›Bodies in Film‹ - The 2024 Restrospective

This year's retrospective shows a rich variety of different representations of the body in cinema and brings you closer to the relevant genres and questions of content as you wander through time. Festival director Dr. Sascha Keilholz and curator Hannes Brühwiler have selected a total of 12 works. They also illustrate how the representation of bodies has changed since the beginnings of cinema: From silent movies to the present day, from Buster Keaton's early slapstick films, in which much of the comedy comes from breakneck stunts, to digitally created bodies in modern science fiction cinema. It is about our own and others' perceptions of the body as well as questions of identity, sexuality, race and disability, political resistance and power relations between the sexes.

›Steamboat Bill, Jr.‹ (D.: Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton, USA, 1928)
›Freaks‹ (D.: Tod Browning, USA, 1932)
›Die roten Schuhe‹ (D.: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1948)
›Black Girl‹ (D.: Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, Frankreich, 1966)
›Videodrome‹ (D.: David Cronenberg, Canada, 1983)
›Terminator 2: Tag der Abrechnung‹ (D.: James Cameron, USA, 1991)
›The Watermelon Woman‹ (D.: Cheryl Dunye, USA, 1996)
›Audition‹ (D.: Takashi Miike, Japan, Südkorea, 1999)
›Meine Schwester‹ (Catherine Breillat, Frankreich, 2001)
›In the Cut‹ (D.: Jane Campion, UK, Australien, Frankreich, 2003)
›Hunger‹ (D.: Steve McQueen, UK, Irland, 2008)
›The Raid‹ (D.: Gareth Evans, Indonesien, Frankreich, 2011)