
“Muss in jedem Film gesungen werden?”
In dem Vortrag „Muss in jedem Film gesungen werden?“ wird eine Zeitreise unternommen, in der das Publikum aus einer Zeit der tonalen Reizüberflutung in eine Epoche zurückgeführt wird, in der die Entwicklung von Stumm- zum Tonfilm unsere Hörgewohnheiten für immer veränderte. Einführende Gedanken von Günter Krenn.

Notes from Forever Film: The Half-Breed (1916, Allan Dwan)
The weight of knives and more saved ladies in Allan Dwan’s “The Half-Breed” presented by the Cinémathèque française.

Notes from Forever Fim: Expedicion Giró (1965, Gustavo Giró)
Parachuting dogs and doubts about the versatility of the program.

Notes from Forever Film: Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913, Edwin Middleton, T. Hayes Hunter, Sam Corker Jr.)
MoMa brought their archival assembly of “Lime Kiln Club Field Day” to the retrospective. White producers stopped the shooting of this film made by a pioneering cast of African-American performers led by the famed Caribbean-American entertainer Bert Williams.

Notes from Forever Film: Valkoinen peura (1952, Erik Blomberg, Mirjami Kuosmanen)
“Valkoinen peura” (The White Reindeer) is a beautiful and haunting film made in white and black. The contributions of Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen instituutti ask important questions about ethics in relation to working with film.

Notes from Forever Film: Sånt händer inte här (1950, Ingmar Bergman)
“The disadvantage of film is that it remains.“, wrote Ingmar Bergman. “Sånt händer inte här” is a film he was embarrassed about to a degree that made him prohibit screenings of it. In the year of his centenary the Swedish Film Institute brought this rarely seen film as a gift.

Notes from Forever Film: 30 Years of Motion Pictures (1927, Otto Nelson and Terry Ramsaye)
A definition of cinema as a means of capturing milestones in the progress of the world lies at the core of 30 Years of Motion Pictures, the second compilation film of “Forever Film”.

Notes from Forever Film: White Shadows in the South Seas (1928, W.S. Van Dyke, Robert J. Flaherty)
Bringing the legendary “White Shadows in the South Sea” directed by W.S. Van Dyke and Robert J. Flaherty (who left the project) as a gift, the George Eastman Museum not only chose a unique print for presentation but also one that talks about the inevitability and beauty of decay in film history

Notes from Forever Film: Yadanabon (1953, Tin Maung)
Notes on one of the most special gifts for the retrospective: A 35mm copy of Yadanabon, a film from Myanmar in Burmese language with Czech subtitles presented by Národní filmový archiv

Notes from Forever Film: Film and Reality (1942, Alberto Cavalcanti and Ernest Lindgren)
Notes on FILM AND REALITY, one of the first films produced by a film archive and a very early example of a compilation film.

Notes from Forever Film: Grauzone (1979, Fredi M. Murer)
During our retrospective “Forever Film”, Patrick Holzapfel is going to publish notes to the screenings. His first entry deals with Fredi M. Murers fascinating GRAUZONE.

Neapel 1906 (Text von Annabella Miscuglio)
Zum Auftakt unserer Elvira-Notari-Schau veröffentlichen wir einen Text aus der schönen Publikation “Transito. Elvira Notari – Kino der Passage”. Annabella Miscuglio führt ein in die Welt der großen Filmemacherin rund um Neapel und das Leben zwischen Freiheit und Familie.

B-Hamlet
Edgar G. Ulmer ist einer der Regiestars unserer B-Film-Reihe. Ein Text von Stefan Grissemann aus dessen Buch “Mann im Schatten. Der Filmemacher Edgar G. Ulmer” befasst sich mit STRANGE ILLUSION, dem B-Hamlet zwischen kalifornischer Idylle und versteckten Verbrechen.