On the evidence of this absorbing and articulate interview alone, Dominik Graf is worthy of being better know outside the borders of the German speaking world. He not only offers insights into his own filmmaking practice and aesthetic, but also a range of fascinating observations covering the last forty or so years of German cinema and cultural history.
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Marco Abel was born in Köln, Germany and is currently an Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of Violent Affect: Literature, Cinema, and Critique after Representation (University of Nebraska Press) and numerous articles and interviews dealing with contemporary German cinema. His is currently finishing a book project, The Berlin School: Toward a Minor Cinema, which is under contract with Camden House.
Articles by Marco Abel:
Dresen has directed eight feature films and, as Abel reveals, “Is one of the rare successful contemporary German directors who was born and raised in the GDR [former East Germany] and has managed to adjust to the market-driven rules of filmmaking characteristic of reunified Germany.”
French critics coined the term Nouvelle Vague Allemande in response to the rise of a new wave of filmmaking in Germany. In this wide-ranging interview, the filmmaker and co-editor of the magazine Revolver discusses the current state of German cinema in the light of its history, and the cultural and æsthetic ideas that impact on his films and thinking.
February 10–20, 2006 Last year, I took the opportunity to write for this journal on the state of affairs of contemporary German cinema in the form of a festival report on the 55th Berlin Film Festival. At the time, I advanced two basic propositions: one, that German film, traditionally one of the pillars of world [...]
February 10–20, 2005 (1) One of the remarkable aspects of the state of contemporary film discourse on world cinema is that one of its traditional pillars – that of German cinema – has almost completely fallen off the radar. Regularly scouring many of the leading academic and non-academic film journals and magazines published in English, [...]
