film:art

Christine Rüffert
23. Internationales Bremer Symposium zum Film: Grenzüberschreitendes Kino. 25.04.-25.04.2018 im Kino City46. Universität Bremen.

The label film:art covers programmes of  "artistic" films, mainly experimental works, avant-garde films and forms of media art. The programmes are being curated and presented by Christine Rüffert.

The programme series has been running on a regular basis since 1992. It also complements current exhibitions in Art Museums and other cultural events in the city of Bremen. Screening place is the Communal Cinema Bremen / CITY 46.

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Porn Classics

18:30: film:art 97 at CITY 46, Bremen

Pornography aims at sexual stimulation of the viewers. Artistic and experimental film follows a different concept when  showing sexual acts. There may for example be an autobiographical impulse to find pictures to erotic phantasies. But even when showing ordinary sexual intercourse  or masturbation the aesthetics of the film will refuse maximal visibility as is requested by pornography.  Moreover playful mise-en-scene often confronts normative  assumptions about sex and gender conformity.
The programme shows that this transgressive impetus  has been part of avantgarde-film history right from the 1940s  up to present day queer-activist performances.

The event is part of the lecture series  „Critical Porn Studies – Künstlerisch-mediale Positionen und neue Perspektiven“ that investigates artistic and queer-feminist strategies and medial production and reception processes of pornography.

Tu 18.07.2023, 18:30 h at CITY 46, curated and introduced by Christine Rüffert | Universität Bremen

The films:

   | Kenneth Anger | Fireworks | USA 1947 | 13:30
   | Michael Brynntrup | All you can eat | D 1993 | 35mm | 5:30
   Barbara Hammer | Multiple Orgasm | USA 1976 | 16mm | 6:00
   | Carolee Schneeman | Fuses | USA 1964 | sil. | 16mm| 25:00
   | Ashley Hans Scheirl | 1/2 Frösche Ficken Flink| A 1992-96 | 16mm | 18:00

schemenhafte Körper mit Froschmasken im Sexakt