Friday, 4 May: Film education in teachers' training and classroom

The necessity for a new type of media competence at schools seems to be undisputed. However, in practice, there has been recent criticism of the way schools tend unquestioningly to limit themselves to long feature films, and of the lack of aesthetic and historical approaches. This discussion thus aims to compare different objectives and methods in everyday media education: Upon what models of media politics, upon what aesthetic criteria governing selection and strategy is the work with short film based? How are the different genres, aesthetic procedures and cultural differences perceived, depicted and presented? What alternative forms of presentation are there? (audio file)

Guests:

Michael Jahn, Vision Kino - Netzwerk für Film- und Medienkompetenz, Potsdam

Prof. Dr. Winfried Pauleit, Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstpädagogik der Universität Bremen

Anja Schmid, SehSternchen. Agentur für pädagogische Kultur- und Medienarbeit, Oberhausen

Marcel Schwierin, filmmaker and curator, Berlin

Caren Willig, British Film Institute, London

Moderator:

Katrin Willmann, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Berlin

Saturday, 5 May: Does the music video have a future?

Music television is rapidly losing its significance, and new digital channels of distribution are emerging. This raises the question of whether the music video has any future at all as a marketing instrument to promote music and artists' images, and if so, in what way. What is the function of the music video today? How is its appearance changing? A prize like the MuVi Award, which the Short Film Festival launched in 1999, raises the basic question of the current context of such prizes. This event is presented by MusikWoche. (audio file)

Guests:

Tina Funk, business consultant, Berlin

Daniel Haaksman, DJ/producer, Berlin

Heissam Hartmann, Magic Internet/ media agency for myvideo.de, Berlin

Daniel Lwowski, clip director, Berlin

Silke Super, Motor Music, Berlin

Moderator:

Dietmar Schwenger, MusikWoche, Munich

Sunday, 6 May: Privatisation of film experience

Experiencing cinema on a collective basis may well soon be a thing of the past. Film once organised a form of alternative perception for a collective. When, alone in my private space, I am able to manipulate and interrupt a film, it becomes a different one than in the cinema, where I am forced into a perception that is not my own. How does the public discourse change on the basis of these new ways of experiencing film in private settings? How are these developments related to the state of the public political discourse? How do the perception of film and the nature of the films themselves change? (audio file)

Guests:

Matt Hanson, author and filmmaker, Brighton

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Oskar Negt, author and sociologist, Hanover

Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic, Chicago

Gertjan Zuilhof, International Film Festival Rotterdam

Moderator:

Olaf Möller, author and film journalist, Cologne

Monday 7 May: Does the museum fail?

The cinema and the art museum are both entering a state of crisis with their responses to films and videos by artists. Yet more and more artists are turning to film and video. Can the art museum really collect or show works of art whose meaning is based on the principles and functional characteristics of cinema - on active distribution and general accessibility rather than passive purchase and artificial scarcity? And the cinema? Its present infrastructure is just as inadequate for the presentation and promotion of artists' films and videos as that of the museum. This event is part of the theme "Kinomuseum". (audio file)

Guests:

Chrissie Iles, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Alexander Horwath, The Austrian Film Museum, Vienna

Marysia Lewandowska, artist, London

Philippe-Alain Michaud, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Vanessa Joan Müller, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Moderator:

Ian White, curator and art critic, London

Tuesday, 8 May: What kind of promotion does short film need?

Legislation on film promotion is being left behind to some extent by technological developments and the changes in the market that these bring about. Cinema barely plays a role as a short-film venue any more, and television is offering an ever more limited range. Increasingly, the main new short-film platforms, besides festivals, are galleries and museums and, of course, the Internet. What readjustments to promotional mechanisms do these developments require? Do we have to abandon the idea of cinematic release? Is DVD now a form of distribution in its own right? - An unofficial hearing to assess film promotion. This event is presented by AG Kurzfilm and Filmbüro NW. (audio file)

Guests:

Frank Becher, CINEMANIAX! film production, Nuremberg

Klaus W. Becker, Filmbüro Bremen

Ute Dilger, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (KHM)

Peter Dinges, chairman of the German Federal Film Board (FFA), Berlin

Werner Dütsch, lecturer (including KHM), Cologne

Astrid Kühl, managing director of the KurzFilmAgentur (KFA), Hamburg

Ulrike Schauz, head of the department Film und Videowirtschaft BKM, Berlin

Volker Schreiner, video artist, Hanover

Sandra Thomas, imai - inter media art institute, Düsseldorf

Stephan Winkler, director and film distributor W-film, Cologne

Reinhard W. Wolf, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

Moderator:

Elfriede Schmitt, Büro Schmitt & Teigler, Cologne

Dr. Lars Henrik Gass, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen