Bloomington and IU Film Lovers! You won't find these films at the Multiplex!!
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Tomorrow night, the MAKING HISTORY ReVISIBLE FILM FESTIVAL begins!
Join us as the FINE ARTS AUDITORIUM 015 is transformed--for one weekend only--into a 35mm picture palace by IU's New Cinema Director, Jon Vickers!
4/22: 8pm, THE ARCHITECTS (East Germany 1990, Dir. Peter Kahane)-- young idealism meets its limits in the last days of East Berlin!
Beautifully shot film.
4/23: 4pm, SOLO SUNNY (East Germany 1980, Dir. Konrad Wolf)--a cult hit, even today! Independent Sunny does her own thing and wants to make it as a pop singer, no matter what!
4/23: 8pm, SUMMER IN BERLIN (Germany 2005, Dir. Andreas Dresen)--two women are the best of friends in modern-day Berlin! The humor and tragedy of the daily struggle, the importance of love!
4/24: 4pm, YOU ARE NOT ALONE (Germany 2007, Dir. Bernd Böhlich)--a satellite city's neighbors find new hope--U.S. FILM PREMIERE!
4/24: 8pm, WHISKEY WITH VODKA (Germany 2009, Dir. Andreas Dresen)--an aging alcoholic actor--a star--has seen better days. His crew decides to hire a younger man to shoot the same role. The competition begins!!!
Come see these films that will take us through the WENDE to the best in CONTEMPORARY German film production.
These critically acclaimed films have played at renowned festivals like the Berlin International Film Festival, Cannes, and Karlovy Vary!
See the work of Andreas Dresen, Berlinale lifetime achievement award- winner Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Peter Kahane, and others!
Three of the films--Summer in Berlin, You Are Not Alone, and Whiskey with Vodka--are Indiana premieres! Whiskey with Vodka is currently playing at the Museum of Modern Art in New York!
ALL FILMS ARE FREE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES!
Advance tickets can be reserved with jamastee@indiana.edu. Otherwise, we welcome filmgoers at the door!
I hope you will join us for this finale to the 4-month Indiana University DEFA Project!
Please pass this note to friends, neighbors, cinephiles, colleagues, and students!
Best,
Brigitta Wagner & The DEFA Project Team
2010 DEFA Project Director
Assistant Professor
Germanic Studies/Cinema
Communication and Culture/Film Studies
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Ballantine Hall 644
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103
USA
E-mail: bbwagner@indiana.edu
IU News Room:
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/14207.html
Facebook: IU DEFA Project
Twitter: IUDEFA
SPONSORS & PARTNERS:
DEFA Foundation (Berlin); Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany (Chicago); DAAD: German Academic Exchange Service; Filmland Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Schwerin); German Films (Munich); DEFA Film Library (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities: New Perspectives; WEST European Studies; College Arts and Humanities Institute; Office of the Vice President of International Affairs; Indiana University Libraries; Germanic Studies; Institute of German Studies; Cultural Studies; Communication and Culture; International Studies; Gender Studies; Russian and East European Institute; Office of Service-Learning; Buskirk-Chumley Theater (Bloomington); FARM Restaurant (Bloomington); Ryder Magazine (Bloomington).
