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Programme
18:00
Welcome
Panel discussion: On Cinema and the Right Wing
Discussion of the results of the workshop "Film work against the right" together with the participants
In the here and now, how do extreme right-wing party politics intervene in cinema culture? How can influence be rendered visible? Which actors play a role in this? Which aesthetic practices and work methods engender forms of resistance?
Panel discussion: "For a New Cinephilia”
Film critic Girish Shambu (www.girishshambu.net / Film Quarterly) in conversation with film critic Jessica Kiang (Variety / Sight & Sound)
About a manifesto for a new cinephilia and what it means to be both left-wing and a cinephile.
ca. 20:00
Three parallel events
Workshop discussion on censorship & film criticism in Turkey
Moderated by Senem Aytaç (Altyazi film collective), with clips from films
A conversation with the film collective Altyazi about how social tensions influence cinema and criticism in Turkey, and about what constitutes a free film culture.
Workshop: "Everyone Talks About Film Education"
Moderated by Rüdiger Suchsland and Stefan Butzmühlen
A workshop exploring what film education can look like, what is the potential for this field, what is necessary, what works, and what needs to change.
Round table discussion: Post Cinema, Mobile Cinema, Arthouse Cinema
With Oliver Bassemir (filmmaker, "[Bordeaux], ma bile"), Evi Stamou & Marianna Kaplatzi (film collective Balkan Can Kino), Aleksandra Milovanović (University of Arts, Belgrade), Branka Pavlović (filmmaker, video artist, Free Zone Belgrade Human Rights Film Festival)
On arthouse cinemas, filmic engagement beyond established infrastructures, and self-organised film work.
21:15
Three parallel events
Round table discussion: "The World Next Door – A Conversation About Non-Academic Storytelling"
The filmmaker Franz Müller ("Worst Case Scenario") in conversation with Annekatrin Hendel (filmmaker, "Traitor to his country", "Fassbinder"), another guest tba
Moderated by Hannah Pilarczyk (Der Spiegel)
A conversation about cross-class, multi-perspective narratives and a less academic mode of filmmaking, which prioritises the people involved, not the written form.
Live chat performance: "Intruders at the Window"
With Anuj Malhotra and Suraj Prasad (Lightcube Film Society)
A performance with the aim of imagining a new era of cinephilia that is integrative, without a centre, and truly pluralistic.
Workshop: "Capitalist Realism, Societies of Control and Cyberpunk"
With participants of the research seminar "Cyberpunk – Identities and Space in the Sphere of Postmodernism and Capitalist Realism" (Humboldt University of Berlin), with clips from films
A workshop on past visions of the future and their questions to the present, with the aim of identifying the temporality and intensity of capitalist realism, as well as mechanisms of social control, using cyberpunk and related forms of representation as examples.
ca. 22.15
Joint closing of the event at the bar
Tickets for the conference are available through the website of the Theaterdiscounter Berlin.
Tickets are available through the website of Hackesche Höfe Cinema.
Programme overview at wochederkritik.de.
The Berlin Critics’ Week is an event of the German Film Critics Association, funded by the Capital Cultural Fund and the Stiftung Kulturwerk der VG Bild-Kunst. The opening conference will be held in cooperation with Theaterdiscounter Berlin and was supported by Goethe Institut e.V.
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