Cinema Crossing Borders
23rd International Bremen Film Conference
Since its invention, cinema has been exploring the practice of creating and identifying borders, including: geographical borders, national borders, the abolition of borders and the construction of walls to delimit borders. Since its beginnings, cinema has become a key part of the global economy as well as of colonialism and of the appropriation of the world through images. Films are themselves specific products of the global trade. They speak of their own border crossings, rendering them visible, audible and relatable, thus contributing to border negotiations.
The concept of cross-border cinema is linked to specific characters: vagabonds, migrants, merchants, tourists or terrorists – but also to far less defined and less related phenomena – such as strangers or aliens. Cinema crossing borders anchors only partially to classical genre – such as the road movie, western, war film and science fiction; or to contemporary forms, including postcolonial and transnational cinema. As a genuine portrayal of movement, cross-border cinema encompasses all of these genres – including Hollywood cinema, documentary film, auteur cinema, essay film, etc. From its origins to the present, cinema seems to be the predestined medium for staging and transcending border transitions, for reflection as well as documentation and thereby for shaping border practices.
In connection with modern studies of the cinema of migration and of transnational cinema, this Conference invites international experts to reflect on cinema crossing borders within the wider interdisciplinary contexts of Border Studies. Central to this discussion are, among others, the new forms of cosmopolitan cinema, European borders, American borders as well as genre borders.
Delia González de Reufels, Winfried Pauleit, Angela Rabing, Christine Rüffert
University of Bremen
Tue, Apr 24Th
19:00 : Film
| El Norte
USA 1983, director: Gregory Nava, 142 min., OV with English subtitles * presented by Delia González de Reufels
Wed, Apr 25Th
19:00 : Keynote 1
| Film Worlds: Cosmopolitical Theroy Construction in Cinema
Matthias Christen & Kathrin Rothemund (Bayreuth)
* lecture in German
20:30 : Film for Keynote 1
| The World - Shijie
China 2004, director: Jia Zhangke, 135 min., OV with English subtitles
* presented by M. Christen and K. Rothemund
* in cooperation with Konfuzius-Institut Bremen
Thu, Apr 26Th
10:00 : Panel 1: Cosmopolitan Cinema
| 10:00 : Grenzüberschreitung als Gefühl
Migration als mediale Zirkulation
Hauke Lehmann (Berlin) * lecture in German
| 10:45 : Exil als Erkenntnism?glichkeit durch Grenzüberschreitung der Exterritorialit?t
Anke Zechner (Frankfurt am Main) * lecture in German
| 11:40 : Reimagining French Immigrant Descent Youth in Sciamma's Girlhood (2014)
and Benyaminas's Divines (2016)
Transcultural Identities, Symbolic Borders and Third Spaces
Olesya Dronyak (Deusto) * lecture in English
| 12:25 : Brazilian Cinema Goes Global: An Analysis of Aquarius (2016) Festival Tour
Humberto Saldanha (Cork) * lecture in German
14:30 : Film for Panel 1
| Bande de Filles
F 2015, director: Céline Sciamma, 113 min., OV with English subtitles
* presented by Olesya Dronyak
16:45 : Keynote 2
| Unfolding Borders: Filming Territory in the Age of Globalization
Laura Rascaroli (Cork) * lecture in English
20:00 : Film for Keynote 2
| Sacro GRA
I 2013, director: Gianfranco Rosi, 93 min., OV with German subtitles
* presented by Laura Rascaroli
Fri, Apr 27Th
10:00 : Panel 2: European Borders
| 10:00 : Demarkationen, Barrieren, Grenzen
Reflexionen über einen Topos im arabischen Filmschaffen
Evelyn Echle (Berlin und Zürich) * lecture in German
| 10:45 : Geraubte Sichtbarkeit und "Cinematic Justice"
Filmische Grenzkorrektur
Iris Fraueneder (Zürich) * lecture in German
| 11:40 : Towards a Typology of Crossing Borders in Popular European Cinema
Anders Marklund (Lund) * lecture in English
| 12:25 : Nation, Patriarchy and the Capitalist Death Drive in Catalan Science-Fiction
Aidan Power (Cork) * lecture in English
14:30 : Film for Panel 3
| Nothing But a Man
USA 1964, director: Michael Roemer, 95 min., OV * presented by Severin Müller
16:45 : Keynote 3
| Border Futures: Migrant Labor and the Frontiers of Security
Camilla Fojas (Virginia) * lecture in English
20:00 : Film for Keynote 3
| Sleep Dealer
MEX/USA 2008, director: Alex Rivera, 90 min., OV with German subtitles * presented by Camilla Fojas
| supporting film: Ramona
USA 1910, director: D.W. Griffith, 17 min., silent * presented by Olaf Stieglitz
22:00 : Film for Panel 3
| Sicario
USA 2015, director: Denis Villeneuve, 121 min., OV with German subtitles * presented by Martin Holtz
Sat, Apr 28Th
10:00 : Panel 3: American Borders
| 10:00 : Bordered Lands
Die Visualisierung des Grenzgebiets zu Mexiko im US-Kino der 1910er Jahre
Olaf Stieglitz (K?ln) * lecture in German
| 10:45 : Das Ged?chtnis einer Transnation
Die mexikanische Küste als Kontaktzone
Sergej Gordon (Eichst?tt) * lecture in German
| 11:40 : Grenzüberschreitung als Kriegsmetapher
Die Frontier zwischen Mexiko und den USA in Sicario
Martin Holtz (Greifswald) * lecture in German
| 12:25 : Stimmen von der anderen Seite
Grenzüberschreitungen in Roberto Minervini’s The other Side
Severin Müller (Mainz) * lecture in German
14:30 : Film Programme: Border Experience
* curated and presented by Klaas Dierks (Bremen)
* with guests
| Neighbours
Norman McLaren, CAN 1952, 9 min.
| Die Grenze
Franz Winzentsen, D 1995, 3 min.
| Grenzzone
Lutz Homann, D 1992, 10 min.
| Preservation
Annagul Beschareti, D 2017, 7 min.
| On Standardisation. Or how to be sure us humans win the final battle against nature
Bruno Siegrist, D 2017, 11 min.
| A Set of Non-Computable Things
Charlotte Eifler, D 2017, 21 min.
16:30 : Film for Panel 3
| Redes
MEX 1936, director: Fred Zinnemann & Emilio Gómez Muriel, 63 min., OV with German subtitles.
* presented by Sergej Gordon
19:30 : Film for Panel 2
| Les Sauteurs – Those who jump
DK 2016, director: Moritz Siebert, 82 min., OV with subtitles.
* presented by A. Marklund * subsequent discussion with Abu Bakar Sidibé
22:00 : Filmmuseum on Location
| No Country for old men
USA 2007, director: Ethan & Joel Coen, 122 min., OV.
* presented by Lennart Soberon
* in cooperation with the Austrian Filmmuseum
Sun, Apr 29Th
10:00 : Panel 4: Genre Borders
| 10:00 : Postkoloniale Dispositive
Black Cinema als transgressives Kino
Ivo Ritzer (Bayreuth) * lecture in German
| 10:45 : Building Borders
American Action Thriller and the Politics of Space
Lennart Soberon (Gent) * lecture in English
11:30 : Filmprogramme film:art 81: Border Lines & Border Crossings
* curated and presented by Christine Rüffert (Bremen)
* subsequent discussion with Moslem Salmani
| Best of Luck with the Wall
Josh Begley, USA 2016, 7 min.
| Koropa
Kaura Henno, F 2016, 19 min.
| Dirty Pictures (Hotel Diarys #6)
John Smith, Palestine 2007, 14 min.
| Women in Sink
Iris Zaki, ISR/GB 2015, 36 min.
| Exposure
Treasa O'Brien & Moslem Salmani, GR 2016, 1 min.
Subject to alterations!
Date and Venue:
April 25th to 29th, 2018
Bremen’s communal cinema CITY 46
Contact and Info:
Angela Rabing
Universit?t Bremen
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Karolin Leitermann
City 46
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