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Author Brigitta Wagner

Brigitta Wagner

Brigitta Wagner is a film historian and filmmaker. She is the author of Berlin Replayed: Cinema and Urban Nostalgia in the Postwall Era and the director of Rosehill.

The Creative Leap to Fluid Consciousness: An Encounter with Ashley McKenzie

Brigitta Wagner
May 2022
Interviews
In Corona’s third winter, it was hard to care about cinema as one should. The kind of cinema that requires one’s physical presence in theatres and at festivals. Gathering indoors with strangers has become a cha...

Women’s Cinematic Heights in Times of Covid: An Interview with Eliza Hittman

Brigitta Wagner
April 2020
Conversations with Filmmakers Across the Globe
A million years ago, or what feels about that long, Berlin got away with one of the last major film festivals before Covid-19 halted not just life as we know it, but also the film industry’s long-established pr...

Recovering the Phantom Limb: An Interview with Jennifer Reeder

Brigitta Wagner
March 2019
Interviews
2019 was the year that the Berlin International Film Festival wanted us all to know that it takes gender parity seriously. Not only did the festival expand, in its 69th edition, the gender statistics it keeps o...

Sustaining a Cinema of Modest Means: An Interview with Ted Fendt, Ricky D’Ambrose and Graham Swon

Brigitta Wagner
March 2018
Feature Articles
Despite the controversy surrounding Dieter Kosslick’s imminent departure after a long tenure as director of the Berlin International Film Festival and German filmmakers’ open letter last November calling for mo...
Nana and Simon interview

Intuition and the Search for Deep Emotion: An Interview with Nana & Simon

Brigitta Wagner
March 2017
Movements: Filmmaker Interviews
In order to understand what the collaborative filmmaking couple Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groβ, known simply as Nana & Simon, do so beautifully in their new feature, Chemi Bedinieri Ojakhi (My Happy Fami...
Philip Scheffner interview

A Shared Space at Eye Level: An Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Philip Scheffner

Brigitta Wagner
March 2016
Feature Articles
There is something prescient about the films of Philip Scheffner. While news teams chase down the stories of the moment and documentary opportunists vie to be the first at the hot-topic buffet, Scheffner is the...

The Art of Citational Cinema: An Interview with Alex Ross Perry

Brigitta Wagner
March 2015
Feature Articles
Feature image: Queen of Earth (dir. Alex Ross Perry, 2015) As a historian of German cinema, I used to cringe when people said, “German cinema? Oh, like Fassbinder, Wenders and Herzog.” As if there were no othe...

Uncanny, Haptic Encounters and the Importance of Play: An Interview with Josephine Decker, Filmmaker

Brigitta Wagner
March 2014
Feature Articles
Not all actors are filmmakers, and not all filmmakers can act. And certainly not all actor-filmmakers walk in slow motion in Times Square with cans of oil poised on their heads (in performance protest of the 20...

The Porterfield Touch: An Interview with Matthew Porterfield

Brigitta Wagner
July 2013
Feature Articles
When can a filmmaker be said to have ‘a touch’? Ernst Lubitsch had a touch, but what exactly was this? A penchant for comic timing, for finding just the right way to stage a visual punch line or to tickle spect...

Accidental Cinema and the YouTube Sublime: An Interview with Joe Swanberg

Brigitta Wagner
June 2011
Feature Articles
Often seen as the figurehead of the so-called “mumblecore” cineastes, Joe Swanberg discusses the aesthetic and technological practices that inform this indie phenomenon.
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New Old Visions: The 27th Giornate del Cinema Muto

Brigitta Wagner
March 2009
Festival Reports
4-11 October 2008 Pordenone, Italy: A student of mine recently referred to silent films as “movies without speaking”. When I screened two silents in two consecutive weeks, his classmates groaned, “Anothe...

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