How Much Movement Does the Image Need?
Photography invites us to a moment of relaxed contemplation, permitting us to immerse ourselves mentally in the image. By contrast in the cinema, we are in a state of alert, interpreting the motion pictures – the film – at breakneck speed. The eye has barely recorded a single moving image before it is already gone. Photofilm brings both of these aspects together: The photograph in a cinematographic context surprises us, putting the viewer in a changeable state of mind. This program consists of films that question the nature of the moving image and our sense of perception.
La Jetée (The Jetty) / Chris Marker / France / 1962 / 28 min
Van Gogh / Alains Resnais / France / 1948 / 17 min
Der Tag eines unständigen Hafenarbeiters (A Day in the Life of a Casual Dock Worker) / Leonore Mau, Hubert Fichte / Germany / 1966 / 13 min
Fremdkörper (Transposed Bodies) / Katja Pratschke, Gusztáv Hámos / Germany / 2002 / 28 min