Basic film rental

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The base film distribution is established in 1974 Berlin Film Distribution . Basis-Film only rents out new German author films .

program

The distribution work focuses on innovative young films, politically committed documentaries, films by women, children's films and maintaining an extensive repertoire of German auteur films. Of over 400 documentaries and fiction films, 200 are still in the active repertoire, including films by Harun Farocki , Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Rosa von Praunheim , Helga Reidemeister , Ula Stöckl and Andreas Voigt . With workers' films, Berlin films, films on National Socialism, war and ecology, the basic film program reflects topics and social debates from recent German history.

The distribution work is not only aimed at art house cinemas, but also at non-commercial venues such as union houses and youth clubs. A brochure from 1990 states: "The task of non-commercial film work is to qualify viewers to see qualified films."

history

Basis-Film was made in Berlin in 1971. After 18 students from the Berlin film school dffb were expelled from the academy for taking part in protests against the emergency laws in 1968, some of them, including Harun Farocki and Christian Ziewer , founded a film group that wants to make basic films in the “ Märkisches Viertel ”. The first film produced in this way, Christian Ziewer's Dear Mother, I'm fine , became the basis of the basic film production.

In 1974 the distributor started working. The shareholders of Basis-Film GmbH - Christian Ziewer, Renée Gundelach, Rainer Götz Otto and Klaus Wiese - engaged Clara Burckner as managing director and partner. Until 2004 it was the “heart and engine” of the rental business.

From 1980, the rental company created accompanying materials for non-commercial sales. A card index recorded 4,000 non-commercial venues.

At the invitation of the Goethe-Institut , a film series with basic films was shown in London in 1979. As a result, basic films were shown accompanied by events in numerous international Goethe Institutes. In 1984 the Goethe-Institut Brussels dedicated a retrospective to Basis-Film with the subtitle "A Berlin Model in Production and Distribution".

In 1987, the distributor received the German Critics' Prize on the grounds that it “defended an important position in the German film landscape between massive imports and faceless production”.

In 1990 Basis-Film Distribution was invited to the 1st Dresden Film Festival with a selection of 32 films under the title "Films without Fetters" and was celebrated by the public. Basis-Film subsequently included films by young East German directors in its program and became a "central mediator between East and West".

In 1993 Basis-Film Verleih opened a branch with a copy store in the old tiled stove factory in Neustrelitz , which was converted into a cultural center with a cinema.

In 2004 Clara Burckner handed over the basic company archive to the Deutsche Kinemathek . It formed the basis for the exhibition On Upright Walking. 30 years Basis-Film Verleih Berlin at the Filmmuseum Berlin , with which Basis-Film and the dedicated distribution work of Clara Burckner were honored. A DVD edition with twelve titles from the basic film distribution program was published to accompany the exhibition, and the Arsenal cinema in Berlin showed a retrospective selection.

On October 19, 2011, the 40th anniversary of Basis-Film and the 75th birthday of Clara Burckner were celebrated in Kino Toni on Antonplatz in Berlin-Weißensee . In this context, Clara Burckner was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon by Berlin's Senator for Economic Affairs, Harald Wolf, for her cultural merits .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anke Hahn, Anna Schierse: Film distribution: between film production and cinema experience. Praxis Film Vol. 15, UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2004, ISBN 3-89669-410-3 , p. 216 f.
  2. ^ Basis film distribution , lexicon of film terms, Institute for Modern German Literature and Media at Kiel University
  3. ↑ 30 years of Basis-Film Distribution , Archiv Kino Arsenal Berlin
  4. ↑ a b c Christina Tilmann: The old song of work. 30 years of basic distribution: a show in the Berlin Film Museum presents a large chapter of West German film history , Tagesspiegel , November 11, 2004
  5. ↑ a b c d e f About us , website Basis-Film Verleih
  6. ↑ a b From walking upright: 30 years Basis-Film Verleih Berlin , Deutsche Kinemathek 2004
  7. ↑ a b Ralf Schenk: The cat has nine lives , Berliner Zeitung , December 2, 2004
  8. ↑ Ulrike Roesen (Red.): Der Basis-Film Verleih - a Berlin model in production and distribution. Berlin - Brussels 1984 (October 8-15). Goethe Institute Brussels; Basis-Film Distribution Berlin, Brussels 1984; Table of contents online
  9. ↑ Nicolaus Schröder: The upright walk. The Berliner Basis-Film Verleih is turning 30 and celebrating with a film series, 14 DVDs and an exhibition in the Filmmuseum. tip Berlin 25/2004
  10. ↑ Ula Brunner: Earning money with idealism: Der Basis Filmverleih ( Memento from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), interview with Clara Burckner, fluter , November 29, 2004
  11. ↑ 40th anniversary of Basis-Film Verleih Berlin: Clara Burckner received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. baf-berlin.de, film blog of the Berliner Arbeitskreis Film eV, October 20, 2011