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Dear, On the occassion of the publication of the latest Casopis za kritiko znanosti, domisljijo in novo antropologijo (published by SOU Studentska zalozba), D-Day 10 presents the triple bill titled ARMED UTOPIA, looking back on the urban guerilla and the armed struggle of the late seventies. At 6pm we present Loredana Bianconi's DO YOU REMEMBER REVOLUTION. For this documentary Bianconi interviewed at length four women who actively participated in the Leftist Armed Struggle in the Italy of the seventies. (More info: below) At 8.30pm: a panel discussion (in Slovene) on the radical left, titled: RAZOROZENE UTOPIJE, IZGUBLJENE ILUZIJE - USODA RADIKALNE LEVICE. Participants: Borut Brumen, Goran Ivanovic, Igor Luksic, Andrej Kurnik, Jana Rosker, Darij Zadnikar. At 10 pm: the legendary 1978-movie DEUTSCHLAND IM HERBST. GERMANY IN AUTUMN is the collective response by the representatives of the New German Cinema (a.o. Kluge, Fassbinder, Schlöndorff and Reitz) to the governmental "official version" of a Germany in deep political crisis. (More info: below). Hope to see you on Thursday in Slovenska kinoteka. Best regards, Koen Van Daele programme curator & coordinator ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IF YOU NO LONGER WISH TO RECEIVE THESE D-DAY- ANNOUNCEMENTS, please reply with "REMOVE" in the subject of your message. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PROGRAM - DETAILS D-Day 10: Dan za dokumentarec April 15, 1999 Slovenska kinoteka, Ljubljana AT 6 pm: DO YOU REMEMBER REVOLUTION Dir.: Loredana Bianconi; phot. & cam.: Alain Marcoen; sound: Thierry de Halleux; editing: Karine Pourtaud; sound mix: Thierry de Halleux & Michel Goossen; producer: Veronique Marit; executive prod.: Jean-Pierre Dardenne; prod.: DERIVES; coprod.: ZDF, Wallonie Image Production, RTBF Liege; with the support of: Fonds Televisuel de la Communaute Francaise de Belgique et de la Region Wallone 116 minutes, colour, video, 1997. (Italian spoken - English subtitles) "In Italy, in the mid-seventies, Adriana, Barbara, Nadia and Susanna were 20 years old when they decided to join the armed struggle and leave behind their social life and their families in order to make the revolution the centre and the aim of their existence.Today they reappear, after many years in prison, and they try, each of them, to recount their own experiences. They speak about the political reasons which initially sustained them, the conflicts, the doubts, and the moments of being torn apart, which marked out their lives as women caught up in the vortex of war. A course of events which ended in the condemnation of the armed struggle and the pain of the lives that were destroyed - their victims' lives and their own." (Bianconi) In her documentary DO YOU REMEMBER REVOLUTION, the Italian director Loredana Bianconi interviewed at length four women who actively participated in the Leftist Armed Struggle in the Italy of the 70ies. All of them were leading figures in the Red Brigades. One of them, Susanna, left the Brigades in '75 to found Prima Linea. Bianconi opens her poignant film with a personal note, recalling the revolutionary years: "We participated in the same revolt. Utopia invaded the streets. (...)" Then she cuts to archival images shot by Italian State TV. We see the four protagonists at their trial. Bianconi stripped the images of their incriminating sound-track. It's clear. She has no intention to judge their actions, nor their lives. Instead she has decided to listen. So for the rest of the film she will stay manifestly absent. Consequently we hear no sensational -- and very few anecdotal -- aspects of these women's revolutionary lives. Instead, we listen to answers on questions no judge ever asked them. Answers on questions they were dealing with, individually, for many years. They evoke the Italy of the beginning of the 70ies, in the aftermath of 68. The times of serious social unrest and rebellion. The days of the class-struggle, of the fight against Capital, of the workers and student-demonstrations, of the anti-fascist movement, of the proletarian counter-power. The years of the IRA and ETA, of Angola, Vietnam, and Chile, of Che and Mao. In short: the days of the events that marked a whole generation. Then, Barbara, Nadia, Adriana and Susanna talk about their decision to join the armed struggle. A decision that was all-demanding. A radical choice that required not only giving up most of what they had, but also put at risk their very existence. They bring up issues they simply could not afford to talk about while living in clandestinity, in the "eternal present". They talk about the use of violence. Although the political discourse on the issue was crystal-clear, there's a huge difference between consenting with a strategy, and actually carrying out that strategy. As Susanna points out: politics can demand and justify actions, which are not necessarily ethically justified. Urban guerrilla required that the border between politics and morality remained closed. As a matter of self-defence. They talk about the mistakes, the crisis of the movement, their imprisonment, their pain. Do You Remember Revolution shows us how four exceptional women look back at their common cause. This is not a mythic, sloganesque, nor apologetic discourse, but a personal one. We hear four different ways of remembering, and living with, a common past. A past which today, everybody tells us to renounce, to reject, to forget. Loredana Bianconi, and the four women in her film, remind us to have the courage to remember. (kvd) At 8.30 pm: RAZOROZENE UTOPIJE, IZGUBLJENE ILUZIJE - USODA RADIKALNE LEVICE panel discussion (in Slovene) Participants: Borut Brumen, Goran Ivanovic, Igor Luksic, Andrej Kurnik, Jana Rosker, Darij Zadnikar. At 10 pm: DEUTSCHLAND IM HERBST (Germany in Autumn) Dir.: Heinrich Böll, Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert, Bernhard Sinkel, Peter Steinbach; phot.: Michael Ballhaus, Jürgen Jürges, Bodo Kessler, Dietrich Lohmann, Colin Nounier, Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein; editors: Heidi Genée, Mulle Götz-Dickopp, Tanja Schmidbauer, Christian Warnck; featuring: Wolfgang Baechler, Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann, Joachim Bissmeyer, Caroline Chaniolleau, H.P. Cloos, Otto Friebel, Hildegard Friese, Michael Gahr, Vadim Glowna, Helmut Griern, Horatius Haeberle, Hannelore Hoger, Petra Kiener, Dieter Laser, Horst Mahler, Lisi Mangold, Eva Meier, Enno Patalas, Franz Priegel, Werner Poosardt, Leon Rainer, K. Rupé, Walter Schmiedinger, Gerhard Schneider, Corinna Spies, Eric Vilgertshofer, Franziska Walser, Angela Winkler, Manfred Zapatka, Kollektiv "Rote Rübe"; prod.: Theo Hinz, Eberhard Junkersdorf; coprod.: Pro-jekt Filmproduktion im Filmverlag der Autoren, Hallelujah-Film, Kairos-Film. 1978, 116 min., col., 35mm - 1:1,37. (German spoken, simult. translation into Slovene) Germany, Autumn 1977. The kidnapping and assassination of a German industrialist and former Nazi official by the RAF. The subsequent "mysterious" deaths of 3 members of the Baader-Meinhof group in Stammheim prison. The emergence of the police-state with its extreme repressive measures, such as news black-outs and the witch-hunt of leftist sympathisers,. A country in a deep political crisis. The desire for a deeper historical understanding of Germany's repressed past became overwhelming, since all these events resonated with memories of the psychological terrorism of the Hitler regime. A number of film-directors associated with the New German Cinema (such as Kluge, Fassbinder, Schlöndorff, and Reitz) collaborated to produce a film that would be both a chronicle and commentary of the German autumn. Their collective film Deutschland im Herbst was a means of answering the government's "official" version of events with an alternative perspective. The 15 to 30 minutes contributions by individual film-makers are not individually identified, even though the final look of the film clearly carries the signatures of Alexander Kluge and his editor, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus. On its surface, the film imitates the structure of a TV programme, with a mixture of documentary shots, interviews, and fictional scenes. But it shows images, tells stories, and provides perspectives that would not have been possible on German TV. Fassbinder discusses with his mother the value of "democracy". Kluge's history teacher digs with her spade for the roots of German history. Heinrich Böll wrote a sketch about the upended Antigone. In a Hollywood-style parody Katja Rupé and Hans Peter Cloos sketch the fear of terrorists and the general paranoia of those days. In Deutschland im Herbst the New German Cinema articulated itself as a group, unified not by style but by an oppositional political stance. In discussing the goals of their undertaking, the directors emphasized that they had not tried to present a unified theory to account for terrorism. "Something seemingly simpler roused us: the general German amnesia. For two hours of film, we try to retain memory". And they voiced their specific determination: "We want to deal with the images of our country". More images of their country would follow. Just think of HEIMAT (Reitz); DIE BLECHTROMMEL (Schlöndorff); Kluge's DIE PATRIOTIN ; Fassbinder's trilogy DIE EHE DER MARIA BRAUN - LOLA and DIE SEHNSUCHT DER VERONIKA VOSS; and his BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ;.. More on GERMANY IN AUTUMN @: http://www.lainet.com/world/germany_in_autumn.htm ("The strongest is a 30-minute sequence directed by and starring Fassbinder... viciously probing the contradiction of personal and political, of fiction and non-fiction." --Amy Taubin, Soho Weekly News; "An outcry against hysteria, hypocrisy, and inhumanity." --Variety) or @: http://home.t-online.de/home/futura_filmverlag/herbst.htm +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TICKETS: at 6pm: 500 SIT at 8.30 pm: free at 10pm: 600 SIT Complete D-Day 10: 800 SIT +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The series D-Day: Dan za dokumentarec is produced by OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE SLOVENIA; in collaboration with OPEN SOCIETY NETWORK PROGRAMS - SOROS DOCUMENTARY FUND (New York). Executive producer: SLOVENSKA KINOTEKA. D-Day 10 is organised in collaboration with CASOPIS ZA KRITIKO ZNANOSTI, DOMISLJIJO IN NOVO ANTROPOLOGIJO and SOU - STUDENTSKA ZALOZBA. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PRESS-PICTURES ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. <<<END OF MESSAGE>>> Koen Van Daele Program coordinator D-Day: Dan za dokumentarec phone: -386-61/329.184 fax: -386-61/13.23.092 email: Koen.VanDaele@guest.arnes.si ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/east/ to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress