Archive 2003
SPECIAL EVENTS
Schloss Vogelöd
Director: F.W. Murnau, D 1921, 75 min, 35 mm, SM
Fr, October 31 20:00 Staatstheater Kleines Haus
Sa, November 1 20:00 Staatstheater Kleines Haus
A castle, a hunting party, heavy rainfall. A strange guest appears - Count Johann Oetsch. Rumours about him say he has killed his brother years before. The dead man's widow, Baroness Safferstädt, is also staying in the castle. The atmosphere is getting more and more irritated.
The score will be played live by
Manuel Göttsching
Especially for the 17th Braunschweig International Film Festival the organization commissioned the famous musician and composer Manuel Göttsching to write new music for the silent classic "Schloß Vogelöd/Vogelöd Castle", an early and less well known film by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.
The film's original score has been lost. Commissioned by the Braunschweig Film Festival, Manuel Göttsching will interpret the music anew. He was founder and main member of the legendary group Ash Ra Tempel which together with Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream stood for innovation and avant garde in the late 60s, early 70s. Göttsching achieved fame through his use of the E-guitar in electronic music. His legendary album "E2-E4" with his minimal guitar sounds and swinging rhythms is one of the most important forerunners of the techno generation.
Göttsching will personally play his composition for two violins, a cello, two horns and electronics with the chamber music ensemble in the state theatre on October 31 and November 1, 2003.
Discography (Excerpt)
| 1971 | Ash Ra Tempel | |
| 1972 | Schwingungen | |
| 1975 | Inventions for electrig guitar | |
| 1977 | Blackouts | |
| 1989 | Walkin' the Desert | |
| 1998 | @shra | |
| 2000 | Friendship |
Durchgedreht 24 - selbst.film.fest
Fr, October 31 10:45 CinemaxX 3
What does it take to make a short film within 24 hours, with a 5 subjects handicap, 1 camera, and not being allowed to edit? More than 200 film-makers have found out at this year's first "Durchgedreht 24" film-making festival in Braunschweig. The 10 winner-films will be shown at the 17. International Filmfestival Braunschweig.
HBK Braunschweig 2003
We, October 29 22:15 CinemaxX 3
It has become a tradition to screen recent film and video work from the local school of art (HBK) in its own special programme at filmfest Braunschweig. Since 1972 there has been a special film-as-fine-arts studies course on offer at the school. All manner of films are made and encouraged, including experimental, documentary, animated and narrative works, as well as now popular video and multi-media installations and internet art. The common element to all these projects is a personal, individual vision, free of all censorship and commercial pressures.
Script writer's workshop
Tu, October 28 and We, October 29
In co-operation with the Brunswick Authors' Bureau, an association of authors, directors and journalists, the Brunswick International Film Festival is organizing for the first time this year a script writer's workshop. This intensive two-day seminar is not directed at professionals but at those who have ideas and stories they would like to put into script form.
The concept of the seminar stems from the classical story film and takes the participant from choice of material to its development (ie. development of a character with background, surroundings, motives, aims) to its finished written form (scene techniques, script form, film speech) to the development of the narrative structure. Especial attention is dedicated to the structure of the dialogues and the introduction into the technique of "framing".
The material is deepened by exercises in visualization and setting the scenes for the individual dialogues. Two promising participants will have the opportunity of being attended afterwards all the way to completion.
Founded in 2002 as an association of directors, authors and journalists from the Brunswick region, the Brunswick Authors. Bureau serves all media genres in Germany. Whether print, radio, film or television - all formats will be developed, looked after and put into practice. As a young enterprise which aims at making itself noticed the Authors. Bureau is always interested in challenges and new colleagues who want to impart what they know to others.
Late Night Talks
Th, October 30 to Sa, November 1 24:00 CinemaxX
Traditionally directors, actors and film-creatives are guests at the "Late Night Talks". From Thursday to Saturday Peter Claus from Deutschland Radio Berlin talk with Barbara Albert, Dagur Kari, Horst Krassa, Antoine Duhamel, Katrin Saß and other guests.
CinemaxX, in front of cinema 5, 24:00 o'clock
Location tour
Sa, November 1
The Brunswick International Film Festival and nordmedia, the association of the provinces of Lower Saxony and Bremen, offer film makers a tour to selected film locations in Lower Saxony. On November 1 it leaves for Goslar, where two large-scale works produced by nordmedia, which are now in German cinemas, were shot.
Immediately before the television premiere of "The miracle of Lengede" we will inspect the location of this film. The production company Zeitsprung filmed the drama of the 1963 mining catastrophe in Goslar, Lehrte and Lengede. The flooding scenes were shot in Goslar in a unique "water studio", the only one of its kind in Germany. An old ore wash plant was transformed with great difficulty to serve as the background for this scene.
The studio also offers producers the prospect of shooting spectacular water scenes here in future - for example, the flooding of narrow streets, mines, boots or the underground. The famous film architect Götz Weidner ("The Boat", "U-571") designed this studio.
Goslar was also the scene of the political thiller "Baltic Storm" (release October 16, 2003), which examines the sinking in the Baltic of the ferry Estonia. In this international production star Donald Sutherland, Greta Scacchi and Jürgen Prochnow. In addition to the historical city centre an old army camp was used as background as well.
filmfest
Breakfast in the CinemaxX
October 29 - November 2
Lange Straße 60
| October 29 - October 31 | 10.00 am in front of the counter | |
| November 1 - November 2 | 10.00 am - 1.00 pm in front of CinemaxX 5 |