After five intense weeks of wonderful film screenings and inspiring debates we are going to open the fifth and for now final studio OF A PEOPLE WHO ARE MISSING tonight, Thursday, December 17th.

The program of the next three days is entitled "The act of resistance" and will focus on the early as well as the most recent films that Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub made in Italy. The screening program includes works on 16mm that will be projected again in their original format, such as "Fortini/Cani" and "History lessons".

Two guests from Italy, Guilio Bursi and Romano Guelfi, have been working closely with Huillet and Straub over the past ten years. In dialog with Pietro Bianchi, researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie, the presentations will shed light on the specific working methods of the latest works of Huillet and Straub.

On Staurday, December 19th, the cine-club and exhibition project OF A PEOPLE WHO ARE MISSING will be closed with a presentation by the artist Peter Friedl. "The secret modernity" is an investigation into the blind spots of a politics of images that is constitutive for the complicity of modernity, colonialism, and fascism.  » read more

Please allow us to update you on the latest changes of the program OF A PEOPLE WHO ARE MISSING

After the overwhelming experience of the first two studios with marvelous screenings in 16mm and 35mm as well as great presentations by Benoît Turquety and Sally Shafto we are looking forward very much to STUDIO 3 which is centered around the Hoelderlin films which are in a certain way centerpieces in the work of Huillet and Straub.

There have been a few changes in the program and we are very sorry that both, Anna Fiaccarini and Rinaldo Censi from the Cineteca di Bologna who have supported our project wholeheartedly had to cancel after all.

At the same time we are glad to announce the contribution of Barton Bygg, long-time collaborator of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, author of "Landscapes of Resistance", and founding director of the DEFA film library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Barton Bygg will join the roundtable debate "The homeless' archive" together with Barbara Ulrich and Klaus Volkmer on Saturday evening. In this debate we want to focus on current challenges and future perspectives of preserving, archiving and last but not least distributing the films and the work of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.  » read more

dear all!

you are receiving the first newsletter "of a people who are missing"
http://ofapeoplewhoaremissing.net

we are going to send out this newsletter once a week until the end of this year. it will contain program updates and additional informations regarding the five studios that will open with a brief introduction and a screening of "The chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach" tonight at Extra City.

below you find the latest version of the program for the next five weeks.

we are looking foreard very much to see you soon!

annett busch
florian schneider  » read more