In the Film Department, we develop, create, and conceptualize film from an artistic perspective. Film encompasses experimentation, research, and essays; it can be fictional, documentary, footage-based, animated, or hybrid; it can be with or without sound; and it can be intended for projection or installation, in analog or digital formats. 

Prof. Dr. Marie-Hélène Gutberlet heads the department with the artistic collaboration of Lucile Desamory. Affiliated with the department are the VideoLab (Claus Withopf) and the AudioLab (Bernd Zimmermann). Lectures and guest speakers from Switzerland and abroad further enrich the curriculum.

An obvious strategy for dealing with the Corona pandemic is to translate film into provisional, casual and mobile formats and to go out with it to experience its magic in small forms in the immediate surroundings.

Instead of grand gestures and finished works in convivial gatherings, fragments, experiments, work-in-progress can be seen: in shop windows, on house walls opposite, for passers-by as they pass by, after dark. From August 27 to September 12, 2020 in Offenbach and Frankfurt at various locations.

The "small forms" are part of the HfG Interventions #2.

Films by

fatal furies, Merlin Heidenreich, Sophia Igel, Kandis & Maus, Pei-Chin Lee, Balduin Mund, Evelyn Roh, Johanna Schuckhardt, Savvy Sun & Kaiyuan Yang

27. August–12. September 2020​, Offenbach and Frankfurt

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