Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded: Panel day

Talks and discussions as part of the 70. Berlinale

A Day of Panel Discussions on the Counter-Cultural Focus of the First Years, its Legacy in the Present Day and Strategies for the Challenges of the Future.

Looking back has never been more relevant. The entrenched attitudes within society which in 1971 the first International Forum of New Cinema set out to confront are reasserting themselves today with new vigour. What does the counter-cultural awakening of the late 1960s tell us at the contemporary moment?

At the invitation of Forum and Forum Expanded, filmmakers, intellectuals, curators and archivists will be coming together at silent green Kulturquartier to think about these questions.

All talks are in English.
Free entry.

Program:

10:00–10:15
Introduction
Birgit Kohler, Cristina Nord, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus

10:15–11:45
PANEL 1: I WENT ON STRIKE
Feminist image politics past and present
Louise Alaimo, Claudia von Alemann, Helena Kritis, Constanze Ruhm, Judith Smith
Host: Diana McCarty

11:45–13:15
PANEL 2: MONANGAMBEEE!
Film as a tool for decolonialisation
Enoka Ayemba, Didi Cheeka, Lyse Ishimwe Nsengiyumva, Jacqueline Nsiah
Host: Cristina Nord

14:00–15:30
PANEL 3: WHO WOULD WANT TO GO IT ALONE?
Filmmaking as collective work
Mit Vertreter*innen der Kollektive: Forensic Architecture, ISKRA, The Living and the Dead Ensemble
Host: Nanna Heidenreich

15:40–17:10
PANEL 4: ANTI-CINEMA, COUNTER-ARCHIVES
Strategies of dissident film preservation, restoration and circulation
Vinzenz Hediger, Annamaria Licciardello, Michael Loebenstein, Tamer El Said, Catarina Simão.
Host: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus

17:15–18:45
PANEL 5: COUNTER-SHOT
Making films politically / Making political films 1971/2020
Ruth Beckermann, Filipa César, Jonathan Perel
Host: Birgit Kohler

19:45–21:15
CLOSING PANEL: AT THE END OF THE RED CARPET
Festivals under fire, festivals as sites of criticality
Iskra Geshoska, Amine Hattou, Shai Heredia
Host: Marc Siegel

More information:
https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/de/berlinale-forum/paneltag.html