Dienstag 20.03.2012
20.30 Uhr
vorgestellt von Thomas Moritz Helm
SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE WALL | USA 1990 | 88min | englische Originalversion | Buch, Regie, Kamera und Schnitt: Marilyn Levine & Ross McElwee | Mit: Ross McElwee und Marilyn Levine
Nach SHERMAN'S MARCH zeige ich heute SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE WALL. Ross McElwee drehte den Film zusammen mit seiner Freundin Marylin Levine. Die beiden begannen mit der Arbeit an dem Film im Jahr 1986, als sie zur Premiere von SHERMAN'S MARCH in Berlin waren. Insofern gibt es zwischen den beiden Filmen eine ganz praktische Verbindung. Ich kenne den Film zwar noch nicht, aber ausgehend von dem was ich gelesen habe, scheinen die Filmmemacher hier in gewisser Weise das Ende der aus SHERMAN'S MARCH bekannten "Era of Nuclear Weapons Profileration" zu dokumentieren und somit einige Themen aus dem letzten Film wieder aufzunehmen. Ich bin gespannt wie es dem "filmmaker protagonist, this character that I've created" diesmal ergeht und auf welche Weise sich die zweite Regisseurin Marylin Levine in den Film einbringt.
''A meditation on the absurd vagaries of history: Growing up in 1950s America, McElwee and Marilyn Levine were brought up on a steady diet of Cold War paranoia. So were the West Germans they began filming in 1986. But as the Berlin Wall came down three years later and hard-line Communism collapsed with it, the filmmakers and their subjects were suddenly faced with a new world order''
(Museum of Modern Art)
"The Wall had been erected in 1961, during my childhood, and was the seminal Cold War monument of the era - a flashpoint between the US and Russia which made the possibility of nuclear armageddon very real to everyone alive then. I hadn't thought much about the Wall since we had been in Berlin - I'd been to dazzled and distracted by the film festival - but when I first saw it snaking across the snow- covered cityscape, so startling with its bright spray-painted graffiti, I was quite amazed by it. What must it be like to live next to this thing, as many people obviously did? It had become the elephant in the room that everyone wanted to ignore. And the elephant had been there for almost a quarter century."
(Ross McElwee)
Our friends back in Boston became fond of telling a joke about us:
Question: Who are the only three people in the world who are sad that the wall has come down?
Answer: East German communist party boss Erich Honecker, Ross, and Marilyn.
Trailer: http://rossmcelwee.com/somethingtodowiththewall.html
Nochmal das Video-Interview auf Cargo: http://www.cargo-film.de/thema-reihe/us-indie/southern-stories-ross-mcelwee-im-gesprach/
''A meditation on the absurd vagaries of history: Growing up in 1950s America, McElwee and Marilyn Levine were brought up on a steady diet of Cold War paranoia. So were the West Germans they began filming in 1986. But as the Berlin Wall came down three years later and hard-line Communism collapsed with it, the filmmakers and their subjects were suddenly faced with a new world order''
(Museum of Modern Art)
"The Wall had been erected in 1961, during my childhood, and was the seminal Cold War monument of the era - a flashpoint between the US and Russia which made the possibility of nuclear armageddon very real to everyone alive then. I hadn't thought much about the Wall since we had been in Berlin - I'd been to dazzled and distracted by the film festival - but when I first saw it snaking across the snow- covered cityscape, so startling with its bright spray-painted graffiti, I was quite amazed by it. What must it be like to live next to this thing, as many people obviously did? It had become the elephant in the room that everyone wanted to ignore. And the elephant had been there for almost a quarter century."
(Ross McElwee)
Our friends back in Boston became fond of telling a joke about us:
Question: Who are the only three people in the world who are sad that the wall has come down?
Answer: East German communist party boss Erich Honecker, Ross, and Marilyn.
Trailer: http://rossmcelwee.com/somethingtodowiththewall.html
Nochmal das Video-Interview auf Cargo: http://www.cargo-film.de/thema-reihe/us-indie/southern-stories-ross-mcelwee-im-gesprach/
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