossed disciplinary boundaries between film\, poetry\, literature and painting.\n\n \n\nShariffe’s last\, unfinished film\, OF DUST AND RUBIES (2000–2005)\, was a visual translation of selected poems of Sudanese exile. It went into production in 2000\, and was shot in locations across Egypt including Cairo; Fayoum desert; Upper Egypt region; Aswan; Sinai by the Red Sea; Alexandria; Western Desert (Dakhla and the White desert); al-Qanatir Gardens; and Dashour desert.\n\n \n\nProduction of OF DUST AND RUBIES ended in 2005 with Shariffe’s untimely death. In December 2020\, an online mini-series staged at BIMI in collaboration with the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art (Berlin)\, the German Screen Studies Network and the UCL-York University research project Violence Elsewhere pays tribute to Shariffe’s filmmaking oeuvre and reconstructs the multiple contexts from which his work emerged. Throughout December\, three films by Shariffe will be available to view on the Arsenal streaming platform\, arsenal 3: TIGERS ARE BETTER LOOKING (1979)\, THE DISLOCATION OF AMBER (1975) (both London productions)\, and DIARY IN EXILE (1993) that Shariffe directed together with Atteyat Al Abnoudy. In addition\, a new film essay on Shariffe by Egyptian director Tamer El Said (known for his film IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY\, 2016) will be presented: OF DUST AND RUBIES: A FILM ON SUSPENSION\, available online from December 12 on.\n\n \n\nOn December 18–19 2020\, three online panel discussions staged at BIMI explore the global connections linking Shariffe’s film oeuvre to transnational modernisms\, and to more proximate British histories of migration\, exile\, colonial violence\, and exilic homecoming.\n\nTo access the films online after December 1\, click here. You will be prompted to pay a one-off subscription of EUR 11 to the arsenal 3 streaming platform. This gives access for one month to all the films in the Shariffe season.\n\nA link to each panel will be sent out on December 18th.\n\n \n\nPANELS\n\nDecember 18\, 18.00 – 19.30\n\nHome and away in London: TIGERS ARE BETTER LOOKING (Hussein Shariffe\, 1979)\n\nShot in London during Shariffe’s period at the National Film School\, the literary adaptation TIGERS ARE BETTER LOOKING foregrounds the racial undercurrents of a short story by Creole literary modernist Jean Rhys. Tracing Shariffe’s journeys between Khartoum and London\, where he studied first at the Slade School of Fine Art\, later at the National Film School\, this panel explores the affinities and dissonances that the film unveils between Shariffe’s Sudanese experience\, and his encounters from the late 1950s to 1979 with British avant-garde and experimental film and intellectual culture. Speakers are Eiman Hussein (psychotherapist and daughter of Hussein Shariffe); Liz Bruchet (UCL) and Ming Tiampo (Carleton University) [Transnational Slade/ Slade\, London\, Asia]; Clive Nwonka (Lecturer in Film and Literature\, University of York); Anna Snaith (Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature\, King’s College London/KCL). Chair: Erica Carter\, KCL/German Screen Studies Network.\n\n \n\nDecember 19\, 14.00 – 15.00\n\nThe city as metaphor: THE DISLOCATION OF AMBER (Hussein Shariffe\, 1975)\n\nThe port city of Suakin sits on a small island on the Red Sea coast\, 800km eastwards of Khartoum\, and facing east towards Jeddah and Mecca. The city’s decaying coral and stone buildings tell stories of centuries of trade and cosmopolitan travel\, but also of resilience in the face of religious conflict\, imperial conquest\, and colonial violence. Shariffe himself described the film as a ‘collage of historical events’; one collaborator on the film\, the feminist anthropologist\, poet and performer Sondra Hale\, calls it ‘a metaphor for a society decimated by colonialism’. Now a Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, Sondra Hale joins this panel alongside the Oxford social anthropologist\, co-Founder of The Sudanese Programme\, and friend of Hussein Shariffe\, Professor Ahmad Al-Shahi. Chair: Erica Carter.\n\nDecember 19\, 16.00 – 17.00\n\nA film on suspension: OF DUST AND RUBIES (Hussein Shariffe\, 2000–2005)\n\nIn August 2018\, the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art\, Berlin\, staged a two-day  workshop in the context of their collaborative project Archive außer sich on Shariffe’s OF DUST AND RUBIES. Following the Arsenal workshop\, the five participants (Eiman Hussein\, Talal Afifi\, Tamer El Said\, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and Haytham El Wardany) presented their experiences of the film footage to the public at the Berlinale Forum Expanded\, convened during the Think Film symposium in February 2019. As a result of the panel presentation\, a film was created by Tamer El Said\, who joins our December 18 panel to explore further possible future lives for OF DUST AND RUBIES. Other speakers are Arsenal Co-Director and curator of Archive außer sich Stefanie Schulte Strathaus; Talal Afifi\, film curator\, creative producer\, Director and Coordinator of the Sudan Film Factory\, and the lead actor in OF DUST AND RUBIES; and Shariffe’s daughter\, Eiman Hussein. Chair: Erica Carter.\n\n \n\nThe Hussein Shariffe mini-season is a collaboration between BIMI; the German Screen Studies Network CIRCE project; Archive außer sich (Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art\, Berlin); and the interdisciplinary research project Violence Elsewhere.
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/mini-season-hussein-shariffe-1934-2005-exile-and-homecoming-between-london-cairo-and-khartoum/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201203T191500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201203T210000
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SUMMARY:Screening and Q and A: Black Women Confronting the Transnational Far-Right – Mo Asumang's DIE ARIER / THE ARYANS (2015)
DESCRIPTION:Film screening and Q&A with celebrated Afro-German film-maker and journalist Mo Asumang\, in conversation with Prof. Erica Carter\, Professor of German and Film at King’s College London. With an introduction by Dr Lizzie Stewart\, Lecturer in Modern Languages\, Culture and Society at Kings College London. \nQ&A: live online 3rd December 2020 @ 7:15pm. \nThe film will be available to view for 24 hours online from 2nd December 7pm – 3rd December 7pm (GMT). Tickets are free\, but please register in advance to obtain a link and password for the film screening. \nIn her acclaimed documentary film DIE ARIER / THE ARYANS (2015)\, Afro-German filmmaker Mo Asumang sets out to critically explore connections between far-right movements worldwide and challenge racism in its most extreme manifestations head-on. Travelling between Germany\, the US\, and Iran\, Asumang meets German neo-Nazis\, the notorious white supremacist Tom Metzger\, and Ku Klux Klan members interviewed in the Midwest twilight. THE ARYANS is a personal journey that confronts the far right and it’s thinking face-to-face\, both at home in Germany and abroad. \nThe Centre for German Transnational Relations invites you to a rare opportunity here in the UK to view Asumang’s bold and courageous film\, and discuss the questions it raises with the film-maker herself. How and why does racism cross national boundaries? Which networks and imaginaries connect the far right across national and continental boundaries? What impact does this have on how communities imagine themselves? How can culture and the arts intervene? What does it take for a film-maker to stand up and challenge white supremacism? \nSupported by the DAAD-funded projects ‘Violence Elsewhere: Imagining Violence Outside Germany Since 1945’ and ‘Circulating Cinema: The Moving Image Archive as Anglo-German Contact Zone’ (German Screen Studies Network). Hosted by the Centre for Transnational German Relations. \nSIGN UP
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/screening-and-qa-black-women-confronting-the-transnational-far-right-mo-asumangs-die-arier-the-aryans-2015/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201120T210000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201120T223000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
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SUMMARY:Panel: National Cinema in the Netflix Era
DESCRIPTION:Find a recording of the event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKj6KEgDTyI \nRSVP and View on Facebook Live \nStaged as part of the San Francisco BERLIN AND BEYOND free virtual film festival\, this special panel marks the release of The German Cinema Book (2nd Edition)\, published by the British Film Institute in April 2020. The panel will feature brief statements by three of the book’s editors\, highlighting transnational connections\, acts of diversity\, counter-cinema and feminist interventions\, and the rediscovery of East German cinema. The event ends by considering what national cinema means in an age of on-demand television and a plethora of ever new platforms. \n \nPhotograph: Sibel Kekilli in Fatih Akın’s Gegen die Wand / Head-On (2004)\, winner of the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. \nIn Memoriam Birol Ünel (18 August 1961 – 3 September 2020) \nModerator:\nJaimey Fisher (UC Davis) \nPanelists: Editors of German Cinema Book:\nErica Carter (King’s College London)\nDeniz Göktürk (UC Berkeley)\nClaudia Sandberg (Melbourne) \nRespondent: J. Hoberman (Film Critic) \nSIGN UP
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/panel-national-cinema-in-the-netflix-era/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201117T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
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SUMMARY:Reading Group: Anna Seghers - Transit
DESCRIPTION:The GSSN is launching a new online autumn season with an event staged in association with the Goethe-Institut London and Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image (BIMI). This reading group discussion of the novel Transit by Anna Seghers was originally scheduled as a prelude to a screening of Escape to Marseille by Ingemo Engström and Gerhard Theuring during the Essay Film Festival in April 2020. Following the spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdown the screening was cancelled. The Goethe-Institut has now revived the project\, as a way of bridging the gap before showing the film in the cinema in the hopefully not too far distant future. Erica Carter\, GSSN Chair and Professor of German and Film at King’s College London\, will guide readers through the session. \nCompleted in 1942\, first published in English and in Spanish in 1944\, and eventually in Germany in 1948\, Anna Seghers’s Transit is one of the great classics of exile literature. Written in her own exile in Mexico throughout 1941\, it brilliantly captures the agonising state of limbo amongst refugees and exiles find as they wait for governments and bureaucracies to take decisions that can save their lives. Our reading group explores some of the themes raised by Seghers’ book and the cultural and historical context in which it was written. \nIf you would like to join the reading group\, you can find more information here. A link to register in advance of the event can be found here \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nIf you have any questions about the reading group\, please send a message marked “Transit reading group” to the following address: bimi@bbk.ac.uk \n\n\nSIGN UP
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/reading-group-anna-seghers-transit/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201103T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201103T120000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
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SUMMARY:Coffee with Kafka: Film Discussion of Haneke's The Castle
DESCRIPTION:Coffee with Kafka: Film Discussion of Haneke’s The Castle \nAs part of the ‘Sense of German‘ Culture Week run by the Department of German at the University of Aberdeen\, you are warmly invited to take part in a ‘Kaffee mit Kafka’ (Coffee with Kafka) discussion event on Michael Haneke’s film adaptation of Kafka’s Das Schloss (The Castle). \nWatch Haneke’s film adaptation of Franz Kafka’s enigmatic novel Das Schloss (The Castle) here (German \naudio only). If you’re a beginner of German\, or have no knowledge of German\, subtitled versions are available at a charge via YouTube\, Amazon Prime\, and Mubi. \n \nYou can view an introduction to the novel and the film adaptation by Dr Katya Krylova (Lecturer in German\, Film and Visual Culture) here. \nPlease join us at 11.00am on Tuesday 3 November\, for an online student-led ‘Kaffee mit Kafka'(Coffe \ne with Kafka) event\, where we will be discussing the film. The discussion will be very informal and will be chaired by Aberdeen senior honours students of German\, Johanna Jakab and Nayden Tafradzhiyski. Make yourself a cup of coffee/tea\, and join via this Blackboard Collaborate link. \nFurther info here.
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/coffee-with-kafka-film-discussion-of-hanekes-the-castle/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200417T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200417T130000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20210825T161927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T150543Z
UID:207-1587123000-1587128400@germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Cancelled: Installation Spaces and Virtual Screen Cultures
DESCRIPTION:Please note that the BAFTSS 2020 Conference is now cancelled.\nThe encounter between machine intelligence and human desire in Brenda Lien’s Call of… mixed-footage video installations (2016-18)\nDr Annie Ring presents this paper as part of the panel entitled Installation Spaces and Virtual Screen Cultures. \nThe development of artificial intelligence has enabled unprecedented growth in surveillance in the past 30 years. Data are gathered in vast quantities by smart technologies that reside in homes and workplaces\, and are then sorted and analysed by algorithms capable of intuitive predictions about human behaviour\, which have enabled gross abuses of democracy as in the Cambridge Analytica scandals\, and produced enormous profit for the actors Zuboff calls ‘surveillance capitalists’ (2019). The fact that machines and human minds now work in concert\, in contexts from keyhole surgery to the mass dataveillance enabled by internet use\, has led Hayles (2017) to conclude we can no longer conceive of human and machine cognition as entirely distinct. \nThese developments are skilfully addressed in the experimental short films of the award-winning German director Brenda Lien. In this presentation I will analyse how Lien’s part-animated and part-live action Call of… trilogy (2016-18) stages the encounter between machine intelligence and human desire. I will examine how these installations mix footage in a citational style capable of interrogating the aesthetic and affective strategies used to encourage internet users to make themselves vulnerable to dataveillance. \nTo join the BAFTSS 2020 Conference\, please register here.
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cancelled-installation-spaces-and-virtual-screen-cultures/
LOCATION:Byre Studio\, University of St Andrews
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200417T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200417T130000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20200417T093000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T150730Z
UID:202-1587119400-1587128400@germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Cancelled: Circulating cinema: distributed mobilities in the Anglo-German archive
DESCRIPTION:Please note that the BAFTSS 2020 Conference is now cancelled\nAs part of this year’s BAFTSS Conference\, our panel contributes perspectives from Circulating Cinema (CIRCE)\, to debates on the retrieval and remediation of transnational media histories. CIRCE members have explored archival holdings whose transnational movements are arrested by their ‘stranding’ in national archives\, but that may be reanimated by their reframing within historical cartographies mapping transnational epistolary\, migratory\, (co)-production and distribution networks\, and/or by film readings attuned to questions of mobility\, stasis and global flow. \nThe panel presents CIRCE case studies spanning European\, West African and Indian screen cultures\, while also exploring broader questions of mobility in the transnational archive. \nThe three papers are: \nErica Carter’s paper\, “Mobility and stillness in the decolonial archive: Kwame Nkrumah and the market women\,” sets out to map archival traces from documentary and newsreel holdings in East German and British archives that focus on post-independence Ghana. \nIn “Showcase of the Free World”. Inter-German Rivalries at the Berlin Film Festival\, Elizabeth Ward pieces together the complex and often contradictory priorities that shaped the Berlin Film Festival during the Cold War – the story of which is spread across four different archives across Germany. \nFocusing on the activities in Berlin of three Indian filmmakers\, Himansu Rai\, Mohan Bhavnani and Krishna Hirlekar\, Eleanor Halsall explores how transnational research can trace migratory histories and increase our understanding of the cinematic entanglements of these early decades: Vermisstes Archivgut: Indian journeys through absent German archives. \n \nTo join the BAFTSS 2020 Conference\, please register here. \n 
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cancelled-circulating-cinema-distributed-mobilities-in-the-anglo-german-archive/
LOCATION:Parliament Hall\, University of St Andrews
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200416T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200416T153000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20200416T130000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T150736Z
UID:211-1587045600-1587051000@germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Cancelled: Letters\, lives and archives: an epistolary approach to women’s film history
DESCRIPTION:Please note that the BAFTSS 2020 Conference is now cancelled\nPanel: Letters\, lives and archives: an epistolary approach to women’s film history Letters and personal correspondence held in public and private collections offer a rich primary resource for film scholars\, especially for research on figures who have been sidelined or marginalised in traditional historiography. Showcasing new work on three such individuals – Jill Craigie\, Lotte Eisner\, Lotte Reiniger – this panel will explore the opportunities and challenges of an epistolary methodology. How can we re-construct a life from women’s written communications and other print-based materials in the archive? How can this approach help us to move beyond ‘surface’ level understanding in order to re-think women’s contributions to cinema and film history? The panel speakers are Julia Eisner\, Tashi Petter and Lizzie Thynne. This panel came out of a collaborative workshop delivered by Julia Eisner and Tashi Petter\, as part of the DAAD-funded project ‘Circulating Cinema: the moving image archive as Anglo-German contact zone (CIRCE)’. To join the BAFTSS 2020 Conference\, please register here.
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cancelled-letters-lives-and-archives-an-epistolary-approach-to-womens-film-history/
LOCATION:Parliament Hall\, University of St Andrews
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200322T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200322T170000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20200322T110000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T150741Z
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Jew Süss and Jud Süss: Sunday Screening and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS NOW POSTPONED\nWe hope to be able to reschedule in due course\nThe GSSN is pleased to announce this forthcoming event\, organised by the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism\, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image and The Wiener Holocaust Library\, in association with the Insiders/Outsiders Festival and the GSSN. \n \nThis event brings together two rarely screened films for an afternoon of viewings and discussions on Nazi antisemitism and responses to the rise of German fascism and antisemitism after 1933. Jew Süss (1934) was a British production directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Conrad Veidt – émigrés who left the country shortly after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. An adaptation of Lion Feuchtwanger’s 1925 novel\, the film was a clear rebuke to Nazi antisemitism and drew attention to Nazi atrocities\, although arguably it is also troubling in its representation of Jews. Jud Süss (1940) directed by Veit Harlan\, was both one of the most notorious examples of antisemitic film propaganda produced in Nazi Germany\, and a popular film with high production values\, a star cast\, and a success at the box office. The film was seen by some 20 million people across Germany and Europe\, and required viewing for members of the SS. The screenings are followed by a panel discussion with Erica Carter and Daniel Wildmann\, chaired by Director of the Pears Institute David Feldman. \nThe Pears Institute has been granted special permission by the German Federal Foreign Office to screen Jud Süss\, with the kind agreement of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung. The film will be shown with English subtitles. \nThe event is free and open to all. Booking opens Wednesday 26 February 2.00pm. \nProgramme \n11.00 -11.15 Welcome\n11.15 – 1.00 Jew Süss (1934)\n1.00 – 2.00 Break\n2.00 – 3.45 Jud Süss (1940)\n3.45 – 4.00 Break\n4.00 – 5.00 Panel Discussion
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/postponed-jew-suss-and-jud-suss-sunday-screening-and-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Birkbeck\, University of London\, Room B34\, Torrington Square main entrance\, London\, WC1E 7HX
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200321
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200902
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20210825T163318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T150748Z
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SUMMARY:GSSN Virtual Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Cinema\nIn times of Covid-19\, we miss the cinema as physical space. But the cinema as shared social resource is open online. We’ve put together a list of some of our favourite sites for you to stay in touch with as we ride out this crisis. Please donate generously to independent venues and online sites so we can keep live cinema alive. And follow us on social media as we update this list. Happy surfing! The GSSN Team. \n \nFandor: Austrian\, German & World Cinema online\n \nKanopy (restricted access via public and college libraries) \nAlles Kino: German cinema online (for users in Germany)\n \nAnarchist Film Archive \nFree films for children on Amazon prime in Germany and the UK \nArsenal 3: Global independent cinema free to view online \nInternet Archive: non-profit library of free movies\, books etc \nTalking Shorts: My Darling Quarantine (donating to asylum seekers in the Greek Islands)\n \n58th Ann Arbor Film Festival Livestream\n \nBFI Player (for UK users)\n \nWomen’s History Month Virtual Festival\n \nDanish Silent Film \nFilm Education: A User’s Guide – a free course from the British Film Institute \nAttend a film festival … in your living room! Keep cinema alive \n  \nMUBI is currently offering a free trial of 7 days  \nThe Independent Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/gssn-virtual-cinema/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200126T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200126T170000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20210825T190259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T150812Z
UID:220-1580047200-1580058000@germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Women shaping the world: Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia
DESCRIPTION:Women Shaping the World: Delphine Seyrig’s film\, Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia\nWomen Shaping the World continues with this screening of Delphine Seyrig’s film\, Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia\, at Ciné Lumière. \nThis screening took place on 26 January and was followed by a discussion between Ulrike Ottinger and Professor Erica Carter (King’s College London). \nIf you were unable to attend this event\, you can watch the Q&A here\, courtesy of the Institut français.
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/women-shaping-the-world-johanna-darc-of-mongolia/
LOCATION:Ciné Lumière\, Institut français\, 17 Queensberry Place\, Kensington\, London SW7 2DT
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191204T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191204T203000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20210825T190724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T150817Z
UID:225-1575484200-1575491400@germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Filme weiter_denken: Lesung und Podiumsdiskussion
DESCRIPTION:Filme weiter_denken: Lesung und Podiumsdiskussion\nIf you are in Berlin you have the chance to listen to Erica Carter in discussion with Christoph Hochhäusler\, Daniel Illger and Ayşe Polat. The panel will be chaired by Christine Lötscher. \nAttendance is free; details here. \n \n 
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/filme-weiter_denken-lesung-und-podiumsdiskussion/
LOCATION:Veranstaltungsraum der Deutschen Kinemathek (4. Stock) am Potsdamer Platz\, Berlin
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191126T181000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191126T200000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20210825T191954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T150822Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Berlin Wall: Never Sleep Again (Nie wieder schlafen - Nie mehr zurück)
DESCRIPTION:Pia Frankenberg’s Never Sleep Again (1992) follows three women friends on their magical odyssey through post-unification Berlin. The dilapidated sites of the former Cold War frontier city\, still scarred by World War II\, become a place for sheer endless personal experimentation where the women begin to reconfigure their lives and loves. Frankenberg’s impressionistic portrait of three women in the city reflects on the state of the newly unified Germany\, where for a moment all possibilities seemed radically open. \nWe will be joined by director Pia Frankenberg for a Q&A following this screening. \nPresented in association with HOME; the University of Manchester\, School of Arts\, Languages and Cultures; and supported by the Goethe-Institute. Details and tickets here.
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/beyond-the-berlin-wall-never-sleep-again-nie-wieder-schlafen-nie-mehr-zuruck/
LOCATION:HOME\, 2 Tony Wilson Place\, Manchester\, M15 4FN
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191124T181000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191124T200000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20210901T115111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T150827Z
UID:238-1574619000-1574625600@germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Beyond the Berlin Wall: The Promise (Das Versprechen)
DESCRIPTION:Our screening of Margarethe von Trotta’s The Promise (1994) links with our recent Margarethe von Trotta season\, which spotlighted Germany’s leading feminist film director. The Promise chronicles the lives of five East Berlin youngsters from their dramatic escape to West Berlin after the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 to its fall in 1989\, when they become once again reunified with their families and lovers. \nThis screening will be introduced by Erica Carter\, Professor of German and Film Chair\, German Screen Studies Network at King’s College London. Tickets and details here. \nPresented in association with the German Screen Studies Network; the University of Manchester\, School of Arts\, Languages and Cultures; and supported by the Goethe-Institute.
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/beyond-the-berlin-wall-the-promise-das-versprechen/
LOCATION:HOME\, 2 Tony Wilson Place\, Manchester\, M15 4FN
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191127
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20210825T192616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T150832Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Women in Global Cinema: Beyond the Berlin Wall
DESCRIPTION:This November marks 30 years since the opening of the Berlin Wall\, which saw German unification and the subsequent creation of a new European and global order. Focusing on life in the divided and re-unified city of Berlin\, this specially curated mini season celebrates the falling of the Wall through women’s films made in the immediate aftermath of the seismic events of 1989.\n\n \n\nOur screening of Margarethe von Trotta’s The Promise (1994) links with our recent Margarethe von Trotta season\, which spotlighted Germany’s leading feminist film director. The Promise chronicles the lives of five East Berlin youngsters from their dramatic escape to West Berlin after the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 to its fall in 1989\, when they become once again reunified with their families and lovers. Pia Frankenberg’s Never Sleep Again (1992) follows three women friends on their magical odyssey through post-unification Berlin. The dilapidated sites of the former Cold War frontier city\, still scarred by World War II\, become a place for sheer endless personal experimentation where the women begin to reconfigure their lives and loves. Frankenberg’s impressionistic portrait of three women in the city reflects on the state of the newly unified Germany\, where for a moment all possibilities seemed radically open.\n\nFor more information and eventual booking\, please click here.
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/celebrating-women-in-global-cinema-beyond-the-berlin-wall/
LOCATION:HOME\, 2 Tony Wilson Place\, Manchester\, M15 4FN
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191107T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191107T193000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20210901T115619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T150837Z
UID:241-1573149600-1573155000@germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:2019 SACF Dada Saheb Phalke Memorial Lecture: Charting the Early History of The Bombay Talkies: 1934-1940
DESCRIPTION:Established in 1934 by Himansu Rai and Devika Rani\, The Bombay Talkies quickly became one of India’s most successful film studios during the early period of sound cinema in India. Creating a cosmopolitan workplace\, the studio engaged employees from across India’s communities\, configuring one of India’s first female film stars in Devika Rani and launching the careers of composer Saraswati Devi\, sound engineer Savak Vacha\, and actor Ashok Kumar\, among others. It also employed several Europeans including the German film director\, Franz Osten\, and cinematographer\, Josef Wirsching\, both originally from Munich. \nWith an emphasis on the importance of education and professionalism\, Rai’s intention was to raise the standing of cinema production in India. The studio produced popular feature films such as Achhut Kanya (1936)\, Janmabhoomi (1936) and Jeevan Naiya (1936) with narratives\, many of them written by Niranjan Pal\, taking on aspects of Indian life\, such as social status\, the position of women and the desire for Indian independence. \n \nEleanor Halsall traces the first six years of The Bombay Talkies from its foundation in 1934 to the early death of Himansu Rai in April 1940. \nThe Dada Saheb Phalke Memorial Lecture has been an annual event at the South Asian Cinema Foundation since 2003. The British Film Institute has kindly provided the venue.  Eleanor  is part of the DAAD-funded Circulating Cinema project at King’s College\, London. \nAttendance is free\, but space is limited and booking via the BFI’s website is recommended.
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/2019-sacf-dada-saheb-phalke-memorial-lecture-charting-the-early-history-of-the-bombay-talkies-1934-1940/
LOCATION:The Blue Room\, British Film Institute\, London South Bank
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191102T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191102T210000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20210901T115801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T150841Z
UID:247-1572723000-1572728400@germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Berlin: Symphony of a Great City + Live Score
DESCRIPTION:To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall\, the Square Chapel Arts Centre in Halifax is screening the 1927 classic of silent film\, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City.\n\nThe film shows us a day in the life of Berlin in the early 20th century\, from early morning to late at night.\n\nThe screening features a live score from The Harmonie Band – a three-piece ensemble featuring saxophone\, viola and accordion – with an introduction by GSSN member\, Dr Elizabeth Ward (University of Hull).\n\nTickets: £11 (£9 concessions)\, running time: 79 mins.\n\nTickets can be purchased in advance here.
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/berlin-symphony-of-a-great-city-live-score/
LOCATION:Square Chapel Arts Centre\, Halifax
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191031
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20191028T000000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T150847Z
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SUMMARY:Moving Image Research and the Transnational Archive
DESCRIPTION:The GSSN is bringing together postgraduate researchers from around the UK and Germany for an exciting workshop that combines practical sessions and seminar discussions for the workshop Moving Image Research and the Transnational Archive.\n\nOver the course of three days\, participants will explore questions of archival preservation\, digitisation and remediation in a transnational context\, as well as undertaking research trips to the BFI Reuben Library and the BFI Stephen Street. Download your programme here.\n\nProfessor Dagmar Brunow (Linnaeus University) will open the workshop with the keynote lecture\, “Circulating Audiovisual Memories: Archival Strategies of Curation” and Dr Grazia Ingravalle (Brunel University London) will open day two with “Whose film heritage? Mining Britain’s Colonial Film Archive”. Seminar discussions led by leading film researchers from around the UK will consider questions of film distribution and the archive (Dr Martin Brady and Dr Franziska Nössig [KCL])\, and exile film heritage (Julia Eisner [KCL] and Tashi Petter [QMUL]).\n\nThe workshop forms part of a German Screen Studies Network (GSSN) research project\, Circulating Cinema\, the Moving Image Archive as Anglo-German Contact Zone. Funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)\, the project considers archival holdings that have a place to transnational and global film and cinema histories\, but that find themselves neglected in archives committed to the retrieval\, preservation and remediation of national film heritage.\n\n \n\nThe workshop is organised by Professor Erica Carter (KCL)\, Dr Elizabeth Ward (University of Hull) and Anja Rekeszus (KCL) is generously funded by the DAAD and BAFTSS.
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moving-image-research-and-the-transnational-archive/
LOCATION:King’s College London
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191026T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191026T210000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20191026T180000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T150900Z
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SUMMARY:Wunder Der Schöpfung (The Wonder Of Creation) (1925) Silent film with live musical score by Herschel 36
DESCRIPTION:Screening at The Byre Theatre\, St Andrews – Wunder Der Schöpfung (The Wonder Of Creation) (1925)\n \n\n\nWunder Der Schöpfung is a unique document of human knowledge about the world and the universe in the 1920s. Fifteen special effects experts and nine cameramen were involved in the production\, with beautifully tinted and toned images that combine documentary scenes\, historical documents\, fictional elements\, animation and educational impact. Introduced by Professor Michael Cowan\, the film will be accompanied with live musical score by Herschel 36. \nStuart Brown (drums/electronics) and Paul Harrison (keyboards/electronics) are both Glasgow based composers and improvisers who draw on collaborations and influences that cover everything from jazz\, electronica and classical to folk and world music. As Herschel 36 they create dark\, improvised electronic soundscapes underpinned with driving live drumming\, strong synth themes and intense musical interaction. \nThe group was commissioned by Hippodrome festival of Silent Cinema in 2016 to create a new score for this unique 92 minute film\, and it toured the UK to glowing press reaction including performances at Glasgow Science Centre Planetarium\, Edinburgh Filmhouse\, Glasgow Film Theatre and Cambridge Film Festival. \nThe screening is free\, but booking is essential. Click here for more information and to reserve your seat. \n\n\n  \nSIGN UP
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/wunder-der-schopfung-the-wonder-of-creation-1925-silent-%ef%ac%81lm-with-live-musical-score-by-herschel-36/
LOCATION:The Byre Theatre\, St Andrews\, Fife
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191026T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191026T170000
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20210902T085941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T150905Z
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SUMMARY:Looking and Being Looked at: A workshop on Jürgen Böttcher’s Early Films
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon workshop on DEFA documentary filmmaker Jürgen Böttcher (b. 1931) at King’s College London. We will screen and discuss examples of Böttcher’s early works from the 1960s: three very different films produced just a few years after the building of the Wall. \n \nBarefoot and Without a Hat (Barfuß und ohne Hut\, 1964) is an upbeat portrait of young people on the beach making music and thinking about their future. Seemingly innocuous\, the film was not well-received by the censors\, who felt its free-wheeling\, faintly anarchic tone was potentially subversive. In the Pergamon Museum (Im Pergamonmuseum\, 1962) is a wordless study of looking\, of sculptures in the famous Berlin museum looking at the visitors and vice-versa. Finally\, Zoo Film (Tierparkfilm\, 1967) is also about spectatorship as we watch the camera capture the visitors staring at the animals. \nSpeakers Franziska Nössig and Martin Brady will discuss Gerhard Rosenfeld’s scores\, the cinematography of Christian Lehmann\, and the ambiguous iconography of these beautiful and potentially subversive studies of looking and being looked at and the boundaries between the public and the private. \nThe workshop is free to attend\, but registration via Eventbrite is required. \nThe workshop is part of “Conjuring up the Real: The Films of Jürgen Böttcher”\, a film series at the Goethe-Institut and Close-Up Film Centre from 23 October – 21 November 2019\, and is staged in collaboration with the German Screen Studies Network and King’s College London. The full programme of the series is available here.
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/looking-and-being-looked-at-a-workshop-on-jurgen-bottchers-early-films/
LOCATION:S-1.04\, Strand Building (first basement)\, King’s College London\, WC2R 2LS
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190611T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190612T174500
DTSTAMP:20260625T063237
CREATED:20190611T110000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211012T145434Z
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SUMMARY:Screen Media and Theory Workshop: Uncertainty\, Turbulence and Moving Image Archives
DESCRIPTION:Screen Media and Theory Workshop: Uncertainty\, Turbulence and Moving Image Archives\nThis workshop will explore how experimental film and other screen media practices have engaged with concepts of uncertainty and turbulence through their use of found and mixed footage and other archival material from the mid twentieth century to the present day. \n \nFor more information and to register (free) by the deadline of 1 June 2019\, please click here. This event is a collaboration between University College London School of European Languages\, Cultures and Societies; the DAAD-funded Circulating Cinema Research Project\, part of the German Screen Studies Network; the Uncertain Archives Research Collective and University College London Institute of Advanced Studies Turbulence Project. It is generously funded by University College London Global Engagement Funds\, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)\, University College London Institute of Advanced Studies and Uncertain Archives.
URL:https://germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/screen-media-and-theory-workshop-uncertainty-turbulence-and-moving-image-archives/
LOCATION:Institute of Advanced Studies\, South Wing\, University College London
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