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VISION opens KINO!2010 at MoMA in New York

2010-04-07

German Films presents KINO!2010: New Cinema from Germany as part of the annual survey at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from 21 April – 2 May. With the support of the Goethe-Institut in New York, the German Consulate General and the Deutsches Haus, a total of ten recent German films, including six documentaries, will be shown in the presence of several of the German artists.

KINO!2010 will be opened by VISION (VISION – AUS DEM LEBEN DER HILDEGARD VON BINGEN) by Margarethe von Trotta, with the director and the lead actress Barbara Sukowa in attendance. Laurence Kardish, senior curator of the Film & Media Department at the MoMA, focuses this year on the stronger presence of the German documentary. There are screenings of ALL MY FATHERS (ALLE MEINE VAETER) in the presence of the director Jan Raiber; COMRADE COUTURE (EIN TRAUM IN ERDBEERFOLIE) by Marco Wilms, who will be in New York with the costume designer Sabine von Oettingen; FROM RAMSTEIN WITH LOVE (LIEBESGRUESSE AUS RAMSTEIN) by Irene Langemann, THE WONDROUS WORLD OF LAUNDRY (DIE WUNDERSAME WELT DER WASCHKRAFT) by Hans-Christian Schmid and the Academy Awardâ-nominated Polish-German documentary short RABBIT À LA BERLIN (MAUERHASEN) by Bartek Konopka and Piotr Rosolowski.

Enrique Sánchez Lansch will be also on hand to present his DAS REICHSORCHESTER – THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC AND THE THIRD REICH (DAS REICHSTORCHESTER – DIE BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER UND DER NATIONALSOZIALISMUS). In this context, the New York Goethe-Institut organizes a panel discussion at the Wyoming Building with Enrique Sánchez Lansch and Susanne Schneider (THE DAY WILL COME/ES KOMMT DER TAG) as well as her lead actress Katharina Schuettler about the Third Reich and RAF terrorism. The discussion will be moderated by the writer and director Pia Frankenberg. Andreas Dresen‘s comedy WHISKY WITH VODKA (WHISKY MIT WODKA) and the German Films short film program NEXT GENERATION 2009 will also be screened at this year’s KINO! event.

The Museum of Modern Art will also show three recent acquisitions as part of the film program: THE EDUKATORS (DIE FETTEN JAHRE SIND VORBEI) by Hans Weingartner, INTO GREAT SILENCE (DIE GROSSE STILLE) by Philipp Groening and REQUIEM by Hans-Christian Schmid.

The event’s partners are The Museum of Modern Art; support from the Goethe-Institut in New York, German Consul-General New York and Deutsches Haus.

Further information on the complete program can be found at www.moma.org, www.goethe.de/newYork, www.nyu.edu/deutscheshaus.

For details please contact Nicole Kaufmann, Email: kaufmann@german-films.de.