The death of cinema has many faces. “Visible above all in the progressive loss of specific locations and thus also of cinema as a cultural practice, but also in the constant disappearance of German and European filmmaking and so-called world cinema.” This pessimistic assessment comes from Tanja C. Krainhöfer, founder of the interdisciplinary research initiative Film Festival Studies. But she also emphasizes that one sector of film culture is constantly on the rise: film festivals. “Cinema Crisis/Cinema Perspectives” is the name of a panel discussion on Friday, March 10, 8 p.m. in the Gauting Citizens’ and Culture Center (Bosco, free entry). In addition to Krainhöfer, cinema operators and festival organizers Matthias Helwig and Michael Fleig from the University of Regensburg (cinema history) will speak. Screenwriter and writer Tanja Weber moderates. The conversation accompanies the exhibition “Cinemas – From Babylon Berlin To La Rampa Havana”. On several trips since 1989, the Munich photographer Margarete Freudenstadt has documented a changing cinema landscape with a focus on “socialist cinema”. A “cosmos that is being lost,” as Freudenstadt says. Her works can be seen at Bosco Gauting until April 21st.
Cinema in crisis: discussion and exhibition in Gauting – Bavaria
