HFBK alumni discuss the tension between freedom and structure in film education and the dissolution of traditional authorship. In the evening, the collective feminist elsewheres brings untamed images to the screen with feminist films from the first generations of HFBK filmmakers. As the night unfolds, films explore memory and what remains.

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Program

10:30 a.m., Cinema

• Screening: Wie man in den Wald hineinruft, so schallt es heraus. HFBK-Filme und Naturfreund*innen bei den Odderader Filmtagen
  For the past 18 years, former and current film students from the HFBK, film-loving friends, and cinephiles from their circles have gathered annually in a forest near the North Sea coast. Like an open four-day film seminar in nature, participants watch and discuss each other’s films on the grounds of former HFBK documentary film professor Gerd Roscher. This screening presents a selection of works with a thematic connection to nature, all of which have been part of the Odderade Film Days over the past 18 years.
  Film Programming & Introduction by Philipp Hartmann
  Odderade Team & Uli Schwedes, Trailer Odderader Filmtage, 2017
  Maya Connors, Diary of an organism (newly translated), 2019
  Timo Schierhorn, Der andere Tag / Outtakes, 2023
  Tina Daurova, Sněžka, 2018
  Xen Roscher, Treibsand, 2024
  Bernd Schoch, Zurück zum Beton. (Version), 2015
  Janine Jembere, Yesat Rat, 2010
  Philipp Hartmann mit Helena Wittmann, Vom Sehen im Salz. Oder: Zehn Strategien, in einer Unendlichkeit der eigenen Endlichkeit ins Auge zu blicken, 2024
  Louis Fried, Die Wüste Malo (Ausschnitt), 2013
  Giulia Chmara, Fragmente eines Sommers, 2024
  Katharina Duve / Werner Nekes / Die Infantilisten, Lupine, 2007
  Björn Last, Gut zu leben ist die beste Rache, 2012

12 noon, Cinema

• Panel: Bindungen aus Beton
  With Babak Behrouz, Dario Aguirre, Eva Könnemann, Karsten Krause, Helena Wittmann. Moderation: Sophie Holzberger
  What happens when the concept of authorship begins to crack? Taking Material: Beton (2014) as a starting point—one of many projects emerging from the HFBK context that question individual authorship—this panel explores collective artistic practices and their tensions. How does the creative process shift when authorship is shared, negotiated, or dissolved? An invitation to rethink the myth of the solitary creator—together.

1:30 p.m., Mensa

• Lunch break

2:30 p.m., Cinema

• Panel: Film verlernen
  Rüdiger Neumann, Tonübungsfilm, 1974
  With Luise Donschen, Vanessa Nica Mueller, Nina Rippel, Adnan Softić, Anja Steidinger. Moderation: Nora Sternfeld
  What does it mean to study film at the HFBK – with the aim of becoming a filmmaker? What assumptions about learning are embedded in that path – and what might need to be unlearned in order to truly find one’s own cinematic voice? This panel explores a practice of learning that is not limited to the transmission of technique, but emerges through relationships, negotiations, and shared processes. What if learning begins not with mastery, but with letting go – in friendship, in friction, in the kind of freedom that only becomes possible collectively?

4:00 p.m., Cinema

• Screening: Die Kamera weiß es längst
  The camera as companion, witness, oracle – it sees what we do not (yet) see. This screening brings together cinematic miniatures, observations, and visions from 40 years of HFBK film practice, where memories, bodies, spaces, and time begin to shift. The films look forward, backward, sideways – revealing what lies beneath the surface. What if the knowledge about us, and the world, is already there – embedded in the image, waiting to be seen?
  Lene Markusen, Grad, 2004
  Andrea van der Straeten, Familienausflug 1933, 1983
  Christian Bau, Der Tote im Livestream, 2022
  Victor Orozco Ramírez, Reality 2.0, 2012
  Nana Xu, Der Berg und der Prophet, 2016
  Helena Wittmann, Ada Kaleh, 2018
  Vanessa Nica Mueller, Traces of an elephant, 2011

5:30 p.m., Garden

• Apèro & Eiswürfel & Bitter by Leaky Vessels

6:30 p.m., Cinema

• Panel: feminist elsewheres at HFBK Hamburg
  With Elena Baumeister, Fiona Berg, Ulrike Gay, Sophie Holzberger, Arisa Purkpong, Ulrike Zimmermann. Moderation: Elisa Linseisen
  Queer-feminist film work is collective, transnational – and complex. The networks that emerge from it are expansive, ephemeral, and in need of care. This panel explores feminist film practices in and around HFBK Hamburg, tracing earlier initiatives such as the 1970s women’s film group and their echoes in contemporary ways of working. Stories, struggles, and perspectives come together to form a living network that reimagines the queer and feminist film history of the HFBK

8:00 p.m., Cinema

• Screening: Als ob die das beurteilen können
  In response, this screening presents feminist works from the 1970s to the 1990s that engage with visibility, bodies, self-determination, and resistance. These films speak through political urgency, personal archives, and collective image-making – sometimes loud, sometimes quiet, but always in opposition.
  Film Programming by feminist elsewheres
  Christiane Gehner, Programmhinweise, 1970
  Renata Fisser, Oh Johanna, 1996
  Doro Carl, Das Rätsel der Sphinx, 1993
  Ulrike Zimmermann, Touristinnen – Über und unter Wasser, 1991
  Dörte Eißfeldt, Gisela Schanzenbach und Frauengruppe HFBK Hamburg, Als ob die das beurteilen könnten – Zum Problem des §218, 1975

10:00 p.m., Cinema

• Screening: Wir erben uns gegenseitig
  What remains of those we are connected to – by origin, by choice, by rupture? Two films that carefully approach what is passed on and what slips away. Between childhood memories and a migrant portrait, this program explores belonging, responsibility, and the forms of living together that we do – or do not – choose.
  Luise Donschen, Ganze Tage zusammen, 2019
  Yüksel Yavuz, Mein Vater, der Gastarbeiter, 1995

Concept, program and content of the symposium: Prof. Dr. Elisa Linseisen, Maike Mia Höhne and Jana Rothe
Exhibition curator: Anne Meerpohl
Graphic design: Theresa Sonnenberg (Klasse Grafik by Prof. Ingo Offermanns, Prof. Max Prediger/Prof. Julian Mader)
Leaky Vessel: Students of Klasse Social Design by Profx. Doro Halbrock
Language: Panels in German, Filmscreenings OV (English Subtitles)
Während des Symposiums betreiben die Filmstudierenden der HFBK Hamburg ein Bar im Filmhaus.

Venues:

• Cinema, Garden | Filmhaus der HFBK Hamburg, Finkenau 42, 22081 Hamburg
• Auditorium, Mensa | Lerchenfeld 2, 22081 Hamburg
• ICAT | Lerchenfeld 2a, 22081 Hamburg