Workshop for film students

In his masterclass, Dominik Graf discusses genre, realism and the freedom of contemporary cinema.

'When everything is culture, nothing is art anymore' according to Bazon Brock. As an art mentor and companion of Beuys, he has put forward a fundamental culture critical finding: art is increasingly being replaced by a generalised concept of culture. 

Gesine Schwan, political scientist and former candidate for the post of Federal President, wants to argue more. But not in a personal destructive way; rather for the common cause.

With the media crisis, the ‘fourth estate’ is disappearing as a countervailing force and a check on those in power. How are media discourses changing? What are the consequences for democracy?

The event is part of a double-panel discussion featuring a keynote speech.

The gaps in the media landscape are growing. Cultural magazines are being discontinued or merged, and entire cultural sections get scrapped. Is this process irreversible?

This event is part of a  double-panel discussion featuring a keynote speech.

LUMI invites you to join industry representatives Fitore Muzaqi and Emina Smajić for a discussion on breaking into the Hessian film industry, strategies for BIPoC filmmakers, and funding opportunities in the region.

How does cultural journalism work in the digital media? What kinds of opportunities or risks present themselves in these new platforms? 

This event is part of a double panel with keynote speech. 

It’s been a wild year for the creative media industry. “Artificial Intelligence” all over the place  –experimentation, adoption, adaptation, apprehension, panic and boycott.

A conversation on the last year, and the year ahead, for media, video, art, creativity and “artificial intelligence”.

In the 1960s cinema was iconoclastic. What has remained of the liberating power of breaking the rules? Is German film still capable of art?

For a long time, the division of roles in the German film industry was clearly defined. But what happens when creative professionals stop waiting and take the initiative themselves? A discussion about the responsibility of storytelling and the fundamental question: How radically must the German film landscape change if personal initiative becomes the new standard?

Best Practices and Workshop with: Tim League (Neon, Alamo Drafthouse), Clément Schneider (L'Acid), Radka Hoffman (Krúton), Victor Fraga (DMovies), Luis Felipe Raguá (Cinemateca de Bogotá), Dennis Vetter (Woche der Kritik), Chloé Folens & Elie de Rudder (La Clef Revival)
Moderation: Geraldine de Bastion, Uri Aviv

The actress Bibiana Beglau, the director Jan Bonny and the artist Alex Wissel have been working together for more than ten years. Their collaborative projects span a wide range of media, from TV series and films to theatre and art installations.

This panel will discuss how AI is used as an instrument of authoritarianism, the mechanisms and narratives around it and how we can effectively defend ourselves against it.

Journalist Claus Kleber and political scientist Nicole Deitelhoff in a conversation about the art of protecting the foundation of freedom, as part of the Future German Cinema congress.

Machines that fabricate images, write screenplays, make up films – is art on the brink of its last metamorphosis?

A conversation about the future of art in times of its algorithmic reproducibility.

Can art provide answers, suggest solutions and create spaces for new ways of thinking where political discourse reaches its limits? Can creativity and experiencing art truly change lives?

In cooperation with Kulturzeit.

The premise of the Dialogue of the Arts panel is that film is not to be seen as its own isolated form of art, but to bring in into open dialogue with other artistic practices.