Wim Wenders retrospective at Goethe-Institut
Dhaka University Film Society (DUFS) in association with Goethe-Institut Bangladesh arranged a three-day retrospective on German filmmaker Wim Wenders (1945-present) titled, "The Importance of Wim Wenders: A Retrospective" at the Goethe-Institut Auditorium. Five films of Wenders were screened at the retrospective.
The programme started on September 15 and ended on September 17 with a discussion on Wenders' contribution to independent digital filmmaking. Filmmaker Nurul Alam Atique read out the keynote paper. On the opening day, Imran Firdaus, former president of DUFS, gave an introduction to the life and works of Wenders.
The five films that screened at the retrospective are-- Summer in the City (1970), Tokyo Ga (1985), The Wrong Move (1975), Wings of Desire (1987) and Lisbon Story (1994).
Wenders was born on August 14, 1945, just a few months after the end of World War II. In his youth, Wenders was obsessed with the American and British pop culture of comics and rock n' roll.
In the beginning of 1960s, some young German filmmakers started experimenting. Through their efforts the declaration of new German films, "Oberhaugen Declaratin," was published. Twenty-six young filmmakers signed the declaration and they announced, "The old films are dead, we believe in the new films."
Wenders along with other famous German filmmakers like Alexander Kluge, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog and Reinhard Hauff led the movement.
Later Wenders proved himself as one of the most potent directors of the New German Cinema movement. Wenders is often characterised as the "existentialist" in the movement.
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