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The first year. New beginnings at the DFFB 1966/67
© Foto: Sammlung Helene Schwarz, dffb-alumni.de.
How do you learn film? How do you teach film? How do you evaluate talent?
These are just three of the key questions posed by the directors, lecturers and students of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) when it was founded in 1966 and moved into the Deutschlandhaus on Theodor-Heuss-Platz. At a time of the cinema crisis and the expansion of public television, the media landscape had high hopes for the first West German film academy. 35 students are admitted to the first year. Many of them embarked on careers that would later shape a wide variety of cinematic genres, including Helke Sander, Harun Farocki, Hartmut Bitomsky and Wolfgang Petersen.
The first year. Awakening at the DFFB 1966/67 focuses on this moment of artistic experimentation before a social caesura: A wide variety of films were made in the first year, with West Berlin becoming the subject. Collaborative work and improvisation are indispensable at the academy, which is initially inadequately equipped; conflicts are on the horizon. June 2, 1967 and the politicization of the student movement finally mark the historical turning point that ends "The First Year".
In cooperation with the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen, the exhibition opens up the DFFB archive and shows a selection of films from the first academic year in the context in which they were made.
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These are just three of the key questions posed by the directors, lecturers and students of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) when it was founded in 1966 and moved into the Deutschlandhaus on Theodor-Heuss-Platz. At a time of the cinema crisis and the expansion of public television, the media landscape had high hopes for the first West German film academy. 35 students are admitted to the first year. Many of them embarked on careers that would later shape a wide variety of cinematic genres, including Helke Sander, Harun Farocki, Hartmut Bitomsky and Wolfgang Petersen.
The first year. Awakening at the DFFB 1966/67 focuses on this moment of artistic experimentation before a social caesura: A wide variety of films were made in the first year, with West Berlin becoming the subject. Collaborative work and improvisation are indispensable at the academy, which is initially inadequately equipped; conflicts are on the horizon. June 2, 1967 and the politicization of the student movement finally mark the historical turning point that ends "The First Year".
In cooperation with the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen, the exhibition opens up the DFFB archive and shows a selection of films from the first academic year in the context in which they were made.
Translated with DeepL
Runtime: Fri, 12/04/2024 to Sun, 11/08/2024
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