Le monde du silence - Die schweigende Welt

Regie: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle | Dokumentarfilm | FR 1956 | 88 Minuten | DCP | OmU

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Die Tiefseetaucher

Director: Wes Anderson | Adventure, Comedy | USA 2004 | 119 Minutes | DCP | OF

Friday, 17. January 2025, 6 pm

Blue Salon, Room 012, HfG Karlsruhe

Free admission, donation requested

To launch our new DOUBLE-FEATURE series, we present LE MONDE DU SILENCE (1956) and THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (2004). While Cousteau and Malle's documentary captures the beauty and fragility of the ocean, Wes Anderson's comedy offers a satirically surreal take on seafaring adventures. This Double Feature provides a fascinating comparison between authentic and fictionalized marine exploration.

LE MONDE DU SILENCE, the iconic documentary by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle, reveals the breathtaking beauty and diversity of the seas. Using specially developed underwater cameras and accompanied by music from Jean-Michel Cousteau, the film impressively captures the fragile underwater world. This Oscar-winning film encourages reflection on marine conservation and has inspired generations of children to pursue careers as marine biologists. Wes Anderson's THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU offers a whimsical adventure featuring a quirky marine explorer and his eccentric crew in search of the legendary “jaguar shark”. Anderson's unique visual style, vibrant colors and detailed miniature models for underwater scenes parody classic adventure and ocean exploration stories. The film skillfully combines humor, tragedy and heart, and explores themes of masculinity and personal fulfillment in a chaotic expedition in an original way.

Supporting film: Lu tempu di pisci spata

Director: Vittorio De Seta

Italy 1955 | 11 Minutes | 35mm | Original

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!

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)