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cinefest – International Festival of German Film Heritage
In close collaboration with international scholars and archives, CineGraph and Bundesarchiv have developed a new concept for their traditional conference, expanding it into cinefest, a Festival of German Film Heritage. Apart from exploring new and forgotten areas of film history, the festival will provide a prominent showcase for archives which preserve and restore the treasures of German Cinema. The aim is also to create a forum for academics, students, archivists, technicians and film buffs to exchange information and discuss new developments. An extensive retrospective looking at key aspects of the history of film in Germany will be combined with workshops and conference sessions, allowing guests to see and discuss rare films from German and international archives.
Integrated in the festival in Hamburg is the International Film History Conference.
Local partner of cinefest in Hamburg is the Kinemathek Hamburg e.V.
After the event in Hamburg, parts of the film program will also be shown in Berlin, Wiesbaden, Prague, Vienna and Zurich. Our partners there are Zeughauskino of the German Historical Museum in Berlin, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung in Wiesbaden, Národní Filmový Archive in Prague, FilmForum in Udine/Gorizia, Filmarchiv Austria in Vienna and Filmpodium Zürich and Cinémathèque Suisse.
19th Edition
11 - 20 November 2022
BUT
4.4. — 13.4. 2022
echoes of the past Cinefest (In Prague)
different films in 3 sections
one section devoted to Werner Nekes
gonna attend (in Ponrepo)...
ULYSSES (Werner Nekes, 1982)
https://youtu.be/QH1okfKQ76w
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... ht-erature
Werner Nekes' Uliisses Literary Citations Between Eye and Brain in the Cinema of Light-erature
by Jesús Isaías Gómez López
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Anyone who has been confronted with Nekes´ work will be very eager to discover how he will deal with literary material like the Odyssey, because until now, Nekes has always firmly resisted resorting to literary means in his film sequences and montage.
Indeed, Nekes´ film follows essentially the same episodic structure as Homer´s Odyssey; Nekes also incorporates elements of Oram´s play, as well as specific approaches to the subject matter as developed by Joyce. Nekes even worked with the drama troupe which, independent of Nekes, two years before had done Oram´s 24-hours play The Warp in Great Britain. However, Nekes does not utilize the literary treatment of the material by Joyce, Homer or Oram/Fenelon in order to illustrate it in his turn, or to make his own vision out of it. Literary citations serve the function of discovering or splitting up the customary cooperation between eye and brain; the thematic literary citations compel the brain to construct new expectations with regard to the filmic material. These literary citations provide the brain with the inducement and assistance necessary for unaccustomed interpretations of the optical and visual offerings which Nekes gives us in his film.
If, for want of literary references, we do not achieve the divorce of our habits of seeing from a neocortical processing, we are simply left with the impression that Nekes wants to shock us with terrorist arbitrariness. Up until now, viewers of Nekes´ films have frequently reacted in this way, which is understandable, because until now, there has hardly ever existed in a film by Nekes the possibility, through the treatment of an independent literary subject, to totally intervene in the collaboration, customary in film in general, between eye and brain and to activate the capacities of the brain which will free the film material from the laziness of the eye.
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