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Screening the future: excursion to the Heinrich Hertz Institut
In cooperation with Fraunhofer / Heinrich Hertz Institut.
13:00 | Heinrich Hertz Institut
Meeting Point | 12:30 at the entrance to Hau1
Innovations for the digital future – this is the core of the
re search and development work conducted by the Heinrich Hertz
Institut – both in the field of high­tech communications systems and
digital media and services use. The Heinrich Hertz Institut is a leading
research institute for Mobile Broadband Communications, Photonic
networks and Electronic Imaging for Multimedia. Multimedia is seen
as one of the key components in information technology as images,
video, language, sound and additional data are being used for an
increasing number of services. Additionally, the institute heads the
German national project (PRIME), which deals with 3D production
technologies for film and broadcasting. Their innovative approaches
for the film industry com prise image processing, image communication
and 3-D displays, as well as the development of new audio technologies.
Research and development trends in the next generation of cuttingedge
screen and sound technologies will be demonstrated and explained
to Tal ents visiting the institute.
dial f for fiction: Script Station Presentation
Moderated by Merle Kröger.
In cooperation with German Federal Film Board (FFA) and SOURCES 2.
14:00 | Hau 3, White Stage
It isn’t the director alone who makes a great film artistic. They
do so because they work with exceptional, artistic scripts. The best film
scripts are therefore lasting works of art which contain moments of
bril l iance, elegance and emotionality that make us want to return to
them time and time again. As every year, the Script Station 2011 will
be a fascinating showcase of current global storytelling – locally rooted
in twelve writers’ experienced reality and personal imagination.
One topic depicted in several stories is farewell – as a long process of
accompanying a mother with dementia, as a harsh break when a wife
suddenly disappears, leaving her husband thrown out of his daily
routine, as a painful experience in letting go an impossible love to save
one’s own identity. Reflections of world politics shine through highly
personal encounters – taking place in Athens and Beirut, or even
beyond the coastline of Somalia. Remarkably strong women have to
deal with teenage pregnancy in the uS Bible Belt or with the drug
scene in Bucharest, with prejudice in Jordan and uganda. While male
protagonists catch our hearts in their vulnerability: be it an outcast
young rebel from rural India or a boy in love with death on the island
of Borneo, Indonesia. These screenplays, at various stages of de velopment,
will be discussed for the first time as works in progress by
their writers and expert mentors, each depicting the aural, visual and
lingual elements required to transform their stories into cinema.
WedNeSday, feb 16
the Internationals: How Small Stories become big
Claudia Llosa, Kornél Mundruzcó and abderrahmane Sissako.
Moderated by dorothee Wenner.
In cooperation with ACPFILMS and Robert Bosch Stiftung.
14:00 | Hau 1
The most powerful stories emerge from the reality one is most
engaged in. They are linked to the place(s) you come from, situations
you’ve experienced and reflect issues that deeply move and interest
you. In the words of award­winning filmmaker and producer Ab de rrahmane
Sissako, “When you work as a filmmaker, you have an intense
desire to express yourself and I think that the best way to do so is to
speak about oneself or one's experiences”. But how does one transform
small, unique stories into compelling narratives that appeals to in ternational
audiences?
On stage with Abderrahmane Sissako, whose sharply political
films such as BAMAKO and LIFE On EARTH are fitting critiques of globalisation,
colonisation and social justice, is critically acclaimed filmmaker
Claudia Llosa, who won the 2009 Golden Bear and an Academy
Award nomination for THE MILK OF SORROW, and Hungarian director
and 2003 Campus alumnus Kornél Mundruczó, whose TEnDER SOn –
THE FRAnKEnSTEIn PROJECT screened in competition at Cannes in
2010, his current project features in the 2011 Berlinale Co­Production
Market. The noted filmmakers, whose films are deeply grounded in
stories from their own backyard and have received tremendous
international recognition, will elaborate on how they decide which
stories to develop into films and what makes a local film an international
one. They will discuss the significance of support at a national
and regional level, particularly if one is keen on working and distributing
films internationally.
barbara Hammer:
Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
barbara Hammer.
Moderated by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus.
In cooperation with Berlinale Forum Expanded.
14:00 | Hau 2
She has inspired a generation of queer, feminist and avantgarde
artists and filmmakers. Barbara Hammer, a highly prolific visual
artist working primarily in film and video, has made over eighty films
and videos in the past forty years. Galvanised by the second wave of
feminism, Hammer soon became a pioneer of queer cinema. Although
the subjects she addresses are astonishingly diverse, her innovative
and playful approach to form is unchanging. Her work is about re vealing,
showing, expressing, uncovering that which has not been seen
before. “I try to give voice and image to those who have been denied
personal expression.” Her experimental films of the 1970s dealt with
taboo subjects through performance, in the 1980s she used optical