Revolverkino + Cargo at the Gropius Bau: „Gruppenfilme“ (“Group Films”)
Every month over three consecutive evenings, the film magazine Revolver at the Gropius Bau explore the limits of what cinema can be: focusing on film histories, formats and genres. The second programme in October is titled Gruppenfilme (Group Films) and is curated by Ekkehard Knörer, the publisher and editor of Cargo.
Wednesday 24.10.2018
19:30 Loin du Viêt-nam
Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, France 1967, restored version, 115 min., DCP, French with English subtitles
With kind support from the Institut français.
Thursday 25.10.2018
19:30 56 Up
Michael Apted, Great Britain, 2012, 144 min., DVD, English
Friday 26.10.2018
19:30 Material Beton
Katja Lell, Babek Behrouz, Eva Könnemann, Nick Koppenhagen, Marco Kunz, Laura Nitsch, Germany 2013, 53 min., HD, German
20:30 Ensemble
Eva Könnemann, Germany, 2010, 85 min., HD, German
“Group Films” are exactly that: groups that make films. For instance, the auteur directors Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais who came together in 1967 to collectively make Loin de Viet-nam. Group Films are also: groups that are filmed. In 1964, the director Michael Apted began filming fourteen British young people, every seven years, creating a long term documentary. From 2012, 56 Up, is the most recent in the film series, which groups together individual stories as a complex social chronical. “Group Films” can also mean observations of actors and directors during rehearsals, such as Ensemble by Eva Könnemann, 2010, or in an even more radical form: a group that films itself as a self-reflexive structure comprised of the film itself, the artists and the protagonists, such as in Material Beton from 2013.