German director Angela Schanelec’s films have a rhythm and tone all their own, mysterious yet moving, they unearth the metaphysics rumbling beneath the placid surface of everyday life. Her work with actors is like that of no other filmmaker, a radical approach to performance that draws on her own background in theater traditions as much as kind of Bressonian anti-naturalism. Likely the most singular and underappreciated among the contemporary German filmmakers collectively known as the Berlin School, Schanelec makes films that achieve nothing less than the rendering of the human soul on screen. To coincide with the February 14 opening at Film at Lincoln Center of her latest feature, I Was at Home, But…, a Cinema Guild release, Schanelec joins us for a complete retrospective of her astonishing and audacious body of work, plus a small selection of films picked by the filmmaker herself.
Throughout the retrospective, the Viennale’s new collection of writing on Schanelec and her work, Textur: Angela Schanelec, will be available for purchase at Film at Lincoln Center.
Organized by Dennis Lim and Dan Sullivan. Presented with support from German Films.
Acknowledgments:
Deutsche Kinemathek, Cinema Guild, Goethe-Institut New York, Korean Academy of Film Arts, TIFF Cinematheque, Harvard Film Archive.
Date: 02/07-13/20
Location: FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, New York, NY 10023
Price: $15 ($12 seniors, students, and people with disabilities)
For more information and details of the filmprogram please visit www.goethe.de