University of Bremen - Network Agnès Varda

60 University of Bremen - Network Agnès Varda https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/film/film-culture/film-conference/previous-conferences/current-conference-1 Actual Film Conference en University of Bremen Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:03:17 +0200 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:03:17 +0200 University of Bremen content-705446 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:50:36 +0100 Contact and Information https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/film/film-culture/film-conference/previous-conferences/current-conference-1#c705446 Prof. Dr. Winfried Pauleit, Dr. Rasmus Greiner, Tatiana Astafevam (Universität Bremen) &amp; Holger Tepe (CITY46 / Kommunalkino Bremen) contact: sowa@city46.de Content content-705447 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:50:36 +0100 Essayisms, Feminisms, Modernisms https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/film/film-culture/film-conference/previous-conferences/current-conference-1#c705447 Agnès Varda (1928–2019) was not only highly creative but also very productive: her extensive oeuvre comprises film, photography and installation art, spanning more than six decades during which she continued to reinvent herself. During her career, she acted as a trailblazer of modern film by adding her own experimental twist to the creative vocabulary of the language of cinema, situating her work somewhere between the realism of documentaries and the fictionality of film poems. From about 2000, she discovered her passion for small digital cameras and – already in her 70s – embarked on a third career as an installation artist. Network: The notion of the network arises somewhat organically from Varda’s oeuvre, which is characterized by cooperation and relationality with others. “Network Agnès Varda” aims to look beyond the author and her work, to instead focus on the social fabric surrounding Varda, and the (historical) discourses and practices in which she was embedded. “Network Agnès Varda” thus specifically interrogates the correlations between her oeuvre and the work of others. Essayisms: Varda’s unique approach – her cinécriture, or “cine-writing” – is concerned with collecting and reflecting themes, images and stories. Associations, coincidences and detours are therefore much more characteristic of her films than conclusive screenplays. Modernisms: Varda was one of the first directors in Europe to translate modernist stylistic devices taken from art and literature onto the silver screen. The aim of her films is not identification; instead, they maintain somewhat of a distance, shatter illusions, and offer a glimpse behind the scenes. Many draw attention to their own artificiality. Feminisms: Since her international breakthrough hit CLÉO DE 5 À 7 (1961), in which the protagonist emancipates herself from being a passive object of the male gaze to becoming an actively observing flâneuse (Mouton, 2000), Varda has evidently combined her modernist affinities with a feminist perspective. With her fondness for modernism, she tells stories of female solidarity and links these with activist discourses around bodily self-determination and reflections on gender performativity. Content content-705428 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:50:36 +0100 Wednesday, May 7, 2025 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/film/film-culture/film-conference/previous-conferences/current-conference-1#c705428 6 pm // Opening 6.30 pm // Unterschwelliges Sehen im Zwischenraum der Künste Opening lecture by Christa Blümlinger (Paris) &nbsp;&nbsp; | Talk in German language 8 pm // THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS Les plages d‘Agnès; d: Agnès Varda, F 2008, 110min, OV with German subtitles &nbsp;&nbsp; | Introduction by Birgit Kohler (Berlin) Content content-705429 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:50:36 +0100 Thursday, May 8, 2025 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/film/film-culture/film-conference/previous-conferences/current-conference-1#c705429 9.30 am // Resteverwertung im Kino Agnès Vardas Linda Waack (Zurich) &nbsp;&nbsp; | Talk in German language 10.30 am //&nbsp;Gesten des Spiels: Agnès Varda und Autor*innenschaft Bettina Henzler (Cologne) &nbsp;&nbsp; | Talk in German language 11.30 am // Vardas Wertabspaltungskritik im westdeutschen Fernsehen Dennis Göttel (Berlin) &nbsp;&nbsp; | Talk in German language &nbsp; – Break – 2 pm //&nbsp; Varda’s Mode of Production: Contextualizing Feminist Filmmaking in 1980s France Kelley Conway (Madison) 3 pm // VAGABOND Sans toit ni loi; d: Agnès Varda, F 1985, 105min, OV with English subtitles &nbsp;&nbsp; | Introduction by Birgit Kohler (Berlin) 5.30 pm // In Dialogue: Learning from Varda – Film Production as Manufacture &nbsp;&nbsp; | With Eva Knopf (Bremen), Dennis Göttel (Berlin), moderated by Birgit Kohler (Berlin) &nbsp;&nbsp; | Discussion round in German language 8.30 pm // In the Hood – Of People and Places &nbsp;&nbsp; | Short film programme curated and presented by Christine Rüffert (Bremen) Content content-705430 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:50:36 +0100 Friday, May 9, 2025 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/film/film-culture/film-conference/previous-conferences/current-conference-1#c705430 9.30 pm // Das Ewig-Weibliche: Eine bildliche Umkehrung in Agnès Vardas CLÉO DE 5 À 7 (1961) Sahar Daryab (Bamberg) &nbsp;&nbsp; | Talk in German language 10.30 am // Agnès’ Autoportraits Friederike Horstmann (Berlin) &nbsp;&nbsp; | Talk in German language 11.30 am // Imagining Ageing with Agnès Varda: Feminist Perspectives on Late Life and Care Shirley Jordan (Newcastle) – Break – 2 pm // Negotiating Motherhood Colleen Kennedy-Karpat (Ankara) 3 pm // CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 Cléo de 5 à 7; d: Agnès Varda, F/I 1961, 90min, OV with English subtitles &nbsp;&nbsp; | Introduction by Birgit Kohler (Berlin) 5 pm // Zwischen strukturierender Funktion und Erinnerungsarbeit: Zum Einsatz der Musik in den Filmen Agnès Vardas Stefan Drees (Berlin) &nbsp;&nbsp; | Talk in German language – Break – 7.30 pm // PEOPLE ON SUNDAY Menschen am Sonntag; d: Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, D 1930, 74min, German intertitles with English subtitles &nbsp;&nbsp; | Live music by Eunice Martins (Berlin) &nbsp;&nbsp; | Introduction by Winfried Pauleit (Bremen) 9.15 pm // Double Feature SALUT LES CUBAINS d: Agnès Varda; F 1963, 29min, OV with English subtitles CEREAL / Soy Claudia, soy Esther y soy Teresa. Soy Ingrid, soy Fabiola y soy Valeria. d: Anna Spanlang, A 2022, 35min, OV with English subtitles &nbsp;&nbsp; | Introduction by Birgit Kohler (Berlin) Content content-705426 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:50:36 +0100 Contact and information https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/film/film-culture/film-conference/previous-conferences/current-conference-1#c705426 Project coordination: <a class="mail" href="mailto:nigloist@uni-bremen.de" title="Opens a window for sending an e-mail">Nils Gloistein</a> // Universität Bremen <a class="mail" href="mailto:rueffert@uni-bremen.de" title="Opens a window for sending an e-mail">Christine Rüffert</a> // Universität Bremen Registration: <a class="mail" href="mailto:tobias.dietrich@uni-bremen.de" title="Opens a window for sending an e-mail">Tobias Dietrich</a> // CITY 46 Further information: <a href="https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/film/film-culture/film-conference/current-conference/film-programme" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">Film programme</a> Content content-705425 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:50:36 +0100 Downloads https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/film/film-culture/film-conference/previous-conferences/current-conference-1#c705425 <a href="t3://file?uid=184582" target="_blank" title="Initiates file download">Brochure</a> Content content-705424 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:50:36 +0100 Date and venue https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/film/film-culture/film-conference/previous-conferences/current-conference-1#c705424 May 7–10, 2025 <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.city46.de" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">CITY 46</a> | Kommunalkino Bremen Content content-705433 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:50:36 +0100 About the Bremen Film Conference https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/film/film-culture/film-conference/previous-conferences/current-conference-1#c705433 The International Bremen Film Conference is addressing the film-interested cinema audience and industry professionals with its close interlinking of public lectures, film screenings and film q+a‘s. It is a long-standing cooperation between CITY 46 / Kommunalkino Bremen e.V. and the Bremen Universitys work group Film Studies, Dep. 9 – Cultural Studies / <a class="externalLink" href="https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">ZeMKI</a>, and it is funded by nordmedia - Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/ Bremen mbH and the DFG. For the 29th edition, the Bremen Film Conference is cooperating with the Berlin Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art e.V. as part of the traveling project <a class="externalLink" href="https://onlocation.arsenal-berlin.de/" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">Arsenal on Location</a>. Content content-705431 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:50:36 +0100 Saturday, May 10, 2024 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/film/film-culture/film-conference/previous-conferences/current-conference-1#c705431 9.30 am // Belebende Rhythmisierung. Agnès Vardas Photofilm SALUT LES CUBAINS im Verhältnis zu Alain Resnais und Chris Marker Lars Nowak (Erlangen-Nuremberg) &nbsp;&nbsp; | Talk in German language 10.30 am // SALUT LES CUBAINS (1963). Agnès Varda in Kuba. Drei Wochen Revolution in der Karibik Marta Muñoz-Aunión (Frankfurt) &nbsp;&nbsp; | Talk in German language 11.30 am // La vie pour l’art oder l’art pour la vie? Die filmische Gestaltung als Lebensprinzip Mathias Barkhausen (Berlin) &nbsp;&nbsp; | Talk in German language – Break – 2 pm // Interviews mit Interviewer/innen. Zur Reflexivität einer dokumentarischen Form bei Varda und Pasolini Bernhard Groß (Jena) &nbsp;&nbsp; | Talk in German language 3 pm // DOCUMENTEUR d: Agnès Varda; F/USA 1981, 65min, OV with English subtitles &nbsp;&nbsp; | Introduction by Colleen Kennedy-Karpat (Ankara) Content content-705423 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:50:36 +0100 PROGRAM OVERVIEW https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/film/film-culture/film-conference/previous-conferences/current-conference-1#c705423 The entire event (talks, films and the dialogue “Learning from Varda”) will take place on site in presence. Accreditation for specialist audiences <a class="mail" href="mailto:tobias.dietrich@uni-bremen.de" title="Opens a window for sending an e-mail">on request</a>. Access to the lectures is free of charge. Abstracts and information on the speakers can be found <a class="download" href="t3://file?uid=180306" target="_blank" title="Initiates file download">here</a>. Content