To mark the 50th anniversary of the Paris Films Coop, this new season of Refle-x-périmental celebrates the work of experimental film cooperatives founded in the 1960s in a spirit of independence, rebellion and (re)invention of the avant-garde and cinematic thought. From the New York coop to those founded in Hamburg and Amsterdam, not to mention the Paris Films Coop, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2024, this season's programming will culminate in Cinédoc's annual festival Novembre Expérimental #5 - La Jouissance-cinéma.
In October, Cinedoc pays tribute to the Hamburg Filmmakers' Cooperative, founded in 1968 by a group of artists and students from various fields - including Werner Nekes, Klaus Wyborny and Dore O., among others - in opposition to the Mannheim and Oberhausen film festivals and the strict self-censorship standards of the German film industry. Although the Hamburg Coop's adventure came to an end in 1972 for economic reasons and due to a split with its militant component, it saw the emergence of several filmmakers who made a number of films with original and innovative aesthetics, the most interesting of which are defined, according to filmmaker Peter Hoffmann, by “the attention paid to the visual experience, the development of non-narrative structures, the playful subversion of the conventions of the film industry... often implemented in a playful or parodic way”.
Screening :
- Jüm-Jüm (Dore O. & Werner Nekes, 1967, 16mm, color, sound, 10’
- Vis-à-Vis (Werner Nekes, 1968, 16mm, b&w, silent, 14’)
- Blonde Barbarei (Dore O., 1972, 16mm, b&w/color, sound, 24’)
- Unerreichbar Heimatlos - Sonate auf Film (Klaus Wyborny, 1978, 16mm-to-digital, color, sound, 25’)
