Institute for Cinema and Film Culture
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| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 2000 |
| Seat | Cologne |
| management | Prof. G. Baudisch |
| Website | www.film-kultur.de |
The Institute for Cinema and Film Culture e. V. ( IKF ) was founded in 2000. Its primary goal is to impart broad media competence at the interface between cinema and film studies as well as various educational areas.
Tasks, history and organization
The IKF works to impart a basic understanding of films and their formal language. For the IKF, the medium of film has a growing importance "for the assessment and assessment of social reality, for the orientation towards the everyday world and for the formation of identity". Likewise for awareness of one's own and foreign history and understanding of culture. The IKF aims to increase the ability to understand the quality of films and, in the sense of a modern media society, to promote the “ ability to differentiate between the visual, the imaginary and the documented ”.
The Institute for Cinema and Film Culture was founded in Cologne at the beginning of 2000 by a number of film scholars, filmmakers and media educators. It has an office in Wiesbaden. Horst Walther was the founding director.
activities
The teaching of film and media skills is at the center of the activities of the IKF. With various event formats and accompanying materials ( film booklets , cinema & curriculum , film in focus ) in school and extracurricular education and as the artistic director of the Recklinghausen Church Film Festival .
Since it was founded, it has had more with various media educational project series ( cinema against violence , cinema for tolerance , cinema with neighbors , school film weeks ), as well as cinema seminars on National Socialist propaganda films , the challenge of extremist Salafism and other socially relevant topics than 1.5 million participants. According to its own statements, the IKF cooperates with around 850 cinemas and with almost all film distributors in Germany as well as with around 6500 schools. In 2002, the IKF was awarded the German Film Fund's Innovation Prize for the Kino Lernort Kino project.
The support and implementation of film studies and film historical research.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Institute for Cinema and Film Culture. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
- ↑ detail page. October 18, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .
- ^ Federal Agency for Civic Education: Members of the Commission | bpb. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Horst Walther and the Institute for Cinema and Film Culture: Strengthening schoolchildren's awareness of cinema. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
- ^ Institute for Cinema and Film Culture (IKF). Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
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