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Event Date as Display String:

Friday, January 24, 2020, 7:00pm - 7:45pm

Location:

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/i-stayed-in-berlin-all-summer

Event Description:

The last short Schanelec made before her debut feature, "I Stayed in
Berlin All Summer" confirms her commitment to narrative filmmaking
while brazenly flouting the conventions of film grammar. The opening,
which introduces the two central couples, scrambles continuity to
heady effect. Schanelec's aesthetic strategies might be initially
disorienting, but the storytelling remains perfectly coherent. The
character configuration gradually crystallizes, while the startling
editing and non-naturalistic performances grant us keen insight into
the couples' respective dissatisfaction and sense of estrangement. The
issue of understanding — paradoxically both the primary preoccupation
of Schanelec's cinema and, for many viewers, the primary obstacle to
its appreciation — is directly addressed in the conclusion. Nadine, an
aspiring author not coincidentally played by Schanelec herself, says
she wants readers to understand her writing, but in the way that music
is understood, as a rush of memories, as an indescribable, yet
unmistakable feeling. - Giovanni Marchini Camia

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Event Start Date as Date Type:

Friday, January 24, 2020 - 19:00 to 19:45

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