Kino! 2007 – Part of the Berlin Art Exhibition at MoMA

“MoMA's twenty-eighth annual survey of contemporary German cinema is augmented by Berlin in Lights, a citywide celebration of the arts in Berlin, organized by Carnegie Hall.

a selection of Berlin-set films from the past ten years that celebrate the return of Berlin as a filmmaking capital. These include Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin!, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others, and Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run, as well as the Hissen brothers' Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Wrapped Reichstag. Of particular interest are Andreas Dresen's well-regarded comic drama Night Shapes, which has yet to be distributed in the U.S., and the American premiere of Manfred Wilhelms's wordless documentary about Berlin's fourth architectural renaissance, Berlin—Pictures of a City. All films are from Germany and in German, with English subtitles, except where noted.”

November 1st through the 14th

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street 1.) Im Lichtbild der Großstadt (Berlin—Pictures of a City). 1998

“Im Lichtbild der Großstadt (Berlin—Pictures of a City). 1998. Germany. Written, directed, photographed, and edited by Manfred Wilhelms. Originally a painter and photographer, Wilhelms is a documentary filmmaker celebrated in Germany, but virtually unknown in America. The city of Berlin is his frequent subject. Completed ten years ago, this film, which portrays Berlin's fourth architectural renaissance in a little over a century, is only now having its American premiere. Wilhelms shows the city in the midst of radical change (the building of the Potsdamer Platz) while paying attention to its "old" architecture, including those buildings erected at the end of the nineteenth century as the city developed expansively, those built by the Nazis, those rebuilt after World War II, and those erected during Reunification. No narration, no dialogue. 82 min.”

Friday, November 9, 2007, 8:30 p.m., Theater 1, T1

2.) Dem deutschen Volke (Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Wrapped Reichstag).

“Dem deutschen Volke (Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Wrapped Reichstag). 1996. Germany. Written and directed by Wolfram Hissen, Jörg Daniel Hissen. In 1995, Christo and Jeanne-Claude realized their decades-old dream of covering the Berlin Reichstag in fabric. Often described as the pair's most ambitious project, the wrapped Reichstag is presented from every angle and in every light in this witty chronicle of a remarkable technical feat. In English, German; English subtitles. 98 min.”

Sunday, November 11, 2007, 4:30 p.m., Theater 1, T1

Free for members, $10 for non-members