Symposium with Cordula Brown
Dec 09, 2009
At the center of this Symposium on Yesterday Girl [Abschied von Gestern, 1966] is an examination of the beginnings of a new West Germany cinema which tries to establish, at the same time, a continuation of European avant-garde film tradition from before the Nazi regime. The cinematic amnesia of West Germany’s emerging film-scape [in contrast to East Germany’s continuation of film production under state aesthetics] is over. The “Oberhausen Manifesto” and young film-makers like Alexander Kluge propel West German cinema into a renaissance of critical meaning, soviet montage, and experimental form.
Expect an interactive lecture with clippings and lengthy Q&A session.
