Brinkmann's Wrath (Brinkmanns Zorn)
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Director: Harald Bergmann.
Germany, 2007.
105 mins. German with English subtitles.
* We regret to announce that due to technical difficulties BRINKMANN'S WRATH will no longer be screening in the Festival. *
Harald Bergmann's film charts the final days in the life of German poet and novelist Rolf Dieter Brinkmann who died in an accident in London in April 1975, aged 35. 18 months before his death, whilst distancing himself from the literary scene, Brinkmann obtained a Uher Reporter tape recorder and recorded his thoughts, his friends, his environment, and the sounds of the city of Cologne, as well as generating large quantities of Super 8 film and thousands of Instamatic snapshots, which he collaged with texts and printed material. BRINKMANN'S WRATH uses original material, contemporary actors and modern cinema technology to bring the unfinished work to life, and transcend the boundaries of both historical fiction and documentary filmmaking.
Showing with SPEAK (CFF PG)
Director: John Latham. UK 1969. 11 mins.
A stunning example of animated abstraction in the tradition of Len Lye's films of the 1930s.
Print source: LUX
Harald Bergmann's film charts the final days in the life of German poet and novelist Rolf Dieter Brinkmann who died in an accident in London in April 1975, aged 35. 18 months before his death, whilst distancing himself from the literary scene, Brinkmann obtained a Uher Reporter tape recorder and recorded his thoughts, his friends, his environment, and the sounds of the city of Cologne, as well as generating large quantities of Super 8 film and thousands of Instamatic snapshots, which he collaged with texts and printed material. BRINKMANN'S WRATH uses original material, contemporary actors and modern cinema technology to bring the unfinished work to life, and transcend the boundaries of both historical fiction and documentary filmmaking.
Showing with SPEAK (CFF PG)
Director: John Latham. UK 1969. 11 mins.
A stunning example of animated abstraction in the tradition of Len Lye's films of the 1930s.
Print source: LUX
