Saturday, 07. Dezember 2024, 8 pm

Blauer Salon, Room 012, HfG Karlsruhe

Free admission, donation requested

In between our color films, we're throwing in a hefty dose of experimentation (on a Saturday for a change)! It's the weekend, it will be immersive; standing at the beginning, then walking, then dancing and finally dancing through the cinema, hall and foyer if our concept works: Because: The door of the Blue Salon remains open, outside and inside blur, there are drinks and music in the foyer and atrium of the HfG. It goes from our favorite bartender to our favorite DJ and from there in front of our favorite screen, where a roll of experimental short films runs in a loop all night. The films pick up the mood of the evening, set it, reinforce it, break it, you decide, dancing through the HfG by night.

Among others, the following will be running this evening:

Tango (1981), Zbigniew Rybczyński, Polen, 8 min, 35mm

Jüm-Jüm (1967), Werner Nekes und Dore O., BRD, 9 min, 16mm

Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965), Kenneth Anger, USA, 3 min, 16mm

Arabesque for Kenneth Anger (1961), Marie Menken, USA, 5 min, 16mm

Meditation (1970), Jordan Belson, USA, 5 min, 16mm

Corridor (1970), Standish Lawder, USA, 23 min, 16mm

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!

16.12.24 Beau Travail (1999)

10.01.25 Giorgio Moroder’s Metropolis (1984)

15.01.25 All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)

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)