The Landesverband Kommunale Kinos at the HFM Summer Festival!
What's cinema today? An evening with movie gems followed by a public duscussion.
In this event, we will journey from the very first films to the cinema of today. We will go back to the little-known birth of cinema - to 1895 Berlin - and get to know the Skladanowski brothers, who invented the cinematograph at the same time as the Brothers Lumière. We start with real film on a good ole 16mm projector and the short documentary "The Skladanowski Brothers" by Wim Wenders, a film as poetic and endearing as the inventors of cinema themselves.
Afterwards, we'll explore the question of what role cinema has in times of Netflix and consumer culture in a conversation between cineastes, cinema professionals and the audience. Does cinema as a cultural and social practice have the potential of becoming even more important for our society than in the past? Does cinema as a collective space of experience and a place of public discourse even play a central role in a democracy?
Host: Constantin Schnell, Member of the Board of the Landesverband Kommunale Kinos Baden-Württemberg.
Look forward to a whirlwind trip to the roots and the future of cinema.
Please note that photographs and film recordings might be taken during the event for public relations purposes.
