Cinema Next: Bilder sehen, Bilder denken

Seeing Images, Thinking Images Most films are made up of images. Films are moving images, or so the assumption goes. But what happens when films begin to question the process of making their own images: when they trace the making of an image, the showing of an image, or even the very possibility and existence of images themselves? It is above all within the tradition of experimental film that we repeatedly encounter works that do not simply produce images, but make visible the conditions of their own seeing. What does it mean to make an image? What does it mean to show an image? And what happens when films explore these questions through their own form? Seeing Images, Thinking Images brings together films that engage with this cinematic gesture in different ways: with exposure and materiality, with the construction and destruction of images, with memory and perception, and with the political conditions of seeing. The films do not merely show something. They think about it. The programme was curated by Sebastian Bobik, who will also introduce and guide the audience through the evening. Programme: Alive Laura Wegscheider 3 Min, 2024 Auf der hohen See, Teil 1: Vom aufkeimenden Entschluss, wohl oder übel eine Reise antreten zu müssen Ralf Petersen 10 Min, 2024 Belichtungstest Jan Soldat 2,5 Min, 2024 Violencia Irene Garcia-Villanueva 2,5 Min, 2022 A reel of flowers, super 8 Sebastian Bobik 4 Min, 2026 Was sind alle Kornblumen der Welt gegen eine Berliner Blau-Fabrik Emil Tomasev 6min, 2023 Chawani, Bashi Johannes Gierlinger 6min, 2021