Das Filmforum der HBK präsentiert im Sommersemester 2019:

Montag | 29.04.19 | 19:00 h

Klassiker reloaded:  1910er und 20er-Jahre

Eine Reise von den absoluten Anfängen des Kinos in die Avantgarde der 1920er Jahre. Die restaurierten Kindheitsbilder der Lumiére-Filme zeigen das neue Medium des Kinos in der ganzen Schönheit seines technischen Glanzes. Der weniger gut erhaltene 'The Big Swallow' führt mit Trickaufnahmen in das Innere des Körpers, und die Kamera Billy Bitzers ist auf einen Zug montiert und eröffnet die grafischen Qualitäten der neu gebauten New Yorker U-Bahn. Es folgen Experimente klassischer abstrakter Ästhetik und zum Abschluss geht Germaine Dulac mit einem Gedicht Charles Baudelaires auf eine Reise zu innerer Sehnsucht und erotischer Phantasie. (HK)

Filmprogramm (73 min):

Brüder Lumière – Repas de bébé | 1 min | 1895
Brüder Lumière – Premiers pas de bébé | 1 min | 1896
Brüder Lumière – La petite fille et son chat | 1 min | 1900

James Williamson – The Big Swallow
1 min | 1901 | DVD (35mm) | bw | sound (Klavierbegleitung) | UK

G.W. Bitzer – Interior NYC From 14th to 42nd Street
5 min | 1905 | DVD (35mm) | bw | silent | US

Man Ray – Le retour à la raison (Die Rückkehr zur Vernunft)
2 min | 1923 | DVD (35mm) | bw | silent (neu vertont) | FR

Fernand Léger – Ballet Mécanique
16:10 min | 1924 | DVD (35mm) | bw | sound | FR

Hans Richter – Vormittagsspuk
7 min | 1927-28 | DVD (35mm) | bw | sound | DE

Germaine Dulac – L’invitation au voyage
39 min | 1927 | DVD (35mm) | bw (sepia) | sound (vertont) | OV (nodialog) | FR

James Williamson – The Big Swallow
1 min | 1901 | DVD (35mm) | bw | sound (Klavierbegleitung) | UK
The Big Swallow (AKA: A Photographic Contortion) is a 1901 British short silent comedy film, directed by James Williamson, featuring a man, irritated by the presence of a photographer, who solves his dilemma by swallowing him and his camera whole. The three-shot trick film is, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "one of the most important early British films in that it was one of the first to deliberately exploit the contrast between the eye of the camera and of the audience watching the final film." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Swallow)

G.W. Bitzer – Interior NYC From 14th to 42nd Street
5 min | 1905 | DVD (35mm) | bw | silent | US
Starting at Union Square through the New York City subway tunnels on a journey to the old Grand Central Station.

Fernand Léger – Ballet Mécanique
16:10 min | 1924 | DVD (35mm) | bw | sound | FR
Ballet Mécanique (1923–24) is a Dadaist post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger in collaboration with the filmmaker Dudley Murphy (with cinematographic input from Man Ray). It has a musical score by the American composer George Antheil. However, the film premiered in a silent version on 24 September 1924 at the Internationale Ausstellung neuer Theatertechnik (International Exposition for New Theater Technique) in Vienna presented by Frederick Kiesler. It is considered one of the masterpieces of early experimental filmmaking.

Germaine Dulac – L’invitation au voyage
39 min | 1927 | DVD (35mm) | bw (sepia) | sound (vertont) | OV (nodialog) | FR
Silent film pioneer Germaine Dulac adapted her 1927 feature L'Invitation au voyage from the poem of the same title by late-19th century French belletrist Charles Baudelaire. The film represents an attempt by Dulac to create a work entirely liberated from cinematic narrative per se. It is a "visual symphony," comprised of rhythmically intercut images that embody projections of the artist's raw and direct feelings, unadulterated by the contrivances of story. - Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

[ Abbildung oben: aus dem Film 'Le retour à la raison' (1923) von Man Ray ]