Irgendwo in Berlin by Gerhard Lamprecht Synopsis: After World War Two, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs for his father's return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, looking helpless and hopeless... Gerhard Lamprecht built his reputation during the 1920s and '30s with films like Emil and the ... Read more

Free screening of Die Stadt ohne Juden/The City without Jews. Organised by the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism based at Birkbeck, University of London, the screening will be introduced by Professor Erica Carter. It will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Professor David Feldman, with Erica and  Dr Marc Volovici, Research Fellow at the Pears Institute. More information about the programme can be found here. To book your free ticket, visit this Eventbrite ... Read more

The theme of the BAFTSS 7th Annual Conference University of Birmingham, 25-27 April 2019,  is ‘Intersecting Identities: Race, Sex, Nation.’  Deadline for proposals is: Friday 14 December 2018 with completed proposal forms sent to baftssconferencegmail.com If you are interested in organising a panel or presenting a paper with the GSSN group at the conference, please contact Helen Hughes h.hughessurrey.ac.uk and Elizabeth Ward e.m.wardhull.co.uk by 1 December 2018. Individual abstracts and additional panels ... Read more

Beyond your Wildest Dreams: the BFI’s fabulous Weimar film season continues throughout May and June. Click here for the full details of the BFI-GSSN study day on June 1st. Speakers are Mattias Frey, Jane Caplan, Philipp Stiasny, Michael Cowan, Paul Flaig, Cornelie Usborne, Erica Carter, James Donald. Tickets on sale here via the BFI website.

Screen Media and Theory Workshop: Uncertainty, Turbulence and Moving Image Archives This 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. For more information and to register (free) by the deadline of 1 June 2019, please click here. This event ... Read more

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. Barefoot and Without a Hat (Barfuß und ohne Hut, 1964) is an upbeat portrait of young people on the beach making music and thinking ... Read more

Screening at The Byre Theatre, St Andrews - Wunder Der Schöpfung (The Wonder Of Creation) (1925) Wunder 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 ... Read more

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. Over 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. ... Read more

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. The film shows us a day in the life of Berlin in the early 20th century, from early morning to late at night. The screening features a live score from The Harmonie Band – a three-piece ensemble featuring ... Read more