On the final day of the exhibition Eine Stadt als Atelier there will be a film screening at the Kölnischer Kunstverein’s cinema, Kino 813 in der BRÜCKE, organised in collaboration with Filmclub 813.
THE START
LE DÉPART
Belgium 1967, 92 mins, German-language version, b/w, 35mm
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
Screenplay by Andrzej Kostenko, Jerzy Skolimowski
Cinematography: Willy Kurant; Music: Krzysztof Komeda
Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Catherine Duport, Jacqueline Bir, Paul Roland
“Day in, day out, Marc stands in the hairdressing salon cutting strangers’ hair. His true passion, however, lies with fast cars. He secretly practises in his boss’s “borrowed” Porsche, his goal being to take part in a car race. When, of all days, the car is unavailable on the day of the race, a replacement has to be found at short notice. This leads to a wild chase through Brussels by night, the city as you’ve never seen it before. Krzysztof Komeda’s music whips the action along and propels Marc through bizarre adventures.”
(Claus Löser, Zeughauskino)
“Nothing less than a seminal work of modern cinema. A Belgian film by a Polish director that is more Nouvelle Vague than almost anything by Godard, Truffaut and co. Anyone who wants to know what the ‘Swinging Sixties’ – if they ever actually existed – must have felt like should watch Skolimowski’s masterpiece.”
(Lukas Foerster, Perlentaucher)
Followed by
SUNDAY
DIMANCHE
Belgium 1963, 18 mins, German-language version, b/w, 35mm
Written and directed by Edmond Bernhard
Cinematography by André Goeffers
“Filmmaker Edmond Bernhard gives us his impressions of an everyday Sunday in Brussels: an empty dormitory at a boarding school, a museum without visitors, children playing hide-and-seek […]. There is no conventional voice-over, but tremendous feeling for image aesthetics. The film was commissioned by the National Ministry of Education and Culture with the instruction that it dealth with ›the problem of spare time‹. Edmond Bernard evoked the emptiness and boredom in particular.”
(sabzian.be)
In cooperation with Filmclub 813
Admission by donation