HANSAHOOD sparkles

HANSAHOOD sparkles.

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Thu 19 & 26 8:30 p.m. Cinema in the KFG church garden: in cooperation with Filmkultur in Moabit e.V. and with the kind support of the ev. parish Moabit.
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Jaques Tati: "Mon Oncle" & Thomas Elsässer: "Die Sonneninsel". Followed by a film discussion.
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MON ONCLE, F 1958, Director: Jacques Tati, 117 min, OmU
With Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati created an icon, an anti-hero in the tradition of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, who with his awkward, gentle, melancholy nature represents the antithesis of everything that is modern in Tati's work: functionality, a lack of history, economy, geometry. Hulot does not fit into modern seating and houses, nor into the thoroughly rationalised world of work. His greatest enemy is technology, his best friends are children, dogs, a singing canary, a convoluted apartment building, the crumbling face of old Paris.
MON ONCLE was made against the background of the economic and social upheaval in France during the so-called Trente Glorieuses (1945-1975). The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Followed by a film discussion with architect and urban thinker Carina Kitzenmaier and others.
Please register by sending an email to hansahood@s-h-i-f-t-s.org / limited number of seats! Contribution towards expenses 4,- EUR
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DIE SONNENINSEL, D 2017, doc, 89 min
Frankfurt's city architect Ernst May and architect Martin Elsaesser became pioneers of New Building in the 1920s. May fled from the Nazis to the Soviet Union, Elsaesser to a secluded island in eastern Berlin. Elsaesser's grandson uses previously unknown amateur footage to tell the story of his famous grandfather's forced dropout existence and a tragic ménage à trois.
For a long time, amateur film had a shadowy existence, especially in film studies. This has been changing for some years and these private films are also becoming increasingly important for contemporary history programmes. For Elsaesser, the exciting thing about these private films is that they often try to show an ideal that does not correspond to reality. For him, they reveal power relations as well as tensions and conflicts. It is a very personal film that reveals some family secrets, namely that grandmother Liesel Elsaesser fell in love with progressive landscape architect Leberecht Migge, with whom she explored possibilities of an alternative life and self-sufficient supply on Sun Island.
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Please register by sending an email to hansahood@s-h-i-f-t-s.org / limited number of seats! Contribution towards expenses 4,- EUR