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Special Programs New Trends In Documentary Films GOETHE INSTITUTE AND IT´S ALL TRUE PRESENTS: New Trends In Documentary Films The observation-type documentaries, in the style of direct cinema - that renounce the contrivances of acting or author's comments, while seeking a more faithful image of the facts - have lost ground, since the '80s, to a variety of mixed forms of documentary production, works which consciously cross the lines between the different media e genres. The docu-dramas, the recreated scenes, and the self-reflective cinematographic essay are the first examples of this new trend, which unfolds into an ever more complex repertoire: semi-documentary formats that reconstruct happenings; Reality TV programs, guided by sensationalistic journalism; docu-soaps, acting out roles from daily life; and, finally, fake-docus, that, simulating the documentary nature, challenge and cast an ironic look at the genre's traditional strategies. In the area of entertainment television, the Internet era, with its webcams monitoring and exposing the daily life of common citizens to millions of people, has inspired the rise of the Big Brother Shows, which recycle the terrible scenario of George Orwell's novel, "1984". Based on examples of contemporary Germanic documentaries, the program "New Trends in Documentary Films" brings an inventory of the genre's current possibilities. The presentation "Hybrid forms of the international documentary film", by German Peter Zimmermann, rounds out a program of eight films in the program. Zimmermann is the scientific director of Haus des Documentarfilms (Documentary House), in Stuttgart, Germany. A scholar who has been at such universities as Wuppertal and Marburgo (Germany) and Cairo, Egypt, he has published several works about the history of the esthetics of the genre, and is also co-editor of the series "Close Up", dedicated to the documentary movement in cinema and on TV. PRESENTATION: "HYBRID FORMS OF THE INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILMS" MARCH 317:00 pmCASA FRANÇA-BRASIL APRIL 38:00 pmCCSP Contact: Instituto Goethe Rua Lisboa, 974 São Paulo SP 05413-001 Brasil Tel: 55 11 30884288 FILMES BUENOS AIRES - MEINE GESCHICHTE (IMÁGENES DE LA AUSENCIA) BUENOS AIRES - MY STORY (IMAGES OF ABSENCE) BUENOS AIRES - MINHA HISTÓRIA (IMAGENS DA AUSÊNCIA) German Kral Germany 89', COLOR/ B&W, 16mm, 1999 Deutsch speaking, Spanish subtitles The return of the filmmaker to Buenos Aires, where he was born, after years of studying cinema in Germany. A travel diary about love and its ruin, inspired by the author's desire to understand the causes of the separation of his parents. APRIL 1ST7:00 pmCASA FRANÇA-BRASIL APRIL 43:00 pmCCSP HANS WARNS - MEIN 20. JAHRHUNDERT HANS WARNS - MY 20TH CENTURY HANS WARNS - MEU SÉCULO XX Gordian Maugg Germany 105', COLOR/ B&W, 16mm, 1999 Deutsch speaking, Spanish subtitles The film brings back still photographs taken by sailor Hans Warns, blending them with music and sounds from the times and acted scenes that imitate the esthetic of historic films, in a very personal view of the history of the 20th century. APRIL 1ST2:00 pmCASA FRANÇA-BRASIL APRIL 48:00 pmCCSP DER LETZTE DOKUMENTARFILM THE LAST DOCUMENTARY O ÚLTIMO DOCUMENTÁRIO Daniel Sponsel & Jan Sebening Germany 65', COLOR, 16mm, 1998 Deutsch speaking, Spanish subtitles A puzzle that takes the spectator on a trip through 100 years of the history of the documentary. The personal view of the authors regarding materials from the first films by the Lumière brothers to experiments with webcams. APRIL 1ST4:00 pmCASA FRANÇA-BRASIL APRIL 46:00 pmCCSP DAS MEISTERSPIEL THE MASTER TOUCH O JOGO DE MESTRE Lutz Dammbeck Germany 105', COLOR, 16mm, 1997 Deutsch speaking, Spanish subtitles An attack on the works of Viennese painter Arnulf Rainer. A series of bombings at several points of Vienna. What is the relationship between these happenings? What is reality, what is simulation, what is invention?... MARCH 312:00 pmCASA FRANÇA-BRASIL APRIL 36:00 pmCCSP DIE BLUME DER HAUSFRAU THE HOUSEWIFE'S FLOWER A FLOR DA DONA DE CASA Dominik Wessely Germany 92', COLOR, 16mm, 1997 Deutsch speaking, Spanish subtitles A story about German values: cleanliness, owning your own home and, naturally, the vacuum cleaner. A story about vacuum cleaner salesmen and other con artists, taken from real life. MARCH 304:00 pmCASA FRANÇA-BRASIL APRIL 33:00 pmCCSP VAGABONDING IMAGES IMAGENS VAGABUNDANTES Simone Fürbringer & Nicolas Humbert Germany 48', COLOR/ B&W, 16mm, 1998 Deutsch speaking, Spanish subtitles A film composed of fragments of memories and of moments lived, in a sequence of micro-stories. A "delicious cinematographic cadaver", inspired on the poetry of the French surrealists and on the Japanese haicais. MARCH 314:00 pmCASA FRANÇA-BRASIL APRIL 46:00 pmCCSP VACANCY VAGA Matthias Müller Germany 15', COLOR, 16mm, 1999 Deutsch speaking, Spanish subtitles Images of Brasilia, taken in 1998, blend with takes of the city done in the '60s. The "last utopia of the 20th Century" (Umberto Eco), populated only by guards and cleaning personnel who look more like movie extras. MARCH 302:00 pmCASA FRANÇA-BRASIL APRIL 46:00 pmCCSP DIVINA OBSESIÓN DIVINE OBSESSION DIVINA OBSESSÃO Volko Kamensky Germany 27', COLOR, 16mm, 1999 Deutsch speaking, Spanish subtitles The film gets metaphysical, based on an investigation of the new French traffic engineering methods. Extremely objective images blend with definitely subjective music. MARCH 302:00 pmCASA FRANÇA-BRASIL APRIL 43:00 pmCCSP