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Ruth Beckermann
Horwath, Alexander; Omasta, Michael
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Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
With her documentaries and essay films since the late 1970s, Viennese filmmaker Ruth Beckermann has created an exciting and widely recognized body of personal/political cinema. Her work reflects on the relations between history and contemporaneity, on her life as a Jewish woman in postwar Austria and Europe, and on travelling and migration as modes of staying alive - literally as well as artistically. Beckermann's films speak about identity conflicts and the class struggle, about her family history in the Habsburg monarchy (The Paper Bridge) and the war generation as it confronts the crimes of the Werhrmacht (East of War). Most ... Read more
With her documentaries and essay films since the late 1970s, Viennese filmmaker Ruth Beckermann has created an exciting and widely recognized body of personal/political cinema. Her work reflects on the relations between history and contemporaneity, on her life as a Jewish woman in postwar Austria and Europe, and on travelling and migration as modes of staying alive - literally as well as artistically. Beckermann's films speak about identity conflicts and the class struggle, about her family history in the Habsburg monarchy (The Paper Bridge) and the war generation as it confronts the crimes of the Werhrmacht (East of War). Most ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Austria
Language
German
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Vienna, Austria
ISBN
9783901644689
SKU
V9783901644689
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About Horwath, Alexander; Omasta, Michael
Alexander Horwath is the director of the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna, the former director of the Vienna International Film Festival, and the film curator of documenta 12 (2007). He is a member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and of the Vienna Secession. Among his publications are books on film curatorship, Michael Haneke, Josef von Sternberg, and American cinema ... Read more
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