{"id":81754,"date":"2018-01-24T12:12:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T11:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diagonale.at\/zum-kollektiv-filmladen\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T13:16:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T11:16:33","slug":"zum-kollektiv-filmladen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.diagonale.at\/en\/zum-kollektiv-filmladen\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on: Filmladen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spotlight on: Filmladen \u00a9 Diagonale\/Elodie Grethen<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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On the occasion of the Filmladen film distributor\u2019s 40th anniversary, the Diagonale highlights the early phase of an institution that began as the consortium of four personalities from the Austrian film branch.<\/p>\n
In the upcoming edition of the festival, the Diagonale will dedicate the Spotlight on<\/u> program, with which it has highlighted distinctive signatures in Austrian film production in past years, for the first time to a collective. The program series will focus not only on a film distributor crucial for the Austrian film branch, but also on its central protagonists: founding members Josef Aichholzer, Ruth Beckermann, and Franz Grafl, as well as Michael Stejskal, who joined the group a short time after its founding and continues to preside over the Filmladen as distributor until today.<\/p>\n
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Film Program<\/h4>\n
Auf amol a Streik<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(D: Josef Aichholzer, Ruth Beckermann, AT 1978), Short documentary film
\nFlaschenkinder<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(D: Peter Krieg, DE 1975), Short documentary film
\nMababangong Bangungot<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(D: Kidlat Tahimik, DE\/PH 1977), Feature film
\nMalambo<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(D: Milan Dor, AT 1986), Feature film
\nMourir \u00e0 tue-t\u00eate<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(D: Anne Claire Poirier, CA 1978), Feature film
\nSalt of the Earth<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(D: Herbert Biberman, US 1954), Feature film
\nSenderos<\/em><\/a> (D: Leo Gabriel, AT 1989), Short film<\/p>\n
In the 1970s, when the Filmladen collective formed, apart from the Austrian Film Museum, Austrian film culture concentrated on initiatives such as the Freies Kino, the Action Kino, and several film clubs located in university institutes. The situation was also similar in Innsbruck, Graz, Linz, and Salzburg. During the occupation of the Arena in 1976, the collective\u2019s first cinema program was offered an ideal location for an entire summer: the pigsty at the St. Marx slaughterhouse. The Filmladen ultimately emerged from these activities in 1978, and brought politically relevant films to Austria, offering a powerful signal in opposition to the conformism of the media landscape at the time. Tying in with the festival\u2019s historical special, the Spotlight on<\/u> series traces the efforts of the early Filmladen collective and opens the issue of how international film and cinema culture reached the regions beyond the country\u2019s capital. While in the provincial cinemas Heimatfilme<\/em> or lewd fare were playing, the Filmladen was attempting the largely unknown Autorenkino<\/em> \u2013 long before terms such as Arthouse Cinema had emerged. As distributors, and as filmmakers, the three founding members and Stejskal proved to be idealistically and politically alert in all of their activities \u2013 and undoubtedly contributed to the politicizing of the Austrian film scene. What they offered was taken up for good reason by film clubs, Catholic and left-wing one-world groups, peace activists, unions, women\u2019s groups, and anti-nuclear organizations.<\/p>\n
It can also be said that although the films from the early days of the Filmladen sometimes appear aesthetically outdated in 2018, they nonetheless deal with themes that are just as topical today as they were back then: In Herbert Biberman\u2019s film Salt of the Earth<\/em> (US 1954), for example, a woman speaks out against her husband who has just raised his hand to slap her. \u2013 Programmatic, and not by chance, the first film offered by the Filmladen. Like many of the works shown, Salt of the Earth<\/em> is a re-discovery, its screening in the cinema is a true special feature, and a rare opportunity to see a film such as this on the screen.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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An international program at the Diagonale\u201918 will also be showing Auf amol a Streik\u00a0<\/em>(AT 1978) by Josef Aichholzer and Ruth Beckermann, Malambo<\/em> (AT 1986) by Milan Dor, Flaschenkinder<\/em> (DE 1975) by Peter Krieg, Mababangong Bangungot<\/em> (DE\/PH 1977) by Kidlat Tahimik, and Mourir \u00e0 tue-t\u00eate<\/em> (CA 1978) by Anne Claire Poirier.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Mababangong Bangungot<\/em> tells the story of young Kidlat, who lives with his mother in a village on the Philippines and dreams of going to America. One day it seems that Kidlat\u2019s dreams have come true. An American man takes him with him, first on a long journey to Europe, where, confronted with a technocratic, cold industrial society, he begins to question his earlier dreams.Flaschenkinder<\/em> focuses on the problem and the effects of the distribution of artificial baby food in Africa by the Nestl\u00e9 concern. \u201cThe theme did not appear on TV in the late 1970s\u201d, says Franz Grafl, who addresses the film as a typical broadsheet film: \u201cIt informs. But its commentary does not make an effort at objectivity, which can never exist in journalism, anyway.\u201d In the context of the Diagonale im Dialog<\/u> series, Michael Loebenstein (Director, Austrian Film Museum) invites to an extended talk with the Filmladen collective after the short film.<\/p>\n
Malambo<\/em> portrays an endearing community of \u201ccloud pushers\u201d, and \u201ccastle in the sky builders\u201d, who dream of another life. \u201cThis film awakened our interest in new Austrian film\u201d, recalls Grafl. The casually uttered statement by the then ORF director Gerd Bacher, \u201cAustrian film takes place at ORF\u201d, was countered by the vibrant and impressive experience of a trip to the cinema, for which the majority of the team worked free of charge. A further program juxtaposes two films about strikes: In Salt of the Earth,<\/em> Mexican mine workers struggle for equal rights with their American colleagues, while Auf amol a Streik<\/em> documents the only strike in Austria since the end of the war to last more than three weeks, which occurred in the Semperit tire factory in Traiskirchen in May 1978.<\/p>\n
Finally, Mourir \u00e0 tue-t\u00eate<\/em> shows the history of a brutal rape and its consequences through to a woman\u2019s suicide. By fading in documentary recordings, the film goes beyond Suzanne\u2019s personal fate and draws links to other forms of women\u2019s social repression. A significant film in the campaign by Johanna Dohnal, the State Secretary for General Women\u2019s Affairs at the time, for the later founding of the Commission on Equal Treatment.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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