I started off Saturday with “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present” playing in the Panorama. During "Iron Sky", I met a critic friend of mine and asked her if she had seen it. She acknowledged that it was ok but semi dismissed it as “typical HBO”. But okay, I’m interested in Marina Abramovic Continue Reading
His achievements as a curator and activist, along with his noteworthy body of work as a filmmaker, are currently being celebrated at Kino Arsenal. Film screenings include works Speck has directed- such as the East-West clandestine love story Westler - East of the Wall or his experimental docudrama about Klaus and Erika Mann Escape to Continue Reading
The new design takes this into account and makes use of compressed text “clouds”, which open upon being clicked, for clarity. The main menu bar brings together all the institute’s areas of activity at a glance and has been expanded to include “collection”, “transfer” and “arsenal on tour”, three important areas which were less visible Continue Reading
In the latest issue of Berlin listings magazine tip, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, co-director ofArsenal Institute for Film and Video Art, discusses online film distribution with Cargo film magazine co-publisher Ekkehard Knörer.
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Skype interview (in German) Angelika Levi, director of MY LIFE PART 2 and ABSENT PRESENT about those films, her working method and a glimpse into future projects.
(Interview re-published courtesy of the International Forum of New Cinema)
Stefanie Schulte Strathaus: Your last film was made a very long time ago. How long did you spend working on MY LIFE, PART 2, your first full-length film?
Angelika Levi: I began in 1996. I travelled to Chile and began researching my mother’s life. So seven years Continue Reading
Documentary, USA 2009, 95 min
Director: Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith
Original English version
Daniel Ellsberg works for the Pentagon, compiling reports about the conflict in Vietnam. One of his surveys contains a report about Vietcong atrocities against an American soldier. This isolated incident was just what Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara needed to convince President Lyndon Johnson to Continue Reading