USA 2022 | Director: Laura Poitras | Dokumentation | 83 Minutes | DCP | OF

Wednesday, 15. January 2025, 7 pm

Blue Salon, Room 012, HfG Karlsruhe

Free admission, donation requested

In October 2020, one of the largest pharmaceutical producers in the USA was sentenced to billions in fines. The Sackler family's pharmaceutical dynasty stretches back 70 years and came to a surprising end when their company Purdue Pharma was broken up. In this documentary, director Laura Poitras revisits the history of the oxycodone producer and focuses specifically on the case of artist Nan Goldin, who protested for years against the Sackler family and the opioid crisis in the United States.

Screening in cooperation with the KuPhi department of HfG Karlsruhe / Julia Modes

The Kino im Blauen Salon, the student cinema of the Hochschule für Gestaltung, has been run by students since 2017 and has been a registered association since the beginning of 2024: https://kinoimblauensalon.de/de/news.

More about the film series in winter semester 2024/25:

Welcome to our new series CINEMA OF COLORS, in which we are dedicating ten films to the fascinating phenomenon of color in cinema: how does it come about, how does it work, what does it tell...? After all, apart from time, there is probably nothing more essential than light and color, which feed our lives and our projectors. While black and white dominated early cinema for decades, the introduction of Technicolor in the 1930s ushered in a new era for our viewing habits: Color sticks deep in our memory as an emotion. Who could forget the girl's coat in SCHINDLER'S LIST? Why can you immediately recognize a Wes Anderson film by its look, and what color is the MATRIX again?

Our program spans the entire winter semester like a rainbow and shows that the Blauer Salon is not resting on its monochrome reputation. Come along and immerse yourself in a colorful palette of classics and rarities from the international cinema landscape: 10 films of various genres from 10 different production countries and 10 decades will chase the grey season away from your eyes and hearts!

17.01.25 Double-Feature: Le monde du silence + The Life Aquatic

20.01.25 Lady Snowblood (1973)

25.01.25 Aktwechsel - 35mm Workshop

03.02.25 Fallen Angels (1995)

14.02.25 Jazz im Blauen Salon

17.02.25 Faust (1960)

22.02.25 Aktwechsel - 35mm Workshop

03.03.25 The Love Witch (2016)