[Translate to English:] Freiburg : Home Movie Day

[Translate to English:] Bauplatzbesetzung 1975 © Archiv Soziale Bewegungen, Freiburg

Marckolsheim © Archiv Soziale Bewegungen, Freiburg

Fessenheim © Archiv Soziale Bewegungen, Freiburg

Freiburg © Archiv Soziale Bewegungen, Freiburg

Sasbach 1974 © Archiv Soziale Bewegungen, Freiburg

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Private films from the anti-nuclear protest in Whyl and Marckolsheim

On Saturday afternoon, October 6, the Public Cinema Freiburg will be screening a program on the anti-nuclear protests of the 1970s and 1980s. There is a program of films by the well-known French anti-nuclear activist Solange Fernex (1934-2006) and the classic film of the Medienwerkstatt Freiburg "S'Wespennäscht" (1982). In addition, Bodo Kaiser shows a sequence of his film "Whyl and the Left". On Sunday afternoon, Daniel Coche personally presents the portrait of Solange Fernex "The Little Flame" by Simone Fluhr and Daniel Coche. The South Alsatian Solange Fernex is considered the mother of the French anti-nuclear movement. She shot some Super-8 films about the protests in the 1970s. In the 1980s, she went on a hunger strike against worldwide nuclear weapons tests and in 2001 was awarded the 'The Nuclear-Free Future Award'.

The program is organized in close cooperation with the German-French Interreg project "RhInédits. Private film on the Upper Rhine ". It is looking for historical amateur films from the region on this 'Home Movie Day' to preserve them. Because they are a central aspect of our collective memory and threaten to get lost. The project aims to help recognize and perceive the importance of private films as a visual treasure and as a document of the past. 

RhInédits is planning a virtual archive on the Internet with films from the left and right side of the Rhine on the three topics "Border", "Identity" and "Body and Health". In particular, this time we are interested in collecting images of the anti-nuclear protests in the 1970s and 1980s, which welded the region together across borders. Farmers, winemakers, citizens, students from the Kaiserstuhl, Alsace and Switzerland fought together against the construction of new nuclear power plants and industrial plants in the Rhine Valley. In Whyl and Marckolsheim they were successful with their commitment and protest. The planned nuclear power plant and the lead plant were not built. A prime example of a civic commitment. If you have footage, you can make it available to the project and the Landesfilmsammlung Baden-Württemberg on this day. On the 6th of October there will be similar collections organized by our French partners in ten cinemas in Alsace under the motto: "Vos films sont notre histoire!"; Your films are our story!

Film program

• Saturday, October 6, 2018

1.30 pm Welcome and presentation of the RhInédits project

2:00 pm Super8 films by Solange Fernex on protests in Marckolsheim and Whyl (in collaboration with the archive social movement, Freiburg); guest Daniel Coche, Dora Films Strasbourg

3:00 pm "S'Weschpennäscht - The Chronicle of Whyl 1970-1982" (1982) of the Medienwerkstatt Freiburg; ; Guest is Wolfgang Stickel, Medienwerkstatt

4.30 pm Film clip from "Whyl and the Left" (2015) by Bodo Kaiser, who also will join the screening

5.00 pm Finish Get Together in the Gallery

• Sunday, October 7, 2018

 5.00 pm "The Little Flame" (2015) by Simone Fluhr and Daniel Coche, who will also be a guest

Informations pratiques

Kommunales Kino Freiburg e. V.
Urachstr. 40
79102 Freiburg

Telefon: +49 761 459800-0
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E-Mail: kino(at)koki-freiburg.de
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