Retrospective

Friday July 2nd 2004 21.30hrs in kino arsenal 2

'Has the film already begun? - A journey through the history of the poetic text film.’

Presented by Michael Lentz.

What lies nearer than literature? And what is further away than its comprehension? Can a hand-animated film be poetry? And what do all the words and drawings in these films have to look for?
When poetic artists such as, among others, Nubuo Kubota, Maurice Lemaître, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Walter Ruttmann, Paul Ghawits, make films, poetry is defined afresh.

Films
Marc Adrian: ‘text 1, text 2’ (1964); Random (1964)
Alessandro Amaducci: extract from ‘ARRIGO LORA-TOTINO’; Il teatro della parola (1996).
Nubuo Kubota: extract from ‘Nubuo Kubota at the Western Front Part II’
Maurice Lemaître: extract from ‘Le film est déjà commence?’
Dieter Roth: ‘letter’ (1962)
Gerhard Rühm: ‘kinematographischer text 2’ (1969/70)
Walter Ruttmann: Opus II – IV (1923-25)
Paul Sharits: ‘Word Movie’ (1966) and extracts from the films ‘T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G’ and ‘N,O,T,H,I,N,G’ (both 1968)
Gil Joseph Wolman: extracts from ‘L’Anticoncept’ (1951)