For the first time, the BERLIN ART FILM FESTIVAL is happy to present a book launch (of a work that seems to be made for this festival). Curator, filmmaker and scholar Brigitta Wagner is introducing her monograph BERLIN REPLAYED: CINEMA AND URBAN NOSTALGIA IN THE POSTWALL ERA hot off the presses and exclusively with us. Wagner will read excerpts, show film clips and answer all questions from host Andrew Grant (MainfestoFilm) and the audience. Wagner, who published the anthology DEFA AFTER EAST GERMANY (Camden House, 2014) last year, now goes further into investigating the interrealtions of urban space, history, and cinema:

Brigitta B. Wagner shows how old and new films set in Berlin created a collective urban nostalgia for the city’s best, most inclusive, and most conciliatory pasts in the face of its renewed purpose as the all-German capital. BERLIN REPLAYED reveals the underappreciated but powerful role film has played in the process of unifying Germany’s historical experience and bridging its physical and political divisions.

Brigitta Wagner:
BERLIN REPLAYED: CINEMA AND URBAN NOSTALGIA IN THE POSTWALL ERA
(University of Minnesota Press, 2015)
host: Andrew Grant (MainfestoFilm)
with film clips

Brigitta Wagner is a film historian, critic, programmer, and filmmaker, who has published extensively on German and independent American cinema. Wagner was a Humboldt Fellow in Film Studies and Time-Based Media at the Freie Universität and Universität der Künste in Berlin and worked for the Telluride Film Festival. Her directorial feature film debut ROSEHILL premiered this year.

Andrew Grant is a producer at Manifesto Film, the co-founder of distribution company Benten Films, and the co-director of the film festival Unknown Pleasures.

language: English
venue: Moviemento lounge
(free of charge)

(online fee 30 cents)