Stummfilme mit Livemusik: "Weibliche Experimente: Filmpionierinnen und die Avantgarde"

In the New Objectivity film series, Kristina Jaspers from the Deutsche Kinemathek presents short film programs with the theme "Female Experiments: Female Film Pioneers and the Avant-Garde" - it is about film as an experimental laboratory of seeing, in which Bauhäuslerinnen or the artist Ella Bergmann-Michel were also able to realize themselves; often without their (because female) participation being mentioned. Jens Schlichting accompanies the short silent films live on the piano.

FEMALE EXPERIMENTS: FEMALE FILM PIONEERS AND THE AVANT-GARDE

Speaker: Kristina Jaspers, curator of the Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin
Part 1: "Collaborations: Women and the absolute film"
Short film program, approx. 33 min.
Part 2: "Bauhäuslerinnen and Celluloid"
Short film program, approx. 15 min.
Part 3: The experimental documentary filmmaker Ella Bergmann-Michel
Short film program, approx. 46 min.

The film avant-garde of the 1920s saw itself as a kind of experimental laboratory for new ways of seeing. The "absolute", abstract film in particular, with its combination of painting and montage, placed perception in the foreground. Bauhaus members such as Lore Leudesdorff and Ré Soupault also worked on pioneering films such as Viking Eggeling's SYMPHONIE DIAGONALE from 1924 or Walter Ruttmann's OPUS IV from 1925, without their names appearing in the credits. The artist Ella Bergmann-Michel, separated from the Bauhaus, also made a series of experimental documentaries with a socially critical approach and was committed to independent international avant-garde film. The work of all these filmmakers is worth rediscovering. Kristina Jaspers presents three short film programs with accompanying lectures.
Silent films with live music by Jens Schlichting (piano)
Admission: 20 € regular / 15 € reduced / 13 € members