"We need to believe that what we want to say has happened, because it remains true that only what really exists in us - our style and our time as objects of our knowledge - is worth the effort of being written." (Ingemo Engström in "About Narration")
Tag: Ingemo Engström
“The first year group at the Filmhochschule München. Tabula rasa. Any long-held sentimentality about watching films was supposed to disappear, university knowledge shredded, scattered. All that remained was our own work and watching, watching, watching.” (Ingemo Engström)
A small selection of texts written by the outstanding film critic and translator Frieda Grafe, complemented by a speech from Harun Farocki.
The screening is part of the #Forum 50 series of the Berlinale.
In 1977 Ingemo Engström and Gerhard Theuring embark on a journey through France. They trace the escape route of the German emigration in France 1940/41 (...).
Texts and documents concerning the production context at "Westdeutscher Rundfunk", Cologne
The film combines enacted scenes and historical material and is about the past and present of Levantkade in Amsterdam’s old harbor (...)
See German post.
Harun Farocki saw the film in 1971 at the Hamburger Filmschau. In the succeeding years, he worked closely with Engström.