We are very pleased to welcome Sandrine Bonnaire to the opening night of our 12-film retrospective of her work on January 7. Sandrine Bonnaire is one of the most famous and popular French actresses of her generation. Since her debut in Maurice Pialat's A NOS AMOURS (1983), she has worked with numerous auteurs, including Claude Chabrol, Raymond Depardon, Jacques Doillon, André Téchiné, Jacques Rivette, Claude Sautet and Agnès Varda, and has demonstrated her astounding versatility.

On January 16, it’s that time once again. For this month’s Living Archive public screening we will be viewing four films by Ludwig Schönherr at the request of Marc Siegel: FACE I & II (Germany 1968/69, Super8), ZOMM DOKU (Germany1967-69, Super8), ELEKTRONIK 4 (Germany 1969/70, Super8 on DVD), as well as DAS UNBEKANNTE HAMBURG (Germany 1983-88, 16mm). Ludwig Schönherr began making photographs and paintings in the late 50s. In the mid-60s his interest in the visual arts shifted to film. From 1967-1970, a period of intense productivity in European experimental film more generally, Schönherr made scores of short Super 8 and 16mm films that explored specific technical, aesthetic and representational aspects of the medium. In 2009, Marc Siegel presented parts of Schönherr's Œuvre, which was never shown publically before, as part of the Forum Expanded program. For his Living Archive project he is planning to process the complete Œuvre, which comprises of films, paintings, photographs, objects and several texts.

Forum Expanded 2012 will once again be exploring new forms of artistic, cinematic and political expression. 37 works by artists, filmmakers, theorists and musicians from 20 different countries comprise the compact and focused programme, taking in exhibitions, film programmes, discussions and performances that place an emphasis on aesthetic explorations of the global and individual dimensions of current crises.

The programme explores the extent to which the radical and avant-garde ideas of the past are still relevant today and seeks to redefine the role of contemporary cinema.

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It features designs by Berlin artist and filmmaker Heinz Emigholz, whose annotated versions can be found in full in the monthly programs for December 2009 and May 2010. Why not start a collection? The T-shirts are on sale at the box office and will soon be available in our online store. By the way, our logo was also penned by Heinz Emigholz.