Cine-Constellation: Three Films by Amie Siegel

Cine-Constellation: Three Films by Amie Siegel

November 19-20, 2010
Director in attendance!
 

The work of American filmmaker, author and video installation artist Amie Siegel, as she puts it, “mines the voyeuristic gaze," while exploring and challenging various media and its capacity to communicate human perceptions and history. The films in this series explore themes of cultural memory and identity in particular relation to Germany, her adopted country. The restrained self-reflexivity and deadpan humor that unite Siegel’s films lend them richness that actively questions the limits of traditional nonfiction cinema.  

Exhibitions and screenings include The Talent Show, Walker Art Center; Auto-Kino! Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin; The Russian Linesman, The Hayward, London; 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art; Forum Expanded, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Berlin International Film Festival; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; BFI Southbank; Frankfurt Film Museum, and Film Forum in New York. Her first book of poetry, The Waking Life (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA) was published in 1999. Siegel has been a guest artist of the DAAD Berliner-Künstlerprogramm, the Fulton Fellow in Non-Fiction Filmmaking at the Film Study Center at Harvard University and a recent recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship. 

Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 


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Empathy

Director in attendance

Nov 19, 2010

(Amie Siegel, 2003, USA, 35mm, 92 min)

The postmodern Empathy explores the practice of psychoanalysis, reversing its traditional power structure, and putting psychoanalysts on the couch. It’s much more than a traditional documentary, with interviews of practicing psychoanalysts dispersed throughout, resulting in an ultimate collapse of the genres of fiction, screen test and documentary. 

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DDR/DDR

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Special members-only reception with Amie Siegel at 7pm
 
Director in attendance

Nov 20, 2010

(Amie Siegel, 2008, USA, HD, 135 min)

[DDR/DDR] is a mosaic of interviews and incidents that gradually connect, allowing issues of history, state control, personal identity, and memory to emerge. A man walking across streets and fields as if on a tightrope is a recurring motif—an apt metaphor for the East-West divide. 

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