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Master Classes 2017

For the first time, we would like to offer you so-called ‘Master Classes’ for our tenth festival edition. In this format, filmmakers will present their personal working methods. In contrast to our film talks, which take place after a screening and refer directly to a specific film, the filmmakers have time to explain how their film style has developed or which maxims or fundamental questions shape their work using their own film examples. In other words, they offer us an in-depth insight into their work and filmmaking in general. We have been able to attract highly interesting filmmakers whose current films can be seen in our anniversary program.

The Master Classes take place in the movie theater, are open to all interested parties with free admission and are held in English.

Memory in Cinema: Susana de Sousa Dias and her works

Monday, 2.10., 3.00 p.m., kinoeins

For more than 15 years, Portuguese filmmaker Susana deSousa Dias has explored the nexus between memory and thepast and the representation of oppressed history. She starts with the fragments of what’s left: archival footage and oral testimonies. But these images present a complication. They arematerial from a dictatorship, such as the mug shots that PIDE, the political police of the Salazar-Regime took of political prisoners: These images while documentary in nature are neitherinnocent nor objective – they were an instrument in the domination and humiliation of their subjects. In her work, De Sousa finds a mesmerizing artistic approach to return those images to their subjects and allowing them to reclaim theirpast by both distancing herself and inscribing an emotional intensity to them that is unique in European cinema. Her latest film is OBSCURE LIGHT.

CINEMA OF REVOLUTION: Mathieu Denis and Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves

Wednesday, 4.10., 10.00 a.m., kinoeins

In THOSE WHO MAKE REVOLUTION ONLY HALFWAY ONLY DIG THEIR OWN GRAVES young Canadian filmmaker Mathieu Denis and his co-director Simon Lavoie tell the story of a group of young people who in the wake of the 2012 student
protests in Quebec become radicalised and try to force political and social change. But can you tell a story of revolution in a conventional cinematic form? Denis’ answer is a definitive “no” and he employs the full tool kit of revolutionary cinema, mixing different aspect ratios, using performance art and text on screen – and start the film with a five-minute overture. Bravado filmmaking at its best – and Mathieu Denis will take us through the creative process of this fascinating film.