Austrian Film Museum
Sunday, June 19, 2005, 3 p.m.
Moderation: Marc Ries
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Germany as a construction site and fracture area of modernism. Persistence was shot in Berlin in 1991/92 after the fall of the Wall but also includes parts from Rossellini’s Germania anno zero and colorful pictures of Berlin made by the US army in 1945/46: films of ruins. In an interplay with Walter Benjamin’s theory of history and diaries from the postwar era (for example by Janet Flanner and Max Frisch), a profound meditation on the “soul of history” evolves. brd und ddr reflect – against the background of the cities destroyed in the war – on a leitmotif of German historie(s) of modernity: the city space, its dynamics, and its aesthetisizing. (Hannes Böck)
Film program
Daniel Eisenberg
Persistence (1997)
colour and black and white, 86 min
Hannes Böck
brd (2003)
colour, 25 min
Hannes Böck
ddr (2005)
colour, 40 min, world premiere