Tonight, Thursday, December 2nd, our second U.S. premiere and final film of the DEFA
Dialogues: 5 Film Rediscoveries!
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Join us @ 7pm in the Fine Arts Auditorium 015 on the Indiana University-Bloomington campus for:
SAMMELSURIUM [Hotch Potch]--a fascinating documentary by Volker Koepp, the top documentarian of the German Democratic Republic. Subtitled for the first time for this Bloomington screening!
"The landscapes, objects, and sounds of a recent past slipping into history...! Exquisite cinematography by Thomas Plenert (The Wall, Locked Up Time, Herzsprung). A thoughtful film that does not force positions, but offers views, contexts, and processes just at the point of disappearance, irrelevance, and obscurity...A film that stems the tide of this hasty departure by lingering over trinkets, monuments, and architectures just before they hit the crucial drop in the waterfall and are seen and understood no more. A true treasure chest or time capsule."
-B. Wagner, IU DEFA Project
"Koepp's tone is far from elegiac — he collects images as a sign of the pastness of the GDR. Nevertheless, his SAMMELSURIUM has its own eloquence. [...] Koepp has managed to find a visceral image of the violence and abruptness of the Wende."
-Inez Hedges
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Followed by a discussion with Ben Robinson and Brigitta Wagner of IU Germanic Studies @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
For more on these films, see:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bloomington-IN/IU-DEFA-Project/186185040637
