The Old Film is Dead - We Believe in the New!
A talk in conjunction with the Friends of Speyer looking back… looking back at Germany’s answer to the French Nouvelle Vague, accompanied by a screening of Fassbinder’s classic ‘Fear Eats the Soul.’
New German Cinema was a reaction to the stagnation of the German film industry and the broader social and political transformations occurring in post-World War Two West Germany. Heavily influenced by Italian neo-realism and the French Nouvelle Vague, a new generation of filmmakers emerged (including, most notably, Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, Schlondorff and von Trotta) intent on creating a new national film language and identity. From the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, often working with small budgets, they sought to engage with contemporary German reality by confronting and assimilating the nation's recent past. The movement saw German cinema return to international significance for the first time since the end of Weimar. Mike Jennings and John Harte of the Cinema's Education Team will give an illustrated talk which will explore the context in which it emerged, identifying important themes and showing clips from films by some of the key players.
100m inc Q&A
Tickets £8
Tue 7 Oct 18:00
