Copy & Paste: The history of film is one of influences, references, and homages between creative minds. Join F.W. Murnau, Werner Herzog, Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki and Matthias Müller & Christoph Girardet in our latest GOETHE FILMS @ TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto March 3 + 5 + 10 as these influential filmmakers remake, remix, reimagine film and films in three screenings of double features.We are closing our 6-film series with a Müller & Girardet double bill on March 10 of montages of melodramas of the 1950s and 1960s, starring the likes of Lana Turner, Tippi Hedren, and Grace Kelly, as well as the artists' re-edits of excerpts from 40 Hitchcock films, revealing motifs, cliches and recurring plot lines. I asked Toronto-born Robin Curtis --a filmmaker, curator and professor for the "Theorie und Praxis audiovisueller Medien" at the Institute for Media and Culture Studies at Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf and the co-author of “Matthias Müller – The Memo Book”-- to relate the two films in the program:
"In the 1980s and 1990s we depended on videotapes to access that particular form of collective memory that Hollywood films maintain. Clips of elegantly appointed homes and the women that inhabit them are gleaned from such tapes of melodramas and thrillers and are woven together in HOME STORIES, one of the earliest of Matthias Müller’s many found footage films, to form one seemingly continuous movement in a single cinematic space. HOME STORIES lays bare the bones of these genres, with the specifics of each individual narrative already having been picked away through editing. Continue reading "Copy & Paste: On Matthias Müller &..." »
