Bernd Schoch's Olanda is showing February and March, 2020 on Mubi as part of the series Direct from the Berlinale.
Above: Painting by Heiko Sievers, who painted a mushroom every day for over 10 years.It began with a picture-puzzle. When I was driving along the Romanian Transalpina on a round trip in 2012, I arrived at an intersection in Obarsia Lotrului after a never ending and uneventful route through the forests of the Carpathians. This tourist destination, an initially romantic-looking campsite, with campfires, playing children and clothes hung out to dry, upon closer inspection revealed its economic necessity. I saw people cleaning huge amounts of porcini mushrooms, chanterelles and blueberries, which were piled up in large heaps on tarpaulins on the ground, and transferring them into baskets and wooden boxes. This ambiguous image wouldn't let go of me.Franz Kafka wrote in his diary about the picture-puzzle that (what) is hidden inside,...
Above: Painting by Heiko Sievers, who painted a mushroom every day for over 10 years.It began with a picture-puzzle. When I was driving along the Romanian Transalpina on a round trip in 2012, I arrived at an intersection in Obarsia Lotrului after a never ending and uneventful route through the forests of the Carpathians. This tourist destination, an initially romantic-looking campsite, with campfires, playing children and clothes hung out to dry, upon closer inspection revealed its economic necessity. I saw people cleaning huge amounts of porcini mushrooms, chanterelles and blueberries, which were piled up in large heaps on tarpaulins on the ground, and transferring them into baskets and wooden boxes. This ambiguous image wouldn't let go of me.Franz Kafka wrote in his diary about the picture-puzzle that (what) is hidden inside,...
- 2/28/2020
- MUBI
Selection includes 39 titles and 31 world premieres.
This year’s Forum programme at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) will feature 39 films, including 31 world premieres.
The Forum brings together challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
Highlights include a Super 8 silent vision of Elfriede Jelinek’s ghost novel ’Die Kinder der Toten’ in a film of the same name by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska, Ghassan Salhab’s “essayistic collage” An Open Rose for which the filmmaker has used the letters from prison by Polish Marxist Rosa Luxembourg, and the documentary Landless, the...
This year’s Forum programme at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) will feature 39 films, including 31 world premieres.
The Forum brings together challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
Highlights include a Super 8 silent vision of Elfriede Jelinek’s ghost novel ’Die Kinder der Toten’ in a film of the same name by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska, Ghassan Salhab’s “essayistic collage” An Open Rose for which the filmmaker has used the letters from prison by Polish Marxist Rosa Luxembourg, and the documentary Landless, the...
- 1/18/2019
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
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