FILM & TALK "Cinema of Alexander Kluge: In the Tracts of Time" at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 4pm-8pm on 20th & 21st August 2016

Alexander Kluge 

Time : 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Add to Calendar 20/08/2016 16:00 21/08/2016 18:00 Asia/Kolkata FILM & TALK "Cinema of Alexander Kluge: In the Tracts of Time" Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/08/film-talk-cinema-of-alexander-kluge-in_12.html Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : FILM & TALK "Cinema of Alexander Kluge: In the Tracts of Time" by Manas Ray 

n February of 1962, 26 aspirant filmmakers under the intellectual mentorship of Alexander Kluge got together to announce the death of Papa Kino and spell out a new cinema bent on questioning the dominant trend in image-making in Germany. As part of the same exploration they also investigated Germany’s unresolved past as it existed in the present. The Oberhausen Manifesto promised a contextual, interventionist, theme-oriented cinema that would comment on the grey seriality of everyday life in (West) Germany’s post-war limbo existence. The New German Cinema movement has produced many stellar film practitioners, but it is perhaps in Kluge’s cinematic work that the promises of the Manifesto find the truest and most innovative expressions. With time, Kluge’s work changes from the international art-film style of interruptive narrative to what might be called ‘collage films’. This retrospective of Kluge’s cinema aims to present a somewhat comprehensive coverage of the cinematic work of a film maker bent on making inconclusive films, both in style and content.

Manas Ray is a Professor in Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He has worked extensively on the cinema of Kluge.

Schedule : 

Saturday, 20 August 2016
 Opening film: Brutality in Stone (Brutalität in Stein) - 15 mins.
 Introductory talk on the cinema of Alexander Kluge with remarks on the films to be screened for the day - 20 minutes

 Screening of Yesterday’s Girl (Abschied von Gestern) - 1 hour 28 mins.

 Break
 Screening of Part time work of an occupational slave (Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin)- 1 hour 31 mins.
 Q and A - 15 mins.

Sunday, 21 August 2016
 Opening comments on the films to be screened - 10 mins.
 Screening of Female Patriot (Die Patriotin) – 121 mins.
 Break
 Screening of Blind Director (Vermischte Nachrichten) – 96 mins.
 Talk by Manas Ray "Cinema of Alexander Kluge: In the tracks of time" (50 mins.) followed  by Q&A, - 20 mins.

Collaboration : Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan

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