Film front
The Filmfront was a Swiss film magazine , published between 1978 and 1988.
editor
The Swiss print medium Filmfront characterized itself as “a magazine made by the filmmakers”. Originally published as an organ of the “vuf - Association for Independent Film”, it appeared as an independent quarterly magazine from February 1981 after the “vuf” association was dissolved.
Surname
The name Filmfront was inspired by Ernst Bloch's “Front” category.
"... the past overwhelms what is emerging, the collection of habits completely prevents the categories future, front, novelty."
“... when the front represents the foremost section of that time, in which things cannot go on as before, and in which the subsequent state, standing in the leap, standing on the edge, is decided or not. In our being now, however, clarifying it, opening his face, the front has to prove itself lately. "
history
The Filmfront was founded in 1977 by a vuf working group in Basel . The first issue appeared in January 1978 for the Solothurn Film Festival. After ten years of work, its publication was discontinued in 1988 with the 34th edition. The film front appeared four times a year with a sold edition of two hundred copies. The editors and editors were Urs Berger and Ruedi Bind.
Authors
Texts and interviews by and with Urs Berger , Ruedi Bind, Arc Trionfini, Thomas Hungerbühler, Pius Morger, Marcel Stüssi, Urs Breitenstein, René Burkhardt, Claude Gaçon, Werner Karlin, André Lehmann, Ulrich Meyer, Enzo Schricker appeared on the film front , Alexander Kern, Günther Anders, Richard Dindo, Bruno Moll, Martin Schaub, Bruno Jäggy, Peter Weibel, Ernst Schmidt jr., Werner von Mutzenbecher, Hans Hasler, Christian Wappler, Malcolm LeGrice, Videogenossenschaft Basel, Videozentrum Zürich, Super-8 film group Zurich, eighties film collective cooperative Zurich, film group Basel, Quartierfilmgruppe Kleinbasel, Berlin filmmaker cooperative Das Andere Kino, Medienwerkstatt Berlin, Filmwerkschau Berlin, Filmkollektiv Bonn, Einhorn Video- und Eventclub Basel, Mediengenossenschaft Container-TV Bern, vuf - Association for independent film.
Topics and main issues
- Experimental films in Basel (6/1979).
- Ernst Schmidt jr. and Peter Weibel : Avant-garde films from Austria (11/1980).
- On the Basel Early Cinematography (14/1981).
- Supplements to the catalog of the independent catalog (15/1981).
- Critical comments on the situation of Swiss film in 1981 (16/1982)
- Günther Anders - The hermit character of today's (television) consumers corresponds to the hermit character of today's (automation) workers. (18/1982).
- Richard Dindo - The game between autobiography, real setting and fiction. (22/1983).
«Filmfrontal» as a historical reappraisal
- 2007: Filmfrontal - The experimental and political film of the 1970s and 1980s in Basel. Exhibition and film festival in the Kunsthalle Basel.
- 2010: Filmfrontal - The independent film and video creation of the 1970s and 1980s in Basel. Catalog book. Urs Berger, Ruedi Bind, Julia Zutavern, Kunsthalle Basel. ISBN 978-3-7245-1657-6 .
- 2010: Filmfront - magazine, team, movement. DVD. 16 minutes, Urs Berger, Ruedi Bind, Alex Bruggmann, Lukas Glor. Reinhardt Verlag, Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-7245-1695-8 .
- Filmfrontal - The independent film and video creation of the 1970s and 1980s in Basel. Including booklet (German / English), 180 minutes of film excerpts from 20 filmmakers, Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. ISBN 978-3-7245-1695-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Principle of Hope, Vol. 1, Foreword, p. 6
- ↑ Tübingen Introduction to Philosophy, Chap. Logikum / On the ontology of not-yet-being, p. 228
- ↑ FILM FRONT (AL) - Kunsthalle Basel