Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper + Jüm-Jüm + Kaskara + Frozen Flashes
Dore O. began her artistic career as a painter before becoming one of the first women to occupy a prominent place in the German experimental film scene in the 1960s thanks to her independent productions. Come and discover this major corpus of German experimental cinema, in the presence of the person responsible for these restorations, Masha Matzke from Deutsche Kinemathek. The program will be rounded off by a conversation on the films, following on from her book on the subject.
Presented by Masha Matzke
David Rimmer, one of Canada’s best-known and influential, yet rarely screened, experimental filmmakers, challenged overtly cerebral notions of structuralism with his highly visceral and poetic image and sound manipulations. Rimmer’s 1970 film served as an inspiration for Dore O.'s own lyrical and sensual orchestration of repetition-variation patterns centered on stillness and motion.
“Viable editing sequences, picture in picture; all in all, painted body and freedom.” (Dore O.)
“A balance of being enclosed in divided space. The landscape exists only as a view through windows and doors. Attraction, blending, and repulsion of half of the film frame for the purpose of a sensual topology. One image consumes another.” (Dore O.)
“Lightning strikes the square of dreams out of the darkness.” (Dore O.)
Dore O.
Born in 1946 in Mulheïm, Germany, Dore O. began her artistic career as a painter, before becoming one of the first women to occupy a prominent position in the German experimental film scene in the 1960s with her independent productions. She was the only woman to help found the Hamburg Film Co-op, where she was particularly active. For over 35 years, she built up an uncompromising filmography, paving the way and inspiring generations of artists to come, at the crossroads of structuralism and feminism.
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