How to Read a Film? Film Critics Meeting Filmmakers
How to Read a Film? Film Critics Meeting Filmmakers
- Date
- Feb 13th 2014
- With
- Dana Linssen, Stephanie Zacharek, Edwin , Diego Lerer, Dietrich Brüggemann
“I have a strong need in my work to be criticized and to know where I was wrong or right, but with evidence.” (Jean-Luc Godard) Do filmmakers need criticism? Are film critics writing to filmmakers? And are filmmakers listening? Critics Diego Lerer, Stephanie Zacharek and Dana Linssen will discuss with filmmakers and Berlinale Talents alumni Dietrich Brüggemann (Stations Of The Cross, Berlinale Competition 2014) and Edwin (Postcards From the Zoo, Berlinale Competition 2012) about the influence criticism has on filmmakers' work and how it might change their own thinking about their films.
Dana Linssen
Dana Linssen is a Dutch film critic, philosopher and writer. She is the former editor-in-chief of de Filmkrant magazine, a long-standing film critic for NRC Handelsblad, the founder of the Slow Criticism Project and a curator of the Critics’ Choice at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She has received several awards for her work as a film critic and has served as a Talent Press mentor for many years.
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek is the film critic for Time magazine. She was previously chief film critic for the Village Voice and Salon.com, and her work has also appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, and Sight and Sound. She is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics, and was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in criticism. In 2018, she served on the international competition jury of the Berlinale.
Edwin
Born in Surabaya, Indonesia, he studied graphic design in his home city and film at the Jakarta Institute of Art. In 2005, his short film Kara, the Daughter of a Tree became the first Indonesian film to be selected for the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes. His debut feature, Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly, received the FIPRESCI prize at Rotterdam while Postcards From the Zoo was selected for the Berlinale Competition and won the Edward Yang New Talent Award at the Asian Film Awards. In 2021, his feature film Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash won the Golden Leopard at Locarno.
Diego Lerer
Film critic and journalist, he was the editor of the Cinema section of Clarín newspaper in Argentina from 1992 until 2012. He runs a film website called Micropsia and also works as a freelance film critic and a programmer for the Rome Film Festival. He’s the co-author and co-editor of the book “Nuevo Cine Argentino” and he’s the President of FIPRESCI Argentina. In 2014 he will make his first film, WHERE ELEPHANTS DIE, co-directed with Michael Wahrmann.
Dietrich Brüggemann
Berlin-based director, writer and musician. After several acclaimed short films and music videos his feature debut NINE SCENES premiered in the Berlinale section Perspektive Deutsches Kino in 2006. His next film RUN IF YOU CAN would open the same section in 2010, followed by his successful ensemble comedy MOVE. His latest feature STATIONS OF THE CROSS premieres in the Berlinale Competition in 2014.