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MICHEL TREGANRevolver is a magazine about film. It fits into every pocket and can be read anywhere. Itgathers the thoughts, opinions, and dreams of filmmakers and film viewers. It intends totalk directly, precisely and honestly about the cinema of the future. Revolver wants toprovide a forum of opinions. The reader’s opinion is called for. Through their selections,the editors, filmmakers themselves, want to provoke, document and complementdiscussions.Revolver was founded as self-financed project in 1998 by Benjamin Heisenberg, ChristophHochhäusler, and Sebastian Kutzli to counter the dullness of German cinema and its antitheoreticalstance similarly prevalent at the Munich Film and Television Acadamy (HFF)where they were students at the time. Partly inspired by the French Cahiers du Cinéma,Revolver’s principal aims are to learn filmmaking, to rekindle a sense of cinematic traditionand to create a forum for the exchange of technical know-how and theoretical ideasamoung filmmakers and viewers. In order to facilitate the passing-on of knowledge andexperience and also to satisfy their own curiosity, the makers of Revolver, have pursuedinterviewing directors and artists whose oeuvre they admire or poses certain questionsand contradicitions. Among the directors they have interviewed are Jean-Claude Carrière,Patrice Chéreau, Harun Farocki, Michael Haneke, Werner Herzog, Wong Kar-Wai, AbbasKiarostami, Alexander Kluge, Peter Kubelka, Jonas Mekas, Eric Rohmer, Lars von Trier,or Jeff Wall. Besides the interviews, each issue contains a varied ensemble ofcontributions that can take all possible shapes: essays, manifests, diary entries and otherkinds of gems and “found objects” that range from the polemical to the poetic and canalso be entirely visual. Execept for reviews and filmhistorical texts, any form is allowed aslong as it supports a strong personal statement. The format of the magazine itself isdecidedly small. Revolver is meant to be carried around, read and re-read anywhere atany time.In addition to their publishing activity, the Revolver team stages Revolver-Live events, whichare meant to bring interviews and debates into the public arena. Since December 2005,Revolver has run its own DVD label, dedicated to films they feel need a wider exposure.The first two titles have been Marseilles by Angela Schanelec and The Son by theDardennes Brothers. Now into its 9th year, Revolver continues to publish two issues peryear, one in spring and one in autumn. Two of the founding members, BenjaminHeisenberg and Christoph Hochäusler, are still on the editing and contributing team, whichhas been joined by filmmakers Jens Börner, Franz Müller and actor/director NicolasWackerbarth. They recently published the Revolver anthology Kino muss gefährlich sein(Cinema must be dangerous) which collects texts from the past 15 issues of which anumber are no longer available.Jens Börner, Benjamin Heisenberg, Christoph Hochhäusler,Franz Müller, Nicolas Wackerbarthwww.revolver-film.de188