Money Puzzles movie projection
Money Puzzles addresses the widespread misunderstandings about money and debt to be found in both the media and everyday life, not to mention…
10. Subversive Film Festival
10 Years of Free Cinema – Marx & Maureen Films are like bridges that connect different people, stories and fragments of culture. We…
Short Film Competition – Block 2
The Lost Voice / La voz perdida, d. Marcelo Martinessi, 2016., Paraguay/Venezuela/Kuba/Argentina, 11’ DCP In the film The Lost Voice Marcelo Martinessi re-examines Paraguay’s recent…
Short Film Competition – Block 1
Kwassa Kwassa, d. Tuan Andrew Nguyen & SUPERFLEX, 2015., Denmark, 17’ DCP In Kwassa Kwassa the locals build an “unstable boat” (kwassa kwassa) in order…
Programme
10. Subversive Film Festival (7th-14th May 2017) – Download PDF 10. Subversive Forum + International conference: European Left Against New World (Dis)order (14th- 20th May…
Retrospective – Beloved and Rejected
150% True In August 2016, I presented a program devoted to the young Federal Republic of Germany in cinema at the Locarno International…
Genosse Münchhausen (Wolfgang Neuss, 1962)
Political cabaret is the too-little discussed red threat that holds Adenauer-era FRG cinema together: From the young nation’s founding years (Eric Ode &…
… und Deine Liebe auch (Frank Vogel, 1962)
It’s fitting that DEFA’s first fiction feature film on the Anti-Fascist Protection Wall’s erection would turn out a zenith of GDR-style Modernism, a…
Die Halbstarken (Georg Tressler, 1956)
Legends has it that Will Tremper (like Gerhard T. Buchholz an echt Adenauer-era conservative anarchist) saw a short by Georg Tressler on how…
Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser (Gerhard Klein, 1957)
Youngsters deemed rebellious by the powers-that-be were a problem in both Germanies, essentially for the same reasons: Postwar values, also the experience of…
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (Helmut Käutner, 1956)
In October 1906, a cobbler turned conman called Wilhelm Voigt entered Köpenick city hall with a small detachment of soldiers he picked up…
Der Hauptmann von Köln (Slatan Dudow, 1956)
It’s difficult to imagine that DEFA was not aware of Helmut Käutner’s interest in adapting anew Carl Zuckmayer’s prewar piece Der Hauptmann von…
Die goldene Pest (John Brahm, 1954)
Whatever happened to his village? Richard Hartwig wonders when he returns to Dossental: The village had turned into something like a pleasure quarter…
Das verurteilte Dorf (Martin Hellberg, 1952)
After years as a POW in the USSR, Heinz Weimann returns to his home, Bärenweiler, a village somewhere in Bavaria; there, he just…
Der 20. Juli (1955; Falk Harnack)
It says a lot about the Federal Republic of Germany that a group of Wehrmacht officers was made into the nation’s epitome of…
Stärker als die Nacht (Slatan Dudow, 1954)
Hamburg, 1933: With the NSDAP’s election victory and Hitler’s final rise to power, Gerda and Hans Löning, a communist couple from Hamburg, consider…
HOMMAGE: Interview with Raymundo Gleyzer
by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea At the International Film Festival in Pesaro, Italy, 1973 (excerpts) . I am an Argentinean filmmaker; I have made…
Round Table and book promotion: Videology1&2
Videology is Louis Armand’s broad-ranging critique of realism in film, visual arts and literature. From Nam June Paik’s experimental TV to the subversive…
