Apply by Feb. 10, 202512th Biennial Summer Film Institute |
CLAIMING SPACES: Art Interventions in East Germany |
35 Years Fall of the Berlin WallScreening: Locked-Up Time |
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The 2025 Summer Film Institute will take place June 22-28, 2025 co-directed by Maria Stehle (Univ. of Tennessee) and Stephan Ehrig (Univ. of Glasgow). |
Screened in tandem with the exhibition, Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation, (Sept. 13, 2024 – Jan. 5, 2025) at Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum, the virtual film series CLAIMING SPACES: Art Interventions in East Germany offers insight into an art world that existed parallel to official East German art of... |
In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the DEFA Film Library invites the UMass community to a special screening of the documentary Locked-Up Time (1990, dir. Sibylle Schönemann) at UMass ILC S350 on November 7 at 6:30 pm. Mariana Ivanova (Academic Director, DEFA Film Library) will... |
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