Big Cinema, Small Cinema #44: Astonishment at the Everyday
Our next event for children aged 6 and up is on Sunday, October 3. Through the camera, the world becomes a laboratory for possible stories that can only be discovered by seeing and experiencing. This is how Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee approached depicting life on the street in a poor district of New York, calling their film simply IN THE STREET (USA 1948). Nearly 60 years later, Khaled Mzher did the same in a street in Jordan and came across STREET’S ANGELS (Jordan 2017). Like a detective, Milena Gierke finds starting points for possible mysteries and stories from her car in AUTOBLICKE / VIEWS FROM A CAR (Germany 1990). The children of EKT Regenbogen-Kidz use everyday objects to create a cinematic spell in KINOZAUBER (Germany 2020), that functions as an invitation to dream and to tell stories. We will be watching four films together in which random observation plays a role. Following the screening, we will be putting together our own joint world laboratory.
“The gatekeepers exist to be overthrown.” Amos Vogel – Repeats and Responses
Viennale: Film as a Subversive Art 2021 – A Tribute to Amos Vogel
The 100th birthday of Amos Vogel (1921–2012), legendary pioneer of independent film and cinema culture, hasn’t just offered Arsenal an opportunity to honor his legacy, but many other institutions too. The joint retrospective being put on by the Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum examines Vogel’s values – polyphony, political awareness, explosive aesthetic and social power, and subversion – from a contemporary perspective and brings together programs by six international curators, including Birgit Kohler from Arsenal, under the title of "Film as a Subversive Art 2021".